Learn For 2.0 with Brandon DeVere

"How Committed Are You"

Dan has lost over 60lbs in less than 3 months and continues to lose more weight. 

In the process he is inspiring others, like myself to stay true to our commitments.

Thank you Dan for your inspiration.

Episode 025: "In Between The Before And After Photo"

Are you promising people something to join your team or brokerage?

If so, I hope you are following through on it.

Especially when they need it most.

Too many times I hear of agents getting "ghosted" after being promised the world

I believe very strongly in mindset.

I think we can talk ourselves into or out of a positive or negative mood.

Not saying that its easy... but it definitely is possible

“What if failure didn’t matter…”

Would you be likely to take more risk or simply continue what you’re doing?

This “F” word is quite possibly more powerful than the real one. This word has the ability to build up, break down, inspire and discourage.

Some welcome it, some learn from it, and some fear it.

The funny thing is, it is not in our nature to assign any value to failure. It is something we are taught and have to learn.

Think about it…

When we are babies, we don’t take our first step, fall down, call it quits and decide we will never walk. We get up, do it over and over again until we get it right

Actually, for pretty much the first decade of life we are colossal failures, many times over.

What is the result of those failures?

We learn, adjust, recalibrate. We find a way to make it work because we haven’t been taught yet that we “can’t” do something.

A study that I read awhile back stated that we learn more by the time we are 12 years old than we will for the rest of our lives.

The reason…

Experiment. Fail. Learn.

When we are young we are experimenting daily, almost everything we do is an experiment. The older we get the more we think we know so the less we experiment due to the fact we think we already know the outcome or that we might fail.

I was listening to well-known astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Joe Rogan podcast when he explained this further.

He told a story of a mother walking with her daughter through a parking lot after it had rained.

As he watched they approached a puddle and thought to himself, “please let her jump in that puddle, don’t rob this experiment from her”. Just before they reached the puddle the mother pulled her away from the puddle so that she didn’t get wet.

Tyson explained his disappointment that the little girl didn’t get to experience for herself why she shouldn’t have jumped in the puddle.

Should she had been able to conduct her experiment she would be able to decide herself if the ride home in wet clothes was worth it. She “knows” now that she shouldn't have done it but wasn’t given the opportunity to know WHY.

This can be applied to my 5 year-old son Camden last week.

He is so eager to help especially when we come home from the grocery store that he wants to bring everything in.

I came home with a 5-gallon jug of water that he wanted to bring in the house for me.

I knew he wouldn’t be able to lift it but I thought about what Tyson said and let him have his experiment. After several unsuccessful attempts he finally said “you can take it daddy, maybe I’ll do it when I get stronger”.

At 5 years old he just failed, for probably the 100th time that day but it didn’t faze him. He assessed that he needed more strength and figured at some point he would get it, enabling him to lift it.

Failure didn’t matter to him.

So what would you do if failure didn’t matter?

Would you decide to try out for “The Voice”?

Or

Write that screenplay you’ve always wanted to?

Or maybe even…

Quit your lucrative job in sales, become an urban farmer and eventually move to the “country” because your success has outgrown your facility like my good friend Roman.

If you operated as if failure didn’t matter, you might surprise yourself with what you’re capable of.

About a month ago weeks ago I decided to start this podcast.

Yesterday I noticed today that after 19 episodes I have 101 total downloads, minus how many times I downloaded my own episodes to hear how they sound. 

Not bad right? 

Well, if you are an avid podcast listener, you will know that statistically speaking, not only is this NOT good, it’s borderline pathetic. 

For example Joe Rogan averages about 3 Million downloads per episode. 

So that should put me around 57 Million downloads for my 19 episodes. 

Unfortunately I have come up just short, only missing the mark by 56,999,899 downloads. 

So close! 

Compared to Joe Rogan I am garbage and I should probably quit now before I continue to embarrass myself. 

This is true… only if I am solely interested in downloads. 

But that isn’t the case, my goal is to share stories and ideas that inspire others to become they best version of themselves possible. 

As I look at the very, very low number of 101 downloads, I am reminded of and focus on the number 1. 

The 1 message I woke up to this morning. 

“Hi Brandon Just reaching out to tell you how your consistent posts of positivity and support of the intimate topics so many are hesitant to touch on, that you have brought so much power and strength to, is so amazing. I am so proud of you Brandon. Keep doing what your'e doing.” 

This is what matters to me, not the downloads. 

It’s ALL about… 

“The Connection" 

How quickly it can ALL change…

I have to admit, yesterday I was in a “funk”. Things weren't going as planned and while little things started to stack on each other, I became less and less optimistic.

Needless to say, I didn’t have a very productive day and it was nobody’s fault but my own.

I’m sure you’ve heard the saying…

“Life is 10% what happens to us, and 90% how we react to it”

Yesterday was a perfect example of that statement.

But like I said, it is funny how quickly things can change.

After coming off a down day, a day that for the lack of a better term, sucked.

