Charleston's Leading Producers Podcast

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you stop chasing success and start focusing on the people you serve? On this episode of Charleston’s Leading Producers, Jake sits down with Realtor Kortney Oden to talk about building a real estate business around relationships, authenticity, and advocating for clients. Kortney shares how a difficult season in her family’s life pushed her toward real estate—and h...

Send us Fan Mail What’s actually happening in the Charleston real estate market right now? Jake sits down with Realtor and team leader Chandler Townsend ( @ctownsells ) for a wide-ranging conversation about the Charleston market, buyer leverage, negotiating, content creation, and what it really means to educate your clients. Chandler breaks down the latest market data, including inventory, absorpt...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole Musap — @twomaidssummerville Owner, Two Maids of Summerville After sending out 70+ job applications and landing just one interview, Nicole Musap made the decision to stop chasing a job market that wasn't working for her and build something of her own. Today she runs a thriving residential cleaning company serving Summerville and the greater Charleston area — built whil...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Frazier (@ emilyfrazierfitness , @emilyyourchsrealtor ) is a real estate agent with the Southern Roots property team at Coldwell Banker, specializing in military relocation, first-time buyers, and new construction. She got licensed at the end of 2023 and closed her first client the following month — all while running a full schedule as the master trainer for HYLO Fitness. Th...

Send us Fan Mail Elissa Campbell ( @penninsulapropertiessc ) left a management career in boutique retail on King Street after being let go — and turned it into the launchpad for a real estate career now built around a specialty most agents overlook: 55+ communities in Nexton and beyond. Seven years in, she's become the go-to agent for out-of-state buyers relocating into Charleston's acti...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Prosser @gogreencleansc runs Go Green Clean with his wife Jen, a residential cleaning company serving Summerville and the greater Charleston area. After running the business in Colorado for nearly two decades, Chris and Jen sold everything, moved across the country at 50 as empty nesters, and rebuilt Go Green Clean from the ground up in Summers Corner. In this conversation,...

Send us Fan Mail Destiny Sylvester ( @destiny_sylvester ) is a top producer with BelCross Properties in Morgantown, West Virginia — and one of the few agents in her market working residential, commercial, land development, property management, and investment portfolios all at once. She built her business from the ground up starting in property management back in 2019, right before the world shut d...

Send us Fan Mail Collin, owner of Saltwater Moving @saltwatermovingsc , just wrapped a full company rebrand and doubled his business in a single year — built almost entirely on direct partnerships with real estate agents and other pros in the industry. He's proof that you don't need a flashy social strategy to grow; you need training, trust, and a truck people recognize. In this conversa...

Send us Fan Mail Alwyn Coetzee ( @alwyn.coetzee ) is a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual in Summerville, specializing in financial planning and life insurance for individuals and business owners. Before finance, Alwyn spent 13 years as a private yacht captain, running boats across the Caribbean and up and down both U.S. coasts — an experience that shaped how he thinks about money, risk, a...

Send us Fan Mail Kim Boerman ( @ebelingboerman ) is a top 20 real estate agent out of roughly 8,000 in the Charleston market, working with Agent Owned Realty and running The Boerman Group. Nearly 30 years into her career, she's built her business almost entirely on past-client referrals, monthly mail-outs, and a level of consistency most agents never stick with long enough to see pay off. In...

Send us Fan Mail Courtney Davis — ( @charlestonhomesbycourtney ) Carolina One agent, Summers Corner specialist, and one of the most referred agents in the greater Charleston area — didn't launch her real estate career with a built-out database or a marketing playbook. She launched it from her kitchen island at 10pm, two kids at home, husband on the road, and decided to go all in. What she bui...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Dion ( @chris_dion_selling_kiawah ) and wife Lauren ( @laurendionrealestate ) make up the Selling Kiawah Team at Akers Ellis, specializing exclusively in Kiawah Island — one of the most prestigious coastal markets on the East Coast. Before moving into residential real estate, Chris spent nearly a decade in commercial real estate, a background that fundamentally shaped how he...

Send us Fan Mail Chandler Townsend ( @ctownsells ) is the founder and team leader of CTown Sells under LPT Realty — one of the most recognizable real estate brands in the Lowcountry. Chandler also hosts LowCountry LowDown , his own podcast built on the same philosophy he sells with: be real, be yourself, and let the results speak. He runs his team alongside his wife Mariah ( @mmmariah.townsendd ),...

