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Welcome to Real Estate Connections podcast.
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Today, I am thrilled to have Julie Delucca-Collins with me to talk about something that's really important to me, which is Real Estate Connections podcast, which has been in production for eight months and was co-created with Julie Delucca-Collins and Dan Collins.
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Now that it is eight months young, it's having its own morphing.
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I invited Julie to give her perspective on the evolution of this podcast and where it can go.
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(Music) Welcome to Real Estate Connections podcast, where relationships open doors.
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I'm Mary Foerster, and housing is a universal need.
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We are often thinking about our existing housing, our future housing, that possibly of family members.
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This is where you're going to hear the issues and people who are working the issues every day.
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Please hit subscribe and like if you find this podcast helpful to you.
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Thank you.
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Julie, founder and CEO of GoConfidently Services, Casa de Confidence Productions, and a podcaster, over 300 episodes of GoConfidently, and Brave Moves Daily-ish, has been going on for a whole year.
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Wow.
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Welcome, Julie.
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Thank you for having me, Mary.
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I'm always excited to chat with you, whether it's on or off the air.
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Thank you again for the invitation.
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Definitely.
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Julie, you have observed the creation of this podcast, and you are very instrumental in putting together the early words to describe it.
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As a creator, I have always had questions about, is this in the right direction?
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Is it reaching the right audience?
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I know that you think about things objectively and subjectively.
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You're my queen.
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You're my great reviewer.
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Please, please, your thoughts and observations on this podcast and its evolution.
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Well, Mary, I have to say that the first thing that comes to mind, you and your listeners may not love my answer, but I wonder when I think about the evolution of the podcast, is I always come back to being curious about that.
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Has the podcast evolved in the way that you anticipated it might, or is it moving in directions that you didn't see coming?
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Yes.
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I would say the latter for sure.
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The latter, yeah.
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I don't know what I expected in terms of the evolution.
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I know that I didn't expect to do solos.
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I know that.
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That seems to be a next level of podcasting.
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But no, the answer is I'm curious about where it's headed.
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This is the thing for most of us, and this doesn't just apply to podcasting, but it can apply to so many different areas of life.
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I think we have a very clear dream at times, and then we begin to get more clarity as we begin to decide how we're going to make the dream happen.
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And this is when we realize,"Oh, I dreamed that I'm going to have 99 balloons in the air." And then when we get to the store, they don't have red balloons.
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So we're going to have to adjust what that looks like, right?
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And I think that the same thing with podcasting.
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We don't know what we don't know until we're there.
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And the evolution, I think, for so many of us is that we believe, we understand, we know, and we're excited about it, beginning a show.
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But what begins to happen is, one, we gain experience, we gain perspective, and more importantly, we realize the things that we are passionate about also needed for audiences, but also it's going to take adjustment to be able to share to the audience in a way that they can receive it, or they're expecting or looking for it.
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And that's one of the things that happens a lot in podcasting.
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What I found, though, Julie, is that with each guest, the podcast morphed a little differently, or it went a different way.
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There are so many related topics to real estate connections.
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And with my background at ARP and as a realtor, that I expected it to go a certain direction, all kinds of information about lending and all kinds of information about how to move or not move.
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And so, yes, we've covered those things, but what I ran into is a lot of feeling, a lot of personal experience.
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So, for example, you're very familiar with the aspect of caregivers, caregivers, what their challenges are, and what the real estate needs around them might be.
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So, that kind of pushed me over here and got me to think, oh, no, no, I need to go back and do accessory dwelling units, loans, and so I'm back and forth, back and forth.
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Yeah, and one of the things that I feel, that there is a great wealth of podcasts on the ins and outs of real estate, investing, mortgages, how to location, location, and the gamut, right?
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But what is
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happening is, and I believe that this totally aligns to you as an individual, Mary, you are an exquisite professional when it comes to anything that you do.
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And this has been my experience, and I'm not just saying that because I work with you, but I do feel a lot of respect for you as a professional, but you bring to the table one thing that makes this conversation meaningful.
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It's not just about the numbers, it's not just about the ins and outs of real estate that you may find that information in other shows, which is great, but you're bringing a little bit of the heart in there, and you're not separating the fact that there's an emotional component to what is happening with some of these real estate decisions, especially at later in life.
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And for me as a caretaker, someone can tell me, yeah, you need a new bathroom, you need to do this, and you need to do that when it comes to your home.
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And that is great because I do need the facts, but the emotional component of what goes behind the scenes, what I may be feeling, what I may be questioning, are the things that you're covering, and that's the one thing that people are thirsty for when it comes to this type of information.
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Interesting that you should say that because I've had some really feeling discussions with people and I've been, whoa, is that the way it was supposed to go?
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But I'm hearing you though, I'm hearing that the dimension I bring as a podcaster might be a little more unique than just the information.
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This is what you might need to make a decision, et cetera, and this is who you need to talk to.
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So, well, thank you, thank you for that perspective.
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No, absolutely, and I will tell you that this is, goes back to conversations that you and I have had offline.
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You have often said, hey, I've heard and I've talked to people and I know that I need to find a niche.
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And that's great, I do believe in niching down.
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I'm a fan of Pat Flynn and he often says, the riches are in the niches and I do follow that.
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However, it goes beyond a niche.
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I think that it goes beyond just trying to find that ideal listener, it goes into you sharing your heart with people and understanding that at this point in life, there is a lot of stake, right?
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When it comes to the purchasing of a home, downsizing from a home, making a move, or who are we going to collaborate with when it comes to making upgrades to our home?
