Nicole Pominville's story is one of precision, reinvention, and a genuine care for the people she serves. Now with Compass in Denver, Nicole grew up in Colorado Springs as what she calls the "adult child," the oldest of all the cousins, the one who ran the show and did everything by the book. Raised by a bar-owner mom and a salesman dad who never went to college but pushed education hard, she headed to DU, chose accounting as a freshman, and spent five years earning her degree and master's.

A career in numbers followed, from internal audit work on financial controls to a brief, unhappy stretch in oil and gas to a regional accounting firm. Along the way she realized she couldn't picture doing it for the next 30 years. A friend's success drew her into recruiting, her first true sales role, where she spent several years placing accounting and finance leaders at major companies and discovered she loved the human, matchmaking side of the work. Then COVID arrived, froze hiring, and dried up her commissions, just after she'd bought her first home. When her own realtor suggested she'd be good at this, Nicole got licensed.

She did it wisely, keeping her recruiting income while she learned the ropes, passing her exam the week of Thanksgiving in 2020 and closing her first deal the following March. She leaned hard on her sphere and on the mentor who guided her through one of the craziest markets in memory, and when a stretch on her own exposed how much she still needed to build, she rededicated herself to creating real systems and a repeatable process.

In this episode, Nicole opens up about the winding road from accounting to real estate, the discipline of nurturing relationships in a business with little instant gratification, and the deep value she places on mentoring new agents, teaching them to lead with empathy and treat every client's story as if it were their own. Above all, it's an honest conversation about caring enough to get everything right for the people who trust you.

And Nicole's story… starts now!

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