Real Estate Real World

What a pleasure having the founder of Luxmana Investments, a real estate investment company that focuses on residential and multifamily investments, Mark Walker on our show! As a multifamily investor himself, Mark knows his way around the market. His formula for unlocking the value of a property allows him to recognize a good deal when he sees one. When it comes to investments, you have to tread w...

Another great episode about finding the right talent to help you reach the next level in your business! As a current administrator in the real estate industry, Margaret Smith has the best insight into what kind of direction a fantastic admin needs in order to help your business excel. She also shares some great tips on how to make that agent/admin relationship blossom as you navigate the tricky wo...

What a blast I had chatting with CEO of Your Realty Leverage, Brindley Tucker! She is such a kick! Her passion for life along with training, coaching, and hiring the right people to help you increase your productivity as you grow your business in real estate, mirrored everything I believe to be important when shooting for that next level. Brindley hears one of two things when realtors discuss hiri...

What an amazing conversation with powerhouse sales expert, Jennifer Diepstraten. Jennifer took her expertise and experience in sales and started her own coaching business where she helps entrepreneurs grow and improve their personal businesses. Have you ever thought about charging more money for your services? What stops you? As Jennifer shared, most of her clients start to internally question the...

Another GREAT podcast episode with the one and only, Steve Jolly! Since we last spoke in 2016, he has taken his business to bigger and better heights. Now an author of the book, “Kill Cold Calls: How to Generate a Six-Figure Income like Direct Marketing Legends without Cold Calls,” is an incredible read and worth every penny.  His insight into tackling the marketing aspect of our business without...

There is so much to learn about social media. Its role in our business and personal lives has grown so rapidly in the last few years that it’s hard to know where to start or how to grow your business online. That’s where the award winning marketer, author, and Chief Marketing Officer for Post Planner, Rebekah Radice comes in to shed some light on the best strategies for visual and social marketing...

The Color of Success! Danielle Fuhrman is a Certified Color and Styling Expert and the owner of a full service image consulting business, Reflections of You.  Color me impressed, but I was completely fascinated by everything she had to offer! Color plays such a vital role in our daily lives through the energy it creates, the way it makes us feel about ourselves, and the way we connect with people....

What a pleasure speaking with this week’s guest, Jeff Lobb! As a real estate coach, founder and CEO of SparkTank Media, a growth strategy company that focuses on technology, sales, and marketing for real estate, mortgage, and title industries, Jeff touched on some of the problems agents face that is keeping them from achieving that next level and as a fellow coach, I couldn’t agree with him more....

What an honor to have the founder of eXp Realty and CEO of eXp World Holdings Inc., Glenn Sanford as a guest on our show! Glenn’s business looks nothing like anything in the real estate industry today. His CLOUD based company is soaring in terms of how effective, efficient, and beneficial it is for everyone that joins. An agent owned business that distributes equity to productive agent owners is t...

Mitch Stephen is a real estate investor, educator, and author of three books. I love his book entitled “My Life & 1,000 Houses: Failing Forward to Financial Freedom.” The term ‘failing forward’ is so true for all of us! We learn the most from our failures. We figure out what not to do, what doesn’t work for us personally, and how to do it better the next time. We are all striving to find our niche...

It was a pleasure having the CEO of MMS Management in New York City, Andrew Barrocas, as a guest on my podcast show! What an awesome way to start out the year 2017! The New Year signifies a clean slate. The chance to start fresh with new goals and aspirations for our businesses and our personal lives, but how do we reach those goals? How do we hold ourselves accountable? As a prominently respected...

Ryan Lundquist is a certified appraiser in the Sacramento area and a GREAT connection as he runs the Top Appraisal Blog in the United States. Despite technical difficulties, we finally had a successful recording and I’m so glad we did! Having a relationship with an appraiser that you can turn to for advice and trust as an unbiased party that will support the value of a property first, can make a h...

