Do you choose a word of the year? I’ve done this as a guiding light and principal for myself for nearly a decade now. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast (and our last episode of 2024!), I’m sharing not only my 2025 word of the year, but also why choosing a word of the year can be impactful for you, why (and when) I…

It’s that time of year … winter is coming, and not just the official first day of winter this weekend, but metaphorical winter in your business. Chances are you’ve not just taken your foot off the gas in your business this holiday season, but you’ve probably slammed on the brakes too. If you don’t have a plan to get back to it … or better yet, a pl…

It’s that time of year … not just holiday time, but time to review your business and your life and to set your goals for the new year! This is truly a time and a process that I love. The time that I have invested here over the past 2 decades has truly been transformative for my life and my businesses. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real …

Have you set your goals yet for 2025? Are you feeling bad about some 2024 goals that went unfinished? Let me tell you a little secret … I can’t remember a year where I didn’t have unfinished goals! Some are meant to leave behind, some take more than a year, and some are a “not right now”, and that’s okay! On today’s episode of Empowering Women in R…

Gratitude. It’s something we say a lot, but how often do you actually *feel* it? As in take the time to actually feel grateful for all the goodness in your life? Today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is all about it, as is our tradition every year at this time. On today’s episode I am sharing specifically what I am grate…

There is more than one way to be successful in real estate. The traditional path that has been laid out for all of us … on a team, solo agent, team leader or broker … isn’t the only way. I am living proof of that having been or currently having a multitude of creative roles in the industry. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - T…

No matter how long you have been in the real estate industry, chances are you have had to get creative a time or two. Whether it is getting creative to get a deal done, seeking out creative options with lenders or vendors to serve your clients, or just getting creative in your marketing or how you go about finding clients. What I think a lot of us …

How do you know when to quit something? Whether it is your real estate career (spending more than you are making) or something else, I think we all hit this crossroads at one point or another in our lives. Maybe it’s not that you need to quit something, maybe you are just finished. As in, you have finished what you started. You have reached complet…

Take a deep breath for a second … Are you feeling overwhelmed? Feel like you are letting people down? Feel like you are being pulled in a thousand different directions? Are you trying so hard to be all things to all people, but you end up feeling like you are failing left, right and center instead? This episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® -…

There is power in routines, habits and consistency … But that power isn’t just limited to your real estate business. Inspired by a recent exchange with my team, on today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing my Daily Business Builders™ … for Your Life! Daily Business Builders™ is my kindler, gentler version of pro…

When is the last time you took a long, hard look at your database? Who’s in it? Do they deserve to be? Whose missing? What contact information is incomplete, needs updating, or is missing all together? This is the PERFECT time of year to do a Database Refresh. I do these at least twice per year in my business, and it helps to keep my marketing spen…

One of the most frequent questions I get is about my Daily Business Builders™ . My kinder, gentler form of prospecting. Why? Because we tend to overthink prospecting. How hard it should be. How long we should do it for. What it actually is. Also, because prospecting is critical to our real estate businesses. No prospecting, no business. It’s as sim…

When is the last time that you checked in with your goals? Remember those? Those things you set with excitement way back in January, or even at the end of last year. One of the best things I have ever done for my life and my business was to do consistent reviews each quarter. Reviewing my life, my business, my goals, my progress. On today’s episode…

Let’s be honest … fraud is happening everywhere, and for sure in our real estate industry. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing with you a few real life stories, and some strategies for how to protect your business, your clients … and yourself … from being susceptible. Listen in on your favorite podcast a…

Chances are you have worn a lot of hats over the years and had a lot of different jobs before you came to real estate … and I’d be willing to bet that there is a lot of experience there that helped to prepare you for your current career. In today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing some of the things that make u…

Have you ever experienced a plateau in your business? You just can’t seem to push past a certain production level or goal? You’ve hit an invisible ceiling, and it’s time to push past. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing lots of ideas, examples and stories for the plateaus we experience in our business, w…

At the beginning of my career, I couldn’t learn enough. Then around maybe year 2-3, I found myself feeling too busy to get better. I could write a killer contract, won the majority of the listing appointments I went on and was closing 40-50 transactions per year … so what else could I possibly need to know? See I thought training meant basics that …

