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Brady McDonald

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
498 total appearances

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Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

I'm like, Vegas, come to the office. See you in, when can you be here?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

I'm like, Vegas, come to the office. See you in, when can you be here?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

I'm like, Vegas, come to the office. See you in, when can you be here?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, I grew up in Owenstown, Ontario, Canada. So small town Canada, 20,000 people. The family was divorced at 11 years old. lost my license for drinking and driving at 16. I was pretty good at drinking. Started it when I was 14. Actually, I was pretty bad at it, I guess. Yeah. Drinking and lost my license at 16. My kid, my parents said, kid, you got to grow up. So you're going to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, I grew up in Owenstown, Ontario, Canada. So small town Canada, 20,000 people. The family was divorced at 11 years old. lost my license for drinking and driving at 16. I was pretty good at drinking. Started it when I was 14. Actually, I was pretty bad at it, I guess. Yeah. Drinking and lost my license at 16. My kid, my parents said, kid, you got to grow up. So you're going to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah, I grew up in Owenstown, Ontario, Canada. So small town Canada, 20,000 people. The family was divorced at 11 years old. lost my license for drinking and driving at 16. I was pretty good at drinking. Started it when I was 14. Actually, I was pretty bad at it, I guess. Yeah. Drinking and lost my license at 16. My kid, my parents said, kid, you got to grow up. So you're going to college.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So pick what you want to do. And at that point I thought the most, well, the most successful people we knew in our like world were these guys, like uncles that were forest firefighters. So they said, okay, well, why don't you go to school for forestry? And that's what I did at 17 years old. And, but I met a guy who was one of my buddy's friends. Um, Where did you go to school for forestry?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So pick what you want to do. And at that point I thought the most, well, the most successful people we knew in our like world were these guys, like uncles that were forest firefighters. So they said, okay, well, why don't you go to school for forestry? And that's what I did at 17 years old. And, but I met a guy who was one of my buddy's friends. Um, Where did you go to school for forestry?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

So pick what you want to do. And at that point I thought the most, well, the most successful people we knew in our like world were these guys, like uncles that were forest firefighters. So they said, okay, well, why don't you go to school for forestry? And that's what I did at 17 years old. And, but I met a guy who was one of my buddy's friends. Um, Where did you go to school for forestry?

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Like in some shithole town in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Like in some shithole town in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Like in some shithole town in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah. Like, so exactly. So you know what I'm talking about? I was like, wait a second. Yeah. So, uh, you know, there's like five girls there and yeah. So, yeah, so that was, I was there for a year, figured out, hey, there was this, you know, dream job working for this big corporate company that was a big power company across all of Ontario.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah. Like, so exactly. So you know what I'm talking about? I was like, wait a second. Yeah. So, uh, you know, there's like five girls there and yeah. So, yeah, so that was, I was there for a year, figured out, hey, there was this, you know, dream job working for this big corporate company that was a big power company across all of Ontario.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Yeah. Like, so exactly. So you know what I'm talking about? I was like, wait a second. Yeah. So, uh, you know, there's like five girls there and yeah. So, yeah, so that was, I was there for a year, figured out, hey, there was this, you know, dream job working for this big corporate company that was a big power company across all of Ontario.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

And I realized the guy had a brand new truck all the time, a full case of beer. I'm like, hey, I'm going to go get that job. And that's what I did. So that kind of, you know, that was the first testament that if you just do something and be relentless, I just faxed my resume to them every single week for. Until they wanted to hire you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

And I realized the guy had a brand new truck all the time, a full case of beer. I'm like, hey, I'm going to go get that job. And that's what I did. So that kind of, you know, that was the first testament that if you just do something and be relentless, I just faxed my resume to them every single week for. Until they wanted to hire you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

And I realized the guy had a brand new truck all the time, a full case of beer. I'm like, hey, I'm going to go get that job. And that's what I did. So that kind of, you know, that was the first testament that if you just do something and be relentless, I just faxed my resume to them every single week for. Until they wanted to hire you.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Well, until they had to, because they're like, this guy is not going to quit. But that started a good career. I had to make it $120,000.

Escaping the Drift with John Gafford
Brady McDonald's Journey: From Real Estate Challenges to Ultra-Marathon Resilience

Well, until they had to, because they're like, this guy is not going to quit. But that started a good career. I had to make it $120,000.

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