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The Your Life! Your Terms! ShowD'Arcy McConvey - Investing In Public Storage & Diving Into The Entrepreneurial JourneyWe've known D'Arcy for many years. In the past he's even taught a class here at Rock Star on how large real estate developers analyze projects. He's now gone on to new things and started buying up public storage facilities across Ontario. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show he dives into all the details: how it was leaving his corporate job, what types of properties he's looking for, the ins and outs of running public storage facilities and what the future holds. You can find out more about what he's doing by visiting PantoneIM.com2023-10-061h 12
Venture & GainsJordan Anderson: Bitbuy - Crypto Canada, Crypto.In this episode, we are in conversation with Jordan Anderson, COO of BITBUY. An episode we're titling Crypto Canada Crypto. Just named to Deloitte's Tech 2021 Fast 50, ranked number 9, their top-down approach to platform building with a super simple and elegant user experience makes buying crypto simple, intuitive and delightful. There's something for everyone, whether you're a trader or a crypto accumulator, as they're called. Keys, wallets, phrases, passwords - Just simplify it, please. Thank you, Bitbuy, it's an awesome story and awesome platform. Keep an eye on this one and try Bitbuy for yourself.2021-11-2947 min
Venture & GainsRonan Levy: Field Trip Health, The Psychedelic RenaissanceThe Psychedelic Renaissance. Ronan Levy walks us through the Field Trip Health growth story in the emergence of psychedelic assisted therapy and new mental health treatments. Much stemming from Michael Pollan leading the way and on the forefront of this cultural shift as humanity wrestles with the crisis of emotion or a crisis of spirituality. I like to call it the emergence of the clinical Shaman. So many treatments are showing promise in advancing the development of psychedelic therapies. If you're curious about psychedelics or the emerging mental health treatment, I think you'll enjoy this conversation.Get to Know Ronan...2021-09-2148 minVenture & GainsAdam Reeds : Ledn - Lend, Borrow and Grow BitcoinCalm, confident and Reassuring. Adam Reeds walks us through the original idea and hyper growth of his digital asset lending company, Ledn. From an idea of building a financial services company on Bitcoin rails to how he's gone about growing a startup financial services company by building trust with consumers, being transparent and working with third party providers and trusted sources. An amazing platform. Adam shares light on where they are today, the value in what they were doing and the open road ahead. Get to know Adam: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-reeds-ledn?originalSubdomain=cahttps://ledn.io/en/teamhttps...2021-09-1443 minVenture & GainsHarry Taylor & Amanda Laine: The Hot, The Cold and The BreathInward Breathwork – 25% Lifetime Discount & 7 Day Free Trial Discount Code: VG25 https://www.inwardbreathwork.com/ Amanda and Harry were just meant to do this. Together they are creating a transformative business which includes the sauna, the cold and breath work. Hearing Amanda discuss how they turned their idea into a business driven by an overriding mission to build up each other and build up other people is amazing. Then Boom, they landed in the sauna, the hot sauna and the zero-degree cold tub. We go into detail around the program and the mental and physical benefits of the hot...2021-06-0844 minVenture & GainsDean Harder: Conversational Selling, Nursery Rhymes & Fables and Having a Track to Run OnInward Breathwork – 7 Day Free Trial Discount Code: VG25https://www.inwardbreathwork.com/Dean just has so much insight to offer anyone in business development, sales or anyone who has conversation for that matter. All of us. Dean walks us through his framework of standardize, improvise, and customize to get the most out of any conversation. There are tons of key things to note during today's episode like; focus on the other person, be human and light but prepared, people like to hear their name. The concept of having a phrase like a nursery rhyme, once upon a time which focuses th...2021-05-251h 00Venture & GainsCarly Nemtean: Seeing and seizing Opportunity, Design Build and the Collective WorkspaceCarly's passion for design and creating a more collaborative and open design build industry is palpable. It's this passion for her craft that has driven her to create an award-winning design build firm and ‘The Collective’, a first of its kind coworking space for architects, designers and builders. She offers great insight into the ambiguous value of design and the trials and tribulations of building a strong team.On a personal note, she defined my design style as midcentury modern with a touch of old Hollywood. Nailed it. Check her out at https://www.thecollective.com/ or https://www.carriagelanedesigns.com...2021-05-1157 minVenture & GainsRoslyn McLarty: Creating Sports Content for Women by WomenRoslyn McLarty always knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur, the trigger to her life as an entrepreneur came like most good ideas from a personal pain point, a need for a sports media platform that spoke to women today. Roslyn is the co-founder of a rapidly growing sports media brand ‘The GIST’ creating sports content for women by women and empowering underserved sports fans. Everyone wants to be a part of the watercooler chat, for many women, sports can feel like a boys club, exclusionary and intimidating, generally male dominated. Here are a couple stats. Less than 14 percent of spor...2021-04-2743 minVenture & GainsDebra Jasper: Plain Words are