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What if the biggest thing standing between you and success isn't your circumstances, but the way you think?
In this episode of PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with entrepreneur and real estate professional Dawood Bedrosian for a candid conversation about ambition, opportunity, personal growth, and what it really takes to build a life on your own terms.
From his journey through real estate to the experiences that shaped his outlook on business and life, Dawood shares the lessons, challenges, and shifts in perspective that have influenced his path.
Together, Gabrielle and Dawood explore:
This isn't a conversation about overnight success or having everything figured out. It's about challenging assumptions, recognizing possibilities, and taking action even when the path forward isn't entirely clear.
Because sometimes, the biggest breakthrough begins when you stop asking why you can't and start asking how you can.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an aspiring investor, or someone ready for the next chapter, this conversation will challenge you to think differently about what's possible.
About Dawood BedrosianDawood Bedrosian is a Florida-based real estate professional, entrepreneur, and host of Real Sense Now, a podcast dedicated to real estate, business, and conversations that educate and inspire.
With more than 15 years of experience in Florida real estate, Dawood has worked with local and international investors across residential properties, luxury real estate, new developments, and commercial investment opportunities.
His experience includes involvement with The Azur Resort, a vacation rental development in the Orlando area.
Beyond real estate transactions, Dawood is passionate about sharing knowledge, challenging conventional thinking, and encouraging others to recognize opportunities they may have previously overlooked.
Through his work and his podcast, he brings together business experience, personal development, and a perspective rooted in continuous growth.
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What happens when entrepreneurship starts before most people are even old enough to drive?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Bryce Kander, a Red Deer–based realtor, investor, coach, author, and founder of the Central Alberta Real Estate Investor Network.
Bryce has built a 25+ door portfolio, mentored 100 investors through his TeamKander coaching programs, founded CAREIN — a free monthly investor event whose sponsors credit it with more than $100 million in transactions over two years — and hosts the Alberta Investor Network show on Rogers TV.
But this conversation isn’t just about the wins.
Bryce shares how he got started at an unusually young age, the influence his mom had on the way he thinks about risk and opportunity, and some of the mistakes and difficult lessons that came with building his business and investment portfolio.
Gabrielle and Bryce talk about what happens when deals don’t work out the way you expected, the importance of trust in partnerships, learning when to walk away, personal risk tolerance, and why some of the best lessons come from the decisions you wish you had handled differently.
They also explore mentorship, personal brand, opportunity creation, outsourcing, leadership, and the difference between being busy in your business and actually building something that can grow.
In this episode:Bryce Kander is a Red Deer–based realtor, investor, and coach who has built a 25+ door portfolio using creative real estate strategies including seller financing, BRRRR, MLI Select, joint ventures, and condo deconversions.
He has been licensed with Realty Executives Alberta Elite since 2010 across residential, commercial, and rural real estate, was named Top 40 Under 40 Alberta in 2025, and was part of the Gold Top Team in the World for Realty Executives.
Bryce founded the Central Alberta Real Estate Investor Network (CAREIN), a free monthly investor event, hosts the Alberta Investor Network show on Rogers TV, has personally mentored 100 investors through TeamKander, and is the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller If You Can Buy a Property for $10,000 or Less, Just Do It: 67 Ways to Buy Property.
Get Bryce’s BookIf You Can Buy a Property for $10,000 or Less, Just Do It: 67 Ways to Buy Property
https://www.amazon.ca/You-Can-Property-Less-Just/dp/B0H54QNH9N
Connect with Bryce KanderInstagram:
https://www.instagram.com/brycekander
YouTube:
https://youtube.com/@brycekander
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1JXrbSKxti/
PowerHaus pulls back the curtain on success.
Real stories. Real lessons. Real possibility.
If this conversation gives you something to think about, follow the PowerHaus Podcast, share the episode with someone who would benefit from Bryce’s story, and take action on your dreams today.
What if the biggest thing shaping your life isn’t who you are — but who you learned to believe you were?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Doug Dane, author of Mistaken Identity, for an incredibly open conversation about childhood trauma, identity, self-image, healing, personal responsibility, and the beliefs that can quietly shape our lives for decades.
Doug spent 30 years trying to recover from a childhood he now speaks about openly. He tried therapy, self-help, programs, and many of the approaches he was told would help — but none created the change he was searching for.
Eventually, Doug began questioning something deeper: the identity he had formed from those experiences and the beliefs that had been quietly influencing his life ever since.
That discovery became the foundation for his book, Mistaken Identity, published by Forefront Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster.
