Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast with Karen Cooper

We are now 4 weeks into the new year, how are you doing?   Chances are, at this point you have already abandoned at least one of those new year habits you established for yourself, or are otherwise feeling pretty off track.   No worries! The year is still young, and I have a plan for you to get it together.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I'm sharing with yo...

On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I'm getting super personal with you … I'm sharing the goals that I have set for myself personally and for my business in 2025?   Why?   When you speak it out loud there is an accountability that happens, and I'm here for that!   Also, hearing my goals just might inspire you when it comes to your goals for 2025. I love hearing the...

Did you know that statistically speaking, the majority of the transactions that you close in 2025 will be generated in first quarter?   If there was ever a time to solidify a prospecting habit in your business, it is right now!   Here's the thing … a lot of us feel "repelled" by prospecting, and that is a mindset. Usually because of what we perceive prospecting to me, both in terms of the activiti...

You've heard that saying, right, about how the grass isn't always greener on the other side? Yet somehow we still manage to look, and wish, and envy, and compare.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate – The Podcast I have a very special replay episode for you which includes who I'm envying these days, and sharing a few stories that just might change your perspective.   You can li...

Happy New Year!!   It has now been 2 years since my business partner and I made the decision to move our businesses and our team to Real.   We've learned so much during that time.   In today's very vulnerable and authentic episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast … including going deep on the numbers … I'm sharing an update of how the last 2 years have gone for us. What has change...

Do you choose a word of the year?   I've done this as a guiding light and principal for myself for nearly a decade now.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast (and our last episode of 2024!), I'm sharing not only my 2025 word of the year, but also why choosing a word of the year can be impactful for you, why (and when) I started choosing a word of the year, a histor...

It's that time of year … winter is coming, and not just the official first day of winter this weekend, but metaphorical winter in your business.   Chances are you've not just taken your foot off the gas in your business this holiday season, but you've probably slammed on the brakes too.   If you don't have a plan to get back to it … or better yet, a plan that prevents you from being on the real es...

It's that time of year … not just holiday time, but time to review your business and your life and to set your goals for the new year!   This is truly a time and a process that I love. The time that I have invested here over the past 2 decades has truly been transformative for my life and my businesses.    On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I am sharing a few thi...

Have you set your goals yet for 2025?   Are you feeling bad about some 2024 goals that went unfinished?    Let me tell you a little secret … I can't remember a year where I didn't have unfinished goals! Some are meant to leave behind, some take more than a year, and some are a "not right now", and that's okay!   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I'm sharing my t...

Gratitude. It's something we say a lot, but how often do you actually *feel* it? As in take the time to actually feel grateful for all the goodness in your life?   Today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is all about it, as is our tradition every year at this time.   On today's episode I am sharing specifically what I am grateful for right now in my life and business … an...

There is more than one way to be successful in real estate.   The traditional path that has been laid out for all of us … on a team, solo agent, team leader or broker … isn't the only way. I am living proof of that having been or currently having a multitude of creative roles in the industry.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I have two things for you …   Firs...

No matter how long you have been in the real estate industry, chances are you have had to get creative a time or two.   Whether it is getting creative to get a deal done, seeking out creative options with lenders or vendors to serve your clients, or just getting creative in your marketing or how you go about finding clients.   What I think a lot of us are not creative in doing is in how we run our...

How do you know when to quit something?   Whether it is your real estate career (spending more than you are making) or something else, I think we all hit this crossroads at one point or another in our lives.   Maybe it's not that you need to quit something, maybe you are just finished. As in, you have finished what you started. You have reached completion on whatever it is. I think that is a beaut...

Take a deep breath for a second …   Are you feeling overwhelmed? Feel like you are letting people down? Feel like you are being pulled in a thousand different directions? Are you trying so hard to be all things to all people, but you end up feeling like you are failing left, right and center instead?   This episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is for you. And me. Part pep talk...

There is power in routines, habits and consistency …   But that power isn't just limited to your real estate business.   Inspired by a recent exchange with my team, on today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I'm sharing my Daily Business Builders™  … for Your Life!   Daily Business Builders™  is my kindler, gentler version of prospecting. Part of what makes them work is...

When is the last time you took a long, hard look at your database?   Who's in it? Do they deserve to be?   Whose missing?   What contact information is incomplete, needs updating, or is missing all together?   This is the PERFECT time of year to do a Database Refresh. I do these at least twice per year in my business, and it helps to keep my marketing spend in check, while also boosting my opportu...

One of the most frequent questions I get is about my Daily Business Builders™ . My kinder, gentler form of prospecting.   Why?   Because we tend to overthink prospecting. How hard it should be. How long we should do it for. What it actually is.   Also, because prospecting is critical to our real estate businesses. No prospecting, no business. It's as simple as that.   On today's episode of Empower...

When is the last time that you checked in with your goals?   Remember those? Those things you set with excitement way back in January, or even at the end of last year.   One of the best things I have ever done for my life and my business was to do consistent reviews each quarter. Reviewing my life, my business, my goals, my progress.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The P...

Let's be honest … fraud is happening everywhere, and for sure in our real estate industry.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I'm sharing with you a few real life stories, and some strategies for how to protect your business, your clients … and yourself … from being susceptible.   Listen in on your favorite podcast app or by clicking the link below.   Want to le...

Chances are you have worn a lot of hats over the years and had a lot of different jobs before you came to real estate … and I'd be willing to bet that there is a lot of experience there that helped to prepare you for your current career.   In today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I'm sharing some of the things that make up my resume, and how they have supported my role...

Have you ever experienced a plateau in your business?   You just can't seem to push past a certain production level or goal?   You've hit an invisible ceiling, and it's time to push past.   On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I'm sharing lots of ideas, examples and stories for the plateaus we experience in our business, why, and how to break through! Want to learn...

At the beginning of my career, I couldn't learn enough. Then around maybe year 2-3, I found myself feeling too busy to get better. I could write a killer contract, won the majority of the listing appointments I went on and was closing 40-50 transactions per year … so what else could I possibly need to know? See I thought training meant basics that I already knew. I also thought I didn't have time...

Like it or not, our real estate industry has changed. This isn't new though, it is always changing. So is your life. With each phase and season and stage our needs tend to change … and the good news is that our real estate businesses can evolve with us. On today's episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I'm sharing all about Reinvention Roadmap, the 4th Annual Empowering Women i...

There is such a push and so much pressure in our industry for numbers …   Achieving a certain amount of sales, calling a certain number of people, closing a certain number of deals each year.   Yes, all of these metrics are important, but what I think many of us forget is that this is a people business. We are serving other people, other human beings with a significant moment in their lives.   My...

Lots of changing have been happening in our industry, and one of the biggest will happen this weekend when coop commissions will come out of our MLS.    In today's short and sweet episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I am sharing a word of encouragement for you. I hope you will listen in.   You'll find the episode on your favorite podcast app, or you can click the ink below.  ...