Burn the Hamster Wheel: Stress Management Strategies for Today’s Real Estate Professional

Burn the Hamster Wheel: Stress Management Strategies for Today’s Real Estate Professional By Cheryl Knowlton, CSP, CDEI, DREI CEO & Chief Energy Officer, Dynamite Productions, Inc. BURNOUT. It is a low-energy word that sucks the life straight out of my soul to even say it. Synonymous with exhaustion. Overwhelm. Unchecked chronic debilitating stress leading to illness and depression. A weariness …

Certified Real Estate Broker: Written Rules

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions coming to you, to tell you about this amazing CRB course. It is The Firm Rules: Policies to Mitigate Risk.  I love CRB courses. CRB is the designation conferred by the Real Estate Business Institute, REBI. It is the Certified Residential Broker. There are a number of courses that an agent or …

Wire Fraud Story

Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, CEO of Dynamite Productions, coming at you with a horror story. This is going to take a little minute for me to tell this, but I promise you it’s worth hearing the whole thing. Once upon a time, about two months ago, I was so excited to be working with a new agent who is representing …

The Orange Ticket

The following is an excerpt from Sally Hogshead’s amazing New York Times bestselling book, Fascinate. Let’s go on a ride. The mission space ride at the Epcot Theme Park in Orlando, Florida, is based on the concept that the rider is training to be an astronaut, practicing to save the planet while hurdling through the atmosphere inside a capsule. When …

How do you approach each day?

Hi everybody, Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions coming at you with your dynamite tip of the day. Steve Cloward shared today in the social media workshop that we taught, how you start the day impacts the rest of the day. And it just reminded me of my book, Burn The Hamster Wheel and my tip number one, which is master your …

Don’t overthink it. Just do it!

Hi everybody, Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions coming at you with your Dynamite tip of the day. Today’s tip is, don’t overthink it, just do it. And done is better than perfect. When I went back to heroic public speaking to invest in myself and my career in unprecedented ways in terms of time and money, I was absolutely terrified. I …

What stage do you dream of being on?

Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions, coming at you with my thought for the day. A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of being in Nashville, Tennessee for a beautiful state event that the Realtor Association did that they invited me to speak at. My very, very good friend, Monica Neubauer, also a fabulous real estate speaker, gave …

What legacy will you leave behind?

Okay. For those of you who know me, I get a really tiny bit passionate about things in life. And in addition to Disney and my family and my religion, one of the things I am most passionate about in life, not only American history but specifically revolutionary war history, specifically Alexander Hamilton. We saw Hamilton the musical on Broadway …

Major league skills for Major league

Cheryl Knowlton: Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions here with Dan Taylor, Castle & Cooke Mortgage here with a very fabulous and fun story for you. So Dan, take it away. They gave you five minutes to prepare. Dan Taylor: As a senior in high school, I participated in a speech competition. And the category that I was in was …

How are real estate conditions different from 2008?

Cheryl Knowlton: Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton with Dynamite Productions here today at Castle & Cooke Mortgage with my dear friend, national training manager, Dan Taylor. Dan Taylor: Good afternoon. Good morning. Whatever it is where you are. Cheryl Knowlton: Wherever it is, wherever we are. Dan Taylor: Yeah. Cheryl Knowlton: Yeah. So Dan and I were just talking about all …