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The 7 Minute TakeoverEp 19: Analyze your deal like a pro - Acquisition & Deal Management toolsIn this episode of 7 Minute Takeover, Liz MacRae and Eamonn Gamble introduce Village Wellth’s powerful new acquisition tooling—designed to help buyers evaluate, structure, and manage small business deals more effectively.They walk through a live demo of key features, including:A streamlined Deal Dashboard for organizing listings from brokers and marketplacesAI-powered uploads that automatically extract deal data and generate SWOT analysisA flexible Deal Structure Calculator to compare multiple price and financing scenariosBuilt-in tools for analyzing counter-offers, return on equity, and debt service ratiosWh...2025-07-2411 minThe 7 Minute TakeoverEp 16: Competing for Quality Deals in Today’s M&A Market - Podcast Guests: Jim Friesen (Portage M&A)In this episode, Jim Friesen of Portage M&A joins Elizabeth MacRae to discuss the evolving landscape of buying a business in Canada, particularly in Ontario. With fewer quality businesses hitting the market—and more qualified buyers ready to move—Friesen shares strategies to stand out in an increasingly competitive acquisition environment. 🔍 Topics CoveredWhy deal volume is down despite strong buyer demandHow political and economic uncertainty (like the housing market and lending trends) is affecting M&AReal-world examples of high-demand deals, like a snow plowing business with 50+...2025-07-0308 min
The Selling Successfully PodcastThe Evolution of M&A: Trends, AI, + Winning StrategiesA powerful conversation featuring Liz MacRae, President of Village Wellth.Liz shares her unique journey into M&A, the friction points she’s solving for buyers, and her insights on where the industry is headed in the next 3–5 years. From actionable advice for today’s buyers and sellers to bold predictions about AI and tech disruption in deal-making, this episode is packed with strategic gold.Thank you for listening! Find or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.2025-05-2935 min
Moolala: Money Made Simple with Bruce SelleryEntrepreneurship Through AcquisitionEntrepreneurship is not only starting a company it can also be acquiring a business. Acquisition may be faster but finding a business can be challenging. Liz MacRae, president of Village Wellth, joins us to talk about their role of helping business buyers.
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2025-02-0511 minMoolala: Money Made Simple with Bruce SelleryADHD and Spending. How to Build the Skill of Delayed Gratification | Full EpisodeDelaying gratification is a key skill to learn, especially for those who have ADHD. Otto Rivera is a certified financial planner, and he tells us how he navigated his ADHD and his ideas for supporting others. Then, discovering unclaimed funds. Rochelle Treister, founder of Charity Windfall Canada, reveals how she helps people find money they may have forgotten about. And, how to buy a business. Liz MacRae, president of Village Wellth, outlines how her company takes people through every step of the business acquisition process. Plus, we’ll speak with Shael Weinreb, CEO of The Home Equity Partners, about a di...2025-02-0451 min
The Jimmy Dore ShowBiden To PARDON FAUCI!! Also Liz Cheney & More!Internal discussions at the White House (that may or may not involve Joe Biden depending on how lucid he is that day) have been underway regarding potential preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, Democratic Senator-Elect Adam Schiff and any number of others who have in recent years come under withering Republican criticism. These would be blanket pardons, seeing as how none have been formally charged with any crimes. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Democrats’ desperation to avoid accountability for the COVID response, the January 6th investigations and Russiagate, all while maintaining a pr...2024-12-091h 00
Cafe’s Locked Out Mailing ListAdrian Macrae and Liz Gunn in the CafePort Hedland Council in WA successfully passed a motion to write to the PM, local healthcare providers and every single local council in Australia to warn them of DNA contamination in covid vaccines.Now two other councils have joined them, and Adrian joins us tonight too advise Victorian Councilors how to replicate this growing success.With Albo reeling from the death of the MAD bill, now is a perfect time to spearhead positive, decent change.Dr Paul Oosterhuis will be joining us.Cafe Locked OutJoin our...2024-11-242h 27
The Boardroom 180 PodcastGovernance in Acquisitions with Liz MacRaeMunir Haque is joined by exit plan advisor and co-founder of Village Wellth, Elizabeth MacRae, to talk about the buying and selling of business and why Village Wellth was founded to facilitate those needs. What is the board of directors’ role in an acquisition or sale? What is typically overseen by the board? Liz sheds light on how they operate in her world and what makes exit planning such a vital necessity.The manner in which businesses seek growth is varied, whether they consider growth through acquisition, by taking the traditional path through organic gr...2024-08-2748 min
Views From the MarketEpisode 117 - Building Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition: How Village Wellth WorksIn this podcast, Mario speaks with Liz MacRae about the unique Village Wellth platform, which provides entrepreneurial acquirors – often in the market for the first time – with the preparation, resources, advisory services and contacts they need to find, evaluate and finance business acquisitions. The other side of the Village Wellth coin is the opportunity it gives to sellers to increase their visibility and discover potential buyers. Liz and Mario also discuss recent trends in the Canadian acquisition market, including the expanding awareness of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) and the emergence of more family and female buyers.
