What if the story holding you back could become the source of your next chapter?

Metro Atlanta Realtor Jeannie Sekulow Posner speaks with Craig Sotkovsky about mindset, entrepreneurship, cancer survivorship, and the lasting impact of September 11. Craig explains why false positivity is not enough and why changing the emotional relationship to an old story can open a different path forward.

Craig Sotkovsky is the author of Everybody Pays a Vig and the founder of Gro-Win Through Pain. In this conversation, he recounts watching the World Trade Center towers fall from Jersey City, volunteering at Ground Zero, surviving lung cancer, and preparing a cancer and mental health awareness tour for the 25th anniversary of September 11.

🎙 In this episode, you'll learn:

✔️ How to reframe a problem as an obstacle that can be addressed

✔️ Why internal change requires more than repeating positive thoughts

✔️ How a problem-solving mindset applies when a real estate deal starts to unravel

✔️ Why visible success can hide private pain and failure

✔️ How Craig turned difficult experiences into service

✔️ Why accountability starts with choosing to act for yourself

Key questions answered in this episode:

Q: How can someone stop being controlled by an old story?

A: Craig recommends identifying the story and working to release its emotional hold so it no longer defines current choices.

Q: Why is positive thinking alone not enough?

A: Craig says false positivity leaves the underlying expectation of failure unchanged. The work is to create a genuine internal shift.

Q: What is Growing Through Pain?

A: Craig describes it as a cancer and mental health awareness tour connected to the 25th anniversary of September 11.

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🎧 HOSTED BY: Jeannie Sekulow Posner | The Posner Property Perspective

👤 GUEST: Craig Sotkovsky – Author and founder of Gro-Win Through Pain

Craig Sotkovsky is an international speaker, mindset coach, and real estate investor with three decades of experience helping entrepreneurs reclaim their purpose. He inspires clients to break free from limiting beliefs and achieve authentic success, while also mentoring them in real estate investing as a pathway to financial freedom and legacy building.

⏳ Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:38 Craig Sotkovsky's path from real estate to resilience

01:13 How beliefs shape decisions

02:55 Why false positivity falls short

03:37 Detaching emotion from old stories

04:55 Mindset in today's housing market

06:15 How cancer changed Craig's entrepreneurship

07:42 Two survivors share a message of hope

08:33 The 25th anniversary awareness tour

09:16 Craig's September 11 experience

10:45 Turning adversity into purpose

13:43 Medical setbacks and resilience

16:46 A diagnosis is not a death sentence

18:01 Love yourself more

👉🏻 CONNECT WITH CRAIG SOTKOVSKY:

• Website: https://www.craigsotkovsky.com/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-sotkovsky-001/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craigsotkovsky/

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myyucatan/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/everybodypaysavig

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• Website: https://posnerproperty.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeannieSekulowPosner

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If you are rebuilding after a difficult chapter, listen for the practical distinction between thinking positive and becoming ready to act.

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Everybody wanted open concept in 2019. Then everybody got sent home.

Vera Blouin designs homes around spatial psychology, the study of how a space shapes your routines, your sleep and your relationships without you ever noticing it happening. Her read on what COVID did is that it forced a pause, and in that pause people finally saw the friction points they had been living around for years. The bedroom that was never actually a sanctuary. The layout with nowhere to close a door. Most of them went to Pinterest looking for a finish when the problem was structural.

Jeannie Sekulow Posner is an award-winning Metro Atlanta REALTOR known for her negotiation skills and her data-driven read on the local market. She brings this one to first-time homebuyers, families weighing a move, and clients rightsizing out of 3,500 or 5,000 square feet into 1,800, who assume the furniture will come with them and work. Between her Atlanta client work and Vera's room-by-room diagnostics, the conversation lands on how to tell whether a house will actually hold your life before you buy it.

Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

Guest: Vera Blouin

Vera Blouin is the Founder and Design Strategist behind BLOU INK, a residential design studio specializing in spatial strategy, spatial psychology, and identity-driven living across Dallas, Miami, and Atlanta. With over 15 years of experience in interior design and construction, Vera explores how homes influence human behavior, emotion, and daily routines. She is also the author of The Reincarnated Room and The Structure of Space.

