Adam McFadden
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86 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I knew that it was something I had to do in a position I had to put myself in to have the lifestyle that I wanted to have in the future.
Yeah, I actually, so I was 21 when I bought my first parasol. Well, I actually bought one 50-50 with my mom when I was 18, but my first 100%, I was 20-21. And I actually, I have a bunch of student properties in England that I rent out. And it was the same thing, you know, with students. It's always a crapshoot on how it's going to work out. But everyone thought I was crazy.
You know, I was a student at the time and rented to my best friend. And then I bought more and more and rented to other students. And in one year, about like half of my class was renting my houses, which was great. But you have to be, you know, you have to think outside the box and you have to do what most people consider crazy to be successful in entrepreneurship.
I embrace the challenges. It's such a mindset shift. Every time there's a challenge or a problem, I look at it as a reason to learn and get better at my craft, whether it's as a property manager or landlord or as a business owner. And I found that once I had that mindset shift, I haven't had a bad day in years. Yeah.
See, when you take the feelings out of your day to day process and you just get up and do the job that you need to do to grow a business, to maintain your rental properties, you know, to continue to be the best first responder firefighter that I can be. It just simplifies your entire life. And you understand that any problem or challenge that comes, you need to find a solution for it.
And that's exactly what we do each and every day on the fire ground as a firefighter. So incorporating everything together and having that mindset shift, especially after going what I've been through as a real estate investor in the trying times following the pandemic.
Has allowed me to not only take the real estate, you know, education and perspective that I have, but tie that directly into firehouse trading.
Yeah. Well, and I want to highlight two things there because I mean, it's a lot of it's all perception, right? Like the perception is your reality. Reality. Yeah. And so it's like a great example of this is most people would freak out if the part of their house was on fire. To you, that's everyday job. It's a good point. It's a lot of people like that. It's your perception.
In business, when you've been in it long enough, getting an employee letting you down, something failing, someone stealing from you, someone backing out of a deal, a tenant not paying rent, eventually in business, it becomes like the fire for you. It's like, oh, there's another fire. There's someone that forgot to turn their candles off. I went out. Okay, let's figure it out and you'll be okay.
So really, you have to train that as a skill. And I think anyone can train that if they've got the right mind.
It is a skill. And whether it's a negative comment online about your business or a challenge with a tenant or not meeting the expectations of a client, you learn from each and every one of those. And with my mindset and the position I'm in, I know that I'm going to grow and get better at business and overall make me a better entrepreneur. And this is how that mindset shift has transformed my life.
And again, meeting individuals like yourself and having these opportunities, not just in our country, but across the US and even the world, I know that the sky's the limit. And once you know what the bottom feels like, Really, once you know what the bottom feels like, you become unstoppable.
Yeah, and you just got to start, right? You just got to start somewhere. And like, I'm sure when you had your first hater online, it was like scarier than it was before, right? But now it's normal, you know? So it's true. Everyone has to start and everyone starts the same and everyone, it's scary when you start, but then you keep going, keep going and go through it.
And the only, I always say the only difference between ultra successful or not is that person kept going and the rest of them quit along the way.
And I am motivated by that. Again, someone once said, I've never had a hater doing better than me. And, you know, that perspective of that mindset, you know, you have to just keep pushing forward. And like you said, you have to start. And those fears that first happen when you start a business or you make those first few phone calls or ask for the sale.
I remember many years ago when I was working my first sales and marketing job, providing the client everything they needed to make a decision to buy that building construction product. And I remember sitting there across from the table, I flew halfway across Canada, and I asked that customer for the sale. I said, are you ready to buy? I've given you everything you need.
and he looked at me across the table and he said are you asking for the sale and i said yes sir i am and he said all right let's do it and uh and and i always remember that and i carry that with me each and every day through my business yeah i think the amazing part like i still remember the first like
sale I did when I got into marketing. But then again, you progress so much that now your sales team are selling those same deals and you're like working on other stuff or on a plane or filming here or out working out of the gym. And that's, again, it's just that evolution. It's that evolution.
It's almost, you know, we have fun with it with my sales team. It's almost like going to war. You know, there's a battle each and every day, but you know, we don't put pressure on ourselves, but we have fun with it.
And those interactions and that ability to network and meet people and build those relationships, whether it's over the phone or in person at various networking events, that's what business is all about. And that's why I work as much as I do. When you build those relationships and you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.
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