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themselves permission that it’s OK – I
believe you can’t do it all,” says Angela,
who recalls ensuring her son, Bennett,
understood at a young age that building
a business would sometimes require her
attention. “I see people try to have it all
but the piece that they lose is the piece
for them. Something has to give.”

She says having mentors is
important, especially for women
in business.
“I’ve had and continue to have great
women that I can lean on and lean into,”
says Angela, adding embracing new

She proudly keeps a copy of that first She amalgamated the two offices into opportunities is important. “In my line
commission cheque – which totaled the Hespeler Road location in 2017, of work, there’s a lot of people that only

$559.12 – in her office as a testament to the which now acts as home base for her respond to business and others who
business that has meant so much to her company’s 55-member sales team and create opportunities, and I was always
since joining her father, the late Sylvester four administration staff. As a manager, taught to get up and go to work and

Asadoorian, as an agent in his Cambridge Angela says she likes to lead by example create opportunities.”

Realty (Galt) Ltd. office. His company and be there for staff whenever they need

was the MLS sales leader for 23 years assistance. And despite the current state of the
in Cambridge. “It was a very successful “I’m always on site and don’t typically economy, Angela says there will always
business in its day,” says Angela. work hybrid,” she says, adding her office be opportunities in her industry.

But working with her father in real estate had already gone paperless prior to “When I started in this business the
is something the Galt native admits wasn’t COVID-19 so the virtual adjustment to economy was more dire than it is now.
her initial career intention when she online meetings and document signings People always need to move,” she says.

graduated from university after studying wasn’t that difficult. “The pandemic “I bought my first home at 25, but the

economics and geography. showed us the tools we needed to use in stats today show millennials might buy

their first home now at 35 or 40. Owning a
“I thought about being an urban planner, our Brokerage were already in place.” home is still part of the Canadian dream.”
but when I graduated in 1982 interest But going forward, she believes business
rates were 20%, so no one was building leaders have to adjust their approach as
anything and didn’t need to plan they learn to manage in a post-pandemic
anything,” says Angela, who went to work environment.
with her father for several years and “I now think leaders need to have that
enjoyed the collaboration. “It was a really emotional intelligence and I think women
special relationship. We were friends and are naturally better at it then men,”
colleagues." admits Angela, adding people in the
"By the time I could have found a job in workplace continue to adjust as they deal
the world of planning, it probably wasn’t with mental health issues. “We all have
the right fit, and I had already started my those work friends that we lost in that

real estate career and was very happy.” whole sphere. It’s like a little kid learning
As her career took off, she opened Crown how to make friends again.”

Realty downtown in 1991 and a few years She says her work during the pandemic
later acquired a Royal LePage franchise. A chairing the Cambridge and North
second franchise followed when she was Dumfries Ontario Health Team,
finished her treatment for Stage 3 breast representing Langs on that team, gave her

cancer in 2015. some unique insight into the importance
“I spent a year on the couch between of leading a healthier lifestyle.
seven surgeries and radiation and “I did and do continue to understand PHOTOS BY BRIAN RODNICK
chemotherapy. I was fifty-five and had the social determinants of health,” says

an opportunity to reflect not about my Angela. “It’s not just about your family

last act, but what my next act would be,” doctor it’s also about how you live, how
says Angela, describing why she acquired you eat, and how you feel. Those things
a second franchise. “I decided I had one are really important.”
more kick at the can.” She says many women feel the need
to ‘have it all’ which adds unnecessary
pressure that can hamper their own
wellbeing. “Some women need to give

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