57: Take a Day Off!
Hustle Humbly Podcast
Alissa Jenkins & Katy Caldwell
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Take a Day Off as a Realtor: Why It's Necessary for Success
If you've ever felt guilty for taking a break, this episode is for you. Katy and Alissa break down the real estate industry's obsession with overwork and share how taking a day off as a realtor can actually make you more successful. What started as a simple Instagram story led to dozens of DMs asking, "How do you take a day off?" That question sparked this full-length episode on guilt, boundaries, burnout, and the truth about what success actually looks like.
Topics discussed:
- The surprising reaction to Alyssa's "day off" post
- Why Realtors believe they can't stop working
- Scarcity mindset, competition, and toxic hustle culture
- The difference between being caught up and being burnt out
- Simple responses to use when you're off but still want to sound professional
- Time audits and prioritizing what matters most
- Reframing what "success" means in real estate
- Global vacation stats and the American overwork crisis
- The long-term view: setting up your business for balance
Whether you're feeling the pressure to say yes to everything or just need permission to step back, this episode is your real estate reset button. Take the day off—and listen in while you do.
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"Straight A's" by Connor Price
"The Good Life" by Summer Kennedy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I have a nagging thought in my mind right now. What is it? I'm struggling with it. I'm just going to share it. |
| 0:05.2 | Please do. I'm like so nervous. Podcast therapy. Hi, y'all. Welcome to Hustle humbly. It's Alyssa and |
| 0:11.1 | Katie and we are two top producing realtors in the Baton Rouge market. We work for two different |
| 0:15.3 | companies where we should be competitors, but we have chosen community over competition. The goal of our podcast is to encourage you to |
| 0:21.5 | find your own way in business. So stop comparing yourself and start embracing your strengths. |
| 0:28.2 | Hello, hi Alyssa. Hey, Katie. This is episode 57. Did you take a day off this week? I did. Let's talk |
| 0:36.4 | about it. That's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:38.9 | That I don't know what we're going to call it. |
| 0:40.9 | And we should let the audience know that we've had kind of a rough morning. |
| 0:47.0 | We were supposed to start recording nearly two hours ago. |
| 0:51.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | You lost your key, we think, in the car or somewhere. And then we just tried to record. Yeah. You lost your key, we think, in the car or somewhere. |
| 0:56.3 | And then we just tried to record. |
| 0:58.2 | And we're not even certain that this is recording because the machine was giving us |
| 1:05.1 | trouble. |
| 1:05.9 | And we don't actually know if it's recording. |
| 1:09.8 | It is. |
| 1:10.3 | I think it is. |
| 1:10.9 | Okay. |
| 1:12.3 | Fingers crossed. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll see. |
| 1:14.1 | Episode 57. |
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