Special Guests

HARPERCOLLINS CANADA PRESENTS...

  • Shannon Lee Simmons — Author of LIVING DEBT-FREE: The No-Shame, No-Blame Guide to Getting Rid of Your Debt
    No one wants to be in debt. But life happens and if you’ve got debt, life has happened to you. Whether you have a rolling balance of $2,000 on your credit card or an $80,000 line of credit you are positive you will carry to your grave, debt can be a huge cause of stress—affecting both your emotional and financial wellness. After working with thousands of financial planning clients, Shannon Lee Simmons knows that your only way out of the debt cycle is to truly understand all of your spending triggers so you can shut them down for good. In Living Debt-Free, she shows you that it is possible to have a life and pay down debt at the same time. In fact, that’s the only way your debt plan will work. You will learn to take control of your finances and pay down your debt in a realistic way that will keep you motivated long enough to see it through to the end. No shame. No blame. No scare tactics. In Living Debt-Free, Simmons focuses on creating a debt repayment plan that will motivate you for a long time, rather than an unrealistic one that’s strictly about paying the least amount of interest charges. (Collective gasp—how dare she!?) Listen, everyone knows that paying interest on debt is bad and to be avoided as much as possible, but human beings are complex. Life is complex. Debt is complex. There cannot be a one-size-fits-all plan, so Living Debt-Free will help you build your plan—the one that will help you finally put the debt behind you, start fresh and feel good about your money again. *Shannon Lee Simmons is a certified financial planner, chartered investment manager, life coach, speaker and the founder of the award-winning New School of Finance. She was named one of Flare’s "Canada’s Top 30 Under 30" and won the Notable Award for Best In Finance. She writes a monthly personal finance column for The Globe and Mail, is the personal finance expert on CBC’s On the Money and appears regularly on TVO’s The Agenda and CBC’s Metro Morning. She lives in Toronto with her husband and new baby.

Special Guests

  • Geoff Bagg — President / CEO of The Bagg Group
    An expert in workplace trends and needs, Geoff Bagg has led The Bagg Group of Companies through a major expansion across sectors and regions in Ontario. TBG’s growth has been fuelled by Geoff’s re-engineering the company to provide sector-specific expertise. Five entities operate with teams of specialists equipped to anticipate the challenges and changing realities of the sectors they serve. Continually trailblazing since becoming president in 2000, Geoff and his Leadership Team have taken staffing to a new dimension. The Bagg Group of Companies support their clients’ goals through strategic, innovative, affordable staffing solutions designed for competitive advantage. Geoff has earned a national reputation for his vision of developing a creative, engaged workforce through value-based leadership. He is a passionate advocate of creating work environments that enable people to reach their potential. Geoff has put into place, and consulted on, numerous programs that promote lifelong learning, volunteerism and employee recognition. As well, Geoff is a media resource and speaker on staffing — notably how fostering employee enjoyment of work is critical to an organization’s progress and to the country’s social and economic well-being.

  • Kerri Pomarolli — Comedian, Actress, Author
    That's right folks, it's time for our monthly visit with our favourite Hollywood Correspondent!

TDMS 2018 Christmas Theme, Forgiveness

  • Pardeep Kaleka & Arno Michaelis
    In August 2012, a white supremacist fatally shot six people in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. It was the worst race-based attack in the U.S. since the KKK bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. Pardeep Kaleka is the son of one of the victims. The man who killed Pardeep’s father was part of the largest racist skinhead organization in the world, which was founded by Arno Michaelis.

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