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Suits and Sneakers:Leadership Unfiltered is an interview series featuring candid conversations with leaders from diverse backgrounds and styles. The host, Carrie Tuttle, has a background in sales and marketing and started this series to fill the gap in formal mentorship opportunities and provide valuable insights. The main themes of the series include the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership, bravery, balancing performance vs. empathy, and learning from failures. Join in the conversation!Team Mojo Economie Management Management et direction
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  • Wealth, Leadership and Blind Spots with Lane Kawaoka

    Wealth, Leadership and Blind Spots with Lane Kawaoka
    Oct 27 2026

    Host: Carrie Tuttle

    Guest: Lane Kawaoka

    Not every founder is a natural people leader. Lane Kawaoka, former engineer turned real estate investor and entrepreneur, will be the first to tell you he isn’t.

    Lane started his career as an engineer and construction supervisor with one of the largest railroads in the US, leading track crews made up of men his grandfather’s age. He bought his first rental property in 2009 while still in that job. He went on to build a real estate investment business with more than 60 projects and over $2 billion in acquisitions, and today runs it much like a private equity firm. He founded and authored The Wealth Elevator.

    In this episode, Lane and Carrie dig into the self-awareness it takes to acknowledge your own gaps out loud, and why Lane builds his team around partners and shared equity instead of salaries. He believes every leadership team needs a balance between someone who drives the vision and someone who brings people along. Lane is candid about the mistake of expecting his team to want what he wants, and why he pays for coaching and peer groups to support his own blind spots.

    Lane also challenges whether a leadership promotion is always worth it, and explains the difference between trading time for money and owning a share of the outcome. His financial examples are US-based, and nothing in this episode is financial advice.

    If you’re building a team and wondering how to motivate people who don’t think like you, or whether the traditional leadership path fits your goals, this conversation offers a different angle worth hearing.


    QUOTE-WORTHY MOMENTS:

    • “Find a coach. Find a community around you that …will show you your shortcomings and show your blind spots.”
    • “I honestly don’t think I’m very good at being a CEO or management. It’s not my personal skill set, but it’s something I acknowledge and I’m trying to get better.”
    • “I’m trying to overlay my own expectations and needs and wants on other people, and it may not be their thing.”


    EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

    • Self-awareness about your weaknesses is the starting point for building the right team.
    • Strong leadership teams balance a vision driver with someone who brings the team on board.
    • Team members aren’t always motivated by the same rewards as their leader.
    • Equity and shared upside can motivate partners in ways salary alone often doesn’t.
    • Coaches and peer communities help leaders see blind spots they can’t see on their own.
    • Gut reactions are not always the best guide for leadership decisions.
    • Transparency and authenticity build trust with clients, investors and team members.
    • Getting results matters more than the number of hours spent at work.
    • A leadership promotion is a trade-off worth weighing against your own long-term goals.
    • Wealth goals and strategies change as net worth crosses key thresholds.


    LINKS FROM EPISODE:

    Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanekawaoka/

    Website: https://thewealthelevator.com/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewealthelevator/

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheWealthElevator

    Resources Mentioned:

    Free PDF copy of The Wealth Elevator: https://api.teammojo.ca/preview/KxhshEVINBwNyHDWJtvR

    Predictive Index (behavioural assessment)

    Explore the Lead with Engagement program @ Team Mojo: https://www.teammojo.ca/lead-with-engagement

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    49 min
  • Trusting Your Voice as a Founder with Andrea Oh

    Trusting Your Voice as a Founder with Andrea Oh
    Oct 13 2026

    Host: Carrie Tuttle

    Guest: Andrea Oh


    Most entrepreneurs are taught to fake it till they make it. Andrea Oh built her company around removing that need entirely.

    A four-time tech founder with two successful exits, Andrea is now CEO and co-founder of Savvy Knowledge, a skills validation platform built for high-risk industries like government, defense, healthcare, and cybersecurity. She is also an entrepreneur in residence at Platform Calgary and a former competitive volleyball player.

    Andrea joins Carrie for a deep conversation about the myth that starting a company guarantees an exit, how Andrea defines imposter syndrome, and why she coaches founders as a teammate rather than an expert.

    Andrea shares what it takes to build trust, give honest feedback, and ask for help, along with what her years as a competitive athlete taught her about connecting personal goals to company goals. She also talks candidly about losing confidence in her own voice after her second company and what it took to get it back.

    The discussion gets deep when they talk about what good coaching actually feels like for the person being coached, why vulnerability builds more trust than having answers, and how trusting her own voice again after a difficult stretch changed the way she leads today.

