The Leader Within podcast with Angela Nguyen
Jul 7, 2026 · 29 min · 13 segments
If you're a social impact leader, serial entrepreneur, or high performer who wants to lead with purpose and real-world impact, this episode is for you! Angela Nguyen, leadership coach, consultant…
Lourdes JuanGuest
Angela NguyenHost
are an urban planner by trade, and yet you've built such a diverse portfolio beneath you.
I do have a master's in environmental design, specifically focused in urban planning.
And it was sort of like my first love, like I definitely fell in in love with how cities work, how they function, what makes a city have a certain characteristic or personality.
There's social planning, there's politics, there's all these sort of inputs that make a city what it is.
I still hold that hat with one of my companies, but really got more interested in the social side of things and impact.
And so I I started a charity, which I thought kind of would be just a small charity that I would start.
And I would sort of be picking up and dropping off food from grocery stores and bakeries.
And I would always drop that food off to service agencies that need it, intended it just to be sort of like a small volunteer thing.
But when I really saw the need of how much food goes to waste and how many people don't have access to food and how we could actually get good food to people just within Calgary, I really started going down that path.
So it's a longer story, but it sort of has led me to now having a tech company that focuses on food rescue.
are an urban planner by trade, and yet you've built such a diverse portfolio beneath you.
I do have a master's in environmental design, specifically focused in urban planning.
And it was sort of like my first love, like I definitely fell in in love with how cities work, how they function, what makes a city have a certain characteristic or personality.
There's social planning, there's politics, there's all these sort of inputs that make a city what it is.
I still hold that hat with one of my companies, but really got more interested in the social side of things and impact.
And so I I started a charity, which I thought kind of would be just a small charity that I would start.
And I would sort of be picking up and dropping off food from grocery stores and bakeries.
And I would always drop that food off to service agencies that need it, intended it just to be sort of like a small volunteer thing.
But when I really saw the need of how much food goes to waste and how many people don't have access to food and how we could actually get good food to people just within Calgary, I really started going down that path.
So it's a longer story, but it sort of has led me to now having a tech company that focuses on food rescue.
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