Greg Foss is back on The Your Life! Your Terms! Show and that always means a good time! We chat about what he's seeing in the fixed income space, how Bitcoin energy usage is completely misunderstood, and the flow of Wall Street money. Greg also shares real-use cases for Bitcoin that we had not considered and we get an update on his debt/GDP math! You can learn more about Greg and his 32 years of High Yield Bond Trading experience via his paper available at www.RockStarInnerCircle.com/Foss or on ...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 15 min
On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we bring on an old friend, Todd O'Donnell, to chat about life, business and following your own path. Todd has built a great business with Desjardins Insurance with multiple locations in Cambridge and Guelph. He has been insuring real estate investors for years all across the GTA and Ontario and we discuss some of the insurance "red flags" to watch out for when buying a property firm (with no inspection). You can find Todd at www.InsuranceTodd.co...
May 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min
It's rare that we meet an accountant with such passion for overhauling the tax system. In fact, Neal Winokur has so much enthusiasm for this that he wrote a whole book on the subject, titled, The Grumpy Accountant: One Fed-Up Tax Pro's Practical Plan to Fix Canada's Senselessly Complicated Tax System. We have a high-level discussion on the system here in Canada and get Neal's latest thoughts on the Federal budget that was recently announced. You can learn more about Neal and find his book at www...
May 22, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Joe Glube is an incredible individual. The fact that he is so willing to share his difficult journey through addiction with others is incredible. He's doing it with the hope that perhaps someone, somewhere may use this to find the help they need or help someone else find the help they need. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Joe breaks down exactly when he decided to get help, the power of your self-talk and why taking personal responsibility for his own life changed everything. ...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 26 min
Jay Shaw runs Welcome Home Property Management and teaches a property management class here at Rock Star. He's a veteran and shares all sorts of tips on screening strategies, why maintenance requests are critical to your success as a landlord, rent trends and more. He covers the Hamilton to Niagara region and is launching a new service for investor landlords who want to handle tenant placement and rent collection but outsource maintenance requests. You can learn more about that at www.NoMoreCall...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Marko Radosevic joins us to discuss Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is a huge topic and recently we're all getting more and more questions around how to buy it, what it is and why anyone should pay attention to it. We break down some of the higher-level concepts that changed our thinking completely on it. We went from dismissing Bitcoin a few years ago to being huge believers, fans and we even run a full Bitcoin node here at the Rock Star offices. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Ter...
May 11, 2021•1 hr 12 min
We always think we're overinsured. So when someone comes to us with another insurance product we automatically run, it's a natural reaction. But after reading Be The Bank, by Darren Mitchell, we realized we had been missing an interesting opportunity. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Darren explains how you can use life insurance to multiply your savings, your investing and grow your returns in ways we literally did not that were possible. You can learn more about Darren and hi...
May 05, 2021•54 min
We have watched Paul and Andrew build their own portfolios, build property, buy Caribbean island homes and create cash flow with hundreds of investors for a decade now. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we catch up on their latest thinking around real estate, life, and living life on your own terms. These are two millennials who refuse to take no for an answer and continue to carve out their own path in life. Enjoy the show!!
May 04, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Kelly Hawkes is a Senior Paralegal who has 10+ years of experience working with the Tenant Board and representing landlords. She also has 10+ years of Property Management experience so she's seen almost everything at this point. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we get updates on where the Tenant Board is at with booking hearings, the online hearing process and the importance of rent mediation during these times. You can reach out to Kelly Hawkes via her website at www.KHParale...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Dr. Jeff Perron is a clinical psychologist and is back to break down our thinking, beliefs, and how they affect our behaviours. We also dive into how to handle quarantine fatigue, how to identify your core values, and strategies for changing the ones you don't like! We also get into the economy, real estate, and Dr. Jeff does a quick informal analysis of some of Tom's own values. We feel very grateful and honoured to have Canadians like Dr. Jeff come on The Your Life! Your Terms! Show and share ...
