The Agent Podcast

Meet Jorge Avila. Mortgage Lender. Realtor. Investor. Father of 8 children! OMG!!! Jorge and I dissect his knack for problem solving with his clients and how that has led him to where he is now with a growing business, portfolio and incredible family. Jorge shares his experience, knowledge and how starting in the lending arena has really enabled his game in real estate. We talk about knowing where...

Meet Yisbel Bera. Dedicated to helping others, Yisbel believes success is delivered through giving back and supporting people. Yisbel believes everyone should own a home and she has dedicated her career to make that happen. Based in Florida, Yisbel is with eXp Realty and has a background in coaching with John Maxwell. She is a mentor, a coach within her organization and believes in personal growth...

Meet Matt Wagner. Radio and TV EXPERT. If you want success, you have to be found. It's that simple. Matt shares how you have to be READY for the business. If business just turns on and you are NOT ready, you will fail. Let's start with a basic Google search. That is the first thing people will do, GOOGLE you. Play the consumer, nobody writes things down these days. You get GOOGLED. Imagine this, y...

Meet Chad Hyams, a.k.a. the Voice of Reason. He earned this title as he is known for telling it like it is with practical and easy to understand real life examples of designing your life. Chad has a real estate background that morphed into working with people to create their best life. In this episode, we unpack Chad's journey of starting as a buyers agent, moving to a listing agent and how t...

Meet Dan Rochon. An extremely self aware individual paving the way to help agents BE the best they can be simply by being HIS best self. He asks this question of himself constantly: "If yes, then how?"  Dan is an advocate for finding the role model that looks like you...actually A LOT like you. He went from NO sales to buying the brokerage he worked with in 12 MONTHS, writing a book on h...

Meet Josh DaSilva. Married to the military, Josh was constantly moving away from his SOI and starting over. Frustrated, he created a way of conducting his business while being away from his clients. Josh joined a team that had an operating model that allowed agents to leverage each other while ensuring everyone gets paid for their contribution. He's part of a mega team that has national reach and...

Meet Andrea Blum. Immigrating from Romania, she has designed an incredible life for herself and those surrounding her. She has not had an easy path and this episode is DEEP, EMOTIONAL and REAL!!! Andrea shares perspective we don’t really think about. What if you didn’t have food? What if you didn’t have heat? What if you weren’t safe? We dive into her journey of immigrating, becoming a successful...

Meet Oliver Borr. Started down the path of corporate marketing, he decided he would leverage marketing as a skill, in his own agency. With a passion for real estate, he decided to focus on serving real estate agents. As a marketer, Oliver was familiar with "duct taping" a million software systems together to try and create a marketing suite. SO, he decided to create "inabox” for real estate agents...

Meet Parker Stewart. Born into a family full of real estate professionals, Parker opted to focus on the digital side of real estate with the goal of building an investment portfolio long term. Parker caters his services to helping agents get found on social media. He has built his clientele by  helping them build their brand, expand their brand and show up authentically. We dive into building...

Meet Nick McLean. Commercial airline pilot to real estate agent. His journey started in March 2008 out of necessity and he’s built an incredible business out of survival. Nick found himself backed in a corner after his first year in real estate. With one transaction under his belt, starting a new career in real estate in 2009 during a housing crisis and having to make the decision to take the bus...

Meet Amanda Barba. Living in one of the most beautiful spots in California, Amanda is a real estate agent serving Santa Barbara and surrounding areas. At 19 years old, she is ignoring the naysayers shouting "Your to young for this game". She is dead set on success for a better life for herself and her family. We talk about her journey, how she got started, what she has learned and how she is const...

Meet Matthew Ablakan. Matthew asked a simple question in his teenage years: "How do people survive with a $30,000.00 a year income?". He realized as he unpacked this question, you cannot LIVE off this income. With zero financial support, he started learning about the different vehicles to build wealth.  After a deep dive into various options, he started to focus on real estate and has never l...

