Built For This - Trailer

What happens when the life you built is no longer the life you’re living? In one of her most candid conversations, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau opens up about rebuilding her life after separation, returning to Montreal at 51, and navigating motherhood, identity and mental health after nearly a decade in the public eye. Recorded in Montreal for World Mental Health Day, Sophie joins Talia Bronfman and Jessica Green on Built for This for a deeply personal conversation about the woman behind the public narrative — and what it really means to start again. From the loneliness of coming home to an empty house to the childhood experiences that continue to shape her relationships, Sophie reflects on the emotional patterns we carry, the expectations placed on women and the courage it takes to break cycles. In this episode, Sophie opens up about: Life after separation: Returning to her childhood neighbourhood in Montreal, navigating loneliness and learning to embrace an uncertain future. The emotional cost of public life: The sacrifices of raising children under extraordinary scrutiny. Her relationship with her late father: An emotional revelation about spending her life searching for his affection and finally holding his hand as he was dying. The pressure to do it all: Why women are rewarded for putting themselves last, accepting emotional breadcrumbs and carrying everyone else’s needs. Mental health and generational patterns: Her experience with an eating disorder, childhood attachment and why understanding our own experiences matters when raising the next generation. Motherhood in the digital age: Why she’s limiting her youngest child’s access to technology and what worries her about social media and AI. What’s next: A new children’s book planned for 2027, her evolving relationship with ageing and what she’s learning about herself in this next chapter.

Her first business partner told her the only thing she knew how to do was make a cappuccino. Janet Zuccarini bought into her first restaurant with money her father had set aside for her wedding — before she'd ever worked a single shift in one. Four years into what she calls an abusive partnership, her chef-partner tried to force her out. She quietly out-maneuvered him: years of saving let her walk in with a certified cheque the moment he finally named his price, buying him out and taking full ownership on the spot. That restaurant, Trattoria Nervosa, just turned 30. She's since built an empire of 13 restaurants in Toronto plus Felix in LA — crowned Esquire's #1 new restaurant in America within three months of opening — while running profit margins nearly four times the industry average. She's also spent nine years as a resident judge on Top Chef Canada, where she and her fellow judges typically call the winner by the first episode. In this conversation, Janet sits down with Jess and Talia to talk about the real math behind restaurant margins as nearly half of Canadian restaurants now break even or lose money, her habit of hiring chefs at their lowest point, what it's like watching A-listers become regulars at her tables, and what it meant to find love later in life with music legend Robbie Robertson — and then lose him. Janet shares:

They called her a cult leader. Gina Livy was teaching aerobics classes — genuinely fit, genuinely knowledgeable — when she gained over 100 pounds during university anyway, a mystery she still can't fully explain. Two decades later she'd built a TV career and run her own fitness studio for a decade, only to watch it all collapse when her husband got critically ill: she fell behind on rent, the family van got repossessed, and she found herself waitressing at a sports bar while raising four kids largely on her own. The rebuild started with an old flyer and a hunch. In 2015, Gina pivoted into weight-loss coaching, scaled it into Facebook groups, and built what is now The Livy Method — a community-based program with no calorie counting and no forbidden foods that's reached 150,000+ members across 55 countries and generated roughly $30 million in revenue. She and her husband Tony also pitched on Dragon's Den, walking away with an accepted $500K offer that, as of this recording, still hasn't formally closed. In this conversation, Gina sits down with Jess and Talia to talk about what it actually takes to build an entire method with zero nutrition or medical credentials, defend a community that critics call a cult and members call a lifeline, and keep evolving an industry that GLP-1 medications are actively upending — all while carrying the guilt of raising four kids largely on her own through the years it all fell apart. She gets candid about the diet industry advice that had everything "completely ass-backwards," what it actually felt like the day 482 strangers signed up for a program she built overnight, and the best friend who couldn't see her vision even while her own mother was a member benefiting from it.

They called them "mompreneurs"... Today, Canadians Lauren Levy and Devin Connell are better-known as the women who walked straight into an $18 billion category dominated by legacy giants and wellness noise — and cracked 500 retailers in a year. They didn't meet in a boardroom. They met through their kids, became friends, and spent years quietly admiring each other's businesses before finally asking the question: what if we built something together? Devin Connell grew up in food — her parents opened an artisanal bakery when she was 12, she trained at Le Cordon Bleu, launched Delica Kitchen, wrote a cookbook, and became a Food Network Canada personality. Lauren Levy came at it from media, marketing, and brand-building, including years co-founding a maternity brand. When their previous businesses wrapped up around the same time, they reverse-engineered an idea from scratch — starting with "food should be joy, not function" and working backward until they landed on cookies. What followed was a failed Madeline-style cake, broken sheets of cookies that couldn't scale, and over 200 failed test batches across a year of R&D before they had a small, crispy, slightly-too-salty cookie that broke every rule the category was following. Now Odd Cookie is in 500 retailers across Canada, launching on Amazon next month, outgrowing its own production facility, and gearing up for a U.S. expansion and capital raise. In this conversation, Devin and Lauren sit down with Jess and Talia to talk about what it actually takes to build a physical product business from zero inside one of the most saturated, capital-intensive categories in retail — where getting on shelf is the easy part, staying on shelf is a street fight, and your biggest edge might be not knowing the rules well enough to follow them. They open up about the actual chemistry behind a 12-month shelf life, the billboard stunt that nearly turned into a very public embarrassment, what it's like being called "mompreneurs" while trying to raise money, and why treating the business as high stakes but low stress has kept them both sane. Devin and Lauren share: The 200 test batches and full year of R&D it took to engineer a cookie that's crispy, shelf-stable for 12 months, and "slightly saltier than your average" — and why the recipe is closer to a science experiment than a bake The billboard they put up above a Metro store telling shoppers to "stop if you want a cookie" — and the very awkward 48 hours that followed when they walked in, champagne in hand, to buy their own product Why nailing your margins has to happen before you nail your recipe — the blunt rule a mentor gave them that shaped every decision since What it's like being called "mompreneurs" and getting "tapped on the head" in rooms full of investors — and why they've stopped bothering to correct anyone The three non-negotiables they tell every founder trying to get a product onto a grocery shelf Why "walk before you run" has meant saying no to cookie butter, cereal, and half a dozen other ideas they're dying to launch

She didn't set out to build a company. She set out to understand why nobody had figured this out yet. Diagnosed with PCOS (now called Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS)), and handed a birth control prescription with no second conversation, then navigating miscarriage, months of irregular cycles, and a dining room table covered in Dollarama boxes trying to crack packaging — Sam Diamond built Bird&Be from the inside of the exact experience it was designed to solve.