Brady McDonald
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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So yeah, so that was a four-year apprenticeship, climbing trees, roping trees down around the hydro lines. And so I got through the four-year apprenticeship and then I had the opportunity to start climbing and teaching the men and women that were moving through the apprenticeship how to do that.
And I saw an opportunity in there because they were teaching people on forestry practices like SOPs and shit like that that we would have in our business, but they weren't quizzing them on it. So I just, I volunteered to do that. So just going above and beyond and said, hey, I'll create all this content in this course.
you know, content to actually test everybody to make sure that they're actually retaining it. And so they gave me that job that led into being a full-time instructor at 23. So then I was one of the six instructors that trained 1500 staff around the province and then ended up opening a training center in my hometown.
So that's, that's what I ended up doing for 12 years is running this training center and just teaching men and women around the
Yeah, you're basically teaching them how not to kill themselves, right? And before that, like I did fall, I almost fell out of a tree. And so it's dangerous work, right? But it was, you know, it took, it probably is 10 years into that career. I just felt like I had, I did have a lot of freedom because I did all my boss's job, right?
Like, again, that's just, you know, you want freedom, you want your boss's job, he doesn't show up. Yeah. That's a good lesson. I mean, that's a good lesson. He was two hours in a different town. I did all of his job, all of my job. I ran the trainer center training center. He never showed up. And, you know, I was making good money.
Like I get 120 grand a year and I'd be banking over time and not having to put it in, which is good. But, um, eventually I just realized, holy shit. Like I got limited freedom. Really? I've got limited income potential. I've lived limited personal potential.
Yeah. And I'm like, what am I doing? And actually I'll go, I'll tell you this story. This is actually the thing that got me out of it. All right. So I'm, we've got this apprentice that kind of sucks, right? So they got to come to trade school and we got to push them, put them through these 15 steps.
They got to go up these trees and teach, you know, and do this move and do that move and cut limbs off safely. And we got to see them do it. Otherwise they don't move on to the next year. Well, this one kid was struggling and he was clearly scared, right? And he wasn't even a kid. He was older than me at the time. He was probably like 35. Yeah.
And anyway, so he's, I'm like, dude, you just got to, you got to do this. And he's like, you know, you could tell he's nervous. I'm like, he's like, dude, he's like, dude, I got to come down and take a shit. I'm like, just, just do this move. And then you can come down.
Right. And he's like, no, I'm coming down and take a shit now. So he comes down and I'm like, all right. Like, and there's a whole bunch of people around. Like there's apprentices everywhere and, and trainers. I'm like, all right, dude. And he's like, no, I'm going to town to take a shit. I'm like, dude, just take a shit in the bush. Like my wife would. Yeah. And I say that to him.
Anyway, that went like, then he, he wrote a complaint to the union and then I was investigated for the next three months. And, you know, like at that point is all I knew. I started there at 18. So that, but that was the icing on the cake. I'm glad it happened. Cause it wasn't even true. Like, I mean, I said that, but what his allegations were, weren't true.
He later apologized for it, but that was the getting hazed. And it just, yeah. Well, the union just comes after you and tries to fire you. Right. That's just what they do. Oh my God. Yeah. So we started to look at what was next. We were pregnant with our baby girl. And so we eventually met a guy who was a full-time real estate investor.
And it was kind of like that guy with the truck, with the full case of beer and brand new truck. I realized, hey, if he could have this great job, then I can too. Well, I met the real estate investor and it was the same thing.
If that dumbass can do it, I can do it. The curse of the entrepreneur right there. I can do it too. I know I can do this. Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah. Okay.
So that's exactly what it was. I mean, like I read the red or like I talked to him and I learned what he was doing. He was buying like, you know, in Canada, this is a lot, not nothing like it is in the US, but he bought like 16 properties that year. And it was just June. I'm like doing the math. I'm like, bro, this guy's making a million bucks a year.
I'm like, if I can do it, if he can do it, I can do it. And so we read a book. What book? It's a real estate investing in Canada by Don Campbell. Okay. So it's just, you know, it just, it's like the 30,000 foot view of, you know.
Is it different in Canada?
Not really, but it's just like.
That he just niched down to sell the more books.
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