Burn Your Fear To The Ground - questions from the mailbag
Release Date: 05/03/2025
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...
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The Business Samurai - Musashi’s Lessons for Business and Life
The Real Value Podcast
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
The Real Value Podcast
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
The Real Value Podcast
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 men in general.
info_outlineIn 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.