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The Real Value Podcast
by Blaine Feyen
The world's best podcast about the mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, and activities for the Appraisal, Real Estate, and Lending industries. Hosted by well known Real Estate and Appraiser Success Coach, Blaine Feyen, founder and CEO of the Real Value Group and Real Value Coaching Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Real Value Podcast covers a variety of topics involving all three of those businesses, as well as the topics of success, communication, leadership, balance, marketing, social media, SEO, NLP, and a bunch other awesome stuff!
Episodes
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Great At The Work, But Bad At The Business
Being a great real estate appraiser does not automatically make you a great business owner. In fact, some of the same skills that make you excellent at appraising can actually hold you back when it comes to building and growing an appraisal business. In this episode, Blaine Feyen explores the gap...
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The Ultimate Flex Isn't Money Anymore - Being Hard to Control Is
Real Wealth Is Not What You Own. It's What You Can Walk Away From. After 26 years in business and coaching over a thousand people, Blaine makes the case that the entire game of status just changed. Five status symbols worth chasing, and why almost none of them look good on Instagram. Full show...
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The Doorman Fallacy and Appraisers
I was a hotel doorman in Chicago at 21. What I actually did on that job, and why it eventually got replaced by an automatic door, is the exact blueprint for what's happening to real estate appraisers right now. This episode breaks down the Doorman Fallacy: a concept from advertising exec Rory...
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What's Your Resting Revenue Rate?
You've spent your whole career telling other people what their property is worth. So why do you accept the number at the bottom of your own financial statement without question? In this episode, Blaine runs a real appraisal on your financial life. The truck, the boat, the vacation home you use...
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Eight Things AI Will Never Replace
Everyone in the appraisal industry is obsessed with what's changing. AI, automated valuations, the next headline about the appraiser going away. Blaine flips the question. Borrowing a framework from Jeff Bezos, build on what won't change, not what will, this episode breaks down eight things about...
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Time to Be Your Own Hero
"Help is on the way" might be the most comforting sentence in the English language. It's also a lie. Not on purpose. But average emergency response time in this country runs seven to fourteen minutes. Brain damage from oxygen loss starts in four to six. Do the subtraction. The outcome was decided...
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Are you a mercenary or a missionary?
Are you building a business or running a job? Most appraisers operate from a mercenary mindset: extract as much as possible, optimize for quick money, hit a ceiling, and stay there. But some operate from a missionary mindset: build something bigger, create systems, scale without themselves, and...
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How to become a successful failure!
Most people do not fail because they are stupid, lazy, or untalented. They fail because they repeatedly do the things that make success almost impossible, then act surprised when life gives them the receipt. In this episode, Blaine flips the usual success advice on its head and lays out the…
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Margin is the New Wealth
Most people are not victims of the economy. They are victims of the lives and businesses they built with no margin. In this episode, Blaine makes the case that uncertainty does not usually create fragility. It reveals it. Whether it is rising oil prices, conflict in the Middle East, inflation…
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The Invisible System Running Your Business
Your nervous system is your most valuable business asset—and you're running it into the ground. In this episode, Blaine gets brutally honest about his own nervous system breakdown at 55 after decades of "muscling through," and why ignoring dysregulation isn't strength—it's strategic incompetence....
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The Expert Trap 2.0 - How AI Just Made Your Expertise Worthless
AI didn't just automate tasks. It commoditized expertise. The knowledge you spent decades building? Now available to anyone, instantly, for twenty bucks a month. If your entire value proposition rests on knowing things other people don't know, that foundation is cracking. But here's what AI...
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You're Not Underpaid - You're Just Afraid
Let's stop lying to ourselves. You don't have a pricing problem. You have a belief problem. Most appraisers are operating inside a set of invisible rules they never questioned. What you charge, how fast you work, what you tolerate from clients, all of it is based on a mental box you didn't build...
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The Premium Appraiser - Handmade or Machine Made?
A handmade mug sells for eighty bucks while a factory mug sells for five. Same function. Totally different value. That gap is the entire future of appraisal. AI did not create the split in our industry, it exposed it. There are factory appraisers competing on speed and price, and there are…
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Your AI Bullsh!t Detector
Everyone is talking about how AI will change your business. Almost nobody is asking whether it actually should. In this episode, Blaine breaks down what he's seeing across the professional world. Appraisers, agents, coaches, and business owners chasing every new AI tool that hits their feed....
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The Hidden Mechanics of Generosity
Most people are taught a simple story about money. Work hard. Accumulate. Protect. And someday, when you feel rich enough, give back. The problem is that day almost never comes. And even worse, the story is backwards. In this episode, Blaine Feyen breaks down why giving is not a reward for wealth...
