Happy New Year!!   It has now been 2 years since my business partner and I made the decision to move our businesses and our team to Real.   We’ve learned so much during that time.   In today’s very vulnerable and authentic episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast … including going deep on the numbers … I’m sharing an update of how the last 2 years have gone for us. What has changed in our business, and more.   I’m also sharing why this episode was originally supposed to run at the beginning of December (our anniversary is December 1st) but was pulled at the last minute. That whole story is included in the introduction.   You can listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.  

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Do you choose a word of the year?   I’ve done this as a guiding light and principal for myself for nearly a decade now.   On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast (and our last episode of 2024!), I’m sharing not only my 2025 word of the year, but also why choosing a word of the year can be impactful for you, why (and when) I started choosing a word of the year, a history of the words I’ve chosen, AND the brand new strategy I used this year to help me to identify and lean into my word.   If you are a word of the year person, I think you will really love this episode.   Listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.  

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It’s that time of year … winter is coming, and not just the official first day of winter this weekend, but metaphorical winter in your business.   Chances are you’ve not just taken your foot off the gas in your business this holiday season, but you’ve probably slammed on the brakes too.   If you don’t have a plan to get back to it … or better yet, a plan that prevents you from being on the real estate roller coaster over and over again … it will be spring before your business gets back on track. And nobody can afford that.   On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m talking through how to make it through winter, and how to get off the real estate roller coaster too.   Listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.  

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It’s that time of year … not just holiday time, but time to review your business and your life and to set your goals for the new year!   This is truly a time and a process that I love. The time that I have invested here over the past 2 decades has truly been transformative for my life and my businesses.    On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I am sharing a few things with you …   1) How you can follow my process and do your review and goal setting with me this year! The first time we’ve offered this publicly in many years. 2) The tools that I use. 3) What you need to do and focus on if you want to DIY it.   Don’t skip out on this … 2025 you will thank today you!   You can listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.  

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Have you set your goals yet for 2025?   Are you feeling bad about some 2024 goals that went unfinished?    Let me tell you a little secret … I can’t remember a year where I didn’t have unfinished goals! Some are meant to leave behind, some take more than a year, and some are a “not right now”, and that’s okay!   On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing my tips for how to handle your unfinished goals, including the one I keep carrying over. Again and again and again.   Listen in on your favorite podcast app or by clicking the link below.  

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Gratitude. It’s something we say a lot, but how often do you actually *feel* it? As in take the time to actually feel grateful for all the goodness in your life?   Today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is all about it, as is our tradition every year at this time.   On today’s episode I am sharing specifically what I am grateful for right now in my life and business … and I hope it inspires you to share what you are grateful for too.   Will you message me or share it in the comments below?   You can listen in on your favorite podcast app or by clicking the link below.

 

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There is more than one way to be successful in real estate.   The traditional path that has been laid out for all of us … on a team, solo agent, team leader or broker … isn’t the only way. I am living proof of that having been or currently having a multitude of creative roles in the industry.   On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I have two things for you …   First, a quick recap of Reinvention Roadmap, the 4th Annual Empowering Women in Real Estate® Conference. This year’s even was truly our best, and my absolute favorite.    Second, I’m sharing with you a behind the scenes recording of my conference keynote presentation, Consistent Real Estate Success: Strategies for Every Stage. In this presentation I talk through the evolution of my real estate career, as well as the strategies that have helped me to be consistently successful at each stage. From new agent, to established agent, to starting over, to referral agent.    Listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below!  

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No matter how long you have been in the real estate industry, chances are you have had to get creative a time or two.   Whether it is getting creative to get a deal done, seeking out creative options with lenders or vendors to serve your clients, or just getting creative in your marketing or how you go about finding clients.   What I think a lot of us are not creative in doing is in how we run our businesses. There are far more options and choices available to us than I think we realize. If I haven’t had the opportunity to experience some of these myself, I’d have no idea.   Running a successful real estate business isn’t just based on selling houses. There’s property management, investing, flipping, the creator economy (getting paid to teach/share what you know), and so much more.   Recently I had the opportunity to speak on a panel at D3, the annual conference for my local association, the Dulles Area Association of Realtors. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I am sharing my thoughts as well as the recording of that presentation.   You can listen in on your favorite podcast app or by clicking the link below.  

 

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How do you know when to quit something?   Whether it is your real estate career (spending more than you are making) or something else, I think we all hit this crossroads at one point or another in our lives.   Maybe it’s not that you need to quit something, maybe you are just finished. As in, you have finished what you started. You have reached completion on whatever it is. I think that is a beautiful way to look at it.   Whatever the case may be for you, or whatever you are debating right now, I think you will find today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast to be helpful.   You can listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.  

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Take a deep breath for a second …   Are you feeling overwhelmed? Feel like you are letting people down? Feel like you are being pulled in a thousand different directions? Are you trying so hard to be all things to all people, but you end up feeling like you are failing left, right and center instead?   This episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is for you. And me. Part pep talk, part therapy session.   Protecting your peace means getting clear on your priorities and what is most important to you, then applying boundaries and “fulfillment overlap” where you can.   I’m sharing it all in today’s episode. You can listen in on your favorite podcast app, or by clicking the link below.

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