Calgary Living - Real Estate & Life Style with host Bryon Howard

Pete Estabrooks is a long time Calgary Guy and one of Canada’s foremost experts on personal training and fitness. Pete is widely known for his energy, infectious enthusiasm and genuine love of helping people incorporate fitness into their lives. Pete’s passion and expertise in fitness come from a combination of formal education and first hand fitness experience gained during years as a nationally ranked, professional boxer. Combined with his love of writing and speaking, Pete’s background is uniquely suited to providing guidance, knowledge and encouragement to clients of all fitness levels.

Pete has developed The TKO Sports Conditioning Program. Inspired by a lifetime of fitness and based off training programs Pete developed during his professional boxing career, TKO is a revolutionary and fun way to train.

If you’re ready to talk about getting fit, or taking your fitness to the next level, reach out to Pete to talk about how he can help.

From the age of two years, Brendan Rothwell was playing music ... and had a life of music education. In the mid 80's Brendan heard Miles Davis on "Tutu" featuring the great Marcus Miller and he knew immediately that his principle instrument would be the bass. He chose Calgary as home in 2005, and has been linking his work in business, leadership and Music ever since.

Julie is an award-winning real estate and events photographer, and an exhibiting artist. She has just completed her ninth gallery exhibition, and is developing a new photographic documentary for 2020. Julie is a published writer and bilingual communications professional. She has worked as a journalist and as an instructor teaching classes in photography, professional sales, small business planning, professional administration, and writing and grammar for business. Her hobbies including biking and pottery.

Greg Kolodziejzyk

​In 1985 after graduating from Southern Alberta Institute of Technology with a diploma in engineering, Greg Kolodziejzyk founded Image Club Graphics, Inc, a supplier of content software for the publishing industry. Image Club developed and marketed the largest library of digitized typefaces in the world, licensing many of the fonts from the worlds great foundries. Image Club is credited as being the first company to digitize stock photography which they distributed on CD ROM disc. In 1994, Image club was acquired by Adobe Systems. Major spin-off's credited to Image Club software and marketing innovations, are stock photo industry giants EyeWire, Veer, and iStockPhoto which were all founded by former Image Club employees.

In 1986, Greg launched his second company, Sharper Cards, which made and sold printed dental marketing products. In 2003, Greg and his wife and business partner Helen, who was also acting CEO of Sharper Cards, sold the company to their largest US competitor, Smart Health, Inc.

After retiring at 33 years of age, Kolodziejzyk completed 12 Ironman Triathlons and qualified and competed at the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii by winning 4th place in his division at Ironman Arizona in 2006. He has finished the Boston Marathon, 50 mile ultramarathons, 100 mile ultramarathons, and placed 4th overall at the 2010 San Francisco One Day ultramarathon running 101.8 miles in 24 hours. In 2012, Kolodziejzyk ran the treacherous 75 km long West Coast Trail, solo in 26 hours. In 2014, Kolodziejzyk competed in the MR340 river race which is 340 miles down the Missouri River placing 1st in his division with a finishing time of 57 hours, 12 minutes. Greg completed the Susitna winter ultramarathon in Alaska running 100 miles in 33 hours where nighttime temperatures dropped to -30 degrees. He placed 1st overall in the 2018 Iditasport 100 km winter ultramarathon in Alaska finishing in 30 hours.

Greg Kolodziejzyk holds the following world records under the sanction of the International Human Powered Vehicle Association and Guinness Book of World Records:

2006 traveling 1,041.25 km (647.00 mi) setting a new official International Human Powered Vehicle Association, and Guinness world record for the most distance traveled by human power in 24 hours on land.

2006 cycling for 23 hours 2 minutes, Kolodziejzyk completed fastest mega-meter (1000 km time trial) setting an International Human Powered Vehicle Association world record.

On September 8, 2008, Kolodziejzyk pedaled a human powered boat 245.16 km (152.34 mi) in 24 hours around a rectangular course on Whitefish Lake in Montana setting a new official International Human Powered Vehicle Association, and Guinness world record for the most distance traveled by human power in 24 hours on water.

