People and Places and How We Use Spaces

Apr 09 2024
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Everyone needs a place to live, work and play. Join business owner/broker/investor, Lisa Christianson, as she has conversations with successful people who share their inspiring stories and how their interactions with commercial real estate have impacted their lives, businesses, clients, and the world. You will find insights into strategies for selecting, acquiring, leasing, financing, and investing in commercial real estate. 

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Episode 40 - Retail Capital Markets Leaders: Cory Villaume and Matt Hazelton

Apr 09 2024 38 mins  
Cory Villaume and Matt Hazelton started in the Commercial Real Estate business just weeks apart, 18 years ago. Now, as a dynamic duo, they're heading up the Retail Capital Markets team at JLL Minneapolis. Over their careers they have been responsible for nearly $1 billion of retail property dispositions and acquisitions.From selling shopping centers to single tenant buildings,

Episode 39: Using Obstacles as a Launching Pad with Logan Haskett

Mar 26 2024 29 mins  
At just 26 years old, Logan Haskett is making a name for himself.After several hardships during his adolescent years, Logan knew the path he was on was the losing one. Knowing he had an entrepreneurial spirit within himself, he started to build his knowledge and strengthen his abilities, which in-turn, was just the beginning of a successful career - his secret? Stop making excuses

Episode 38 - Brian Ingram: Generosity is the First Bite, not the Last

Mar 05 2024 30 mins  
Brian Ingram knows how to put love on a plate.Considering himself as the "world's worst student," Brian's mom put him in a culinary program at the age of 14. By the age of 18, he left his home state of Alaska with a passion for the culinary world, working in restaurants as a chef, travelling from San Francisco to New York, and Singapore to Paris. In 2012, Brian&

Episode 37 - Steve Wellington: The Whole World is Real Estate

Feb 20 2024 27 mins  
Steve Wellington, founder of Wellington Management, Inc., is among Minnesota's most admired CEO's.Since starting the company in 1984, WMI has developed and/or acquired more than 100 commercial and residential properties in the Twin Cities and is currently the 10th largest property management company in St. Paul/Minneapolis. Steve is also an active community and civic lead

E36 - Roger King's Insider Investment Secrets

Feb 06 2024 35 mins  
Roger King initially thought he would be a musician after attending the well-known Berklee College of Music, until he was influenced by his father's venture into property investing.Roger switched paths and found another talent, real estate.Now, with 27-years of real estate under his belt, Roger has garnered over 180 successful property flips, the ground-up development of 13 hi

E35 - Heidi Zimmer: When Nothing is Certain, Anything is Possible

Jan 23 2024 37 mins  
Heidi Zimmer thought she was going to be a City Planner until she leaned into her curiosity of the commercial real estate development world. She moved from big city jobs to the non-profit sector revealing her niche in affordable housing. Through her development experience, her work percolated a passion; creating spaces that integrated health and wellness, mind and body connection,

Episode 34 - Lessons from a Business Legend with Brien Slawik

Nov 28 2023 35 mins  
Marie Slawik was a woman before her time. During the 1950's, a time when men dominated the business sector, Marie and her husband, Harold, founded and owned one of the largest Ford dealerships in the Midwest - Midway Ford in St. Paul., along with an auto-parts store, leasing and car title-loan businesses in an early vertical integration model. They were also growing their real

Episode 33 - Are you REDI to Advance your Career?

Nov 14 2023 33 mins  
Andre Ingram and Nene Matey-Keke live out the Urban Land Institute's Real Estate Diversity Initiative (REDI) program's mission: to advance the careers of professionals of color and women in commercial real estate.Ingram, a Development Manager at Schaefer Richardson, and Matey-Keke a decorated broker and founder of RNR Real estate group at Compass Realty, talk all things R

Episode 32 - Kristen Anderson Uses Space for a Purpose

Oct 17 2023 31 mins  
Kristen Anderson oversees Hempel Real Estate's construction and design activities. She is part of the reason why we're able to host our podcast show as she and her team built the beautiful podcast studio!Kristen's love for historic buildings broke her into the business. After working on the famous Trinity Church on Wall Street in New York City, it only heightened her

Episode 31 - Girl, Buy that Building! with Torrey Benson

Oct 03 2023 36 mins  
Torrey Benson is a lifer when it comes to real estate. Coming from a family in commercial real estate, she has maneuvered her professional career around it. A Minnesota native, Torrey grew up a ski racer, going to Minnesota's popular ski area, Buck Hill. As to no one's surprise, she ended up in Montana where she is currently a Commerical Real Estate Investor, Coach and Me