What You'll Learn

• Decide whether open concept fits your family or just looked good online

• Diagnose why one room in your house sits empty before you spend a dollar on it

• Walk into a smaller home knowing which furniture is worth moving

• Ask the function questions that make house hunting in the Atlanta housing market faster

• Put your home office somewhere the workday stops following you upstairs

• Fix the lighting and sleep problems your bedroom has been quietly causing

• Get more out of a small space than you ever got out of a big one

• Plan an ADU that gives a parent or an adult child independence without the distance

Rightsizing, or standing in a house wondering whether it will fit your life? Reach out to Jeannie, and we'll see you at the closing table.

Connect with Vera Blouin

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blouink.studio/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verablouin

Connect with Jeannie Posner

• Website: https://posnerproperty.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeannieSekulowPosner

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posner-property-perspective/id1838544165

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1jyB81PnXvAJ7xvoCtZZZ4

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Insurance carriers used to approve roofs on a phone call. Now they're denying legitimate claims, and Brad Strawbridge explains why that flipped.

Five to seven years ago a wind-creased shingle got you a new roof. Then enough contractors figured out how easy that was that some of them started manufacturing the damage themselves, and carriers ran sting operations to prove it. Brad's read on where that left everyone: the correction went too far, and now homeowners with real damage are getting denied or worn down. His multifamily and commercial clients get something worse, notices pulled off historical satellite imagery telling them to replace a roof in 90 days or lose coverage, with nobody ever visiting the property.

Jeannie Sekulow Posner is an award-winning Metro Atlanta REALTOR known for her negotiation skills and her data-driven read on the local market. She brings this one to first-time homebuyers, homeowners weighing a flip, and sellers finding out mid-deal that some carriers now prorate replacement cost once a roof passes ten years. Between her Atlanta client work and Brad's residential and commercial operation across four markets, the conversation lands on what a roof actually costs you and how long it should have lasted.

Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

Guest: Brad Strawbridge

Brad Strawbridge is the Founder and CEO of Capital City Roofing, scaling it from a single truck to a multi-million, multi-location operation. A Forbes Business Council member, he also co-founded BuilderLync and chairs the Feeding the Future Project. He leverages his hands-on field experience to advise founders on building systems and scaling service businesses without compromising their people, standards, or purpose.

What You'll Learn

• Double the life of your roof with the twice-a-year schedule almost no homeowner gets offered

• Take a repair or a life extension instead of a full replacement and keep the difference

• Vet a roofing contractor before you let anyone up on your roof

• Push back on a coverage threat built from satellite imagery instead of a real inspection

• Build a photographic paper trail that still holds up ten years after your roof goes on

• Read a roof properly before you close on a home in the Atlanta housing market

• Catch the attic and ventilation problems standing between you and a healthy home

• Pick insulation that supports green living instead of cutting your roof's life in half

Connect with Brad Strawbridge

• Website: http://bradstrawbridge.com/

• Website: https://capitalcityroofing.net/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradstrawbridge

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brad.strawbridge.27

• LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/brad-strawbridge-75214615b

Connect with Jeannie Posner

• Website: https://posnerproperty.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JeannieSekulowPosner

• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-posner-property-perspective/id1838544165

• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1jyB81PnXvAJ7xvoCtZZZ4

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Liat Arama fired her property manager after reading her own P&L line by line. What she found is why she now manages 500 doors her own way.

She and her husband Guy both spent years at Microsoft before deciding real estate was the retirement plan that made sense to them. The properties came with beautiful pro formas. Her line for what happened next: "never met a pro forma." When she finally went through every transaction, she found inflated repair and maintenance charges and a travel nurse in a unit that should have held a long-term tenant. So she took over the work herself, and later built the service she wished she could have hired.

Jeannie Sekulow Posner is an award-winning Metro Atlanta REALTOR known for her negotiation skills and her data-driven read on the local market. She brings this one to first-time homebuyers, homeowners weighing a flip, and anyone in the Atlanta housing market doing the math on renting their house out instead of selling it. Between her Atlanta client work and Liat's 150-unit portfolio in Washington State, the conversation lands on the decisions that actually move a rental's bottom line.

Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

Guest: Liat Arama

Liat Arama is the CEO and Co-Founder of Keasy, a property management technology platform built on over 14 years of hands-on property management and real estate investment experience. She founded Keasy to modernize traditional property management through transparency, landlord control, and operational efficiency.

