The Boom Real Estate Podcast

The Boom Team is LIVE at the Gateway Center for the Illinois Realtors REconnect Conference! Our guests are Jeff Baker (CEO of Illinois Realtors) and Debbie Prodehl (Treasurer of Illinois Realtors). Join us as we discuss the hot issues and market trends for real estate in Illinois in 2025! What's working in the market? What's the housing outlook over the next year? What are the industry changes we...

Episode 257 (Season 8, Episode 10) Season 8 Outro It's the end of the season as we know it. It's the end of the season as we know it. And we feel fine. (Name that song!) The verdict is in! Season 8 is the greatest Season 8 ever of the Boom Real Estate Podcast! Thank you so much for joining us and we hope that you not only survived a little bit of a turndown in our business, but also a big bit of t...

Episode 256 (Season 8, Episode 9) Create Supplemental Income I think we can all agree on two things:   1) red M&M's are the best and 2) things have been tough with real estate lately. We all love it when everyone is selling their homes, but how do we handle those moments when things are slow? We preach to "double down" on your real estate efforts, but if you must, looking for another source of inc...

Episode 255 (Season 8, Episode 8) Cut Expenses It's not fun to have to stop spending all that money on free iPads for all your Open House visitors, but sometimes it's prudent. In fact, while you're at it, not only cut back on the iPad's, but is Surf -n- Turf options for your Broker Opens really responsible? Not in this business climate! This round of Boom Team madness helps you with all of that. H...

Episode 254 (Season 8, Episode 7) Build Your Brand If there was ever an episode that we did our best to avoid offering details on real estate-related materials, this might be the one! Frankly, there is more talk about Adam Driver than brand marketing. So much so that we're worried that Mr. Driver himself may come after us! (Especially considering that he has family in Indiana, so we're basically i...

Episode 253 (Season 8, Episode 6) Love on Your Sphere The Team needed some time off to do their own independent research about air conditioning systems in cars. Unfortunately, they still disagree. Fortunately, Todd is still right! [ This is still being actively disputed. - editor ] Regardless though, they are ready to move on and argue about other things now. In this episode, we head down the warm...

Episode 252 (Season 8, Episode 5) Tighten Up Your Lead Followup Before you can have a tight business, you need a tight you! How's do you perform on the "sit-and-reach" test? Can you do the splits? Do you jog? Go ahead and test all those things, send us the results, and then continue to listen to this podcast episode where we dive deep into tightening up your lead gen followup! One of the biggest t...

Episode 251 (Season 8, Episode 4) Increase Your Lead Gen Efforts We don't even know where to start, so we'll just be blunt with you. The Boom Team, (mostly Todd and Terry), spent the first 15 minutes of this episode, (and much of the rest), fighting about how a car's A/C works. Did either win the argument? You'll have to listen to weigh in. So to recap, on our 251st episode, we simultaneously put...

Episode 250 (Season 8, Episode 3) Get Back to the Basics We're officially publishing our 250th podcast episode! No one—not even our parents, friends, kids, pets or each other—thought we would make it! Well, look at us now, parents, friends, kids, pets, and each other. We've made it…to another episode! For us, it's not so much the fame and fortune that typically comes with 250 episodes, but rather...

Episode 249 (Season 8, Episode 2) Guard Your Mindset One of the toughest things to handle in a down market is staying positive while while suppressing the negative thoughts trying to invade. It's absolutely critical to make sure that you guard your mindset, which needs constant practice. Join us as we share nine tips that you should implement when you're experiencing any "down" season. In addition...

Episode 248 (Season 8, Episode 1) Season 8 Intro IT'S TIME!!! The Boom Team have wrapped up their sabbatical, learned to do the splits, while juggling five balls! All of this means that we have reached our life goals and are ready to return to podcasting! This season, we're leveraging the current real estate market trends and teaching agents how to get back to the basics, while exploring new oppor...

Episode 247 (Season 7, Episode 15) Season 7 Outro What a Season 7 it has been! The Boom Team entered the season asking an age old question:   Can you actually be happy in real estate? And, by the end of the season, they proved you truly can be happy in real estate! The truth is you CAN be happy in real estate, but it doesn't mean that it will just magically happen for you. It will take work, focus...

Episode 246 (Season 7, Episode 14) Vacation - When You Get Back Welcome back! We all hope you had a great vacation, but frankly, it's time to get back to business! The question is, just how do you do that? Well, fortunately for you, the Boom Team listened to another podcast that help us understand how to do just that. Now we're ready to teach you everything we've learned. You'll need a pad of pape...

