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Hi! As you may already know, Bruce Firestone, PhD, is a real estate and business coach focused primarily on growing revenues and business modelling plus helping you find your why, identifying the right pathways forward for you (and avoiding the wrong ones), establishing an entrepreneurialist mindset and then assisting you to stay on course and […]

If you’re a business or real estate client looking for transformative guidance and coaching, here’s what Bruce M Firestone, PhD, is truly good at: Business Coaching Expertise Real Estate Strategy & Innovation Affordable Housing & Agricultural Innovation Corporate & Property Advisory I coach energetic, creative people who are committed to making things happen—from startups to […]

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 […]

In 2011, 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Any time someone offers you investments with returns of 1000% per year, you are right to be skeptical, but this is what Australian economist “Mr 1000%” Andrew Firestone has been working on for a number of years now. He reckons he will be able to present how households can add an equivalent of $60,000 to […]

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 […]

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 […]

At the beginning of this pandemic, folks asked me what I thought would happen to real estate values. I believed office and shopping mall valuations would fall out of bed while industrial and residential would hold their own. The latter because people always need a place to live; the former because I thought nations (including […]