In this raw and deeply personal conversation, Doug and Gabrielle explore childhood adversity, self-image, emotional patterns, resilience, forgiveness, personal responsibility, and what can happen when you stop allowing the past to define who you believe you are.
Doug also shares powerful stories from his own life and the people he has worked with, along with a simple idea at the heart of his work: sometimes meaningful change begins by recognizing the story you’ve been carrying — and deciding whether it still belongs to you.
In this episode:Doug Dane spent 30 years trying to recover from a childhood he'll talk about openly — and trying everything the self-help and mental health industry told him to try. None of it worked.
When he finally figured out why, it turned out to be simpler than anything he'd been sold.
He wrote Mistaken Identity, published by Forefront Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster, and has spent 25 years showing others the one simple thing that's been quietly running their life — the thing nobody else in this space has been willing to name.
Get Doug’s BookMistaken Identity:
https://www.dougdane.com/mistakenidentity
Connect with Doug DaneInstagram:
https://www.instagram.com/doug.dane/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/dougdaneofficial
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@DougDane
TikTok:
https://www.tiktok.com/@dougdane
PowerHaus pulls back the curtain on success.
Real stories. Real lessons. Real possibility.
If this conversation gave you something to think about, follow the PowerHaus Podcast, share this episode with someone who may need to hear it, and take action on your dreams today.
What if the version of you that got you here isn’t the version of you meant to take you where you’re going next?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, I sit down with Ela Ziembicki; Founder & CEO of COACHELA, Founder of The Level Up Collective, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Grace & Growth Alliance, and a Mindset & Transformation Coach helping women move through major life transitions with more clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Ela’s story is rooted in reinvention.
After building a global team of more than 12,000 women, navigating divorce, career shifts, entrepreneurship, personal transformation, and the process of rebuilding her own identity, Ela now helps women challenge limiting beliefs and create lives that feel more aligned with who they are becoming.
In this conversation, we talk about:
Ela also shares how her own experiences shaped the work she does today; from building large communities to creating spaces where women can connect, grow, rebuild, and step into the next version of themselves.
This is a conversation about growth, but not the polished kind.
It’s about what happens when life forces you to look at who you’ve been, who you are now, and who you want to become next.
If you’re in a season of transition, reinvention, or questioning what comes next, this episode may give you exactly the perspective you need.
About Ela ZiembickiEla Ziembicki is a Mindset & Transformation Coach, Speaker, and Founder of COACHELA, a personal growth brand dedicated to helping women rise through life’s biggest transitions.
She is also the Founder of The Level Up Collective, a growing community designed to connect, support, and empower women personally and professionally, and the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Grace & Growth Alliance, a nonprofit helping women rebuild after adversity.
After building a global team of more than 12,000 women and navigating her own journey through divorce, reinvention, and personal transformation, Ela now helps women break through limiting beliefs, build confidence, and create lives aligned with purpose, impact, and legacy.
Connect with Ela🌐 Website: https://www.coachela.co
📸 Instagram — COACHELA: https://www.instagram.com/__coachela
📸 Instagram — The Level Up Collective: https://www.instagram.com/level.up.collective
📘 Facebook — Ela Ziembicki: https://www.facebook.com/ziembickiela
📘 Facebook — Coach Ela: https://www.facebook.com/CoachElaMakeover
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachelaz
▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoachElaZ
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My name is Gabrielle Caine. This is the PowerHaus Podcast, and I strongly encourage you to take action on your dreams today.
What do you do when the career path you planned keeps disappearing underneath you?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, I sit down with Brandon McLaughlin, an experienced real estate investor whose career has taken more turns than most people would experience in several lifetimes.
Brandon’s journey has included architecture, aerospace, home inspection, energy auditing, driving a school bus, working at a hobby shop, working as an airship test pilot, and eventually building a real estate portfolio across residential and commercial properties.
And almost none of it happened according to plan.
Throughout our conversation, Brandon shares the layoffs, pivots, setbacks, opportunities, and decisions that shaped the way he approaches business, investing, and problem-solving today.
We talk about:
One of the recurring themes in Brandon’s story is simple:
Know your outcome.
When you know what you’re actually trying to accomplish, the path toward it becomes much easier to navigate - even when things go completely sideways.
This is one of those PowerHaus conversations that moves naturally between business, real estate, career pivots, negotiation, family, mistakes, unexpected opportunities, and the occasional ridiculous story along the way.
It’s raw. It’s practical. And it’s a reminder that your path doesn’t have to make sense while you’re in the middle of it.
