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    Stop Saying "I Should" | Eric Sachs

    Stop Saying "I Should" | Eric Sachs

    Eric Sachs of Breakthrough Broker not only created one of the most valuable resources known to the real estate industry, but on this episode goes into teaching how to implement, how to get rid of the “I should do xyz” that we all live with.  


    Some of the topics that we discuss include:

    • How self-determination and will power is like a reservoir
    • 461,000 real estate agents are on the service
    • It is a free to use service, monetized by others that advertise on the platform
    • Eric shares a productivity hack for overcoming the ineffective task lists
    • Justin shares an analogy of the last 100 meters of a race being amazing for the fans in the stands, but difficult for the person on the track and how that applies to getting things done
    • Eric shares what he does to continue to be a big thinker and expand his possibilities 

    Additional Resources: (please add these)

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @eric.sachs

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.sachs.96

    LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/esachs/

    Website: https://www.breakthroughbroker.com/ 

    Relaunch Your Business | Wayne Salmans

    Relaunch Your Business | Wayne Salmans

    Relaunch Your Business with Wayne Salmans. Whether COVID-19 or some other challenging situation has dealt your business a setback, understanding the principles of relaunching your business is one of the most important skills that a business owner must face. Author, Coach, and Founder of Hero Nation, Wayne Salmans goes into detail as to how to relaunch your business. 


    Coach Wayne has created a company and a movement helping others to become the hero of their own lives. In our interview, he not only shares valuable mindset training, but he also shares the four principles that allow business owners to recover from any setback they experience in their business. 


    Additional Resources: 


    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @waynesalmans

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/waynes.salmans/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynesalmans/

    Unlock Your Potential | Kathryn Jones

    Unlock Your Potential | Kathryn Jones

    Unlock your potential with Design Hacker Kathryn Jones. In one of my all-time favorite episodes, Kathryn shares hers and my shared passion for helping people to wake up to recognize the potential within them. In fact, when I heard her say this on another podcast, it resonated deep within me and I knew that those were the words that I was looking for to describe the impact that I wanted to make in the world. You can only imagine how excited I was to interview her on this very topic. 


    Kathryn has created a movement of fellow design-hackers which exists to help her people create messages that convert. Far beyond teaching people to fix their ugly funnels and websites, her greatest impact has been in helping people to awaken to the potential within them. 


    Three key areas that Kathryn calls “doctrines of her movement” include: We exist to have joy, and lots of it. If you’re not pursuing a course that is giving you great joy, then you need to rethink your course. 

    • We must awaken to our own potential. 
    • The significance of the acronym ‘awaken’ and how to go about pursuing significance in all areas of life.
    • Changing your story so that your life path aligns with the outcome you really want. 

    I mean this when I say it, internalizing what Kathryn teaches will change your life. 


    Additional Resources: 


    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @mskathrynjones

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mskathrynjones

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mskathrynjones/

    Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/designhackersofficial/


    Fund the Perfect Life | Katie Hardman

    Fund the Perfect Life | Katie Hardman

    All too often, we as business professionals don’t answer the question in advance, “What is the life I’m actually trying to build?” Instead, we put our heads down and go to work. When you have a strong and smart leader, one like Katie Hardman, you are asked to answer questions like: 

    • Fast forward to the end of 2020 and imagine that this year has been a total success. What has to happen in order for you to say that in the form of quality of life and income generated? 
    • How much time off did I take? Why was that important to me and how did that make me feel?
    • What vacations did I go on? Why was that important to me and how did that make me feel?
    • How much money did I save, or debt did I pay down? Why was that important to me and how did that make me feel?
    • With this in mind, how much business do I need to close and how much time off do I need to take? 
    • What is the best business structure in order for me to accomplish this? 
    • To build that business, who are the best people for me to follow and learn from in order to accomplish this? 

    Additional Resources: 

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @katiehardman_

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katiedahlheim

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-hardman-2a68a470/


    Be a Great Real Estate Marketer | Chris Smith & Jimmy Mackin

    Be a Great Real Estate Marketer | Chris Smith & Jimmy Mackin

    Great Real Estate Marketers. With buyer demand spiking and seller inventory approaching all-time lows, the ability for a real estate agent to get listings is critical in order for an agent to be able to thrive both in business and in their quality of life. To accomplish that, it’s no longer good enough for an agent to just be good at real estate. They must also be great at marketing. Chris Smith and Jimmy Mackin, co-founders of Curaytor are some of the greatest marketers of our time. Together, we talk through philosophies, frameworks, strategies, tactics and hacks that top agents are employing now in order to get more listings in 2020.  


