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On today's show: fresh off her trip to Mar-a-Lago, the Premier says it's time to prepare for tariffs. We hear what, if anything, the oil and gas industry can do to soften the blow; magic and comedy... with a twist! We hear about an upcoming show starring Calgary's Lucy Darling; we hear what's happening at the site of the historic Barron Building in downtown Calgary after many months of paused construction from the head of the Strategic Group.

Resilient, innovative, dynamic. Join us as Todd Gillman, co-founder of Gillman Strategic Group, takes us on his remarkable evolution from practicing law into legal recruiting, specializing in lateral partner placements, and finding harmony in music, community, and determination.Raised in Brooklyn and New Jersey, Todd shares his career journey, his move to California, and his passion for connecting attorneys with firms that align with their values. Beyond his professional life, Todd leads Dads of Distortion, a band formed with fellow parents and is deeply involved in supporting a multitude of community initiatives. With a blend of legal expertise, creative energy, and a focus on well-being, Todd's story is both inspiring and multifaceted.What inspired Todd to shift from practicing law to building a legal recruiting firm?? How does Todd balance his passion for music and his commitment to supporting mental health and arts programs in his community?  Where can you go to hear Dads of Distortion play?CLICK HERE for more information about Todd Gillman.CLICK HERE for more information about Gillman Strategic Group.

Ville de deux millions d'habitants dans l'ouest canadien, Calgary est très touchée par la crise du logement et a connu la plus grosse augmentation du loyer moyen du pays. Pourtant, plus d'un million de mètres carrés de bureaux sont inoccupés, en plein centre-ville de la ville. La mairie a donc décidé d'agir : reconvertir ces bureaux en logements. De notre correspondant à Calgary,Le centre-ville de Calgary a beau être désert, des bruits de chantier résonnent à chaque coin de rue. Un immeuble tout juste rénové trône à un carrefour. Il y a peu, ses 65 appartements étaient encore des bureaux.« Il a clairement fallu modifier certains plans d'appartements pour que ça marche, il y a une plus grande variété de modèles en raison de la configuration du bâtiment », indique Ken Toews, le vice-président du Strategic Group et promoteur en charge du projet. « Pour ce bâtiment en particulier, il y avait une sortie de secours pour l'entrée et l'appartement prévu dans cette partie du bâtiment ne s'y insérait pas. Nous avons donc réaménagé cette partie du bâtiment, puis nous avons eu un appartement qui fonctionnait bien. Il faut vraiment être capable de s'adapter pour que ça fonctionne ! »Tenter d'atténuer la crise du logementLa reconversion a deux intérêts : participer à l'atténuation de la crise du logement, tout en évitant de construire neuf. « L'aspect environnemental est très important pour les gens, rappelle Ken Toews. Les quatre bâtiments que nous convertissons représentent 17 000 tonnes de gaz à effet de serre : nous les conservons, et environ 60 000 tonnes de matériaux de construction ne partiront pas à la décharge. La conversion d'un bâtiment par rapport à la construction d'une maison est très différente. »Strategic Group envisage le projet en 2018. Un an et demi plus tard, les premiers locataires emménagent. « Ce projet était exemplaire : nous avons fait les plans en quatre mois environ, puis demandé les permis. La ville a été formidable : il nous a fallu un mois pour les avoir, et moins de douze mois pour achever la construction », souligne Ken Toews.À lire aussiCanada: le logement au coeur des préoccupations des électeurs de l'OntarioLes bureaux de Calgary ont commencé à se vider dès 2014, rappelle Natalie Murchet, responsable municipale de la stratégie pour le centre-ville. Mais il y a quatre ans, le phénomène s'est accéléré.« Le nombre de bureaux vacants a continué à augmenter d'année en année. Et puis, bien sûr, la pandémie a frappé, ça a aggravé le problème. Au maximum, le taux d'inoccupation des bureaux du centre-ville était d'environ 34%. Cela représentait 1,3 million de mètres carrés d'espaces de bureaux vides. C'est alors que la ville a mis en place sa stratégie pour le centre-ville », explique-t-elle.Combler une perte de revenus fiscauxEn 2021, la ville a débloqué plus de 150 millions de dollars canadiens de subventions aux promoteurs : ils reçoivent 75 dollars pour chaque pied-carré de bureau converti en logement. « On commence à voir les bureaux vacants diminuer, c'est super, poursuit Natalie Murchet. On est à environ 29%. C'est dû en partie à nos projets de conversion. Tous ces projets suppriment environ 186 000 mètres carrés d'espace de bureaux et les convertissent en logements. Notre objectif est de supprimer 560 000 mètres carrés de bureaux dans le centre-ville d'ici à 2031. »L'intérêt pour Calgary n'est pas seulement de lutter contre la crise du logement. La désertion des bureaux a fait perdre plus de 116 millions de dollars de revenus fiscaux à la ville en six ans. À lire aussiCrise du logement: l'idée de limiter le nombre d'étudiants étrangers au Canada fait polémique