Easily UnderstoodThe brain science tells us that the average professional has an eight second attention span, we’re more distracted, more distant and more distressed than ever before. And guess what? It's harder for distressed people to listen and learn. How we communicate is more important than ever, but we often communicate to impress rather than inform. As professionals, we should be designing for attention, our scarcest resource. Debra Jasper breaks down critical today skills that we could all use, right for action, redesign how we are presenting, S.O.S emails and of course, the Title Slide - The LinkedIn pr...2021-04-1352 minVenture & GainsDavid Nikzad: Psychedelics, Back to the Plants & Emotional IntelligenceThis episode, we dive into the psychedelic space with David Nikzad, the founder and chairman of EI Ventures, where he lays down the groundwork for the therapeutic use of botanical psychedelics. Maybe the answer is as simple as go back to the land, go back to the plants. We discussed synthetic versus natural compounds and psychedelics. David's main objective is to create the new standard of pharma, food as medicine, using products that come from the Earth and whole plant form. We round out the conversation with trying to better understand how people can participate in the growing psychedelic space...2021-03-3048 minVenture & GainsAdam Gower: Dr. Crowdfunding…This Will Only Get BiggerWelcome to Season 2 of Venture & Gains! Adam is a great conversation and a charismatic character, and the English/Texan accent certainly helps. He brings a very interesting and timely perspective to digital marketing specifically as it applies to real estate syndication online. As he notes, this will only get bigger in the idea of creating an automated engine that allows for spending less time raising capital and more time creating value is a powerful concept. The concept applies to almost every market, transferring the spoken word into recordings and content in a way that converts your entire story, uniqueness, history...2021-03-1649 min
Sports to BusinessD'Arcy McConvey - Willing yourself to make it before you make it | Sports to BusinessD'Arcy McConvey is a Director at Greybrook Realty Partners and former NCAA Hockey Academic all-American and Pro player. He also hosts the podcast - Venture and Gains.
He played Hockey for Bowling Green State University where he received Academic All American Honours, and then went on to play pro hockey in ECHL and in Europe. He then did his MBA from the London School of Business and a few years later began his career at Greybrook Realty Partners.
"As a communicator and for something a little more concrete, I have been tagged as an “Adaptor” – A pers...2021-03-0835 minVenture & GainsSeason 1 Synopsis: 8 Themes that Stand OutWe've distilled the season down to a few common themes. All the themes are broken down into clips and the clips are mostly one minute or less. Passion is a consistent theme. For our guests, it's less about tactics and more about why they do things and how they think about things. When you block the themes together, it's fascinating how people from various backgrounds hammer on the same common threads. These are all great people and I'm thankful and honored that they were guests and took the time to share insights with us. The themes; being opportunistic and the...2021-02-1631 minVenture & GainsAndrew Macdonald: Uber's Star Executive, How to Ride and Guide a Unicorn + Some Humble and Refreshing AdviceIt's a journey that many getting into tech would love to take. From Uber employee number 62 to managing 10,000+ people as head of mobility and business operations, Andrew McDonald's rise is a fascinating one and come to some terrific lessons. The conversation spans the early days at Uber, launching city after city, tackling hurdle after hurdle along the way, to founder Travis Kalanick ability to problem solve in align his team with the clarifying description and leadership tactic ‘Here's how I think about the problem’, to the Uber culture and how it has changed as the company grows and how entrepreneurship is v...2021-01-051h 04Venture & GainsSam McMeekin: Beers, Books and Building a BreweryA cheerful and global citizen, in every sense, Sam is not only a great storyteller, but his own story is fascinating. We never did get to the part about him teaching me Singlish, but that's for another time.After leaving the world of private equity, Sam ventured off to start Gipsy Hill Brewery as a way to be more hands on and to create a better work life balance. But with four young kids at home, he quickly realized that work runs you until you get on top of it. There are a few laughs in this one, but Sam's...2020-12-221h 00Venture & GainsMina Mitry: Space, Satellites and Endeavoring for the 10xMina and his team are literally and figuratively on a rocket ship. Since meeting his co-founders in college and starting to launch rockets in their spare time, space engineering and big ideas have been Mina’s passions and ultimately where Kepler Communications was born. The 2015 Kepler origins include big goals like putting Internet access outside of Earth based on the premise that connectivity is the lifeblood to powering economies today. With five satellites in orbit and a goal to have 50 by the end of 2021, Kepler's becoming the drop-box of space, making its electric impact on the rapidly growing space economy. As...2020-12-0840 minVenture & GainsNorm Trainor: Business Building Guru, Prophetic insights and “What do you do?”Norm is a guru. There's no other way to put it. He covers a lot in this conversation and some of the things that drew me in are the idea as to what separates great producers from average producers. For high