    In this episode, we discuss: 

    • The peril of not outsourcing your marketing to people that specialize in it
    • The real cost of marketing is the opportunity cost of not doing it right and/or trying to do it yourself
    • Marketing not just for cold market but for your sphere
    • The definition of LTV, lifetime value of a customer and how much that is for the average real estate customer (11:30)
    • Omni-channel approach to staying in touch with your clients
    • When was the last time you sat down and created content for your sphere? 
    • Our monthly marketing plan for a month includes:
      • Sellers, sellers, buyers, and past clients and sphere
    • Why Zillow being better at following up with your  is better at following up with your past clients right now
    • What sellers are concerned with now and how to get their attention

    Additional Resources: (please add these)


    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @chrissmth @jimmymackin

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CuraytorDotCom/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmymackin/ & https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissmithcuraytor/

    Website: https://curaytor.com/demo



    Summer 2020 Real Estate Market | Mike Simonsen

    Summer 2020 Real Estate Market | Mike Simonsen

    Summer 2020 Real Estate Market. Twenty-twenty may go down as the year we never would have expected. Amidst all of the uncertainty, the real estate market has continued it’s run with more home sales and higher prices than ever before. 


    Mike Simonsen, CEO and Founder of Altos Research goes into a number of different topics including: 

    • What the data is telling us now and the story behind why that is the case.
    • What we can expect for the remaining months of 2020
    • Why data is so important to separate and differentiate yourself as a real estate agent
    • How to establish yourself as the local expert and how to differentiate yourself through the use of data
    • What data you should be keeping your eye on
    • Tips and tricks that agents are doing, using Altos Reports, to fill the top of their funnel with new opportunities and secured client relationships 
    • Tips and tricks to close more listing appointments from the data that is the Altos Reports. 
    • A sneak preview of Mike’s upcoming book, Hacking Happiness and how Thinking Bigger is scientifically proven to help make you happier. 

    Additional Resources: (please add these)

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @mikesimonsen

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michaelsimonsen

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonsen/

    Website: https://altosresearch.com

    How to Overcome Adversity | Terry Lajoie

    How to Overcome Adversity | Terry Lajoie

    Overcoming adversity as a real estate agent can be challenging. Terry Lajoie, a real estate agent out of New Hampshire was plugging along in her business, selling $3M/yr when everything changed. While sitting stopped at an intersection, she was rear-ended by a car going 45 miles per hour. The impact causes her head to separate from her spine, leaving her skull resting on top of C3 as opposed to aligned with it. Not knowing that this misaligned skull was the problem for over 9 months she suffered through the inability to hold a water bottle, walking with one leg dragging behind her, not being able to turn her head, and suffering severe migraines every day. 


    Fast forward to now, she closed over $10M this past year and is set to double that in our current year, even amidst a global pandemic and social unrest. How does one do this? 


    Terry gives specific examples that teach these three principles that she now fully embraces:

    1) I never give up, even when the odds are stacked against me

    2) I focus on finding solutions rather than dwelling on the problem

    3) I'm learning based and focused on implementing what I learn


    From an unfortunate comment that she overheard her mom say about her, Terry and I discussed how one person’s opinion of us is more a reflection of themselves than it our own reality and how to get to that conclusion.


    We also discussed how one mistake or tragic or unfortunate event does not have to define us and our future. We are the captains of our own ships and we get to choose our own destiny. 


    Additional Resources:

    Article Highlighting Terry’s Story: https://outfront.kw.com/agents/from-broken-to-bold-a-story-that-proves-anything-is-possible/

    Follow me on:

    Instagram:  @lajoiehometeam

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LajoieHomeTeam

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lajoiehometeam/

    Website: https://www.lajoiehometeam.com/

    Think Bigger Real Estate | Darren Jacklin

    Think Bigger Real Estate | Darren Jacklin

    Think Bigger Real Estate. When you have a deeper purpose, something bigger than you, something that lights you up, you start to see real estate through a different lens. Rather than just seeing it as a way to provide an income and your basic necessities of life, you start to see it as a vehicle that can fund this deeper purpose. 


