The Justin Landis Show: Helping Atlanta’s Top Realtors Build, Grow, and Scale

Kristin Klingshirn spent fourteen years as co-host of The Bert Show, one of Atlanta's most listened to morning radio programs, after building her radio career from setting up sound equipment in Cincinnati to overnight shifts in Lexington to mornings in Raleigh.  When Burt retired last October, Kristin launched The Kristin Show with a staff of two instead of eleven. In this episode, part one o...

Eric Bramlett founded Bramlett Partners in Austin in 2012, growing it slowly and deliberately from one agent to 156, all required to have done at least $5M in production before joining.  In this episode, Justin and Eric talk through that growth arc, a goal-setting framework borrowed from Bill Gates, and Eric's deep work in AI, including a full staff management dashboard he built himself throu...

Matt Simonds had five sales his first year in real estate while building relationships that took longer to pay off than a scoreboard shows. Eight years later, he is one of Bolst's top agents, with access to off-market listings other agents never hear about, a tight-knit mastermind group that meets monthly, and a marketing strategy built around LinkedIn instead of Instagram. In this episode, M...

Kyle Marshall spent twenty years in ministry, the last ten running a campus ministry at Emory University. He spent eighteen months figuring out what came next, seriously considered becoming a history teacher, and then on the drive home from a house showing realized real estate might be the answer. He was licensed in weeks. Twelve months later he had helped seventeen clients. In this episode, Kyle...

Casey Dellinger said yes to everything for four and a half years and had one of the best first years any JLG agent had ever had. Then it started to cost her. In this episode, she and Justin talk through what that approach built, when it stopped working, how she and husband Billy managed two new businesses at once, and what she built in its place: a business structured enough that she can spend 45...

Kris Willis built his real estate career the way it came naturally: showing up wherever people gathered, saying yes spontaneously, and never once pitching real estate. Bourbon tastings, birthday parties, kickbacks, if it was happening, he was there. That approach, shaped by a decade of sales experience across Asia Pacific and an education from mentor Rich Richardson, made him one of Bolst's t...

Daniel Dorfman was a real estate agent and investor who built Invest With Roots, a Reg A fund that lets anyone invest in real estate starting at $100. But the model goes further than fractional investing: renters in Roots properties earn rewards for paying on time, reporting maintenance issues, and renewing leases, with those rewards going directly into their own investment accounts. The fund owns...

Jonathan Rich graduated college with an elementary education degree, spent his twenties fronting rock & roll bands, and bought his first house to flip in 2007 with $30,000 borrowed from his parents. The market crashed. The house did not sell. He moved into it with a six-month-old and called it the Flip That Flopped. Not to give anything away ... but Jonathan turned that into becoming one of At...

Erika Brown left a six-figure banking career, bought a house with a dirt crawl space in the historic West End, rented out the basement, and used the income to stop living paycheck to paycheck. Within a year of becoming a real estate agent she had also bought an investment property. Ten years later she owns over five million dollars in real estate, runs an investment coaching program with a nationa...

Rachel Reynolds has spent 12 years as Director of Marketing at the Atlanta Mission, the oldest and largest provider of homeless services in Atlanta. She serves around 800 men, women, and children every night across four campuses, and she has watched the face of homelessness change dramatically in that time. In this episode, Justin and Rachel trace the origin story of the 90 and 90 campaign, the ca...

What if the loudest version of success in real estate is not actually the one worth chasing? In this episode of The Justin Landis Show, Justin sits down with Jeff Shinabarger, founder of Plywood People and fractional Chief Purpose Officer at Bolst, for an honest conversation about what it means to build a career that actually means something. Jeff spent 17 years cultivating a community of purpose-...

Ben Riekhof spent 10 years as a high school French teacher before stepping into real estate. His first year in the business, he winged it. His first year at JLG, everything changed. Now serving as Bolst's and JLG’s Director of Training, Ben has built a curriculum that tackles the two biggest challenges facing new agents at once: learning the job and building a business. In this episode, Justi...

April Williams walked away from nearly a decade in higher education to become a real estate agent in Atlanta. No business background. No local database. Just a question from her trainer that stopped her cold: How many people do you know in Atlanta? That question became the foundation of everything. On this episode of The Justin Landis Show, April breaks down exactly how she built her business from...

Enya Absi came into real estate with five jobs, no systems, and a goal to close five houses in her first year. She closed 18. Before joining Justin Landis Group at Bolst, Enya studied business at McGill, law at the University of Edinburgh, and worked in music industry legal affairs in London. She ended up in Atlanta in 2020 when COVID stopped everything and she never left. In this episode, Justin...

What does it actually look like to build a real estate career from the ground up, through a market crash, at 20 years old, with no roadmap? Jarrod Thomas knows. He and Justin Landis go back to 2008, when Jarrod came on as a summer intern right as the housing market hit rock bottom. In this episode, Jarrod traces the full arc of his career, from writing up contracts at Starbucks and turning on util...

Justin sits down with Rich Richardson, his real estate mentor, co-founder of Bolst, and founder of Team Rich Richardson, to talk about what it really takes to build a lasting career in real estate. From leaving Chick-fil-A to surviving the dot-com crash and navigating the 2008 market downturn, Rich shares the mindset, values, and hard lessons that shaped his 23-year career. They dig into what make...

In this episode, Justin sits down with one of his business partners, Ashton Ernst Ballard, to talk about her journey from working three jobs in retail and fitness to becoming one of Atlanta's top-producing listing agents. Ashton shares how she moved to Atlanta knowing no one, transferred her real estate license on a whim, and bet everything on a business with no safety net and no plan B. She...

In episode one, Justin Landis shares his personal, unfiltered story behind two of Atlanta's most recognized real estate brands. From borrowing $4,000 from his grandmother to flip his first house, to losing everything in the 2008 crash, to rebuilding from scratch by meeting one person a day for coffee, Justin takes you through every turn. You'll hear how a single question from his broker...

The world doesn’t need more noise. It needs better guidance. We started 'The Justin Landis Show' because we’ve been fortunate to learn from incredible leaders, and we believe that kind of wisdom should be shared. Each week, we’ll bring you conversations with agents, experts, and partners who care about building real relationships, sustainable businesses, and meaningful careers in real es...