The Deal with Danny Brown

Danny Brown, lifelong Angelino and top luxury real estate broker, interviews elite performers in business, sports, entertainment and life and distills down their mindset, work ethic, habits and life lessons learned. This is the blueprint for success in business and life.

Ep. 81 - Heather Domi: Top New York City Real Estate Agent 05/07/2024

#80 Lindsay Neuren and Ross Speed from Austin Texas's Top Real Estate Team 04/18/2024

Ep. 79 Alexandra Conigliaro Biega - Co-founder of Boston's Top Real Estate team Biega-Kilgore 04/10/2024

#78: Tye Stockton - The Key to Vail Colorado's Most Exclusive Homes 12/11/2023

#77: Jacque Jones - What It Takes to Be a Major League Baseball Player 11/18/2023

#77: Jacque Jones - What It Takes to Be a Major League Baseball Player 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 as a true freshman and quickly established himself as one of the best players in the nation. In 1994 he hit legendary status after hitting 3 home runs against LSU in Baton Rouge in the NCAA regional finals. In 1995 he helped lead USC to a national championship where they were beat by Cal State Fullerton who had a kid named Mark Kotsay (currently the Oakland A’s Manager) who was the 1995 college player of the year and had a extraordinary 17 year major league career. Jacque was drafted in the 2nd round by the Minnesota Twins and selected to team USA in 1996 where he put up video game numbers hitting .404 with 15 home runs and 49 RBIs in 37 games. Jacque had an impressive 10 year big league career with a career batting average of .277, with 165 homers, 630 RBI, .326 OBP and a .448 SLGs selected. A long with Torii Hunter and Shannon Stewart he made up what was known to be the best outfield in Major League Baseball. He was put on the Hall of Fame ballot in 2014 but did not receive enough votes. After retiring from Baseball he spent a few more years in the game as a hitting coach before moving on to other entrepreneurial and philanthropic pursuits. His All Hands on Deck foundation (www.Allhandsondeck11.com) is a charity that mentors, supports and provides resources for underprivileged inner city teenagers in San Diego. In this episode Jacque takes us through his baseball journey starting as a kid in San Diego, his impactful college years and USC and his impressive big league career. This is an inside look on what it takes to become a major league baseball player and how to use the power of the platform to give back to your community. School is in session! Please subscribe to THE DEAL WITH DANNY BROWN on YouTube of Apple Podcast to hear more episodes like this. To learn more about All Hands on Deck foundation please go to www.allhandsondeck11.com and donate. Jacque Jones Danny Brown /episode/index/show/thedeal/id/28696733

#76: Holly Meyer Lucas A Baller and a Boss in Jupiter, Florida Real Estate 10/24/2023

The Deal With Danny Brown - ULA Mansion Tax Special 10/05/2023

The Deal With Danny Brown - ULA Mansion Tax Special 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 made any net profit on the sale and/or whether the proceeds would be split among several, sometimes 10 - 20 family members, who are middle to low income earners. Instead of these funds being used to for the homeless crisis, the funds will actually be used to provide attorneys for tenants who are not paying rent to fight their landlords regardless whether they are employed and able to afford rent. The limited amount of homeless housing that will be built by the labor unions will cost at least $600,000 per unit which is about double the cost of building the same unit using large, professional building contractors that are non union. The narrative to help the homeless is an emotional trigger for all of us as we all want to help solve this horrendous crisis eating at the core of our beautiful city. Yet the city politics behind the narrative continue to cloud the facts and true intentions of the ULA initiative. All one needs to do is look at the amount of tax payers money collected for homeless and homeless housing and services over the past decade and reconcile that with what we see in our streets and on our sidewalks and parks everyday. Today’s conversation is with Keith Fromm the lead attorney from Fight ULA () also known as the Newcastle Lawsuit which is one of the two lawsuits against the city of Los Angeles to overturn this unfair tax. The second lawsuit is led by well known tax payer advocate by Howard Jarvis whose lawsuit hangs on a single argument compared to Fight ULA whose claim has 17 different argument including the Howard Jarvis argument In this informative discussion, Keith and Danny shed light on the ULA landscape and the urgency to get behind FIGHT ULA so that Keith Fromm and his partners have the resources to continue to fight this case. Up to this point, Keith and his partners have taken this case on spec and have not been paid for their time and work. The hearing October 23rd on ULA is only the beginning of the ULA fight as there will be several more rounds of appeals over the next year or two, and if successful eventually a trial that very well could end up in front the Supreme Court of the United States. It is now or never. To learn more about ULA and FIGHT ULA go to and/or contact Danny Brown a real estate industry advocate for Fight ULA. #ulatax #keithfromm /episode/index/show/thedeal/id/28232312

