• The Final Episode: Think Bigger Real Estate
    Apr 7 2026

    After nine years and nearly 500 episodes, Justin Stoddart reflects on the decision to end the Think Bigger Real Estate podcast—and shares lessons on growth, alignment, and the evolving role of trust. Tune in to gain almost a decade of insights in a fifteen minutes, and get a sneak peek at what comes next.

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    15 Min.
  • How to Scale Individual Attention
    Dec 26 2025

    In this episode, Andrea Gordon shares her insights on how to maintain individualized attention while being a top-producing real estate agent.

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    23 Min.
  • The Ultimate Referral System
    Dec 11 2025

    In this episode, we sit down with Boise real estate powerhouse Christina Ward to unpack how she built a thriving business with an astonishing 86% referral rate. Christina shares the systems, mindset, and generosity-driven strategies behind her “ultimate referral system,” including her 52-touch plan, community events, home makeovers, and the art of teaching clients how to truly refer.

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    36 Min.
  • 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
    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.
  • John Jayne- 2 things real estate agents must do to be safe
    Mar 11 2019
    Welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. Realtor safety--is it a real thing? Is it something that you need to be concerned about? That's today's topic. I'm passionate about this topic because I happen to have a lot of real estate agents that are very good friends and I don't know that the world that we live in is getting to be any safer. And so for today's topic I brought on an individual who has a very storied background in self defense. He's a former marine, a former police officer, a current private investigator and a security consultant. I'm excited to have him on the show. I met him a few weeks ago, and I was very impressed with him as I actually heard his presentation on Realtor self-defense that you're going to be hearing more about and are actually going to be receiving an invitation to attend. But in the meantime, I want you to be safe until you have a chance to attend that. So I want to welcome to today's episode, John Jayne. John, thanks for being on the show.Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.Yeah, so let's get into this. John is this hype? Are people blowing out of proportion the threats that real estate agents are facing?Absolutely not. No way. It's a, it's very real. It's very current and it's growing.Okay. Tell me some evidence behind this. What makes you say that? Is this your gut feel or is there some data to back that up?No, there's a lot of data out there. It's sometimes hard to access, but what I've found is the National Association of Realtors puts out a report every year on safety and statistics on attacks. A big surge lately, which isn't really my forte has been electronic data security. There's been a lot of identity theft, which has increased over the years. Forgeries, fraud, stuff like that whereas my expertise is in the physical security and those numbers are growing as well. When I first got into this topic, I started going through it.Let's talk about what some of those numbers are. I know there's 1.2 million real estate agents in the nation today. Is that number right?Correct. Roughly.Okay. Talk to me about how many of those on a percentage basis or actual number basis have felt some sort of threat.So, of those polled, 38% reported being threatened or had felt unsafe during a showing of a home or an open house,Thirty-eight percent!! So over one in three real estate agents at some point have felt a potential real threat.Correct. And that could range anything from just the hair on the back of their neck standing up, to an actual attack happening.Now I know we've heard of situations, actual homicides, terrible tragic stories--a handful of those we've heard about. I know that as you start digging into this to see if this really was a real area of need you uncovered, and not that I want to go into necessarily the gory details, but you found more than what you expected to find, didn't you?Way more than I expected to find. What really got me started in this area was I was hired to do some consulting for an apartment complex. They had one of their leasing agents attacked showing an apartment. So I kind of started delving into the statistics and some case studies. And then obviously, I know a lot of Realtors as well, and I started looking into this aspect of it. And the number of stories, the new stories, just if you Google real attack on Realtors, it's unbelievable how often this happens and how extreme the attacks are.Jeez. Okay--so it's real. I know having stayed close to a forum here that's a pretty popular one, Masters in Real Estate that it's not just in other parts of the country, right? There's stuff happening right here in Portland, Oregon. I know my audience extends beyond that and I'm sure that people outside of Portland can validate that as well, that it's happening all around us. I would say in part because of the rise of access to pornography and other things as I'm sure things other than just that it's increasing the number of predators out there. Would you agree with that?Absolutely. One case that I became familiar with while putting this presentation together, it really unfolded as if it were some sort of a kind of a pornographic fantasy where a real estate agent was showing a home, they made it up to the master bedroom and he attempted to seduce her from the bed as if he had watched this maybe in a video of some sort. And luckily that case didn't turn out to be the case that I used as an example of success. She had been trained, she had practiced and thought through tactics and mindset stuff to where she knew exactly what to do in that situation and made it out safely. But it could've been, it could've been much worse.So that we don't end on the downside, right, we're here to talk about how to prevent this. So let's give them two points, John. Let's, give them two key points. And obviously you have an entire training that they're going to be invited to in the very near future that will give them a much more kind of robust set of tools to defend ...
