High Agency

A podcast exploring the strategies and mental models that help people shape their environment, overcome adversity, and achieve extraordinary goals.

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Economics of identity

In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Carol Anne Hilton, founder of the Indigenomics Institute, and the mind behind a movement that’s reshaping economic narratives through an Indigenous lens. Carol Anne takes us from a single tweet to a national economic agenda, unpacking how a hashtag sparked a framework for redefining value, ownership, and power in Indigenous economies. We dive into the concept of “Indian Act economics,” challenge Canada’s sanitized self-image, and explore how tech can either deepen bias or become a tool for Indigenous economic intelligence. We explore how Carol Anne is building data architecture for a $100 billion Indigenous economy, and why true reconciliation must be measurable, not metaphorical. This isn’t just about history, it’s about the financial future of a country still reckoning with its foundations.

Carol Anne Hilton

CEO & Founder, Indigenomics Institute

Carol Anne Hilton, MBA, is the CEO and Founder of the Indigenomics Institute and the Global Centre of Indigenomics. A recognized First Nation business leader from Hesquiaht First Nation, she pioneered the concept of "Indigenomics" as a pathway toward economic reconciliation.

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Totally blew it up

In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Josh Haas, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Bubble, the no-code platform that’s quietly powering a new generation of builders. Josh takes us from philosophy lectures to platform engineering, sharing how he bootstrapped Bubble from a scrappy prototype into a robust foundation for over six million apps and billions in transactions. Along the way, we dig into what happens when AI-fueled “vibe coding” meets the real-world demands of scalability, security, and sustainability. We explore how Bubble is becoming the serious alternative in a landscape flooded with spaghetti-code startups, and why Josh believes the future belongs to founders who start with product, not pitch decks.

In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Josh Haas, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Bubble, the no-code platform that’s quietly powering a new generation of builders. Josh takes us from philosophy lectures to platform engineering, sharing how he bootstrapped Bubble from a scrappy prototype into a robust foundation for over six million apps and billions in transactions. Along the way, we dig into what happens when AI-fueled “vibe coding” meets the real-world demands of scalability, security, and sustainability. We explore how Bubble is becoming the serious alternative in a landscape flooded with spaghetti-code startups, and why Josh believes the future belongs to founders who start with product, not pitch decks.

Cool tech hot problem

In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Manik Suri, founder and CEO of GlacierGrid, a climate tech company tackling emissions through an unexpected source: commercial cooling. Manik takes us from the West Wing to the grid, sharing how he went from working in Obama’s White House to building tech that helps restaurants, retailers, and hospitality giants like McDonald’s and Marriott reduce energy use, cut food waste, and fight refrigerant leaks, all through smarter HVAC and refrigeration systems. We explore what it means to scale a startup that intersects AI, IoT, and climate in a world increasingly divided on sustainability, and why sometimes the boldest move is just to start, even if you don’t know how it ends.

In this episode of High Agency, we sit down with Manik Suri, founder and CEO of GlacierGrid, a climate tech company tackling emissions through an unexpected source: commercial cooling. Manik takes us from the West Wing to the grid, sharing how he went from working in Obama’s White House to building tech that helps restaurants, retailers, and hospitality giants like McDonald’s and Marriott reduce energy use, cut food waste, and fight refrigerant leaks, all through smarter HVAC and refrigeration systems. We explore what it means to scale a startup that intersects AI, IoT, and climate in a world increasingly divided on sustainability, and why sometimes the boldest move is just to start, even if you don’t know how it ends.

Interfacing with nature

In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Guita Yazdani, Co-founder and CEO of Campertunity, a fast-growing startup making camping as easy as booking a hotel. Guita shares how one frustrating summer sparked the idea for a platform that connects campers to private land across Canada and beyond. We talk about what it takes to go from zero to 200,000 listings, why PR exploded before they even launched, and how her team is staying ahead of competitors by moving fast and building fearlessly. This conversation touches on more than tech; we explore the connection between nature and mental health, the entrepreneurial journey as a woman of colour, and the kind of wins that don’t show up in investor decks but fuel the mission. If you’ve ever battled a government camping website at 6 a.m., this one’s for you.

In this episode of High Agency, we’re live from Web Summit with Guita Yazdani, Co-founder and CEO of Campertunity, a fast-growing startup making camping as easy as booking a hotel. Guita shares how one frustrating summer sparked the idea for a platform that connects campers to private land across Canada and beyond. We talk about what it takes to go from zero to 200,000 listings, why PR exploded before they even launched, and how her team is staying ahead of competitors by moving fast and building fearlessly. This conversation touches on more than tech; we explore the connection between nature and mental health, the entrepreneurial journey as a woman of colour, and the kind of wins that don’t show up in investor decks but fuel the mission. If you’ve ever battled a government camping website at 6 a.m., this one’s for you.

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