    In today’s episode I interview Darren Jacklin who at the young age of 47 has done the following:

    • rang the closing bell at Nasdaq in New York City 2 times. 
    • served on the Board of Directors of a company that I helped to take from a private start up to a Billion Dollar Company and is now publicly traded on Nasdaq. 
    • created his own Private Family Foundation called LYNK Foundation where his vision is a capital target of a $100 Million Dollar Pledge for Global Philanthropy Projects.
    • has personally trained and developed over 1 million people in 50 countries on 4 continents including 157 Fortune 500 Companies in the past 25 years. 

    On this episode, Darren goes through some of the fundamental principles of thinking bigger that have helped him to amass the success that he has. Specifically, we discussed:

    • His habit of spending time every day thinking
    • The two questions that will change everything in your life:
      • In what area of my life am I not making enough of or the right requests?
      • What would happen to my life if I started to make the right requests?
    • How without integrity, nothing works
    • His definition of integrity and how it encapsulates everything from being on time to every appointment
    • How we are just a network of conversations and how to leverage that understanding to begin having different conversations with different people that bring you into an entirely new stratosphere of opportunities and success
    • In life you don't get what you want, you get what you make requests for
    • Networking is all about building Relationship Equity with others
    • Never Assume You Aren't Being Observed
    • And so much more….

    I can’t wait for you to to tune in and listen to this episode. There’s so much value here, I think you’ll want to listen to it again and again. I know that’s how I feel. 


    Additional Resources: 

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @darrenjacklin1

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/darrenleejacklin

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenleejacklin/

    Website: https://darrenjacklin.com


    Closing 70 Deals a Year with Instagram | Shannon Gillette

    Closing 70 Deals a Year with Instagram | Shannon Gillette

    Instagram Real Estate Agent. Shannon Gillette, a top 1% real estate agent out of Arizona closed 70 deals last year as a solo agent. Her only leverage is her videographer and her transaction coordinator. “How does she do that?” you ask. She works hard, and she leverages the power of Instagram.


    When I asked Shannon how many of those 70 deals would not have come without her presence on Instagram, she said, “I think all of them were influenced by my IG presence. My own friends wouldn’t even know that I’m a real estate agent if I wasn’t consistently showing up there. 


    One of the key things that Shannon says real estate agents do wrong when it comes to their Instagram presence is that they treat it like a commercial rather than a TV show. She recommended rarely talking about your closings and listings and all of the stuff that you would say or do to advertise your business. She even recommended that you not put photos of homes with the words “Sold” or “Just Listed” over the top. 


    The key instead, is to just give the play-by-play of your life both inside and outside of work. She recommended at least 10 story segments each day and then to use the posted pictures, or tiles for more highlight pictures. . 


    She said one of the biggest things that holds people up is that they don’t feel comfortable right away doing video or speaking on Instagram to a small audience. As a result, they don’t ever start. She recommended that with anything in life, we have anxiety about starting something new and that in order to stay relevant in the world in which we live, we must overcome these anxieties and get comfortable doing it. 


    Additional Resources: 

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shannon_gillette/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shannon.gillette.7/timeline?lst=558898596%3A1422960549%3A1591729201

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannon-gillette-75260b9/

    Website: https://www.gillettegroupaz.com/


    Think Bigger in Real Estate | Michael Hellickson

    Think Bigger in Real Estate | Michael Hellickson

    Think Bigger in Real Estate. When we get around people that are doing significantly more business than we ever dreamed of doing, something inside of us changes. Our perspective on what’s possible for us also changes. The goals that once seemed like a stretch at the beginning of the year, those same goals that now seemed impossible with our current global pandemic and social unrest, all of a sudden seem much more possible. 

    Here are some of the topics that we discussed: 

    • What if you spent 90% of your time on these three primary activities: lead generation, lead follow-up and lead conversion? What different results would you be able to accomplish. What people, systems and tools would you need to have in place in order to make that happen?
    • How to spot and capitalize on a short-sale market
    • What the primary role of a leader should be
    • Why a coach should do more business than the one being coached

    Additional Resources: 

    Text the words clubwealth to: 727-287-5993 and you’ll get 17 lead generation tactics

    Follow me on:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.hellickson

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhellickson/

    Website: https://clubwealth.com


    The Optics of Optimism | Terry Sprague

    The Optics of Optimism | Terry Sprague

    Optimism and real estate. Emerging from a global pandemic while right in the throes of social unrest, we are living in unique times. Like maybe never before are we in need of optimistic leaders who will step up and help us to see the good in the world and the opportunities that continue to abound. Terry Sprague is one of those leaders who will inspire you to be want to be one as well. 