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    11 Min.
  • Pedro Adao- Missed Opportunity between Realtors and Financial Planners
    Feb 23 2019
    Welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. This is Justin Stoddart, your host and I'm really excited to be here tonight in Nashville, Tennessee at Funnel Hacking Live with a good friend of mine Pedro Adao. I even said it with a Portuguese accent.Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Tell them why you know that. So, I speak Portuguese. In fact, you're probably my best use of that for the past 20 years, meaning, I haven't used my Portuguese much at all. So this is going to be fun. He has good Portuguese enunciation. I was pleasantly surprised. He said my name right. It's very hard. It's a very hard name to say. Beautiful Man. So this guy, very, very successful financial planner and has achieved at some of the highest levels in his industry. He's also built a movement of Christian entrepreneurs. Maybe some of them in fact, who I've seen that have liked your page. You have some fans in Portland, Oregon. 100x Academy has hit Portland. Yes, 100x Academy. If you don't know what that is go take a look at it. Ben Rose, he was the guy in my area that I remember that had liked your page. Yeah, he's a videographer. He might be watching this and if not, I'm tagging him in this video. So Pedro, I'm going to talk tonight about financial planners and real estate agents. I work all day, every day with real estate agents, helping them have better businesses and better lives. And this guy, again succeeds at a really high level as a financial planner and as we began to talk, we realized that there's some commonalities, some common struggles and woes that real estate agents and financial planners face and some potential opportunities that you and I are talking about helping them to explore. Honestly, for me it makes no sense. This is like one of, probably the most under underutilized potential relationships. I know there's BNI and other networking type concepts, but like for real, if you're a Realtor, instead of having to go beg for leads from your mortgage lender, which if you have a lender that will do that--amazing. Alright, I mean that's, obviously still worth pursuing but also having two or three life insurance agents. Then you can network with and you can send them a lead, and guys, an insurance agent, a good insurance agent is in someone's home two, three, four, five times a week! And, and these are people, they obviously own a home or are looking to and they obviously met with their life insurance agent, which means they have some level of wherewithal. They love their family and care about their family and this is like ideal for a Realtor. I want to expound upon that. You think about when a life insurance agent is inside a home, it's typically when they're getting married, when they're having a new baby, when maybe they are getting ready to retire, all of which are triggers for real estate agents to say, Hey, somebody might be moving here. You're adding a baby to the house, you're getting married, you're thinking about life insurance and you're probably also thinking about a new home. Like there's often like a perfect connection here in that they need both of you at the same time. And what's happening now is there's a big industry called mortgage protection. Mortgage protection is a whole industry that the life insurance industry has created on the back of loan activity. There are life insurance policy companies that send direct mail to these homes offering mortgage protection. I get them like weekly probably. Okay. Hey, if something happens and you can't pay off your mortgage insurance. Most Realtors out there might not not know this, but most of these mortgage protection offers, they're not great plans. These are not awesome. Yeah. This is basically overpriced term insurance. So if you're a Realtor and you care about your client, if you sell them a home, what I would do is as they move, tell them, "Hey, by the way, you're going to get hit with direct mail for this thing called mortgage protection. Don't do that. Ignore those letters. I actually have so-and-so, he's an expert here in town. He'll go over all the options for you and get you the best product for you at the best possible prices." Because if you don't do that, your homeowner, is was going to go to the mail, open the letter--and this mail is very deceiving, these companies make their direct mail look like it's from a Wells Fargo or look like it's from Chase Bank. They literally make your mail look like it's from the lender. "Attention homeowner in regards to your mortgage in regards to your loan amount..." They make it look like it's the lender and in small print at the bottom it says "Not the Lender", but most homeowners are going to submit this form, which becomes a lead for the insurance company. They literally thought they had to fill it out. That's how deceptive this industry is, so if you're a Realtor or a loan officer, why would you not take one minute to give a heads up to your client and then actually refer them to an integral, ...
