This week’s podcast episode is about something special and personal to me…

I grew up in a town with no stoplights. 30 kids in my graduating class.

While my friends were out having fun, I was stacking slabs at my grandma's sawmill for $20 a day.

That's where my work ethic was born.

But somewhere in all that hard work, I felt it, this burning feeling that I was meant for more.

So I did the only thing I know how to do.

I got to work.

Here's what nobody tells you about success… it can DESTROY YOU just as fast as it builds you.

I started reading my own press clippings.

Lost good people. Burned bridges.

Created toxicity in an environment I was supposed to be building.

My biggest failure. And also my greatest lesson…

Because the transition from top producer to leader isn't a promotion. It's starting over.

This is where I struggled and I see so many others struggle as well.

It requires you to remove your ego, humble yourself, and go back to zero!

This is such a challenge because of all the work you have gone through to become a successful agent.

But becoming a successful leader requires you to start all over again.

Most people can't make that shift.

I also used the wrong motivation.

Proving people wrong will get you somewhere, but it won't build something sustainable.

The day everything changed was when I stopped asking how do I prove them wrong and started asking who can I lift up with me?

Now my daughters don't even know I have a job.

They just know dad goes out to help people.

That's the whole mission.

I'm not living for my resume anymore.

I'm living for my eulogy.

In this week’s episode of All or Nothing in Real Estate, I sit down with Duane Murphy and Shane Kilby to share the story of how my past built me for more, and the lessons every leader needs to hear.

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32 out of 42 agents on my team have at least one closed or pending transaction right now.

The 10 agents that don’t are all in their first 90 days or less with the team

Most teams celebrate activity. We celebrate those too but we also celebrate standards and results

We ranked #3 Mega Team at eXp in January.

But here's what the leaderboard doesn't show you… how did we actually do this?

We set CRYSTAL CLEAR expectations before day one and repeated them over and over and over again

During the interview. At boot camp. Through onboarding. In every meeting. Every week.

Because you don't rise to your potential. You fall to your standards.

In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain on exactly how we're doing it.

The Five E Framework: Effort, Enthusiasm, Endurance, Energy, Environment.

It’s the engine (another E ;) behind our production.

We go deep on something most leaders run from, the hard conversation.

We don't avoid conflict.

We frame it as the path to resolution.

Because leaders who avoid difficult moments don't build great teams.

They build comfortable ones and… nothing ever grows in your comfort zone

You want a team that performs?

Stop making it complicated.

Build the environment.

Hold the standard.

Lead by example.

We break all this down and more in the latest episode of our podcast

🎙️ Listen now to All or Nothing in Real Estate.

You will never outperform who you think you are.

Not your goals. Not your hustle.

Your identity.

In this episode of All or Nothing in Real Estate, I break down why your internal thermostat determines your success — in income, relationships, leadership, everything.

Your identity sets your results.

Your brain’s number one job isn’t to hit your goals, it’s to keep you consistent with who you think you are and what you believe you deserve…. Your IDENTITY

If your identity says, “I’m inconsistent,” your actions will match it.

If it says, “I’m not built for success at that level,” you’ll unconsciously avoid the behaviors that would get you success

Your results always gravitate toward your identity setting.

Chasing more without becoming more never works long-term.

Personal development isn’t a phase.

It’s the mechanism that raises your thermostat.

Better thinking produces better decisions.

Better decisions produce better behaviors.

Better behaviors produce better results.

Because success is an inside job.

In this episode, I also share 5 tactical ways to raise your thermostat:

✅ Raise your standards, not just your goals

✅ Audit your self-talk

✅ Stack identity-based wins

✅ Change your environment

✅ Visualize from identity, not outcome

And when you upgrade your identity, everything changes: your income, relationships, and leadership.

Stop chasing more.

Become more.

Raise your thermostat.

Do the inner work.

Success is built from the inside out.

🎙️ Listen now and start living at the next level