{"id":1236,"date":"2014-10-03T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T15:13:37","slug":"breakfast-meeting-april-18-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-18-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Meeting, April 18, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-18-2015\/colin-mcclean-large\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?fit=1888%2C2972&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1888,2972\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Colin McClean Large\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?fit=474%2C746&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1372\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?resize=180%2C283\" alt=\"Colin McClean Large\" width=\"180\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?w=1888&amp;ssl=1 1888w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?resize=191%2C300&amp;ssl=1 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?resize=651%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 651w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Colin-McClean-Large.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Colin McClean is an author, illustrator, and<br \/>\nchallenge coach.<br \/>\nIn 2004, he founded LLSCartoons, a marketing<br \/>\ncommunications design firm that specializes in<br \/>\nsimplifying complex information through design. It<br \/>\nwas an extension of his Life\u2019s Lighter Side\u2026comic<br \/>\nstrip, which was published weekly in the Greater<br \/>\nToronto Area from 2001-2010. Using the comedic<br \/>\nedge that propelled the cartoon strip, his illustrations<br \/>\nmake people laugh, while helping them to grow their<br \/>\nbusinesses.<br \/>\nIn 2013, he established ColinMcClean.com to<br \/>\nexpand his passion for helping others to grow,<br \/>\novercome challenges, and achieve their goals. As a Certified Adult Trainer, Colin uses a mix of<br \/>\ncomedy and practicality to deliver hundreds of workshops, coaching and mentoring sessions,<br \/>\nincluding team development and retreat facilitation.<br \/>\nColin&#8217;s range of experience led to the publication of \u201cA Funny Thing Happened On the Way To\u2026<br \/>\nMy Career!\u201d, a creative self-help guide that uses humour to help job seekers hone the skills they<br \/>\nneed to find work, even in challenging economic times.<br \/>\nIn addition to studying graphic design, Colin has an honours graduate diploma in Marketing<br \/>\nand Business Administration, a certification in Adult and Continuing Education and<br \/>\nTeaching and is a Competent Toastmaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin McClean is an author, illustrator, and challenge coach. In 2004, he founded LLSCartoons, a marketing communications design firm that specializes in simplifying complex information through design. It was an extension of his Life\u2019s Lighter Side\u2026comic strip, which was published weekly in the Greater Toronto Area from 2001-2010. Using the comedic edge that propelled the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-meeting-april-18-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Meeting, April 18, 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-jW","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}