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ADAM BLASBERG APRIL 2021 BCBUSINESS 41 S arah Lubik likes to end her innovation classes at SFU with a lesson on entrepreneurial happiness, in which she implores her stu- dents to stay active and take care of themselves the best they can. After all, "the more you teach and learn about entre- preneurial journeys, the more you realize there are a lot of people at really significant risk, from burnout, especially," says the executive director of the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship. But a few years ago, when a former student visited Lubik and asked what she'd been do- ing to keep moving, she started making the excuse that she just didn't have the time—before he called her out. "I went that week and start- ed looking at personal trainers and said, If my problem is that I lack the commitment, then I shall go and make sure I will have that commitment, that I have someone I'm accountable to," she recalls. That turned into a pas- sion for running, and Lubik ended up completing a few half marathons before turning her attention to another hobby: weightlifting. "I met a friend that was do- ing weightlifting challenges and just going for strength, and it looked so impressive," she says. Lubik began working out of Innovative Fitness's Coquitlam location. "IF does an amazing job of creating community; you start to get to know people and their goals and journeys. And the people who were lifting just seemed so cool." She quickly found that weightlifting is more about form than anything else. "You have to have your body and mind in sync—you have to think, OK, this is locked in, this is locked in, because if you don't do that, you can hurt Giving body and mind a solid foundation comes with great form for SFU's Sarah Lubik by Nathan Caddell W E E K E N D WA R R IOR WARRIOR SPOTLIGHT As executive director of the Charles Chang Institute for Entrepreneurship at SFU, Sarah Lubik manages 15 employees, five student ambassadors, 14 mentors and experts-in-residence and more than 45 affiliated faculty and staff champi- ons. She also oversaw the creation of Canada's first program to give university credit for an entrepreneur- ship program run entirely at high schools. "Teaching entrepreneurship and inno- vation and change-making isn't important because we need more businesses; it's important because we need more people that can think like an entrepreneur," says Lubik, who has a PhD from Cambridge Univer- sity. "At the root of the entrepreneurial mindset is adaptability, opportunity and imagination–and that's important, whether you're an employee, a citizen or an entrepreneur." –N.C. CURL POWER Weightlifter Lubik puts her muscles to the test at Coquitlam's Innovative Fitness location Lift You Up O FF T H E C LO C K ( quality time )