
Working lives, turning points, practical meaning.
The gist
Career Buzz is interview radio built around the turns that shape a working life. Recent conversations move from teen resilience and refugee-camp medicine to aerospace engineering, electric vehicles, water-sport coaching, aging technology, and retirement design.
PRESS PLAY
Find your next episode
About Career Buzz
Career Buzz is built around the working life as a story in motion. It asks how people find their way into a field, what they notice once they are inside it, and how purpose changes under real pressure. The show’s recent range is unusually broad. One conversation centers on Teen Reconnect and the skills young people need to manage emotions, relationships, stress, and uncertainty. Another follows Dr. Maria Milland’s work in Al-Hol camp, where maternity care sits inside a difficult humanitarian setting. A Career journey into Aerospace Engineering brings in aircraft design, structural design, advanced materials, and future aircraft development. Canada’s Electric Future: Are We Ready for the EV Transition? turns toward electrical generation, emission reduction, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle adoption. The windsurfing and wing foiling episode is not treated as a hobby detour; it becomes a conversation about aptitude, investment, coaching, flow, and going all in. Episodes on aging technology and retirement design widen the same frame, looking at cognitive and physical health, social connection, post-work identity, and the non-financial side of life after a career. The show’s pace is measured. It gives guests enough room to tell the longer version. Hosts tend to set the context plainly, ask for the path behind the credential, and translate a guest’s experience back into something a listener can use. That practical instinct keeps the show grounded even when the subject becomes technical. It can talk about an operating theater, carbon offsets, aerospace structures, or opportunistic video conferencing without losing the human question underneath. Career Buzz works best when a career is not a ladder but a sequence of choices. Some choices are driven by curiosity. Some come from hardship, reinvention, or a problem that would not leave the guest alone. The show makes space for those complications. It is warm, structured, and sincere, with a recurring interest in career literacy as a way to understand work, not just get work.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes reflective interview radio about careers, purpose, and applied work across many fields. It especially fits someone interested in how personal choices meet medicine, engineering, coaching, climate, aging, sport, and retirement.
What sets it apart: Career Buzz stands out by treating very different fields as career stories with practical lessons, rather than as separate expert briefings. The show can move from a refugee-camp maternity ward to aircraft design or wing foiling while keeping the focus on how people choose, adapt, and keep going.
In their own words
Since 2006, we’ve broadcast unrehearsed and informative conversations featuring extraordinary career stories of ordinary people, and insights from future-of-work thought leaders including National Geographic explorer-in-residence Wade Davis, former Member of Parliament, Helene Leblanc, and career experts Sareena Hopkins, Norm Amundson, Roberta Borgen, Rich Feller and many more.We also look at the intersection of real-world business practice and people’s career and life choices. We explore how individuals turn their personal passion for innovation into tangible commercial success. And we learn about innovation management best practices, and lessons learned.Listen to Career Buzz to hear inspir…
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Career Buzz makes career development, innovation adoption, and work transitions feel specific enough to use.
Career Buzz fits Business & Finance through the career side of the category, where work, innovation, entrepreneurship, and personal choice meet.
Why you'd press play
Career advice gets curious enough to follow someone into a refugee-camp maternity ward.
Press play if you want
- career talk that treats purpose as a choice you keep making, not a mug slogan
- guests who turn wind, health tech, or humanitarian work into practical questions for your own path
Talks about
Podcasts like Career Buzz
The Ski Show - The Ultimate Show Ski PodcastMatt Heilman and Adam SchallerShow skiing's year-round inside track.
Kitesurf365Kiteboarding's inside line, with sand still on it.
SUPfm The International Stand Up Paddle Board PodcastSUP stories from race start to river camp.
This Ocean Life PodcastWater stories from people who know the conditions.
Podcast - SURF MASTERYSurf craft, wave judgment, and inner work.
Episodes
- 1
Do you have a real sense of Purpose? When does Growth happen?
Hidden gemPurpose keeps pulling Emer O'Donnell forward.
Apr 8, 2026·51m·3 clips - 2
We see headlines about refugee camps—but what does it actually look like, and what does it feel like, to live and work inside one?
Hidden gemCareer Buzz host Mark Franklin interviews Dr.
Apr 1, 2026·59m·4 clips - 3
A Career journey into Aerospace Engineering
Host Stephen Armstrong introduces a career journey into aerospace engineering with guest Andrew Bondarchuk, discussing the field's intersection of science, design, and innovation.
Mar 25, 2026·51m - 4
Challenging our understanding of the role of Career Development
Dr.
Mar 18, 2026·52m - 5
Canada’s Electric Future: Are We Ready for the EV Transition?
Host Stephen Armstrong interviews engineer Andre Mech about Canada's readiness for electric vehicle adoption and the broader energy transition.
Mar 4, 2026·53m - 6
Your comfort zone is killing your dreams, move from exclusion to inclusion
Feb 26, 2026·54m - 7
Building a better future through earn-and-learn
Feb 18, 2026·1h - 8
The Homeless in Toronto- Revisiting 9 years Later – Much Worse
Feb 11, 2026·55m - 9
What happens when a 7-year-old kid falls in love with the wind — and never lets go?
