Category Archives for "Family"

Feb 12

ICF Certified Life Coach who will change your present and your future…

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Entrepreneurship , Family , Life Coaching

As part of our coaching team, my spouse Dawn MacMillan Firestone, provides life coaching services which helps 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 […]

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Nov 05

Beating Back the Blues and Charting a New Course…

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Firestone Institute , Ideas , Life Coaching , Real Estate

–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 […]

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Jun 06

Leo Muldoon has passed

By Bruce Firestone | Family

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 […]

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May 01

Path to creating affordable housing is out there but only possible if cities and towns make it so

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Models , Design , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Green for Real , Investing , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Tiny Homes

Are you familiar with the BBC series From Lark Rise to Candleford? It’s about life in two neighboring places in the late 19th century—one a poor rural village called Lark Rise where life is a struggle, and tother being a more prosperous town called Candleford. They are 8-miles apart with a muddy track the only […]

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Feb 05

The Value of Sticking together

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Entrepreneurship , Family , Firestone Institute , Ideas , Life Coaching , Real Estate Investment Coaching

Most people know about the prisoner’s dilemma even if it’s just intuitively rather than explicitly— Two people are accused of a joint crime. Police detectives put both suspects in individual interrogation rooms. They offer each of them a deal—if you’re first to talk, you’ll get jail time of just two years. If the other party […]

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Oct 25

The tinier the house, the more creative you need to be

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Models , Design , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Green for Real , Ideas , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Tiny Homes , Urban Economics

The smaller the house you build, the more creative you need to be. One of my daughters is moving into her own home that is just 192 sq ft. She’ll live right next door to a small workshop (about 350 sq ft) where she will design and produce high fashion custom clothing for glamorous women […]

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Jul 08

It would be daffy for my daughter to sell her home

By Bruce Firestone | Family , Finance , Investing , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Urban Economics

We helped one of my daughters (I have five children) buy a home four years ago for $345,000. We added a basement apartment for $80k so her total cost is about $425,000. We had it appraised last month—after insane pandemic-induced appreciation, it’s now worth $760,000 according to a local appraiser. First thing she said to […]

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Jan 01

I wish we knew now what we knew then

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Design , Entrepreneurship , Family , Green for Real , Ideas , Life Coaching , PB4L , Real Estate , Urban Economics

Over the Christmas holidays, I was rereading The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. I read it when I was a kid and enjoyed it, so I thought I’d see what I think of it now. It’s about five Union soldiers who escape Confederate captivity during the US Civil War in a balloon that is swept […]

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Nov 30

Met an attorney this week who can only be described this way, sorry to say: A know-it-all-know-nothing

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Coaching , Business Models , Design , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Green for Real , Investing , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Urban Economics

Main Street Makeovers He must have received his law degree in the snail-mail. The guy didn’t know the difference between foreclosure and power-of-sale. Why is this even important? Foreclosure versus Power of Sale Because I advise a number of funds (REITs, MICs, Private Equity Funds, Mortgage Trusts, Mutual Fund Trusts, individual private lenders such as […]

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