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Life doesn’t end at 50 – it starts

November 18, 2025 Building & Construction, Coaching & Consulting, Fitness, Hospitality 0:22:05

Kevin Halliday (kevinhalliday.com) is a transformation expert, TEDx speaker, and award-winning entrepreneur with success spanning the construction, fitness, and hospitality industries. He’s the founder of multiple companies, including Spindle Stairs & Railings, Alberta’s leader in stair innovation and recipient of the BUILD Award for Best Innovation Product, and Urban Studio Shed, a creative media and podcast production company. A former WNBF bodybuilding champion, Kevin turned his own life around from unhealthy and overworked to disciplined and purpose – driven. Through his hit podcast ShedTalk with Kevin Halliday and his powerful TEDx talk, “What Men Say in Sheds,” he inspires people over 50 to transform their health, master their mindset, and create lasting wealth—proving that life doesn’t end at 50, it starts.

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Empowering Landowners in Canada Through Smart Storage

October 20, 2025 Building & Construction, Business 0:39:23

If you own land in a growing Canadian town or rural market, you need to meet Max Picton. He’s the entrepreneur behind Canada’s first fully automated modular storage facility — turning raw land into cash-flowing assets in just 90 days. Through his company, Modular Storage Solutions, and the My Storage Spot brand, Max is helping landowners unlock income and community value faster than traditional real estate ever could.

He’s also the co-founder of BluLok, the next-gen smart entry system redefining how automation supports the storage industry.

👉 Tune in to this episode of Canada’s Entrepreneur to learn about the Canadian self-storage real estate sector, how self-storage supports community building, and how Max has identified an under-served market in Canada ripe for your investment.

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Infinitely more important is your determination and your persistence

January 16, 2024 Building & Construction, Construction 0:20:58
Seif El-Sahly is a P. Eng., but he’s also a Dreamer, Renovator and Crushing Expectations! He turns drawings into reality with a dose of humour and a Top 40 Under 40 ranking.

He is the force behind Tiny Homes – Garage Edition. A self-pronounced workaholic, when not at the office, he’s on the hunt for abandoned real estate that can be turned into luxurious rentals in great neighbourhoods. “Just listen to people, no matter what consider it, you may not actually apply it, but make sure you’re actually listening.”

At Newfore, our aim is to deliver a truly differentiated experience. The tools and systems we have placed to manage our own team, make the experience like no other. Our focus is our clients and simplifying the process for them is paramount.

From the proposal stage to completion, our clients can manage the scope through an app or their laptop. The proposal includes an extreme level of detail, outlining costs, quantities and unit rates – making it easy for you to add or remove scope at a later stage. Once a project is awarded to us, we begin to add more detail to your project such as a live project schedule, material selections, progress photos and much more. The process is so efficient that some of our clients have managed their projects remotely – only visiting the site towards the end of the project.

Our work quickly became noticed in Hamilton, ON and in a few short years, we’ve renovated homes, apartment buildings, gyms, medical facilities, restaurants and bars. We are Newfore – and we are The New Way Forward in construction.

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Using engineering principles to educate homeowners and realtors on their foundations

March 21, 2023 Building & Construction, Business 00:20:56

Benjamin Heninger is a registered professional civil engineer with over 25 years of experience in the construction industry and is the founder of groon construction. He is a born-and-raised Calgarian, who takes pride in operating with integrity, efficiency, practicality and ingenuity. Using his engineering expertise, he solves complex problems and educates his clients. Heninger has been in good standing with the association of professional engineers and geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) for the past 17 years.

groon construction is a Calgary-based boutique construction company specializing in concrete foundation waterproofing solutions since 2003. They believe that your concrete foundation’s stability, functionality, and integrity are critical for a safe and healthy home.

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Decarbonizing and electrification of buildings with carbon-free heat pumps

December 15, 2022 Building & Construction, Real Estate, Tech 00:27:32

Belinda Gilbey is a woman entrepreneur, green building enthusiast and market leader in heat pump technology. Her graduation from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering kick started her successful professional journey that was fueled by her passion for clean technologies. For several years, she worked in sales and consulting helping commercial property owners, operators, and developers with their mechanical equipment needs, with a focus on improving efficiencies and reducing building energy consumption and operating expenses. While working in the solar and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) industries, she gradually developed a true passion for creating cost-effective decarbonization solutions for a better tomorrow, which brought her to co-found and become President of Bondi Energy. Since then, she’s been raising awareness on the positive effects that these technologies provide, not only from an environmental point of view but also from a cost reduction angle. Under Belinda’s guidance, Bondi is now aiming to decarbonize as many buildings as possible across North America. Belinda is co-founder of US-based Gigawatt Heat Pump Supply (2021), which sells efficient heat pump and electrification equipment for new-build and retrofit applications.

Aaron Graben is the co-founder and Vice President of Bondi Energy. Shortly after its inauguration in 2019, Bondi became a market leader in energy efficiency retrofits of multifamily and commercial buildings. Aaron, along with his partner Belinda, have accelerated the market uptake of heat pump technology across North America. Aaron’s background in commercial real estate gives him a unique understanding of how energy affects building values and their owner’s decision-making process.

Bondi Energy Corp (Bondi) is a turnkey project management firm specializing in decarbonizing and electrification of multi-residential and commercial buildings with energy efficient, carbon-free heat pumps.

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Every Home Has A Story To Tell

September 6, 2022 Building & Construction, Education 00:24:23

David Tiefenbach, Owner, Atta-Boy Property Inspections, grew up in a small town just east of Regina and spent a lot of time at his grandparents’ grain farm. It was an integral part of his life at a young age. After high school he went into the plumbing and gas fitting trade, moved to Edmonton 2005 and started his plumbing business in 2006. In 2017 he was excited to get into the cannabis business but “ended up losing my shirt.” In 2018 he got his home inspector licenses and started Atta Boy Property Inspections early 2019. His intent was always to sell Atta-Boy franchises and help others in the trades to find something different and easier on the body.

“I have a strong belief and I have the determination to make this successful for trades people and any other with a good work ethic who are interested. I know my support system on the business side is what really matters for the franchisees to become and stay successful. This isn’t about home inspections this is about learning the business about home inspections. This is about building relationships for success. That’s why I call it Inspection Success,” he says.

In February 2023, Atta-Boy will start taking applications from any teenagers from 15 to 19 who may think they might be interested in Home Inspecting and seeing other trades in action from framers, electricians, plumbers, HVAC guys and insulators. He has set up a summer school holiday program from July 1 to Aug 31 for teenagers to have an opportunity to shadow these trades in action and to spend the last remaining 2 weeks with him shadowing him doing home inspections. It’s all free and the intent is to spike interest and possibly look at a trade school and possibly maybe a future Atta-Boy franchisee owner after learning their trade of choice.

Tiefenbach also has a goal to build an acreage just east of Sherwood Park with a picture in his head of a couple of Clydesdales roaming around.

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Paving the way to Success!

March 22, 2022 Building & Construction, Marketing & Advertising 00:38:12

Lewis Vandervalk (www.lewisvandervalk.com) is a serial entrepreneur located in New Brunswick, Canada. With a background in construction and trades and a degree in mechanical engineering, Lewis started a business doing digital marketing for contractors in 2019. With no formal business or sales experience, he has ridden the roller coaster of business and personal development and surrounded himself with coaches and mentors who have helped him grow and develop. Currently, Lewis is the owner of Blue Crocus Solutions, a digital marketing company providing web design, SEO, and Google ads to contractors. As well, in May of 2021, he partnered with and helped grow a local junk removal company using these results-driven marketing tactics.

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