KGCI: Real Estate on Air - Cannabis Trailblazer to Top Real Estate Team How Suneet is Using AI to Annihilate His Competition
Episode Date: August 13, 2025Don’t miss out! Subscribe to this podcast now for actionable strategies and expert insights from over 1,500 on-demand episodes.SummaryDiscover the explosive journey of Suneet Agarwal, who p...ivoted from the cannabis industry to become one of Sacramento's top real estate team leaders. This episode reveals how Suneet "weaponized" AI to annihilate the competition, sharing the exact tools and strategies that automate 80% of his daily workflow. It's a raw, honest look at why hustle alone isn't enough, and how agents ignoring AI are already falling behind in the race to dominate real estate in 2025.Bullet Point TakeawaysThe Journey from Cannabis to Closings: Suneet shares his unconventional path, explaining how his experience in the cannabis and mortgage industries prepared him with a unique blend of grit, sales acumen, and business savvy that he now applies to real estate.AI is the Ultimate Business Automation Tool: Learn how Suneet and his team use AI to automate their daily grind, from leveraging tools like Claude and Gemini to manage routine tasks to creating AI-powered workflows that handle everything from content creation to lead nurturing.The Mindset Shift from Hustle to Strategy: Discover why Suneet believes that working hard is a given, but true success in today's market requires a strategic approach. He emphasizes the importance of building systems and using technology to create a business that can run without you.Essential AI Tools for Realtors: Get an inside look at the AI tools powering Suneet's growth. He discusses how platforms like Revaluate predict which homeowners are likely to sell, Epique automates content creation, and Virtual Staging AI enhances property visuals, giving agents a significant edge.Beyond Tech: The Power of Mentorship and Sacrifice: Suneet stresses that AI is only one part of the equation. He shares how getting into the "right rooms" with mentors who had already achieved what he wanted was his biggest breakthrough, and how a commitment to personal health and making strategic sacrifices are just as important as leads and listings.Topics:Suneet Agarwal AIAI for Real Estate AgentsReal Estate Business AutomationCannabis to Real EstateAI Real Estate ToolsCall-to-ActionReady to get real about what it takes to dominate in 2025? Listen to the full episode on your favorite podcast platform and learn Suneet's secrets to success! Take your business further with the KGCI Real Estate On Air mobile app. Download it for free on iPhone and Android—just search ‘KGCI’ in the Apple App Store or Google Play.Grow your business with KGCI Real Estate On Air
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This is everything they never told you about real estate with the AI queen Carrie Sovey,
sharing the tech, tools, and lead gen strategies that top producers won't tell you about.
Now, here's your host, Carrie.
Welcome back to the podcast.
I'm really excited about this guest.
We have Sanit Agarwal.
He is, he's broken records with his mega team in California.
and he's from the cannabis industry in his earlier days.
We just had a little talk before this podcast,
but there's so many things that I want to bring up.
Sneat,
thank you so much for joining me today.
Yeah, thank you for the invite.
I'm super excited.
Glad we're able to make it happen.
Okay, so I want to get back to your route.
So you're currently like one of the top mega teams in California.
I believe you're like top on MLS in Sacramento right now, correct?
That's why checked. I was number one in the MLS for so long, which is crazy to say. The funny thing is, is my right-hand man was number two. So I should have been even higher, but for some reason, they gave him credit on a bunch of my deals.
So he is. So I was number one by a couple hundred percent for a long time. I haven't looked lately, but we're talking years, Kerry. It's crazy. Yeah. I've only been a realtor for 11 years. They have been up in number one of the MLS.
But how have you done this in 11 years, too?
Like, I think that's impressive in itself.
So you are such a powerhouse in the real estate industry.
Like, you're a freaking powerhouse.
I want to talk, though, before we get into the real estate stuff, a little bit about what your life looked like before real estate.
Before you got your license, you were in the cannabis industry.
And you just told me some wild shit.
So, like, I want to get into that.
So, you know, I used to be a dreddy.
I used to live playing rock bands.
I lived up in Humboldt County.
I spent a lot of time in Chico.
You know, it took me eight years to get my bachelor's.
