If you are creating a brand, the most important thing you can be is authentic. Today we are talking to Nick Woodard about what it to means to be authentic and to reflect that in your business. Resource Check Out Nick’s Website Real Estate Marketing Dude The Listing Advocate (Earn more listings!) REMD on YouTube REMD on Instagram Transcript: What’s up? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome with our episode of the Real Estate Marketing Dude podcast. Folks, we’re going to chat about today is the only thing you should be focused on in 2024, because I was like, What are you going to do in markets? 00:04:04:08 – 00:04:21:19 Unknown Strange thing. What new shiny objects coming out next? What kind of work? I buy more leads. Work? I do this. No, dude, just need to start being more of yourself. You you need to be authentic before you could ever start marketing or attract anybody online. If you have any bit of like fakeness or bullshit about yourself, you’re in turn people off. 00:04:21:19 – 00:04:41:24 Unknown And today’s entire show is going to be dedicated towards one thing Authenticity. How do you become more authentic? Authentic? How do you become more authenticity? How do you become more authentic? So I think Nick here reached out to me maybe on Instagram, if I’m not mistaken, or maybe it’s Facebook, I forget which platform, but he’s been listed in the show for quite a while. 00:04:41:24 – 00:05:03:17 Unknown Appreciate that. But you know what? He really massages like my ability to show for a while. And this guy’s been an agent for 20 years in a bar was six or seven years ago. He says he stopped he stopped being that perfect, perfect like Barbie doll and all type of an age it right? Like the stereotypical fucking person. 00:05:03:17 – 00:05:20:20 Unknown Hello. I’m here for real. Say you write your name tag and everything, right? Perfect. Suit. Your socks are perfect. You’re driving the car. You might have rented it from a friend just for the day, just to do showings. Right. But you put on that front. We’ve all been there and he stopped caring. He just said, Fuck it. I’m going to go out and be myself. 00:05:20:21 – 00:05:35:09 Unknown And we’re going to hear story today. We have have not dug into this or you to hear it live with me here. We haven’t practice this or anything like that. And he said, Mike, once I stopped giving a shit, I started business, took off, I started being myself. So the first thing I do is I go to his website. 00:05:35:09 – 00:05:55:18 Unknown I want you guys, if you guys are online, go visit his website and keep him in mind for your referrals because you’ll be in good hands. But without further ado, we want to go ahead and introduce Mr. Nick Woodard from Middle Tennessee. What’s up, Nick Paton And dude, good to be on here. I’m a friend. Yeah, forever. Thanks for coming on. 00:05:55:20 – 00:06:10:06 Unknown Do people want to hear your the story? I like I love these shows because you take something and you actually run with it. And I want to just hear the whole story is like from start to finish. I think people are going to get a lot out of it and you guys have to learn how to connect with people online. 00:06:10:06 – 00:06:29:02 Unknown And it’s just like you connect with your neighbor, you connect with people at church, restaurant bars, whatever you do, I don’t care. The same way you connect with people one on one face to face and same way you connect with them online. But it’s very difficult to do that when you’re really not in your own true skin. And my first question I have for Nick is, Nick, how long were you in real estate? 00:06:29:04 – 00:06:51:02 Unknown All you time. Overall, I’ve been in it for 20 years. It’s now growing here just south of Nashville, Middle Tennessee. And I went to high school here, went to went to college at MTSU, and then got into real estate because it was kind of a family thing. And that’s that’s what I was going to do until I figured out what I wanted to do.