Opening The Gates To More Listings

Simon Gates
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Jan 22, 2026 • 1h 3min

Episode 263: Danielle Nash

Today's guest is Director of Diomed Consulting, a Board Member of Women In Estate Agency, a mentor with Agents Together and was previously Managing Director of Property Academy.With over 20 years’ experience in operations, people, and performance, she's built a career around making things work calmly, efficiently, and with laser focus. She has worked with leaders and teams to unlock their potential through learning, connection and conversation and spent several years leading strategy, team development, and high-profile national events.Whether that’s embedding a strong team culture, running 50+ leadership meetings a year, producing a flagship event for 1200 delegates, presenting on stage, or managing a seamless overseas incentive, she makes things happen. In this episode, we discuss the power of reputation, the importance of preparation, learning, emotional intelligence, teamwork, recruitment, what good leaders look like, technical excellence, finances, operations, time management, delegation and scaling businesses.This episode is packed full of value with a very capable generalist who offers some incredible insights into what it takes to be a high-performing estate agent and business owner.
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Jan 19, 2026 • 59min

Episode 262: Andrew Jolly

Today's guest is an independent estate agent powered by eXp working in Milton Keynes and the surrounding villages.With over 15 years of local property experience and more than 25 years in professional sales, his approach is simple: combine honest advice, standout marketing, and a proven sales strategy to deliver a smooth, stress-free experience and maximum value.In this episode, we discuss his career journey so far, his first six months in business, self-employment, business generation, marketing strategy, strategic processes, delegation, networking and community.Make sure to give this conversation a listen as you will learn from someone who has smashed it since launching his own business six months ago and he shares plenty of the secrets behind his success.
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Jan 15, 2026 • 1h 2min

Episode 261: Tom Greenacre

Today's guest is Director of Estate Agency Operations UK at Yopa and is also a mentor with Agents Together.He's worked at some of the biggest names across estate agency, including Purplebricks, Spicerhaart and Countrywide. An experienced Sales Director and Sales Leader with a demonstrated history of succeeding in Sales and Leadership, he is skilled in developing potential and leading teams of people to have rewarding careers.In this episode, we discuss his career journey, leadership, market outlook, core strategies, self-promotion and building trust.You don't want to miss this conversation with someone who has held senior roles at some of the biggest businesses within estate agency and get an insight into what he has learnt over the years across multiple organisations.
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Jan 12, 2026 • 1h 1min

Episode 260: Stephen Geer

Today's guest is the Co-Director of RedRoots Property, a growing network of self-employed estate agents across Yorkshire.He is a Podiatrist turned Property Business Owner and has created RedRoots Property to challenge the traditional estate agency model.Having done multiple property refurbishment projects since 2015 with his brother, joined the family property business, worked in lettings and is now an estate agency owner.His time is spent helping and developing Yorkshire Estate Agents to become their own business owners licensing the RedRoots brand to have all the fundamentals and support they need to launch and grow their own self-employed Estate Agency.In this episode, we discuss managing expectations, providing value, the RedRoots model, leveraging technology, AI, marketing, market insights and advice for new agents.If you're looking to find out more about using tech efficiently, working with AI more wisely and understanding the self-employed model better, definitely give this episode a listen.
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Jan 8, 2026 • 1h 1min

Episode 259: Rob Smith

Today's guest is TPFG Group MD of Hunters, Whitegates and Northwood.He has been in estate agency since 1989 and has worked for some of the biggest names across the industry, including Woolwich/Prudential Property Services, Spicerhaart and Sequence as well as his current role with TPFG.He is not a prominent figure on social media and rarely does interviews, so this is a very special conversation packed full of value from someone who has almost forty years of experience in being an estate agent.Our conversation covers topics such as market cycles, pricing strategies, interest rates/affordability, recruitment, talent retention, managing people, delegation, leadership, cold starts, data collection, lettings growth, trust and reputation.You definitely don't want to be missing this episode with one of the biggest names and roles within estate agency.
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Jan 5, 2026 • 1h 11min

Episode 258: Toby Martin

Today's returning guest is the Chief Content Officer at We Are Unchained.A failed rock star. Retired stand-up. Former English teacher.He now specialises in AI, video and unforgettable marketing.In his role as Chief Content Officer at We Are Unchained, he works with businesses in real estate and beyond who want to break free from bland, copy-and-paste marketing.He makes property brands unforgettable and that means showing teams how to use AI without sounding like robots, getting comfortable on camera without cringing, and creating content that actually gets remembered.He's also a popular keynote speaker on AI, video, and marketing.Alongside Unchained, he's a trustee of the Propertymark Trust, one of the industry's key charities.If you're looking to find out more about AI, video, marketing and how to stand out from the competition, this episode is 100% fpr you.
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Jan 1, 2026 • 45min

Episode 257: Steve Eakins

Today's guest is the Key Partner Director at Lumon.In this role he became the account director for the firm’s biggest partner snd his role was to build and establish an international based team to support a partner with over 800 staff members.Achievements within this role included responsibility for trade volume increase of 18% to over £250 million new business annually, an increase in new client aquations by 12% and an improvement of conversation rations for introduction to account, and account to trade of over 9%.
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Dec 29, 2025 • 50min

Episode 256: Ross Burbidge

Today's guest is a personal estate agent with over 11 years’ experience in property. He started in a junior role and has worked his way up the career ladder, driven by his love of working with people and the thrill of a successful sale. He believes to be a great estate agent, you need to connect people with properties, secure the best price for your clients, keep the chain moving smoothly and spotting the hidden potential in a property and helping others to see it too.His focus is on delivering a truly personal service and believes that each client and every property is unique, so he makes it his priority to provide tailored advice and guidance from the first viewing right through to completion.
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Dec 24, 2025 • 1h 7min

Episode 255: David Abbott

Today's guest is the author of How to Price Your Platypus and is an international speaker, specialising in helping audiences to discover simple ways to improve their pricing. He speaks at conferences (including several estate agency events) about the ways you can make a higher price ‘stickier’. He also works one-on-one with clients, helping them apply his Platypus Pricing Process. He also speaks to and works with sales teams, helping them improve the profitability and the value they deliver. Similarly, he is frequently engaged to speak to CEO groups and smaller business audiences.As a fractional CMO, he applies psychology research into consumer behaviour to business and marketing.In this conversation, you will discover simple, quick and easy changes that will make a dramatic difference to your profits and learn simple techniques that will increase your average order value.You will be entertained, you will be engaged, and you will leave ready to make immediate changes which will improve your profits.
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Dec 22, 2025 • 56min

Episode 254: Jayne Twiddle

Today's guest is the Head of Operations at The Agency UK and has been working in the industry since 2001.As Head of Operations at TAUK, she builds the systems that bring clarity, create consistency, and drive momentum across TAUK because freedom works when foundations are strong.She's also looking to build a team of like-minded and client-focused Personal Estate Agents in the York area.With well over two decades in estate agency, she has experienced every part of the business, from working on the front desk as a viewing assistant, Negotiator, Valuer, Branch Manager, heading up a large sales progression team, franchise support, to leading operations nationally. As a mum of four, her journey has shaped how she leads with empathy, integrity, and honesty, while keeping space for laughter and enjoyment along the way.For over ten years, she worked within one of the UK’s largest franchised estate agency networks, supporting franchisees and driving growth. Her time as National Operations Director allowed her to implement strategies that connected people, process, and performance, always focused on helping agents thrive.In this episode, we discuss some of her key learnings from over the years, self-employed estate agency, navigating the industry as a female, and loads more valuable topics.

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