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The Wyness ShuffleBack to RealityAKA The Mark Ridgers Show!
Welcome to the third of our Caley Thistle Crisis pods, following on from the record-breaking download numbers of Long Way Down and 136 Miles from Home.
Since we last put a podcast out, the Kelty plan is off, the Chairman has gone and the CEO is going. We talk about all of the dramatic events of the last couple of weeks, look back at our last two pods, the innovatively defunct Kelty Plan, the ringfenced youth academy and focus on what the future may hold in terms of investment and the...2024-06-112h 00
Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin GillThe role of security associations: a failed resource or a fundamental vehicle for a better security sector?*50th Episode*Covid-19 is preventing face to face contact – one of the key benefits of belonging to an association. So, have associations outlived their usefulness? After all there is an abundance of free webinars. Moreover, one of the key impediments to progress has been the failure of the security sector to speak with a unified voice or provide a single reference/contact point, does the multiplicity of associations serve to further fragment the sector? Are too often security associations in competition to the point that collaboration becomes a danger rather than an objective? After all there are mul...2024-05-091h 00
Collisions YYCCurrent & Critical - Liz MacRae, Innovating how to buy or sell your businessHost Tyler Chisholm discusses buying and selling established businesses with Liz MacRae, Head of Partnerships at Village Wellth. Gain clarity on this “underground market” and the ins and outs of selling or buying an established business. You'll also learn more about the tech ecosystem in Alberta and why Village Wellth leverages technology and subscription models.We’re on social media! Follow us for episodes you might have missed and key insights on Western Canada directly on your feeds.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/collisionsyycLinkedIn: https://www.linked...2023-06-1355 min
Liz Collin ReportsEp. 56 / Former nurse describes COVID-19 protocols as 'medical murder'Send us a textGail Macrae is a California nurse turned whistleblower who was fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 shot. She joined Liz Collin this week to discuss what she witnessed while working in health care during the pandemic.Support the show2023-04-1824 min
The Finance CafeBuying a Business with Elizabeth MacRae, Co-Founder of Village Wellth.Have you ever thought of buying a business?
In this episode The Finance Cafe co-founder and podcast host, Shannon Pestun, explores another avenue to entrepreneurship. According to her guest, Elizabeth MacRae, buying a business is an excellent career path option for people in the small business space and an investment path that can be a real avenue to financial freedom.
MacRae shares how with the baby boomer generation retiring from business ownership in droves there is ample opportunity for underrepresented groups and individuals to acquire these small businesses. Listen in as these two brilliant minds dive...2022-06-1239 min
CastologyA Very Fatal Murder, The Film Reroll Podcast and The Jimmy Dore ShowWe made it to episode four! As always, the Zane, Liz and Patrick kick off by telling us exactly what they thought of each other's offerings from last ep: Criminal, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History and The Smartest Man in the World Proopcast. Then it's on to the first of our THEMED recommendations, and this week we're all about comedy. Liz recommends A Very Fatal Murder (because of course she find's another comedy podcast about murder), Patrick wants us to listen to The Jimmy Dore Show (because of course he's a comedy podcast about politics), and Zane recommends The Film...2019-01-2730 min
Musicals Taught Me Everything I KnowMerrily We Roll Along with Jessica Kate RyanThis week Julie Miranda, and Zane chat with Jessica Kate Ryan about which of life's truths can be gleaned from Sondheim's infamous flop, Merrily We Roll Along!"...to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals. Usually, the heartbreak comes from Mr. Sondheim's songs -for his music can tear through us with an emotional force as moving as Gershwin's. And sometimes the pain is compounded by another factor - for some of Mr. Sondheim's most powerful work turns up in shows (''Anyone Can Whistle,'' ''Pacific Overtures'') that fail. Suffice it...2018-09-0600 min
The Scottish Independence PodcastScotland's Missing Histories 2 - Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (with Liz MacRae Shaw)And when I am in the boardsmy words will be a prophecy.They will return, the stock of the croftersWho were driven over the sea.And the aristocratic 'beggars'will be routed as they (the crofters) were.Deer and sheep will be carted awayand the glens will be tilled;A time of sowing and a time of reaping,and a time to reward the robbers.And the cold ruined houseswill be built up by our kinOver the years I have...2015-09-2332 minScot Independence PodcastScotland's Missing Histories 2 - Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (with Liz MacRae Shaw)And when I am in the boards
my words will be a prophecy.
They will return, the stock of the crofters
Who were driven over the sea.
And the aristocratic 'beggars'
will be routed as they (the crofters) were.
Deer and sheep will be carted away
and the glens will be tilled;
A time of sowing and a time of reaping,
and a time to reward the robbers.
And the cold ruined houses
will be built up by our kin
Over the years I have had many conversations in which there has been the complaint that large chunks of Scottish...2015-09-2332 min