136: Treasure Davis, Nothing Without Them, eXp Realty

Treasure Davis's story is one of grit, faith, and a fierce, unapologetic love for the people she's been called to walk alongside. The oldest of five, she grew up between Kansas City and Southern California — on a lake where kids drove pontoon boats to each other's houses, selling apples out of her grandparents' orchard and riding along with her dad, an insurance man and marketer, as he knocked doors. She graduated high school with a nursing certificate, then discovered in practice that nursing wasn't hers to do.A summer trip to visit her parents in Salida changed everything when she met her husband at seventeen. What followed was a restaurant job, a dental office, and the realization that she could not live with a ceiling over her — which led her, improbably, to five years on the administrative side of a male correctional facility. It's where she was standing when 9/11 happened, and where she led an effort that raised over $60,000 for fallen firefighters and their families. Her time there ended when recurring dreams of delivering her baby behind those walls gave way to real preterm labor; her daughter Serenity spent five weeks in intensive care while Treasure lived at the Ronald McDonald House. Serenity is 23 today and studying to become a dentist.The move to Colorado Springs came with no safety net — no state jobs, no insurance, no retirement, and a real estate career she inherited from a father-in-law whose entire database lived in his head. Her brokers gave her three pieces of advice: never let go of a lead, never assume you know someone's financial ability, and outwork everybody. Twenty-one years later, she's built a career on exactly that, and on a deep commitment to military families — believing, as she says, that spouses are as much veterans as the service members themselves.In this episode, Treasure opens up about her health and wellness journey, the friends who lift her chin back up, why failure is worth keeping, and what she found when she reached the top: noise and emptiness. What matters to her isn't the numbers or the accolades. It's her family — her two daughters, and the son she lost, whom she speaks about openly so that other families know there is no shame in it. It's an honest, moving reminder that you can't skip the chapter, and that comparison is the thief of joy.And Treasure's story… starts now!www.everettslending.com720-979-8742jimmy@everettslending.comIG: @jimmythesaint5280