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Spend any time with Linda Aaron (Aka Skynnard - we FINALLY hear THAT story!) and you'll immediately fall in love with her generous spirit, her love of life and her commitment to her agents! Linda serves as the Training Director and Operations Coordinator for the very large and successful company Coldwell Banker Bain/Seal in Seattle, WA.
Linda has had to reinvent herself a few times over the years and it's always fascinating to hear how someone landed in real estate... Linda's story focuses on abundance; life transition and reinvention, photography (Check out her photography blog Skynnard's Lens to view her amazing photos) and the love of learning! (Probably why she makes such an awesome Trainer!)
Linda says on the topic of reinvention: "Even though we are an industry trying to attract young people there will always be older people coming into RE as a second career and we need them - they bring a life experience." (TWEETABLE!) I couldn't agree more!
Here's one of the FEW pictures I have with Linda (with Anne Jones, in NYC for Inman Connect January 2014 - Thanks to Heather Ostrom for taking the pic!)
Hope you enjoy this CTM as much I did! And reach out to Linda on Twitter @Skynnard~ She's the bomb! :)
http://youtu.be/C2U9e4V6zJ4
Announcer:You are listening to "Conversations that Matter," with your host, Teri Conrad.
Teri: Welcome to Conversations that Matter. I'm Teri Conrad, and I am here with Linda "Skynard" Aaron, who works for CB Bain down in Seattle. You are Director of Training, I believe, is your title?
Linda: Yes.
Teri: For all of CB Vain: how many agents do you have?
Linda: We have, just over 1,000, about. I think we're at 1,046 right now. The number fluctuates, depending on what's happening with the market, of course.
Teri: Huge company. I have been a fan, and have done some contract work with your company over the years. Actually, I was just tracking back to when you and I met, and that goes back to Agent Reboot: I think 2010.
Linda: 2010.
Teri: That's four years ago now.
Linda: I know. We have a history. It's so funny to me how time goes so fast like that. You think back to, "When did I do that," and it's like, "Wow, four years." It was right about the time I went over to the corporate offices and was working in the training department with, at that time, Deborah Trappan, who since moved on. Then I raised my hand and said, "I want training." So –
Teri:You got it.
Linda:They gave it to me. Yeah.
Teri:We're going to delve into that a lot, but let's start at the very beginning. First question I have to ask, right out of the gate, is: where did Skynnard come from? What is Skynnard?
Linda: Oh, my gosh. It's a silly story. A very close friend of mine, [1:40], who is an agent with our company – in Seattle we call them brokers, but for this conversation, I'll call them agents so people know what we're talking about. She and I worked in the same office and became extremely good friends. We did some traveling together through the years, and we were fast and furiously trying to trim ourselves down for a European trip. We were going to go for two weeks, so we each had an alter ego named for our weight loss program that we were on, and our heavy duty power walking to get down so we could eat like fiends in Italy.
Teri: Brilliant.
Linda: Mine, because of the connection – I'm from the south and my southern roots, and a takeoff on my name was "Lynyrd," and so she started calling me "Lynyrd,
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Spend any time with Linda Aaron (Aka Skynnard - we FINALLY hear THAT story!) and you'll immediately fall in love with her generous spirit, her love of life and her commitment to her agents! Linda serves as the Training Director and Operations Coordinator for the very large and successful company Coldwell Banker Bain/Seal in Seattle, WA.
Linda has had to reinvent herself a few times over the years and it's always fascinating to hear how someone landed in real estate... Linda's story focuses on abundance; life transition and reinvention, photography (Check out her photography blog Skynnard's Lens to view her amazing photos) and the love of learning! (Probably why she makes such an awesome Trainer!)
Linda says on the topic of reinvention: "Even though we are an industry trying to attract young people there will always be older people coming into RE as a second career and we need them - they bring a life experience." (TWEETABLE!) I couldn't agree more!
Here's one of the FEW pictures I have with Linda (with Anne Jones, in NYC for Inman Connect January 2014 - Thanks to Heather Ostrom for taking the pic!)
Hope you enjoy this CTM as much I did! And reach out to Linda on Twitter @Skynnard~ She's the bomb! :)
http://youtu.be/C2U9e4V6zJ4
Announcer:You are listening to "Conversations that Matter," with your host, Teri Conrad.
Teri: Welcome to Conversations that Matter. I'm Teri Conrad, and I am here with Linda "Skynard" Aaron, who works for CB Bain down in Seattle. You are Director of Training, I believe, is your title?
Linda: Yes.
Teri: For all of CB Vain: how many agents do you have?
Linda: We have, just over 1,000, about. I think we're at 1,046 right now. The number fluctuates, depending on what's happening with the market, of course.
Teri: Huge company. I have been a fan, and have done some contract work with your company over the years. Actually, I was just tracking back to when you and I met, and that goes back to Agent Reboot: I think 2010.
Linda: 2010.
Teri: That's four years ago now.
Linda: I know. We have a history. It's so funny to me how time goes so fast like that. You think back to, "When did I do that," and it's like, "Wow, four years." It was right about the time I went over to the corporate offices and was working in the training department with, at that time, Deborah Trappan, who since moved on. Then I raised my hand and said, "I want training." So –
Teri:You got it.
Linda:They gave it to me. Yeah.
Teri:We're going to delve into that a lot, but let's start at the very beginning. First question I have to ask, right out of the gate, is: where did Skynnard come from? What is Skynnard?
Linda: Oh, my gosh. It's a silly story. A very close friend of mine, [1:40], who is an agent with our company – in Seattle we call them brokers, but for this conversation, I'll call them agents so people know what we're talking about. She and I worked in the same office and became extremely good friends. We did some traveling together through the years, and we were fast and furiously trying to trim ourselves down for a European trip. We were going to go for two weeks, so we each had an alter ego named for our weight loss program that we were on, and our heavy duty power walking to get down so we could eat like fiends in Italy.
Teri: Brilliant.
Linda: Mine, because of the connection – I'm from the south and my southern roots, and a takeoff on my name was "Lynyrd," and so she started calling me "Lynyrd,