Building Manitoba Podcast
The Building Manitoba Podcast is a non-partisan podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, and community builders who care about creating something that lasts.
Hosted by Nathan Maertins, the show features candid, long-form conversations with founders, CEOs, operators, and public-sector leaders shaping Manitoba’s economy. Each episode looks beyond surface-level success to explore the decisions, trade-offs, and systems behind real growth.
The conversations are grounded in experience while looking to the future, encouraging listeners to think bigger about leadership, investment, and the opportunities in our province. Nathan helps translate complex ideas into practical insights that can be applied in real organizations and communities.
Building Manitoba Podcast
Latest Episodes
Building Payworks: Barb Gamey on Growth, Culture, and Community
Barb Gamey spent 15 years helping build Comcheq, one of Winnipeg's payroll success stories. Then she watched it get absorbed by a US company and saw decision-making move south of the border. She took that lesson with her when she co-founded Pay...
Built to Last: Calvin Polet on Family Business and Neptune Properties
Calvin Polet is President of Neptune Properties, a Winnipeg family office that manages over 1.6 million square feet of industrial, retail, and office real estate. He ran a Dairy Queen and a car wash before teaming up with his father in 2002 to ...
Planning for Growth: Matthew Hibbert on Building Maka Power
A lot of founders are told to move fast and break things. Matthew Hibbert did the opposite. He and his co-founder Kasey Russell started Maka Power with a written plan and built it into a power reliability company serving facilities across Manit...
Better Over Bigger: Inside Concord Projects with Nolan Ploegman
Nolan Ploegman, President and CEO of Concord Projects, joins Nathan to talk about how a Winnipeg-based general contractor founded in 1978 has grown into one of Manitoba's most trusted builders by choosing quality over scale. Nolan shares how he...
Beatboxer to Tech Founder: Adam Fainman on the Highs and Brutal Lows of Solo Founding
Adam Fainman is a beatboxer and musician turned tech founder. During COVID, he started using generative AI to make music videos for TikTok and YouTube. When one went viral and everyone asked what app he was using, he realised it didn't exist, s...