TheUPside Podcast

If you are feeling a little stressed out today, it may not be as bad as you think. Theresa shares her takeaways from Dr. Alia Crum's keynote at the Center for BrainHealth: mindset is the setting of your mind, a filter that shapes what you notice, how your body responds, what you do, and how you experience the outcome. You'll hear the surprising housekeeper study, why two agents in the sa...

Have you ever had a week where you did everything right and still had nothing to show for it? In this solo episode of TheUPside, Theresa Flood unpacks why consistency beats intensity, and why time on task over time is what actually produces results in life and business. Theresa walks through four things consistency builds. It creates momentum, and she explains why you earn the right to intensity b...

What does it really take to go from selling houses to building a business that creates freedom? In this episode, Theresa Flood sits down with Kimberly Davis, a 26 year real estate veteran, team leader, and wealth builder.  Kim was a successful, top producing agent and then a serious neck injury and months of recovery showed her that her business could not run without her. That moment pushed her to...

What if not finishing is actually the secret to getting more done? In this episode of TheUPside Podcast, Theresa Flood unpacks the Hemingway Effect, a simple productivity principle drawn from one of the most prolific authors in history. When Ernest Hemingway was asked what made him so successful, his answer was surprising. He never stopped writing at the end of a chapter or a complete thought. He...

When you're late, it's because traffic was terrible. When someone else is late, it's because they don't respect your time. In this episode of TheUPside Podcast, Theresa Flood unpacks one of the most common habits that quietly damages relationships at work and at home: we give ourselves context, but we give other people labels. Theresa explains the fundamental attribution error,...

What if the way to increase is not by adding more? In this episode of TheUPside, Theresa Flood flips the usual growth question on its head. Instead of asking what else we need to add, whether that's a new strategy, a new habit or a new system, she asks what we need to subtract. Theresa explains why more often leads to dilution instead of growth, and why every yes we give carries a cost. Drawi...

Theresa Flood believes every lasting change in life and business starts the same way, from the inside out. In this solo episode, she breaks down five anchoring questions that separate people who chase external circumstances from people who build something that lasts. Theresa walks through the identity question, the belief question, the focus question, the vision question, and the character questio...

In this episode, Theresa Flood sits down with Brindley Tucker, a Six Sigma certified coach and systemic constellation facilitator, to unpack why the same problems keep resurfacing in organizations even after leaders change the people or the process. Brindley shares the three systemic laws that quietly shape every business, family, and team, and explains why the real fix usually isn't more eff...

In this episode of TheUPside, Theresa Flood unpacks what it actually means to pursue mastery, and why most people misunderstand it from the start. Mastery isn't a finish line you cross. It's a path you choose to stay on, one rep at a time. Theresa breaks down five truths about mastery that apply whether you're leading a team, building a business, or trying to get better at your marr...

In part two of this Mega Camp AHA series, Theresa Flood sits down with Seth Mills to unpack the ideas that hit them hardest from this year's event, pulling insights from Gary Keller, Shaun Johnson and Andrew East, and Simon Sinek. They start with Gary Keller's distinction between doing and becoming, and why the version of you that feels most natural is often just the version that has run...

Theresa Flood kicks off a new two part series with co host Seth Mills, breaking down the biggest takeaways from Mega Camp's session on social media and AI. In Part 1, they unpack why so many experienced professionals are completely invisible to AI search tools, even when their offline reputation is strong, and what it actually takes to be found by ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity. Theresa and...

Challenges are usually treated as something to avoid, survive, or get past as quickly as possible. In this episode, Theresa Flood makes the case that hard times are not just obstacles. They are opportunities in disguise, and learning to see them that way can change the entire trajectory of a season. Theresa walks through six specific things that challenges have the power to build in us: resilience...

For years, Theresa Flood believed multitasking was one of her greatest strengths. In this episode, she breaks down why that belief was wrong, and why it is wrong for most of us. Pulling from a Stanford University study that separated self identified high skill multitaskers from low skill multitaskers, Theresa unpacks a surprising finding: the group that considered themselves great at multitasking...

