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  • Growing Your Emotional Intelligence

    Growing Your Emotional Intelligence
    Dec 3 2025

    In this episode, I sit down with Manhattan broker and bestselling author Scott Harris to explore why emotional intelligence—not market knowledge—is the real superpower in modern real estate.

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    42 min
  • Setting up for Success in 2026

    Setting up for Success in 2026
    Nov 26 2025

    In this episode we break down what top agents are doing right now to set up a powerful 2026. From strategic holiday touchpoints and early pipeline building to Stephanie's “Costco strategy” and a 12-week planning rhythm, we share the relationship-driven actions that create real momentum long before January.
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    32 min
  • Realtors Who Sell & Invest | Parminder Singh

    Realtors Who Sell & Invest | Parminder Singh
    Apr 29 2024

    Join us as we interview Parminder Singh, aka Parminder the Realtor, to learn how to simultaneously create active and passive income streams.
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    45 min
  • Thoughts on Leadership | Justin Stoddart

    Thoughts on Leadership | Justin Stoddart
    Oct 6 2020
    I want to talk about leadership. The principles that I'm want to talk about have wide application, they're not just into the real estate industry, they're not just in your career. They're in your family, your community, they're in all different areas. They are things that I've been thinking about a lot recently. Considering our national state, considering a lot of things that are happening in our communities, a lot of things that are happening within our families and companies during these challenging times. So I want to take what I've learned over the past 20 plus years of leadership and distill it down to a few key things that I think will be really beneficial for all of us. I've studied this recently, because I realized that there are some voids in my own personal leadership. In no way am I coming to you, as someone who has leadership figured out, I'm a lifelong student of leadership. This is why; I realized that I can't get to my potential, without me, helping and leading other people. My mission and my passion, as you know, is to help you to wake up to the potential inside of you and then to help you live in pursuit of that potential. So that you can live, give and serve abundantly. That's what I'm about. That's my personal life mission. That's what drives me and fuels me every day. Obviously, my show the Think Bigger Real Estate Show fits right in with that. But today, I want to speak to a wider audience. A couple things that I've learned about leadership. One was from John Maxwell, he said, the definition of leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less, the ability to influence other people. I think that's important for us to remember that leadership is influence. The next thing I want to talk about are some general truths about humans. The reality is each and every one of us are living below our potential, we have the ability to live a bigger life, to serve more people to reach more people. I want to keep that in your mind, I also want to share that each and every one of us have a sense of wanting to belong somewhere to something and if we ever feel like we don't belong somewhere, then we will find somewhere where we do belong. So it's important, I think, as leaders, for us to recognize that. If you're really going to influence people, if you're really going to move people forward, reaching your potential and helping unlock their potential, people have to feel like they belong.The purpose of leadership then becomes to help get more out of people. Again, if we're all living below our potential, then leadership, [the definition is influence], the purpose of it is to help unlock within people the idea that there's more inside of them. That they can live a bigger life, that they can give more and serve more. I would also add that the purpose of leadership is to convert people to a united way of thinking around a certain cause. Whether that's in your family, your company, your community, or in your nation. To actually convert people to to a common cause that you're all working towards. That word convert is interesting, because to convert something is actually to change it. I think anytime we're leading people, we actually want to change their hearts and their minds, to get them to believe something, maybe better, maybe different than they believed before, that is united with that core group of people. So within my family to convert people to the cause that we can create a great family that we can create this great life together, that we can help make each other better and have peace within our home or within your company, within your community, within whatever cause or movement you're leading. We're converting people to this new way of thinking so that we can do more together, so we're more united, and we're doing more together. Some key principles of leadership that I've learned: Number one is to know your people. It's very difficult to get people to want to follow you. Maybe you think you know who your people are, what they want, what they need, but the real way to really get to know your people is to spend time with them. If there's something that you don't understand about them, rather than just making assumptions, I think it's more important to ask; "Hey, I don't understand where you're coming from, will you share with me?" I think the great wisdom and principles of Stephen R. Covey, who taught, seek first to understand, then to be understood. People really could care less to understand you, if you don't first seek to understand them. When we are in any sort of leadership role, it behooves us to really find out what our people are about, who are they, what drives them, what they want most in life. In my family maybe there's fighting amongst my children, and I'm trying to convert them to be nice to each other, if I just start slinging arrows of words, of accusation or blame, it's amazing when I end up learning the whole story I recognize that actually wasn't the scenario I assumed. ...
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    10 min
  • Swimming with Sharks with Amy Donaldson

