You Can Do That Here

Jared and Bethany Salte joined us in The Old Firehall in Rossland, BC to talk about life, love and how that translates into great music. They played two gorgeous acoustic version so their songs Never have time and All we have.

The Bros Landreth caught up with The VinylCast in Nelson, BC for a deep dive into their songs Got to be You and Our Love and a spectacular live acoustic performance of each.

Numbers. They are both the language of business and its method for keeping score. Knowing that one could discern that they who have the best knowledge and understanding of the numbers, will most likely also score highest on the bottom line.

There is a particular subset of the entrepreneurial world that struggles more often than others with the numbers: The creative entrepreneur. The people who are so good at their craft that people want to give them money for it, and thus their creativity becomes a business.

They excel at their craft but not always at the numbers side of the business. Making that task even harder for the creative entrepreneur is the often subjective nature of placing value on their work.

Figuring out how to properly and effectively price your work as a creative entrepreneur is critical to your success.

So we know there is a clear market out there with a clear need. What it took was someone who lived through that need to come up with the solution. 

Melissa Welsh of Nelson, BC has done just that.
Follow your passion as a photographer, only to realize you can't afford to live off of your passion, come up with a solution that increases the profitability of your own business and many others by selling them your system? You Can Do That Here!

What is the ultimate goal of pretty well all companies? Well of course it's to make money. Hopefully it's at least a little bit to do some good in the world, but most of all and most often the end game for any entrepreneur is to sell their company.

Yes, building your idea from scratch into something big and profitable that someone else wants to give you millions of dollars for some day is essentially the driving force behind most startups.
Selling your company is awesome right? Well... Yes and no... and not always.

The biggest downside to selling your company of course, whether you stay on as an employee or not, is that you're no longer in control of the company. It's no longer your ideas, thoughts, morals and principles guiding the ship.

Sometimes that's great, sometimes it sucks. Like seeing the company you built and then sold moved out of town, leaving all of the hard working employees, friends and the work family you built out of work.

Don Freschi faced exactly that scenario, and from the moment the company decided to pick up stakes his clock started counting down on a non-compete to get back in the game.

Sell your company, see it move out of town and layoff your entire workforce, wait out a non-compete and then launch back into the game to start rebuilding something bigger and better? You can do that here!

Put in the time and effort ,work on your delivery and consistency, and find the right team that wants to get to the next level. That is a simple formula to success in both the curling and business world.

Nathan Small, now making his home in Nelson,BC has followed that strategy to success to a professional level in both of those pursuits, all while competing at a high hobby level in the other.

The result so far, has seen him become one of the top support engineers on the planet in his role as a technical director at one of the 5 largest software companies on earth.

Not to mention he’s also an accomplished professional curler with Olympic aspirations.

Bounce around Ontario growing up, fall in love with computers at a young age, get head hunted from a chance golf game with a tech startup CTO and go on to be one of the top support engineers at one of the largest tech companies on earth, while trading in your Ontario life for a Lakeside dream in Nelson,BC? You Can Do That Here!

Larry Sparks of Golden, BC, has led a life and career as a community builder, and over the past couple of years he has put that attribute to work launching his own, self named Enterprise to do just that. Connect entrepreneurs with the professional talent and team members they need to take their ideas over the top.

Move to Golden after being inspired by a staff rating trip retreat? Ingrain yourself in the local community build a large and growing network of talented folks, and put your community building skills to work in a new business? You can do that here!

Chris Kent of Fruitvale, BC has made a life and a career out of the pursuit of simplicity. Having recently gone out on his own launching Left of Center designs, he’s hoping that formula will be the key to having fun and making money.

Hang your shingle and go out on your own helping others turn their ideas into reality, and solving people’s needs with beautifully simple solutions? You can do that here!

Blockchain is one of those new kid on the block opportunities. A new and emerging sector with clear standards yet to be set. In many ways the potential of Blockchain can and likely eventually will change the backbone of how we handle data in just about every aspect of our life and economy.

The opportunity is huge, and if you can be the one who develops “The Standard,” you’ll be positioned for massive success. Gustavo Nobrega of Levare Research is working hard to be that guy.

Grow up 10,000 km, a hemisphere, a different country, culture and language away, spend your whole life in a City near Sao Paulo, Brazil before making a connection and finding  the opportunity of a better life for his young family, and a massive opportunity to potentially be a big player in a rapidly emerging sector, all while living and enjoying your new life in The Kootenays?  You Can Do That Here!

For creative / lifestyle  / entrepreneurial nomads Krista Humphrey and Bernard Mitchell, the latest stop on their adventure is here in The Kootenays.

They’re putting their maker mentality, successful entrepreneurial history and newly completed university degrees to work on an exciting new experiment in Trail.

Head out from Ontario in a Volkswagen van with a plan for bigger things, settle and launch a successful creative business in Whistler, cash it all in and head to California to gain a higher education before moving to Trail to buy, renovate and transform an old church into a live/work industrial design studio? You Can Do That Here!