I love working in real estate but as an introvert, there are times I feel like quitting because this job can be incredibly draining! If this sounds like you, the points I share in this post are going to resonate and give you some goalposts on how you can best manage your energy in the week to week.

Having an intuitively formulated Why Statement has brought me so much clarity in recent times. I highly recommend you find the time to deep dive into what is truly driving you and form your own Why Statement. Here’s how I crafted mine.

What we wear matters. Whether we like it or not, clients are judging us on how we present and making a split second often unconscious decision about whether they want to do business with us or not. Here’s how I play the style card to send the right impression.

Whether we like it or not, burnout happens. When you’re driven to achieve, it’s inevitable stress will creep in at some point. The trick is learning to catch it before it becomes full blown burnout. This is why I created a Burnout Plan.

Completing my first major development project was a bitter-sweet experience. Despite the project’s success - the realisation my relationship was over was a devastating moment. Here’s the biggest takeaway I learned in all of this.

How I go about managing international relationships and ways you can break into a market abroad.

These are the events that played out in order to lead me to the opportunity that would ultimately change my life and career forever.

For as long as I have worked in real estate, our industry’s obsession with GCI or gross commissions earned has irked me. Why is it that to be considered a success in real estate, one has to close the most deals at the highest values? It’s time we recognise ethics and client satisfaction just as much as we validate earnings.

Why is it that some of us reach those career milestones somewhat effortlessly whilst others struggle for years trying to make a go of it. The answer - Mindset. This post shares the particular challenge I had when I transitioned from Seller’s Agent to Buyer’s Agent and what I needed to do in order to make it a long-term success.

The social media sugar hit you get from a good brag-post can be intoxicating but are we doing unrepairable damage to our personal brand just to feel a fleeting moment of validation? This post explores ways we as agents can better position ourselves online to strike the right balance between brag and genuine humble success.

They say real estate is one of the most competitive industries in the world of business. I’ll admit, I’ve witnessed the bitchiness, the underhanded play, the backstabbing. But does it really have to be this way? It is only when we learn to focus on our own game that we can progress to new heights of self-satisfaction in our career journey.

Are you afraid of losing momentum if you take time off? We all know prioritising our health is essential but for me, the thought of putting my career in second place was a non-option - until I was forced to. This is a story about the impact of taking a whole two months off real estate.

Finding clarity in your career is no easy task. For me (and most professionals) it is a never ending journey of self-discovery and reflection. Learning to accept the things you do like, and those you don’t, and then having the courage to course-correct where you need to in order to find that state of flow can take years. This is how I realised I’d been playing the wrong side of the real estate fence for way too long.

I wasn’t always the sure, confident person you see today. It took a combination of setbacks, introspection, therapy and true self-awareness to really come into myself as a woman who knew what she stood for and what she wanted.

When I’m searching for a client’s Dream Home, a pool is often high on the wish list, BUT, when it comes to buying an investment property, I’m the first to strike out a property with a pool. This post describes why, and identifies other Red Flags in properties you should steer clear of.

Shifting from Scarce to Abundance is not easy when you’ve grown up middle-class. The 6 principles I share in this post not only helped me re-shape my money mindset, but paved the way for me to reach my childhood goal of becoming a self-made millionaire.

As a 5 ft woman of asian descent, I accepted I was always going to have a target placed on my head for mistreatment, bullying and condescending behaviour in the workplace, and so it came as no surprise when men in the industry “tried it on” as I like to put it. Here’s how I learned to manage it.

Can we really have it all? There’s no denying that career obsessed humans face the constant struggle of balancing the work act versus the family one, and in a world where professional accomplishment seems to be valued above successful child rearing, are we really forced to choose one or the other?

When I was 19, I was fortunate to meet a man who became one of my greatest mentors in property. In this post I share one critical piece of advice he gave me that led to one of the best buying decisions I’ve ever made.

Do we do it for money or something else? Whenever the question of Why is raised, we have our rehearsed response and then we have our real reason. Or perhaps our Why is a combination of both? Admittedly, money is often the one that is left off the table for socially acceptable reasons but should we be shaming others if that really is their driving Why?