    Swimming with Sharks with Amy Donaldson
    Oct 29 2019
    Justin Stoddart Welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show, I'm your host Justin Stoddart. Today we're going to talk about swimming with sharks. You're probably thinking, what in the world does this have to do with real estate. Right now in our industry, in our economy, it has everything to do with real estate. So before we get too much into swimming with sharks, what that means for you, I want to remind you that we have show notes, you can get summary and everything that you've missing that you've been missing on this show if you go to thinkbigger.realestate and sign up to get that weekly review. I've got people praising me thanking me for that summary that comes to them that allows them to choose what episodes are most relevant to them. So be sure to go sign up thinkbigger.real estate. I also want to remind you that my mission and my purpose is to help you to think bigger. My overall passion is to help you have a life of impact, but you have to do more and get better results in order to have that happen and the only way for that to happen is to put you around big thinkers that help expand your thinking, expand your possibilities. I'm excited to bring to you today, another big thinker, somebody who not only has done it in her own life but continues to do it the lives of other people. So, Amy Donaldson who is a real estate agent here in the Portland metropolitan area. She's also an author of get off the cashflow roller coaster, which is a great book. I've read it. It's wonderful. And she's also a coach. So I want to thank, and welcome, all at the same time. Amy Donaldson, thanks for joining us today on the Think Bigger Real Estate Show.Amy Donaldson Thank you, Justin. Thank you. What a fun introduction. Justin Stoddart I love it. So talk to us about swimming with sharks. You literally had an experience recently that like this could have been a very, very real possibility. Please explain what happened. Amy Donaldson Yes. So um, last Friday, I was down in Southern California. And you know, I love to go in the water with my nephew. So I'm surfing with my 13 year old nephew in Manhattan Beach and I see something out of the corner of my eye but I don't really I don't register and I don't ask. Kayden looks at me he was Aunt Lulu, which is that's what he calls me. Aunt Lulu, I just saw a fin, like a shark fin. Um, and I'm like, really? And I'm thinking like, I saw something, you know, it's kind of like a gray, black. You know, like, Are you sure? And he goes, yes. I'm 100% sure I saw a fin and then it went under. It that far away from us, either. So of course, we're heading back into shore. Um, and I'm just going to leave the story. There was a point out all of us have maybe seen these images of helicopters, or from helicopters flying along the California coast, which was surfers out in the water and you see sharks like, not that far away from them and it's like, "Do people have any idea like what's in the water? Like, maybe that's a whale. Maybe that's a dolphin? I don't know, right? But it looks a lot like a shark from the images.Justin Stoddart Just like in here you are out there with your nephew. Amy Donaldson That is where sharks live. We are in the ocean.Justin Stoddart Yeah, you're in their home, right? This isn't you sitting at your home. You went into their home.Amy Donaldson Yes.Justin Stoddart Okay, well, let's circle back on that story. We're gonna let everybody that's watching this. Hang on just a little bit to hear what happened. It looks like you have your limbs. It looks like you're you made it I don't know about your nephew yet.Amy Donaldson We went back in the water that day. So I'm gonna let everyone sit on that and think why on earth? What not? Why did my sister let me bring her kid back in the water? Right? Justin Stoddart So So talk to us about this. What in the world does this have to do with real estate right now? Amy Donaldson So here's the thing. There is so much going on in our industry and there's a lot of stuff in the waters of real estate. So that's the parallel that I saw. People we see things and there's a lot of chatter, is this thing a threat, is that a threat, is this friendly but but nobody's swimming to shore to assess this. Not nobody a lot of people are but a lot of people aren't a lot of people are just kind of like hanging out and and debating whether things are a threat or not. Justin Stoddart And are, I'll interject, and or just doing what they've always done assuming that they're going to get the results that they've always gotten, right I mean, I, I have kind of an interesting perspective, being in the title and escrow industry, we see all the listings that go live, and we see that in a very short period of time right OpenDoor, who is an ibuyer, who has become probably the biggest listing agent in Portland in no time, which is really, really interesting. These guys were a no name a year ago and new to our market in a very ...
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    30 min
  • Kevin Kauffman- Becoming a Next Level Agent

