🎤Nobody works better frantic, chaotic, and nervous. So why do so many agents walk into listing appointments worried about the transaction?

On Icons of Real Estate, host RK3 (Robert Kennedy III) talks with Aaron Hendon, a managing broker who still runs a team and a certified mindfulness instructor. Aaron explains why your brain is wired to find threats, why he trained his team in meditation instead of scripts, and how gratitude makes agents more trustworthy.

In a chaotic market, mental discipline, not talent, is the edge that lasts.

🎧 Hosted by: Jim Remley

🎤 Featuring:

Aaron Hendon is a managing broker who runs a team with active listings, a certified mindfulness instructor, keynote speaker, and mindfulness-based business coach. He is the author of Living a Grateful Life in an Effed Up World and co-host of the Mindful CEO podcast. Before real estate, he ran a bread and bagel shop in Albuquerque for 10 years and has led Landmark programs for 30 years.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✔️ Mental discipline outlasts talent in a volatile market.

✔️ Mindset training can lift sales without new scripts.

✔️ Meditation means returning your attention, not emptying your mind.

✔️ A wandering mind needs gentle correction, not punishment.

✔️ Attention gets hijacked unless you deliberately train it.

✔️ Calm, grounded agents listen better at listing appointments.

✔️Clients trust agents who don't need anything from them.

✔️ Being kind to yourself has no downside.

💡Key Questions Answered in This Episode

Q: Why do I feel anxious before every listing appointment?→ A: Aaron Hendon, a managing broker and certified mindfulness instructor, says agents walk in worried about the transaction because they haven't trained their brain to do anything else. Aaron explains that the brain is a threat device: if it doesn't see a real threat, it makes one up, and that can be trained.

Q: When does "fake it till you make it" actually work?→ A: Aaron Hendon says fake it till you make it work for skills you only learn by doing, like public speaking or getting on the phone to call sellers. It doesn't work for mindset, where he says affirmations and gratitude journals don't ultimately make the difference.

Q: What does real gratitude look like, compared with toxic positivity?→ A: Aaron Hendon defines gratitude as appreciating something as a gift. Unlike toxic positivity's "just be happy," he says it starts with building the capacity to hold what's unworkable without resisting it, then asking what you can appreciate or learn from it.

⏳Timestamps (Click to Jump!):

📌00:00 - Everyone Says Mindset Matters, But Here's How

📌00:38 - Is Your Own Head Costing You Deals?

📌02:21 - From Art School & Bagel Shop to Broker

📌04:36 - When Team Production Hits a Ceiling

📌07:05 - 9-Week Meditation Training: Sales +160%

📌09:27 - Does "Fake It Till You Make It" Work?

📌10:42 - Why Pro Sports Teams Use Mindfulness Coaches

📌12:29 - What Meditation Really Is (and Isn't)

📌14:38 - The Puppy Method for a Wandering Mind

📌16:40 - 42 Shades of Blue: Your Hijacked Attention

📌17:32 - Meditation Is the Gym, Mindfulness Is Life

📌18:55 - Staying Calm at Listing Appointments

📌20:28 - Gratitude, Toxic Positivity & Client Trust

📌23:55 - A 30-Second Reset Before Client Calls

📌26:21 - No Downside to Being Kind to Yourself

📌27:06 - Aaron Hendon's Book & Links

Connect with AARON HENDON:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ahendon

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronhendon/

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aaronhendon_themindfulceo/

• Website: https://aaronhendonthemindfulceo.substack.com/

• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzc8SseYnFdhWywe_9UCIg

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