I was a wild dude.
I was a wild dude.
Right out of college, I got into mortgage for their hiring, right?
I had a degree in, like, management information systems, which I had no idea what I was
good for.
But I got into mortgage because they were hiring.
And I figured out sales real quick and did pretty good.
But my roots were in cannabis living in Humboldt and Chico.
And when mortgage went kind of sideways, I said, well, I only know one other thing.
And that's cannabis and I love it.
So we went in when George W. Bush was president.
Like they call us frigging cowboys, right?
Like we're one of the originals here in Northern California, which is crazy because it's California, right?
And, you know, when we started, we rented a spot and people started coming.
I had two saw horses and a piece of plywood with a cash register and a bunch of jars, right?
And that eventually turned into a very nice place in Sacramento, so nice that we used that.
And we lobbied the city and we lobbied other cities and we had attorneys and lobbies and worked with local government.
and we're able to pass some of the first ordinances that existed here in Northern California.
So it was a big, real big deal.
During Obama's re-election in 2012, the U.S. attorneys decided to kind of pursue some dispensaries
just to be tough on crime, right?
And the many people that they pursued were breaking most of the laws.
They had guns under their bed and files of cash and all this, right?
Which is, which you don't do.
Like, you're acting like a gangster, bro.
We were a legitimate business with K's insurance, all the licenses,
because my attorneys helped the city friggin' write the licenses, right?
Like, we were those people.
However, when the feds want to serve a warrant, they get to take all your shit.
So with that happening and them seizing our assets through the serving of a search warrant, right?
I said, well, that was pretty traumatic.
We're talking U.S. Marshall's battering ram to my front door, 5 a.m., laser sites over some cannabis, right?
And I was like, you guys could have sent me a letter.
Like, let's get real.
Like, you could call my office.
Like, you really got to do all this?
So, you know, that left me kind of reeling.
And, you know, people talk about going broke.
And I've had other challenges where, you know, I've gone broke, right, in my professional career.
but to go from like having money to not having money like this when the feds push a button.
That's a whole different feeling.
Yeah.
And there's also that identity there.
And there's also, well, I still got bills and now like even my savings.
And not like we were bawling.
We were a real business.
We had work once comp.
We had health insurance.
We had 401Ks.
Like we did it right.
So that took into the big money that everyone thought it was.
We did great.
But it wasn't like, I didn't have.
Lambo. I had the same car. I didn't even buy a car the whole time we were open. I had the same
car, right? Yeah.
But that's crazy. I didn't buy a car the whole time. I never thought about it. But so yeah,
that, you know, so I went and, you know, I kind of just quit working, got an unemployment,
did some consulting jobs. My mother is an angel and she helped me. You know, I'm on my late
30s at that point. Yeah. And I was breeding like American Bulldog, was trying to sell puppies,
He's like complete trashy dude, right?
And my mom and one of my best friends said,
hey, you should get a real estate.
He had recently become a realtor.
He said, all right.
How about not?
I'm going to figure something about it.
And after them really, really encouraging me or telling me, you know,
you got to do something.
Yeah.
It went ahead and did.
And within nine months, I was like rookie of the year for that big brand's entire West Coast
division.
There's something here, right?
All I did was really work my ass off.
I bought some leads.
I started doing a lot of videos on my cell phone and putting them on Facebook.
Right?
And that's what we were, everyone was telling people to do that.
I got really involved, you know, the first year.
Then the second year, I was all, well, I don't kind of want to get back to cannabis.
I want to start a business.
Cannabis isn't happening.
I'm going to start a team because why not?
The second year agent, I stood up at the end of a cubicle and said, I'm going to start a team who wants to join a
five agents raised their hand.
Yeah.
All right.
So I got a team.
And really, I dove into self-development and coaching and events and every podcast, like, and really went on that journey to where I figured it out.
There was business acumen because I, you know, I had run businesses.
There was, there was fire because I was pissed.
Well, you're, you're either one of two people in this life.
You're either an entrepreneur at heart or you're not.
you're like a worker bee. That's my opinion. And from what you tell me about your past,
like you've been an entrepreneur. A hundred percent.
