HeyJaredThe Red Chair Series
The Red Chair is where real leaders tell the real story.Hosted by Genevra Collins, this podcast features powerful, honest conversations with top real estate agents, investors, and leaders who are building exceptional businesses without losing themselves in the process.
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When Your Dream Career Isn’t Your Dream Life- Joe Balestrieri (opens the original)
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When Your Dream Career Isn’t Your Dream Life What happens when you love the career you've built, but start realizing it may not be giving you the life you actually want? In this episode of The Red Chair , Genevra Collins sits down with Joe Balestrieri, a former college basketball coach who made a major career pivot during COVID and built a new path in real estate. Joe takes us from growing up in Lee's Summit and his years around Kansas basketball to coaching at the college level, meeting his wif
Aaron Bunnell: COVID Took the Stage Away. Real Estate Changed His Life (opens the original)
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Aaron Bunnell was in the final semester of his master's degree in voice at UMKC, gearing up for a main stage opera, a recital, and symphony performances, when COVID shut all of it down. He was working as a pharmacy technician for $18 an hour to pay for it. A coworker had just cleared a $10,000 commission on one house and put in his two weeks. Aaron had been half-heartedly clicking through real estate licensing videos at night with a three dollar bottle of wine from Trader Joe's, thinking the tes
Built a Team, Walked Away, Built Something Better- Jennifer Smeltzer (opens the original)
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Jennifer Smeltzer spent her first five years in real estate without selling a single home. She learned the investment side first, and that background is a big reason she's landed on America's Top 100 Real Estate Agents list seven years running as founder of Just Say Home KC, a Keller Williams agent closing 70-plus deals a year. Before any of that, she spent 15 years in ministry. In her 40s she took a job property managing 45 to 50 units to learn investing on someone else's dime, and got licensed
Social Media That Actually Sells: Rachel Kilmer's Blueprint for Building a Top Real Estate Brand (opens the original)
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What if the key to building a million-dollar real estate business isn't posting more, but showing up as yourself? Rachel Kilmer, better known as Rach the Realtor KC , transformed an unexpected career change into one of Kansas City's fastest-growing real estate brands. After leaving a stable sales career in 2020, she went six months without a paycheck, bet completely on herself, and built a business that now closes more than 70 transactions a year, powered by authentic, hyper-local content and ge
Building Through Pain: Johnathan Trimble on Real Estate, Resilience & Risk (opens the original)
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Johnathan Trimble is a real estate investor and team leader at Executive Asset Properties, a Keller Williams team he built with his business partner, Jim. Together they've built a portfolio of more than 200 flips, rentals, and syndication units. But behind the business success is a story of setbacks, resilience, and a chronic illness most people never see. Johnathan's parents loaned him the money for his first flip. It flooded. It was broken into. Two trees fell on the property. The listing hit
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