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So you're taking that into consideration as you're bringing in the message and you're creating a space where I believe it's like, you're a little corner of the universe where is a comfortable and safe place to have these discussions because not everywhere and not everyone is having these type of discussions.
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So you've watched it be focused on real estate, but I've been out there, I've been out there and a whole lot of things.
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And from your view, I mean, you have a finger on the culture, you have a finger on podcasting and you have been a speaker, a presenter, a trainer in all this area, obviously, niche down, is what we've been hearing.
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But what do you see from your unique perspective, from your bird's eye view, what do you see in terms of what would be valuable in the evolution of real estate connections?
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Yeah, so I think that, again, the conversation when it comes to, and I wanna move away from talking about niching down, but I wanna come into the conversation of what the title of your show is, Connections, right?
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And it's about bringing the type of information to the individuals who wanna hear it from a trusted professional, a trusted person and knowing you, and I wanna assure the listeners that you don't bring anybody onto your show who you have invented and you don't necessarily feel, and you have to feel confident about what they're talking about.
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And I think that this is the reason why we may be shifting a little bit of your focus, but it's still in a way in which you are setting up a buffet of information for people in which it's high quality farm to table food.
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(Laughing) Farm to table.
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Right, it's not just I went and I got a bunch of things from the dollar store and put them on the table, not that there's anything wrong with that, right?
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But what you're trying to curate is something that if you were the consumer of this information, this is how you would want to receive it as well.
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And I think that that is the piece that sometimes helps us understand that, wait, I wanted to set this table with this type of linens, but maybe people are just looking for something different than that.
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Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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That use it all the right words, the word connection, it just makes my heart sing, you know?
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It resonates with me in terms of a cultural thing that we have disconnected so much, but we do need to connect and we are organic beings and I agree with you.
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Okay, so I'm standing by.
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Do you have any vision?
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Is there anything in the crystal ball that Julie sees at this moment?
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Yeah, I think that here's the one thing that goes along with connection.
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Once you have a connection, you create a community.
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And I believe that you are setting the table for a community, in a community where not only can people come and find their people, but find the type of information and support that will help them navigate whatever choices and rides that they choose to take outside of your community, outside of this podcast.
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And you are going to invite people to the table to serve them, to help them, to support them, that not only can be trusted, but are the high caliber individuals that sometimes we have a hard time finding on our own.
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Sometimes that we have a hard time discerning who is the right choice for me.
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And by you having this platform where people can speak and people can learn and learn together and learn alongside of you and guided by you, right?
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I believe that you're going to create something that is different because we live in a world that we don't have shortage of information.
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Information is available to everyone.
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However, what you're creating is not just the information, but the support that goes alongside with the information.
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So am I seeing a suggestion for a different title?
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I am possibly, you know, we've been talking about this internally, you and I, different title, different description, not so much so because you're not talking about real estate, not because you're not talking about connections, but because we want to be able to really position ourselves in a way so that sort of that lighthouse that when people aren't looking to how to get to shore, they're going to have the guiding light from you.
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Awesome.
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And sometimes it may not necessarily be, right, to what people look for when they're looking for that.
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So that would be the reason why I feel that that's going to be very, very important.
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Now we've talked about different titles.
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We talked about possibilities of what's out there.
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And I feel that, you know, as with anything, we can conceptualize something and we can lean into something that we feel is the right direction.
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However, we also want to take into consideration, what do people need?
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What is the community thirsty for?
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And with that, that's a little bit of what we have looked at.
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And I know that the title that we had initially looked at is with the themes that we just shared, right?
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Talking about designing this next chapter of life.
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And that really, right?
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What is your next chapter, designing your next chapter of life?
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And I'd be curious to hear what do the individuals who listen to the show would think of that name, designing for life, because there's so many stages and ages, but I don't believe that we write one chapter in our lives.
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We evolve all the time.
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We are living this life and our life has these chapters.
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And this book has multiple different things that are coming along, but we get to decide how to write that book.
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We get to decide what that is going to look like.
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And when we write, we write from our experiences, from our knowledge, from our exposure to things.
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And that's what you're helping individuals with.
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You're exposing them, you're guiding them, you're showing them, you're giving them those tools so that they themselves can take all that information, all the resources, and then decide how that is going to play out in their page.
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Excellent, excellent.
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Well, we just spent the weekend talking about values, right?
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Ooh, love that.
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And I have to say that along with connections, values are just so important.
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And I do look for shared values and I do try to be tolerant of very different values.
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And because this world, we're not all one, you know, we're definitely not one.
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I found that as a realtor, and that was the excitement, part of the excitement of being a real estate professional.
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Well, Julie, I thank you so very much for your time today and your perspective.
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Well, thank you, Mary, for having me.
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And listen, I love that you are exploring.
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And this is such a great example, and I think for the listeners, I wanna encourage you, there is never a time where you are not able to explore any time that you feel, what is next?
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Give yourself permission to be curious, give yourself permission to know where you've been and how those experiences can then inform the next step for you.
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That's gonna be really clear.
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And I think that for you, again, leading by example, which I love.
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Great, thank you again, Julie.
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I look forward to more of your podcasts and more of your coaching and all the wonderful projects you're working on.
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Well, Mary, keep doing what you're doing because this is the story of our lives, right?
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That we create and we iterate and then we share with others.
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So thank you for the work that you do.
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Exactly, thank you again, Julie.
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All right, bye everybody.
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Bye.
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Thank you so much for joining us today.
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And I hope you found this conversation useful to you and your real estate goals.
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You'll find the contact information for our guests and any links they recommend you have in the show notes.
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And should we be able to help you identify some strong real estate professionals in your area, drop us a note at info at realestakeconnectionspodcast.com.
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Thanks again and bye for now.
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