Every step of the way, just in different industries and in different areas, even when you were,
you know, like you said, like trashy living on the farm or the ranch or whatever, breeding bulldogs,
you know, that was a business. I was getting to sell some shit. Yeah. And you either have it or you don't.
It's not something that's easily transferable to people that don't really have that.
Me and my brother, I am always the hustler, always the entrepreneur,
and he's always the dude that just gets a job.
Okay, so I got a question around all this.
So number one, the top team in Sacramento, what's the one thing about being number one that
absolutely sucks that nobody talks about?
Give it to me.
Well, I have, for the longest time, I had a huge target on my back.
from the MLS, other and other agents, budget haters.
The president of the MLS called me and said, you know, you have more MLS complaints that
anybody's ever had.
I said, well, is that because I've had more listings that anybody's ever had?
He goes, well, that too.
I was all, there you go.
Right.
So, yeah, I mean, that's, that was the hard part.
Yeah.
If you were to, because we know everything's changing in the real estate world and it has
been for for a while now. So what part of our industry do you think is completely broken?
I mean, has anything really ever changed? Maybe just the mechanisms have changed, right? But the
fundamentals, you know, when I coach other team leaders and brokerage owners, like the fundamentals,
I don't think have changed. Work hard, show up and be a professional, right? Be consistent. Get back to
people. The mechanisms around the technology and the mechanisms around like new forms or new rules,
I'm in California. So it's all the, you know, legal shit they can throw at us. They totally do.
Our contract that's longer than any other state by a lot.
So that's what I think, right? It's like, what's broken? I don't know if anything about the industry
is broken and look like you can say that people come in maybe not knowing what they need to know
and there should be a higher barrier right of entry yeah you know but you know let there be more
agents like i'm like you know give everybody a shot if you want to take your shot and if you
fail that's on you right more for me i'll keep on being better so it's a good growth opportunity
yeah so that's fair now we need to talk about my passion now which is AI okay
So how are you using AI in, first of all, in your business on your team with your team?
So like there's some two, I had a Jasper account forever ago, right?
Yeah.
And I think I told you, I wrote the first chat GPT course that came out.
I wrote it the same week that chat GPT came out.
And we sold the hell out of it, 700 like things, me and John, Cheplac.
We had that course to put it out and it killed, you know.
Today I was using, we have tools inside of the CRM.
Like, we've always automated everything.
The first things I used to talk about were automation within CRMs, right?
Yeah.
So there are some new tools that people are putting inside of the CRM that I use,
follow boss, where they have tools where they listen to the calls, do the AI coaching, right?
I think is good.
There's this new tool that we're using that listens to the,
the calls and access an agent's personal assistant. Yeah, I've heard of this one. Yeah, and I'm not going
to say their name because I'm not going to give any free advertising to friggin anybody. My agents are
using that and they like it because it's mostly just a SMS kind of interface where they don't
got to log in anything else. So on the team, I think the biggest opportunity for most agents
and team leaders is to really produce more content. I mean, like at least do that.
if you care about selling shit, right?
Like, produce more content on every channel that you can.
And let's talk about why, too,
because, you know, you need to be recommended by AI search engines
and discoverable by AI search agents now.
It's a different game.
SEO is completely different.
I was just on a call.
One of my boys who owns a big marketing agency started AEO.com.
So check that out.
part of the AI SEOs, your AI optimization, AI engine optimization.
It's a thing, though.
Like, this is a real thing.
For the agents who care about SEO optimization for their websites,
this is a whole other bag of worms for them to have to consider, right?
If that...
We just got off a big call with some huge marketers about that an hour ago.
No, 45 minutes ago, whatever.
that was the whole call.
They're not specific to real estate, but however, we know this.
One of the first plug-ins that Chad GPT launched was a Zillow plugin, right?
So there is some point happening where Bobby and Sally are sitting home and they say,
hey, Siri, hey, Alexa, hey, chat GPT, hey, whoever, I want to go see three houses today in this
neighborhood.
Can you set up a tour?
Right.
Right.