Sometimes you just have to keep solving the next problem.
About Brandon McLaughlinBrandon McLaughlin is an experienced Real Estate Investor with a proven track record for finding, qualifying and managing tenant relationships. Brandon prides himself on his ability to help take the fear out of being a Landlord and allowing investors to focus on their passions.
Brandon currently manages a portfolio of properties including one commercial retail property, two residential duplexes and one residential duplex plus ADU. With a passion for helping others, Brandon enjoys sharing his insights with the community and adding value wherever possible.
As an architectural technologist, former home inspector, project manager and experienced facilitator of new home construction as well as renovations, Brandon utilizes his unique mix of talents and expertise to position his real estate investments for success.
Connect with Brandon📘 Facebook: Brandon McLaughlin
📸 Instagram: @Brando_R_Mac
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🔗 LinkedIn: PowerHaus Podcast
If this episode gives you something useful to think about, like, share, and subscribe — because you never know what gold nugget someone else needs to hear.
My name is Gabrielle Caine. This is the PowerHaus Podcast, and I strongly encourage you to take action on your dreams today.
What if success had less to do with how much you have — and more to do with how fully you’re actually living?
In Part 2 of my conversation with Deanna Boyden, we go deeper into the mindset, decisions, relationships, and life experiences that have shaped the way she defines success today.
Deanna is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, coach, and founder of REAL Power, a community created to support and connect women in business, investing, leadership, and personal growth. Her background spans corporate leadership, technology, real estate, entrepreneurship, coaching, and community building. She has also served on Calgary’s housing advisory committee and continues to work across real estate development, investment, education, and leadership.
This episode is less about chasing the next milestone and more about asking a much bigger question:
Are you actually building a life you want to live?
Deanna shares her personal framework for measuring success through what she calls her “F words” — faith, family, friends, finance, fun, fitness, finding and learning, and doing things for others.
We talk about:
Deanna also shares some incredibly personal stories about family, loss, relationships, real estate, lifestyle design, and the moments that made her stop measuring success by traditional metrics.
And because this is PowerHaus, we kept some of the real-life conversation too.
At the end of the episode, you’ll hear bonus material from before the official interview began, including a few failed intro attempts, an emotional real estate memory from a jet-ski ride, conversations around men’s mental health and perimenopause, my hit-and-run/insurance story, an off-roading adventure in a rental Jeep, and somehow... a very serious discussion about In-N-Out Burger. 😂
It’s raw, honest, funny, and exactly the kind of conversation I never wanted to leave on the cutting-room floor.
One of my favourite takeaways from Deanna:
“If it’s not a hell yes, then it’s a no.”
And perhaps the biggest reminder from this conversation:
Nobody is coming to save you. Decide what you want, start taking the steps toward it, and build a life that actually makes you happy.
About Deanna BoydenDeanna Boyden is a real estate investor, entrepreneur, coach, and founder of REAL Power, a network focused on supporting female entrepreneurs and investors through education, connection, mastermind programs, events, and community. Her career has included corporate roles in the airline industry, CMHC, and technology before transitioning more deeply into entrepreneurship, real estate, coaching, and leadership.
Her work today centres around helping people gain clarity, build confidence, take meaningful action, and create lives and businesses that align with what actually matters to them.
Connect with Deanna🌐 REAL Power: https://www.real-power.ca/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dboyden/
📸 Instagram: @realpowerladies
👤 Socials: Deanna Boyden
Connect with PowerHaus🌐 powerhauspodcast.com
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What happens when the life you planned falls apart — and the detour becomes the thing that changes everything?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Bobby Puim, Vice President of Operations at REC Canada, entrepreneur, process automation specialist, and longtime builder of scalable businesses and high-performing teams.
Bobby’s path has been anything but linear.
He became a licensed chiropractor, opened his own clinic, launched an imaging centre, and even opened a bar — all before pivoting into real estate and eventually stepping into leadership, operations, systems, and technology.
But some of the most important chapters of his story came from the moments that didn’t go according to plan.
In this conversation, Bobby shares:
This episode is a conversation about resilience, reinvention, discipline, systems, perspective, and what can happen when you stop treating setbacks like the end of the story.
Sometimes the thing that turns your life upside down is the exact thing that redirects you toward something better.
Real stories. Real lessons. Real possibility.
Connect with Bobby Puim🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-puim
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robert.puim
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobbypuim/
Connect with PowerHaus🌐 Website: powerhauspodcast.com
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🔗 LinkedIn: PowerHaus Podcast
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The PowerHaus Podcast pulls back the curtain on success through honest conversations with entrepreneurs, leaders, and high achievers — exploring the decisions, risks, failures, pivots, and lessons behind extraordinary journeys.
