The Real Value Podcast
The world's best podcast about the mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, and activities for the Appraisal, Real Estate, and Lending industries. Hosted by well known Real Estate and Appraiser Success Coach, Blaine Feyen, founder and CEO of the Real Value Group and Real Value Coaching Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Real Value Podcast covers a variety of topics involving all three of those businesses, as well as the topics of success, communication, leadership, balance, marketing, social media, SEO, NLP, and a bunch other awesome stuff!
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 279
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2025
Your Most Valuable Hour
In this episode, Blaine teaches appraisers to ask 5 important questions about their business. One of the most important is learning your dollars per hour number. This is important to know if you ever…
Unconventional Wisdom - Part 2
In this episode, part 2 of 2, Blaine recaps the first 5 pieces of unconventional wisdom and advice from the last episode, and then adds 5 more pieces of advice gleaned over 30+ years of travel.
Unconventional Wisdom - Part 1
In this episode, Blaine shares 5 pieces of unconventional wisdom and advice he's been given over the years. This unconventional advice is advice that sometimes runs counter to the traditional advice …
Feeling The Pressure
In this episode, Blaine talks about the positive aspects of pressure and why pressure testing your ideas, mindsets, beliefs, and habits is one of the best ways to get stronger and better.
Quantity or Quality?
In this episode, Blaine talks about the topic of quantity over quality, and addresses the topic from a unique position. Instead of an either/or question, Blaine talks about it as a quality 'and' quan…
How Do You Show Them?
In this episode, Blaine talks about the importance of demonstrating your value to the market through creating content. If you're not demonstrating the value of what you do, or what you can do, for yo…
Building Your Magnetic Persona
In this episode, Blaine talks about one of the most important aspects of successful branding: The Magnetic Persona! Sometimes referred to as the Attractive Character, it's the personality that buyers…
The Unlikely Networker
In this episode, Blaine talks about his reluctance to do traditional networking type activities as an introvert, but goes on to explain the 3 main categories of people Appraisers, real estate agents,…
The Next 5 Commandments!
In this episode, Blaine recaps the big 5 commandments from the last show and the covers several more commandments of building a successful business. Blaine also talks about the Appraiser Increase Aca…
5 Commandments of Business Building
In this episode, Blaine reveals the 5 commandments of business building and explains how it's tied to an appraisal business. Pulling from the book, The Millionaire Fastlane, by MK DeMarco, Blaine exp…
Amor Fati - Stoic Wisdom For Dealing With Chaos
In this episode, Blaine explains the Stoic principle of Amor Fati, which loosely translates to 'love of your fate'. Instead of labeling things as either good or bad, Amor Fati teaches us to stop labe…
Take That, Fannie Mae!
In this episode, Blaine addresses the recent announcement from Fannie Mae that full appraisals will no longer be the default option on every loan. While many appraisers are getting upset and think th…
3 Things That Make Your Business Magnetic
In this episode, Blaine talks about 2 things you should be focused on in 2023 to make you and your business more magnetic. Blaine also talks about the 3Gs of a good business mindset: Gratitude, Graci…
Supplement or Scale?
In this episode, Blaine talks about whether or not it’s better to just try to supplement your appraisal business by diversifying into the non-lender segment of the industry, or to scale up and try to…
Building Your Non-Lender Appraisal Biz
In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the mindsets, skills, and techniques for breaking into and building a busy non-lender appraisal business.
The 7 Mindsets of Success!
In this episode, Blaine talks about the 7 mindsets of success that he’s learned over the years through trial, error, and good mentorship. These seven mindsets of success can be applied to anything an…
The Appraiser Trainee Dilemma
In this episode, Blaine talks about the struggles that appraiser trainees, and those looking to enter the real estate appraisal industry, are facing with the change in market conditions. Blaine has s…
10 Questions For The New Year
In this episode, Blaine asks 10 vital questions for real estate appraisers, Realtors, and Lenders to ask themselves as 2022 ends and 2023 begins.
Ask yourself these 10 questions honestly and write d…
We Will Specialize…or Die
In this episode, Blaine covers chapter one from the book by Blair Enns called, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto. In chapter one, Enns talks about the very strong need to specialization in almost ev…