Apr 24, 2021•1 hr 29 min
It's easy to dismiss the madness of markets, interest rates, inflation and money. But that would be short-sighted. There is so much going on right now with the current PetroDollar system that we would all be wise to pay very close attention to. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we share what we're seeing in the local real estate market, Canadian debt levels, interest rate trends and we of course dive into Bitcoin and what represents true real economic value. Enjoy the show!!
Apr 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min
David Meulensteen and John-Michael Weber are two amazing brothers who join us to chat about David's book, It's Time: A Beginner's Guide to Freedom. This is an incredible read for anyone looking to change their life. David covers finances, life stages, school, risks and condenses a truly incredible amount of useful knowledge into a densely packed gem of a read. We also dive into real estate, Bitcoin, the economy, business building and John-Michael's business SuperiorMemorials.com . You can reach ...
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Jesse Berger is back on The Your Life! Your Terms! Show to chat about his latest work. He has put an article together breaking down what happened to Adam Skelly and his Adamson Barbeque restaurant when the police shut him down. Embarrassingly we are not well versed in the Charter of Rights here in Canada at all so Jesse shares his research on what should have happened, how things could have been handled and how judges in Ontario and British Columbia are ruling and commenting. Fascinating stuff a...
Apr 06, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Daniel Prince has a fascinating story. He walked away from a career to explore living life on exactly his terms. Together with his wife and four children, they began travelling the world and world schooling their children along the way. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we chat about his book, Choose Life: The Tools, Tricks & Hacks of Long Term Family Travellers, World Schoolers and Digital Nomads. We also get into how he started his Once Bitten Podcast and what role Bitcoin...
Apr 03, 2021•1 hr 15 min
Fadi Dawood and Matt Wilson are fearless. They clearly had a lot of courage to get started investing in their early 20's and survive all the madness that comes along with buying income properties. They survived the journey and now in their 30's are willing to share what they have learned. We are so pumped and grateful to be able to work with such amazing people like Fadi and Matt, both long-time Rock Star Inner Circle members. And we feel strangely proud when busy people like themselves take the...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Ali from the famous Tahinis Restaurants stopped in to chat about life, business building, Egypt, Bitcoin and starting over as a family in Canada. If you follow Bitocin Twitter then you have stumbled upon him for sure @TheRealTahinis. He made a huge splash by announcing to the world that together with his partners they put their business Treasury 100% into Bitcoin. Ali is wise beyond his years and on this episode, you discover how fortunate we are in this area of the world to attract such amazing...
Mar 29, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Property Management is not an easy game but somehow Orangelist is pulling it off and doing it right. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we chat with Eric Cleary to get the latest on rents from Niagara to Hamiton, catch up on the trends he's seeing in the market and talk all things property management. We have referred clients to Orangelist for years and fully expected them to break under the pressure but they have withstood the test of time. You can check them out at www.Orangeli...
Mar 26, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Andrew Arklie has gone from stopping pucks as a goalie to scoring goals with his real estate properties. But it hasn't come easy. He has battled hard to build his portfolio of properties and earned everything that has come his way. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Andrew shares his adventures with student rentals, duplexes, rent-to-owns and more. He is now actively in business development with Reid's Heritage Properties and you can learn more about Reid's at www.reidsproperties...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Mauricio Di Bartolomeo joins us on this episode of the Your Life! Your Terms! Show to share his story from Venezuela to business school at Western University and now to co-founding Ledn. Ledn is a Bitcoin and Crypto financial institution based out of Toronto, Canada. They offer savings accounts with astonishingly high interest rates and the ability to borrow. On this episode, we learn more about Mauricio's story and discuss the different services that Ledn offers. We had no idea some of what Led...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Justin and Nibin are following their own path and expressing their unique entrepreneurial gifts through Maker Watch Company. We strongly believe that the world is a better place when each of us are marching to our own beat. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, we learn all about Maker Watch Company, the amazing, story-telling watches and learn how the business got started. Justin and Nibin share their challenges, their successes, and how they navigated some tricky waters over the ...
