

Beyond The Family Business
Luke Hansen-MacDonald
Family Office President, Luke Hansen-MacDonald, explores lessons, strategies and stories from the world of family business.
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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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