What You'll Learn

• Read your own P&L and catch the management decisions quietly costing you money

• Own rental property in another state without answering the phone at 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve

• Keep decision-making authority over your property instead of handing it to a manager

• Put renovation money where it moves the rent, and pick materials durable enough for a tenant

• Set aside for the roof and the HVAC before the bill arrives

• Decide whether to rent out or sell when you're holding a 3% mortgage

• See why a mortgage payment is not the same thing as negative cash flow

• Buy the property now that pays for a child's college later

Buying, selling, or deciding what to do with the house you already own? Reach out to Jeannie at https://posnerproperty.com/ and we'll see you at the closing table. Liat and Keasy: https://www.keasy.ai/

#PosnerPropertyPerspective #JeanniePosner #MetroAtlantaRealEstate #NorthAtlantaHomes #AtlantaRealtor #HomeBuying #GreenLiving #RealEstatePodcast #GeorgiaRealEstate #FirstTimeBuyer

🚀 In this inspiring episode of the Posner Property Perspective, host Jeannie Sekulow Posner sits down with Camryn Cisneros to discuss her incredible journey from military service to becoming a top real estate leader at eXp Realty. Camryn Cisneros shares how overcoming personal adversity, embracing authentic leadership, and building community through One eXp transformed her career and purpose. Learn why belonging, diversity, and relationships are the future of real estate success.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

👤 Guest:🏡 Camryn Cisneros – Manager of One eXp | Real Estate Leader

Camryn Cisneros is a real estate professional and Manager at ONE eXp serving Greater Oklahoma City. A U.S. Army veteran, Camryn specializes in first-time homebuyers, military relocation, and investment properties. Camryn also holds leadership roles with NAHREP OKC, scaled ONE eXp’s Pride Network within a single year, and is a recognized HousingWire Rising Star.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ Transitioning from military life into entrepreneurship

✔️ The mission and impact of One eXp

✔️ Building community to grow your business

✔️ Leadership through authenticity and service

✔️ Empowering women and creating lasting legacy

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

💼 Connect with Camryn Cisneros:

🌐 Website → https://camryncisneros.exprealty.com/

📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/camryn.cisneros.7

📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/camryncisneros/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/camryn-cisneros-13b480229/

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔖 Don’t Forget to LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE 🔔 & COMMENT 💬 Below!

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🚀 In this episode of Posner Properties Perspective, host Jeannie Sekulow Posner sits down with interior designer Lisa Glazman, founder of LMG Designs, to discuss how thoughtful design enhances both everyday living and home resale value. From timeless kitchens and current color trends to staging tips, smart home features, and working with architects and builders, Lisa shares expert insights into creating functional, beautiful spaces that stand the test of time.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

👤 Guest:🏡 Lisa Glazman – Founder & Interior Designer, LMG Designs

Lisa Glazman is the Principal Designer and founder of LMG Designs, a residential interior-design firm serving the Atlanta metropolitan area, with expertise in Buckhead, Chastain Park, Sandy Springs, Roswell, and surrounding communities. She brings more than fifteen years of experience in high-end new builds, speculative homes, and large renovation projects, working closely with builders, architects, and clients to create spaces that balance form and function. Her work has been featured in regional publications, including Atlanta Jewish Times.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ Interior design strategies that add lasting value

✔️ Kitchen layouts and features buyers love

✔️ New color palettes and home design trends

✔️ Home staging techniques for successful sales

✔️ Collaborating with architects, builders, and homeowners

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

💼 Connect with Lisa Glazman:

🔗 LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/lisa-glazman-14243122

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔗 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔖 Don’t Forget to LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE 🔔 & COMMENT 💬 Below!

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🚀 In this insightful episode of the Posner Properties Perspective, host Jeannie Sekulow Posner sits down with creative finance expert Caleb Christopher to break down the world of subject-to (SubTo) transactions, owner financing, wholesaling, and ethical real estate investing. Caleb shares how creative financing can help sellers facing financial pressure, explains the risks and rewards of taking over existing mortgages, and discusses how investors, agents, and sellers can structure deals safely, legally, and ethically. The conversation also covers wholesaling best practices, title concerns, insurance pitfalls, due-on-sale clauses, and key red flags every real estate professional should understand.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

👤 Guest:🏡 Caleb Christopher – Creative Finance Consultant & Founder of Creative TC

Caleb Christopher is a creative finance real estate specialist featured in Pace Morby’s BiggerPockets book Wealth Without Cash. With a background in law enforcement and cybersecurity, he focuses on risk management and ethical deal structuring. Caleb is the founder of Creative TC, DOS Guard, and Creative Title, where he specializes in closing complex real estate transactions.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ Subject-to financing and mortgage takeover strategies

✔️ Creative solutions for distressed or low-equity sellers

✔️ Understanding wholesaling and investor transactions

✔️ Insurance, title, and due-on-sale risks

✔️ Best practices for ethical real estate investing

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

💼 Connect with Caleb Christopher:

🌐 Website → https://calebchristopher.io/

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔖 Don’t Forget to LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE 🔔 & COMMENT 💬 Below!

