Every founder has a moment that breaks the plan and forces a new one.

For Shivani Dhamija, that moment happened the week she arrived in Canada.

She came with a postgraduate degree and the belief that she would land a leadership role immediately. Instead, she found herself earning $10.40 an hour, caught between disappointment, culture shock, and the reality of starting over without a network, a roadmap, or certainty.

What happened next is the reason she leads one of the most recognized food brands in Atlantic Canada.

One meal she cooked for one person sparked what eventually became Shivani’s Kitchen, now stocked in Walmart, Costco Wholesale, Sobeys, Superstore, and restaurants across the country. Her story is built on resilience, grit, and the willingness to pivot long before success feels guaranteed.

On this episode, Christopher Sherrick sits down with Shivani to explore the turning points founders rarely talk about in public:

1. Recovering from setbacks and finding your footing again

2. Building financial understanding when money feels tight

3. Pivoting after failure without losing your identity or momentum

Shivani’s honesty and experience cut through the noise. She built a national brand from a moment of uncertainty, and her perspective will resonate with anyone who has had to rebuild, rethink, or restart.

If you are navigating your own pivot or learning to rise after a hit, this conversation will give you something real to hold onto.

Jessie Lizak sat down with Tonotop founder Christopher Sherrick for a powerful conversation about the mission, the breakthrough moments, and the entrepreneurial journey behind one of the most compelling innovations in hearing health.Chris opens up about the origins of Tonotop, the challenges he’s solving in the industry, and what’s ahead for the company. This candid founder-focused episode offers insight, inspiration, and a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build a meaningful health-tech venture.

Billions are being lost inside enterprises every year, not through obvious failures, but through quiet inefficiencies in how research, knowledge, and decision-making workflows are handled.

Mel Morris CBE, CEO of Corpora.ai, joins Christopher Sherrick on The Warm-Blooded Founder Show to unpack how broken research systems, scattered data, slow knowledge retrieval, and disconnected decision loops have become one of the most expensive and overlooked leaks in modern companies.

With Corpora.ai, Mel is building what he calls the first scientific frontier research platform, designed to surface hidden insights, cut research time from hours to seconds, and give leaders a way to make clear decisions backed by real, attributable data.

This episode explores:

1. How Broken Research Workflows Quietly Drain Billions from Enterprises

2. The Real Cost of Misaligned Data and Decision-Making

3. Rethinking Knowledge Workflows with AI to Make Faster Decisions

This conversation is built for founders, product leaders, and operators who want to stop losing time and capital to hidden inefficiencies and start treating research and knowledge flow as a core growth system, not an afterthought.