Rise Up in Real Estate

When it comes to being recruitable, I want you to ask yourselves these questions: What is their motive? Why are they calling? Why did they call YOU? What is their offering? What was your mindset just before the phone rang? What do you want to have an effective business?   When you listen to the episode, we will break each of these down and help you see why these are important to ask ourselves. It...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest Vicki Durkin!   Vicki is a native of Swampscott, Massachusetts and has lived in 5 states total, landing in Myrtle Beach 8 years ago with her husband's job as a football coach for Coastal Carolina University. (CCU/Chants up!) She has a daughter, Rachel and a son, Ryan. She enjoys the engagement process of meeting new buyers and learning their needs and wants for their...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest Sammie Knight!   In this episode, we learn more about Sammie and his incredible journey to entrepreneurship. We talk about when business isn't going well, an individual is usually struggling or distracted in their personal life. We talk about the importance of building relationships and asking people about their personal life first. Sammie also shares with us a nugge...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guests Kristen and Megan!   Kristen Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Georgia Tech in 1996 with a degree in industrial & systems engineering. After several years as a change management consultant with Accenture, she joined her mom in real estate at RE/MAX Professionals.   Megan Wyatt, also born and raised in Atlanta, attended Presbyterian Co...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest, Lori White!    Lori started her career as a real estate paralegal, then began working for a builder and a developer, managing their respective closing departments. In 2009, her life-long dream of selling real estate full-time finally came true, and she's never looked back. Lori earned the ABR, SFR, SRES, RSPS, RENE, and CDPE designations, and her extensive backgroun...

Did you know that 87% of the people who get real estate licenses only have it for 5 years? That means only about 13% of real estate agents have stayed in the business for more than 5 years. So what makes those people rise to the top?   I get asked a lot in the real estate business, what characteristics does one need to have to be successful in the real estate industry? I have some great insight fo...

Rise Up Nation, meet our two guests Lindsay Benton and Marco Morales! Lindsay Benton is a true native of South Carolina and grew up in Conway, SC. She relocated to the beautiful city of Charleston to attend COFC for a Bachelors in Business Administration. While in Charleston she was a wedding intern at Tiger Lily Florist, serving at the notorious Hominy Grill. She graduated in 2018 and immediately...

In this episode today, I wanted to share with you two things to NOT do. The first one is don't live your life without an upper limit. Make goals. Have things you are working towards. The second one is don't compare yourself to other people. Theordore Rosevelt said, "Comparison is the thief of joy". The most important thing is figuring out what it is you want and then setting your own pace. Don't w...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest Bryan Steros! Prior to becoming a full-time real estate professional, Bryan spent over 20 years working in higher education fundraising. Those years helped him develop the much needed interpersonal skills for building relationships and engaging others. Finding the right property, or negotiating the right agreement can be a matter of being a good listener of conversat...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest Todd Stock!    Todd Stock is Broker/Owner with RE/MAX Results in Indiana.  Todd LOVES watching my kids play sports and spending time with my family and he loves to exercise. He loves cycling and working out, playing golf, and traveling with my wife and family.  He has two dogs, Ginger and Milo, who are his buddies and he goes on walks several times a week.  His famil...

Rise Up Nation, meet our special guest Pamela Krigbaum!   I cannot wait for you to listen to this episode as you hear some inspiring stories and life experience from a woman of many talents and who has been through a lot the last few years when it comes to her health. Her positive spirit and faith in God is contagious. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed chatting with Pam!  Pamela has...

Rise Up Nation, meet our special guest Colin Stevens! Colin is an author, coach and speaker who currently lives in the Myrtle Beach, SC area by way of Baltimore, MD. Colin is a true entrepreneur with several businesses and is a great friend. His first book, Coachable is a worthwhile read and his soon to be released second book Make Your Mark defines the way he chooses to live his "let's speak up a...

Rise Up Nation, meet our guest Jeremy Blanton! Jeremy is a long time Myrtle Beach real estate agent from Pennsylvania...go Eagles he would say...that is most known for his social influence, especially his YouTube success! He has gone from 0 to 4,200 YouTube subscribers in a relatively short time and also has a remarkable amount of hours of content consumed on a daily basis there. Isn't that the dr...

At Rise Up in Real Estate, we are on a quest!  We are looking for the "extra" in the ordinary. We are on an honest search to try and discover what makes ordinary people extraordinary. We all are, in fact, so at Rise Up, we are going to dig and try and find it! Exactly how can we be "extra" in our personal and professional lives? In Season One of the Rise Up in Real Estate adventure, there will be...