That day, I mean, look, you could have.
done that inside you could have done a lot of that inside of the zillow custom gpt when chat gpt first came by
okay yeah now my phone picked it up right however but so that's very you know hey Alexa hey sirry
um it's going to pick it up every time like hey i want to sell my house who should sell it yeah
100% i tell agents all the time i'm like it's going to massively change how buyers find their
properties and how sellers choose their agents.
I could go to Chad GPT and say, hey, I'm looking to sell my house.
I only want to deal with women who are divorced and have no kids because I'm super needy
and I want them available 24.
And they must love dogs, but they've got to be really, really good at the Lakeshore area
on the water in Burlington.
And if somebody's content depicts that, the AI search engine will find it and send it to me.
So it all comes back.
back to content.
I mean, like, you know, Google and, excuse me,
all the large length of the LLMs,
all of them are indexing Google right now, right?
No.
That's what they're using.
ChagibbT is Bing.
Okay.
Are you sure?
Because the call I just got off of it said that it's using Google as a dataset.
Three months ago, they're using Bing.
Okay.
change that in the last three months, but yeah.
Well, thanks so, though, because these are, like, guys who own, like, these companies.
I don't know.
They'll have to check it.
But still, right?
Like, you should still index on big.
You should index everywhere.
You should index on YouTube.
You should index on Facebook.
You should index on X.
He should index on everything.
Because someone's going to ask frigging grok, right?
Like, I want to sell me.
Someone's going to like the grok user experience.
Hey, I want to sell my house.
I like rock sometimes, right?
I love grok.
What's your favorite LLM?
So it's a lot.
So it depends on the use, right?
For written content, it's got to be clawed.
Really?
Got to be clod.
A lot of my, so I'm in this big marketing mastermind.
I just, you know, talked about it with guys like Perry Belcher, Jason, the top dudes.
And I'm the only real estate guy in there.
So they spend a lot of time talking about this.
And Manus, one of the top copyrighters I know is using Manus now.
And he sent me the credits.
I haven't looked at it.
But I love Clod 3.7 Sonnet for written content.
So I love Claude.
Claude is supposed to be really good for coding.
I don't code.
So I would know.
But my only thing with Claude is memory isn't as great.
And therefore, for me, because I use Chad GBT every single day and it knows everything.
I've got looped tasks, automations happening.
So it knows everything I'm doing.
I can't justify not, like, switching over to Claude when it's memory.
Can't even remember what I talked about in different conversation.
So I'm more about the automation of it and understanding my brand and my company.
So we're not using Claude.
You're absolutely right.
We're not using Claude inside a Claude.
Okay.
We're using it in bots that we've created with Kot as the writing component.
Nice.
And the thought has everything else save like a diet.
dynamic memory with shit that we put in chat GPT, just so I can get the content I like
and still get the memory.
There's two, the two, like, softwares that we use for that.
One is MindPal, which is, freaking, mind file is insane.
And the owners are great people.
They're in Singapore, and MindPal is insane.
Like, you can have any different agent in any different LLM and just make the workflow
and have it.
Shoot over here and do this.
this and zap into this. It is insane. I am going to look into this, actually. And then also for
easy shareable bots. Well, my pal also has a shareable bot thing, but I'm using some bots in Po, too,
which is similar to where you can bring in the, you know, hook up your API from the different
language models, build a bot in there and have it reference that. But like my clients in your
reside and coaching, they all get access.
to like all my Claude bots.
I got Brock bots.
I got Perplexity bots.
We got like a bot that talking about content where perplexity will go find the newsletter topics.
We send three newsletters a week to our consumer list where Perplexity will go and do the research
because it's really good at that, right?
And then send that to Claude.
That'll write a blog and then send that blog to a website for us to publish and then write
an article using Claude on the blog and then add it to our newsletter, right? And doing that for all
the different topics. So different language models. Yeah. Have you to specialize in the single
task, right? Different language models, single task specific agents working in unison with different
LOMs and single tasks. Like write the intro, write the body, you know, write the headline,
write the hook, right? Write the CTA. So it's different steps. What do you think of Gemini?