Ville de deux millions d'habitants dans l'ouest canadien, Calgary est très touchée par la crise du logement et a connu la plus grosse augmentation du loyer moyen du pays. Pourtant, plus d'un million de mètres carrés de bureaux sont inoccupés, en plein centre-ville de la ville. La mairie a donc décidé d'agir : reconvertir ces bureaux en logements. De notre correspondant à Calgary,Le centre-ville de Calgary a beau être désert, des bruits de chantier résonnent à chaque coin de rue. Un immeuble tout juste rénové trône à un carrefour. Il y a peu, ses 65 appartements étaient encore des bureaux.« Il a clairement fallu modifier certains plans d'appartements pour que ça marche, il y a une plus grande variété de modèles en raison de la configuration du bâtiment », indique Ken Toews, le vice-président du Strategic Group et promoteur en charge du projet. « Pour ce bâtiment en particulier, il y avait une sortie de secours pour l'entrée et l'appartement prévu dans cette partie du bâtiment ne s'y insérait pas. Nous avons donc réaménagé cette partie du bâtiment, puis nous avons eu un appartement qui fonctionnait bien. Il faut vraiment être capable de s'adapter pour que ça fonctionne ! »Tenter d'atténuer la crise du logementLa reconversion a deux intérêts : participer à l'atténuation de la crise du logement, tout en évitant de construire neuf. « L'aspect environnemental est très important pour les gens, rappelle Ken Toews. Les quatre bâtiments que nous convertissons représentent 17 000 tonnes de gaz à effet de serre : nous les conservons, et environ 60 000 tonnes de matériaux de construction ne partiront pas à la décharge. La conversion d'un bâtiment par rapport à la construction d'une maison est très différente. »Strategic Group envisage le projet en 2018. Un an et demi plus tard, les premiers locataires emménagent. « Ce projet était exemplaire : nous avons fait les plans en quatre mois environ, puis demandé les permis. La ville a été formidable : il nous a fallu un mois pour les avoir, et moins de douze mois pour achever la construction », souligne Ken Toews.À lire aussiCanada: le logement au coeur des préoccupations des électeurs de l'OntarioLes bureaux de Calgary ont commencé à se vider dès 2014, rappelle Natalie Murchet, responsable municipale de la stratégie pour le centre-ville. Mais il y a quatre ans, le phénomène s'est accéléré.« Le nombre de bureaux vacants a continué à augmenter d'année en année. Et puis, bien sûr, la pandémie a frappé, ça a aggravé le problème. Au maximum, le taux d'inoccupation des bureaux du centre-ville était d'environ 34%. Cela représentait 1,3 million de mètres carrés d'espaces de bureaux vides. C'est alors que la ville a mis en place sa stratégie pour le centre-ville », explique-t-elle.Combler une perte de revenus fiscauxEn 2021, la ville a débloqué plus de 150 millions de dollars canadiens de subventions aux promoteurs : ils reçoivent 75 dollars pour chaque pied-carré de bureau converti en logement. « On commence à voir les bureaux vacants diminuer, c'est super, poursuit Natalie Murchet. On est à environ 29%. C'est dû en partie à nos projets de conversion. Tous ces projets suppriment environ 186 000 mètres carrés d'espace de bureaux et les convertissent en logements. Notre objectif est de supprimer 560 000 mètres carrés de bureaux dans le centre-ville d'ici à 2031. »L'intérêt pour Calgary n'est pas seulement de lutter contre la crise du logement. La désertion des bureaux a fait perdre plus de 116 millions de dollars de revenus fiscaux à la ville en six ans. À lire aussiCrise du logement: l'idée de limiter le nombre d'étudiants étrangers au Canada fait polémique

Palm Strategic Group partner Jonathan Ratliff is also the Missouri House Republican Campaign Committee's (HRCC) executive director. Republicans control the Missouri House 111-51, which is a supermajority-plus. Mr. Ratliff joined us live this morning on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Mid-Missouri". The Missouri House Ethics Committee will hold a November 8 hearing in Jefferson City, a hearing that's widely believed to involve House Speaker Dean Plocher (R-Des Peres) Mr. Ratliff tells listeners that House Republicans will caucus in about a week, adding that the caucus overall stands behind Speaker Plocher. Mr. Ratliff also says Missouri Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) enters the secretary of state's race as the frontrunner in the 2024 GOP primary. Ratliff describes Rowden as a prolific fundraiser. He also weighed in on the Democratic primary for Missouri's first congressional district, where incumbent U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) is being challenged by St. Louis County prosecutor Wesley Bell (D). Mr. Ratliff tells listeners that anytime Congresswoman Bush speaks, it's a great fundraising opportunity for Republicans across Missouri. Ratliff also addressed Senator Rowden's mid-Missouri seat, which will be an open seat and a Boone County-only seat in 2024. Mr. Ratliff predicts that seat will flip to Democrats:

The Co-CEOS of Tao Group Hospitality share the unique distinction of being business partners and best friends. After meeting in high school, Tepperberg and Strauss started throwing parties which quickly evolved into larger events and an exclusive list of clientele. After graduating from college, they founded Strategic Group, opened gamechanging Manhattan nightclub Marquee, and eventually, met Marc Packer and Rich Wolf, founders of Tao restaurant. Soon after, the foursome launched Tao Group Hospitality—and the rest is history. 