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • Terry’s story of going from financial advisor professional to a sailor and artist in the Caribbean to starting a real estate company with a different culture and focus. 
    • Why he chose to align with the Christie’s brand.  
    • The conversations he’s having with active buyers and sellers, including helping even those on the other side of the transaction to think outside of the box to seize opportunities like a spread in stock market trading vs projected future values
    • How he sees the co-op agent and that relationship and ways he improves that relationship
    • What he’s doing to insulate himself against industry disruption. 
    • Why he’s optimistic and specific things he does to remain that way
    • What he does to continue to think bigger and expand his own possibilities. 

    Additional Resources: 

    Follow me on:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Luxe.ChristiesInternationalRealty/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terryspraguebrokerowner/

    Website: https://luxecir.com


    Healthy and Fit Real Estate Agents | Diana Del Garbino

    Healthy and Fit Real Estate Agents | Diana Del Garbino

    Fit real estate agent. That’s what every professional in the industry aspires to be. Yet, with urgent timelines, non-traditional working hours and a myriad of client and family demands, finding time to be fit can be challenging. I was honored today to bring on to the show, a friend and the owner and founder of Muscles in Motion, Diana Del Garbino, to teach us how to proceed. 


    For those that don’t know Diana, she worked as a police officer on the SWAT team in Southern California prior to founding Muscles in Motion and so she understands the need to be healthy and strong more than most. Additionally, Diana recently had a major surgery that didn’t go well and doctors said that had she not been as strong and healthy as she is, she would not have survived. Along those same lines, with COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the health of millions of people around the world, being healthy or unhealthy is no longer just something that may catch up to us at some point down the road. It may very well be a life or death situation for any one of us at any time. 


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • Why being healthy is so important.
    • The things that we are missing out on by not having the strength and energy to engage in them. 
    • Just how great life can be when we are healthy and fit. 
    • A change of paradigm around exercise. We can workout at a more intense pace fewer days and for less time than we think. If done right, moving every day and then focused workouts for 2 days a week for just 30 minutes can help us progress towards being healthy and fit. 
    • Nutrition- eat healthy food that you like, but don’t go back for seconds. 
    • Sleep- go to bed without electronics at the same time. You can’t underestimate the value of sleep on your ability to think, have good judgment, reason, process, and eat in proper proportions. 


    The late Jim Rohn once said: “If you don’t take care of our body, where are you going to live? To which I would add, if you don’t take care of your body, how are you ever going to live the life that you actually want to live? 


    Additional Resources: 

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    Website: mymusclesinmotion.com


    Closing Gifts for Real Estate Agents with Mark Lukes

    Closing Gifts for Real Estate Agents with Mark Lukes

    Real estate agent closing gift ideas. Mark Lukes and his company Silent Marketing Solution solve at least three problems for agents when it comes to closing gifts. The first, what do I get my clients that they actually want. Second, how do I do it in a way that is memorable and keeps reminding them of me. Third, how do I do it affordably and in a way that is easy for an agent to get prior to closing.


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • A metaphor for gaining “mindshare”
    • Why closing gifts are the perfect opportunity
    • Where agents often go wrong in getting closing gifts
    • The customer retention rate of most real estate agents
    • How closing gifts can be a solution for real estate agents to retain their customers


    Additional Resources:

    Follow me on:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-lukes/

    Website: https://www.silentmarketingsolution.com/

    Limitless Mindset with Stacy Bahrenfuss

    Limitless Mindset with Stacy Bahrenfuss

    Stacy Bahrenfuss, the Limitless Agent. At the young age of 19 Stacy entered the real estate industry. Since then she’s purchased a development where she built 11 custom homes, been a solo agent, built a team, built a brokerage, and now inspires agents in her brokerage and through her Limitless Realtor Circle coaching group. In this episode we dig into what a limitless mindset is and how you get it. We discuss what to do when we’re not feeling confident and what we can do to inspire others to be more confident. 


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • Mindset is the foundation. Many know the tactics and strategies but don’t use them. Why? Because they’re missing the mindset piece. They’re missing the confidence. 
    • There are people listening today that have a time but are finding their teammates uninspired. There are two things to which you should pay attention:
      • Your own mood and how you show up around them. Are you inspiring them? 
      • Your direct conversations with them. Are you telling them how you really feel about their potential and their performance?  
    • What to do when you’ve outgrown your leadership and the agents around you and still want to keep thinking bigger. 

