Dan Reese tells us all about the amazing story of a family making chocolate for over 100 years that decided to get into the milkshake game. Dan moved from a high-level corporate job at Kraft Heinz to bootstrap it with a 4th generation chocolatier and shares the lessons he learned on the way. This is one you won't want to miss.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Dan's shift from a large corporation to a family-owned chocolate business.
• The amazing story of a family business that after 100 years decided to shift their focus and grow a brand.
• The birth and death of the "Jake Shake," may it rest in peace.

Brian Cannard joins us on the Dirt Dog Pod to chat about his wealth of experience working as a real estate manager for REI and Home Depot over 37 years. Brian shares his intense love of the outdoors and how he is currently spending his time following his passion in retirement as a volunteer park ranger at Mount Rainer. Brian is an amazing inspiration and has a load of stories to share with us.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Brian's love of the outdoors and how it led him to work at REI
• Some of Brian's deals over his career including the flagship REI stores in Seattle and Denver.
• Brian's transition from REI to a much larger RE team at Home Depot

After spending the early days of his career as a leasing broker in the pacific northwest Jim joined the expanding haircutting company Great Clips. Jim has worked as a real estate manager for Great Clips for nearly 25 years and been a big part of their massive expansion in that time period. Jim gives us an interesting look into the structure of the company as well as how they look at real estate and growing the brand.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Jim's wealth of experience from a long run with one company
• Jim's love of nature and the importance of breaking from the grind to get in the right head space
• The issues that many developers are facing with developing multi-tenant product like the kind Great Clips normal leases