On this episode of the NTP podcast we chat with Mark Boswell & Alek Patsouris from Strategic Group. We discuss Mark & Alek's career to date and what they are currently working on as well as their teams focus on building strong relationships with employees working remotely. Hope you enjoy the interview!

Ricky Novak is the Co-founder of the Strategic Group. He has spent his career working at the intersection of real estate, tax, and private equity. He works directly with high-net-worth investors & family offices and is the trusted advisor to these clients. His expertise focuses on real estate private equity, tax-deferred 1031 exchanges, Delaware statutory trust (DSTS), tax-deferred opportunity zone funds, and numerous federal and state-sponsored tax mitigation strategies. Joining us today as Co-host is Jarrod Arnold, CPA, Jarrod is the COO at Excelsior Capital, where he oversees financial matters (including budgeting, forecasting, and tax) as well as Marketing, Human Resources, and Investor Relations. Before joining the company, Jarrod was a Tax Manager at KraftCPAs in Nashville, TN focusing on medium-sized companies in a wide range of industries. Jarrod began his career at BDO in a similar capacity and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Tennessee.  Key Highlights: [00:01 -06:47] What is 1031 Exchange It's a strategy that has minimal risk If you own a property,  you can sell that asset and execute an exchange into one or more replacement assets.  If you do everything correctly, you are deferring your tax liability and allocating it to a new investment .[08:50 - 12:21] How to Find a Qualified Intermediary You Can Trust Find someone who has your best interest and will show you the right way to go about things Be wary of QIs who cut corners. This might put you in a difficult situation where you have to deal with IRS Questions to ask to qualify for a QI Figure out how sophisticated the QI is. You want someone knowledgeable and could help you make decisions Make sure they have the right insurance Make sure you have a dedicated advisor  [12:22 - 26:34] 1031 Exchange: Know The Rules Who should be at the table when pursuing 1031 CPA Tax/Real Estate Attorney Real Estate Professionals Be involved in the conversation and make sure you understand the real-life implications The reason for  the uptick in 1031 investments How you could take advantage of deferring taxes  as a property owner Entering 1031? Make sure you have the following: A clear understanding of the math of the transaction Avoid the misconception that you only have to roll the equity to the next property Be proactive in identifying issues Here's what to ask your sponsor when vetting Do your investment match up Structure and timing Opportunities on legislation are materially different than 1031 [30:37 - 31:24] Closing Segment Connect with https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-novak-6269138 (Ricky) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarrod-arnold-cpa-a3904a40 (Jarrod) on LinkedIn and visit Ricky's website at www.strategicgroup.com Key Quote: “When you look at it, the good news is while there are plenty of strategies out there that have, higher degrees of risk, 1031 happens to be a strategy that really has minimal risk. It's been around in the code for quite some time. The code and the treasure registry are very detailed on this matter, and there's a good bit of case law out there on 1031-related issues.” - Ricky Novak LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND LEAVE US A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on. Thank you for tuning in and Stay Tuned for the Next Episode COMING SOON!

