Brick & Brand

"Growth at all costs" sounds good until it costs your brand. This week on Brick & Brand , Etoile Farr, founder of RAW Hair & Co., shares how she built a profitable and sustainable business without sacrificing her brand's values. She discusses how she landed her first 100 clients, made tough staffing decisions, and chose sustainability even when it hurt the bottom line. Etoile is redefining the bea...

Bhadresh Trivedi on Playing the Long Game  This week on Brick & Brand, we sit down with Bhadresh Trivedi — Founder & CEO of FrostFire Capital and a quiet force behind some of North Texas' most strategic land plays. Bhadresh's story starts far from where he is today—moving his family to the U.S. from India with no money and working for $4.99/hour at TJ Maxx. Through discipline, relentless work ethi...

James Sweigert on Reinvention, Storytelling, and Building Barlz This week on Brick & Brand, we sit down with James Sweigert — author, film producer, and founder of the surfwear brand Barlz . James shares his journey of reinvention, the setbacks that shaped him, and how shifting the story you tell yourself can change everything. From storytelling and film to building a brand from the ground up, we...

In this episode of Brick & Brand , we're pulling back the curtain on the real day-to-day of retail brokerage — the part that doesn't show up in the deal announcements. Think touring properties with a fever, missing flights before major meetings, crashing through questionable floorboards mid-pitch, and doing everything possible to get a deal across the finish line before the client notices the chao...

Welcome back to Brick & Brand! On paper, Michael Siniscalchi had it made in finance. Instead of climbing higher, he stepped off the path entirely and bought a bowling alley. Most people saw a dated business. He saw upside. That decision turned into 810 Entertainment — a calculated bet on real estate, experience, and long-term scale. If your strategy is comfort, prepare to be uncomfortable. 810 Ent...

This week on Brick & Brand, we're talking about the micro-decisions that build empires. Some people open businesses. Some people build brands. There's a difference. For the first five years in business, we weren't thinking about our brands. It was about survival — deals, income, keeping the lights on. But over time, we started noticing something: the most successful retailers, brokers, and operato...

Welcome back to Brick & Brand! Many people assume building a business starts with confidence. The truth? It usually doesn't. It starts with purpose. This week, we spoke with Carol Joy Bender, Founder & CEO of Joy Wellness Partners and Enliven Aesthetics, and one thing was crystal clear, purpose came first, the business followed. From her early global healthcare experience to opening her first bric...

Welcome back to Brick & Brand! Everyone loves the win — the deal closing, the momentum, the moment it finally "works." What no one talks about is the stretch before that. The year where nothing hits. The months where you're working harder than ever and the numbers don't reflect it yet. In this episode, we talk about the long game. Watching savings drain, questioning the timeline, and deciding whet...

Welcome back to Brick & Brand!  From asking for a promotion to negotiating a lease, a salary, or even who's picking up the dinner check, the real challenge isn't knowing what you want — it's being confident enough to say it… and disciplined enough to stop talking after you do. The awkward first asks, the moments where confidence felt more like delusion, and the lesson that changed everything: if y...

This week on Brick & Brand, we're talking about the moment where confidence gets tested, egos get bruised, and deals either come together… or quietly fall apart: the tour. What looks like "just walking a space" is actually a high-stakes performance. You're reading body language, translating side comments, managing expectations, and trying not to visibly panic — all while pretending this was the pl...

This week on Brick & Brand, we're diving into the one truth that survives every trend, every cycle, and even dry January: food still runs the show. As New Year's resolutions kick in and restaurants feel the post-holiday slowdown, it sparks a bigger conversation: why food and beverage isn't just another tenant category — it's the foundation of places people actually want to be. From daily habits an...

This week on Brick & Brand, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the most uncomfortable — and most powerful — forces behind success: the follow-up. It's the part no one talks about. The space between meetings. The unanswered emails. The moment you wonder if pushing forward makes you confident… or annoying. In reality, that tension is where careers are built, opportunities are won, and momentum...

Happy New Year! This week on Brick & Brand, we're rewinding to the beginning — the first clients, the first wins, and the lessons we never saw coming. From early wins that felt small on paper but massive emotionally, to the hard lessons that shaped how we work today, we break down what actually builds confidence — and what doesn't. Why caring more beats knowing more. Why not all clients are good c...

This week, we're delivering the episode we've wanted to make since day one — the one that goes straight to the source of everything: our family. For Christmas, we brought the two people who shaped our entire real estate careers into the studio: our dad, Vince Roche — the self-made OG of retail real estate — and our brother, Sullivan Roche, the next-gen disruptor who lit the path for all of us. And...

This week on Brick & Brand, we're pulling back the curtain on one of the biggest, messiest, most high-stakes battles in retail real estate: Grocery Wars. In Dallas, the supermarkets aren't just stores—they're empires. HEB, Costco, BJ's, Kroger… each one staking territory, reshaping neighborhoods, and triggering development waves that change the landscape of entire cities. Meanwhile, in San Diego,...

Welcome back to Brick & Brand! Clients ghost. Clients wander. Clients send breakup texts that should honestly be illegal. On this weeks episode, we're unpacking the emotional chaos of client relationships — from red flags to coping strategies — in a way anyone with a job can relate to. Spoiler: it's basically dating…with spreadsheets.

Welcome back to Brick & Brand! In this episode, we introduce you to the real stars of the show — the landlords who guard their buildings like royalty, the brokers juggling twelve personalities and seven crises at once, the attorneys who turn paragraphs into sagas, and the contractors holding everything together with caffeine and prayer. We break down how a deal actually comes together, why nothing...

Welcome to Brick & Brand! We didn't grow up in boardrooms — we grew up on a farm. Before we ever learned cap rates or LOIs, we learned grit, early mornings, hard work, and what it means to bet on yourself even when the odds aren't glamorous. And somehow, that journey — the mess, the mud, the mayhem — became the foundation for everything we do today in retail real estate. This episode is the story...

Welcome to Brick & Brand! Where retail, real estate, and entrepreneurship collide. Hosted by sisters Delaney and Bretley Roche, this is more than a podcast — it's your inside look at how the ideas, spaces, and stories shaping our cities actually get built...usually on too little sleep and way too much coffee.   From first-time pop-ups to global powerhouses, every episode unpacks the real stories b...