Beyond The Family Business

Luke Hansen-MacDonald
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Jan 10, 2025 • 46min

Anthony Broccolini: Next Gen CEO of Montreal’s Real Estate Empire

Anthony Broccolini, CEO of Broccolini, shares how his family's real estate and construction business has successfully transitioned through three generations, evolving from a small home-building company to a diversified real estate developer. He emphasizes the importance of maintaining family values, embracing challenges, and providing early exposure to the next generation. Looking ahead, Broccolini is exploring strategic expansions into new asset classes like self-storage and multi-family rentals, while also closely monitoring emerging technologies like AI and robotics to identify opportunities to innovate and stay ahead of industry trends.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Dec 27, 2024 • 46min

Jim Spatz: Escaping The Holocaust, Med School & Real Estate Development

Jim Spatz, Owner of SouthWest Properties, shares the story of how his parents narrowly escaped the holocaust in Poland. He delves into his father’s entrepreneurial journey and lessons about business. As well, he shares his own journey as an ER doctor and what led him to rejoin the family business. Finally, Jim shares his vision of how he wants to differentiate his real estate.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Dec 13, 2024 • 44min

Scott McCain: McCain Foods Chairman & Family Office Leader

Scott McCain is the 2nd generation of the legendary McCain Foods family. He grew up working in the family business and now holds the role of Chairman. Scott shares his extensive experience in family office strategy. We discuss how he is working with his children on succession, investment, and philanthropy.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Nov 29, 2024 • 23min

Assessing Land Banking Opportunities with Chandler Haliburton

In part 2 of our interview, Chandler discusses how he evaluates land banking opportunities that have multi-residential development potential. He discusses the importance of zoning, density and offsetting carrying costs. Chandler also shares his recent land bank success that netted him a 6.5x return in 6 years.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Nov 15, 2024 • 37min

Assessing Multi-Res Real Estate Properties with Chandler Halliburton

 In this episode, we discuss the best tips for assessing a potential residential real estate investment. Our guest, Chandler Haliburton, is an expert with 10+ years as a real estate broker and investor. Luke and Chandler discuss cap rates, net operating income, financing and property management. This is part 1 of a 2 part interview focused on residential real estate investment. https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Nov 1, 2024 • 38min

Andrew Donaldson: 6th Gen CEO of 160 Year Old Timber Business

Andrew Donaldson is the CEO of Donaldson Group. They are one of the UK’s oldest and largest timber companies. Andrew shares the 160 year legacy of their family including what it was like during WW1. He explains his experience growing up in the business and what roles led him to take the CEO role. Andrew also dives into the outlook of the UK housing market.
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Oct 18, 2024 • 10min

5 Ways to Prepare for Selling Your Business

Luke draws on his experience in the private equity space to share 5 ways to prepare your business for sale. These areas of focus will help improve the value and likelihood of a sale. https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Oct 4, 2024 • 12min

Private Equity vs Public Equity Investing

This episode is perfect for listeners wanting to learn the differences between private equity and public equity investing. Luke covers a brief history of each investment type and delves into the expected returns, liquidity, diversification, control and fees for these two asset classes. The data referenced can be seen in the YouTube version of this video including citations.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Sep 20, 2024 • 39min

Martin Roll: Lessons from 650 Family Business Interviews

Martin Roll is an experienced global business strategist, senior advisor and facilitator to Fortune 500 companies, Asian firms, family-owned businesses, and family offices. He has mentored more than 650 individual next-generation leaders from global business families and family offices in private, confidential 1:1 conversations.https://lnk.to/fambiz
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Sep 6, 2024 • 32min

Rebecca Kacaba: Democratizing Capital Raising

Rebecca Kacaba is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dealmaker, one of Canada’s fastest growing companies. She discusses her entrepreneurial journey and the impact Dealmaker is having on the world of capital fundraising. Rebecca also shares her family business roots and what she hopes for her children.https://lnk.to/fambiz

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