    Find Stacy on:
    https://limitlessrealtorcircle.com/
    https://www.catalystidaho.com/
    facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatalystGroupID
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacybahrenfuss/
    Instagram: @stacybahrenfuss

    Consistent and Predictable Income for Real Estate Agents with Dan Rochon

    Consistent and Predictable Income for Real Estate Agents with Dan Rochon

    Consistent and Predictable Income for Real Estate Agents. Dan Rochon, author of Real Estate Evolution - The 10 Step Guide to C.P.I (Consistent and Predictable Income) shares how to reprogram your subconscious mind so that you actually believe that you can and deserve to be very successful, simple hacks that he utilizes to keep his calendar full of listing appointments, and how lead generation for your next client is one of the critical ways that you take care of your existing clients. 


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • The difference between your vision and affirmations
    • The thing that sabotages your affirmations
    • How to actually believe that your affirmations will work and what to do when you don’t believe. Hint, you actually have to do them and then you have to actually believe them once you do them. 
    • What your calendar should look like in order to have 3 listing appointments each week. Three hours of lead generation *with the intent of filling at least 3 of your 5 listing appointments.
    • What are things that get in the way of you consistently generating new leads and what to do about it. Hint- you own the business so you get to control your own schedule. 
    • The worst thing you can do for your current clients is to not have any additional clients in the pipeline. You end up making decisions that benefit you instead of them. 

    Additional Resources:

    Follow me on:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfrochon

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danrochon/

    Website: https://therealestateevolution.com


    Book: 

    Real Estate Evolution - The 10 Step Guide to C.P.I (Consistent and Predictable Income)

    How to Take Your Profit First for Real Estate Agents with Mike Michalowicz

    How to Take Your Profit First for Real Estate Agents with Mike Michalowicz

    Mike Michalowicz and real estate agents are a match made in heaven. With so many balls in the air, it becomes difficult for real estate agents to also track and best manage their finances. Traditional accounting says that Revenue - Expenses = Profit. What Mike Michalowicz teaches in his book, Profit First, turns that equation on its head. He teaches Revenue - Profit = Expenses. In this episode, Mike walks through some of the psychological magic that happens when we do this, the processes that support it and then the end result, which is true and lasting success.  


    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • 83% of small businesses are not profitable
    • Business owners get in business for themselves for time freedom and financial freedom while most never achieve either
    • What traditional accounting teaches and how that is not the best way to ensure your own financial success
    • The book ‘Profit First’ teaches you to change the accounting equation of Revenue - Expenses = Profit to instead, Revenue - Profit = Expenses
    • What must happen at your bank to accommodate this new flow of income
    • What happens to the way that you look at your expenses when you do this
    • The correlation between those in a Poker game that bluff and those that don’t track their expenses

    Additional Resources:

    Follow me on:

    Twitter: @mikemichalowicz

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemichalowicz/

    Website: https://mikemichalowicz.com/


    Books:

    The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur

    Surge

    Profit First

    The Pumpkin Plan

    Clock Work

    Fix This Next

    Building a Learning Culture at Home with Jessica Poe

    Building a Learning Culture at Home with Jessica Poe

    Culture for real estate agents. Everything starts in our homes. If we want great culture on our teams and in our offices, then it behooves us to be intentional about creating great culture at home. It’s been said that readers are leaders and if we truly believe that then now is the time for us to create the kind of culture at home that inspires and helps us to be learners as well as our children. 


    It is common for real estate professional/parents, now heavily laden by their new role of being homeschool teachers as well, to want to grit their teeth and get through the rest of this school year. Before we do that, I’d encourage you to think carefully about the opportunity we have to really shape within ourselves and within our children these two principles:

    1. The skill of knowing how to learn
    2. A love of learning

    When our kids are equipped with these two things, then they are inspired and empowered to see education not as a means to an end but as a journey in and of itself. Today’s episode gives some great strategies and tactics of how to do this as well as how to manage kids’ expectations of allowing you some freedom and space to get your work done. 