I have been waiting a long time to chat with well sought-after real estate coach, Anita Dizon! We run in many of the same circles and I'm so glad we were able to get together for such a fun podcast chock-full of great nuggets!  Do you ever notice home much better you feel after you help someone else? Anita shared how too often we are taught to chase the client, call them until they pick up, knock...

I cannot believe it took me this long to connect with speaker, author, and female powerhouse, Debra Trappen! She is setting the bar by FIRING UP our industry and igniting other women to stand up, find that brave soldier inside, and ignite change in our communities, our businesses, and the real estate industry as a whole.  The majority of real estate agents are WOMEN and as women, we have SO much t...

I had the most incredible conversation with founder and CEOof Fit International, Brett Campbell. I was so inspired by everything he isdoing with his life and what he stands for. He recently wrote a book called,“Right Now! Why Not You...And Why Not NOW?” where he not only helps youdiscover who you truly are, what you stand for, and how to go our execute thatmoving forward. What great questions to s...

What a great chat with the creator of the 7-Hour Book, Nick Raithel! Nick’s team is helping real estate agents all over the country get the recognition they deserve by assisting them develop their own professionally-published book in very little time. Who wouldn’t want to add the title ‘Author’ to their bio?! Do you have brilliant ideas rolling around in your head? We all have years of experience,...

With his own 400+agent brokerage and a recent nomination for a position at NAR, Jorge Guerra did not start out in this business at the top. He had to suffer in order to succeed,but he never gave up. Success is inevitable when you work hard for what you want.   Nothing in life is easy. Every agent starts at the bottom, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In order to succeed you must struggle, y...

What a pleasure finally connecting with Steve Jolly! We run in many of the same circles, it's crazy it took us this long to meet! As a marketing expert, Steve gives us a sneak peek behind his own marketing plan and how he builds and maintains relationships that lead him to more sales. Technology is a real estate agent’s marketing dream! The number of platforms available to agents for marketing the...

I am completely fascinated by what Billy Ekofo, lead manager at Century 21 Redwood in Virginia, is contributing to the real estate industry. Like so many before him, he was hesitant about becoming a real estate agent, but with a little push he took that leap of faith and we are grateful he did! He is the matchmaker of real estate connecting leads with the perfect agent. I think we all could use a...

It was an absolute pleasure speaking to Josh Anderson this week! He and his team are located in the Nashville, Tennessee area and they are KILLING it when it comes to agent referrals. Last year alone, they closed 48 transactions from agent referrals around the country. WOW! How do you get that many referrals from other agents? It helps when you live in a desirable area that many people are moving...

What do you get when you put three Italian real estate agents on the phone? A loud, passionate conversation where we all spill out AWESOME information at the same time! It was so fun chatting with multi-family investing experts Jake & Gino! These guys are kicking a** and taking names in the commercial real estate world! If you’re like me, I wouldn’t even know where to begin when it comes to multi-...

I took SO many notes while chatting with hiring expert,Christy Grossman. Now there’s a woman that knows how to hire and train a GREAT team! There comes a point in our business where we get so inundatedthat the only way we can continue to succeed at that next level is by hiring someoneto help us maintain it. Our tendency is to either hire the first person thatwalks by or the first person we hit it...

I think we all have a love/hate relationship, myself included, with Zillow. That’s what makes having Zillow’s own Jay Thompson as a guest on my show so valuable! Jay explained what Zillow brings to the table in terms of benefiting agents, consumers, and Zillow alike. The biggest problem most real estate agents have with Zillow is the fear they will take over the industry and make real estate agent...

As real estate agents, we all invest in some sort of individual marketing- from monthly mailers to daily posts on social media. Technology has provided real estate agents with SO many platforms and opportunities to market ourselves, but where do we even begin?!                                      Have you ever looked up a book on Amazon and then logged into Facebook the next day only to find that...

Feng Shui is something I have always been curious about, but never knew much about, which is why it was SUCH a privilege to have Feng Shui expert Steve Kodad as a guest on my show. As Steve said in our interview, “Feng Shui is a lot of commonsense and determining how people are going to react” - which is the essence of selling a home! The flow of the house, the smell, the lack of personal items th...