Like it or not, our real estate industry has changed. This isn’t new though, it is always changing. So is your life. With each phase and season and stage our needs tend to change … and the good news is that our real estate businesses can evolve with us. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing all about Rein…

There is such a push and so much pressure in our industry for numbers … Achieving a certain amount of sales, calling a certain number of people, closing a certain number of deals each year. Yes, all of these metrics are important, but what I think many of us forget is that this is a people business. We are serving other people, other human beings w…

Lots of changing have been happening in our industry, and one of the biggest will happen this weekend when coop commissions will come out of our MLS. In today’s short and sweet episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I am sharing a word of encouragement for you. I hope you will listen in. You’ll find the episode on your favorite p…

Here’s what I’ve learned in life and business … small efforts repeated consistently, over and over again, will outperform big, grand things done every once and a while. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing several stories about how I and some of my team members have put this to work in our lives and busi…

This week marks a huge milestone … the 10 year anniversary of the launch of this community, Empowering Women in Real Estate®! On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing not only the story of how the group began, but also some parts of the story you’ve never heard before, along with two BIG announcements! You ca…

There is no doubt that “passive income” is the buzz word not just in the real estate industry, but in business as a whole. But here’s the thing … there is nothing passive about building a business and a cashflow machine, you need solid habits. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’m sharing my best habits … 5 thing…

How has your last week been? Think about the feelings you’ve had, the frustrations in your business. Picture what your bank account looks like. Do you want to repeat this week again next week? Next month? How about 5 years from now? Chances are, the answer is that you don’t, but if you aren’t taking steps now for 2029 you, that is exactly what you …

Picture this … it’s a Tuesday afternoon. You’ve spent all weekend showing homes to buyers and sitting at open houses, and most of your evenings this week are full of showings or listing appointments. So you take a couple hours to go get your hair done, or to run personal errands, or just to sit by the pool … and you feel guilty about it. Does that …

We’ve officially reached mid year, can you believe it! Time marches on, and if you aren’t paying attention all those things you said you wanted to do and accomplish and dreamt about will be left trailing in the wind. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing my framework for a solid Mid-Year Review … or as we …

Need some quick cash? I’d love to give you a strategy that you could use today to get you a commission today, but we all know that isn’t how our real estate business works. However, there are some strategies I can give you today that will put some money in your pocket today, and also this week, next month, and even next year. Want to know what they…

Have you ever been on vacation and dreamed of what it would be like to own a home there? Or maybe live there year round? Or maybe even sell real estate there? My guest on todays episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast has done all three! In this episode I am interviewing Sonja Bush, a real estate broker in Mammoth Lakes, Californi…

It’s been over a year and a half since I made the move with my real estate team to Real, and I can honestly say it was the best move we’ve ever made. It’s been quite a while since I’ve done an update episode for you, and on today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m breaking down two primary things … 1) Real, by the numbe…

For the entirety of my career I’ve spent a significant part of my time teaching, training and mentoring agents. Sometimes for pay, a lot of the time for free. I’ve never believed in holding your best ideas close to the vest. Sharing and giving them freely is where it’s at. For me, anyway. This month we are celebrating two things … my birthday and t…

Be honest … when you get a call these days from a buyer, do you feel a little apprehensive? Our industry is changing … has changed … but that isn’t anything new. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing my take on the changes coming to buyer agency and what we need to do as professionals to continue serving a…

Recently Vicky Noufal and I celebrated not only 9 years of our business partnership, but 9 years of being team leaders! Our now nearly 50 woman real estate team has served well over 3,000 clients over the years and over $1.4 BILLION in real estate sales volume. We have learned so much through this experience, and in true Karen and Vicky style we ar…

There is no doubt about it … there is no such thing as an overnight success, BUT success does leave clues and there are strategies you can use to shorten the learning curve in whatever it is you are doing. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing the tips I’ve used in my own life and business to shorten the l…

THREE HUNDRED EPISODES! It’s kind of crazy to think that today is episode 300 of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast … and the perfect example of the power of consistency. I’ve used consistency throughout my career to build a … wait for it … consistent business, and you can too. No matter your level or phase. In today’s episode I’m talki…