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April McDaniel, Founder of woman-owned and minority-led, Crown + Conquer, came to the Process to do the deep work she knew she was ready for. In this conversation with Drew, April speaks candidly about needing to be honest with herself. She touches on this many times. What brought April to the Process? April shares that she saw she had a pattern of being cold when relating with others. She felt closed off and wanted to do something that would help to open her up again. Being ‘cold' with others is often a pattern learned in childhood that helps us feel safe and secure. In the Process, April learned a lot about trauma and witnessed how each everyone has work to do to heal. As a result of her work there, the Process helped her find empathy for herself and for others. April chose to be more vulnerable at work as a way to integrate her Process experience. She shares that showing vulnerability, especially in the Black community, is viewed as weak. April showed her strength by being vulnerable and says it was well-received. More About April McDaniel: April McDaniel is the owner and founder of Crown + Conquer, a trailblazing agency partner to global brands with a current client roster that includes Spotify, Amazon Studios, and Google. Woman-owned and minority-led, Crown + Conquer has quickly and quietly made a name for itself, scaling rapidly in just five short years to 32 employees plus numerous freelancers. April's team at Crown + Conquer is unapologetically authentic. They push brands outside their comfort zone, connecting brand truths with human truths to bring them to life and forge real connections with consumers. April began her career at Strategic Group. While there, she worked directly for Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg as they built the company into one of the most powerful brands in hospitality. With an innate ability to find the through-line that resonates with audiences, April drove event strategy for clients including Nike, Coca Cola, and Sprite; executed pioneering brand collaborations including Hennessy Artistry and Heineken Red Star; and played a key role in the grand openings of Las Vegas Tao, Tao Beach, LAVO, and Marquee Nightclub & Day Club at the Cosmopolitan. Subsequently, she led the nationwide expansion of Game Seven as Director of Operations. April also served as point person for influencer and experiential strategy on the Beats by Dre account. April is fiercely private and passionate about giving back. Recently, she launched the Chase the Crown Business Summit. Through the summit, small businesses and innovative brands have the opportunity to win seed money and gain unparalleled exposure. April lives in Southern California with her two sons. She earned her BA from Temple University. Find out more about April on Instagram. Learn more about Crown and Conquer here and on Instagram. Hoffman Process Terminology: Awareness Hell: In awareness hell, we know we are aware of our patterns and the things we do we wish we didn't do, but we are still unable to change. We understand but feel stuck in this place of hell even though our awareness keeps expanding.  To get out of awareness hell, our work to grow and transform must include three additional steps for change to take place. These three steps are Expression, Compassion, and New Ways of Being. All four make up the Cycle of Transformation. As Mentioned in This Episode: Trauma: In the Process, you learn about trauma as you do the work to heal the pain of the past. If you'd like to hear more, listen to this in-depth podcast episode with Cynthia Merchant on Trauma and the Process of Healing. Cynthia was a Hoffman teacher for twenty years. Discover if the Process is right for you. How to share the Process with loved ones. Subscribe on Apple/iTunes https://media.blubrry.com/the_hoffman_podcast/p/content.blubrry.com/the_hoffman_podcast/Drew_and_April_McDaniel_Final_Podcast.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 42:3...

April McDaniel, Founder of woman-owned and minority-led, Crown + Conquer, came to the Process to do the deep work she knew she was ready for. In this conversation with Drew, April speaks candidly about needing to be honest with herself. She touches on this many times. What brought April to the Process? April shares that she saw she had a pattern of being cold when relating with others. She felt closed off and wanted to do something that would help to open her up again. Being 'cold' with others is often a pattern learned in childhood that helps us feel safe and secure. In the Process, April learned a lot about trauma and witnessed how each everyone has work to do to heal. As a result of her work there, the Process helped her find empathy for herself and for others. April chose to be more vulnerable at work as a way to integrate her Process experience. She shares that showing vulnerability, especially in the Black community, is viewed as weak. April showed her strength by being vulnerable and says it was well-received. More about April McDaniel: April McDaniel is the owner and founder of Crown + Conquer, a trailblazing agency partner to global brands with a current client roster that includes Spotify, Amazon Studios, and Google. Woman-owned and minority-led, Crown + Conquer has quickly and quietly made a name for itself, scaling rapidly in just five short years to 32 employees plus numerous freelancers. April's team at Crown + Conquer is unapologetically authentic. They push brands outside their comfort zone, connecting brand truths with human truths to bring them to life and forge real connections with consumers. April began her career at Strategic Group. While there, she worked directly for Jason Strauss and Noah Tepperberg as they built the company into one of the most powerful brands in hospitality. With an innate ability to find the through-line that resonates with audiences, April drove event strategy for clients including Nike, Coca Cola, and Sprite; executed pioneering brand collaborations including Hennessy Artistry and Heineken Red Star; and played a key role in the grand openings of Las Vegas Tao, Tao Beach, LAVO, and Marquee Nightclub & Day Club at the Cosmopolitan. Subsequently, she led the nationwide expansion of Game Seven as Director of Operations. April also served as point person for influencer and experiential strategy on the Beats by Dre account. April is fiercely private and passionate about giving back. Recently, she launched the Chase the Crown Business Summit. Through the summit, small businesses and innovative brands have the opportunity to win seed money and gain unparalleled exposure. April lives in Southern California with her two sons. She earned her BA from Temple University. Find out more about April on Instagram. Learn more about Crown and Conquer here and on Instagram. HOFFMAN PROCESS TERMINOLOGY: Awareness Hell: In awareness hell, we know we are aware of our patterns and the things we do we wish we didn't do, but we are still unable to change. We understand but feel stuck in this place of hell even though our awareness keeps expanding.  To get out of awareness hell, our work to grow and transform must include three additional steps for change to take place. These three steps are Expression, Compassion, and New Ways of Being. All four make up the Cycle of Transformation. As mentioned in this episode: Trauma: In the Process, you learn about trauma as you do the work to heal the pain of the past. If you'd like to hear more, listen to this in-depth podcast episode with Cynthia Merchant on Trauma and the Process of Healing. Cynthia was a Hoffman teacher for twenty years.   Discover if the Process is right for you. How to share the Process with loved ones. Subscribe on Apple/iTunes  

