EP. 80 | Trent Falson - Bondi Rescue Life Guard & Buyers Agent at Buyers Market
Jun 9, 2024
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Trent Falson, a Bondi Rescue lifeguard and buyers agent, discusses wild beach incidents, transitioning careers, and buyer-centric real estate practices. He shares insights on setting goals, overcoming challenges, and advice for new agents with financial commitments.
Transferable skills from lifeguarding can benefit a career in real estate through communication and trust-building.
Maintaining connections with lifeguarding builds trust with clients, leveraging credibility from a track record of public safety.
Deep dives
Transition from Lifeguard to Buyer's Agent
Starting as a lifeguard due to a love for the beach, transitioning to a buyer's agent came from a history of property investment and a fascination with real estate. The shift, though initially daunting, led to blending transferable skills like communication and trust from lifeguarding into real estate. Despite the perceived disparity between the two roles, there was unexpected synergy in signing real estate clients who knew the speaker from his lifeguarding days.
Community Engagement and Trust in Real Estate
Maintaining connections with lifeguarding alongside a demanding real estate career is driven by a sense of family within the lifeguard community, satisfaction from helping others, and positive impacts on community engagement. The speaker's lifeguarding background, focused on public safety and trust-building, unexpectedly translated into credibility as a real estate agent, fostering trust with clients due to a perceived track record of saving lives.
Personal Development and Mindset in Real Estate
Personal development plays a significant role in the speaker's career growth, with a strong emphasis on continually improving through podcasts, books, and maintaining a growth-oriented mindset. Learning from books like 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck, the focus on mindset, perseverance, and daily improvement through the process, not solely outcomes, drives success in navigating career shifts and maintaining resilience in real estate.
Advice for Career Transitions and Persistence
Encouraging individuals to pursue career changes despite age or financial constraints, the speaker emphasizes the importance of perseverance during the initial challenging phases of transitioning. Drawing from personal experiences, finding alternative income sources and persisting through the initial low-earning period can lead to breakthroughs and career momentum. Acknowledging the common trend of quitting before moments of breakthrough, the advice centers on resilience and persistence through challenges.
Trent has been an enthusiastic and active property investor since early adulthood. His experience in the Sydney property market has taught him what makes for a great home or successful investment. Trent’s strengths are people, he thrives on meeting clients and establishing their needs, wants and achieving great results.
Trent is probably best known for his work as a professional lifeguard on the Channel 10 TV series Bondi Rescue. He has worked on Sydney’s eastern beaches alongside his other career pursuits for almost 15 years. In his media career he has worked on the Project, Studio ten and the Living Room. Along with National radio Trent has been a guest on numerous podcasts. Aside from his robust media presence, his community service as a lifeguard has built a robust network in the community built on trust and integrity. Being fourth generation Bondi and deeply entrenched in the Sydney eastern beaches, Trent’s knowledge of the eastern suburbs is unsurpassed. Trent has a strong sales background representing some of the nation’s leading brands in field sales and account management allowing for strengths in negotiation and communicating effectively.
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