Send us Fan Mail Courtney & Alicia @athomewithcourtneyandalicia are the best-friend duo behind The At Home Team, known for their candid, family-forward content and a partnership built on total transparency. Returning to Charleston's Leading Producers, they open up about what it actually takes to build a business — and a content presence — that feels real. In this conversation, Courtney &a...

Send us Fan Mail Rachel Austin ( @chshomeswithrachel ) didn't come up through real estate the traditional way. She moved to Charleston in the middle of a pandemic, met a future brokerage leader at a dog park, got licensed, and had her first closing two months later. What she built since then isn't a highlight reel — it's a real career, built through mindset work, structure, and lear...

Send us Fan Mail Katt Potts ( @kp.associates78 ) is the broker in charge of NextHome the Agency Group ( @nexthome_theagencygroup ) in Summerville, SC — a growing brokerage of 60+ agents now expanding into downtown Charleston. She's a Goose Creek native, a Trident Tech dental program graduate and former program director, who then jumped into real estate with $600, no experience, and an unshake...

Send us Fan Mail Taelor Pryor ( @taelorpryor ) is a Mount Pleasant native, Gamecock alum, and Top 40 Under 40 real estate producer with The Boulevard — one of Charleston's largest and most successful brokerages. She carved out a career in residential real estate after pivoting from industrial safety equipment sales and commercial real estate — and built her business almost entirely through In...

Send us Fan Mail Tradd Bastian ( @traddbastian ) is the founder of Bastian and Associates and a top producer with Serhant. A native Charlestonian, Tradd consistently closes over forty transactions per year, has been recognized as a Charleston Top 40 Under 40 leader, and has spent nearly two decades building one of the most authentic, relationship-driven businesses in the market — while not paying...

Send us Fan Mail Lindsey Johnson ( @mrlindseyjohnson ) is a former collegiate basketball player, captain, and personal trainer turned top-producing real estate agent with the Ludify Group in Charleston. In just a few years of building in a city where he knew almost no one, Lindsey has engineered one of the most disciplined, intentional business models in our market. His background in human optimiz...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole Lemieux ( @buywithnicole ) completed over 100 transactions in her first two complete years in real estate. She started as a teacher, switched careers after one year, and climbed to the top of Charleston's market through relentless hustle and refusing to sound like every other agent. In this conversation, Nicole reveals: how she converts through something we all have ac...

Send us Fan Mail Kristin Abbate ( @kristin.abbate ) is a top 3% Charleston agent. A Clemson graduate with an MBA from The Citadel, Kristin spent eight-plus years as a marketing manager for a national home builder - covering Hilton Head, Charleston, and Myrtle Beach - before transitioning into residential real estate full-time. She's part of a tight-knit team that produced over $100M in sales...

Send us Fan Mail Tricia Peterson (@triciapeterson_islandhouse) is a 2025 $59+ million producer, and owner/broker-in-charge of Island House Real Estate ( @islandhouserealestate )—a woman-owned boutique firm of eight agents in Charleston. Before real estate, Tricia spent 15 years as a physical therapist with a doctorate degree. She balances top production with raising three kids alongside her husban...

Send us Fan Mail Daniel and Laura Peal ( @missionfirst_media ) are the founders of Mission First Media, a Charleston-based content creation company specializing in real estate listing photos, drone video, 3D tours, social reels, and agent-branded content. Before launching their business, they spent six years serving internationally as missionaries in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Puerto Rico—where Dan...

Send us Fan Mail Charlotte Berger ( @charlottebergerpr ) is the founder of CBPR , a Charleston-based PR and marketing firm she launched in May 2020 after being let go during COVID. She's grown her team to 12, been named a 40 Under 40, Woman of Influence, and SC 500 winner. Charlotte has spent over a decade in PR, social media, and influencer marketing, representing hotels, restaurants, CPGs,...

Send us Fan Mail Sarita Kauffman ( @thekauffmangroup ) holds a degree in international business from Brazil and leads the Kauffman Group – a tight-knit, multilingual team that recently partnered with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate in Summerville. Her team serves some of Charleston's most diverse client bases. In this conversation, Sarita reveals: Why agents who leave her team come back...