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Episode 62: Brooke Flint – How to head start home ownership for the community

Brooke Flint, Director and Buyers Agent at Flint Property, talks about how Head Start Homes is helping community housing residents purchase their own home, how she coaches her clients to be ‘buyer ready’, how COVID has impacted her and her clients, her own experience with social housing and how she is supporting small business owners through the Give One, Grow One initiative.

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Episode 61: Antonia Mercorella – How to lead effectively through uncertainty and conflict

Antonia Mercorella, Chief Executive Officer at the Real Estate Institute of Queensland (REIQ), talks about her previous career paths in law and performing arts, her experience working at the REISA and eventually the REIQ, what it’s like being the only female leader in the room, her approaches to dispute resolution and bolstering her teams, how COVID has impacted her, and how she and the REIQ have campaigned during these times. 

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Episode 60: Juliana Gomes – How to become a real estate agent as a backpacker who can’t speak English

Juliana Gomes, Licensed Real Estate Agent at Kingfisher Realty, talks about moving from Brazil to the Gold Coast with nothing but her partner and her backpack, working at the Burleigh Heads Surf Club, how this led to her gig at Kingfisher Realty, what gave her the strength to persist and keep going, and how her story has been picked up by the media and continues to inspire others around her.

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Episode 58: Jason Partington – How to make meditation mainstream

Jason Partington, Founder of Making Meditation Mainstream, talks about the Making Meditation Mainstream program, MMM’s latest campaign called ’28 for TWENTY EIGHT’, why he started MMM and what led to his own meditation routines, his advice for those who finding meditating difficult and what he hopes to achieve through his mission to connect the world in meditation. 

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Episode 57: Miriam Sandkuhler – How to choose empowerment and stand up for your worth

Welcome to Episode 57 of our podcast, Courageous Conversations, hosted by Leanne Pilkington. In this episode, our guest is Miriam Sandkuhler, CEO and Buyer/Vendor Advocate at Property Mavens, and best-selling author of Property Prosperity. Miriam talks about her transition to real estate from financial services, dealing with chronic fatigue and anxiety, launching her business, how…

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Episode 55: Andy Reid – The silver linings of mental health and how it inspires action

Andy Reid, Owner/Managing Director at Simplify Marketing, Director at Sold By Auctions, talks about his early career in hospitality management, moving to Australia with his wife and beginning his property career, his experience with depression and anxiety, how he dealt with his mental health obstacle, what lockdown was like for him in Melbourne, and his plans for the future in the real estate space.

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Episode 54: Jacquie Love – How to build the Secret Sisterhood movement

Jacquie Love, Founder of Secret Sisterhood, talks about how dabbling in journalism during her fashion design university degree led to exploring the topic of human trafficking, her life-changing charity work trip to India to rescue and rehabilitate girls from sex trafficking, starting the Secret Sisterhood movement, creating a symbol for gender equality, spreading her message through jewellery and what’s next in her journey to support women’s causes.

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Episode 53: Tim McKibbin – How to lead with influence and champion professionalism as CEO of the REINSW

Tim McKibbin, CEO of the REINSW, talks about his journey across careers in mining, accounting law and real estate, what it’s like being the CEO of the REINSW, his views on discrimination, why he surrounds himself with role models within his leadership teams, the challenges associated with fighting for professionalism in the real estate industry and how he stays motivated.

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