Join Axis Connects’ CEO, Nuvyn Peters, and executive director, Alexandra Stante, as they explore what it means to be a leader in our new weekly podcast, Quiet Part Out Loud. This week’s inaugural episode features powerhouse entrepreneur Manjit Minhas.
At Axis Connects, we’re on a mission to help advance women in the workplace, and talking about the real stuff is how we normalize the imperfections of a career journey. Our new podcast, Quiet Part Out Loud, does just that — it sparks conversations about the self-doubt, tough decisions, big wins and bigger failures that come on the journey to leadership.
We’re shining the spotlight on the leadership stories that often stay in the shadows. “We started this podcast because we both had experiences in leadership where we were thinking, ‘Am I just crazy, or are we all just pretending?’” says Stante.
“This podcast is all about peeling back the layers of what’s going on behind the scenes,” adds Peters. “No fluff, no corporate jargon — just the real stuff we all need to hear.”
Our goal with Quiet Part Out Loud is to normalize the messy, imperfect and deeply human side of leadership, especially for women navigating spaces that weren’t built with them in mind.
Powerhouse Guests
In episode one, we invite Manjit Minhas, entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den star, to sit down with us and pull back the curtain on her impressive career in business.
Minhas is the 2023 Calgary Influential Women in Business winner of the Small & Medium Enterprise Award. She’s a trailblazer in Canada’s beer and liquor industry, having co-founded a $220 million brewing empire, part owner of Edmonton’s professional basketball team and one of the investors on the hit TV show Dragons’ Den.
But her journey to success has been anything but linear, and she’s even redefined success a few times along the way. In Quiet Part Out Loud, Minhas shares the ups and downs of her journey and snippets of inspiration that have helped her and can hopefully help you, too.
Minhas explains why she still gets nervous (and how it’s a good thing) and why she always looks forward. She shares her belief in the power of self- valuation and feedback, her favourite books and the qualities of people who inspire her.
Episode one offers listeners a look inside the journey of a multi-million dollar company CEO and how Minhas has trusted her gut and had the persistence to get to where she is today. Our unscripted and candid conversation with Minhas sets the tone for the stories we will tell on Quiet Part Out Loud: the unfiltered journeys of women who lead and challenge the status quo.
Why now?
Diversity in the workplace is as important as ever, and helping propel women in business is an integral part of creating more diverse, equitable and inclusive work environments.
Quiet Part Out Loud aims to make leadership feel more real, relatable and accessible — not just for women but for anyone who’s felt like an outsider trying to lead from the inside. We want to amplify the voices of bold, curious and unconventional leaders and foster a community of mid-to senior-career professionals hungry for some straight-up real talk about what it means to lead.
There is no such thing as a “perfect leader,” and by showing the behind- the-scenes thinking, mistakes, pivots and unspoken truths that shape seemingly “perfect” careers, we hope to inspire more women to step into their greatest potential.
Listen to episode one, out now.