This morning I ended up on a video share meeting with my real estate agent partners in Utah, and just like that, I was back on top, ready to go.

There is something about teamwork and collaboration that gets me fired up.

I don’t know if it is from the years of playing team sports or what, but when I see a group of people come together, it just fires me up.

Especially when I get to be a part of it.

As we sat there sharing thoughts and ideas on how we could continue to get our strategies in front of agents who are ready to start treating their real estate business, like an actual business rather than just “selling homes”, we started coming up with some amazing ideas.

Some were brand new and others have been in the works for a while.

Either way, it was able to get me out of my “funk” and validate how important the system I am creating is.

The earlier agents start to realize that they’re going to need to add to their existing arsenal when it comes to ways to generate revenue streams the better off they will be.

And the longer they will be able to last in the industry.

That is why I am planning for it now. So when they make the transition, I can help make it as easy as possible for them.

It is kind of unusual that I am building something that agents don’t even realize that they need yet.

But knowing that it will be something that can help them in a way they never thought possible before, now that, is…

Why I’m Excited For The Future" 

“Frustration" 

Why are we always sold on how great everything is? 

Rarely ever does anyone share the struggles of what it takes to get where you want to go. 

It is always a before and after photo. 

Either after losing 30lbs or a rags to riches, “how I went from selling 1 home per year to this photo of me standing next to a private jet” 

I get that everyone loves an underdog story, I’m no different. I love seeing people overcome obstacles too. 

But the disservice to those watching is that they are filled with false hope and beliefs that it happens overnight. 

It doesn’t prepare them for the true struggle they are about to embark on. 

That is why I started the “Learn For 2” podcast. 

To document the journey I am on to help real estate agents transition into the next stage of their career, and do it comfortably. 

Part of the process for me to do this is to create a system that can be duplicated by any agent that is ready to come onboard. 

As I have seen it used in other industries, I have yet to see it in the real estate industry. 

That means I have a limited amount of people that I can emulate, also meaning, I will have to take the brunt of the trial and error. 

But, this is something that I signed up for.  

I know there are going to be ups and downs during the process and I’m ready for them. 

The past few weeks have been mostly filled with “ups”. Since starting the podcast I’ve gone from 45 partners to partnering with 57 agents from around the country and Canada. 

And… it has been awesome! 

But as I continue to grow the team and put the processes in place to get this system as perfect and duplicatable as possible, I’m bound to run into some down days. 

Today is one of those days. 

Nothing seems to be going as planned. 

One of the major pieces to the system went down and I have been dealing with it, trying to get it fixed or I can’t efficiently communicate with other agents the way the system is designed. 

Then, an email comes across my phone that makes me feel like it is just taking too long, “Am I really that far behind?" 

“I want to move faster”  

Then the self-doubt kicks in, “Am I even good enough to make this work?”, putting me into a funk. Making it even harder to get anything done. 

In most cases I would have waited until I overcame this to share with others.  

Joking about how it wasn’t that bad and say, “Hey! everything is great now" 

But that goes against what this podcast is all about. 

If I only shared the highlights of the journey it wouldn’t be real, it wouldn’t be authentic. The struggles are just as important as successes when it comes to the growth throughout the process. 

Even though I’ve had a great few weeks in a row, every now and again I’m going to face a “down” day or 2. 

The important part is to keep going, and to not give in to the… 

Frustration  

“Community" 

Well… I’m back from a charity softball tournament from last weekend. And I’ll be honest, I didn’t play that great but it was still an awesome experience. 

This tournament started 16 years ago for a woman we called "Mouse" that I played with many years ago that was diagnosed with cancer, to help her live out her final days as comfortably as possible. 

The tournament has been named “The Mouseabout" 

Now, each year the money is raised to give to other recipients. 

This year there were two recipients that split over $15k in donations raised. 

I thought about this community that I grew up in and how amazing it is. 

It reminds me why I want to surround myself with people just like it, in both business and personal life. 

I want to have a community of people that have heart, drive, and vision. 

A community that is filled with people who want to lift each other up when they are down, and express gratitude when they are up. 

This community, my hometown, is the same one I spoke about when I spoke about my mother in episode 5. 

They are special. 

At one point while watching another game I saw one of the recipients talking to one of the players, Angela, who I also played with when playing with Mouse. 

The recipient looked at her and told her how grateful she was to be receiving these donations that we were raising. 

Angela then hugged her and said, “it was an honor to play for you”. 

I got chills when she said that, and have them as I write this. 

I too was honored to be a part of this and playing for her. 

Although we played a softball tournament, it was about more than that. 

It was much bigger than just a game. 

Yeah, our team struggled and were eliminated early, but just by being there we came out as winners. 

Experiencing this is a reminder that solidifies that I know I am on the right path as I build my own community. 

A community of builders and givers, that not only want success for themselves but also want to contribute to their tribe as we grow this thing together. 

I will never downplay the importance of… 

Community