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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

EP. 93 How To Become a Great CEO and Grow a Real Estate Company with Mary Lee Blaylock

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Being a great leader requires many skills and components to succeed with your team and business.  In today’s episode of the Tom Ferry Podcast Experience, I had the opportunity to talk with Mary Lee Blaylock, President and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties. As one of the most respected and knowledgeable leaders in the real estate industry, Mary Lee shared a vast insight into successfully starting, growing and taking your real estate business.  Mary has an extensive and amazing real estate career, from being Vice President of Edina Realty Inc. to Vice President of HomeServices of America to her current role in Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices. She opened up about her first year of real estate and the hurdles she had to overcome to grow her real estate career and being a young woman and leading a team of older real estate professionals.  In this illuminating conversation, Mary Lee provided her valuable insight on working smart, how to become a great leader, and preparing your team to be ready to pivot for any upcoming changes that the market can present.  As a powerful leader, she also shared how she manages to focus her time as a wife, mother, and CEO. We also covered the importance of learning the inside out of the company you are growing, refining the skill to say no, and developing your career in your company. If you’ve been thinking of taking the next step in your career or opening your own business, then this episode is for you! As always I took a bunch of notes and I know you will too, so share with me what golden nuggets you’re taking from Mary Lee to take your leadership skills to the next level.

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0:00.0

So here's the thing, entrepreneurs, leaders, salespeople. We all want to create

0:06.6

consistent, repeatable, and scalable ways to grow our business and our income and

0:10.7

we want to do it better, faster and more seamlessly. Why? So we can actually enjoy our

0:16.0

lives, take vacations and spend the quality time what we want with the people that we love.

0:20.0

How do we do all this without spending a fortune or running ourselves ragged?

0:24.3

That's the big question and this show is dedicated to the answer.

0:28.0

Hey, so welcome back to the podcast. Super excited to have Mary Lee Blaylock, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, California properties.

0:39.0

If you don't know this powerhouse, she is a CEO, she is a rock star amongst rock stars, and to show you like the swag that this woman carries, she was named number 69 on the top 200 most influential people in real estate and number 12

0:56.7

on the women's list and I don't know how there was anybody more influential

1:00.9

than this gal but Mary Lee first of all I'm just super stoked I know you're crazy busy so

1:06.3

thank you for being on the podcast it is truly my pleasure I mean you know we've

1:11.0

have enough conversations over the years Tom where I think we will have enough energy for people to glean from for like a lifetime

1:18.2

Awesome thrilled to be

1:19.8

Absolutely yes so there's no doubt and I know like for the person listening right now, like I actually wrote down my goal is really twofold. I want the I want the young gal listening right now who might be 15 or 35 who is listening to my podcast and she's like

1:35.1

wait a minute this gal's like a CEO of this like 3,000 agent company a

1:40.5

mortgage company title escrow, like, that sounds really busy,

1:45.2

like, how did she get there?

1:47.1

I want to talk about that.

1:48.2

And then I really want to break down the mechanics

1:50.0

of what it means to be a CEO of a large company.

1:52.0

And then I'm going to go into some insights on,

1:54.0

from your perspective on, you know, what about that person who's running a 30-person

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