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🚀 Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions you'll ever make, and choosing the right real estate agent can make all the difference. In this episode, host Karen Posner shares the five most important questions every homebuyer should ask when interviewing an agent. Learn how to evaluate experience, local market knowledge, negotiation skills, communication style, and the strength of an agent's professional network. Plus, discover key insights into the home-buying process, inspections, contingencies, closing preparations, and how to avoid costly mistakes.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ Evaluating a real estate agent’s experience and sales history

✔️ Understanding the importance of local market expertise

✔️ Winning strategies for competitive home-buying situations

✔️ Navigating inspections, contingencies, and contract terms

✔️ Preparing for closing day and avoiding last-minute surprises

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔗 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔖 Don’t Forget to LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE 🔔 & COMMENT 💬 Below!

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🚀 In this powerful episode of the Posner Property Perspective, Jeannie sits down with real estate leader and speaker Renee Funk to unpack how communication, data dialogue, and strategic marketing are transforming today’s real estate industry. Renee shares actionable insights on seller consultations, pricing strategy, failed listings, AI-powered listing optimization, and how agents can elevate their service beyond simply “putting a sign in the yard.” This episode is packed with practical tools for agents looking to stand out in today’s shifting market.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

👤 Guest:🏡 Renee Funk – Real Estate Team Leader & National Speaker

Renee Funk is a real estate leader, coach, and speaker based in Windermere, Florida. She is the Co-Founder of The Funk Collection, brokered by eXp Realty, where she leads one of Central Florida’s largest branch offices. Her team has earned the Real Trends America’s Best Team Award for six consecutive years (2019–2024). Recognized as a SUCCESS® Magazine Top 125 Influential Leader, Renee is also an Exactly What to Say™ Certified Guide, helping real estate professionals elevate their communication, strengthen relationships, and convert conversations into opportunities.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ Communication strategies for listing consultations

✔️ Understanding failed listings and market shifts

✔️ How AI and ChatGPT impact listing marketing

✔️ Creating compelling listing descriptions and photo strategies

✔️ Becoming a consultative real estate professional

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

💼 Connect with Renee Funk:

📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/renee_funk/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/reneefunk/

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/

🔗 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/
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🚀 In this episode of Posner Property Perspective, host Jeannie Sekulow Posner sits down with Matan Slagter, founder of Armadillo Home Warranty, to discuss why more buyers are requesting home warranties and how the industry is evolving. Matan Slagter shares his journey from the insurance industry to launching Armadillo, explains how home warranties differ from homeowners insurance, and breaks down how transparency, technology, and fast service are changing the customer experience for homeowners and real estate professionals alike.

🎧 Hosted by: Jeannie Sekulow Posner

👤 Guest:🏡 Matan Slagter – Founder & Owner of Armadillo Home Warranty

Matan Slagter is the Co-Founder and CEO of Armadillo, a technology-driven home warranty company focused on improving transparency and customer experience in the home services industry. An actuary by training, Matan previously spent a decade at AIG, where he rose to Head of Market Disruption before co-founding Armadillo to bring data-driven pricing and modern technology to the home warranty space.

💡 Key Topics Covered:

✔️ The rise in home warranty requests from buyers

✔️ Differences between insurance and warranty coverage

✔️ How Armadillo simplifies the claims process

✔️ Why HVAC systems generate the most claims

✔️ How warranties help homeowners and investors reduce risk

🎵 Whether you're an investor, agent, or homebuyer, this episode offers valuable insights!

💼 Connect with Matan Slagter:

🌐 Website → https://www.armadillo.one/

📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/armadillo_home/?hl=en

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/matan-slagter

📇 Connect with Jeannie Sekulow Posner:

📷 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/🔗 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/jeannie.posner/

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanniesekulowposnerrealtor/
🔖 Don’t Forget to LIKE 👍, SUBSCRIBE 🔔 & COMMENT 💬 Below!

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