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The Great Sorting Escape Plan
The Great Sorting is already happening, whether you like it or not. In this episode, Blaine Feyen moves past theory and into action. Last week, he laid out the reality facing the appraisal industry and many other professional services. There are only three places people are being sorted into: the...
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The Great Sorting Has Begun
In this episode, Blaine talks about what he calls 'the Great Sorting', which is how the market is sorting professionals into the specialists and generalists, the tech adopters versus the tech avoider, the real business operators versus mere order takers and several more 'sorting as' that are very...
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Be The One You've Been Waiting For - Nobody is Coming to Save You!
In this episode, Blaine gives some very straightforward advice about the mindset and behaviors of taking responsibility for everything in your life and business by recognizing that nobody is coming to save you. People who don't think like this tend to blame everyone and everything else but...
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The Business Samurai™ Year End Review
In this episode, Blaine walks through part of the most brutal, but enlightening year-end review every appraiser, certainly every entrepreneur should be conducting at the end of each year. You can download the year-end review at www.CoachBlaine.com/yearend
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Show Me Your Calendar and I'll Show You Where You're Lying
In this episode, Blaine talks about the myth of busyness that most people live by and how your 'to-do' list is likely killing your real productivity, as well as your profitability!
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Comfort is the new poverty - the silent epidemic destroying potential
In this episode, Blaine talks about how being comfortable has become the main goal for many entrepreneurs and it's destroying their drive and potential. For appraisers, getting and staying too comfortable has led to the whole industry being looked at as a profession that needs to be updated and...
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The Business Samurai - Musashi's Lessons for Business and Life
In this episode, Blaine introduces the listener to the famous Japanese swordsmen, Miyamotoi Musashi and his principles for business and life. Blaine covers seven timeless principles that rival any hack or tactic being taught today.
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Leadership Comes At a Cost
In this episode, Blaine talks about the recent tragedy that occurred in Utah with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and some of the leadership and life lessons that come from the tragedy.
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The Disposable Man
In this episode, Blaine tackles the sometimes controversial topic of toxic masculinity. The word has come to define almost anything and everything 'male' and this episode aims to dispel that. Blaine talks about it in the realm of the appraisal profession, but also the expectations and roles of…
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Your Map to Freedom
In this episode, Blaine introduces his proprietary framework for building a thriving real estate appraisal business. It's a 7-part framework called BOSSMAP™, where each letter is a commandment to do something and be something in your business. Get ready to take notes and write down the steps for...
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Earn Twice the Money in Half the Time
In this episode, Blaine discusses the '4-Hour Workday' concept and the how and why of earning twice as much in half the time. Since most appraisers only get 3-4 hours of really productive time out of most days, Blaine explains how this understanding can lead to making more income in considerably...
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Don't End Up Like Blockbuster
In this episode, Blaine highlights how the massive video rental chain on the 90's and 2000's made some fatal decisions that doomed their future. While many think that Netflix killed Blockbuster, the reality is quite different. Learn the mistakes Blockbuster made and how appraisers are making...
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Build An AI Proof Business
In this episode, Blaine talks about how to build an AI (Artificial Intelligence) proof appraisal, real estate, or lending business. Any business that can benefit from being more human than the machines will get some value and ideas to put into play to build an AI proof business.
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Non-Lender Market Domination with V.A.L.U.E.
In this episode, Blaine introduces the V.A.L.U.E. Framework™, which is a business building framework for dominating in the non-lender appraisal world. In the VALUE Framework™, each letter stands for a principle, as well as a command to do or be something in your market. Download the VALUE...
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Become Elite or Become Obsolete
In this episode, Blaine goes over the rise of AI (artificial intelligence) in almost every area of life and business. AI is definitely a real thing in the world of appraisal and appraising and appraisers should start now to learn everything they can about it if they want to thrive in the new…
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Burn Your Fear To The Ground - questions from the mailbag
In this episode, Blaine answers several questions from the listeners about building their non-lender appraisal business, hiring and training apprentice trainees, and how to stop being the bottleneck in your own business.
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Stop Chasing People Who Aren't Chasing You
In this episode, Blaine shares 8 pieces of wisdom he's learned over the years from mentors, masters, Stoics, and life in general.
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Solopreneur or Empire Builder
In this episode, Blaine compares the two different appraisal company business models: the one person business, or solopreneur, and the team builder model, which is the business model whereby the appraiser has additional income generators within the business so that all of the income is not...
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Silence is Not a Success Strategy
In this epsiode, Blaine talks through several thoughts and ideas around why so many appraisers choose to be silent and invisible where and when it matters the most, which is not whining and complaining on social media.
