by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | MLoop
20 Years of Bold Banana Badassery
BY JENNY COLEMAN
When I got the email telling me I’d been named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women, my first reaction wasn’t pride. It was disbelief.
Me? Powerful? Really?
That morning had started the same way most mornings do. Changing a poopy diaper. Getting our eldest daughter, who is profoundly disabled, dressed, fed, and onto the school bus. Stripping her bed. Starting a load of laundry. Not exactly the image that comes to mind when you hear “high-powered businesswoman.”
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | Geisler, MLoop
Something is Everything
By Tanya Geisler
On capacity realism, the all-or-nothing bargain, and what actually keeps leadership intact.
On our Monday call, she told me she was fine. The way high achievers say fine when they mean: I am holding this together through sheer force of will, and I need a better system, a cleaner routine, a full reset, preferably before the end of this sentence.
Her week ahead looked like this: leadership calls, a performance issue on her team, board prep, teenager in flux, an elderly parent whose needs had begun to escalate, flight Thursday, back Friday in time to host an event that night. No seams. No white space.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | BB_Mag
BY CHEF NUIT REGULAR
When you sit at a table in one of my restaurants and order the Gaeng Phed Moo—my Red Curry Pork—you’re in for a treat.
In my home, Gaeng Phed Moo goes by a different name: “Birthday Curry.” I learned to make it the same way I learned most dishes—alongside my mother in the kitchen. She worked all day in the rice fields, growing vegetables, and serving her food at markets and cafeterias. She came home tired. As a child, I hated cooking, so much so that I eventually picked a different career path in nursing. But even then, every evening, my little hands helped her anyway. My love for her was so great that I would endure anything.
Birthday Curry was special because it meant spending the entire day with my mother.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | BB_Mag
The Unmasking of a Dealmaker
BY JACKELYN GILL
Reece Tomlinson steps out of her heels and into a pair of cowboy boots.
She’s at a ranch in the middle of nowhere outside Calgary. It’s cold, there are seven more wardrobe changes to go, and each one means new makeup, too. The cowboys on set keep staring. There are nine hours left.
The photoshoot is harder than she expected—this, coming from someone who regularly advises on multi-million-dollar transactions as founder of RWT Capital.
“These are things that are a just a bit intimidating,” she says. “Not that they’re massive things, but you start to see that the next version of you needs to be willing to do things that the current version wouldn’t do.”
This version of Reece is going to be seen.
by 3H76mdgDq9 | Sep 6, 2026 | BB_Mag
Jennifer Harper is the Little Fish who Changed the Tide
By Jackelyn Gill
Jennifer Harper just needed a place to start. So she did what most people would do: she Googled how to make her own lip gloss.
Simple DIY recipes weren’t in short supply, even back in 2015. A little beeswax, some coconut oil, a splash of pigment from your favorite lipstick. “It’s not that difficult. You could do it in your own home,” says the founder of Cheekbone Beauty.
Now, if only Google had the recipe to compete with global cosmetic conglomerates in a ruthlessly competitive market.
Ten years on, she’s earned her spot on the shelves of small boutique shops and global retailers like Sephora. Cheekbone Beauty even made an appearance at the Met Gala.
And still: “If I knew what I knew now, I would have never started.”
