No Broke Months For Salespeople - Rising After Loss — How Dory Turned Tragedy Into Triumph and Found Her Why

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

What you’ll learn in this episode:How to find your “why” when life knocks you downWhy purpose can be the fuel that keeps you going through painThe role of community and support in rebuilding successHow to pivot and re-innovate yourself during times of crisisThe mindset shift that helps turn tragedy into motivation👉 Don’t miss out! Sign up here:https://link.cpi-crm.com/widget/form/bJZ4NbRp6ZpSVgGoNb4j?notrack=true  To find out more about Dan Rochon and the CPI Community, you can check these links:Website: No Broke MonthsPodcast: No Broke Months for Salespeople PodcastInstagram: @donrochonxFacebook: Dan RochonLinkedIn: Dan RochonTeach to Sell Preorder: Teach to Sell: Why Top Performers Never Sell – And What They Do Instead

You're listening to No Broke Months for Salespeople Podcast. In this powerful episode of the No Broke Months for Salespeople podcast, Dan Rochon talks with Dory, a resilient single mom who faced unimaginable loss and still found the strength to rebuild her life and business. From homelessness to heartbreak, Dory shares how remembering her why became her compass through adversity and how others can rediscover purpose when life falls apart. Any loss is difficult, and to continue to provide and have a so-called normal life is extremely challenging. Being a single mom and trying to build a business is really difficult, trying to balance everything, and being this sole breadwinner for my family, but I got remarried.

Congratulations. Well, and then I got a divorce. Congratulations. I wasn't finished. So, I mean, I was homeless at one point. I'm living at a friend's house with my three kids at the time in one in their son's bedroom and still pulling out my laptop every day and selling houses. About a year after that, I had a daughter passed away and a car accident. That's probably been my biggest challenge.

You all of a sudden are paralyzed with something you didn't think was going to happen. And it's like, but I'm still the sole provider for my family. I continue to do this. Thank you for sharing that with the story. I'm really truly sorry for that. So today we're talking about facing challenges, right? And so I can't imagine, you know, and I don't want to say I could.

Any loss, any loss is difficult. And to continue to provide and have a so-called normal life is extremely, extremely challenging. So how did you manage that? I had great support at the brokerage I was at. They were there. And then I just up and moved. And I was just looking for a good commute.

of support and I'm in a brand new market that's how I found EXP where I'm at right now nobody recruited me I didn't get a phone call I recruited myself and very fortunate to have found that group because then two weeks later after I moved then we had COVID and I we were on lock lockdown so so talk about challenge after challenge right then I thought well I'll go build a business I can do that that's easy and I couldn't because I couldn't even meet people and I didn't know anybody. But having building community and then remembering my why and just, you know, putting my head down and figuring it out, always learning to pivot and re-innovate myself, I think has probably been

the number one key. What do you mean when you say remember your why and how do you get it? Sure. So a why is a reason. It's a reason that we get up and we do this every day that we do. This isn't, everyone thinks real estate is so easy. It's one of the most difficult careers because you are you were your own boss. There's nobody telling you what to do and you never know when your next sale is going to be. So you have to have a reason to go through all that. It just keeps you driven and it keeps you consistent, right? If you don't make those phone calls, you know, that that thing isn't going to happen, whatever that why is. And I know it's difficult because I struggle with that in the beginning too. I'm like, well, my family, my family, my family. Yeah, but what about your

family? You can start with, well, my why is because I need to pay my mortgage. Right? Why do I need to pay that mortgage because I'm taking care of my family and let it evolve naturally. I think journaling about it every day is really helpful. That's what I did because I was like with my family. But what about my family? Well, I was a single mom and I pretty much supported them myself. Well, okay, so I got to put a roof over their head and food on the table. Well, then it was like, I want all four of my children to be able to go to college. I want to be able to provide that. And I did. All four of my girls went to college because I worked in real estate. And then it just kept evolving. So my daughter passed away. Then it's like what you're

why? Well, you're so precious to you mean you lost one. Well, now they've been through so much trauma. I want to be able to partner with them in helping them heal that trauma. And I want any any way that they need to do that. I want to be able to financially afford that for them. What you just said is one of the concepts that I teach in the, because it's a particular income community with the EXP. And it's amazing, though, what you're saying is basically the same thing, which is, you know, why do you do what you do? And you mention it's like, well, it's probably more likely to pay your mortgage. Right. Right?

Because I think what most people do is they get to that secondary or they get to the altruistic, like, I want to save the world. Yes. And you're three months behind on your car payment. And that's it, right? So let's start with your basic means first. If you haven't subscribed to our channel yet, make sure that you subscribe and hit the bell icon. My why at the time, once I sort of figured it out, is I sell real estate so that I never have to go back and wait a table the rest of my life. I love that.

It's the no bullshit. Like, yeah, I want to save the world, right? You want to save the world and live in, you know, Miami on the beach. You're saying, I don't ever want to serve another table again in my life. Your Y evolves and it changes, right? And would you say that that you would you agree with that? I agree 100% because a lot of my focus right now is the same as you. It's like I want freedom, right?

I'm getting to that age and I don't want to be an 80 year old realtor putting out open house signs. I'm not doing that. This is Dan Rocheon, host of No Broke Months. Do you want consistent and predictable income with No Broke Months? My new book, Teach to Sell, why top performers never sell and what they do instead is being published early

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