Are You Still Playing Small?

Playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? That line gets attributed to Ne...

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Don't Take My Word For It.

Agreement That Doesn't Go Deep Enough Personal branding isn't coming for estate agents. It's already...

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First, Take Off Your Own Mask.

The Dependency Economy — Part Three of Three Part One named a manipulation strategy heading toward r...

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Reading Every Room But Their Own.

The Dependency Economy — Part Two of Three Part One named the strategy heading toward real estate co...

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The Mask They Haven't Found Yet.

The Dependency Economy — Part One of Three Somewhere in the coaching industry right now, someone is ...

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You Cannot Get There. You Can Only Be There.

Trust, and the Illusion of Arrival There is a lie so comfortable that most people build their whole ...

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Showing Up Anyway.

The Mask Trap — Part 5 of 5 The business case for being the person you actually are. Somewhere along...

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Worth - That Doesn't Need a Closing.

The Mask Trap — Part 4 of 5 A place to stand that doesn't move every time the market does. Here's a ...

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The Beliefs Keeping You Small.

The Mask Trap — Part 3 of 5 Nobody said these sentences out loud. That's why they still run the show...

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The Parts You've Gone Numb To.

The Mask Trap — Part 2 of 5 You can't put down a mask you've forgotten you're wearing. Here's the tr...

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The Mask Trap

The Mask Trap — Part 1 of 5 Start With Who. Why real estate agents become strangers to themselves. W...

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The Blind Date Economy.

I used to think lead generation was a marketing problem. It isn't. It's a honesty problem wearing a ...

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Trust is Not a Skill. It's a Decision.

Every industry that sells you competence is quietly selling you a lie: that if you just get good eno...

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Are You Still Playing Small?

The Brand Within Well? Are You? Playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?...

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Educating Tom - The Right Words.

I've been transferring blogs from an old website, written five years ago, to The Brand Within websit...

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The One Domino.

The Brand Within — Part 3 of 3 There is exactly one thing that fixes the Veracity Index problem, and...

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The Cost of the Performance.

The Brand Within — Part 2 of 3 Selling anything where trust is missing is inefficient. Not immoral f...

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The Carnie and the Candidate.

The Brand Within — Part 1 of 3 Estate agents and politicians sit at the bottom of the Veracity Index...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Five: The Coach's Business Model Needs the Gap Open. Tom Ferry, Tom Panos, Ricky Carruth. Diffe...

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Mind The Gap.

Part four: The Bill the Agent Actually Pays. An estateagent operating inside the gap doesn't get to ...

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Mind The Gap.

Part Three: The Agent Can't See it, But the Client Feels it. The agent walks out of the listing pres...

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Mind The Gap

Part two: nobody profits from closing it. If the gap is that obvious, why does it survive contact wi...

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Mind The Gap

Part one of a series watching what agents do, not what they say they do. Ask any agent what they're ...

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The Five BS Rules of Real Estate.

Coaching, conformity, and the quiet agreement to disappear Somebody smart once wrote down the rules ...

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What If Everything They Told You Was.....Wrong

The coaching industry didn't fail real estate agents by accident. It failed them by design. The Seve...

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The Soft Shell Window

A lobster grows by outgrowing its own shell. The shell that kept it safe becomes a cage. So it does ...

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The Cage of The Three C's

C O M P E T I T I O N . C O M P A R I S O N . C O N F O R M I T Y . Nobody puts "trapped" on their v...

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Why Trusted Agents Don't Just Survive -

— They Thrive. Everyone in this market is telling the same story right now. Dire. Crushing. Pick you...

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Red Pill, Blue Pill.

Part Three of Three On the two beliefs the comparison economy needs an agent to hold, and what's act...

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The Playbook That Was Never Written for You

Part One of Three On why modeling the top producer doesn't work — and why the industry needs you to ...

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