Standing on New Shoulders:The Polite’s Path to Financial Freedom

Mick Unplugged

Realm

Education, Self-improvement, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Crystal and Dedrick Polite are visionary real estate entrepreneurs, TV personalities, and founders of Be Polite Properties. As stars of A&E’s “5050 Flip,” they’ve built a multi-million-dollar real estate empire rooted in faith, family, and an unwavering commitment to generational wealth. Raised in backgrounds shaped by generational poverty, the Polites turned intentionality, resilience, and service into their guiding principles, paving a legacy that goes beyond building doors to opening them for others. Their journey inspires countless aspiring investors through mentorship, coaching, and a powerful message of lifting as they rise. Takeaways: Intentionality fuels success: Crystal and Dedrick attribute their achievements to going into every partnership and opportunity with purpose and clarity—from their first “business meeting” date to scaling their real estate ventures. Mentorship matters: Their path was forged not by luck, but by investing in themselves, seeking out guidance, and ultimately becoming mentors to others. They stress that those who pay for mentorship are the ones who truly commit and succeed. Legacy is impact: Building wealth isn’t just about accumulating properties; for the Polites, true legacy is measured by how many doors they open for others—dedicating themselves to empowering the next generation and uplifting their community. Sound Bites: “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” —Crystal Polite “People who pay, pay attention.” —Crystal Polite “Start how you want to finish… and that’s exactly what we did on that first date.” —Dedrick Polite Connect & Discover The Polites: Instagram: @dedricpolite @mrsbepolite YouTube: @bepolite Website: politewealthportal.com 🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥 Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers. 👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged Facebook: @mickunplugged YouTube: @MickUnpluggedPodcast LinkedIn: @mickhunt Website: MickHuntOfficial.com Apple: MickUnplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	From flipping houses to flipping the script on generational wealth, this dynamic duo turned a first date credit check into a multi-million dollar real estate empire.
0:11.1	Stars of A&E's 50-50 flip and founders of Be Polite Property.
0:15.4	They blend faith, family, and financial freedom into a blueprint of success.
0:19.8	Please join me in welcoming the visionary,
0:22.0	the resilient, the trailblazing, Kristen, and Dedrick Polite. How you both doing today?
0:30.3	Mick, we are doing awesome, man. Appreciate you having us. I am the honored one. You know,
0:35.5	we were talking offline about all the cool things that we have in common.
0:39.8	But what I wanted to tell you both, and I wanted to look you both in the eye and tell you this,
0:44.1	is that I'm just so freaking proud of both of you and not just the work that you do, and we'll get
0:51.4	into that.
0:52.1	But more importantly, the human beings that you are.
0:55.1	You know, I'm a man of faith and I believe that good is rewarded in good.
1:01.5	And I just wanted you both to know just how freaking proud I am of the human beings that you are.
1:07.4	Oh, thank you so much.
1:09.0	We really appreciate that.
1:10.6	Yeah, I definitely appreciate that. I mean, I know that's from the heart, so we appreciate that.
1:14.6	Absolutely. It's the Carolina Way, right?
1:16.6	Absolutely.
1:17.6	It's the Carolina way.
1:18.6	I usually start the episode by asking my guests, like, what's your because?
1:23.6	That thing that's deeper than your why. You know, Simon Sennick wrote a book called Start with Why.
1:29.6	And while I believe that's really important, I also believe we have a deeper mission and I call it
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Realm, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Realm and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.