Our Latest Podcast Episodes

“I'm a true believer that if you give, give, give, eventually it's going to come back to you.”

Episode 64 of The Smart Agents Podcast features Mirella Canavan of The Canavan Real Estate Group. Throughout our conversation, Mirella shares how she and her husband have built their real estate business by providing as much value to their community as possible

Whether organizing community fundraisers or simply sharing useful information, The Canavan Real Estate Group firmly believes in serving its community.

For the outgoing Mirella, the pandemic led her to launch a weekly interview series with local homeownership experts and she shares her tips for agents looking to create their own content.

Check out The Canavan Real Estate Group on Instagram!

"The beginning is more challenging when you're a niche-focused business. But, you reap the benefits for sure."

Episode 63 of The Smart Agents Podcast features our conversation with Vance Lichtenberger of Mid-Century Homes in Boise, ID. Throughout our conversation, Vance shares how the team is finding enormous success by hyper-focusing on the mid-century modern niche.

Check out Mid-Century Homes on Instagram

"It's focus, focus, focus and make it simple, simple, simple. You're not a mind reader as a listing agent. You have to help people envision their own business."

Episode 62 of The Smart Agents Podcast features our conversation with Chris Gunderson of GundersonCRE. 

After getting his commercial real estate start in California, Chris has started his own company in New Jersey.

Throughout our conversation, we talk all about how Chris got his start,  his top tips for agents looking to break into commercial real estate and where he sees the immediate future of commercial real estate going.

"I'm passionate about all three parties' safety. My safety as a realtor, safety of the buyer and safety of the homeowner."

Have you been showing a home, on a listing appointment or holding an open house and gotten an uneasy feeling about the situation? Or worse, actually had something happen to you?

After a scare of her own, Helen decided to take her safety into her own hands and got to work on her app SafeShowings.

"I was lucky that day. I got a second chance but I knew then, I had a problem to solve."

Episode 61 of The Smart Agents Podcast features our conversation with the Founder and CEO of SafeShowings Helen Hudson.

Check out SafeShowings at https://safeshowings.com/

"The growth from zero to $16 million is easy. The challenging growth is moving from $16 Million to $25 Million."

Episode 60 of The Smart Agents Podcast features Orange County, California-based broker Kraig Enyeart. After a long career in corporate sales, Kraig made a name for himself in real estate by holding as many mega open houses as possible. Now on pace to clear $60 Million in volume this year, Kraig is building his own team and shares how he is ensuring all new agents on his team meet maximum success.

 

"The way that I kind of explain it is, I see your repeats and referrals as the icing. It is the extras, but your marketing is the cake. It's the predictable, consistent stuff that you can rely on."

Episode 59 of The Smart Agents Podcast features the Founder of The Listings Lab, Jess Lenouvel. Over the course of her real estate career, she has scaled her business into a multiple seven-figure machine resulting in more than $300 Million in properties sold in the last five years.

 

With The Listings Lab, Jess is helping agents take their business to the next level by leveraging the power of online marketing and creating systems to automate much of the process. Throughout our conversation, Jess shares her tips for taking your business to new heights.

"Those are all essentially customers that we now have in our database, who we know have expressed interest in at least buying or selling at some point or learning more about it."

Episode 58 of The Smart Agents Podcast features Seattle-based broker Brennen Clouse. Tapping into the high-tech market, Brennen and his team have turned to hosting online workshops and webinars to educate the public all while filling their lead pipeline with potential clients. Beyond this innovative way to attract leads, he says their exemplary customer service and past client campaigns has led to explosive growth.

"Realtors have their own name, have their own jersey that they have to wear and represent like no other, because that's the name that people go after."

Episode 57 of The Smart Agents Podcast features real estate professional and branding expert Ed Stulak. With his extensive knowledge of social media marketing, specifically on Instagram, Ed can be found speaking to a worldwide stage, sharing his tips for growing an online brand. 

Throughout our conversation, we talk not only about creating viral content but also really honing in on your intended audience.

"A lot of people feel that new construction homes are hard to get in to... I feel like it is my sweet spot."

Episode 56 of The Smart Agents Podcast features our conversation with Houston-based agent Julie Farag. While she is less than a year into her career, Julie has long had a passion for architecture and the real estate industry. Throughout our conversation, she shares how she is growing her business, which includes focusing on new home construction.

"I didn't want to just have my name and my headshot as all of my branding as I hope to grow my business in the future."

Episode 55 of The Smart Agents Podcast features a conversation with Boise-based realtor Brianna Wardle. While just two years into her real estate career, Brianna is creating a brand, Black Pine Real Estate,  that will stand the test of time.

Growing up in the market, Brianna has lived through the explosive growth the city has experienced that's landed it routinely on the top of countless  "Fastest Growing Market" lists.

Taping into her marketing education and prior experience as a social media manager, she has been named Top Boise Real Estate Agent On Social Media by PropertySpark

But, social media isn't the only way Brianna is getting recognition for the Black Pine brand though.

"My friends always tease me that I have my name on literally every swag thing that you could possibly have, shirts, bags, golf towels.

Throughout our conversation, she shares how she got into the real estate industry and much more on how she is building her business from the ground up.