All right, we get it. A review of benefits programs might not seem like the most entertaining fodder for a podcast about divorce. But wait, just hear us out. See, if you're on your spouses benefits program, you could be looking a unraveling a potentially expensive web of coverage, from life insurance to health plans to pensions, IRAs, and 401ks, each of which leads to choice you get to make on a specific — and regulated — time table. So, what happens when your divorce gets in the way of the coverage that helps you stay healthy and feel safe? Tyler Wrage is a benefits consultant with The Strategic Group and joins us to walk us through the process of separation of shared benefits.

All right, we get it. A review of benefits programs might not seem like the most entertaining fodder for a podcast about divorce. But wait, just hear us out. See, if you're on your spouses benefits program, you could be looking a unraveling a potentially expensive web of coverage, from life insurance to health plans to pensions, IRAs, and 401ks, each of which leads to choice you get to make on a specific — and regulated — time table. So, what happens when your divorce gets in the way of the coverage that helps you stay healthy and feel safe? Tyler Wrage is a benefits consultant with The Strategic Group and joins us to walk us through the process of separation of shared benefits.

“A super hot market': Economists weigh in on what to expect in 2021”InmanThe housing market will enter 2021 blazing hot with off-the-charts demand and an extreme shortage of homes for sale. While the risk of a double-dip recession hovers in the background, home sales and prices are expected to keep rising next year as coronavirus vaccines become available, the economy starts buzzing again and a new president focused on housing takes the helm. Inventory will continue to rule.That’s according to several economists Inman reached out to for their predictions on how the housing market would fare in 2021. They weighed in on home sales and prices, inventory, the impact of a coronavirus vaccine, the incoming Biden presidency and the risk of another recession.On home prices and sales“We’re going to start the year in a super hot market,” said Mike Simonsen, CEO of housing market analytics firm Altos Research, in a webinar last week called “The Real Estate Market Outlook for 2021.”Inventory has plunged to just under 469,000 single-family homes this month, down some 40 percent compared to the same time last year, according to Altos’ data.While about 31 percent of listings have gotten price reductions at the end of the year in previous years, current price reductions only stand at 26 percent, according Simonsen. “That’s because demand has been off the charts,” he said. “[For] houses on the market now, if they take a price cut, that means the demands is a little weaker, and the price that it’s going to sell at in January or February, it’s going to be lower.Win more double-sided deals in 2021With Knock, agents automatically get both the buy-side and the sell-side of their clients’ deals, ...He added that prices are “going to keep falling now through February, as the fresh new inventory comes on, and then we’ll probably have a resumption of a more normal market in the second quarter of 2021.”Danielle Hale, chief economist at realtor.com, expects home sales to continue growing, jumping 7 percent in 2021, and prices to continue rising to new highs, though at a slower pace than in 2020, increasing 5.7 percent.“As far as seasonality goes, we expect housing to be busier in spring, like it normally is, and while fall will be strong, we don’t expect it to match 2020’s frenzied level of activity,” she told Inman via email.Daryl Fairweather, chief economist for Redfin, also predicted a strong year for home sales in 2021, even stronger than 2020 has been. She anticipates low double-digit home sale growth, close to 10 percent.“There a lot of people who may have wanted to move this year but were just too nervous,” she told Inman in a phone interview. “They didn’t want to lose their homes during a pandemic or they didn’t want to list during uncertain economic times. It seems like next year the economy will be in a better place than it was this year.“With the vaccine on the horizon we may even be able to open the economy, so that will lead to a lot more economic confidence among homebuyers and more people will just be willing to enter into homeownership with the recovery, though we’ll probably also see slightly higher interest rates. Interest rates have been at record lows this year, and they will probably take off a bit in 2021. That will make homebuying slightly less affordable, so we may see slower price growth in homes, just because of higher interest rates.”Fairweather said she thinks more people will move across the country next year as remote work becomes more normalized.“They’re going to seek out places that are more affordable where they can have more space, and they’ll choose to live in places that meet their own personal preferences instead of just living where they can find a job,” she said.She expects home prices to rise the most in the most affordable places in the country. “We’ve seen a lot of migration to places like Austin and Phoenix,” she said. “I think that there is this kind of spillover effect where Phoenix becomes expensive, and then people leave Phoenix for like Tucson or they leave Austin for San Antonio and prices there in turn rise.”In a forecast released Tuesday, the Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Group had more modest expectations, predicting a 2.8 percent rise in total home sales in 2021 after a 7.6 percent rise in 2020. The mortgage giant expects the median existing-home price to rise 4.1 percent next year, to $302,000.“Even though near-term economic growth may be slowing, as made evident by the latest employment data, we believe the high probabilities of a successful COVID-19 vaccine distribution and additional federal stimulus will carry the economy through a relatively soft first half of 2021 before accelerating in the second half,” said Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae’s senior vice president and chief economist, in a statement.