The Elevate Podcast – Hosted by Samantha McLean
‘Elevate’ is the official podcast of Elite Agent Magazine for real estate industry sales professionals, property managers, and leaders. Each episode, we will bring you behind the scenes coaching, news analysis, exclusive interviews, technology, and more to help you list more, sell more, and elevate your results. To connect with all things Elite Agent visit eliteagent.com/subscribe.
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Dec- 2019 -13 December
What I learned at Harvard University about negotiation: Pancho Mehrotra
“It seems we are so fixated on more and more and more that we can’t celebrate what we are actually achieving.” - Pancho Mehrotra Pancho Mehrota is the CEO of Frontier Performance and an expert in communication, influence and the psychology of selling.
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10 December
Bolstering productivity and customer service: David Holman
“I think the biggest gain in productivity, is to create that level of collaboration and to create the spaces that really allow people to have those key conversations, meet each other and start talking about what they’re doing in their day, their work and hopefully then say how can we help each other be better?”…
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7 December
Thriving in your first year of real estate: Ryan Smith
“If I knocked on 100 doors and 99 said no it didn’t really bother me.” - Ryan Smith Realmark Rookie of the Year, Ryan Smith believes in integrity, energy, hard work and creative service in every facet of life, not just real estate. An exceptional sportsman, who represented WA in football and golf, Ryan joined…
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4 December
Embracing online auctions: David Scholes
“What is most important is for an agent not to be scared to do something different. Not to be scared to approach an owner with a bold new plan … to differentiate themselves. Be adventurous enough to do something different because, I promise you, owners that have to select an agent are not going to…
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Nov- 2019 -29 November
Real estate trends in 2020: Dean O’Brien
“When we sit in a room we are allowed to have a difference of opinion, but when we leave that room we can only have one direction.” - Dean O'Brien
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22 November
The road to financial freedom and creating a life with purpose: Nancy Youssef
“Like anything where there's adversity. I see there's opportunity. And what I've seen a lot of business owners do, including ourselves, has been to go back and audit our business and say, right, well this was a bit of a scare. This was a bit of a shakeup. How are we running business today and…
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16 November
Competition, Transparency and Social Proof: Will Ainsworth
“The only people that will succeed at Openn Negotiation are honest real estate agents, for starters. There’s more work involved in this process than there is under the traditional selling methods, so it does take a bit of time, but once you master it, it’s quite an easy process.” – Will Ainsworth Download the action guide…
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8 November
Exactly what to say to progress the deal: Jimmy Mackin
“Sales shouldn't be sleazy. Sales shouldn't be misleading. Sales should not be something where. It's an argument, and oftentimes when we look at the landscape, we look at the scripts that are out there. We found that the outdated techniques that agents were using were both ineffective and didn't really represent what we felt were…
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1 November
How to become an authority in real estate by writing a book: Geoff Grist
“If you can find an area that you want to educate somebody about, how you do the job, what happens ‘if’…there’s a lot of things that can go wrong and if you can explain all those in an easy to read way, there’s probably a book in it." – Geoff Grist In this episode of the…
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Oct- 2019 -25 October
Tara Bradbury – Building A Rent Roll From Scratch
Tara Bradbury, the Founder of the BDM Academy, has, over many years, being someone who has immensely raised the profile and status of the role of business development manager. In this podcast, she shares not only lessons from her time as a BDM coach, but also now in the role of business owner having this…
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16 October
Perry Marshall – The network effect and how to build a business that lasts
Perry Marshall is one of the most expensive business strategists in the world. He's guided clients like FanDuel and InfusionSoft from startups to hundreds of millions of dollars. Not only that, NASA's Jet Propulsion Labs uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. His…
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11 October
Jeff Turner: How to future-proof your real estate business
Jeff Turner has been a leader in all things digital in the real estate industry for decades - and now he helps tech startups understand and navigate the real estate industry as a part of the NAR incubator program. In this interview with Hayley, we take a deep dive into how technology is changing real…
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4 October
Hayley Mitchell: How to increase productivity in property management
Hayley Mitchell started in real estate in 1999 and has worked in all facets of property management. She’s won numerous awards including REIV property manager of the year two times and has twice been named on the Elite Agent industry influencers list in 2017 and 2018. She also recently launched a new business, Geelong Property…
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Sep- 2019 -27 September
Mark McLeod – The fundamentals of business growth in real estate
With a wealth of experience in the real estate industry, Mark McLeod is the Chief of Growth of the largest real estate group in Australia. Mark’s role focuses in on how agents can grow themselves personally in order to grow the business professionally. In this interview, Mark discusses growth in any market, how the role…
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20 September
Kylie Walsh, DiJONES – Strategic recruitment and how to retain key people
Kylie Walsh is the General Manager of DiJONES and has more than 20 years of real estate experience in every type of role. She began her career at the young age of 21, where she bought her first real estate office in Tamworth. This was only the first step in a successful corporate property management…
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13 September
Starting a real estate business in a niche market – Adrian Wilson
With nearly 20 years of real estate experience and an MBA under his belt, Adrian Wilson is a multi-award-winning real estate agent who is now conquering the Sydney City apartment market via his new venture Ayre Real Estate, an agency that is specialising in high-rise apartments.
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6 September
Jason Rose – Optimising Vendor Marketing Campaigns
Jason Rose began his career in real estate back in 1987, specialising as an auctioneer, traveling all around Australia. He was always determined to be the best in his business, but realised he wanted to transition to other parts of the industry. Spending some time as a real estate salesperson, business development manager, co-owner of…
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Aug- 2019 -30 August
100 episodes of Elevate – Claudio Encina, Samantha McLean and Mark Edwards
Claudio Encina takes the host chair asking the burning questions about how the podcast started, some of our favourite moments, and how to wrangle content.
