Goal Setting is Bullsh*t! The Only 3 Things You Need
Release Date: 01/17/2025
You're Not Underpaid - You're Just Afraid
The Real Value Podcast
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 and never tested. And it’s costing you money, time, and freedom. In this episode, Blaine breaks down why your “market” isn’t the issue and why someone in a worse market is already charging more, working less, and building a better business than you. This is about the Overton Window of...
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The Premium Appraiser - Handmade or Machine Made?
The Real Value Podcast
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 handmade appraisers competing on judgment, trust, and human connection. One of those paths gets cheaper every year. The other gets more valuable. In this episode, I lay out the real skills that will determine whether you still have a thriving appraisal career five to ten years from now. Not USPAP compliance....
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Your AI Bullsh!t Detector
The Real Value Podcast
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. Subscriptions pile up. Hours disappear. Stress increases. Profit does not. Blaine is not anti AI. He uses it daily. He believes it is one of the most powerful tools we have ever had access to. But most tools on the market right now fall into three categories: time wasters, solutions looking for problems,...
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The Hidden Mechanics of Generosity
The Real Value Podcast
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 but one of the primary mechanisms that creates it. Not performative giving. Not emotional leftovers. Real giving. The kind that is quiet, uncomfortable, and detached from outcome. This conversation goes far beyond money. You will learn why scarcity has little to do with income and everything to do...
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The Great Sorting Escape Plan
The Real Value Podcast
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 bottom tier where price and speed rule, the upper tier where you choose your clients and name your price, or out of the business altogether. This episode is about what to do about it. Blaine breaks down what the market actually rewards today and why working harder, having more experience, or holding a...
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The Great Sorting Has Begun
The Real Value Podcast
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 obvious once you hear about them. You get to make a choice about where you want to end up in the great sorting.
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Be The One You’ve Been Waiting For - Nobody is Coming to Save You!
The Real Value Podcast
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 themselves as if life is just happening to them instead of because of them.
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The Business Samurai™ Year End Review
The Real Value Podcast
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
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Show Me Your Calendar and I’ll Show You Where You’re Lying
The Real Value Podcast
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
The Real Value Podcast
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 potentially eliminated. Appraisers have gotten way too comfortable with not having to work that hard to get on an appraisal panel, get a little business flowing their way, treat their clients poorly, and still maintain a business. It would seem that is coming to an end and appraisers are freaking...
info_outlineIn 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.
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