What is up, Real Estate Rockstars? This is Christina Leavenworth. I am so excited about this next

interview. It's one of my favorites I've done while doing this podcast. Dawson Boyle has been a single

agent starting in 2010, then became a team leader, even merged teams, started a brokerage.

This guy has so much experience,

still selling homes today. And his claim to fame is he helps experienced agents get out of ruts and break through Boyer. Thank you for joining us.

You bet. Thanks for having me on the show today.

All right. Let's just kind of start from the beginning. Just give us, you know, your 30-second elevator pitch of, you know, getting into real estate, where you're from, all that fun stuff. Right. Yes. My name is Dawson Boyer. I'm from Richmond, Virginia. And I graduated college in 2008 and I was interested in real estate, but the housing market had just collapsed along with the economy.

And so I worked in corporate America for a couple of years.

And then I still kind of had that desire.

So in August of 2010, I made the switch and got into real estate full time.

And your family and friends thought you were crazy.

Tell me about that.

Yeah, you know, I was working for a global oil additives company publicly traded,

headquartered here in Richmond and great company, great people.

You know, they still had a pension plan, a 401k match, a great benefits,

and just a really solid job. And so I literally was leaving probably one of the most secure

employment situations I could be in to go into something that was a, you know, back then what

people were referring to as a dumpster fire. So there were a lot of questions about, you know, why are you doing this? Are you sure this is a good idea? And my wife and I were, had been married before I left that job. And so, but she was on board and I was on board. And it was kind of like if there's ever a time to make a switch, now's the time before, you know, life really gets going.

But it was 2010.

So a lot of people would say now was not the time to make that switch with the market the way it was.

What made you so uncomfortable at your job that you said,

I'm going to take this big risk?

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