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Principle & Process — Part One of Six Why Real Estate Confuses What It Does With Why It Exists A...

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Be Their Favorite

Real estate has one game everyone agrees to play. Be the best. Sell the most homes. Win the most rev...

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A Good Head, A Good Heart, A Literate Pen.

There is an old idea, worn smooth by decades of use, that a good head and a good heart are a formida...

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What If Every Flavour Was Vanilla?

Not every flavour is for everyone. That's not a flaw in the ice cream case, it's the entire point of...

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The Pink Spoon Problem

Picture the counter at an ice cream shop. Nobody blocks the door. Nobody hands you a clipboard. You ...

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The Physics of Being

Being Versus Doing · Part Two of Two Here's the part the industry keeps missing: being was never the...

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The Cult of Doing.

Being Versus Doing · Part One of Two Walk into any real estate training room and count the words. Sc...

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Find The One Domino...

The Brand Within — thebrandwithin.me ...Everything else falls. The wrong order The industry taught a...

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You're Worried About The Wrong Things.

You're worried about the wrong things. I don't say that to dismiss what keeps you up. I say it becau...

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Trust Isn't Four Things.

It's One Thing, Witnessed. Part one left a single factor standing after Feltman's four-factor model ...

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The Book Brené Brown Calls Amazing...

The Thin Book of Trust. ...Has a Hole in the Middle Brené Brown has said she has used Charles Feltma...

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How It All Connects.

The Foundation, the Frame, and the Life Lived Inside Most people build outward. They start with what...

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Built To Move. Built To Stay.

The Dichotomy of Who I Am. Two systems, if you believe in either, place me at odds with myself. Nume...

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The Conditioned Estate Agent.

Conformity & Consequence You were trained to think this is normal. That's the part nobody tells ...

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It's Not Your Fault.

The realestate training industrial complex. You didn't design the script. You didn't invent the obje...

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The B Side.

Every vinyl record has two sides. The industry only markets one. Vinyl records came with a choice ba...

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Full-Bodied? Or House Plonk?

Be into the wine, not the label. I'm not much of a wine drinker. A social glass now and then, otherw...

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Sell Without Selling.

Every agent has met the type. Immaculate script. Answer for every objection before it's raised. Clos...

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You Were Never Too Much.

Somewhere along the way, somebody sat you down and told you their truth about this business. Nobody ...

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Reputation Is The Echo -

- Character Is the Source. Part Four of Four: Why Values and Beliefs Take This Further Than Habits E...

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The Brand Within That Sells Before You Speak

Part Three of Four: What Character Compounds Into, and Why It Can't Be Rented A referral doesn't hap...

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Clients Don't Read Your Bio -

They Read You. Part Two of Four: How People Decode Character Before They Can Explain What They're De...

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The Habits Nobody Sees.

Part One of Four: Character, Habits, and Why Clients Choose You Before They Can Say Why Nobody hires...

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The Lost Art of Being Yourself.

Trying Too Hard to Be Liked Don't laugh. This is genuinely happening. An identity crisis, entirely s...

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Sold On Your Own Desperation

The Dependency Economy A young salesperson posted a question online recently. Six months into a new ...

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Burn The Map. Keep The Compass.

The Brand Within You Won't Get Lost. Everyone hands you a map. Nobody asks if your legs are the same...

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Eventually, We Stop Being The Caterpillar.

The Brand Within // Membership Competition with few rules is not a game you need to play. Every day,...

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The Introvert Estate Agent?

Could HR have gotten this one backwards the whole time? Plenty of agency hiring still leans on perso...

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The Congregation

Preaching to the Converted. Walk into a room full of agents at the wrong kind of conference and you'...

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Coaching Is Tuning The Wrong Instrument.

Tuning Forks and Resonance — Part Four Here's what a tuning fork cannot do, no matter how skilled th...

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