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23 August
What Gavin Rubinstein did next – Episode 99
Gavin Rubinstein, lead agent of Ray White The Rubinstein Group has proven himself to be among the best real estate agents in Australia. Recently, he broke with his long-time association with Ray White Double Bay and in this interview he speaks out about how hard work and teamwork have enabled him to reach those heights…
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16 August
What the Best Real Estate Agents Are Doing: Stu Benson – Episode 98
The best real estate agents know their market, its demographics, its historical issues, and the needs of the homeowners they serve - and they do the hard work of talking openly with their clients about whether they can expect to get their dream price or not. That’s the opinion of Stu Benson, our guest on…
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9 August
How To Maximise Digital Marketing For Real Estate: Lisa and Mark Novak – Episode 97
Digital Marketing, for real estate agents can be tricky business. You don’t want to come across too sales-y - and you don’t want to avoid digital channels altogether. Where can you find the right balance? Lisa and Mark Novak have discovered that being genuinely themselves and getting past the fears associated with creating videos and…
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2 August
Innovative thinking in Real Estate: Lisa Messenger – Episode 96
Work-life balance has been taking on additional meaning as technology is creating ways to stay connected to work wherever you may be. For real estate agents this brings two types of opportunities: Doing what you love to do and the ability to work on your own terms; employing flexible teams that choose to work on…
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Jul- 2019 -26 July
Tips For Reaching Peak Performance: Wayne Pearce OAM – Episode 95
“Peak performance” is a term that can apply to many disciplines - sports, entertainment, business, politics - and one of the Australian legends known for performing at the very top of his game, in a quite literal way, is Wayne Pearce. Wayne’s reputation as a professional rugby league player and coach never fails to stir…
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19 July
Things are looking up for the Australian Real Estate Market: Matt Lahood
The Australian Real Estate Market has seen its share of difficulties in the past 12 months. With an election behind us and an interesting future ahead, we thought it would be a good idea to bring you the perspective of an industry leader who has seen many cycles of ups and downs and is respected…
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12 July
The Property Management Models of Today: Fiona Blayney
How many property management models are out there today? It’s an interesting question because most people in PM only think in terms of one model - the traditional, full-service approach to managing properties for clients. But there are more options on the table for our customers now, with the vast array of technology available and…
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4 July
Reading the crowd and maximising the final bid: Damien Cooley
Damien Cooley is without doubt one of Australia's most recognised and booked property auctioneers. Starting in real estate 20 years ago in property management, Damien is now relied upon by his many blue chip clients for his intimate style, professionalism and unsurpassed calibre of service. Many of you have probably seen Damien working his magic…
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Jun- 2019 -28 June
10 ideas that will make you more successful in real estate sales: Alex Mintorn
Over the past nine years, Alex Mintorn has become one of the leading agents on Sydney's Upper North Shore. He is also one of the top four agents in the McGrath network of more than 900 agents Australia-wide. Along with his partner, Maddie Stock, they have been involved in more than 79 sales, worth almost…
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21 June
How to sell a property every 1.7 days: Tom Hector
At the age of 28, Tom Hector is already a veteran in the industry. He got his big break when he was still a teenager, winning the 2008 South Australian Auction Idol competition, and has never looked back. Having pressed pause on the plumbing apprenticeship he took up after leaving year 12, his success in…
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14 June
Sell (and market) like crazy: Sabri Suby
Sabri Suby is a serial entrepreneur who runs one of Australia's fastest growing end-to-end digital marketing agencies King Kong. Having originally founded the company in 2014 from his bedroom, in under five years he has successfully built a blue chip clientele, many of them in the real estate industry. Having just released a book “Sell…
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May- 2019 -11 May
Episode 88: Balancing leadership, management and family – Melanie Laing
In this week’s edition of The Leadership Diaries, our special guest is Head of Connectnow, Melanie Laing. Melanie (Mel) boasts an impressive resume as a leader, having held senior roles AGL and HSBC - and learned from one of the best in Jack Welch during her time at GE. In this episode she, of course, gave Sam the scoop on some…
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4 May
Episode 87: Securing the transaction with Lee Bailie
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean sat down with InfoTrack General Manager of Product and Innovation, Lee Bailie. Sam and Lee had a chat about the biggest cyber threats facing real estate businesses right now and how the company's latest offering - Securexchange, can help keep you and your clients protected.
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Apr- 2019 -27 April
Episode 86 Chris Hanley OAM: How to remain optimistic while planning for challenges
In this week's edition of The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean sat down with First National Byron Bay Principal Chris Hanley OAM. Chris had just come back from New Zealand soon after the Christchurch attacks and in this podcast Chris talks about what's happening with Rise conference, the 80/20 rule in real estate, effective delegation and how you might plan for…
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19 April
Episode 85: Adam Bryant and Bobby Reynolds – Behind the suits
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, Samantha McLean catches up with the boys from Agency Central, Adam Bryant and Bobby Reynolds. Adam and Bobby share their real estate journey so far, their philosophy behind social media, digital marketing and the making of their successful podcast.
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13 April
John McGrath – What it takes to win in 2019
In this week's edition of the Elevate podcast, it's a warm welcome back to John McGrath. Samantha McLean caught up with John to talk about this year's AREC conference, winning in the current market, the future and what's changed since he wrote the classic You Inc. back in 2003.
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Mar- 2019 -30 March
Episode 83 Owen Wilson: ‘Stay the Course’
In this week's special edition of The Leadership Diaries, Samantha McLean sat down exclusively with the new CEO of REA Group, Owen Wilson. With the industry currently in a fluctuating state, Owen shares his immediate goals for REA Group, where he sees the opportunities for growth in the industry and what the future might look like. He also shares some…
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