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Marketing Lessons From MLMs: Get Rid of the Emo...
What are the critical boxes our marketing content has to check? How do we succeed when the marketing landscape is always shifting? In this episode, I’m joined by CEO and Founder of Ezzey Digital Marketing, Michael Hamburger. He talks about the mentality we need to have about marketing, and how working in MLMs prepared him for the industry.
51 min
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Scarcity Brain: Why We Do What’s Bad for Us and...
Why can't we escape the things that are bad for us? What can we learn from other parts of the world about doing what’s good for us? In today’s Book Club, we’re joined by speaker, professor, and New York Times bestselling author of Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter. He talks about the book, the research that inspired it and interesting insights about habits - good and bad.
55 min
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The High EQ Agent: How to Use the Most Underest...
How do we increase our emotional intelligence and how can we apply it to the transaction more effectively? Today, Houston top producer, Nina Patel shares the power of adding a high EQ to your toolbox as a real estate professional.
19 min
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Self-Work and Massive Business Growth Go Hand i...
There are two sides to growth, achievement and success - strategies and tactics as well as mindset and self-work. You can know what to do, but not be emotionally, mentally and spiritually prepared for it. This is why the real conduit to business growth is knowing yourself and what makes you tick.
35 min
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“Industry Orphans”: No One Builds Things for So...
The real estate industry has always given people the ability to build a business on their own terms…unless you’re a solo agent who wants to remain that way.
32 min
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4 Business Killers You Have to Cut Out Before I...
Today, we’re going to discuss the 4 business killers, how they manifest and how to prevent and address them.
20 min
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Real Estate Recruiting Machine: How to Double Y...
The secret to growing a real estate team can be summed up in 4 words: people move the money. If you’re a team leader or broker owner looking to add more transactions to your bottom line, you can’t avoid adding to your agent count.
24 min
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Be Willing to Suck First: Why You Can’t Be Grea...
The journey of getting better as a business owner, and a person for that matter, involves a lot of humbling moments, learning curves, curiosity and a ton of improvements. As soon as we become okay with that, we unlock our next level of growth. We’re ultimately in the self-improvement business disguised as a real estate business. How do we commit to constant growth and improvement? Today, fellow Phoenix agent, Angela Gordon talks about how she’s growing her business by improving herself.
69 min
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Frontload the Work: The Secret to Going Further...
Real estate may have had its stormy period, but things are really close to being good again. Knowing all this, why are both real estate and mortgage bleeding over 40% of agents and loan officers?
43 min
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Always Account for Dumb Luck: The Story of Grou...
We can attribute getting into this business and succeeding in it to the different agents and entrepreneurs who advised us. Now we get to give back to the same community and show people that there are many different ways to succeed in this business.
48 min
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Morgan Housel’s Money Mindset: Live a High-End ...
Today, we’re joined by the bestselling author of The Psychology of Money and Same As Ever, Morgan Housel. He shares money mindsets that get us in trouble and how to shift away from them.
54 min
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The 2mm Shifts That Will Take You From Mediocre...
If we’re looking to level up, implementing these 2mm changes can lead us to everything we want in business and life. Today, peak performance coach Kamille Rose Taylor shares the small shifts that can change everything.
61 min
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The NAR Settlement is Actually Good News For Ou...
The NAR buyer’s agent litigation has been a huge topic and concern for agents across the country for months. Now that the lawsuit has been settled, there’s a lot of panic, knee-jerk reactions, assumptions and worries about what it means. Are we in trouble? Should we be worried about our future? No.
33 min
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How Pace Morby Built a $450 Million Portfolio W...
In today’s episode, we’re joined on stage at NLA Live by mega-investor and creative dealmaker, Pace Morby. With everything that’s been going on in the real estate market, this has to be one of the best times for creative finance and methods like sub-to and seller finance. As real estate professionals, we have front row access to these deals. Understanding the mechanics of these kinds of deals is key to success, and who better to learn from than Pace?
83 min
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Stop Being An Optimist: The DNA of a Dominant A...
The wealthy are paid for their expertise, the lowest paid are compensated for their time. How do we position ourselves as experts? How do we use marketing to craft the unique home selling offer that makes domination automatic? Curtis Johnson shares the key strategy to winning in this market.
34 min
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3 Simple Leadership Strategies to Grow Your Bus...
The better you get in your life, the better your business gets. How can an organization provide everything people need to succeed and they still fail? One person can take a strategy 100 miles and another can take the same strategy and only push it for 2 feet. That’s because the majority of success is based on our psychology.
49 min
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Good Ideas Are Killing You: The One Business Be...
Owning a brokerage is a doorway to many great things, but what happens when that starts to hinder your excellence in the areas you really care about? That’s where Keith Riddle found himself. After becoming an indie brokerage owner, almost by accident, he realized he didn’t have to control everything to be successful.
35 min
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Signs of a Messed Up Mindset & How to Start Thi...
Today, Chris Bowers and I discuss this and the power of challenging our thoughts and mindsets.
41 min
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The Brutally Simple Reason Why You’re Not Profi...
Profit - it’s the whole entire point that we run businesses. For such a critical, and even fundamental topic, agents will talk about everything else but whether or not they are making a profit, and there’s a reason.
47 min
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Hiring Screw Ups That Are Definitely Tanking Yo...
In the conversation about scaling our real estate businesses, systems come up a lot, but that’s not the first and most important thing. Systems come a distant second to people, because ultimately, how can we step out of specific roles and tasks if we have no one to hand them off to?
34 min
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Steal These Investing Ideas From Warren Buffett...
Today, Brian goes through his top takeaways from taking a deep dive into these investor newsletters.
51 min
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People want to be shocked! Chris Igoe On the Ul...
Anytime an agent gets an appointment from a cold call, it’s like walking into a war zone. They don’t know you, like you or trust you, so they aren’t exactly warm and fuzzy when you go and meet them…unless they’ve already viewed a ton of your...
46 min
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From Ideation to Implementation: The Real Estat...
In real estate, agents, teams and business models don’t fit in one box, but we constantly fall into the trap of doing things one specific way. People start teams because it’s the next indicated step, what everyone else is doing or an ego boost,...
45 min
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Justin Nelson On Overcoming Leverage Limiting B...
We may not see it this way, but real estate isn’t as risky as we think. In fact, in many ways, we’re conditioned against taking risks, and that’s why leverage is such a hard concept for the majority of our industry. Think about the restaurant...
33 min
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Ben Kinney On Mastering Boredom, Market Predict...
“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” On any given day, we’re walking a tightrope between success and failure, but when we’re in a good market and a time of abundance, we don’t see how thin that line is....
47 min