Lauren Mitrick Wood from OliveWell with Compass in Chicago is a third generation real estate agent and top 1% producer. In this episode Lauren points out how important it is to get involved in the real estate community and why giving back actually grows your business. Lauren shares her “Gift to Grow” philosophy and highlights why listening is the more important skill to master.

If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!

Lauren Mitrick Wood can be reached at 773.480.5078 and [email protected].

Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents. And for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris, I am your guide and host through the show. And in just a moment, we’re going to be speaking with Lauren metric wood. But before we get to Lauren, I want to remind everyone of two quick things. Number one, please tell a friend think of another real estate agent that you know that could benefit from hearing from top producers like Lauren and pass this podcast over to them. They can pull up any podcast app, do a search for keeping it real and they should find us or you can send directly to our website, keeping it real pod.com And by the way, we’re just about ready to launch a brand new keeping it real pod.com website so it’s gonna look a lot cooler and easier to find things and anyway, I’ll share it with you guys when I’m finished with it. We’re really really close. And the second thing we’d like you to do is also to follow us on Facebook find [email protected] forward slash keeping it real pod every single day we find an article online designed to help you grow your business and we publish it there and also we show the video feeds of all of our episodes you can watch in real time while we’re recording them so again find us on facebook.com forward slash keeping it real pod and now on to our interview with Lauren metric wood.

Today on the show we have Lauren metric wood from Olive well with Compass. Now if you don’t know Lauren and you’re in the Chicagoland area you probably do know Lauren but if you’re from outside of our area, I want to tell you a little bit about her. She is a Chicago native and also a third generation realtor who grew up in a real estate family. She started her career leasing residential units in downtown Chicago over 17 years ago. Lauren specializes in residential sales and works with a myriad of clients including first time homebuyers, sellers, renters, investors, and everything related to real estate needs in Chicago up thro...