Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs

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.