Mastering the Art of Success Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio

What if you could build a business that runs without you, and live anywhere you want? Adrienne shares how she hired her first full-time virtual assistant (VA) after moving to a new state with no client base, completed 50+ transactions in six months, and grew a real estate team that she sold in 2023. She explains exactly what she delegates to virtual assistants, why she keeps her own time for lead generation, and how a task management system with screenshot proof lets even the most hands-on "control freak" trust their team.   Key Takeaways: Delegate the back end, keep the money-making front end. Use a task management system. Require a screenshot when a task is marked done. Record a quick video, then turn it into an SOP. Niche down.   Episode Chapters: 00:40 Welcome and full-time family travel 02:10 Meet Adrienne Green: teacher turned investor 04:47 How virtual assistants changed her business 08:28 Delegating without micromanaging (task systems and screenshots) 14:54 What to hand off, and what to keep (your top 20%) 18:28 Niching down and lead generation with YouTube 20:59 How to sell a real estate team 24:27 Sponsor break 27:52 Who bought the team and what was included 30:50 Life after the sale: income, travel and homeschooling 34:13 Remote investing: Chattanooga and Myrtle Beach rentals 41:13 AI agents explained and how to start with Claude 47:54 Advice for your younger self 48:54 Closing thoughts   ABOUT THE PODCAST MASTERING THE ART OF SUCCESS: WHERE MINDSET MEETS MOMENTUM Welcome to Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum, the podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, real estate professionals, and ambitious dreamers ready to elevate their lives and businesses. Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio, entrepreneur, nationally recognized Realtor®, speaker, author, coach, and mindset strategist. Each episode features inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, industry innovators, bestselling authors, creatives, and thought leaders who are redefining success. Together, we explore the journeys, strategies, habits, and mindset shifts that helped them turn obstacles into opportunities and vision into reality. Whether you’re building a business, growing your personal brand, pursuing financial freedom, or confidently stepping into your next chapter, this podcast delivers the clarity, motivation, and practical tools to help you move forward with purpose. EVERY EPISODE IS DESIGNED TO LEAVE YOU WITH: Actionable business and marketing strategies Mindset breakthroughs and success habits Real-life stories of resilience and reinvention Inspiration to take immediate, purposeful action PERFECT FOR: Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners Real Estate Advisors and Sales Professionals Coaches, Consultants, and Creatives Anyone committed to personal growth and meaningful success Tune in weekly to master your craft, build meaningful connections, and create lasting success in business and life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH US Interested in being a guest or collaborating? [email protected] [email protected] BUYING OR SELLING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY OR LOS ANGELES? Contact Debbi directly: https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com Book Debbi to Speak https://www.BookDebbi.com Buy or Sell a Home with Debbi and the DiMaggio Betta Group https://www.DiMaggioBettaGroup.com Order Mindset In Motion™ https://www.MindsetInMotionBook.com Get Your Personalized Mindset In Motion Blueprint https://www.DebbiBluePrint.com Position Your Mindset for Success | Coach With Debbi https://www.ActivatewithDebbi.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROMO DISCOUNT CODES | THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY Cozy Earth: 21% off with code MINDSET Shop CozyEarth.com Pins and Aces: 21% off with code MINDSET Shop PinsAndAces.com Aspire Drinks: 20% off with code MINDSET Shop AspireDrinks.com

