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Career Coaching That Turns Confusion Into Clarity

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Interest rates get the headlines, but real people still have to make real moves. We start with a clear snapshot of the Henderson County real estate market and what we’re seeing on the ground across Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina: demand continues, inventory stays tight, and prices are holding better than many would expect. If you’re buying, selling, investing, or weighing a 1031 exchange, the bigger point is simple: your neighborhood and your timing matter more than the noise. 

Then we shift from houses to careers with Dr. Lori Brown, founder of North Star Learning, a Western North Carolina native with a background in public education, leadership, and doctoral research who chose a bold pivot into coaching and consulting. We talk about why “degree equals career” doesn’t hold the way it used to, how skills-based hiring is changing what employers value, and why career confusion often comes from not seeing enough options early in life. Dr. Brown shares what she offers through North Star Learning: family conversation prompts, career exploration courses, and one-on-one coaching for teens, college students, and young working professionals. 

We also get honest about the hard stuff: parent expectations, student debt, burnout, and the tradeoff between a paycheck and a life that fits. If you’ve ever wondered whose dream you’re chasing, or how to realign with your natural strengths instead of living in “adaptive mode,” this conversation will give you language and next steps. Subscribe for more local insights, share this with someone at a crossroads, and leave a review with the career question you want us to tackle next.

Welcome And Market Snapshot

SPEAKER_02

Hello, friends. Thank you so much for being here. This is the George Real Estate Group podcast, which is a production of our live weekly radio shows hosted on multiple radio stations here in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The George Real Estate Group serves Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina, and it is a privilege to share positive news about our local real estate market and community. Thanks so much for subscribing. And of course, if you have any real estate questions or if we can help you in any way, be sure to reach out. Visit us at George Real Estate Group Radio.com for more information. Good morning and welcome to the George Real Estate Group Live Radio broadcast here on WHKP every Thursday morning bringing you positive news about your local real estate market community. We're so grateful to be here with you. What a great day it is this Thursday morning. Can you believe where this month of June has gone? Time's flying. Time's flying when you're having fun, and uh we're excited to be here with you. Just gonna give you a quick snapshot on the market, but before, and we have a special guest with us this morning, which I'll introduce to you in just a second. Uh, but before we do that, the the real estate market, we're gonna talk about the real estate market and just a quick snapshot. Um, and if you're tuning in for the first time ever, the George Real Estate Group's located in Flat Rock. We serve all of Western North Carolina and the upstate. If you're thinking of buying, selling, or investing in real estate, or even a career in real estate, we love serving our community. And if we can help you in any way, there's no pressure, there's no cost, there's no obligation uh for a free confidential consultation. You can call us directly at 828-393-0134, 828-3930134. Find us online at realestatebygreg.com. Also follow us on social media, Facebook and Instagram. And then we also podcast our radio show. We'd love to connect with you any way we can. If you're curious about the real estate market, it continues to move forward. In fact, we've had over a hundred single family homes, a hundred more single-family homes sell in the last 12 months versus the previous 12 months. You might find that fascinating because there's a lot of news out there that the sky's falling or the interest rates are keeping people from buying homes, but that's not the case. Uh the interest rates are in the mid-sixes, and yet we continue to see strong demand here in Henderson County, still low inventory levels, and we have about 600 active single-family homes in the market. And I do obviously, we're here in Hendersonville, Henderson County, and so I'm sharing with you about Henderson County numbers, but we serve Bunkham County, Transylvania County, Polk County, Rutherford County, uh, the upstate South Carolina. So, whatever your situation is, again, no pressure, no costs, no obligation. But the prices are holding, demand is still maintaining here locally. Real estate's a very local business. And whether it's your neighborhood, your your area, your price point, uh, again, all these factors go into play. And the thing is, we know this real estate happens because life happens. Life is happening, therefore, life there life dictates dictates what's happening in real estate. And life, none of us, you know, life is such a gift. Life is happening for us, not to us, I believe. And again, we get to navigate through that. And a lot of times that involves real estate. So if we can help you in any way, give us a call, 828-393-0134, 828-393-0134.