What if the life you want isn’t built by chasing money — but by deciding what kind of life you actually want first?
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Pawel Blazejewicz, an IT professional, real estate investor, husband and father whose journey has taken him from Poland to Ireland and ultimately Canada.
Pawel’s approach to success is refreshingly long-term.
After experiencing Poland’s economic instability firsthand, moving across countries, learning entirely different financial systems, and eventually building a real estate portfolio in Canada, Pawel learned that wealth isn’t created by blindly following what everyone else is doing.
It comes from understanding the numbers, surrounding yourself with the right people, staying curious, and building a life intentionally.
In this conversation, Pawel shares:
One of Pawel’s strongest lessons is simple:
Success looks different for everyone.
The goal isn’t necessarily the biggest portfolio, the most money or the flashiest lifestyle. It’s creating enough freedom, control and opportunity to build the life that matters to you.
Real stories. Real lessons. Real possibility.
Connect with Pawel Blazejewicz🏠 Real Estate: Facebook & Instagram
💻 Technology / Data Centres: LinkedIn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pawel.blazejewicz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pawel_blazejewicz/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelblazejewicz/
Connect with PowerHaus🌐 Website: powerhauspodcast.com
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The PowerHaus Podcast pulls back the curtain on success through honest conversations with entrepreneurs, leaders and high achievers — exploring the decisions, risks, failures, pivots and lessons behind extraordinary journeys.
In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine continues her conversation with Mike Seal for Part 2 of their interview.
In Part 1, Mike shared his journey through real estate, mortgage financing, development, investing, and the lessons he learned through pressure, pivots, and experience. In Part 2, the conversation gets more tactical.
Mike breaks down what new real estate investors need to know before buying, why building the right team matters, how to coordinate trades, and why due diligence can make or break a deal.
This episode is packed with practical real estate insight for anyone looking to invest, grow a portfolio, analyze markets, work with tenants, or avoid costly mistakes. Mike shares real examples from renovations, development, tenant relationships, market cycles, infill projects, new construction, and investor-focused opportunities across Canada and the U.S.
In this episode, we talk about:
Mike’s message is clear: real estate investing is not just about finding a deal. It is about understanding the market, building the right team, doing proper due diligence, communicating well, and knowing when to pivot.
Whether you are a new investor, an experienced investor, an entrepreneur, or someone trying to understand where the opportunities are in today’s market, this conversation is full of practical lessons and real-world perspective.
Listen to Part 1 first if you haven’t already, then come back for this tactical second half.
Connect with Mike Seal:
Website: mikeseal.com
Company: Realty ONE Group Iconic
Email: [email protected]
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In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Mike Seal for Part One of a powerful conversation on real estate, entrepreneurship, resilience, and building wealth the smart way.
Mike Seal is a Windsor, Ontario realtor, entrepreneur, and seasoned real estate professional with more than 25 years of experience spanning mortgage financing, land acquisitions, development, real estate sales, building, and real estate technology. Through his work, Mike helps investors build portfolios, understand risk, identify opportunity, and make smarter real estate decisions with the right strategy and team in place.
In Part One, Mike shares how his journey began at a young age, stepping into business and mortgage financing instead of following a traditional university path, all while navigating the realities of becoming a father at 17. From there, he built a career through constant pivots, problem solving, relationship building, and learning how to create opportunity in changing markets.
This episode is packed with insight for investors and entrepreneurs alike, including:
• why every market has opportunity if you understand the right strategy
• how creativity and patience can uncover off-market deals
• why so many investors get caught over-improving properties
• the danger of relying too heavily on projected numbers and ARVs
• why building the right team before buying is one of the biggest lessons in real estate
If you are interested in real estate investing, entrepreneurship, cash flow, BRRRRs, cap rates, long-term wealth, and making smarter decisions in today’s market, this episode delivers serious value.
Connect with Mike Seal:
Website: https://mikeseal.com
Company: Realty ONE Group Iconic
Email: [email protected]
About Mike Seal:
Mike Seal is a Windsor, Ontario-based realtor and experienced real estate professional with more than 25 years of hands-on experience across multiple areas of real estate and business. His background includes mortgage financing, development, construction, software, real estate sales, and investor-focused portfolio building. Mike is passionate about helping investors and entrepreneurs navigate opportunity, manage risk, and grow strategically with the right people and the right plan in place.
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