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#36 - Jay Walker - Getting Respect in the Hood and the Board Room

The Deal with Danny Brown

Release Date: 10/09/2020

Ep. 81 - Heather Domi: Top New York City Real Estate Agent show art Ep. 81 - Heather Domi: Top New York City Real Estate Agent

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For over 22 years Heather Domi has had a phenomenal career specializing in selling new development condo projects in Manhattan. With over $1.6 Billion in career sales volume she has proven to be consistent, tenacious, sophisticated and focused in one of the most Competitive real estate markets in the world. In this episode, we sit down with Heather in between agent panels and symposiums at the annual Compass Retreat in San Diego. Excuse the background noise, there’s 500 agent in the next room.   If you like luxury real estate what you hear and enjoy luxury real estate please subscribe...

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Ep. 79 Alexandra Conigliaro Biega - Co-founder of Boston's Top Real Estate team Biega-Kilgore show art Ep. 79 Alexandra Conigliaro Biega - Co-founder of Boston's Top Real Estate team Biega-Kilgore

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Alexandra grew up in Boston and was a standout student athlete in high school. She was recruited to Harvard where she played 4 years of soccer and graduated with a dual degree in economics and psychology. It is no surprise that her competitiveness, work ethic and intelligence has propelled her way to top of the Boston real estate food chain. She has represented some of the most magnificent Brownstones and iconic full service buildings in Beacon Hill, Back Bay, Seaport District, Waterfront and surrounding neighborhoods. As Boston has exploded as a major metropolitan hub for technology,...

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  You cannot discuss luxury real estate in Vail Colorado without mentioning Tye Stockton. Tye left a lucrative wall street career in New York City after falling in love with the rocky mountains and Vail’s magical outdoor lifestyle. For the past twenty years he has established himself as the go to broker for high end homes in Vail.  He has also created and developed the “Immersion Theater” which is a fully immersive 3D virtual reality experience which gives a buyer the ability to tour every piece of residential real estate Vail from the comfort of Tye’s office. Although he has...

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Jacque Jones grew up in San Diego and spent endless hours on the baseball diamond learning the fundamentals of baseball and foundational life lessons weaved into the game. His uncle encouraged Jacque play with the older, bigger kids at his local park which forced Jacque to toughen up and improve his skills. By the time he entered high school it was clear Jacque was an elite athlete with a future in baseball. Surprisingly he was looked by many college programs and not heavily recruited, until he was offered a full ride to USC by Frank Cruz and Mike Gillespie Jacque was in the starting line up...

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Holly Meyer Lucas is a powerhouse in every sense of the word.  In a short amount of time she has built one of the most dominating real estate teams in Jupiter Florida and Palm Beach county where she specializes in working with professional athletes and ultra high net worth clients.  Her husband Ed Lucas knows a little something about athletics as he was the Ivy League Baseball Player of the Year at Dartmouth and had a long professional career in baseball, making his major league debut with the Miami Marlins. Ed currently works in the San Francisco Giants organization but back in the...

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In late 2022 Los Angeles Voted in the ULA Mansion Tax to “force millionaires and billionaires to pay their fair share” on all real estate transactions over $5M which includes all residential, commercial, retail, industrial, office, land and multifamily real estate. The ULA initiative was sold as a new “Homelessness and Housing Solutions” tax to end homelessness and create affordable housing in Los Angeles. In reality, the ULA initiative was proposed by, among others, labor unions seeking to profit 4% on all sales over $5M and 5.5% on all sales over $10M regardless whether the seller...

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Wendy has had an impressive career trajectory from being a successful young agent showing homes in the frigid Nova Scotia winters to managing multiple offices and launching her own thriving brokerage. For over 2 decades Wendy has had a 50 yard line seat Managing the best of the best in the real estate game and holding C level positions at multiple world class brokerages. In her current role at Compass as President of California, Hawaii and Nevada she has a unique perspective of what it takes to succeed at the highest level in brokerage as an agent, a manager and a C level executive of a...

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#74 - Lauren Forbes: One of the Best Real Estate Agents in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach show art #74 - Lauren Forbes: One of the Best Real Estate Agents in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach

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A career in litigation was not in the cards for Lauren Forbes and after 8 years at a cut throat law firm she transitioned into a career in real estate. Over the past 20 years she has been one of the most prominent in Manhattan and Hermosa Beach which has been a hot bed for professional athletes in the Southern California region.  Somehow Lauren has been able to balance a family, a career and a big life in the South Bay. School is in session. Please subscribe to The Deal with Danny Brown https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deal-with-danny-brown/id1456674115 and leave us a comment to...

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Matt Faupel is a founding partner of the Graham Faupel Mendenhall team in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. They are the longest-standing and most productive real estate team in the Teton region, with over $2.5 billion in cumulative sales, and are widely acknowledged as an authority regarding luxury marketing and mountain resort destinations. WIth some of the most pristine natural scenery in the world Jackson Hole has become home base to many billionaires and UHNW families and has some of the most impressive and exclusive mountain estates and ranches. Matt started his career and life in Detroit where he...

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In this episode I get deep and personal with one of my life long close friends Jay Walker.  Jay and I have been friends since grade school and played ball Together first at Rancho park and in high school at University High in West Los Angeles where we both were standouts on the baseball and football teams.   

 
After high school Jay was drafted by the Angels as a pitcher and played in their farm system for a short stint before pivoting and going to college to focus on football.  He landed at Howard University where the legend of “Sky Walker” was born as he set the record books on fire his senior year becoming the ESPN college football player of the year, and leading Howard to an undefeated season and National Championship.  He faced and defeated Steve “Air” McNair in a college quarterback shootout for the ages.  Jay was drafted by the New England Patriots and played for Bill Parcels and then Dennis Green and the Minnesota Viking before retiring a pursing a career in finance.  He was named to the Howard University Hall of Fame in 2005.
Jay is currently the CEO and President of Walker Financial and is a college baseball and college football commentator for ESPN including his popular “Gimme Five” show on ESPN.  He also has been serving in the Maryland House of Delegates for 14 years where he pushed for financial literacy and physical education in public schools.  All of this while balancing being a husband and father to three children.  
 
What you do not know about Jay he is one of the rare human beings who can relate, connect and garner respect and influence from everyone he comes in contact with whether it be gang members in the streets of South Central Los Angeles, CEOs in the board room or Senators in Washington DC.  This is what success and leadership looks like.