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- Ava's story is all about breaking the stigma around mental health and practicing to prioritize it.
- Adrian Duke took the big jump, sold his truck and left his well-paying job on the oil rigs in Alberta, B.C to realize his dream of creating his own business. Now he's running two companies in water slides and escape rooms, and both are leading the way in entertainment technology.
- As a Power Line Technician for BC Hydro, Logan Aird has gotten quite comfortable 70 feet in the air; whether it's at a construction site or at the scene of an accident, he goes wherever the power line goes.
- Praveen K. Sandhu's life was threatened by someone close to her, and it was a threat meant to last a lifetime. Instead of letting it break her, Praveen used that experience as motivation to achieve her dreams: to become a lawyer, run her own law firm, and help create a world with fair rules.
- Love What You Do is a digital series featuring Canadians from all walks of life, focusing on how what we do affects our individual sense of fulfillment, and how our 'passions' fuel our hunger for the life we've always wanted to live.
- When you don't know where you're going or what you're doing, just keep swimming - that's Jessica Schultz's philosophy. She's a marine ecologist for the Vancouver Aquarium and spends a lot of her time studying marine animals and ecosystems off the coast of BC. But while it sounds like the type of career you dreamed of doing when you grew up, Jessica started out the way many of us did: aimlessly wondering what to do with her life. Between dabbling in part time university, the military, and finding passion in scuba diving as an instructor, Jessica says the key to finding her dream career was to just keep on moving.
- This is Katherine. She is a Software Quality Analyst working with Vancity, a values based financial co operative based in BC. As a Software Quality Analyst, Katherine says she gets paid to break things for a living. Going into more detail, she is responsible for monitoring and using the software engineering processes and methods used in a project, looking for bugs and testing for all the potential ways it could fail. She implements test plans using diverse troubleshooting computer applications and develops automation tests and maintenance tasks. Growing up, Katherine always felt different. She did well in school but had trouble with group work and connecting with her peers. She was diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum late in high school. On one hand, the diagnosis was great because it provided an explanation for why she was the way she was. On the other hand, an ASD diagnosis comes with a stigma based on what most people know from seeing portrayals of autism in TV and film. Katherine went on to get her degree in Geological Engineering but found getting hired was a challenge, especially job interviews. For Katherine, her ASD can make communication challenging. For example, she doesn't often pick up non verbal cues in conversation and can be thrown off by bright lights and distracting noises. Katherine was connected with Focus Professional Services, an organization working to normalize neurodiversity in the workplace. Through some tests, they determined that Katherine had an aptitude for working in tech and provided some additional training. They work with companies like Vancity, to place folks on the spectrum in tech jobs, bypassing some of the typical barriers for employment, like job interviews.
- Ska-Hiish Manuel is unabashedly excited when it comes to solving mathematics problems. Not just any math problem, but unsolved equations that could ultimately lead to powering communities around the province. So the thrill Ska-Hiish gets is totally understandable. It was Ska-Hiish's pure love for math that drew him to engineering. Growing up on a reserve, his dad instilled in him the importance of engineers and how vital their role was in building the family business. And while his dad and grandfather were both distinguished First Nations political leaders, Ska-Hiish decided to pave his own path as an engineer. He went into it with the understanding that engineering would be the best way to study technology, and technology would be the best way to boost the standard of living on reserves. Today, Ska-Hiish is an electrical engineer for BC Hydro. A brilliant mind, he understands the physical world through mathematical equations. He has an intuitive understanding of how all things are related, which he attributes to his Indigenous upbringing. Ska-Hiish's success as an engineer is still continuing the cause of his ancestors by helping remote Indigenous communities, as well as clearing a path for future Indigenous engineers.
- Government officials and Indigenous youth, elders, and community leaders explore issues of wellbeing, health, housing, education and governance in three Northern Ontario First Nations in the Ring of Fire.
- 2016–TV EpisodeEntrepreneur. Cultural ambassador. Guide. Canadian. Many words that Kylik Kisoun Taylor now identifies with, but none came easily at first. It took returning to the North, and becoming re-rooted in his culture to get where he is today. In Love What You Do, we follow whatever you're passionate about and decide to pursue in life, and whatever gut instinct you have, that knows when you are being true to yourself and do something, however big or small, to make a difference to the world in your own unique way.
- Lesley Holm always knew she wanted to do something creative that could make a difference in kids lives. Today she fulfills that dream in her career as an Art Therapist.