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Calgary Living: Real Estate and Lifestyle podcast with Myron Tetreault

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Here is the new podcast on Calgary Living: Real Estate and Lifestyle with Bryon Howard and our guest today is Myron Tetreault. In this video, Bryon and Myron discuss about Myron's life in Calgary, his achievements, and his contribution to the community in both Calgary and Nepal. Also, about their recent trip to Everest Base Camp!

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Episode Transcription

 

 

Hey friends, welcome to another Edition. It's been a while

 

of Calgary Living Real Estate lifestyle.

Today, I have a good friend, be good training,

 

buddy from a, we have a similar coach in crackles, beat

 

Myron, Tetro Myron, welcome to the show. Thanks, Brian. It's an honor and a

 

privilege Myron. I was tellin surely just 10 minutes ago.

 

How, you know, she asked me how my resume

appointments went this today. This afternoon

 

Soon and I said, well, I XYZ happened and now I'm meeting miring

 

at, you know, ten minutes. And she goes, who's miring, I go. Well,

 

he went to Nepal with us and she goes ah, ah, she goes,

 

you know, I often think of Myron and his nice smile.

 

That's an impressive and

 

said I miss them and she and I go Myron's nice smile.

 

Goes. Yeah, especially when his daughter would call.

 

I thought that was so nice because

I actually Mark that as well, when Pascal would call while

 

you and I were recently in Nepal together trekking and and you

 

know, your daughter who's very close. I would call and man, Myron just

 

be turned into this sponge of kindness and niceness,

not that you aren't all the time.

 

Anyway, Myron again bed. So early and

on the show we just got back from Nepal, you

 

You, we did. We had a wonderful trip with our wives and another friend, Bruce

 

hiking up to Everest Base Camp and it was fantastic. We will have to

 

dig down a little bit on how that all happened, but Myron. Um, this is a

 

show on Calgary living a little bit. And, and you've been in Calgary a

 

long time. Can you tell us a little bit about how you happened to Landing

 

Calgary? I think there was twice that you've

landed in Calgary. Sure. Well, I was

 

In Calgary. My father was a high school teacher at st. Francis High, School

 

years ago. And so I was born. Here we lived here up until I was about 8 years

 

old, other than one year, when we went my dad,

sabbatical for a year and we lived in

 

excellent bras cracked, which is where I didn't like my kindergarten.

We came back to Calgary and

 

then when I was in grade 3, my father got a job with in Saskatchewan

 

and, and we moved out there. And so I lived in

Regina from the age of eight up, until the end of hi, High

 

school and I went to universities in Ottowa. I did a business degree their

 

cookie or off when traveling the three years of

Law School in Saskatoon. And then when I

 

graduate decided, I wanted to be back in Calgary

and moved here in 1992 and I've been

 

here since and so in 1992 and was your family here when you came back,

 

they were not they, they stayed in Saskatchewan. Okay, good. And it

 

seems to me that in the end. How did you decide Calgary here? Your

 

In you I guess actually was had you already met your wife at that

 

you of Ottawa and I had not actually that's a longer story.

 

We were actually in grade 1 and 2 together here in Calgary, but we only

 

met a few years. After I went back to Calgary, she was worried about Uncle.

 

But no I moved here because I was interested in business and

 

initially in the area of business law and

I felt that Calgary was a good place for that with

 

Number of head offices, with a very

entrepreneurial feel to the city. I thought it

 

would be a good place for me to launch a career.

When you think back to that time

 

1992, I graduate from University 1990. And at

 

that time in my perspective as a, I was studying Recreation. So we're

 

certainly come from different backgrounds,

in mindsets, probably have time. There wasn't really any

 

work in 92. There be a little bit more where I mean,

actually Canada. Why my grad class?

 

There is like just no jobs for actually it's Municipal Recreation is kind of

 

what we were trained for and so how about it you in 1992? T

 

was Vancouver was Toronto other options or what

like why did it why did you pick Calgary in the end?

 

Was it the Alberta Advantage? Certainly didn't exist.

At that time, I don't think did it.

 

I was interested in Calgary

 

partly from having fun memories of when I was younger.

