Category Archives for "Sports & Entertainment"

Oct 11

Get some professional advice/coaching/mentoring from a trusted and experienced source—says Terrell Owens

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Business Models , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Firestone Institute , Investing , Life Coaching , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Sports & Entertainment

[Excerpt from Gadgets and Gizmos—how to tell if you own a real business or just an expensive hobby  available from, https://brucemfirestone.com/product/gadgets-and-gizmos/] I realize this is a somewhat self-serving headline since I am a real estate investment and business coach and my spouse is a California-based CTI[1]-trained life coach, but don’t take my word for it—listen […]

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Jul 11

How to pitch anything

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Coaching , Business Models , Entrepreneurship , Finance , Firestone Institute , Ideas , Investing , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Sales & Marketing , Sports & Entertainment , Urban Economics

Book review of Pitch Anything, an innovative method for presenting, persuading and winning the deal by Oren Klaff, https://youtu.be/0ihMwKc2Sow With insights from Bruce M Firestone, PhD Plus, how a yoga teacher went from earning just over $30k a year to more than $100k Plus, how Prof Bruce successfully pitched the NHL for an expansion franchise […]

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May 16

40 Ottawa Senators Trivia Answers

By Bruce Firestone | Sports & Entertainment

[If you’d like to send this quiz to your friends without the answers, use this link, https://brucemfirestone.com/40-ottawa-senators-trivia-questions/.] Q1 Which of the following are not founders of the modern era Ottawa Senators? Randy Sexton Bruce Firestone King Clancy Cyril Leeder Answer: King Clancy Q2 When did the modern era Senators start playing again in the NHL? […]

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May 16

40 Ottawa Senators Trivia Questions

By Bruce Firestone | Ideas , Sports & Entertainment

[Try answering these 40 Sens trivia questions yourself, then check your answers against Prof Bruce’s, https://profbruce.tumblr.com/post/161398856579/answers-to-ottawa-senators-trivia] Q1 Which of the following are not founders of the modern era Ottawa Senators? Randy Sexton Bruce Firestone King Clancy Cyril Leeder Answer: Q2 When did the modern era Senators start playing again in the NHL? 1927 1987 1992 1995 […]

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May 02

Pivot! Start your own business in just 3-months with practically no money down webinar

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Business Models , Entrepreneurship , Finance , Firestone Institute , PB4L , Real Estate , Sales & Marketing , Sports & Entertainment , Urban Economics

I woke up on the Easter long weekend thinking I could help people become successful entrepreneurs by offering a new online course called: Pivot! Start a business in just 3-months w/ practically no money down. “Hi Bruce, I just wanted to say that I was on your Pivot! webinar this afternoon and it was awesome. […]

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Feb 26

Patrick Francey, the everyday millionaire, and Prof Bruce podcast

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Entrepreneurship , Firestone Institute , PB4L , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Sports & Entertainment , Urban Economics

Mr Francey interviews Bruce M Firestone on Patrick’s everyday millionaire podcast: https://theeverydaymillionaire.ca/episode82-bruce-firestone-making-impossible-possible/ -how to find your why -if you want to change your life, you have to act -how to restart your life at any age -how to really provide yourself and your family for 3-generations -the story of Roy and Tammy, owners of 48-doors […]

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Feb 24

How to turn $7.2 million into half a billion dollars

By Bruce Firestone | Business Coaching , Business Models , Entrepreneurship , Family , Finance , Investing , Real Estate , Sports & Entertainment , Urban Economics

I spoke with my friend Victor Menasce about the Ottawa Senators, the NHL, real estate investment and more on his podcast… I explained how we purchased (in the early 1990s) 600-acres in the far west-end of Ottawa (Kanata) for $12,000 an acre ($7.2 million, if you are counting), plunked an NHL expansion franchise (aka, the […]

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Feb 23

Making better decisions

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Business Coaching , Design , Entrepreneurship , Family , Life Coaching , PB4L , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Sports & Entertainment

There are some benefits to getting older. You tend to have more patience and perspective; you tend to make better decisions and, consequently, make fewer mistakes. After I left the Sens, I wanted to figure out what to do next and, at the same time, my spouse, Dawn Mac Millan Firestone, was training to become […]

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Dec 21

What are the best (legal) businesses to be in?

By Bruce Firestone | Architecture , Design , Entrepreneurship , Finance , Real Estate , Real Estate Investment Coaching , Sales & Marketing , Sports & Entertainment , Urban Economics

(Excerpt from Don’t Back Down, the real story of the founding of the NHL’s Ottawa Senators and why big leagues matter) The most profitable businesses are either illegal (like drugs) or government-owned like property taxes, alcohol distribution (at least in Ontario and Quebec), utilities and lotteries (plus drugs, if you count legalization of cannabis in […]

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