What happens when entrepreneurship starts before most people are even old enough to drive?

In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Bryce Kander, a Red Deer–based realtor, investor, coach, author, and founder of the Central Alberta Real Estate Investor Network.

Bryce has built a 25+ door portfolio, mentored 100 investors through his TeamKander coaching programs, founded CAREIN — a free monthly investor event whose sponsors credit it with more than $100 million in transactions over two years — and hosts the Alberta Investor Network show on Rogers TV.

But this conversation isn’t just about the wins.

Bryce shares how he got started at an unusually young age, the influence his mom had on the way he thinks about risk and opportunity, and some of the mistakes and difficult lessons that came with building his business and investment portfolio.

Gabrielle and Bryce talk about what happens when deals don’t work out the way you expected, the importance of trust in partnerships, learning when to walk away, personal risk tolerance, and why some of the best lessons come from the decisions you wish you had handled differently.

They also explore mentorship, personal brand, opportunity creation, outsourcing, leadership, and the difference between being busy in your business and actually building something that can grow.

• How Bryce got started in business and investing at a young age
• The role his mom played in shaping his entrepreneurial mindset
• Why not every “successful” deal is actually a success
• Lessons from projects that went sideways
• How Bryce thinks about risk and decision-making
• The importance of choosing the right partners
• Why your network and personal brand can create unexpected opportunities
• Building community without putting everything behind a paywall
• The value of focusing on high-impact work instead of trying to do everything yourself
• What Bryce is building toward next

Bryce Kander is a Red Deer–based realtor, investor, and coach who has built a 25+ door portfolio using creative real estate strategies including seller financing, BRRRR, MLI Select, joint ventures, and condo deconversions.

He has been licensed with Realty Executives Alberta Elite since 2010 across residential, commercial, and rural real estate, was named Top 40 Under 40 Alberta in 2025, and was part of the Gold Top Team in the World for Realty Executives.

Bryce founded the Central Alberta Real Estate Investor Network (CAREIN), a free monthly investor event, hosts the Alberta Investor Network show on Rogers TV, has personally mentored 100 investors through TeamKander, and is the author of the #1 Amazon bestseller If You Can Buy a Property for $10,000 or Less, Just Do It: 67 Ways to Buy Property.

If You Can Buy a Property for $10,000 or Less, Just Do It: 67 Ways to Buy Property

https://www.amazon.ca/You-Can-Property-Less-Just/dp/B0H54QNH9N

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/brycekander

YouTube:

https://youtube.com/@brycekander

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1JXrbSKxti/

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What if the biggest thing shaping your life isn’t who you are — but who you learned to believe you were?

In this episode of the PowerHaus Podcast, Gabrielle Caine sits down with Doug Dane, author of Mistaken Identity, for an incredibly open conversation about childhood trauma, identity, self-image, healing, personal responsibility, and the beliefs that can quietly shape our lives for decades.

Doug spent 30 years trying to recover from a childhood he now speaks about openly. He tried therapy, self-help, programs, and many of the approaches he was told would help — but none created the change he was searching for.

Eventually, Doug began questioning something deeper: the identity he had formed from those experiences and the beliefs that had been quietly influencing his life ever since.

That discovery became the foundation for his book, Mistaken Identity, published by Forefront Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster.

In this raw and deeply personal conversation, Doug and Gabrielle explore childhood adversity, self-image, emotional patterns, resilience, forgiveness, personal responsibility, and what can happen when you stop allowing the past to define who you believe you are.

Doug also shares powerful stories from his own life and the people he has worked with, along with a simple idea at the heart of his work: sometimes meaningful change begins by recognizing the story you’ve been carrying — and deciding whether it still belongs to you.

• How childhood experiences can shape identity long after the experience itself
• The difference between what happened to you and who you believe you are
• Why self-image can influence decisions, relationships and success
• Doug’s journey through trauma, healing and personal transformation
• The role of personal responsibility without denying painful experiences
• How our beliefs can quietly become the operating system behind our lives
• Why lasting change may begin with something much simpler than we expect
• One practical step you can take to begin examining your own story

Doug Dane spent 30 years trying to recover from a childhood he'll talk about openly — and trying everything the self-help and mental health industry told him to try. None of it worked.

When he finally figured out why, it turned out to be simpler than anything he'd been sold.

He wrote Mistaken Identity, published by Forefront Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster, and has spent 25 years showing others the one simple thing that's been quietly running their life — the thing nobody else in this space has been willing to name.

Mistaken Identity:

https://www.dougdane.com/mistakenidentity

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/doug.dane/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/dougdaneofficial

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@DougDane

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@dougdane

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