And also, you know, when I was in law school

 

School, that the law firms would come to recruit

when we were in. Second year. I did interviews

 

with some firms in Calgary, and I actually

had a job lined up prior to graduating from law

 

school. So, I came out here to start that job with law,

firm called been a Jones

 

and they had active busy practice, and was an opportunity

 

for me to jump in to work with some intelligent people. On some

 

very interesting cause I enjoyed it and kind of jump right into it. When I I

 

got here. Cool. Very cool. And tell us a little bit about mean I know

 

you're very involved in the mountains and the

outdoors that time like early may, like most of the 90s

 

and tell us about some of your first real estate decisions

 

in Calgary is where did you end up living? When you moved here 92,

 

was it the neighborhood that you like your early life perch?

Or how did you choose that neighborhood

 

coming in on the law school from Ottawa? Yeah. Well I mean

 

coming out of this University I did not have

the funds to buy a house. I ended up

 

renting a townhouse with three roommates

who were friends from law school. We

 

lived up near the shagging a golf course and then eventually purchased

 

a house with roommate and then when

I got married my wife and I bought a house in elbow

 

Park and that's where our first one was very nice and

 

so You're saying that be, so you've always lived

 

south of the Bow River? Yes. Is there a reason?

 

I mean, I do you think do you think

there's any truth in calgarians either live on the North of the

 

Bow River or the south of Bow River and

that tends to be where their life is? Yeah, I

 

guess I should back off from that we did

live in VAR C Acres when I was younger. He's right about that.

 

Yes. And then so, for a short period time

when I had a roommate, we lived North River as well.

 

But for a long time, I have been So I don't necessarily see that as the big

 

divider for me, but Elmo Park was a great neighborhood for us with Inner

 

City close to downtown. And work was an important thing at

 

that time and like that neighborhood.

Then we eventually later on. Once we had our

 

third child and we needed a little bit more space.

We moved into discovered rich and little bit

 

further in the southwest and that was a

nice neighborhood for many years. We just

 

recently sold there, but live there for a long time.

I enjoyed Griffith Woods. It's

 

very easy, access to brag Creek into the mountains and, and a

 

nice family friendly neighborhood. What was it?

Like moving from a older inner-city neighborhood to

 

Discovery Ridge? I think you as I remember, he moved there and I think 2007

 

and the community was fairly new, I think 2004 and stuff was being built up.

 

Well, how was that in terms of adjustment or transition? Obviously

 

lots of families and young kids Your kids were in that age.

 

Yeah I mean it was very much more suburban and of course the

 

that area and we I guess liked it, there's less

 

traffic. There were a lot of young kids

on the street that we lived on. And so, you know, our

 

kids develop friends in the neighborhood.

And as I mentioned, the recreational aspect, it was a

 

really good spot for running and for cycling in the areas around there. And then easy

 

access to the mountains which we often

went to on the weekends. Nice modern. Um,

 

obviously, I'm very interested in real estate.

You have some interesting real estate stories,

 

can you tell us a little bit about maybe some of

your first investments in downtown Calgary? I mean,

 

parking lots. We I just like shocking a little

bit and actually and relating that to the boom and bust

 

economy that we have in Calgary.

Can you kind of touch base on those two points and maybe around the

 

same story? I suppose as I understand it and you're telling me in Nepal?

 

Yeah, I'm so real star. State has been a big part of

 

my business career when I left the practice of law in 1998. I went

 

into two business will time and in a number of areas and one of the aspects that

 

I've devoted a lot of energy and is in the real estate side.

And so I have a real estate company

 

called Fitzroy developments, with two business

partners that we started back in 2003.

 

And our first purchase was a package of

 

six parking lots in park at the time.

I'm had been sold to a private Equity Group

 

and they were moving away from ownership

of their parking. Lots just simply managing them

 

managing the locks. And so they put these up for sale,

we did on it, we were successful,

 

we were able to renegotiate the parking contracts,

which bump the income on them and our plan

 

was to hold them for indefinitely as a source source of income.

 

And then I guess shortly after that, things started picking up with the

 

development in the areas where they were,

We have two parking lots in Calgary Edmonton and

 

Regina and over the course of the.

Next number of years, we had opportunities to sell them not

 

as parking, lots but as development sites into

other projects and that was really, what sort of

 

gave us a base of capital to expand into other areas of real

 

estate. And who do you like most about Calgary? Well,

 

definitely the, I think it's a great place to do business on mention before we

 

never had Offices here. Downtown core obviously with

 

some boom and bust but generally has been very vibrant

place to work. There is an entrepreneurial

 

spirit and you know, unlike other cities where

there tends to be more, generational wealth. And

 

here, I think a lot of people are entrepreneurs

people who came from humble beginnings

 

and moved here, worked hard and we're successful.

