095: Find Your Inner Achiever in Five Minutes a Day

Maximize Your Strengths: Unlock Potential, Amplify Strengths, Transform Workplaces

Our guest today is Karen Briscoe! Karen is the author of "Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed".

Karen's Top 5 Strengths Themes are:

#1. Input

#2. Learner

#3. Achiever

#4. Maximizer

#5. Focus

Her book has been featured on INMAN as top real estate book for 2017; ranks in top 1% of books in its category on Amazon; is a contributor to both INMAN and Real Trends. She is also the principal owner of the Huckaby Briscoe Conroy Group (HBC) with Keller Williams. The HBC Group has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of the 250 Top Realtor teams in the United States. Further, the team has ranked in the top 100 teams with Keller Williams International every year since 2009, the year the group joined KW. The team consists of Karen, her business partner Lizzy Conroy, her husband as Director of Operations, staff of four and four associate agents.

Since 1977, HBC Group has sold over 1,500 homes valued at over $1.5 billion. They consistently sell over 100 residential properties annually ranging from multi-million dollar luxury estates to condominiums and townhomes. Primary markets areas include Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland, and Washington, DC.

Karen began her real estate career developing residential lots with the Trammel Crow Company in Dallas, Texas. In Northern Virginia, she worked in commercial real estate with The Staubach Company prior to entering residential sales. Karen earned a Master's degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and received her BA from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri—her hometown. Karen has completed the John Maxwell Team Certification Program for Coaching, Speaking, and Training.

Karen has been a board member for Lift Me Up!, a therapeutic horseback riding program for children and adults with disabilities in Great Falls, Virginia, since 2006. Her family is actively involved at Trinity United Methodist Church in McLean, Virginia. Through HBC Group, Karen and Lizzy launched Community Charity Champions to raise funds for local nonprofit groups and organizations and was awarded the Social Corporate Responsibility Award for 2012 by the Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce.

You can connect with Karen at: www.5MinuteSuccess.com