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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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.