And I liked that spirit in Calgary.

 

And so as part of that, I guess I also met my

 

wife here and built our family. And really enjoy the community. I'm

 

fortunate to have lots of great friends and and that's been a big part of

 

Calgary's. Well, the area's. Beautiful. We go, our

 

kids were big into downhill ski racing, we spent a

long time in the mountains doing that and as you know I've

 

got into the triathlons and trail running and Calgary has been absolutely

 

fantastic place for that. Both within the city of areas like fish

 

knows he'll even Griffith woods with Was near our place along the river

 

downtown. There's there's so many great running paths within the city and then you're just a

 

short drive the way to Greg Creek Dam or to math.

And those areas where there's just a world

 

of possibilities of places to go running and other types of recreation. Exactly. I'm

 

Martin something about that. I actually one of the things I love about Calgary is actually,

 

is is like the sport, the health Wellness, the outdoors

 

kind of thing, but the other kind of cool.

Thing that I kind of remark on. There's a lot of

 

fast, guys and women, but in her age group, I mean, we're kind of, like, we will

 

not know we like between between 40 and 60, any comment on that. I mean, your big

 

part of that group, I'm thinking specifically about the Bowl here, one of the the bo

 

Valley harriers. And I give me this just like it's kind of fascinating at

 

how many well, you know, maybe amateur kind of Canadian titles that a lot of our

 

colleagues similar age. Have and do. And can you just talk a little bit

 

on that? Maybe. I mean, I know you're big part of that

community and have lots of friends from Ken young

 

to Jody to Coach Cal zosky. Well, I think

 

Calgary at there's definitely a part of the community is that has this

 

culture of sport. And I think a number of reasons for me, the history of the

 

1988 Olympics and some of the Legacy facilities that were left here from that, lots of great

 

training places in Calgary. And I don't know, I think it feel that

 

young entrepreneurial Spirit translated, it also into people that want to challenge themselves in other

 

ways. And we see that in Calgary with there are a number of sports that have

 

their head offices for those Sports associations here and you have a number of Olympic athletes,

 

you know, painting in particular, winter sports, you know that can more Calgary area

 

and number of schools that are dedicated to that. So I think there's some support for the

 

sport and I think He's been building with cells when you have a core of people that

 

are doing it, it attracts other people. And I think we're fortunate to have just really

 

great group of people in that running swimming,

Triathlon community in Calgary that you're also part of

 

that. Makes it fun to be part of. Yeah, yeah. It's really about, I mean,

 

you know, we do these things, but it's actually

about the people we do it with. And, you know, they have these

 

experiences. But I just love that about where we live,

 

my, I can't help. I want to talk. That may be but your own kids, tell us about your kids,

 

and maybe can relate it to little bit too. I guess, you know, choosing their schools in

 

later life and all your involvement with Weber Katha me, and you've been very

 

involved and, but like really helped. Not only, I mean, that's one group of

 

organization that I know if that you've helped. And, but in terms of land, acquisition

 

and development, that would tell us a little bit about well, maybe your kids and in the school they

 

went to and what's going on with What's exciting about all

 

that land stuff that you've done it like, completely

unrelated to anything? We've already spoke about

 

One pork is three boys and a girl. There are youngest as a

 

daughter and she just graduated from high school. She's off at University and Concordia our

 

oldest son, graduated from University of Calgary with mechanical engineering degree and my second

 

son is studying accounting and third son is studying Finance. They're both in

 

Calgary here as well. So they were active growing up as well involved. With a lot of

 

sports. They did swimming and karate and other things when they're younger and

 

then all four of them. Did ski racing, who spent a lot of time out in the can were

 

area are from Club was the Bow Valley Club out of Norquay,

 

bamf Alpine Racers. And so, we spent a lot of years taking the kids out there with ski

 

racing and they've stayed active in those kinds of things, when are both my wife

 

and I come from French background? So when we,

the kids were younger, we sent them to the Catholic

 

francophone school called Saint Margaret Bourgeois. And they went there up until about the

 

gray day. Eight, it varied a little bit by Kid, and then they went to high school

 

at Weber Academy. The grant graduated from there. Now, what work Adam? He's the school that was

