The Carson Collective

What do unexpected trailheads and $2 million houses have in common?⁣ This week on the podcast I talk about how while we CAN choose what our goals are we don’t always get to choose HOW to achieve them.⁣ It’s time to take your road less traveled.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

This week I wanted to take the conversation back to reflecting on our personalities and behaviors and dive into how introverts can actually THRIVE in the real estate industry.

As someone who is naturally reserved, I had my doubts around whether my personality would fit into an industry that seemed to be made exclusively for my extroverted counterparts.

I soon came to realize that these inherent traits of mine wouldn’t keep me from being successful and I was able to implement a strategy for expanding my network that was both efficient and impactful to my business.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

Welcome to Real Estate Meets Real Life: the millennial guide to the modern day market.

This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with the fabulous Kim Douglas, a fellow Realtor and host of the incredible Boston-based podcast What Moves Her.

During this episode we discuss our personal journeys, our podcast inspirations, some of our favorite professionals in the industry, social media strategy, and everything in between.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry.

How do you manage a non-committal client with unrealistic expectations? This week on the podcast I dive into the my four-step approach to cultivating positive and productive relationships with your ideal clients, as well as what you need to do to ensure that you cross the closing finish line together.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

This week Taylor Perkins (@askheraboutmortgages) joins me to talk about the financing portion of the home buying process as well as her career journey so far working as a loan officer.

What sort of lending programs are available to you as a home buyer? What is the biggest mistake that first-time buyers make? What surprises Taylor most about this industry?

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

This week on the podcast, this Jersey girl gets into what it’s like trying to find your place in a new city, and how home is more than just the four walls that surround us.

During my 20’s different elements of the places where I lived made me feel at home up here in Boston – whether it was the perfect slice of pizza, an easily accessible grocery store, or the soft sounds of a piano floating down the street on my afternoon walks with Bailey.

So, click your heels together three times because there’s no place like home.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

On this week's episode of the podcast I am finally reunited with my younger sister, Erin Ludlow (@erinluds005), after four and a half months apart. Erin is joining us all the way from New York and is giving us the scoop city living. From neighborhood perks to finding a roommate, Erin walks us through the ins and outs of urban life, providing listeners with takeaways that transcend geographic boundaries.

Whether you're in New York or Boston, from the Midwest or the West coast, you won't want to miss out on all that we discuss.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

This week I talk about the ‘new normal’ within the real estate industry and how there are some changes that I believe will endure as we move into a new era and others that will revert back to their ‘pre-pandemic’ state.

Home offices, migration, and inventory shortages.  No matter how you swing it, we are navigating a new normal.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

This week I dive into how over the past year my sole focus was to develop a system to cultivate and live by, what I called, a ‘winning mindset’ which would allow me to achieve my biggest goals while still maintaining mental, physical, and spiritual health.

I used to believe in grinding it out with that “no pain no gain” mentality across ALL aspects of my life. And guess what happened to me? I ended up overtired, overworked, and overweight.

Tune into this episode to learn the FIVE changes I made to my life in order to achieve my loftiest personal and professional goals to date while operating at the apex of health and success.

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.

On this week's episode of Real Estate Meets Real Life I talk about creating your own luck and give you five different avenues for you to venture down in order to not only sustain your business, but actually GROW your business right now. You can implement any of these strategies from the comfort of your own home with little to no up-front cost. Give it a listen, and get growing!

If you love this podcast please let me know either by rating the podcast, sharing it with friends and family, or sending me a note on Instagram, @erica.carson.realtor. I always love hearing back from people whether its clients, fellow agents, or other professionals in the industry. Any feedback that you provide allows me to create a stronger community and allows us to grow together.