“We also expect housing to remain strong, despite slowing from its previously torrid pace, as homebuilders catch up on current commitments and more existing homeowners list their homes to take advantage of strong price growth. We expect the mortgage market to finish 2020 at a historic level of production before slowing slightly but remaining strong in 2021.”On inventoryThe biggest factors that will drive the housing market in 2021 are the “age-old economic fundamentals of supply and demand,” Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow Group, told Inman via email. That means sellers will likely continue to have the upper hand.“The number of available homes will remain low, and demand for them will stay exceptionally high,” Gudell said. “This ongoing push/pull will ensure that home prices keep rising at an above-average pace, which will continue to cut both ways. For existing homeowners, there will be enormous opportunities to build and utilize equity, especially in a post-COVID economy in which we are very likely to see a surge in spending of all kinds.“But for those struggling to enter the market, low mortgage interest rates offer little cover for home prices that have risen much faster than incomes over the past several years, and saving an adequate down payment won’t get any easier. I also think the traditional home shopping season will be more fluid as additional tools enable more sellers to reach more buyers, and vice versa, regardless of the time of year.”Gudell is hopeful that a vaccine will ease seller anxieties enough to pull them off the proverbial fence.“Increased levels of new construction activity at the tail end of 2020 will carry over into at least the first few months of 2021, both of which will add some modest amount of new inventory,” she said.“But I still expect inventory to remain relatively low. The market will continue to move quickly, but the ongoing adoption and refinement of tech tools like push notifications when homes hit the market, 3D tours and virtual closings will help consumers keep pace, shortening the home search and sale process from months, to weeks or days in many cases. This will mean continuing high velocity in the housing market and a higher number of transactions than we have seen in recent years.”Gudell expects the rental market will “come back strongly” in a post-COVID world, when urban living regains its previous shine.“[That’s] welcome news for struggling landlords, but little solace to younger Americans just starting out and saddled with high rent burdens,” she said. “Household formation has been historically weak for the past several years, but these millions of ‘missing’ households will continue to set out and seek homes of their own and are very likely to turn to the rental market as the traditional first step, reigniting rental demand.“The math is unavoidable — there are millions of millennials aging into their prime homebuying years, and millions more Gen Zers behind them that all will want and need homes of their own, keeping demand at a boil for years to come.”Redfin’s Fairweather is optimistic that 2021 be a “very strong year” for new construction, in part because low interest rates will make it cheaper to build homes and because a big pause in commercial building will mean that residential builders don’t have to compete for workers and materials. Fannie Mae predicts single-family housing starts will rise 12.8 percent to 1.1 million in 2021, from 981,000 in 2020. Still, it won’t be strong enough to overcome years of underproduction, according to Fairweather.“I think new construction will have its best year since the last housing crash,” she said. “But … we’ve been in a decade-long slump of new construction. So one good year isn’t gonna get us out of the hole that we’re in. There will still be overall a shortage of homes. But you know, every little bit helps.”She said the market is short about 2 million homes, so it would “take 10 years of basically doubling our production to get us even close,” she said. Realtor.com put the shortfall even higher, at nearly 4 million homes.“I think if we really wanted to address the shortage of homes, there would have to be significant government intervention [and] subsidizing of new construction,”Fairweather added. “It’s not going to happen just from purely market-driven forces.”Kosta Ligris, co-founder of digital mortgage platform Stavvy, anticipates that single-family homes will remain in demand in 2021.“The comfort and perceived safety of being in a single family home with no common areas or exposure to unknown contacts and risk has never been more relevant,” he told Inman via email. “I am seeing single family homes in suburban areas do very well and expect this trend to continue well into the spring 2021 market.”On the Biden presidencyRealtor.com’s Hale anticipates the Biden administration will likely focus its early efforts on keeping the coronavirus as contained as possible.“Until vaccines are more widely available, this is one of the best ways to help the economy heal,” she said. “Additionally, if a deal is not reached before January, ensuring that another

Dan chats to Travis Callaway from Strategic Group and Yuval Greenfeld from Avenida Food Hall and Fresh Market in Calgary. We touch on investing for beginners, investing in the stock market, how to invest, managing a food hall, branding a food hall and many other things. Welcome to the ‘In the Oven Show’ hosted by Dan Clayton of Thumbmuffin Productions. A monthly series focused on business and marketing where we chat with professionals in the industry about their insight and experiences. Thumbmuffin Productions is a company who specializes in brand and video production in Calgary. Check out Strategic Group here: https://www.strategicgroup.ca/ Check out Avenida Food Hall and Fresh Market here: https://www.avenidamarket.ca/ Also available as a video version on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Bx1i1qP5E1Q