🎙 MASTERING THE ART OF SUCCESS: WHERE MINDSET MEETS MOMENTUM Featuring Guest: JUSTIN MICHAEL Justin Michael is an internationally renowned outbound sales expert and bestselling author of ten books. A former sales leader at Salesforce and LinkedIn, he went on to train teams at global companies including HubSpot, creating frameworks now used by top performers across the SaaS industry. His methodology has generated over one billion dollars in pipeline for more than two hundred ventures, while his clients, including elite founders, CROs, and consultants, have become seven-figure leaders under his guidance. Today he is recognized as one of the premier executive coaches in the world, a strategist whose influence extends from high-growth startups to Fortune 500 boardrooms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THE PODCAST Welcome to Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum, the podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, real estate professionals, and ambitious dreamers ready to elevate their lives and businesses. Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio, entrepreneur, nationally recognized Realtor®, speaker, author, coach, and mindset strategist. Each episode features inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, industry innovators, bestselling authors, creatives, and thought leaders who are redefining success. Together, we explore the journeys, strategies, habits, and mindset shifts that helped them turn obstacles into opportunities and vision into reality. Whether you’re building a business, growing your personal brand, pursuing financial freedom, or confidently stepping into your next chapter, this podcast delivers the clarity, motivation, and practical tools to help you move forward with purpose. ✨ EVERY EPISODE IS DESIGNED TO LEAVE YOU WITH: Actionable business and marketing strategies Mindset breakthroughs and success habits Real-life stories of resilience and reinvention Inspiration to take immediate, purposeful action PERFECT FOR: ✔ Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners ✔ Real Estate Advisors and Sales Professionals ✔ Coaches, Consultants, and Creatives ✔ Anyone committed to personal growth and meaningful success 🎧 Tune in weekly to master your craft, build meaningful connections, and create lasting success in business and life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 CONNECT WITH US Interested in being a guest or collaborating? [email protected] [email protected] 🏡 BUYING OR SELLING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY OR LOS ANGELES? Contact Debbi directly: 510.414.6777 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ► SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL YouTube: @DebbiDiMaggio 💬 Leave a comment! We would love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH DEBBI Entrepreneur • Realtor® • Speaker • Author • Mindset Strategist • Coach 🌐 Website https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com 🎤 Book Debbi to Speak https://www.BookDebbi.com 🏡 Buy or Sell a Home with Debbi and the DiMaggio Betta Group https://www.DiMaggioBettaGroup.com 📘 Order Mindset In Motion™ https://www.MindsetInMotionBook.com 📩 Request Your Personalized Mindset In Motion Blueprint https://www.DebbiBluePrint.com 🎓 Position Your Mindset for Success | Coach With Debbi https://www.ActivatewithDebbi.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 PROMO DISCOUNT CODES | THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY Cozy Earth: 21% off with code MINDSET Shop CozyEarth.com Pins and Aces: 21% off with code MINDSET Shop PinsAndAces.com Aspire Drinks: 20% off with code MINDSET Shop AspireDrinks.com

🎙 MASTERING THE ART OF SUCCESS: WHERE MINDSET MEETS MOMENTUM ✨ THIS WEEK'S GUEST: KEVIN YODER Kevin Yoder is a high performance mindset coach, entrepreneur, and investor, and the creator of Infinite U, a 12 lesson transformation system helping entrepreneurs, leaders, and teams unlock their potential from the inside out. Over the last 25 years, Kevin built one of the top performing real estate teams in the Midwest, coaching hundreds of salespeople and producing consistent, high performance results in competitive markets. Along the way, he discovered that lasting success comes less from strategy and more from identity. That realization led him on a multi year journey into paradigms, self image, subconscious programming, and performance psychology. This work became the foundation for Infinite U. Today, Kevin teaches entrepreneurs, sales organizations, and business leaders how to shift paradigms, elevate their self image, and install the high performance identity coding required to achieve quantum leaps in income, impact, and personal fulfillment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙 ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum, the podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, real estate professionals, and ambitious dreamers ready to elevate their lives and businesses. Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio, entrepreneur, nationally recognized Realtor®, speaker, author, coach, and mindset strategist, each episode features inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, industry innovators, bestselling authors, creatives, and thought leaders who are redefining success. Together, we explore the journeys, strategies, habits, and mindset shifts that helped them turn obstacles into opportunities and vision into reality. Whether you're building a business, growing your personal brand, pursuing financial freedom, or confidently stepping into your next chapter, this podcast delivers the clarity, motivation, and practical tools to help you move forward with purpose. ✨ EVERY EPISODE IS DESIGNED TO LEAVE YOU WITH: • Actionable business and marketing strategies • Mindset breakthroughs and success habits • Real life stories of resilience and reinvention • Inspiration to take immediate, purposeful action PERFECT FOR: ✔ Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners ✔ Real Estate Advisors and Sales Professionals ✔ Coaches, Consultants, and Creatives ✔ Anyone committed to personal growth and meaningful success 🎧 Tune in weekly to master your craft, build meaningful connections, and create lasting success in business and life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 CONNECT WITH US Interested in being a guest or collaborating? [email protected] [email protected] 🏡 BUYING OR SELLING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY OR LOS ANGELES? Contact Debbi directly: 510.414.6777 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ► SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL YouTube: @DebbiDiMaggio 💬 Leave a comment! We would love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH DEBBI DIMAGGIO Entrepreneur • Realtor® • Speaker • Author • Mindset Strategist • Coach 🌐 Website https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com 🎤 Book Debbi to Speak https://www.BookDebbi.com 🏡 Buy or Sell a Home with Debbi and the DiMaggio Betta Group https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com 📘 Order Mindset In Motion™ https://www.MindsetInMotionBook.com 📩 Subscribe to Debbi's Newsletter https://www.DebbiNewsletter.com 🎓 Position Your Mindset for Success | Coach With Debbi https://www.ActivatewithDebbi.com 🧭 Get Your Personalized Mindset In Motion™ Blueprint https://www.DebbiBluePrint.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 PROMO DISCOUNT CODES | THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY Cozy Earth | 21% off Code: MINDSET Shop: CozyEarth.com Pins and Aces | 21% off Code: MINDSET Shop: PinsAndAces.com Aspire Drinks | 20% off Code: MINDSET Shop: AspireDrinks.com

🎙 MASTERING THE ART OF SUCCESS: WHERE MINDSET MEETS MOMENTUM ✨ THIS WEEK'S GUEST: ELI MARCUS Eli Marcus is the host of The Motivation Show podcast, ranked in the top 1% worldwide. He interviews many of the most successful and intriguing people in the world. His guests have included singer Judy Collins, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton, Little House on the Prairie's "Ma" Karen Grassle, 1960s singer and movie heartthrob Frankie Avalon, 1986 NY Mets World Series champion Darryl Strawberry, star of more than 200 film and TV roles Joe Pantoliano, Lady Gaga's dad Joe Germanotta, Chicken Soup for the Soul's Mark Victor Hansen, and hundreds more. The show can be seen on YouTube and heard on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, and more. Eli is also the CEO of Marcus PR & Marketing, the only Florida firm that combines PR, Marketing, Sales, and Branding. As the former founder and CEO of The Seminar Center, the world's largest adult education center, he created more than 3,000 events, including producing Michael Jackson at Carnegie Hall in 2001. Eli is a professional keynote speaker on Sales and Life Success and is available to speak for companies, organizations, and events. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙 ABOUT THE SHOW Welcome to Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum, the podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, real estate professionals, and ambitious dreamers ready to elevate their lives and businesses. Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio, entrepreneur, nationally recognized Realtor®, speaker, author, coach, and mindset strategist, each episode features inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, industry innovators, bestselling authors, creatives, and thought leaders who are redefining success. Together, we explore the journeys, strategies, habits, and mindset shifts that helped them turn obstacles into opportunities and vision into reality. Whether you're building a business, growing your personal brand, pursuing financial freedom, or confidently stepping into your next chapter, this podcast delivers the clarity, motivation, and practical tools to help you move forward with purpose. ✨ EVERY EPISODE IS DESIGNED TO LEAVE YOU WITH: • Actionable business and marketing strategies • Mindset breakthroughs and success habits • Real life stories of resilience and reinvention • Inspiration to take immediate, purposeful action PERFECT FOR: ✔ Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners ✔ Real Estate Advisors and Sales Professionals ✔ Coaches, Consultants, and Creatives ✔ Anyone committed to personal growth and meaningful success 🎧 Tune in weekly to master your craft, build meaningful connections, and create lasting success in business and life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 CONNECT WITH US Interested in being a guest or collaborating? [email protected] [email protected] 🏡 BUYING OR SELLING IN THE SAN FRANCISCO EAST BAY OR LOS ANGELES? Contact Debbi directly: 510.414.6777 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ► SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL YouTube: @DebbiDiMaggio 💬 Leave a comment! We would love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH DEBBI DIMAGGIO Entrepreneur • Realtor® • Speaker • Author • Mindset Strategist • Coach 🌐 Website https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com 🎤 Book Debbi to Speak https://www.BookDebbi.com 🏡 Buy or Sell a Home with Debbi and the DiMaggio Betta Group https://www.DebbiDiMaggio.com 📘 Order Mindset In Motion™ https://www.MindsetInMotionBook.com 📩 Subscribe to Debbi's Newsletter https://www.DebbiNewsletter.com 🎓 Position Your Mindset for Success | Coach With Debbi https://www.ActivatewithDebbi.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 PROMO DISCOUNT CODES | THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY Cozy Earth | 21% off Code: MINDSET Shop: CozyEarth.com Pins and Aces | 21% off Code: MINDSET Shop: PinsAndAces.com Aspire Drinks | 20% off Code: MINDSET Shop: AspireDrinks.com

🎙 About Today's Guest: Steve Spiro, The Master Connector Steve Spiro is an inspirational keynote speaker and author who hosts a weekly live broadcast on multiple platforms and is known today as The Master Connector. Though he started out as a shy introvert and art school kid who never imagined himself in business, he went on to launch his own advertising company in NYC, earn a black belt in Karate and Jujitsu, and become a top sales performer. Now considered one of LinkedIn's top influencers with more than 30,000 connections, he uses his journey to help audiences build genuine, meaningful human connections. Connect with Steve: Master-Connector.com Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum Welcome to Mastering the Art of Success: Where Mindset Meets Momentum, the podcast for entrepreneurs, business leaders, real estate professionals, and ambitious dreamers ready to elevate their lives and businesses. Hosted by Debbi DiMaggio, entrepreneur, nationally recognized Realtor®, speaker, author, coach, and mindset strategist. Each episode features inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, industry innovators, bestselling authors, creatives, and thought leaders who are redefining success. Together, we explore the journeys, strategies, habits, and mindset shifts that helped them turn obstacles into opportunities and vision into reality. Whether you're building a business, growing your personal brand, pursuing financial freedom, or confidently stepping into your next chapter, this podcast delivers the clarity, motivation, and practical tools to help you move forward with purpose. ✨ Every episode is designed to leave you with: Actionable business and marketing strategies Mindset breakthroughs and success habits Real-life stories of resilience and reinvention Inspiration to take immediate, purposeful action Perfect for entrepreneurs and small business owners, real estate advisors and sales professionals, coaches, consultants, and creatives, and anyone committed to personal growth and meaningful success. 🎧 Tune in weekly to master your craft, build meaningful connections, and create lasting success in business and life. 📩 Be a Guest or Collaborate We'd love to hear from you: [email protected] or [email protected] 🏡 Buying or Selling in the San Francisco East Bay or Los Angeles? Contact Debbi directly at 510.414.6777 or visit DiMaggioBettaGroup.com Subscribe & Watch Follow the podcast here on Podbean so you never miss an episode, and watch the full video interviews on YouTube. 💬 Leave a comment. We'd love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode! Connect with Debbi DiMaggio Entrepreneur • Realtor® • Speaker • Author • Coach 🌐 Website: DebbiDiMaggio.com 🎤 Book Debbi to Speak: BookDebbi.com 📘 Order Mindset In Motion™: MindsetInMotionBook.com 📩 Debbi's Newsletter: DebbiNewsletter.com 🎓 Coach with Debbi: COACHwithDebbi.com 🤝 Real Estate Referral Network: DebbiNetwork.com 🚀 Mindset In Motion™ Elevate + Collaborate Mastermind: 0800ignite.com Follow Debbi X • Substack • Facebook • LinkedIn • YouTube