 

founded by my Uncle Neil Webber, and when it was being founded, I was working as a lawyer at the time,

 

and I helped him with the establishment of at school and sat on the board of the school

 

itself for about 20 years. And then a few years ago, we broke it into two pieces. We

 

established an endowment for the school and I share that in down. So, spent lots of time over the

 

years, working with them, Remember early on when we started the school first

 

three years, we rented a facility in North Calgary, just off of

 

Center Street and we quickly outgrew that space and so we were looking

 

for an errand. We did a lot of studies of what would be the right spot for a new

 

private school. And we ended up choosing both with Calgary and we had an opportunity to buy 42 acres

 

of land. Just to the west of the West Side Recreation Center there and

 

and nearby. Aspen area. But at the time it was it was outside of the city limits of

 

farmland and course over the last 20 plus years, 25 years. I guess

 

things have grown up around there and it's now part of a Vibrant Community, but we're very fortunate to

 

acquire that land and then over the course of its existence, they've expanded the facilities are number of

 

time it times, it started with the main school and then we added a Kinder Center

 

and then the next wave, I think we added a high school building. And then we also

 

finally added A Performing Arts Theater, wonderful

 

school grades facilities and they built a science center there for the high school kids as well.

 

And then as we looked forward to Future a few years ago we

 

wanted to see if there wasn't a piece of land that we could buy and Springbank that would allow us to

 

expand the school in the future and we're looking for a smaller

 

piece of land, but as it turned out, we had an opportunity

to buy a bigger piece of land and took advantage of

 

that. And so the school right now is in the process of on that Lambda building out an

 

athletic Park that will host. It already hosted a

 

baseball club but will also be a great facility for the

 

neighborhood in the area as well. And the initial phase of that athletic part involves for

 

baseball diamonds who soccer fields and a 50,000 square-foot field house and the field

 

house will have batting cages pitching analysis, weight

 

rooms, And then the top floor will be adding some multi-purpose rooms including

 

a robotics lab for the high school. Very excited about that. And that's

 

being in the construction phase over the last year or two here and we're getting just

 

close to finishing finishing. Now, the to baseball diamonds are finished and the field house will

 

be officially open and sometimes in a few months. Hmm. It's it's cool to

 

me, how involved you are in really Number of projects, but

 

Community. Remember you tell me, actually, maybe we'll sort of relating

 

a little a little bit back to community like thinking, local and acting Global

 

or, you know, being somewhat Global as well. The

 

you told me a little bit of years ago, your dad was teacher. I think 10 years or so ago you and your

 

dad for whatever reason decided to go to Nepal and I think he built a

 

school or you know and have been supporting books or Zero in the polls. Tell us a little bit about your

 

involvement. Maybe, you know, internationally and how you're giving back to, you know, to

 

communities like that one. Well, you know, way too much about me. Brian.

 

I know some of those DUI pieces.

 

As you mentioned, we have been involved in some community activities and few years ago,

 

my wife and I set up a foundation and but prior to that with my business partners who are real

 

estate company. We decided to to Do some charitable

 

activities and we partnered up with the charity out of San Francisco called room to

 

read that back in that time was building schools and libraries around the

 

world and they actually started in Nepal and their founder was filming

 

drawn Widow. At it, a chance to meet and just felt a lot of kinship with him.

 

We had some similarities in our story. We'd both been backpacking in Nepal when we were

 

universities there earlier in our life, I guess. That and saw that some of the needs over

 

there. And so we threw room for Reed. Decided to build a school there

 

in 2009 and we dedicate it to our parents. And so for me it was a

 

trip that I did with my father. We went to the opening of that school and it was a great bonding trip and

 

an opportunity for us to share that together. Yeah it's awesome

 

and then you end up going to flying into lukla I believe and doing a track with your dad to

 

Nancy bizarre. Correct. Yeah we kind of Hard, part of the same ground on our recent trip

 

there, right? I was going to say, like, which are very familiar to me, all of a sudden. And modern,

 

Let's, uh, let's talk a little bit about. Let our audience know a little bit, how I

 

happen or how you happened are and well, you and Katherine, and then how I

 

happened to, what's your perspective, how did truly,

and I and Bruce half of them to come along with you

 

guys to Nepal, let's just share that from your purse. Sure. I mean, of course, you know, I've

 

known each other for over 10 years because you mentioned at the opening, the We have common coach

 

Cal's Rescue Training with a group called critical speed and so we've known each other from that. And

 

then when we recently decided to make the move to sell our house and Calgary

 

we hired you as a real estate agent and it was a

 

tour. De force performance where everything just went absolutely perfectly in

 

terms of how you want to sail to go. I think we picked the right timing. We did. We had

 

spoken in probably six months in advance with the idea that we We had planned to sell our

 

house and so he had met with my wife and I and

we talk through what the market look like in some of the things that

 

we could do to prepare our house for that sale. And then in the lead up

 

to it before we actually did the listing, of course we completed some of those things and then we prep

 

the market a little bit by speaking to some of the agents in the neighborhood.