75: Wendy Forsythe - President of Compass California, Hawaii, Nevada Knows What it Takes to Succeed 08/25/2023

#74 - Lauren Forbes: One of the Best Real Estate Agents in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach 07/22/2023

#73: Matt Faupel - Selling High End Homes to billionaires in Jackson Hole & Yellowstone Club 07/07/2023

#72 Gary Gold - The Real Estate Agent Who Sold the Playboy MANSION FOR $100M 04/23/2023

#71: Rayni and Branden Williams - The Billion Dollar Real Estate Broker 03/26/2023

#70 - Spencer Rascoff Co-Founder of Zillow, Pacaso. Dot.la & Hotwire 03/10/2023

#69: Scott Gibson - Managing Director of Compass Tells Realtors To "Stay Alive Until 25" 03/03/2023

#68 MICHAEL NOURMAND - PRESIDENT OF NOURMAND & ASSOCIATES - EFFECTIVE SUCCESSION IN A FAMILY BUSINESS 02/18/2023

#67: Skye Michiels - Head of National Agent Development at Compass on Flourishing in a Shifting Real Estate Market 02/03/2023

#66: Anthony Marguleas Founder of Amalfi Estates in Pacific Palisades With Over $2 B in Sales 09/23/2022

#65: Stephen Shapiro - Co-Founder of Westside Estate Agency With Kurt Rappaport & Thriving in the Ultra High End Housing Market 09/09/2022

#64 - Skye Michaels - Head of Agent Development at Compass and the 6AMERS Club 07/15/2022

#63 - Steve Bram, Principal, George Smith Partners - The Art of Commercial Financing 06/30/2022

#62 - Scott Gibson - Overseeing 63 Offices and $20B & Surviving A Down Housing Market 06/17/2022

#62 - Scott Gibson - Overseeing 63 Offices and $20B & Surviving A Down Housing Market Scott Gibson was born and raised in Los Angeles and jumped into the real estate industry right after graduating from UCLA. He became aone of the industries youngest sales manager at the Fred Sands brokerage and eventually went on to manage the Jon Douglas Company where he oversaw 23 branch offices and 1300 agents throughout California in the 1990s. When Jon Douglas merged with Prudential and was eventually acquired by NRT (Coldwell Banker) in 1997 Scott became the Senior VP of Coldwell Banker. A few years later he was named the president of Coldwell Banker in Southern California where we oversaw 63 offices and $20 Billion in annual sales. In 2004 NRT asked Scott to move across the country and bolster their East Coast operations overseeing 9 states for their Coldwell Banker, Cochran and Era brands including their most competitive markets in New York City, Long Island, The Hamptons, Palm Beach, Connecticut and New England. Scott returned to Los Angeles and founded his own brokerage Gibson International in West Los Angeles in 2008 and after weathering the storm during the great recession Gibson expanded and flourished with the Gibson international Brand. In 2018 Gibson merged with Pacific Union in a roll up which included Partners Trust and the John Aaroe Group, and acquired by Compass in 2018. This conversation was recorded in April 2022 and Scott may be the first high level residential real estate professional to say “we are probably in a recession” at a time when the Dow as hovering at 35,000 and houses on the Westside of Los Angeles were selling in multiple offers at every price point. In the past 30 days, the market has changed and with the continued interest rate hikes to combat inflation it appears that the peak of the market is now in the rearview window. Hear what it takes to survive and thrive in a down market from on of the most well regarded management executives and leaders in the residential real estate industry. School is in session. /episode/index/show/thedeal/id/23461487