I thought I would reintroduction myself because so many months have gone by since my last post. Not posting and using this amazing platform has been really bothering me for a long time. So, I thought I would do a reboot.
My name is Marc, I currently live in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. I have a 17-year-old teenage stepson who's now in college, a baby son who’s 1 year old and a daughter that’s 3-year-old. They keep me very busy and young at heart. I enjoy being a father very much it's like reliving your childhood and having a second chance at it.
Since 2003. I worked primarily in sales and business development. I first started in the stock market industry. I have also worked in corporate sales for Air Canada, IBM Canada. I was also an account executive for a large software company and my territory was North America wide. I got to travel to over 40 major cities for business. My clients included many police departments, military, government departments, universities, and fortune 500 companies.
I experienced working for many dysfunctional high-tech startup companies over the years, learning many painful and dramatic lessons, but many valuable ones and if it wasn’t for these experiences I would have never had the courage to be an entrepreneur and be my own boss.
2018 was an interesting year for me because, at the beginning of the year I received a call out of the blue from an old boss, who had an interesting startup. The startup created an application that used A.I. machine learning for the retail industry. To make a long story short. The whole thing ended up a complete epic disaster. (I will share more details it in the future.) When I worked for this guy back in 2010 his startup was well-funded, over 20 million dollars raised it also ended up in a massive failure. This situation took me a long time mentally to get over. But I thought because eight years have gone by and I've grown a lot in 8 years and I thought this business relationship deserved a second chance, a major mistake on my thinking. But I'll write more about it in a future post. this last startup defiantly was the craziest and but one of the funny situations in my professional life. The point, this situation was an accumulation of every bad situation work-wise of the last 16 years. Its what I call a condensed experience and it finally pushed me to go into the driver seat. I'm now channelling my frustration into building my own business. Making lemonade out of lemons is something I’m very good at.
I’m focusing on developing a business development consulting service to help companies avoid the many mistakes and costly outcomes I have seen over the years. I'm also building a website right now that will report about business opportunities in the new legal cannabis industry. Canada legalization begins on October 18, 2018. I’m very excited.
I'm also partnering in a business in the health and fitness industry, it's going to be online coaching and education to help people make healthier choices and help people take better control over their health and develop a better mindset for reaching those goals. I've been into health and bodybuilding for many years and recently I've lost close to 60- 70 lb of fat. I’m very passionate about helping people make positive changes and live a better quality of life.
I plan to write about curing myself of extreme anxiety and major depression. My anxiety was so bad I use to end up in emergency rooms often. Most of this stems from my dark family issues growing up. I had terrible parents growing up and I’ve had to overcome a lot of stuff from childhood. Because of this, I've decided to cut alcohol completely out of my life now that I have small children of my own. I was definitely was a binge drinker for a long time and I've used it as a stress relief. Both of my parents are alcoholics. It has completely ruined their lives. My mother came from a very wealthy family and went to one of the most elite private schools in Canada. Her drinking and behaviour got her cut out of a massive inheritance and disowned by her family. My father was a business man and a 5-star chef that worked as an executive chef for some of the best hotels. But time and time again the drinking on the job would lead to conflicts and being fired, sometimes even arrested. Because my parents were such losers, this led to me living in foster care. My foster mother was a mentally ill nut job with a psychopath hoodlum for a son, who subjected me to all kinds of mental and physical abuse. As you can see I been through a lot. I’m now in a good place where I can share and write about it. I find it therapeutic and allows me to make sense of it all. Inclosing all of my experiences, the good, the tragic, the hilarious made me who I am, believe or not I'm grateful for all of them. I’m looking forward in learning your stories and being inspired by you too. Life is a journey.
Thank you sincerely. Marc