Let it was a time where there was

 

quite a bit of demand was a little bit before the busier spring season and we thought we

 

would get ahead of that and we let people know that this was going. To come up for sale.

 

It was really remarkable the way it played out. I mean we listed that that house at

 

I think 7 p.m. on a Monday and by 7:30 you had six or seven

 

calls with several of them. Insisting on seeing the house that night, there are a

 

few showings on the very first evening, we got immediately and unconditional

 

offer above list price. Ask them to leave it open for 24 hours and then we loop

 

back with everyone else that expressed interest and it

turned into into a bidding war, amongst some

 

parties that really wanted the house and eventually within 24

 

hours, we accepted an offer. Well above list unconditional. So

 

it, we were just thrilled with way that happened and so to celebrate our successful transaction

 

Katherine and I invited you and surely to go for a hike, though, which

 

hike we did. We went out to somewhere around can more and

you came in and visit us here in can work for

 

hiking, we're telling you about our plans to go hiking. In the Paul and that we were

 

open to having some people join us and you guys

immediately jumped on that. I think within a few

 

days said we're in and we finished off the planning that trip and then ended

 

up inviting your friend Bruce and six months later I guess we did our trip.

 

Yeah it's interests and thank you for sharing the story. But my really are great

 

work and getting your home sold and that wasn't where I really was going with it

 

but I'm so glad you told everybody in most every transaction. Action. I do is just like that

 

one. That's that story because that's better success than that. And

 

I remember sitting with you and Catherine can more after our hike and

 

I think that was when you told me you were going to apologize.

Like kind of looked across to him, honest like

 

just like, well, can I come or can we come? I kind of said, I

 

think it was like, I don't think I waited for your invitation and I was just

 

like, what is like, what how you doing that?

And you're like yeah. Kind of self, organized it using an

 

appellee supplier through a, you know,

contact yours with, you know, summited Everest in the

 

late 90s, I believe and it seemed quite affordable

 

and like, in terms of the, you know, what?

We are getting and so, yeah, surely. And I think

 

immediately said yes. And then I had to like, you know,

kind of push really little bit, just a little bit

 

because she's not terribly really interested in Southeast Asia as a Canadian

 

and her background is like She loves Canada and our climate

 

and, you know, southeast Asia kind of scares her a little bit,

but what I what a great opportunity

 

and actually I kind of went to related a little bit to you as

a planner and you and Katherine has planners.

 

And and I find I'm finding my this personally

 

later as I become, you know, the age where ash I'm really starting

 

to realize, I'm not a good planner. I'm not a great planner at this kind of activity so I

 

really need like a friend like you who's doing this. Then I'm like, I think I'm a willing

 

and active and good participant. Any thoughts on that Meyer? And

 

why are you a good planner? I would say, actually, your friend, our friend,

 

now Bruce, put us all to shame in that regard. Once he jumped on board,

 

don't think he'd mind me sharing that our net. Please

 

guide in a friendly way dumped him. Mr. Many emails

 

Bruce of many emails. Yeah. Yes. But But no, I think it was

 

fortunate that I had been there before,

so I had some familiar with the country. I was able to get

 

a contact through a friend who had been there as you mentioned. And then the group

 

there helped us plan plan, the trip and I think traveling has been a big part of

 

my life, right? From when I was young playing sports as a kid,

it's growling. And then in the University had an

 

opportunity to do a couple of longer backpacking trips and

 

University. And you know through that of You that love of travel and so, you

 

know, when once you've done that a little bit, you think of the things you need to

 

plant in order to do those trips. And we just put

that together for Nepal and everything worked out really. Well,

 

we're very fortunate with some of the decisions we made to be able to get in

 

to the Everest region, even though the weather was not great. And

 

yeah it was it just turned out as expected and we had a great trip

 

that a great trip. Um they might that leads me again. Like, actually, I saw her when I was a