Mar 12, 2021•59 min
On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show Jaime Leverton, CEO of Hut8 Mining Corp, visits to share her story and the exciting opportunity in Bitcoin mining. Hut8 is a world leader in Bitcoin mining and they hodl quite a lot of it as well! Greg Foss also joins us to chat about the amazing developments in remote energy production and what Validus Power Corp is doing in this area. We chat mining, money, banking, Bitcoin and even dabble into the future of finance. Jaime's story is inspiring...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 25 min
John Vallis is an interesting character and we mean that as the highest form of compliment. He is the host of the Bitcoin Rapid-Fire podcast and has interviewed the CEO of MicroStrategy, Micahel Saylor, hosted a Bitcoin Book Club on Jordan Peterson's book, Maps of Meaning, and you get a sense he can hold his own on almost any topic. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we discuss The Sovereign Individual, Bitcoin, Markets as truth-tellers and dip ever so slightly into the book, Map...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Julie Broad is clearly someone who blazes her own trail. She quit her job to focus exclusively on real estate, then after mastering that she left it behind to move to the U.S. with her husband and start a brand new book publishing business. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! show, we chat about her journey, lessons learned and the power of putting your life experiences and expertise into a book. A book may still be the most powerful marketing tool of them all. You can learn more at ww...
Feb 25, 2021•56 min
When we first met Ernest & Risel you could immediately tell they had a lot of passion, guts and courage. But we had no idea that they would have the guts to sell everything and leave Canada to travel the world, explore real estate opportunities everywhere, and enjoy life on a Portuguese beach for the last few months. They are living proof that you can live life on exactly your terms if you take the time to sit down and plan. We are so grateful to share their story and journey with you on thi...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Mike McMillan is an interesting character. He somehow became self-aware enough to realize that his behaviours were not creating the life he wanted for himself. He quit his job, found several coaches and began creating the life he really wanted for himself and his family. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show he share his personal story and we're super grateful that he did. We're all on our own unique paths but by sharing our stories we can help each other create a life on exactly ou...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Marko Radosevic and Fernando Cipriano join us to have a round table discussion of what we're all seeing in the economy and the real estate market. Marko is co-founder of Nexus Systems Group (www.NexusGroup.ca) and Fernando is CEO of ait.inc an artificial intelligence investing fund. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we chat about the crazy real estate prices, the long-term debt cycle, interest rate trends, property prices in Toronto compared to other large cities throughout the ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Marco knows a ton about good clean water! He was in the Rock Star offices recently keeping our reverse osmosis system in tip-top shape and we bugged him to sit down and share his knowledge. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we discuss different water filtration systems, mineral content, how the water flows from our toilets to our taps and more!! You can learn more about Marco and his services at www.Aquafinity.ca
Feb 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Pierre-Paul Turgeon is always full of passion and energy when it comes to Alberta and multi-unit investing. On this episode of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show we catch up with Pierre-Paul and get his thoughts on the state of the real estate market. We chat about why it's important to analyze both your local market and the global macroeconomic environment. You can learn more about Pierre-Paul and his multi-unit investing workshops at https://www.multifamilyinvestingcanada.com and you can support ...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Not many people have the passion for our tax system that Neal Winokur does. In fact, he has so much passion for what's wrong with it and how to fix it that he wrote a whole book on it! He's the author of, The Grumpy Accountant: One Fed-Up Tax Pro's Practical Plan to Fix Canada's Senselessly Complicated Tax System. Together with Jesse Berger, he joins us on The Your Life! Your Terms! Show to discuss what we can do to fix our old system. Who knew talking taxes would be so fun. You can learn more a...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min
If you ever get the opportunity to eat Massimo Bruno's cooking you gotta jump! We had the honour of eating Massimo's food with the entire Rock Star team for a party back in 2019 and it was a 10 out of 10 experience. On this episode we chat with Massimo about his love for cooking, good food, family dining, sourcing quality ingredients and the restaurant business in 2021. We pitched him on the idea of local Italian food tours across Toronto ... if that's something you are interested in make sure y...
Feb 04, 2021•1 hr 3 min