Have you ever felt like a failure because you cannot seem to say no to what is not serving you?  In this episode of TheUpside, Theresa Flood breaks down the real reason willpower feels so unreliable, and it is not what you think. Drawing from the bestselling book The One Thing by Jay Papasan and Gary Keller, Theresa unpacks the famous marshmallow experiment and what it revealed about delayed grati...

What does coaching high school basketball for nearly 30 years have to do with leading a top performing real estate office? More than you might think. In this episode, Theresa sits down with Dick Licare, owner of four Keller Williams offices and one of the most respected leaders in the company, for a conversation about what great leadership actually looks like up close. Dick brings a perspective th...

What if some of the best lessons on rejection, confidence, competition and showing up came from a teenager who has spent five years on stage? In this episode, Theresa sits down with her daughter Jillian Flood, a high school freshman and passionate theater kid who has racked up roles from Charlie in Willy Wonka Jr. to Uncle Fester in the Addams Family, and has learned a whole lot about life along t...

You do not have a knowledge gap. You have an action gap. In this solo episode, Theresa Flood gets honest about one of the most common traps that learning based people fall into: consuming information constantly while doing very little with it. If you have ever felt busy growing but not actually moving, this episode is going to challenge you in the best way. Theresa breaks down why learning and doi...

Linda McKissack has been in real estate for forty years, but her story does not start with success. It starts with a $600,000 loss, a failing business and a marriage under more pressure than either she or her husband Jimmy had ever faced. In this episode, Theresa sits down with Linda, a former mega agent, two region owner within Keller Williams, market center owner and bestselling author, to talk...

We are halfway through 2026, which means it is time to stop and do an honest assessment of where you actually are versus where you said you wanted to be. In this episode, Theresa walks you through what she calls the Halftime Huddle, a practical and honest reflection process for the midpoint of the year. Whether you are crushing it and want to build more momentum, or you are behind and wondering if...

Somewhere along the way, morning routines became a competition. Who gets up earliest, who journals longest, who has the most intense morning ritual. And in all of that, a lot of us either burned out trying to keep up or tuned out because it felt like something that was not for us. In this episode, Theresa reframes the whole conversation. A morning routine is not about how much you can fit in befor...

Have you ever felt like you are just drifting through life, even when things look good on the outside? That was exactly where today's guest, Dana Gentry, found herself before everything changed. Dana is a former mega agent, Keller Williams operating partner, senior culture advisor for Keller Williams, and now a bestselling author. She sat down with Theresa to talk about what it actually means...

This one is a little different, and it might just be one of the best episodes yet. Theresa has been trying to get today's guest on the podcast for over a year, and she finally said yes. That guest is Juliette Joy Flood, better known as Jett, Theresa's daughter, who just graduated eighth grade. In this conversation, Jett shares what she actually learned over three years of middle school....

Have you ever said "I didn't have a choice" and genuinely believed it? Most of us have. But in this episode, Theresa breaks down why that phrase, and others like it, might be one of the most costly things you say on a regular basis. Victim language is not about whether something hard happened to you. It is about the subtle ways your words remove you from the equation and hand your p...

What if the cage keeping you stuck as a leader isn't your circumstances, your team, or your market — but your own autopilot thinking? In this episode, Theresa sits down with Lucas Sherradan, longtime Keller Williams leader, host of the Built Out Podcast, keynote speaker, and author of the forthcoming book The Uncaged Leader: Surprisingly Simple Shifts in Curiosity and Awareness That Empower L...

Freedom is one of the most powerful core values a person can have, and for most entrepreneurs it is the whole reason they got into business in the first place. But here is the tension nobody talks about: real freedom requires accountability. In this episode, Theresa breaks down the direct relationship between the two and why you cannot have one without the other. Using the Parable of the Talents a...