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Podcast: Realtor Darwin Stephens’ Playbook on Selling Without the Hard Sell

By Shelby Skrhak / December 12, 2023 /

In this episode of Dallas Dirt, host Candy Evans sits down with a rising star of the real estate scene, agent Darwin Stephens, and explores the nuances of real estate without the traditional hard sell. Stephens is a Dallas-Fort Worth Realtor and chairman of MetroTex’s Young Professionals Network. Candy dives deep into Darwin’s approach, unraveling…

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New Year’s Resolutions 2023: Keeping It Real

By Elaine Raffel / January 8, 2023 /

Covid has changed the way we all think about resolutions. One thing has become increasingly clear: The desire to keep it real in 2023.

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Why Work Without Rest Is Harming Your Productivity (And Everything Else in Your Life)

By Shelby Skrhak / November 10, 2021 /

What makes you productive? Is it hard work, long hours, and multiple cups of coffee to keep going? That’s doing more harm than good, says Dr. Shane Creado with the Daniel Amen clinic in Chicago. Creado is a board-certified psychiatrist and sleep medicine physician who studies the connection between sleep and mental health. Mark Johnson,…

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Coach’s Corner: For Exponential Growth, It’s as Simple as a Game of TAG

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / October 7, 2021 /

By Mark JohnsonCEO, JPAR – Real Estate Have you heard this quote before?  What is measured improves. What is measured and reported back exponentially improves. There was a study of Olympic-level figure skaters. First, the skaters trained on their own, in their usual ways. They attempted 60 elements (jumps and spins) in 1 hour of training.…

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Coach’s Corner: You Don’t Have to Be a Jedi to Benefit From The Wisdom of Yoda

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / September 6, 2021 /

By Mark JohnsonCEO, JP & Associates Realtors You heard it here first: I call it “The Yoda Doctrine” for real estate professionals.  Yoda, a character from Star Wars, is the size of a small dog, green, and talks funny. But his character is also a wise master and a great warrior. He took the world…

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