 

young High School student. I was very involved with the International Red Cross, and

 

in 1985 is a Year's graduating from high school probably yours as well. I

 

think we're exactly similar age, and then, and that year, I don't know if you remember was

 

International year of the youth and there was a big, a lot of slogan, especially around the

 

Red Cross that I was involved in. It was a think, I think

 

Global act local. And so I, and I to me is a The buzzword and has

 

been a bit of a buzz word you know for years. And I think a lot of people talk

 

about that that would thinking Global and acting you know, local

 

but I think I actually want to commend you on being that person who is doing

 

that and so what was so great about traveling with you, folks is to Nepal,

 

was your involvement in like the community locally, you know,

 

you and Katherine Brave, don't Wicket rainstorm.

 

Thank God. You're still with us in some ways and a long drive to visit the

 

school that your family, you know, and helped, you know, and you had helped build

 

in 2009. But then, you know, we've set out with you. We started

 

opportunities in namche Bazaar, particularly to visit schools,

 

and income Jung with a Hillary Mallory school.

 

And I was just so impressed with your ability to Like want to pick like a project

 

and like I hear about a lot of people doing that but like you're actually

 

really taking an action steps towards that.

Can you share a little bit about maybe how you choose to,

 

you know, how it came about that? You visited a small school

 

and we saw what we saw and, you know, we're considering

 

doing some sort of activity within help with that school and how

 

if we do, how it will take place, which is Is also you're not just like throwing money

 

at something, which is which is great too. Can you share a little bit? Well, well, well

 

thanks for the kind words. I think my view is is if

 

you're visiting some of these places that

it's a good idea to you know, hopefully contribute back to

 

those places that were able to get some pleasure from and Nepal's a

 

country. I've now been to three times. I have a real soft spot for it. It's a wonderful place to

 

visit and in their earlier trip and through On the other things that we've done with our

 

foundation, we've met a lady Frances class old news from Kenmore,

 

who's lived in Nepal for a number of years, and has set up a charity there. And so in, at the time

 

we built a school, we were involved with helping Francis with some programs that she

 

did. So microcredit programs and educational support programs in

 

Katmandu itself. And so when we were heading back there, I

 

reached out to Francis and we were able to Have dinner. And then, of course, we had a

 

coffee with her with you and surely as well just brainstorming on some ideas for some

 

projects. And so it was at the top of my mind as we were doing our Trek to look out for things and

 

she had introduced us virtually and then we were able to meet with a fellow

 

in a bizarre who cut, you know,

 

multi-generational family there that's quite active there and he able was able to let us see the

 

school and tell us about some of the needs. In that community and a bit of the

 

history of how things have developed with the climbing industry in the

 

tracking and how that's affected the community around there.

And so we really we're looking to do something

 

where it wasn't just a gift, but it was more a partnership with people within the community and

 

asked the this fellow is as well about his

 

ideas on how to do that. And he came up with some good suggestions for potential

 

projects that would involve the local youth group. The Women's Group in the

 

community would involve some contribution from the locals and then some

 

contribution for us and then Francis would oversee the project to help

 

improve things at the school there. So it's still in the planning stages right now,

we're waiting for a proposal

 

but it's great to be able to explore those things. And see if we can find a way to get back to that

 

place that we will visit. I love it as we were planning or

 

preparing to go. To Nepal, will show, you know, weaker? Ten days, prior

 

occurred to us. Well, let's bring some pencils or sticklers for a couple of books

 

to like, handout it like, you know, schools and like do our part, and we didn't end up

 

doing that. But now, I just want to commend you on your involvement and, you know,

 

traveling into these third world countries that have a soft spot for you.

And, you know, looking for opportunities, to

 

maybe build or support awesome work. Myron. In respect

 

of our audience and maybe, you know, we're kind of clean this up. Part of finish this up as shortly.

 

I guess, you know, it seems to me that while actually two questions for you,

 

maybe kind of related as we as we come to a close

 

about your career, it seems to me that you've like landed in the perfect career for

 

yourself, and I've done great. But if you,

if you had to choose a different career, what would it be?

 

Let me ask you that. And then also maybe in related to that.

