8/10/2023 0 Comments Robert evans podcasterPartly, there is some relief in reading these books today and reflecting on the relative progress we’ve made. But I remain enthralled by their histories of Hollywood. The picture that writers like Biskind and Phillips draw isn’t pretty, and their approach toward the prevailing attitudes of the era is often laissez-faire. As Julia Phillips wrote in her memoir “ You’ll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again,” when she started out, in the late sixties, as one of the only female movie producers in the industry, there were “no women in the business but stars, secretaries, and bimbos.” Women were overlooked professionally when they were not being instrumentally assessed, and often used or abused, for their sexual appeal. For much of my adult life, one of my favorite books has been Peter Biskind’s “ Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,” which recounts the shoddy, sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll antics of the industry’s principal players, who were almost always men. But it also made me realize how much I have been gripped, over the years, by the lore of Hollywood in the seventies, which was replete with male behavior that, when not outright criminal, was at the very least gross and sexist. As these events began to unfold, it was gratifying to think that women in Hollywood might now be able to pursue their professional goals more fully, unharmed and untrammelled. ![]() In the months that followed, accruing #MeToo revelations led to the downfall of producers, performers, and executives for long-employed tactics of harassment, intimidation, and assault. If you want to know more about the how's and why's, you'll just need to reach out to find out at and learn more.It has now been just over two years since the Harvey Weinstein allegations were reported in the Times as well as in this magazine, in the early days of October, 2017. It's why we call our webinars The Future in Real Estate! ![]() A truly agent centric brokerage for the future. As we come together, we are building something that has never been built before. I say we're still coming together because of the caliber of agents that are moving: The #1 Team in Arizona, Moved! #1 Agent in Louisiana, Moved! Top luxury agent in South Texas, Moved! #9 Team in Houston TX, Moved! I could go on and on and on. If you've been in the industry for any length of time you know these don't generally apply to us.Īs far as the second part of the question. It empowers agents and brokers to grow beyond what they thought possible and move into a sustainable growth plan that actually contains words like "retirement" and "residual income". Our model is the first paradigm shift in the way brokerages do business in the last 20 years, as I mentioned before. How have we done it and why do I say we are still in the "coming together" stage? ![]() As of June 2017, we are now 3700 agents strong and growing! Do the math on that! When I moved my license in May of 2015 it was somewhere between 400 to 500 agents across the nation and had been for a while. No one knows and if they do they're not telling. I think it's a long running joke that the founder continues to promulgate. Along came a little brokerage named eXp Realty. I thought this was where our industry was going to stay, but man was I wrong. After all when was the last time the real estate business truly changed? KW's profit share 20 years ago? It was having a hard time progressing due to their inability to adapt and change. ![]() My last brokerage fell in the "keeping together stage". So many come and go, claim to be something they're not and others never accomplish the "coming together" part. This has been a challenge in the real estate brokerage industry. First it must come together (the right people, the right time, the right leadership), then it must keep together (people are tested, strategies challenged, processes mastered) and finally working together toward a common goal creates success for those involved. Every great shift in an industry follows this very same path. That is something that I apply to business in general. Henry Ford said "Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success." I don't know what setting he made this statement in and I'm sure it had something to do with the assembly line he was creating at the time.
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