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When no one believes in your vision, believe that you can do something bigger for yourself. In this episode, Dan Handford interviews P. Brendon Lundberg, the Co-Founder and President of Radiant Pain Relief Centres about his journey into opening his own pain relief center and finding investors. All for the love of helping people experience comfort and becoming pain free, Brendon went through self-development and trainings to pursue his dream. Be inspired more from his entrepreneurial strategies as he briefly shares his favorite quote by Thomas Edison, his preferred inspiration book, and the tools he uses for managing his team.

Handling a big property investment firm can present more headaches than smiles if not done with precision. In this episode, host Dan Handford and Michael Becker, the Founder of SPI Advisory, tackle the tough decisions investors face in the world of property investment. Michael talks about going through prepayment penalties and how he and his team steered their way through it. He also shares some strategies on mitigating the risks of what he went through with regards to prepayments as well as handling issues with code enforcement departments.

In growing one’s business, tackling problems and coming up with solutions can be daunting if we do not approach it with having a positive mindset or attitude. In this episode, host Dan Handford brings on brain trainer Dana Wilde to talk about the brain’s reticular activating system, having the right mindset, and how we can train our brain to make good decisions. Listen to this episode to discover how you can make money by being happy and get paid by being you.

Recessions are difficult, especially in the real estate field. Recovering from it can be a tough road to take because you get to be faced with a number of tough decisions. Founder and managing director at Wellings Capital, Paul Moore, is not an exception to this experience. In this episode, Paul talks about the first mistake he made and the tough decisions he had to face. Learn how he got out of the recession with the practices that aid him in making decisions in this toughest of times.

Some of us are not born to do just one thing in this world. Balancing the educator and entrepreneur realm, Alex Talcott has managed to keep his teaching bug while running several businesses in the financial planning and real estate space as well as in public affairs consulting. Having these two different things to juggle is no easy feat, however. In this episode, Alex shares with us the tough decisions he has made throughout his career journey. He shares the strategies and lessons he learned and now uses that made him overcome making these tough calls.

Letting go of a business is harder than starting it. Tim Meuchel, entrepreneur and business owner, is someone who started in the corporate world and had to face the heart-wrenching truth of losing a business. Learn how he managed to keep his ground and make critical decisions to salvage his business amidst so many things shifting and going against him. Through it all, Tim takes us deeper into identifying where we should place our commitment and who are the right people to trust.

Once you are down, there is no other way but to go back up. In this short but impactful episode, AJ Osborne, the Owner and Founder of Keylock Storage, shares great lessons about how pride and greed pulled his company to a catastrophe. He tells us some stories of his life, including how taking huge risks from investing with fraudsters drove their insurance business down the hole. By setting yourself up in a position where only excess capital is risk, you can eventually progress your business to the top. Learn more from AJ as he influences you to make the right decisions.

Some of the most significant events in our life are borne from tough decisions. Letting us in on his share of making tough calls is commercial real estate broker, Brett Swarts. Brett takes us through the good and the bad decisions he made across his career and shares how it shaped him as an entrepreneur. He then discusses some of the strategies he uses when faced with one of these tough decisions, shedding light on the importance of surrounding yourself with people you trust. Don’t miss out on the wisdom of Brett as he challenges us, in the end, to be more.

Millions of Americans are opting for affordable housing in the form of mobile homes. Dan Handford interviews elite mobile home park investor Andrew Keel, the Founder and CEO of Keel Team Real Estate. They talk about mobile home parks, what preparations are necessary for putting them up, and the depreciation of land value. Setting up a real estate team is an overall challenge. Andrew shares some of the trials they went through – from hiring the right people and getting outside investors to expanding the business. Know more about managing and scaling mobile home parks as Andrew shares the apps he uses for his business and the strategy he uses for making decisions.

