In Part 2 of Prime for Growth’s 25 Year Mindset Series, host Angela Armstrong continues the conversation with business owner Andre Gagnon about what it takes to build long-term success in business.

Designed for business owners, this episode explores the mindset behind sustainable growth, resilient leadership, and decision-making that looks beyond short-term wins. Angela and Andre reflect on what it means to build with intention, stay adaptable, and create a business that can stand the test of time.

Best for: business owners, entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders focused on long-term growth.

The 25 Year Mindset is an interview series celebrating our finance company’s 25 years in business by spotlighting the business owners, leaders, and entrepreneurs who understand what it takes to build something that lasts. Through candid conversations about their journeys, challenges, lessons, and future ambitions, the series explores the long-term mindset behind sustainable success. Each episode looks at the experiences that got them where they are today—and the vision that will carry them forward. We begin with Joelle McLaren, who is the owner and CEO of California Closets, a multinational Canadian owned and operated custom closet franchise and company-owned organization that has been delivering custom-designed organizational solutions for the whole home since 1978.

If you're struggling to make your mark in a business with history, the challenge is real.  So is the opportunity to break new ground using powerful legacy tools and experience.  This episode is all about finding the difficult, but valuable, balance between innovation and history, harnessing the past for a better, energized future.  

Whether you are born an entrepreneur,  or born into a family of entrepreneurs, there is no doubt that moving beyond the family legacy can be both a burden and an opportunity.  

Anthea Sargeaunt started her entrepreneurial career right out of high school, building a business to pay her rent through her post secondary education path and launching her ambition to build something meaningful.  Her lessons in entrepreneurship motivated her to create something world changing, while respecting the boundaries between family and business - an age old problem to which she applies a modern approach.  Her company, 2S Water, has a huge mandate - to enable real time water testing and help enterprises and governments to improve global water safety.   But, transitioning from intergenerational legacy to leading edge innovator is daunting in many ways, and running an engineering-focused business as a risk taking entrepreneur is no less overwhelming.