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    9 Min.
  • Sarita Dua- Critical Components of a Personal Growth Plan
    Apr 3 2019
    Welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. I'm your host Justin Stoddart and this topic today is very meaningful to me. Even having this guest on today is an exciting thing for me. I'll introduce her here in just a second. But here's the problem that I want this episode to help you solve, which is: There's endless amounts of tactics and strategies and ideas for real estate agents to grow their business. And the opportunity is most of them will work if you grow into being the right person. The challenge is if you don't grow as a person, none of them will work. So I have with me today, Sarita Dua. Let me first of all say Sarita thank you for coming on the show today.Thanks so much Justin, for having me.I'm excited to have you here. For those of you that don't know Sarita, let me give a little background on her and I know many of you do. Over the past two years, her team, a very small team, has produced over $130 million in real estate volume. Pretty impressive for a small team. In addition to that, she has entered into the executive MBA program at MIT. For those of you who are familiar with MIT, it's a very prestigious university and to be accepted in means a lot. She loves teaching and training. It's really a passion of hers. Maybe some of you have seen her on some of the biggest stages including Keller Williams big annual event, Inman Connect, the big event that they have multiple times a year. And all over the place on podcasts and other places. So I'm, again, fortunate to have you here today, Sarita, pouring into the Think Bigger Real Estate audience. Thank you for again for your attention and your time.Of course. I appreciate it.So let's, let's dive into how are we going to solve this now. I know Sarita, you have developed and followed a growth plan and you say that that is an essential component of helping you to produce at the level that you have and I want to talk through some of the things for you that are a part of this growth plan? And, uh, maybe let's start with something that you put into the growth plan first, which is your fascination with travel. Talk to us about that because most people think that has nothing to do with real estate. That's what you do when you're not doing real estate. But for you, that's been an essential component of helping you produce at the highest level. True?Yeah, absolutely. And if somebody asked me like what are the three things that mean the most to me and I can't put individual people in my family, then it would be honestly my family, education and travel. And one of the things I love about travel is that it's a perfect intersection between family and education because anytime we go anywhere, we're learning and we're together. And so it isn't this, you know, a quest to fill my passport, although I do love that part of it. What I found is as my kids were young and active and I was working quite a few nights and weekends, we realized that when we connect, the few times we have, let's say we had an hour here or like 30 minutes between appointments, I would try to connect with my family and guess what, they were busy. They'd have soccer games or lacrosse or birthday parties or whatever.So if it was a good time for me, it may not have been a good time for them. And what we realized is anytime we went anywhere, the four of us, and we reconnected, whether it was a long weekend or for a week, we would just come back synchronized and recharged. And then, my husband especially, he's a bit of a nerd and he loves like these educational field trips. So anytime we go on a trip, he's going to make us go see the largest ball of twine or how cashews are made. And we always, you know, the kids, especially "Daddy," and they roll their eyes. But the funny thing is we started playing this game called Trivia. We were at a restaurant, we were waiting for a two hour wait and I was trying to keep them awake. They were jet lagged. So I was like, "Hey guys, we visited Google today. What were the colors of their logo?" I didn't even know most of the answers. I was asking questions and I didn't even know the answers. Or, "What gate were we at?" Or, "What seats were we in?" Or, "Who was our flight attendant?" And it was so funny because my son was like maybe six or seven, "Momma ask me another question." And since we started doing that too, we've become very observant when we travel. And you're always learning when you're just looking around and your present. Right? So it really did bring our family together. So, one of the best coaches I've had in my career said, "Hey, you don't always have to have a goal of how many houses and what's your production. It could be [for me] how many days, how can you maintain your production and how many days out can you take?" So every year I start with what are all the days I'm going to take out and then I cram all my real estate in in those days that I'm not out of the office.Which typically is not how it works. If I have time this year we'll go ...
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    22 Min.