What advice would you give your

 

younger self? He

 

questions. I mean I I'm happy with the path that my career has taken. I come from a

 

family of teachers and I think I could have easily pursued that that as a career as

 

well, it's also important way that could have been an altar about. I think I was an

 

interesting business from very young age, even in high school. It

 

was something that I read about and that I wanted to get involved in,

but I didn't took me a while

 

to find the right path to get into it. And when I was at,

Diversity, one of my summer, jobs was

 

running a student painting business.

That was sort of my first taste of the entrepreneurialism

 

and I think I went into law. Really is a pathway into business

 

and and it allowed me to then move into the

more entrepreneurial things I've done since then,

 

if I were to give some advice to younger self, I would

 

suggest that what the most important thing is community and relationships.

 

And and, you know, so much of the enjoy

I've got out of my career and a lot of the success

 

as well as been able to find mentors, who have been very helpful to me and also

 

to build solid relationships with business partners and in others.

 

So, you know, taking that time to get to know people. It was one of the shifts from

 

law, you know, where you come from a

business where you judge your time in, you know,

 

point point 1 increments of an hour and so your productivity

is measured on how much you're actually

 

sitting there working. And when I left the perhaps Of law.

I think it took me a while to shift into that. Mold

 

that a lot of what you need to do, is around the Strategic thinking, and,

 

and building those relationships and getting out and being part of doing things. And

 

that is very much part of your work.

Is that? And that's also one of the things you get

 

pleasure out of this because of those relationships that would be one thing.

Awesome. Appreciate you

 

sharing that. That's great siren. Winding up here. Is there

 

any last ask that you would Ryan's like anything at all

 

that that you'd like to share with the audience or maybe have an ask the audience.

 

Don't worry, have an ask but it was a pleasure chatting with you Brian. I always

 

like getting together with you and being trading firms as well and through

 

the trip that deepening.

Our friendship with you and ensure his will through. That was great.

 

It was fantastic. We'll listen, thanks so much for being a guest. On the show, we

 

will obviously and continuously be keeping in touch and well

 

until next time until the conversation continues. Thanks once again. Must

 

a thanks. Brian. We just pause there.

 

Hey, Karen. So this is

 

the going to be like the intro. So you'll hear the story about

 

it'll be like the trailer for Calgary.

Living, Real Estate and lifestyle. Hello, my name is

 

Brian Howard. I sold a house day that sort of thing and then,

and then you'll feel cut into

 

this intro and I'm putting some barrier up, so he'll see it

 

and then and then, and then you'll do the outro.

Okay, that I'm going to record after the

 

intro, so you got it. Do all your editing on this. All right, so here we go.

 

Here we go.

 

Hey folks, Brian Howard here on today's show, I have

 

a good friend, Myron Tetro. He's a long time training friend of ours,

 

we used to do a still do a lot of running biking.

Swimming mostly running

 

and swimming these days with my earn that Meyer. And I had just spent a

 

couple of weeks trekking with our wives and another friend Bruce to Everest Base

 

Camp and Myron's a longtime friend. He's a very strong

 

community advocate. He has a real love for and passion

 

for Alberta and Calgary and everything around this area of

 

the world, a beautiful family. And without further

 

Ado, here's our conversation with Myron, his involvement in sort of a

 

start-up career. As a young lawyer to sort of more into business as a real estate

 

guy and a lot of it's done a lot of work with a Weber. me

 

and lots of other organizations around and endurance athlete

 

and Enjoy the show with Myron.

 

And then Karen will do a

 

cut. That was the intro into the podcast and thus conversation with

 

Myron. And then we will. When Martin says, goodbye will do the

 

outro. And now I'm going to do the outro.

 

Well, that was fun conversation

 

with old friend, Myron. You know, I really love what Myron, sees a quiet

 

kind of thing.

I've pulled a lot of that information out of them over a lot of years and was

 

able to share with you guys the listeners. He develops that he didn't really

 

know or want or need. He didn't think that I knew so much about them. That

 

was fun. Myron is a real Community guy, and the idea

 

around that slogan, that was A lot really seemed to me. It was an overused

 

in the 80s as a bit of a cliche, you know, I

 

was a think Global act local more than anyone I know.

 

Myron lives it. Well, folks, thanks for listening tuning

 

into the show. If you know, somebody would like to be on the show.

Calgary Living, Real Estate

 

lifestyle. I would love your suggestions. Please reach out. You know how to find me.

 

Of course, we will have shown Notes in the in the notes and

 

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