All Posts by Bruce Firestone

By Bruce M Firestone, PhD One suggestion! Start a side hustle or improve an existing business Show a few examples… Black Sheep Wagons Jessica and Josh started building  3-season, off-grid “Prairie Schooners” on their rural property for landowners, farmers, cottagers, shed sellers, glamping resort owners, campground operators, even urban dwellers who want something different for […]

As part of our coaching team, my spouse Dawn MacMillan Firestone, provides life coaching services which help executives, entrepreneurs and many other others achieve a positive mindset, increase their emotional intelligence, be more adaptable and resilient, discover the power in life-long learning and how to become more self-governing. These tools are essential to success in […]

In 2013, I penned a trilogy called Quantum Entity. The story follows physicist Damien Bell and a large group of characters from about 2040 until just after the turn of the 22nd century as they go about changing the world by introducing intelligent agents, first as an adjunct to smartphones and, later, as standalone “creatures” […]

–for entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives and professionals YES, I want to apply to and sign up for Bruce Firestone’s Beating Back the Blues and Charting a New Course… for entrepreneurs, business owners, creatives and professionals DOWNLOAD: Course Description, Schedule, Application/Signup Form, https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0kq4rtxzqdjhc9vszqhem/beating-back-the-blues-course-descrption-application-signup-schedule-bruce-m-firestone-phd.pdf?rlkey=z8f028405893d3qljvg8ozxi1&st=gjpjfib8&dl=0 What will I learn and experience? -you will learn you are not alone […]

Bruce M Firestone, PhD Marketing and branding are key to any enterprise’s success. Maybe more so today than at any time in history. If you, dear reader, and I have the world’s best sandwich shop called Me and Prof Bruce’s Great Sandwich Shop, I suspect hundreds of passersby and drivebys would occur every day while […]

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AIR JORDAN BREAKS THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE Bruce M Firestone, PhD I learned recently (mind you from watching an Amazon Prime film, Air, courting a legend starring Matt Damon as Nike sports marketing executive, Sonny Vaccaro, and Viola Davis as Michael Jordan’s mom, Deloris Jordan, a brainiac sports representative) that it was Michael and […]

Want to know how important a 1st client is? Well, read on… Suppose you and your spouse are walking past a downtown eatery. The posted menu and prices look decent but there is no one in the store. Across the road, there is another restaurant almost identical in terms of look, menu and price but […]

May he #RIP. Leo got me out of all sorts of scrapes including one wintry day he had his almost brand-new tractor clearing one of our ponds so my kids could skate that Xmas. I watched as he elegantly swept back and forth rather majestically moving snow to uncover pristine ice beneath. However, I noticed […]

How to add not only beauty to any property but make it more profitable too plus how to turn this into a personal business of your own *** Your instructor: Bruce M Firestone, B Eng (civil), M Eng-Sci, PhD, Real Estate Investment and Business coach, Ottawa Senators founder, ROYAL LePAGE Performance Realty broker, https://www.linkedin.com/in/profbruce You […]

In the early days of the Ottawa Senators, it was all about creating magic in terms of building design and operation/presentation. The Palladium (now Canadian Tire Centre) was designed to model the Roman Coliseum and there was even talk about dressing servers and security personnel in Roman garb 😊 Modern game day entertainment/production in stadiums/arenas […]