    Additional Resources:

    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @jessica_poepoe

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jes.poe

    Recent article: Working from Home with Kids--Staying Sane and Productive

     Let's Take a Deep Breath and Help Kids Cope with COVID-19 Restrictions


    Real Estate Agents that Lead in a Crisis with Diana McCredie

    Real Estate Agents that Lead in a Crisis with Diana McCredie

    Diana McCredie has been a top-producing real estate agent for 34 years. In that time she has developed the ability to lead her clients in a way that few others have and can. The secret to her success includes some of the following:

    • Self-leadership- Diana talk about the power of her morning journaling routine and how that grounds her physically and emotionally. This routine also causes her to ask the question of what is going to be her primary focus that day and why. She also shares that she avoids the traditional news because of the political nature of those sources and focuses more on medical and financial data that she can then run through her own filters. 
    • Real estate leadership- “Real estate happens at the corner of life and change.” With change now being commonplace, Diana shared how her monthly emails have now become weekly emails. Additionally, these emails include much more than they used to include. Specifically, she includes in the past 7 days, how many homes went pending vs listed. This paints a picture as to what’s happening in the market. 
    • Client leadership- Beyond just real estate data, Diana is sharing lifestyles tools and tips that are giving her client base help on everything from homeschooling tips to health and wellness tips. 
    • Network leadership- Diana set the intention two years ago to build a network of influential women in the financial and professional sectors. This is not only good for her own business, but it allows her to add value to her clients far beyond what one would expect from their real estate agent. 

    Diana is leading by example what it looks like to lead through a crisis.


    What you’ll get by tuning in:

    • A specific journal that has brought great strength and grounding to Diana 
    • Key elements that should be a part of your morning routine
    • The one real estate market stat Diana believes tells the tale of the market
    • How often to communicate with clients now
    • Ways to build your outside network

    Additional Resources:

    Link to Diana’s journal: https://5secondjournal.com/


    Productive Real Estate Agent, Happy & Effective Homeschooler

    Productive Real Estate Agent, Happy & Effective Homeschooler

    How to be a better homeschool mom is in a question that is on the minds of many of my clients. That feeling is the same for dads. While the work-life balance equation of a real estate agent can often be challenging, unexpectedly adding in being a homeschool teacher only adds to the challenge. While many are struggling with these new responsibilities, my conversation today with the president of the board of the home school association for the state of Oregon will not only give you tremendous hope that you’re probably doing better than you think, but it will also give you some great ideas as to how to better mesh what you’re already doing with helping to give your children a great education.


    How many times have we said to ourselves or to others: “I wish they would have taught me those things when I was in school.” Or, “Kids grow up so fast. I’d love to just capture more of those moments while they’re young. Or, “I’m tired of running around like a taxi-cab driver and wish that we’d just have more time together as a family.” Or, “I wish the school system would focus more on _________.” 


    As we recognize that the goal and vision of our kids’ education is to turn them into functional, productive and good adults, then we can start to think differently about education. While school systems and online resources offer a number of resources to lend help to parents, now is the chance for us to say: “What are the things that I want my children to be able to do and what would be fun for me and fun for them to teach them that thing?”


    What you’ll get by tuning in:

    • Realign your priorities of homeschooling your kids with a bigger vision of what education is all about. 
    • Recognizing that your children need as much perspective and emotional support as they do learning math and science. 
    • Recognizing that you don’t have to have a book open or be working on assigned work in order to be educating your children. 


    Additional Resources:

    Facebook group - Homeschooling in Oregon : Talk with OHEN

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    COVID-19 and Housing with Matthew Gardner

    COVID-19 and Housing with Matthew Gardner

    Real estate update in Portland Oregon. As we move through the weathering phase of COVID-19 and into the recovery and accelerate phases of the economic recovery, speaking with Matthew Gardner, Chief Economist of Windermere was enlightening. Matthew is recognized across the country as one the foremost experts on the economy and how it impacts the housing industry. 

     

    Some of the topics that we discussed were:

    • With 30,000 businesses across our country currently closed we’re all asking the question as to how this will impact the real estate market. 
    • The major industries that will be impacted are bars and restaurants and then retail. Many of these employees have been furloughed or let go and many will not be brought back. It is expected that 30% of these industries will not be coming back to work. 
    • The impact on commercial real estate, that there will be a definite impact on everything from, again, bars, restaurants and retail. Matthew has predicted that 50% of our malls would be gone in 10 years and now maybe that means they’ll be gone in just a few years.
    • How this downturn is far different than the previous in the sense that the housing industry was a large part of the previous. This time, the housing industry is likely to be the industry that pulls us through.
    • The reason for that is just how important the home has become to everyone. We all want to get it right because we’re spending so much time there now.
    • Millennials are house shopping at levels never seen before. 
    • Those that want to adapt to these times will continue learning, stay deeply connected to their sphere, and get good at working with Millennials. 

     

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    Podcast: Sound Conversations https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/matthew-gardner-chief-economist-at-windermere-real-estate/id1347518770?i=1000418304757 

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