I think that a lot of the stuff they have in the back there is super cool.
No.
L.M.
Right.
Some of their deep research stuff.
Some of their vision,
like where you can have it,
like read the room and record stuff.
I like that.
I haven't used it for any kind of like real toy.
No.
Not daily.
I like my thing is chat GPT.
So I'm using it not as much as chat GPT,
but for the simple fact that I have G Suite,
like my Google Drive, my Google Calendar, my Gmail.
I can access it through live chat, voice chat.
I could just be like, hey,
somebody calls me and says,
hey, I want to come on your podcast for 2pm on Tuesday.
I can say Gemini.
Am I open?
Do I mean?
So I like it for that.
It's not quite there yet where it can actually create docs,
create spreadsheets,
create content from a voice command,
But it's going to be the first one that can because, like, hello, Google, Gemini.
So I'm getting used to it now because I just feel like it's taken chat GPT too long to pull this off.
Like remember when they integrated, you could integrate your Google Drive with chat GBT.
Well, it's stopped there and it never progressed.
Yeah.
So I ended up having to use Gemini.
Yeah, you know, maybe it's just that I'm using a different AI tool for my email now so I don't even log into Google Suite.
I'm using shortwave, shortwave, which connects to open AI.
Really? Shortwave or shortwave?
I've been saying the name wrong so much.
It's short wave.
I'm looking at it.
Short.
Okay.
So, you know, that's like an open AI integrated email.
You know, like it's my main email thing on my phone now and all my computer instead of email.
EXP is using Fixer, but I tried Fixer.
I didn't like it that much.
Yeah, I haven't heard of it.
I'm, okay, so where I'm at with like calendar integrations and email integrations,
if you're not saving me time, I don't want anything to do with it.
I'm more about automation and time than anything else.
And if you are giving me in the same response email draft, two or three responses,
that means I have to go in there, read them and at least delete one, if not edit one.
And at this point, I'm not saving any time.
I might be taking me more time.
So I just get really impatient and fed up with stuff that just isn't there yet like that.
Does that make sense to me?
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's awesome.
And then honestly, like, what do you think about this?
Because I'm trying, like, okay, so I do AI coaching and consulting for all the brokerages.
I feel like, yeah.
So there's tens of thousands of tools out there, AI niche specific tools.
I may recommend like five.
And here is why.
I think that LLMs are.
advancing at such a rapid speed that SaaS products are going to be irrelevant soon.
I'm going to put them out of business. So why am I going to bother and waste my time?
Like, look how quickly they're advancing. You know what I mean?
Well, you could make your own SaaS with bold or light. Exactly. Right.
Yeah. Like I'm, yeah, I just, I just don't. And at the end of the day, I don't care to you.
People are asking me all the time because I, I create bots for social media because I'm a content
creator. That's how I generated all my business, my entire career for every company. Okay. And so everyone's
like, well, why do you create your own tools for social media? I'm like, because I'm not, because they're like,
there's a lot of them out there available. True. But I don't want to use a social media tool built by a
computer engineer. What the hell do they know about a social media and be getting business as a realtor or
an entrepreneur on social media? Nothing. They absolutely know nothing about it. So I'm going to build
myself. And I feel like that's why you do the same thing, right? Like, I'm not going to put,
because it's not, that's what one people don't understand. AI is, is great, but it's really like,
what makes it really good is the knowledge and the training behind it. That's when you get like
really good AI products and something worth using. And most of it isn't. And that's why,
because they don't know what the hell they're doing. There's no knowledge that's going into the
training of this tool.
Yeah.
So just yesterday, we made an outbound recruiting calling bot.
And the first iteration was okay.
Let me tell you, that 14th one that I got yesterday, that thing is great, right?
And not to, you know, I don't know if it's legal to use without a proper opt in anyway.
But however, goes to what you say.
Like, you got to train that.
If you want something specific, you got to train to the specificity.
And the cool thing is, is you know how I trained that bot?
Is I took the transcript of every call and loaded it back into chat friggin GPT 4.0 and said, improve, improve, improve.
Yeah.