Hidden gemCareer Buzz host Mark Franklin interviews Max Robinson, a Canadian wing foil athlete who ranked 18th globally on the Wing Foil World Tour in 2023 and retired from competition at 32, now coaching wing foiling in Toronto.
Feb 5, 2026·1h·3 clips - 10
The Evolution of AI in Aerospace – From Hype to Secure, AI-Native Operations
Jan 21, 2026·54m - 11
A career to live the life you want, finding value in writing goals
Jan 15, 2026·56m - 12
Unusual ways to help people & make a difference
Jan 8, 2026·1h - 13
Stop, look back, take stock and celebrate!
Dec 25, 2025·1h - 14
Why You Need an "Empathetic Sherpa"
Dec 17, 2025·1h - 15
The Heart of Being Human: Why the Humanities Matter in the Age of AI
Dec 11, 2025·54m - 16
Just Ask AI
Dec 4, 2025·59m - 17
Why Career Development Belongs at the Core of the AI Conversation
Nov 26, 2025·1h - 18
Upskilling for careers of the future
Oct 29, 2025·59m - 19
Executive Search in the Age of AI
Oct 22, 2025·54m - 20
Designing a fashion brand
Oct 15, 2025·59m - 21
Next Chapter Dialogues
Sep 17, 2025·1h - 22
Team building & career development in organizations | SWIFT framework
Aug 27, 2025·56m - 23
Why an Entrepreneurial Path is Hard
Aug 20, 2025·55m - 24
Career Play
Aug 13, 2025·54m - 25
Career development is everyone's responsibility ~ Career Buzz hosts Professor Michael Stebleton
Aug 6, 2025·1h - 26
The Path From Industrial Designer to Manufacturing Entrepreneur
Jul 30, 2025·54m - 27
What’s it like to work in the world of simulators?
Jul 16, 2025·54m - 28
Part 2: Navigating the Future: AI, Gen AI, and Managed Services in Management Consulting
Jul 9, 2025·56m - 29
The One About Careers: Careers & Parenting
Jul 2, 2025·1h - 30
“A new story that works changes everything”: Angus Fletcher on Career Buzz
Jun 25, 2025·57m - 31
Part 1: Navigating the Future: AI, Gen AI, and Managed Services in Management Consulting
Jun 18, 2025·53m - 32
The Joy of Not Knowing
Jun 11, 2025·59m - 33
From a Hobby obsession for Rugby to a Business Initiative
May 21, 2025·55m - 34
Gathering Others to Support You
May 14, 2025·1h - 35
Enhancing Cognitive and Physical Health in an Aging Population with Innovative Technologies – From the Lab to Adoption
Hidden gemInnovation Nation on Career Buzz host Stephen Armstrong interviews Professor Mark Chignell of the University of Toronto, founder of Stentivisor, who spent over a decade developing three technology products for older adults: To Race With Me, a seated pedal exercise device now in 25 Canadian care homes where video only plays while pedaling; Brain Tagger, a whack-a-mole cognitive assessment tool measuring executive function, response inhibition, and cognitive flexibility; and Chummy, a wall-mounted device that detects behavioral symptoms of dementia using machine learning and plays personalized music therapy.
Apr 30, 2025·53m·3 clips - 36
Awareness Intelligence
Apr 23, 2025·57m - 37
Is your job OBSOLETE?
Apr 16, 2025·1h - 38
Reflections of a Canadian Civil Engineer's career journey from school to consulting to teaching to retirement in Mexico – a 50 year journey
Apr 9, 2025·1h - 39
from Bike racks to Biomedical devices: Careers in Industrial Design
Apr 2, 2025·1h - 40
Sustainable Aviation: Tech, Design, & Myths
Mar 12, 2025·1h - 41
Making Happy Art
Mar 5, 2025·1h - 42
Design Your Retirement Lifestyle
Mike Drack discusses retirement shock and designing a purposeful post-work lifestyle after a career in financial services.
Feb 13, 2025·49m - 43
The Evolution of Management Consulting in the Digital Age
Feb 5, 2025·59m - 44
#SoMuchMoreThanTalkingAboutJobs Year 3!
Jan 29, 2025·59m - 45
A career check-up can make your work and life better, sooner
Jan 22, 2025·55m - 46
Why the Human Resources Management department is having a Negative impact on business Performance
Jan 15, 2025·1h - 47
A mission in Careers and Mobility Learning
Jan 8, 2025·1h - 48
Are you a feisty, creative person?
Suzanne Bones discusses her book 'The Feisty Freelancer' and shares insights on building a freelance writing business after being laid off.
Jan 1, 2025·1h - 49
FleetCyber For Connected Vehicles
Dec 25, 2024·59m - 50
Begin your New Year with Reflection and Curiosity
Hidden gemCareer Buzz host Hoda Kilani interviews two guests: Roy C.
Dec 18, 2024·1h·4 clips