This Commerce Life

Phil Chang, Kenny Vannucci

Booking Overview

This is an interview-focused Canadian retail and brand-business podcast that regularly features founders, retail operators, and export professionals sharing practical success stories. Agencies could credibly pitch Canadian CPG founders, food and beverage executives, retail entrepreneurs, and specialists in scaling or international market entry; booking difficulty is likely low because the show favors accessible practitioners over celebrity-level guests.

Metrics

Episodes: 485

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: Canada

YouTube: 2.5k subscribers

Instagram: 530 followers

Contact Information

podcast@thiscommercelife.com

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Host

Phil Chang - Canadian retail educator and industry expert with experience in buying, sales strategy, and marketing.

Kenny Vannucci - Canadian retail educator and industry expert with experience in buying, sales strategy, and marketing.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Canadian brand founders, food and beverage executives, retail owners and operators, or export and market-entry specialists with firsthand commercial experience.
Required Achievements:  
Built or scaled a consumer brand, Opened or expanded a retail operation, Developed distribution in new markets, Created distinctive food and beverage products

Recent Guest Discussions

Ashley Sauve - Building A Destination Farm Market, Using Organic Social Media To Drive Demand, Expanding Retail Facilities, And Developing Food And Beverage Offerings.

Julie Therrien - Exporting Canadian Food Brands To Mexico, Market Entry, Co-packing, Distribution, And Mexican Retail.

Recent Topics

Retail, Canadian Brands, Food And Beverage, Entrepreneurship, Exporting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
This Commerce Life
:

They Turned Barley Greens Into Tea — Natural Farmworks' Wild Founder Story

July 14, 2026

What do you do when your product is so unique that no five-second pitch can explain it? This week, Phil and Kenny sit down with Brad and Sheila, founders of Natural Farmworks — a regenerative farm in BC's Boundary Country that grows barley greens and processes them using traditional Chinese tea methods to create green, oolong, and black teas that deliver a serving of greens in every cup. No bitterness, no flavourings, no "barley shivers." Brad's journey starts with a Crohn's disease diagnosis...

How She Built a Thriving Farmers Market in the Middle of Nowhere | Ashley Sauve, Sauve's Country Market

July 07, 2026

Ashley Sauve was 12 years old when she started selling mini straw bales to Canadian Tire stores from her family's cash crop farm. Today, she owns Sauve's Country Market in South Woodslee, Ontario — a destination farm market in Windsor-Essex County that customers happily drive 45 minutes to visit, even though there's no gas station, grocery store, or Tim Hortons anywhere nearby. In this episode, Ashley shares how a $20 fall porch package posted on Facebook — no paid ads — sparked a business th...

Exporting to Mexico? What Canadian Food Brands Need to Know | Julie Therrien, Leclerc Group

July 02, 2026

Special thursday episode: Julie Therrien of Biscuits Leclerc is back — and this time we're picking her brain on one of the biggest opportunities for Canadian food and beverage brands right now: exporting to Mexico. Julie's export career started in Mexico in the mid-90s, and she's spent nearly 30 years navigating the market — from co-packing for Bimbo to building branded distribution across Mexican retail. Fresh off our own trip to Guadalajara and Mexico City for Expo ANTAD, we asked her the q...

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