{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Shed Talk with Kevin Halliday","title":"Life After Exit | Danijel Slisko, Owner of Brand Magazine | Shed Talk Ep. #116","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3891,"description":"Danijel Slisko joins Kevin to talk about building a business from age 20, selling after nearly three decades, and facing the identity shift that followed. They discuss ambition, grief, mental health, community, branding, AI, and why action matters more than endless planning.\r\n\r\nGuest: Danijel Slisko - Owner of Brand Magazine\r\n\r\nDanijel Slisko started his first business at age 20 and built Supreme Windows Group into one of Alberta's largest commercial coatings businesses, with approximately 200 employees and more than $200 million in completed projects. After almost three decades, he sold the business to the people who helped build it and moved into a new chapter focused on creativity, branding, magazines, community building, and helping other entrepreneurs.\r\n\r\nIn this episode:\r\n- Meet Danijel Slisko\r\n- Starting a business at 20\r\n- Immigrant roots and giving back\r\n- Failing, pivoting, and finding success\r\n- The know-like-trust formula\r\n- Two and a half years of consistency\r\n- Selling the business and losing identity\r\n\r\nChapters:\r\n0:00 The question after success\r\n12:38 Selling the business and losing identity\r\n26:09 Grief, suicide, and acceptance\r\n37:19 Say yes or grow strategically\r\n47:45 Building The Exchange events\r\n1:00:10 AI, change, and the human edge\r\n\r\nFollow the show in your podcast app for more full conversations.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JCypFTFpvfO6_QlV0nii31p_iv_A8-zywAvuKHFvwPU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83Zjcy/MTNmMDg2NDM4NmYx/MWMzOGFhMmEzZjM0/MjY5My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}