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From Survival to Significance
In this episode, Blaine walks through the 4 phases or levels that every business owner can go through if they see their business as a vehicle to something greater. Blaine explains what happens at each level of survivial, stability, success, and eventually significance.
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The Million Dollar Playbook
In this episode, Blaine goes over the 5 principles and the 5 pillars of building a million dollar appraisal business, or any business at all. Building a million dollar business does not necessarily mean producing a million dollars in gross or net revenue. Learn the real definition of what a real...
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You're The Problem - Shut Up or Fix It
In this episode, Blaine talks about the amount of whining and complaining by appraisers about how everyone is out to get them, when, in fact, you might be the issue. Blaine covers 5 principles for taking control of your appraisal business and how to stop blaming everyone else.
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Goal Setting is Bullsh*t! The Only 3 Things You Need
In this first episode of season 9, Blaine talks about how the typical goal setting process is almost complete BS. Most people start with the strategy part of goal setting without ever addressing the belief systems that have led to needing to set a new goal. Learn the best way to achieve anything…
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7 Ways To Build Trust and Double Your Business
In this episode, Blaine goes over 7 ways to build trust with your market to make more sales and, of course, more money. As an appraiser, trust is one of the more important things to build in the minds and hearts of your clientele. Blaine lists out the 7 ways to do that, from the slowest to the...
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How to Combat Appraisal Waivers and Make More Money As An Appraiser
In this episode, Blaine talks about the new plan by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase the appraisal waiver threshold to 90% LTV and what appraisers need to do about it if they want their business to thrive.
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Worthless Goals
In this episode, Blaine talks about the conventional way to set goals, and what most of it is BS. He then talks about some of the things he's learned over the years about which goals are worthwhile, and which ones are worthless, at least in his opinion.
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The 4 Hour Work Week
In this episode, Blaine talks about several of his takeaways from the Tim Ferriss book, The 4 Hour Work Week and how they can help your business and, maybe more importantly, your life! Learn how to double your appraisal business in half the time with appraisal business coaching...Click here
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Fix the Broken Windows In Your Business
In this episode, Blaine Feyen talks about the 'broken windows' theory as it relates to business, marketing, and life. Blaine goes over a bunch of examples of broken windows in your appraisal and real estate businesses that could be hurting your company's bottom line. Learn how to fix your…
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Become A Financial Prepper
In this episode, Blaine goes over what it means to truly be prepared for challenges, and 6 tips for becoming financially prepared for hard times and economic challenges.
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Burned Out and Ready to Quit
In this episode, Blaine talks about the real causes of burnout and how to deal with the symptoms. Many appraisers, Realtors, and Lenders are burned out in 2024 based on several compounding factors: interest rates, the market, the news, the economy, and a lack of vision. Blaine covers all of these...
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$10,000 Hours Are Real!
In this episode, Blaine dispels the pervasive myth that all hours are created equal. Once you know what youre average dollar per hour rate is, it's time to think exponentially bigger so that you don't miss the variety of $10,000 hours floating all around you. Learn how to have more $10,000 hours,...
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Nobody is Coming to Save You!
In this episode, Blaine shares some insights into developing the mindset that nobody is coming to save you from an industry in the midst of massive change. If your life and business is to be successful and fulfilling, it will always be up to you to make it happen. Since you cannot control the...
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Create Your Own Business Category or Die
In this episode, Blaine talks about the concept of creating your own business category where you become known as the owner of the category and, therefore, have no competition. Examples of new business categories are: 1. Tesla creating the 'direct to consumer' and single brand dealership only…
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Expert or Authority?
In this episode, Blaine talks about the differences between being an expert in something, and being an authority. He also talks about something called 'the expert trap', where someone considered an expert gets trapped in their way of thinking and has to continue prospecting for new customers and...
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The Seven Proverbs of Performance
In this episode, Blaine talks about the 7 Proverbs of Performance he uses to remind him what matters when it comes to business growth and profitability. Watch the video version of the Proverbs of Performance at the Appraiser Increase Academy...click here!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The world's best podcast about the mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, and activities for the Appraisal, Real Estate, and Lending industries. Hosted by well known Real Estate and Appraiser Success Coach, Blaine Feyen, founder and CEO of the Real Value Group and Real Value Coaching Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Real Value Podcast covers a variety of topics involving all three of those businesses, as well as the topics of success, communication, leadership, balance, marketing, social media, SEO, NLP, and a bunch other awesome stuff!
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The world's best podcast about the mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, and activities for the Appraisal, Real Estate, and Lending industries. Hosted by well known Real Estate and Appraiser Success Coach, Blaine Feyen, founder and CEO of the Real Value Group and Real Value Coaching Academy in Grand...
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