Improve.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So like for the viewers and listeners, like, you know, for AI, learn enough to be dangerous.
Ask the AI to help you where you need help.
And then leverage people like Carrie or, you know, maybe you get some code or somewhere on Upwork to do some shit for you.
But you can really at least shorten the delivery time and everything that you want to produce.
Well, what about the fact that you can build an entire company and everything, almost everything you need for that company using AI now?
Like, I don't know anything about digital sales, but that's my company now, Sunit.
So what I did is I went and took a bunch of high level coaching from the people who understand it the best.
And I turned them into a bots that could then reproduce all my funnel assets as I need them following those concepts.
So that's my favorite thing to do.
You just have to program things properly.
Like you can't just, you know, throw shit at the wall and hope it sticks, right?
It needs to come from somewhere.
But like if I can do that as going from 15 years as a real estate agent to having a digital
company, like I built that with my one assistant because I used AI to do everything.
I didn't know how to, you know, write ads.
I didn't know how to build what's a funnel.
Okay, I first had to learn.
You know what I mean?
And now AI built it all for me.
But you have to, it's a little bit more involved than how it sounds, but.
You got those awesome employees.
I mean, look, same thing.
Like I own, I think seven companies.
and we're launching something new in about two weeks of recruiting,
call appointment, etc.
I want to see this.
I want to test it too.
I have a database.
That's going to be real people.
Oh, really?
That's making it out balance.
So Cindy,
I have a database of like, you know,
20,000 agents that have accumulated over the last year.
Obviously, I'm an agent attraction for my company, right?
I like to talk to you about that.
I think that's good.
But I mean, so is it a scraped list or is it an opted in list?
No, it's opted in.
It's opted in from my, because that's what I do.
I provide coaching to agents.
Yeah.
So, I mean, I would, you know, make sure that the option is all good.
And then it's, I mean, like, we are going, we have.
So we have all the different companies that we've helped to really scale by using AI,
not AI driven, but we've been able to scale more companies faster,
coaching, consulting, this other thing, right?
The reside platform, we've been able to scale that faster.
by using these tools, not in replace, but just scale faster, right?
We still have great employees and virtual teams.
But for what you're saying, like, you know, you could get a list, put it in Go High Level,
create the workflow, have a text.
If the person doesn't answer, have it do an AI call.
If the person answer the AI call and says no, have a workflow, another workflow that starts
in three months and call and say something else.
like that's the kind of stuff that we're building right now just for fun mostly but who knows yeah
i love this tell me about your other companies so you know i've been coached you know when you're number
one in the fifth biggest economy in the world and speak on a lot of stages people want to learn so
for the longest time my mentor was john cheplac he's a coach and he brought me on as as a coach with him
so it's funny the same year that i did over a billion dollars of
in sales top dog one of the years i was top dog i also did a thousand and one coaching calls right
goodness i also made a bunch of content all the content was written by gasper but then so that so coaching
got really big my business here runs itself thank goodness from the systems i built a lot of
a i i've built a lot of ai in there and then coaching we have our reside platform too which is a consulting
company where we help teams tail with their agents and everything and mortgage and some other stuff
You know, that's been my passion.
I'm always looking to be fulfilled in shit that I do.
And like coaching and consulting has become really fulfilling.
I like that.
Okay, I got a question for you.
So what do you think the one piece of advice that most coaches and gurus are spewing out there that is total BS?
Aye.
The guru shit out there friggin drives me crazy.
Go read my Facebook or my Twitter and see how much shit I talk about gurus.
Maybe because I'm Indian, I don't know.
Hey.
But, you know, I think for like the longest time, and I don't know what other people are saying anymore because I don't listen, right?
But for the longest time, it was like get seventh level, like get out of production, like be the CEO.
And like, that's good until the market, like, has hell of less sales and you get cracked in the face, right?
And there was a lot of people I want to get out of production, you know, like it's a friggin' merit bad or some kind of trophy, right?
And people want to get in their frigging, you know, their ivory tower.
Oh, I'm the CEO.
I saw a lot of people get cracked by that stupid-ass thinking when the market shifted even a little bit.
People having to sell assets, right?