Almost 80% of all types of strategic initiatives fall into the pattern of building the plane while you’re trying to fly it. In this episode, Alex Castro, an entrepreneur and the CEO of M Corp, narrates how he became an entrepreneur and talks about his current focus in his business. Sharing the tough decisions he had to undergo and the strategies he used to face these challenges, he also discusses measuring readiness and the readiness score as well as how to measure whether or not you’ve succeeded or failed in your strategic initiatives.

In this episode, Dan Handford talks with Christian Zeron, the Founder of Theo & Harris, a company that sells a collection of amazing vintage watches, about facing tough decisions. Desperate to find a business partner who could bring on capital and some necessary skills at the beginning stages of his company, Christian went through some disastrous explorations. Over the years, he’s learned to be more comfortable owning the decisions and owning the good moments and bad moments, even more so being more connected to the people that he works with. Sharing some tough decisions he’s had to do as an entrepreneur, Christian also reveals some effective strategies he uses to face tough business decisions.

Standing out and being different are keys to excelling in a competitive marketplace. Tech startup expert Manuj Aggarwal shares his entrepreneurial journey and how unforeseen circumstances led him to starting an eCommerce business. Manuj talks about how he was able to jump from one business to another by simply building his own brand, audience, style, and aesthetics. He talks about the tough decisions he had to face and what guided him to making better ones as an entrepreneur and teacher.

Regrets suck but we all have to experience it if we want to learn tough lessons in life. Edna Keep has had her fair share of regrets such as letting go of good deals that could have sold way higher than expected. Narrating her journey from multifamily apartment buildings to venturing out into the Airbnb space, she shares her thoughts on coaching and mentoring and how it has been helping her through the years. With the lessons she learned, she shares how taking risks and following the inner knowing when investing in small-town properties can lead to greater results. In this episode, discover Edna’s strategies to facing tough decisions and why she’s doing business more in Canada rather than the US.

Dan interviews Rick Smith, Founder and CEO of Axon and author of “The End of Killing” a book with his manifesto of how he is going to make the bullet obsolete. Dive in as they talk about how making shortcuts to make money almost made him shut his business down, and how being customer centric and customer driven turned out to be the best strategy implemented to expanded his base and make it more diversified.

Dan interviews Chris Sparks, Founder of The Forcing function. Join in as they talk about how he got caught not knowing what to do after online poker was officially shut down, and three years later getting all his money back in one big sum, and after no more poker, how he confronted the idea of not knowing what he really wanted to do, and ended up doing business with payment for his services in advance.

Dan interviews Dan Meadors, a co-founder of The Wholesale Formula. Dive in as they talk about how working with a distributor with whom they didn’t have a great relationship cost them 10 thousand dollars, all the money they had, and how hiring a boy who was making more money than him and his partner were, turned out to be an equal partner.

Dan interviews Ivan Barratt, founder and owner of Barrett Asset Management. Tune in as they talk about how taking on an operating partner that was not the leader he said he was to be, made him put a system in process when hiring somebody new, and led him into a new partnership with the actual COO and president of his company who has shown a keen understanding of what it takes to mind about every detail and has helped the business grow.

Dan interviews Joe Trodden, a coach, mindset expert and founder of Mindset Experts. Joe shares his journey from an IT background making tons of projects, to having his own mindset business. Tune in as they talk about charities not being viable from a business perspective, his late decision of not running his passion led business as a non profit, stepping out of his job to start his own business and the actions he took to mitigate that risky decision.

Dan interviews and welcomes back Chris Prefontaine. Chris is a real investor, coach and founder of Smart Real Estate Coach. Dive in as they talk about how going to an unorganized meeting has made him put a Big 3 process in place which has opened the communication totally as a team and as a family team, and the tough decision of firing a bookkeeper that could not follow their business growth gave him a chance to hire a successful team to replace her.

Dan interviews Nathan Seaward, a coach and mentor. Nathan shares his journey from working as a pilot and flying big planes all around the world, to having his own coaching business. Tune in as they talk about the time he hired a social media management company he spent too much money on, did not work out and encouraged him to understand all aspects of his business to be able to delegate, and how connecting with his truth helped him leave his flying career, to start his own business.