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Welcome to The Better Agent Podcast, hosted by Josh Lavik, a high achiever, dreamer, and dad of 3. Josh shares the strategies that took him from 5 to 50 transactions a year.
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Agent Productivity: What Is Your Time Worth? | Beth Jaworski (opens the original)
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What is your time worth, and are you still spending it stuffing envelopes? Josh Lavik, host of The Better Agent Podcast and a Wisconsin REALTOR® who scaled from 5 to 50 transactions a year, talks with Beth Jaworski, a Shorewest REALTORS® agent licensed since 1992. Beth has sold 50 - 70 homes a year with no assistant for about a decade, leaning on trusted vendors and go-to agents instead of a formal team. This episode shows how real estate systems, smart pricing, and agent mentorship keep a top p
From 8 Leads to $30M: Jake Barr's First 3 Years in Real Estate (opens the original)
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"The most demoralizing days were when eight leads shrank down to two and even those fell through." Here's how Jake Barr pushed past it anyway. Josh Lavik has spent 20 years building his own real estate business in the Madison, Wisconsin market and on The Better Agent Podcast, he unpacks what actually separates agents who scale from agents who stall. In this episode, he sits down with Jake Barr, a Compass agent on Milwaukee's Horizon Homes team, who closed over 100 transactions worth nearly $30 m
Why This 26-Year-Old Agent Refuses to Go Solo | Griffin Dobson (opens the original)
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769 cold calls a week. One floor call turned into $3.2M. Here's how a 26-year-old agent built a real business. Most agents burn out chasing the next transaction instead of building something that lasts and this episode is a reminder that the two aren't the same thing. Host Josh Lavik has spent nearly 20 years in real estate across three different companies, and on this episode he sits down with Griffin Dobson, an eXp Realty agent who went full-time right as the pandemic hit in 2020. Griffin's pa
The "FSNO" Strategy: Bodybuilding Discipline, CRMs, and True Sales Rapport with Lance Nowak (opens the original)
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Are you treating your real estate career like a professional athlete, or are you just showing up to the gym to "look at the weights"? Why do some agents thrive independently while others struggle to find their footing? In this episode of the Better Agent Podcast, host Josh Lavik sits down with Lance Nowak, a highly successful real estate broker with 23 years of experience and the founder of Victory Realty Elite. Lance shares his incredible story of transitioning from a technical IT background in
Beating the 87% Failure Rate: Tenacity, CRMs, and True Integrity with Iris Etheridge (opens the original)
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Did you know that 87% of all real estate agents quit within their first two years? Why do so many people leave such an amazing, lucrative profession? In this episode of the Better Agent Podcast, host Josh Lavik sits down with Iris Etheridge, a successful real estate agent with 14 years of experience and the author of the new book, Real Growth for Real Estate Agents . Iris shares her incredible story of moving to the United States from Switzerland, having to navigate an entirely new culture, a ne
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