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This episode is sponsored by Brevo and Collective. Brevo helps you grow smarter with email, SMS automations and AI powered marketing tools. And Collective keeps your business tax ready all year so tax season doesn't feel so overwhelming. Get started with brevo@brevo.com creator and save on collective@collective.com CHC all right guys, welcome back to Call Her Creator the podcast Powered by Stan. Today's guest is someone I've been so excited about having on the show. I got to meet her in person a couple months ago and she's gem of a human, just as beautiful as the ends on the inside as she is on the outside. Today's guest is Shannon Gillette. She's a wife, she's a boy mom, she's one of the top realtors in Arizona. She's the founder of the Gillette Group at Real Broker. She's been featured on hgtv, she's a sought after keynote speaker and she's just built this beautiful personal brand that actually converts attention into real business. So I'm so excited to have her on here. She's grown a really good Instagram following. She's at almost 100,000 people at this point. And her videos, they consistently not only pull in really strong views, but she also gets really good engagement on them. So I'm excited to pick her brain and figure out what makes her strategy different from all of ours. Today is not a fluff conversation. We're going to get very deep into the marketing strategy, the systems, the decisions and the behind the scenes effort that helped Shannon build this wonderful brand and business at this level. Hey friend, welcome back to Call Her Creator Powered by your all in One Creator Store. Stan. Stan. Stan is the easiest way for you.
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To make money online.
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I'm ready and I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me.
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Yes. Yes. So I was listening to a podcast yesterday and they're like, if the podcast host asks you to introduce yourself, then they're not a good podcast host. But I'm here to say like, I can say what I want about you, but it always feels better hearing from you. Like, how did Shannon get to where she is right now? Like, give us a little bit of the backstory and then where you are now and then we can deep dive into Instagram but like, how did you get here?
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Yeah, well, a lot of people see me today, you know, leading the top producing medium sized team in the country at Real Broker, selling hundreds of homes a year, nearly a hundred thousand followers. And they say, oh yeah, Shannon, it's easy for you. You've got this big platform, you sell a ton of homes, you. But man, if you would have told 2015 Shannon that one day she'd be speaking on national stages and on amazing podcasts like this one, I would have laughed. Because in 2015 I had just left kind of the corporate world. I had been selling new homes. I never saw my family. I would drive to work crying, but I was so scared to leave that job and that guaranteed income to be a real estate agent because I knew the facts and 87% of real estate agents don't make it past their first two years. This industry looks easy from the outside, but it has a high failure rate for a reason. I had no money, no Instagram followers, and no idea how I was going to make this all work. I started from scratch. Even my own family members didn't consider me a real estate agent and they were referring out other agents so literally from the bottom to today. And people ask, well, how'd you get there? I literally only focused on Instagram enlisting videos. And in 2015, every time I would pull, you know, open up the Instagram app, I noticed the accounts I enjoyed following were creators outside the real estate space who were sharing their life. I felt like they were my friend. I knew their dog's name, I knew their kids personalities. I knew where they like to travel. If they told me to buy like a perfume, I never even needed to smell the perfume. I would just buy it because I trusted them. They had no idea who I was, but I felt like we were friends. And I was like, man, I love enjoying, I enjoy following that type of content, but the real estate agent isn't really doing that back then. And I thought, what if I could open up my Instagram to the public and not just share nonstop commercials like just sold, just listed buy a house from me, but instead share who I am besides my job. It felt really cringey. I asked myself, who wants to see my morning workout behind the scenes shot or my kids football game or Sunday morning at church. But I was like, it's working for these other creators. I am just going to start. I started with zero followers. I now have a hundred thousand followers and I feel like I'm attracting the tribe that wants to work with me right so, um, but my. My, like, secret sauce isn't Instagram post reels or carousels. It's the Instagram story.