People having to get back on them streets and start slinging houses.
Yeah.
You know, I've been out of production for many years.
But yeah, I have many other businesses and forms of income, right?
So when our production went down, and it definitely has.
We don't do a billion dollars anymore.
Like, those were the days, right?
She ain't that easy anymore.
No, no, I think I want to work that hard anymore.
But, you know, like, we're set.
Yeah.
So if you had to do this all over again, Sunit, what would you do differently?
Dude, I don't know.
I mean, honestly, what would I do differently?
I mean, there was a long time in this come-up where I, like, didn't lead a really healthy lifestyle.
I'm pretty fit now, but I used to, like, fucking tear it up.
Like, I drank a lot.
I partied my ass off.
You know, I was really unhealthy.
I was overweight, you know, so I was able to do all this shit, you know, a little hungover most days and lazy and tired from not exercising, right?
So I think going back, if I was to do anything different, that would be it.
Because otherwise, I mean, I feel fortunate.
Lightning in a bottle, like, I don't know what fucking happened.
Yeah.
We just worked out, right?
Wow.
I looked back.
I used to, the way I ran my real estate business was on social media, but I was also
very social in my marketplace as well.
Restaurant openings and events, I feel like, just like you, like I operated with a little
bit of a hangover every day.
Yeah.
I don't even know how I got through.
Yeah.
Like you're a little.
COVID saved my life, Matt.
Yeah.
I drank bottles of wine every night, at least as far as I can remember.
Most people like fell off during COVID because they were bored.
I like finally got on the health train.
I started like running.
I quit smoking for the first time.
Yes, it's been multiple times.
But like, yeah, I, yeah.
But COVID save my life, which is crazy.
Okay.
I drink.
Hella harder during COVID.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing you in Sacramento when I'm there in September.
So that'll be fun.
Okay.
Give me your top three tech tools.
Doesn't have to be AI, but please throw one.
You can't live without.
Like, I'm like talking.
I think everybody should have some sort of high level task management system.
And for us, it's Monday.
And I love it.
Really?
Monday.
I love it.
I operate all the businesses, all the content.
When I sold a couple thousand homes a year, they all went through Monday.
All our homes still go through Monday.
Yeah, we run Reside, which is a big company through Monday.
Right?
Like, I have every piece of content I've ever done across every channel.
And we've posted, you know, four or five times a day to five different brands for the last
six years, right? So I have all that content there. We have everything inside of Monday and it's
great. But I also have notion for personal task management, which is probably a little redundant.
Anybody listening, you should have one. We have a sauna. We're doing a sauna. Yeah, fine, right? I love
go high level. Right. Isn't it great? I love the high level. And I love it too because I have different
accounts for different businesses is all in one place. They have clients in there. I can do stuff
with too. Besides that, like, I message, right? Like, I mean, that's, that's pretty much sure, like,
you know, chat GPT is great personal assistant, cloud for writing, but I mean, I made a lot of
money with just Monday and SMS and, right? And that's it. This is my new favorite. These are my
meta glasses. What are those? They're my meta glasses. So I got, yeah, I got really excited because
now meta launched the app, right? So with the app, there's more crossover and more
advancements are going to come in terms of remembering everything you see, which is
freaking wild, right? Yeah. I don't, I mean, well, they look great. So you got that. I don't know
if I'm ready, dude. Do it. So I'm the person that cannot remember names or details about people's
lives. I'm just, I'm that person. My husband fills that part, that missing piece. He's very
personable. I'm very like, I don't know, I'm very introverted. And yeah, I feel like these are
going to solve all my problems. So will the use case be you record everything, you filter into
some kind of bot that will give you notes. Okay, here's what I'm going to do. I'll tell you.
So I speak, last year, I spoke on, I would say roughly about seven.
74 stages all over the world from like the parliament in Rome to like Iceland like you name it.