    This episode is a must-listen for leaders and founders who want a more honest look at imposter syndrome, building trust, and bringing out the best in the people you lead.

    QUOTE-WORTHY MOMENTS:

    • “Your role is not to be perfect. Your role is to be relatable.”
    • “If I care about the person, I will say the things they need to hear because I want what's best for them.”
    • “Starting a company doesn't guarantee an exit.”


    EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

    • Starting a company does not guarantee an exit, and mistakes are part of the path to success.
    • Imposter syndrome is a false feeling of not being good enough that most people experience.
    • Trusting your voice and your instincts matters more than being popular.
    • Coaching works best when the coach acts as a teammate rather than an expert.
    • Effective coaching starts with building trust and avoiding transactional interactions.
    • Honest feedback is easier to hear when it comes from a trusted relationship.
    • People being coached should leave feeling lighter, heard, and ready to move forward.
    • Leaders can ask the people they lead for help and build a reciprocal relationship.
    • Connecting each person's own goals to company goals builds autonomy and stronger teams.
    • Founders and coaches both benefit from asking for honest feedback and being open to it.

    LINKS FROM EPISODE:

    Learn more about Savvy Knowledge: ⁠https://www.savvyknowledge.com/⁠

    Andrea Oh LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-oh/

    Andrea Oh Instagram: @sixfootcanasian


    Resources Mentioned:

    Book: Quiet Champions by Ian Chisholm

    Founders Podcast with David Senra: https://www.founderspodcast.com/

    Take the sales team performance diagnostic: https://api.teammojo.ca/widget/quiz/Ft18WA4QmmbTNieprM6P?notrack=true

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    46 min
  • Build The Company You Want to Work For with Dave Smith

    Build The Company You Want to Work For with Dave Smith
    Sep 29 2026
    Host: Carrie TuttleGuest: Dave SmithDave Smith set out to build the company he always wanted to work for. Twelve years later, he's still building and growing it.Dave started his career as a Master Electrician and has spent more than 25 years in industrial electrical construction, moving through service, operations, and general management roles. He was being groomed to lead a $100 million business inside a much larger company when he was recruited to build a new industrial electrical group at another contractor. In 2014, he co-founded Stratus Electrical & Instrumentation, an employee-owned company that now serves renewable energy, industrial, commercial, mining, agriculture, food and beverage, and power generation clients across Western Canada. He also supports four related ventures, each built around leaders he trusts.Carrie and Dave dig into the leadership decisions most founders don't talk about openly, like choosing business partners, recognizing when a partnership no longer fits, and acting on it before it hurts the team. He shares when they opened a new Edmonton office just before its anchor project was cancelled. Dave talks about why he believes employee ownership changes how people think about their work, and how he uses DISC to build a leadership team with a real mix of perspectives.If you're a founder figuring out how to share ownership, build culture, or step back from the day-to-day while still supporting your people, Dave's stories offer a practical look at what that takes.QUOTE-WORTHY MOMENTS:“Personality, your ethics and morals… really need to align in the partnership. It's a marriage.”“Go into it with the expectation you're gonna win, not just hoping for things.”“It's all about people and putting people in the right place and supporting them and challenging them and empowering them.”EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:Leaders take different strengths from different mentors and shape their own style.Business partners need to align on values and personality, not just competence.Adding a partner works best with genuine buy-in from the whole ownership group.When a partnership no longer fits the business, acting quickly protects the team.Close relationships at the top can keep team concerns from reaching the leader.Employee ownership encourages long-term thinking and pride in representing the company.Growth decisions sometimes mean committing through an uncomfortable year.Diversifying across sectors helped Stratus weather the 2014 oil downturn.DISC helps build leadership teams with a healthy mix of perspectives.Shared back-office support frees new ventures to focus on building their business.LINKS FROM EPISODE:Learn more about Stratus Electrical and Instrumentation @ Website: https://www.stratusei.com/Dave Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-smith-113a3b44/Stratus on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stratus-electrical-&-instrumentation/Stratus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stratus_ei/Resources Mentioned:YPO (Young Presidents' Organization) Extended DISC — mentioned in episode. See also: Suits & Sneakers Episode with Markku Kauppanenhttps://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZA79RJWfrTZCtROBE7LHw?si=mwmt_9i2SQicxuoA5Ai_ZALeading With Engagement program @ Team Mojo: https://www.teammojo.ca/lead-with-engagement----------Like What You Heard?Don't forget to subscribe or follow us on YouTube or your favorite podcast service, so you never miss an episode!Interested in being a guest on Suits & Sneakers? APPLY HERE
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    42 min
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