Alan Philips, REEF’s Chief Creative Officer, is a creative executive, entrepreneur, writer, & speaker specializing in guiding & inspiring individuals and organizations on the path to discovering their purpose & unlocking their creative potential. Alan has over two decades of experience in hospitality, food & beverage, real estate, and entrepreneurship, working with some of the world’s most recognized organizations, people, and brands. Alan’s career began with a culinary stage with chef Wolfgang Puck at the original Spago restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. Later, he maintained positions with Myriad Restaurant Group & Strategic Group. From there he launched a hospitality consulting firm, Sky Group, developing hospitality projects nationally & internationally and brought the first “pop up” restaurants to New York, going on to execute more than a dozen such ventures and helping ignite the trend. Alan has also led concepting, marketing, & development of boutique hotels with Morgans Hotel Group, served as Senior Vice President of Brand Experience with The We Company (formerly WeWork), and led marketing, digital and innovation as Chief Marketing Officer at Turnberry. Most recently Alan managed the development of brand and product for Mint House, a technology enabled short-term rental start-up developing the first purpose built hotel for business travelers.

The weekly #HumansFirst open and inclusive calls can all be found here -> https://humansfirst.club/events In addition, you can also find the online rally that is taking place and the 2-day retreat in the UK at the same link -> https://humansfirst.club/events I loved this conversation with Doug Kirkpatrick as we explore deeply human, self-management organisations and practices. - “Working with our founder (during 1980s) we had some reservations about the organisation structure because we had kind of defaulted to the traditional command and control organisational structure that every other company used” – 02.10 - “We started collecting observations. One of the observations was that people drive into the parking lot, park their car and come into work. We realised that every one of these individuals is a manager already in his or her own personal life so every one of those individuals is making gigantic life-altering decisions on their own without a boss. Their deciding who to date, who to marry, what to do for a living whether to take out a mortgage or have kids or whatever” – 03.20 - “I am adding zero value to this process, in fact it is negative value because there is an opportunity cost associated with the time and effort involved so he (managing partner) came down the hall and dropped the checks off on my desk” – 04.50 - “The Morningstar team principles essentially boiled down to two very simple things. First, human beings should not use force or coercion against other human beings. The second principle is that people should keep the commitments they make to each other” – 07.25 - “We basically changed the cost structure of our entire industry at that moment and we did it without ever deviating from our two principles; don’t use force and keep commitments. We became the largest tomato processor in the world (Morningstar)” – 09.45 Bio: As a partner in NuFocus Strategic Group, I now speak and consult on self-management around the world. I also share the message of organizational innovation through my best-selling books ("Beyond Empowerment" + "From Hierarchy to High Performance"), my latest book with Forbes, "The No-Limits Enterprise", TEDx and numerous articles and posts. Gartner Research Director Mark McGregor wrote that “Doug is a leading expert in the field of organizational design.” NuFocus is a full-spectrum international consulting firm born in Canada, delivering client solutions for business strategy, marketing, operations, finance, international trade, infotech, entrepreneurship, HR, leadership, learning systems and organizational innovation (my personal calling). I also work with Great Work Cultures, Work Revolution and the Center for Innovative Cultures to co-create the organizations of the future. You can contact me via the following means: Email - garryturner0@hotmail.com Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/414211396 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/garryinterpersonalcatalyst/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/GarryIPCatalyst --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/valuevulnerability/message

Equally educated in law and business, Sabrina Cronin has an extensive educational background that includes a B.F.A. from the University of Michigan (where she graduated with distinction), as well as an M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Detroit Mercy. She also spent a full year at Madonna University studying nursing home administration, regulations, and law. In more than two decades as an attorney, Sabrina has fed her curiosity and challenged herself to become intimately involved in multiple areas of the law. Her professional experience is distinctive and varied. She began as an associate attorney for Sullivan, Ward, Bone, Tyler, & Asher, P.C. where she focused on bankruptcy law, civil litigation, family law and medical malpractice defense. From there she moved to Garan, Lucow, Miller, & Seward where she continued to focus on family law and civil litigation, in addition to insurance defense and estate planning. She then went to the Pulte Corporation as a staff attorney focusing on business law, and the Strategic Group where she was General Counsel overseeing human resources, employment and outside litigation. Sabrina then took on the position of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office.   In the courtroom every day, Sabrina honed her trial skills representing both juveniles and adults in criminal cases. She also taught updated legal principles to experienced officers at the Oakland Police Academy. After building her distinctive resume she opened The Cronin Law Firm in 2011. Admitted to the practice of law in  Michigan, Illinois and New York, Sabrina is a member in good standing of their respective State Bar Associations. She has received several awards, including a Distinguished Service Award for Oakland County and an American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Advocacy. Sabrina’s unique background has given her an incredible wealth of knowledge and has greatly contributed to her development as an excellent advocate and a tough litigator. Her diverse experience has also given her the capacity to represent a wide array of clientele, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, individuals, and families. Regardless of who the client is, Sabrina offers the same tough, effective service and genuine concern.   Connect with Sabrina Cronin: Website: www.CallCroninLaw.com Connect with Jon Dwoskin: Website: http://jondwoskin.com/ Twitter: @jdwoskin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.dwoskin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Thejondwoskinexperience/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jondwoskin/ Email: jon@jondwoskin.com

