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Beyond the Bell: Lifestyle Design for Canadian Teachers
Beyond the Bell is a podcast for Canadian teachers who want to learn more about strategies to increase their financial freedom. Hosted by two teachers, this podcast aims at helping colleagues make intentional lifestyle decisions to create the present and future they want.
Episodes
26 episodes
S2E4: Keeping your family cottage IN the family - with Dan McMullen
In this episode we flipped the script and interviewed BTB Co-Host Dan McMullen.It is certain that a lifestyle advantage of being a teacher is having the summer months off. Many teachers take advantage of this and spend time lakesi...
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S2E3: Adult Children of Seniors
Lifestyle Design is not only about finances, but also about experiencing a life of freedom by trying to mitigate the unavoidable stresses in our lives. Teachers who are part of the "sandwich generation" are often handling the responsibili...
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39:06
S2E2: Applying your teaching skills to a successful side hustle - with Gabrielle McGill
Gabrielle McGill is a Teacher in York Region , and serves as a Head of a Guidance Department in a Secondary School. Gabrielle bought her first property in the early 2000s and after learning the benefits that comes with owning property...
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38:18
S2E1: Creating a Scalable Business - with Adam Buchnea
Adam Buchnea attended summer camps as a kid and worked at them before becoming an Ontario teacher. He loved working with younger people and helping them developIn 2013, he and another Phys-Ed colleague turned their passion into a ...
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38:12
S1E21: Investing in Exempt Markets - with Chris Molder
In this eye-opening episode, we dive into the world of investments with the expertise of Chris Molder, a seasoned mortgage broker and Exempt Market Dealing Representative. Chris breaks down the complex differences between exempt and publ...
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47:14
S1E20: Becoming your own Bank - with Peter Lount
Peter Lount is committed to building processes and collaborations that bring a massive reduction to tax exposure for entrepreneurs & investors. The outcome is greater momentum and control to clients goals while building a true legacy al...
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44:01
S1E19: Investing in Costa Rica - with Rob Break
Pura Vida. The Pure Life.Rob Break had a successful real estate career in Peterborough when he moved his young family to Costa Rica.Since then, Rob has learned much about the country and continues to work in real estate...
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34:27
S1E18: Passive Investing through Rent to Own - with David Pereira, Rent to Grow Homes
For new or seasoned investors who want to avoid dealing with "tenants and toilets", but want to benefit from the appreciation real estate can offer, the Rent to Own investing strategy could fit the bill.In this episode, we sit do...
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41:46
S1E17: Why Teachers Make Great Borrowers - with Lorne Andrew, Mortgage Broker
We are launching a series of interviews with EXPERTS.Where better to start than to talk mortgages with an experienced broker?Lorne Andrews, of Dominion Lending is featured in this episode and ...
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37:14
S1E16: Buying a Rental Property Crash Course - Lesson 4
In the final part of our Buying a Rental Property Crash Course, we dive into maintaining your property, refinancing options, and exit strategies, If you have just finding us, head back to Episode 13 for the begin...
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41:06
S1E15: Buying a Rental Property Crash Course - Lesson 3
One of the biggest hurdles to folks wanting to jump into real estate investment is TENTANTS.You may have read the horror story headlines of renters refusing to vacate, or have an uncle with an experience with a nightmare tenant....
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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34:34
S1E14: Buying a Rental Property Crash Course - Lesson 2
Check out this episode as we discuss the ACTION steps of getting into a buy and hold investmentMaking important decisions (location, max price point, vacant/tenanted properties, level of upfront repair, etc)
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48:52
S1E13: Buying a Rental Property Crash Course - Lesson 1
If you've made it this far into our episodes and are ready to take the plunge into investing - we are giving you a 3-part crash course on buying your first rental property.In this episode we answer these questions:What are t...
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41:03
S1E12: Everything Bitcoin - with Iain Durk
Iain Durk starting diving deep into the way money functions when he witnessed the impact of the pandemic on the world's financial systems.Fascinated with the decentralized nature of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, he has joined an active commun...
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36:50
S1E11: Diving Deep into Stock Options and the Value of Paying it Forward - with Ron Esteban
Ron Esteban has a history of diving deep into new things - both in his teaching career and outside the classroom.Nearly two decades ago, he was inspired by some senior teachers in his department to started investing in real estat...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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55:34
S1E10: Starting a successful retail business from scratch - with Judy Stewart
Judy Stewart is a seasoned teacher with the York District School Board.She has been holding onto a great idea for a business since she was 10 years old - and never took steps to make it a reality. During the pand...
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38:33
S1E9: Burning out from teaching and creating a life of freedom - with JT Tsui
JT Tsui is from Markham Ontario where he lives with his wife and two children.After 15 years in the classroom, he left teaching where he was a High School Phys-ed teacher to pursue his passion in helping people outside the classroom.&nbs...
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34:58
S1E8: Shifting from a risk-averse mindset and transitioning out of teaching - with Anuja Pereira
Anuja Pereira was a teacher for 17 years and a Department Head in Alternative Programs and Student Success with the Peel District School Board. She lives in Mississauga with her husband and two daughters.In this episode,...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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32:20
S1E7: Creating The Lifestyle You Want - with Dan McMullen
Meet your HOST - Part 1Dan McMullen is a teacher in the York Region District School Board and lives in Whitby, Ontario with his wife and 3 children. Dan really started to focus on lifestyle design in 2019, as...
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29:10
S1E6: Deciding If Your Pension is Enough for Retirement - with Cyrus Gazdar
Cyrus Gazdar has taught with the Peel District School Board for the past 24 years and is nearing the end of his successful career.In 2017, he bought his first investment property - once he realized that the amount he wou...
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38:57
S1E5: Leveraging Your Natural Skills to Grow your Wealth - with Susan Sun
Susan Sun has been a teacher with the York Region District School Board since 2012. At the start of her teaching career she always had additional income streams to supplement the starting salary of a teacher. As her ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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25:35
S1E4: Investing in Student Rentals - with Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson lives in Markham, Ontario with his wife and two sons. He has been teaching since 2004 with the York Region District School Board. Scott's journey on creating passive income and lifestyle design began back in 2015,...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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37:00
S1E3: Creating Multiple Streams of Income - with Mark Molder
Mark Molder is a seasoned teacher with the Halton District School Board whose first experience with real estate investing in the early 2000s was not a good one. As a result, he avoided it for years, until he surrounded himself with th...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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