80: Dealing with Rejection
Hustle Humbly Podcast
Alissa Jenkins & Katy Caldwell
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Episode 80: Handling Rejection in Real Estate
In this episode, Katy and Alissa take a deeply honest and relatable look at handling rejection in real estate. Whether it's losing a listing, a buyer choosing another agent, or seeing someone you know list with a stranger, rejection hits every single agent—no matter how experienced they are. Using real examples directly from the transcript (:contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}), the hosts walk through the emotions, the lessons, and the actionable steps that help agents move forward.
Inside the episode:
- Why rejection happens at every stage of your career
- The most common reasons clients choose another agent
- How to ask for feedback (without it feeling awkward)
- Why rejection hurts more in your first year
- How your Enneagram type affects the way you experience rejection
- The difference between personal rejection vs. business rejection
- When walking away is actually the right call
- The danger of making yourself "small" (and how power poses help)
- Scripts for following up when someone hires another agent
- How to prevent rejection with better communication and systems
- Why you shouldn't hoard leads + how to clean your database
- How mindset, boundaries, and self-reflection turn rejection into growth
- The 24-minute rule for processing your feelings
- When rejection is actually a blessing in disguise
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Music Credits:
"Straight A's" by Connor Price → https://connorprice.shop/
"The Good Life" by Summer Kennedy → https://soundcloud.com/summerkennedy/the-good-life
"Be The One" by Matrika → https://uppbeat.io/t/matrika/be-the-one
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The bottom line is that your fear is everything will go wrong. |
| 0:06.6 | It's so right. |
| 0:08.1 | Everything is going to go wrong. |
| 0:09.5 | It's all going to be wrong. |
| 0:10.8 | Hi, y'all. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Hustle Humbly. |
| 0:12.5 | It's Alyssa and Katie, and we are two top-producing realtors in the Baton Rouge market. |
| 0:16.2 | We work for two different companies where we should be competitors, but we have chosen |
| 0:19.8 | community over competition. The goal of our podcast is to encourage you to find your own way in business. |
| 0:25.1 | So stop comparing yourself and start embracing your strengths. |
| 0:28.9 | Hello, Alyssa. Hey, Katie. It's episode number 80. Oh. I love what you get excited about the |
| 0:36.1 | number. Yeah, that's a big number. It's a big number. |
| 0:39.1 | Tell me this. Are you excited to talk about rejection today? I feel like I am well versed and prepared. |
| 0:46.2 | I know. So yesterday we were talking about which one of the next episodes we wanted to do. And you were like, I'm prepared for rejection. I have been |
| 0:55.0 | recently rejected. And so I got out my notebook and quickly put down about five minutes. That's a lot. |
| 1:00.4 | I put down like a full page of notes without even blinking because y'all rejection is a serious |
| 1:05.9 | thing that happens over and over again in this business. Yeah. And you never outgrow it. Like it never goes away. |
| 1:12.8 | It just keeps happening. I will say that we've had this particular topic requested several times. |
| 1:19.1 | Yes. I think that everyone wants us to just talk them through rejection, how we deal with rejection. |
| 1:25.7 | And maybe we'll just talk about some of our rejection experiences. |
| 1:28.9 | Sure. |
| 1:29.3 | So that you can know you're not alone. |
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