Have you ever felt awkward “asking for the business”? But isn’t that we are supposed to do right? We’re sales people! Actually, no. But also, yes. The point here is finding a way to do it that is authentic to you and how you do business. I’m sharing my playbook for asking for the business on today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The…

Join me on today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast for a fascinating conversation around social prospecting with my friend Michelle Berman-Mikel! Do you utilize social media in your business? Do you prospect in your business? Hopefully (!) the answer is yes to both, and if it isn’t, it should be. On today’s episode we talk…

It’s time to Spring Clean Your Business … are you ready? The best way I know how to do this is with a database refresh. This is an exercise I go through twice per year in my business and it is so helpful to ensure I am not only maximizing my return on investment with my marketing, but it also brings about an influx of activity … and who doesn’t wan…

I am OBSESSED with efficiency. There just never seems to be enough time in my day for the things I need to do and for the things I want to do. It’s not just my day … it’s life too. It moves fast. Too fast. I don’t want to waste it doing things that are unimportant or on the mundane minutia … that stuff that has to happen, but isn’t necessarily wher…

Have you heard the saying before that unsolved problems are energy drainers? I’m here to tell you that it’s true, and I am breaking all that down for you today on Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast. Listen in on your favorite podcast app or by clicking the link in my bio. What is your biggest unsolved problem right now? You can listen i…

I have a very special episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast for you today! On today’s episode I am sharing with permission a conversation I had with my friend Dionne Malush on her podcast “Shine On Success. We cover a lot of topics from sales to sisterhood … it’s a good one! You can listen in on your favorite podcast app or by c…

Have you ever referred out a vendor only to have your client reach back out to you upset that it didn’t go well? Yep, me too. So how do you deal with it? In today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast we are talking about just that! How to handle missed expectations … and just expectations in general. You can listen in on toda…

Listen, it’s time to get it together. Are parts of your life and business feeling messy right now? Yep, me too. No more. We are going to do the things to save us time, help us to be more efficient, and to eliminate all of those dreadful decisions that drain our energy day in and day out. I’m sharing my favorite strategies, new and old, for getting …

For the past almost 9 years now I have been a real estate team leader. Way back in the beginning of my career 22 years ago I was on a traditional real estate team … and those two experiences and types of teams could not be more different. I think there is a common misconception in our industry about real estate teams … how they operate, what the sp…

Did you know that this year is a leap year? That means that we get 1 extra day, what are you going to do with it? It may be that you need to be back on track, and this extra day is the perfect time to do it … and on today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast, I’ll be sharing with you my strategies for how. You can tune in on …

Last year I turned 50, and while I’m not planning to retire anytime soon, with the pages turning on the calendar a little more rapidly these days it is certainly a little more top of mind. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m talking all about How to Retire in Real Estate. In my 22 years in the industry I’ve know…

Today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast is something that we have never done before … it is an interview with my husband! I’ve been in business for 22 years and we’ve been married for 22 years, so he has been there literally since the beginning … and it hasn’t always been smooth. What we do is so different, the non-stop na…

On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I have a refresh of one of our most popular episodes from a couple years ago … Low Cost Marketing Ideas! I don’t care who you are, just about all of us are being more conscious of our spending and expenses when it comes to our real estate businesses, and paying more attention than…

Want to know one of my success secrets that has served me well over the past nearly 22 years? It’s going “next level” … taking that one more step, one more level with everything I do. Curious what that means? On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing 5 tactical examples for how I’m doing this in 2024. You can …

We’ve all been there … the new year starts off a little slow, not necessarily in terms of new business coming in, but in terms of actual funds coming in with transactions in January. Throughout my career January has always been one of lowest settlement months for me (if not the lowest). HOWEVER, now is the time to kick your marketing up a notch to …

Do you know Kendra Adachi? I love her book and her podcast, “The Lazy Genius Way”, and I know you will too. On today’s episode of Empowering Women in Real Estate® - The Podcast I’m sharing my favorite concept of hers, “decide once”. Deciding once will save you time, money and frustration … not only in your personal life, but in your business too. L…