    Kevin Kauffman- Becoming a Next Level Agent
    May 8 2019
    Justin Stoddart 0:00 Hey, welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. I'm your host Justin Stoddart. And as you know my mission and my passion are to help you think bigger, so that you can have the business that you want, which produces the options and the impact that you want. Super excited today to have kind of a real estate industry icon, possibly even celebrity depending upon what standpoint you're looking at it fromnationally known, at least His name's Kevin Kauffman. Let me start off by saying a big thank you to Kevin for being willing to come on to think bigger real estate show. Kevin Kauffman 0:28 Yeah, my pleasure. I love to do it. You know, I think you and I connected over the fact that we both love to give back to the real estate community. And so I'm literally my pleasure to do this. Justin Stoddart 0:38 That's awesome. Good stuff. Let me tell the audience here a little bit about Kevin Kauffman, again, he's a wants to be known as a realtor. I think that's pretty cool. Out of Tempe, Arizona, from another perspective, he looks at Real Estate a little bit differently. He goes about a different we're going to talk about what that's what that looks like for him. He has an expansion team and if you're familiar with expansion teams, where you have one huband one location, and you add other agents in different parts of the country, he's done. He's got five different locations about 50 agents, what he calls a small expansion group. Some might beg to differ that that's that small. He's also co-founder of the group next level agents, and the podcast, Kevin and Fred's Next Level podcast. And in talking with you, Kevin, prior to this, I love kind of your passion behind that, which is, you've been fortunate to be surrounded by some really great people. And why not give back? Why not record those conversations and let more people have access to them? Kevin Kauffman 1:35 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, like, you know, I, I realized a couple of years ago that something I've done naturally my whole life is to seek out mentorship. And sometimes it's a mentor for a season. Sometimes it's for like, one individual little thing, one topic, and sometimes it's for life, right and,and so I love learning about the genius inside of people and being able to want toMy reasons for having the Facebook group I mean, the day I started that and then told Cody and Fred: "Hey guys, we now have a Facebook group, surprise!" And the reason I started the podcast was that I wanted to be able to do that on a bigger level as you can only teach live to so many people so often without being on an airplane 300 days a year, which I'm not willing to do. And so it's kind of like my ability to kind of deliver on that stuff that really lights me up. Justin Stoddart 2:27 You know, I feel the same way. A very similar motive for the bigger real estate show is I'm I guess, gutsy enough and passionate enough advocate for the industry, that I want to get the brightest minds in real estate. Like I want to be around them, and I want to be learning from them. And why not offer that to a bigger audience? Why not? Like, let's like with technology these days, there's no reason why we can't be broadcasting great conversations all the time. So thank you again for being a part of that. Yeah. Let's get into kind of your definition, Kevin of what it means to be a next level agent.You've obviously carried that through your kind of your branding, both in the Facebook group as well as the podcast, obviously, in your mind, you have some concept of what it means to be a next level agent help define that. For the rest of us. Kevin Kauffman 3:14 You know, it's funny, Justin, that's a great question. No one's ever asked it to me that way.But you just forced me to think about it differently. And one of the things I love is the fact that there's not this one size fits all recipe for success in real estate business. And so for me, when I think of like, what, like I say this to people who want to be coached, and I'm, I'm like, we go through an interview process to see if I'm gonna, if I'm going to coach them if I could be a good fit for them, but they'd be a good fit for me is, I don't care if you sold 10 houses this year, and your goal is to go to 25. Or if you sold 500 houses and your goal is to go to 1000 I really don't. But what I want to know is the desire to hit your personal next level there and Will you follow through on the actions that are requiredSo when you ask the question that way, you just reminded me, number one, it's about whatever that next level is for you. And number two, it's also about it doesn't not like you don't have to go the expansion team route. You don't have to go the team route. You could go the luxury route, you could go the investor, right, like there are so many ways to be massively successful in real estate. And so I guess at the end of the day, that's how I would answer it is like, it's the person who ...
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    23 min
  • Overcoming Naysayers | Nathan Jones

    Overcoming Naysayers | Nathan Jones
    Sep 3 2020

    The thoughts that you think are directly connected to the results you get. Period. Knowing this, it becomes extremely important to be very intentional about what impacts our thinking.