In this episode, Jonathan and Damien open a selection of vintage Veuve Clicquot and celebrate episode 10 by welcoming their first guest, James Chau from Strategic Group in Arizona.  James represents some of the top Champagne houses is able to give insight into the region and the history of Veuve Clicquot as well as teach the guys a few things about proper pronunciation of some of the major houses.  The three of them actually stay on topic talking Champagne for most of the show but its easy to keep focused with wines like these.  Damien might still be asking "Can we talk more about the 2008?"  Please enjoy this episode with a glass of Champagne.  Cheers! Wines TastedNV Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut Champagne (1998ish) - Riems, FranceNV Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Brut Champagne (Current release) - Riems, France Vintage Brut 2008 Veuve Clicquot Champagne - Riems, France Read our Spilling the Truth wine blogEpisode 10: Vintage Veuve Clicquot with Special Guest

In this special episode of the Social Pros Podcast, Jay and Adam speak with a wide range of authors, podcasters, and former co-hosts to discuss how they build businesses through social media and beyond.   Special thanks to our sponsors: Salesforce Marketing Cloud (Magic Moments: How to Create Inspired Marketing to Amaze Your Customers: candc.dl/amazecustomers) Convince & Convert (Experience This! Show: experiencethisshow.com) Yext (The Everywhere Brand: http://offers.yext.com/everywherebrand)   In This Episode Shama Hyder — Founder and CEO at Zen Media Mark Schaefer — Executive Director at Schaefer Marketing Solutions LLC Eric Boggs — CEO at RevBoss Jeffrey Rohrs — Chief Marketing Officer at Yext Jess Ostroff — Director of Calm at Don’t Panic Management Randy Frisch — Co-Founder, CMO, and President at Uberflip Dan Gingass — Vice President, Strategic Group at Persado Nick Cicero — Founder and CEO at Delmondo Joey Coleman — Chief Experience Composer at Design Symphony   Visit SocialPros.com for more insights from your favorite social media marketers.

For the past 20 years, web development companies have been building websites without considering rebranding.  If you’re going to invest the time, money and effort in creating a new website, it makes sense to consider rebranding – first.  Every time a customer or prospective customer encounters your company it is critical that the experience is consistent and compelling. At the heart of this lies a strong, defined brand – the internal and external manifestation of your business and your value proposition.  Your brand is the experience people feel each and every time they interact with your business, at every level – not the colour or design of your logo. Only once you have stepped back, contemplated these questions and articulated a solid response should you move to logo design, colour palettes and visual identity. Once you have brand assets that align to your business, they can be used by our website production teams and digital campaign teams to generate clarity and consistency of your brand, perception and messaging. Martin Purcell A recognised industry leader in providing high-level marketing strategies and delivering world-class brand and media solutions, Martin is committed to working to the highest ethical practices in his industry. In 2003, Martin founded Perth-based Elixir Marketing Group, successfully engineering it to become one of Australia’s leading marketing consultancies. In 2010, he sold the business, and established the 8 Strategic Group of Companies with offices in Australia and Singapore. Martin is a true marketing strategist with the ability to engineer powerful brands whether they are start-up companies or businesses in transition. His knowledge of marketing, combined with his theatrical flair, provides the perfect balance for enterprise solutions that are both creative and practical.  Martin has coordinated marketing and communications projects for a who’s who of local and national companies, and as a specialist brand consultant, He was Vice-President of the Australian Marketing Institute and served on its council for seven years. Remember to subscribe to this podcast and check out the [FREE] AdWords Video Training Series. Get Instant Access Here >> 7 Absolutely Killer Tips For Google AdWords & Why They Crush The Competition    How to Build an Email List FAST - 7 Simple Methods You Can Use for FREE Download The eBook Now:   Download here >> Phil Adair Hot Clicks Pay-Per-Click Online Marketing Suite 12, 5th Floor, Dymocks Building 428 George Street, Sydney 2000, NSW, Australia   W: hotclicks.com.au I’m a huge fan of connecting on social media. If you’re on these social networks, then let’s follow each other:  Twitter  Google+  Facebook YouTube Pinterest Instagram