Meet Jim Remley. 32 years+ in the real estate business. Driven by creating, designing and building the life he wanted, Jim leads us through the roadmap to success. Jim dropped out of college at 19, took his first listing 60 miles away and had zero listings the first 6 months. However, he went from 0 - 150 the 6 months following! He attributes his success to pure dedication of self improvement and...

Meet Angel Thompson. From a deep, dark place of uncertainty, she and her husband found resilience and built a real estate business from below ZERO. Married to the military, one kid, second kid on the way, near fatal car accident…all within days of each other. Holy. Crap. Her and her husband run a KW Team and have figured out their real estate business. We dive into lead generation, scripting, post...

Meet Michael Salama. His first deal was $1M+, only to end up broke and struggling simply because he didn’t know…what he didn’t know… Michael found Ricky Caruth online, dove in with both feet and went from a transactional business to a relational business. He changed. His life changed. His business flourished. In this episode we go deep into actually building your business from zero. Implementing a...

Meet Mindi Huebner. Master Mindset & Strategy Coach. "Your brain deletes, distorts & generalizes based on what you believe, your THOUGHTS." We are going to unpack a lot in this episode. If you are struggling, frustrated, need to start over or just want to GROW...this episode is for you. I urge you to listen to this at least twice and REALLY take in what Mindi has to say. The quality o...

Meet Jazmin Morrison. A licensed real estate agent turned real estate support specialist. She is a full service admin and social media expert serving real estate professionals. She provides an a la cart admin service for her clients. Reoccurring tasks, database management, client marketing and so much more.  Authenticity matters. Jazmin is a huge proponent of being authentically YOU. She star...

Meet Robert McClure. Defined by his journey of an unbeaten path with failing out of business school, following in his Dad's footsteps as a cop and then going full time into real estate, Robert shares his inspiring story with us. We take a deep dive into the mentality of survival, living paycheck to paycheck, educating yourself, creating a path to success and designing your life. This is a fantasti...

Meet Cody May, Founder of Studio PTBO. Cody operates a marketing agency focusing on serving real estate professionals. His tactic is to provide both a front end and back end service to optimize success. This allows agents to focus on communication with clients to close more transactions. Cody and his team have built an infrastructure to help real estate pro’s create and build their brand, generate...

Meet Rainey Emerick. A real estate agent pushing through ADHD and Anxiety to her best self. Rainey runs her real estate business and a transaction coordination business, helping other agents with their workload. We dive into real life challenges, how she structures her day, what it took to get to a referral only business, leveraging social media and how she built her business as an introverted age...

Meet Natalie Ridderbos. A Social Media expert helping real estate agents deliver value to their audience, consistently! Influenced by her families history of real estate investing, Natalie has always had an interest in the real estate community. She spent some time during the first half of her career in news broadcasting. A few short years ago, she pivoted her business to support real estate profe...

Meet Brad Van De Walle. In this episode Brad and I go deep into mental health, being authentic, dropping a lot of F' Bombs, opening up to people about who you are and sharing what is REALLY happening inside of you. Brad shares his history of panic attacks. Not just one here and there. DAILY panic attacks so bad that his clients had to drive him around to show them homes. I know, holy sh*t how does...

Meet Ashley Harwood. Real Estate Agent. Real Estate Coach. Introvert.  Ashley started as an agent in real estate, however found herself coaching introverted agents on how to build their business around their personality and double down on what makes them unique. She began her real estate career in 2013 and built a 6-figure business as a solo agent before launching Move Over Extroverts in 2018...

Meet Joe Scivoletti. A Connecticut based Real Estate Agent. Joe and I dive into his transition into real estate, mental health, personal growth, the power of self work and being authentically you for success. Joe's story is inspiring, full of wisdom and I promise you will learn many things from Joe, including strategies to manage your emotions in this business. At night, Joe drives a tractor/trail...

Meet Suzanne Britt. Suzanne is one of the most empathetic people I have ever met. She’s spent her career serving the consumers of real estate. With her start of bartending and working at a car dealership, she ended up in reverse mortgages. Curiosity got the best of her as she worked her way through the business and became a loan officer. From there, Suzanne jumped into home warranties and has neve...