performers, the big separator is the time frame in which they think. Framing the long game, the short game and the infinite game. It's interesting how tweaks in language can be so powerful. For example, referrals versus introductions and mastering the art of retaining introductions. One of my favorite parts of the conversation is the ‘Can't Miss’ section on mast...2020-11-2459 minVenture & GainsMatt Nichol: Strength, The Swedish Touch and GreatnessMatt is a longtime strength coach to some of the world's greatest athletes, but beyond that, he considers himself a creative problem solver. Helping people reach their goals by pushing themselves to their potential. Part scientist, part life coach, Matt is in a great position to offer insights into how the intangibles separate true greatness. His training philosophy is based around health, longevity, and performance. Boiling it down to the fact that the weight on the bar might change, but the principles never do, whether you're an executive or an athlete, and it’s great to apply to life generally. Gi...2020-11-1053 min
Sports Technology PodcastWilliam Mao, D'arcy McConvey - London Business SchoolWilliam Mao and D'arcy McConvey are from the Sports Business club of the London Business School. We calk about the changing business side of sport. 11 March 2012.2020-11-0814 minVenture & GainsSunny Verma: The Untapped Power of Education, Math Anxiety and the Importance of OptimismSunny was the appropriate name for this guy. He's bright, light and warm. He's an educational entrepreneur and founder of Tutor Bright. He has varied interests, and I'm sure you'll pick up quickly on the fact that he's wise beyond his years. He's got a unique connection to Napoleon Hill in the classic book ‘Think and Grow Rich’. Part of this episode, he drills down on the concept of always wanting more and finding the balance between today and tomorrow, including the fear that drives us to a place where it's acceptable to be stressed and how to unwind that. On t...2020-10-271h 05Venture & GainsKevin Bieksa: The Mindset of a True CompetitorIn this episode former NHL player Kevin Bieksa breaks down how he gained a physical and mental edge over his competition on and off the ice; the challenges athletes face post retirement; and how he was able to successfully transition from hockey player to media personality and youth mentor. Kevin Bieksa played professional hockey for fifteen years, thirteen of which were in the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks and the Anaheim Ducks. Currently he is Director of Elite Defensemen Mentorship for KO Sports, as well as a broadcaster and analyst for Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada. Get to Know...2020-10-1353 minVenture & GainsJeff Tung: Where Foosball Meets Private Equity MasteryIn this episode CPS Capital co-founder Jeffery Tung takes you through his journey from software developer to starting his own private equity shop, and how his hands on, personalized approach has sets him apart from the competition. Jeffrey co-founded CPS in 2013 with Michael Arblaster. From 2013-2016 he was co-CEO of Windley Ely, in charge of operations and technology . Shortly thereafter he sprinkled in an amazing cannabis run. Prior to founding CPS he was at McKinsey & Company, where he led industry shaping deals in telecom, banking, and utility.Get to Know Jeff Tung:https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jeffreytunghttps://cpscapital.com...2020-10-0846 minVenture & GainsPatrick Hayes: Maximizing Human Performance in Private EquityMukala Partners’ Pat Hayes takes us through his career development, and how his incredible mindset has helped him excel. Find out how he uses his unique blend of leadership, emotional intelligence, and business acumen to help private equity firms maximize human capital. Pat founded Mukala Partners in 2019, prior to that he worked at Green Peak Partners and Bridgewater Associates. Love some of the insights on Data driven decisions, and how they should be used in the interview and hiring process. The importance of mentors and tapping into the wisdom of others.Get to Know Patrick Hayes:https://www.linkedin.com/in...2020-10-081h 01Venture & GainsAdrian Rocca: Building a $2 Billion Empire in 4 Years or LessIn this episode we learn from Adrian Rocca’s incredible story of building to $2Bn in AUM in under 4 years, and more about his unique approach to the Real Estate development and asset management landscape. With fifteen years of experience in real estate and principal investing, Adrian Rocca brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast. Adrian is the CEO of Fitzrovia Real Estate, prior to that he worked at Tricon Capital Group as Managing Director, and at AREA Property Partners as Director of Real Estate Private Equity.Get to Know Adrian Rocca:https://ca.linkedin.com/in/adrian-rocca-b555a563ht...2020-10-0844 minVenture & GainsVenture & Gains: Coming SoonVenture & Gains: Coming Soon--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/venture--gains/support2020-09-2301 min
The Your Life! Your Terms! ShowHow To Invest Like A Developer Into Land, Subdivisions & Condos With Greybrook Realty PartnersWe met Greybrook Realty Partners co-CEO's a few years back and somehow they let us meet with them several times as we were trying to figure out if they were the real deal or not.
We had never met anyone who had invested with large developers like they were. They answered a ton of our questions and we've had a great relationship with them ever since.
On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we go behind the scenes with D'Arcy McConvey and Dylan Kent to describe how they work. We also chat about Toronto's real estate trends...2019-05-091h 09