Kolodziejzyk has been featured on Discovery Channel, on the cover of Popular Science magazine, featured in Men's Journal, Wired magazine, National Geographic, Explore, and the 2009 and 2010 editions of the Guinness World Records book.

Greg Kolodziejzyk has been actively trading futures as a proprietary trader for 25 years after he sold his software company in 1994.

In 2014, Greg started development of an automated algorithmic trading strategy that incorporated his 25 years of discretionary trading knowledge. In August of 2017, Greg launched a software company called the theAlgoLab.com. AlgoLab is a powerful cloud based trading software platform that allows traders to combine Greg’s algorithmic trading strategies with their own custom settings such as bias preference, symbol library and custom risk.

Over the next 3 years from August 2016 to August 2019, total funds managed by AlgoLab software customers exceeded $10,000,000. As of July 2019, the AlgoLab software funded “model account” running Greg’s flagship algorithmic strategy called “SuperSystem" has returned over 200%.

On July 15, 2019 AlgoLab Capital Management, Ltd. was registered with the NFA as a Commodity Trading Advisor, and Greg Kolodziejzyk was registered as principal and associated person. In the USA, The AlgoLab software product has been replaced by AlgoLab Capital Management, Ltd. managed accounts.

Pablo Galvez has been in Calgary for 43 years and has been selling real estate at a high level since 2010. In addition to selling homes, Pablo is the co-founder of the Tesla Owners Club of Alberta and is passionate about the transition to electric vehicles in our future. Through his real estate training company, Agent Upgrade, Pablo and his wife Simone Rousseau, actively train and mentor Realtors throughout North America.

Mike Stanfield is a 5th generation manufacturer in Canada ~ his company, Starr Distilling, creates alcohol brands such as Summer Love Vodka. Mike moved to Calgary in 2006 and bought one of 6 homes for sale in Calgary that day.

This was a fun interview with Coach Cal of Critical Speed Racing. Cal takes us through his journey of how he and his family moved to Calgary in the early 1980's ... his work ... and why he remains in Calgary.

A top Calgary 40 under 40 Graduate, Calvin Zaryski recently won his 9th World Off Road Triathlon Title and sets his sites on winning a World most in 2020.

A graduate from the University of Calgary with a Master Degree in Kinesiology, this self employed coach and company owner (criticalspeed.com) plans on living and operating his Health and Performance Fitness Company for many more years.

Afshin is a 'quiet' owner in my office, RE/MAX House of Real Estate. However, he does way cooler things ... he builds cool, functional and community based homes. RNDSQR - Fit Where You Live.

Graham Sherman lives with intention and is a master at bringing people together, feeling good. We discussed how he came to live in Calgary, some of his real estate decisions and how it has played out for him ... and what prompted him to go into the Beer Business.

Graham is a self-professed “high level geek” who has used his love of technology to help him master the craft of brewing artisan beer. Together with his partner, Graham launched the Tool Shed Brewery in 2013, and has never looked back. Speaking on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, Graham’s passion comes through in every talk.

Prior to starting Tool Shed, Graham and his Tool Shed partner worked on contracts for the Canadian and US governments and military forces, installing encrypted, tactical communication networks. By day, they rolled around Afghanistan in armoured vehicles, “geeking out” in the world of satellite communications. By night, they aimed their obsessive, high-level thinking at mastering everyday tasks such as coffee, learning to control their homes in Canada remotely with their iPhones, and finally, perfecting batches of beer.

Now sold in over 1000 locations in Western Canada, Tool Shed has its 15,000 square foot headquarters in Calgary, and the team behind the brand has also been nominated as Canadian Entrepreneur of the year, the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, with programs in 145 cities in 60 countries. They were also named as two co-winners of the “40 Under 40” recognition from Avenue magazine.

This was a fun interview with my colleague, Sarah Johnston, who is our, Calgary Real Estate Board President. Sarah is Social Savy - bringing some much needed punch to the real estate game!

I first met Sarah at the Calgary Real Estate Board Breakfast Forecast in January of 2019 where Sarah gave her inaugural speech. We do this annually, where we have a look at what's happening, what's going on in the market, and future trends. It was a bold and eye opening presentation from Sarah. She packs with a punch - using her talents and giving her heart to her clients and colleagues - with a deep love for our city.