And I get stage fright. Sometimes like I straight up black out while I'm up there. But if I wear these on
stage, I'm hoping that they'll advance or I can pull the content and manipulate it in my own way so that I can
seize people's reactions to what I'm saying, have that be like one feedback loop. But also, you know,
people that come up and talk to me after, instead of having to fly a team out there that can keep
track of all of, you know, everything that's going on, the people that want to follow up with me,
the AI glasses can just record everything. Like, that's my perfect scenario, but like obviously
there's, there's way more opportunity, right? Like, it can tell you what you're looking at.
They can tell you what they're looking at right now. What else? Like, it's coming, Cini. It's coming.
And meta is on their shit right now.
So I'm actually, they were, they dropped the ball big time.
Like, I remember using their, their chat bot inside Instagram,
just being like, you suck.
You just lied to me three times in a row.
I'm never using you again.
But I feel like they're trying to make up for last time.
So like, I'm here for it.
Yeah.
I think that feedback loop is a great use case.
Right.
So that's something that like I feel like you speak a lot, right?
So I feel like that's something that we could really utilize.
that's what my, just so you know, I do AI consulting and stuff, but it's not because I have any
tech skills. I actually have none. Mine is like my strategy operations and, and my ability to,
like, see use cases that other people can't. So that's like, that's kind of like my superpower.
It's not because I can build you anything or code anything. Like, can't do that. But I can definitely,
like, hire somebody to build something sick because of like the things that I see, the operations that I see
and the strategy that I see.
So are you making them all your bots in Open AI?
Yeah, right now I'm just doing GPs.
I've been doing them forever.
I built EXP, their marketing department,
all their GPs, Leo his.
Yeah, so I'm really good at like, you know,
mapping out how they should work.
My GPs don't just like, they're not generalize.
Like, they walk, like, they do like a 10-step process for you.
And you can't fuck it up, Seney.
Like, you cannot mess it up.
It's like, you should.
Look at Mind Pal, because you can, you're going to like Mind Palo.
I'm going to.
You can make the bots in there and you can do the workflows where you can put
fucking hundred different GPTs in there with different user interfaces.
Like, you're going to love it.
And then I want to build out, like I need to build out the automations as well.
I've been using Zapier, my entire real estate career, not very well because like up until two years ago,
it was a little rough, you know what I mean?
For somebody with no tech skills, but now, like, Zapier's got its own AI and like,
make.com just launched its own agents.
Have you seen this?
I, I don't mess with Make because I tried a couple years ago, but I love Zapier.
And, you know, I have a big virtual team where they do the shit.
Well, Zapier has its own agents as well.
So, like, that's like my summer goal is to really teach myself, like, the automation
part of it because that's what's going to make the really good agents is the agents that
can not just imagine it can give you all of the killer content that you can always get
with my GPTs but now it can place it places for you.
You know what you mean?
Like that's the next step.
Go get a mind mall account.
Yes.
I wrote that down when you said it.
And I can introduce you to the owners to their one.
Awesome.
That would be great.
Awesome.
Well, if you have any last words?
of advice, give some wisdom to our agents out there. They want to be sinee. They're like,
I want to sell a billion dollars a real estate a year and I want to have a mega team. What are they
going to do? I mean, you know, there's really no secrets. I think, you know, kind of this is a good
full circle moment to what we started. Right. It's like, well, you're going to have to work hard.
You're going to have to burn the boats. If you want growth, you have to understand that sacrifice.
a cost, right? The cost of growth is some sort of sacrifice. It's maybe money, maybe social,
maybe both, right? Maybe time. So you can't do everything, but you can do one thing really
hard for some amount of time and build the shit they need to, right? And, you know, I guess that's
what happened to me. Went into self-development, worked my ass off, and work works. I love that. I love
that. I don't care if you're sitting on a ranch breeding bulldogs right now. There's no
for the excuse. Get your
your real estate license. Let's go.
I didn't have internet so I'd have to go sit in the fucking parking a lot of
Starbucks and post their internet. I didn't have any money.
There was no siding on the house. It was just mud and wired.
My mom was paying the rent.
Right.
Well, you are a success story and congratulations on all your success.
And I really look forward to nurturing this friendship because I feel like I can learn so
much from you as well.
And we will see you.
in Sacramento. Thanks so much, Sene.
All right. Thanks, Carrie.
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