Episode 244 (Season 7, Episode 12) Vacation - Before You Go This entire season has all been about finding happiness in real estate and there is no greater joy in real estate than to take some time to stop practicing real estate! Producer Christian, Megan, Terry, and Todd are going to take you on a vacation ride through the next three episodes. From the beginning stages of planning your vacation, a...

Episode 245 (Season 7, Episode 13) Vacation - While You're Gone Season 7 rolls on and so does your official vacation that you've decided to take—all because of The Boom Team and their inspirational episode. (By the way, where are you going? We hope it has virgin strawberry daiquiris for the kids! Also, why are you listening to this podcast on your vacation? Sheesh!) In this episode entitled "Vacat...

Episode 243 (Season 7, Episode 11) Ashton Gustafson PART 2 Ashton returns in PART 2 to finish his interview with the Boom Team. (Okay, we'll let you behind the curtain—we actually never let Ashton leave and just cut his longer interview into two pieces. Another behind-the-scenes Fun Fact—Todd continues to record his podcasts in Crocs, which we all think is very strange.) As the interview wraps up,...

Episode 242 (Season 7, Episode 10) Ashton Gustafson - PART 1 Ashton is back! Our good friend, Ashton Gustafson, joins us to discuss all things real estate. We learn how to do it right—only way a Texas philosopher would do! In fact, there's so much good stuff here, that we ended up going longer than planned, so we turned a single episode into two. So light a candle, grab an etch-a-sketch, (to take...

Episode 241 (Season 7, Episode 9) Working Out All the studies show that listening to the Boom Real Estate Podcast has the same physical benefits of a 30-minute circuit training session with THE premiere personal trainer. However, since the podcast only comes out once a week, we'll need to fill the other six days a week with actual physical workouts. Whether or not you choose to workout with a pers...

  Episode 240 (Season 7, Episode 8) Sleep It's hard to believe, but even though our research has found that people choose to sleep through the Boom Real Estate Podcast, they have yet to truly understand the value that the podcast brings. That's right—sleep is the forgotten walnut in the Productivity Forest. We don't know what that means, but we dreamt it while performing the very the topic of this...

Episode 239 (Season 7, Episode 7) Affirmations I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. I'm strong enough. I'm sexy enough. I'm physically symmetrical enough. And gosh darn it, I love listening to the Boom Real Estate Podcast! It's Affirmation Time and the Boom Team has affirmed that they are affirmatively ready to help you realize what you should affirm. Join Todd, Megan, Producer Christian, and Terry...

Episode 238 (Season 7, Episode 6) Meditation Slowly breathe in. Slowly breathe out. Slowly breathe in. Slowly breathe out. Now listen to the voices in your head. Do those voices sound like those of the Boom Team? That's when you know you're meditating right! Okay, that might not be exactly correct, but just go with us and listen to today's podcast to learn what is right about meditation. We also c...

  Episode 237 (Season 7, Episode 5) Practical Happiness with Katie Clancy When you're talking about happiness—especially happiness in real estate—there is only one person to talk to. Meet THE Katie Clancy! Katie is a world class realtor out of Cape Cod and what she found as her natural calling is to practice happiness. We invite you to spend time hanging out with one of The Teams' bestie of bestie...

  Episode 236 (Season 7, Episode 4) Set Boundaries One of the most important things you can do for yourself and your business is to set boundaries! This includes your work time, along with the times and the ways clients can reach you. But it includes so much more, too! Todd, Terry, Megan, and Producer Christian explore those boundaries, as well as show off their paper airplane making skills. In ad...

  Episode 235 (Season 7, Episode 3) Fill Your Cup Get ready—this episode is a three-tear one! Yes, that's not a typo. The Boom Team gets together to elaborate on how to find joy in real estate, and fall apart into tears on three separate occasions! Thankfully, those tears were all humor-induced and the Team is holding strong. Although, they would appreciate a "GoFundMe" drive to help raise funds f...

  Episode 234 (Season 7, Episode 2) Amazing Business, Amazing Life If you'd like to build an Amazing Business, so that you can have an Amazing Life, then this is the podcast for you! We truly believe that you can have it all, BUT you have to make some specific decisions with your business and life in order to make it work. Those decisions, (and our dating life), are all discussed in great detail d...