    In this episode, 27-year veteran Nathan Jones shares his stories of his father telling him that he shouldn’t be a real estate agent and so many more after him. Early in his career another person close to him called him the Scam-Man. He has overcome the fact that as a result of the color of his skin, some people will not let him in their home. He has also overcome the often insidious and subtle voice that in our head that can plague all of us that says that we can’t reach our biggest goals.

    He has learned, and we discuss here, how overcoming naysayers is an essential component to achieving your biggest goals. Those around you will say things that will hold you back. When they do this, it is actually a reflection on them, not you. Listen to their input accordingly. They say this for one of two reasons:

    1. They love you and want to protect you from getting hurt.
    2. They are jealous and don’t want your successes to make them look less successful.

    Throughout his career, one-by-one, he has overcome naysayers and is now able to do that more quickly and effectively than ever before. Listen in to hear the many take-aways that will undoubtedly help you to avoid those that shrink your thinking and move towards those that grow your thinking.


    Additional Resources:

    Follow me on:
    Instagram: nathan_jones_realtor
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homejones
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanjonesgroup/
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    27 min
  • Rags to Riches in Real Estate | Gogo Bethke

    Rags to Riches in Real Estate | Gogo Bethke
    Jul 8 2020

    In her own words, here is Gogo’s story:


    “I came to the US in 2003 to build my American Dream. By process of elimination; after trying to work in data entry in a warehouse, a sales rep in a jewelry store, restaurant food safety auditor to stay at home mom, to waitress; my neighbor recommended I’ll be a Realtor. She referred me to a local brokerage. They offered me a job if I pass my test. I did and I was so excited to be a Realtor! Reality kicked me in the a** very quickly. Realized over 80% of the Realtors give up in the 1st year. I was not about to be a statistic. But I was also broke, no SOI, no experience, barely speaking english with $6 to my name. So that left me with nothing else but Facebook at the time. That’s where I started. I created Gogo’s Real Estate and my real estate career started! It took me a few years to get the rhythm of things but I’m proud to say with the power of social media I’ve sold over $56M in residential real estate transactions.


    I share the good, the bad, and the ugly side of real estate, and my honest snippets into my every day got me tens of thousands of followers and in the real estate community I earned the nickname “the social media Queen”. More and more I got asked to talk at different real estate events teaching Realtors how to build a brand and become their own lead generating magnet. I also built a social media bootcamp for Realtors so I can help thousands of agents at the same time. You can find it at www.gogosbootcamp.com.


    Throughout my career I’ve been with 3 brokerages. Real Estate One was my 1st one and stayed with them for 6.5 years. I got recruited all the time but I had it so good at REO, I really had no reason to switch. Then because my Instagram and Facebook following took off, most followers being agents, Keller Williams got to me with their “profit share” model. So February 2018 I switched to KW. But profit share opened my eyes to “revenue share” and in Nov 2018, I switched to Exp Realty. It was a great business decision, maybe the best in my career. Today I have a team of 160+ agents and are growing nationwide.


    My goal is to help as many agents as I possibly can to make a name for themselves in this cut-throat industry. If I can do it, this girl from Transylvania, Romania with no US education, no SOI, no money, no experience, and an accent then THEY can definitely do it.”


    Some of the most valuable takeaways from my conversation with Gogo were:

    • How she has her Instagram and Facebook accounts set up and why
    • How she has her team structured and why she chose eXp
    • How often she posts and for what purpose only does she use paid advertising
    • What she does to think bigger and expand her possibilities: daily visualization of her biggest goals as a current reality


    Additional Resources:


    Follow me on:

    Instagram: @gogosrealestate

    Facebook: facebook.com/gogosrealestate

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gogobethke/

    Bootcamp: Www.gogosbootcamp.com
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    37 min