Meet Long Doan, co-owner & CEO of #1 fastest growing and #1 indie RE brokerage in Minnesota with $1.5B in volume, the most admired CEO in MN, and the #6 place to work in MN!

While his success in numbers tell one story, Long’s solo journey from Vietnam to America on a dangerous fishing boat at age 13 is a whole other story. But they're connected.

During in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on "Hell Island", there was 1 switch that changed Long's life trajectory forever.

So in this conversation we discuss:

00:00 - Why 92% of people never achieve their goals

01:53 - How Realty Group closes $1.5 billion per year now & closed 1,000 homes in their first 4 years in real estate

06:22 - How they built a scalable & highly efficient business

10:29 - Why mastering delegation is the way to true productivity

14:07 - Living on an island the size of a football field in a 40,000 people refugee camp to coming to America

19:13 - The 1 shift that changed his life forever

25:25 - Why growth comes from reflection

30:50 - The path to 6-figures & multiple 6 figures in real estate

38:00 - The simple math behind achieving 6-figures

46:29 - their $1.5 billion "secret" to recruiting

54:51 - Scaling recruiting

58:22 - Achieving profitability & adapting to new changes in the industry

1:01:00 - AI in real estate

1:05:00 - Why higher splits isn't the best value proposition, but this is...

1:11:00 - How he's the #6 most admired CEO in MN

Resources:

🔗 Long's Links:

For Agents: https://www.youtube.com/@JoinRealtyGroup/

Brokerage YT: https://www.youtube.com/@RealtyGroupLLC/

Brokerage IG - https://www.instagram.com/realtygroup_mn/

Personal IG - https://www.instagram.com/long_h_doan/

My Links:

📧 Newsletter: www.breakingandbuildingleaders.com/

🎙 Podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/buildingbreakingleaders

🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBec7qai7oM_AWnFCMon7ng

🐣 Twitter: twitter.com/AndrewBayon

📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/andrew_bayon/

🕺 TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@andrewbayon