Brian Turko - Climbing to the top of the mountain (Passion)

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Brian Turko is the son of Ukrainian immigrants and the owner of Milano coffee. Milano has three stores in Vancouver and one in Toronto. Brian talks on what it was like growing up with immigrant parents, how he keeps a good relationship with his wife of 20 years, and the lessons he's learned as a young child. Come sit down, listen in, and join us at the top of the mountain with this week's episode. Key Takeaways: [0:40] What's Brian's background? [5:55] Why did Brian get into the coffee business? [20:00] Your curiosity can help you find your passion. [21:00] Coffee was created out of poverty. [26:00] What's Brian's definition of success? [35:20] Recognize that you have fear, but take action anyway. [36:00] Brian talks about a lesson he learned when he was younger. [44:20] It sometimes takes reckless abandonment to believe. [51:20] ManTalks will be hosting a full one day event Nov 7th. [57:35] What's it like to be a man today? [1:09:05] What kind of mark on the world does Brian want to leave? [1:15:45] It doesn't always work out. Live everyday as if it's your first and your last day. [1:20:05] Stop by Brian's shop and say hi. Mentioned In This Episode: http://mantalks.com/ http://www.milanocoffee.ca/ Music Credit: Parlange & Latenite Automatic (jesusparlange.com– lateniteautomatic.com) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've got some living yet to do.
0:04.0	I won't give up on you.
0:07.0	See these machines can bring you back to life.
0:12.0	The whole idea of this is to, you know, get a chance for the men in the world and the community
0:18.0	to learn from other men.
0:26.9	So, you know, I don't qualify myself as some intelligent guy like this.
0:27.8	I mean, who do we?
0:34.7	I feel really like I think the thing that's giant in my life is I sit on the shoulders of giants being brought up with immigrants.
0:37.2	So I think it's just something's ingrained into me. I just don't know any other way. Yeah. I sit on the shoulders of giants being brought up with immigrants.
0:39.9	So I think it's just something's ingrained into me.
0:41.2	I just don't know any other way.
0:41.6	Yeah.
0:47.0	So being the son of immigrants, when did you come to the country?
0:48.8	Well, I was born here.
0:49.7	Oh, sorry, you're born here.
0:51.4	But being the son, they came here.
0:53.5	My dad was born in Ukraine.
0:57.2	My grandpa, my mom's brother was born in ukraine she was born here you know she was and then moved out like but north in alberta
1:03.7	man they moved their ukrainians all up the top mountains you know like for the farms made them
1:08.8	work their way out and worked their way into
1:11.6	Vancouver. Yeah, it wasn't, they weren't allowed to come in unless you had this. It was very,
1:17.2	there was, there was a lot of prejudice back then. So whereabouts in the, in the city, did you
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