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 …

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 …

Team Building: What works, what doesn’t work

Clay Johnson: Hi guys, Clay Johnson and Cheryl Knowlton here. I wanted to talk to you to follow up on our last thing because we led into it and it’s been fun talking about this because we realize things that we’re doing that have been successful for us, what’s worked, what hasn’t worked. And part of it is team building, …

Real Estate apps

Cheryl Knowlton:             Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions coming at ya with Clay Johnson, Castle and Cooke Mortgage. Today we’re going to talk about technology and the vast array of apps that are out there. And it’s so overwhelming for most realtors. Clay Johnson:                    It is. And I think that it’s kind of like when you go to a class …

New Construction: One-time-close punch list

Clay Johnson:                    Hi guys, Clay Johnson here with Castle and Cooke Mortgage and of course with Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions. We wanted to come at you guys one more time on this segment of One-Time Close, and a couple of things that we want to talk about are kind of tidying up the loose ends. Cheryl, you’ve actually been through …

New Construction: One-time Close loan products

Cheryl Knowlton:             Hi everybody. Cheryl Knowlton, Dynamite Productions, coming at you with my favorite sidekick, Clay Johnson from Castle & Cooke Mortgage. Clay, growth is ridiculously crazy throughout the Wasatch Front, and building permits are actually up quite a bit in Utah County. And I’m so excited that Castle & Cooke actually has a one-time close product. Yay! Clay Johnson:                    …

What Endurance Activities Have You Done?

Cheryl Knowlton:             Hi, everybody. Cheryl Knowlton with Dynamite Productions, here with Clay Johnson, Castle & Cooke Mortgage. Here we are with day three talking about how the hardest endurance activities that we have both engaged in, you with road biking, me with half marathoning; we learn so much about ourselves. And one- Clay Johnson:                    We do. Cheryl Knowlton:             … Yeah. …