Meet Dr. Lori Brown

SPEAKER_02

So grateful this morning to have with us Dr. Lori Brown with North Star Learning. North Star Learning. Uh, thank you so much for being here with us, Lori.

SPEAKER_00

Um, well, thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here on the show.

SPEAKER_02

Well, you and I uh got a chance to meet recently, and and um I always find it fascinating uh about what people are doing in the community and the impact they're making. And you and I connected on a lot of different levels there. And uh the thing that makes our community so amazing, again, uh you know, all types uh of businesses, all types of whether it's nonprofits or for-profits, and um, I thought what you're doing is remarkable and in helping our community uh with what they're doing. But let's let's before we get into I I want to hear your your story and share with our listeners about your story and then also about North Star learning. Um, but before so we we did let's let's hear uh I mean you're a Western North Carolina native.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I am born and raised just outside of Asheville, North Carolina. I've been in Henderson County for six years.

SPEAKER_02

Isn't that amazing? But out right outside of Asheville, and you grew up on the family farm.

SPEAKER_00

I did. My parents were in public education, which is where I started my career, but my grandparents were dairy farmers. So I grew up on a large farm with holsting cattle and chickens and crops, and it was a good childhood being out in the fields.

SPEAKER_02

It really is. I mean, I mean, you think about the childhood our kids have today. Uh actually I'm gonna I am gonna brag on my kids. Last night, they yesterday, yesterday they said, Dad, my two boys, I have a 15 and 17 year old, they're like, we want to go camping. And I was like, go for it. And and they went out, packed up their stuff. They went they went out to the woods. There's no cell coverage out there. Oh my. I mean, like, I'm like, and we they're going to places we've gone camping before. And then they call actually they called me right before the radio and like, Dad, can we stay another night? I was like, go for it. Like, you stay out in the woods. It's the best thing. Again, not maybe not necessarily a common in uh experience as much now. And even your own childhood being on the farm working hard. I mean, what an example you had from your your grandparents, and then an example you had uh from your own parents uh in public education.

SPEAKER_00

Um, for sure. You know, the I tell people all the time growing up, we didn't take big fancy vacations because every summer we spent the time working in the fields, right? We were gathering our um vegetables and preparing meat so that we would have food for the year. My mom and grandmother did a lot of canning of food, and so it was a childhood that showed me how you provide for yourself.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, what and not only provide for yourself, but I mean talk about just hard hard work. I mean work work, by the way, is a good thing. I I mean I I believe it is.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. I fully agree with you, and that's actually why I launched my business, which is all focused on the world of work and careers. How do we figure all that out? How do we find value in that? And purposeful value do we bring to it, yes, for sure. What is our purpose?

SPEAKER_02

I think it's remarkable. I want to keep diving in on this.

From Farm Life To Education

SPEAKER_02

Um, this and and so you so your family, your your faith and and your work, I mean, all these played into your own career, your own journey. At what point did you realize you wanted to be in education?

SPEAKER_00

Um, so I grew up saying, well, since my parents are in education, I won't go that direction. You know, famous last words, the things you say I'll never do, or the things you end up doing. And then when I was going into my senior year of college, I said, This is crazy. I really do want to teach. I want to follow in my parents' footsteps. So I finished up my undergrad degree, which actually was in German of all things, and came back home, went to UNC Asheville to get my teaching license so I could enter, you know, formally the public education system as a licensed teacher.

SPEAKER_02

How did you lean into German?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, go figure that's a long story, but the short version is I had an incredible professor in my undergraduate studies at Davidson College who just turned me on to the language into a study abroad program. So I spent my junior year of college studying abroad in Europe, in Germany.

SPEAKER_02

What an experience.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, what an amazing experience. It was life-changing, and so and the lessons learned even in that junior year abroad, living outside of the US and traveling, those are lessons that help me to this day.

SPEAKER_02

There's a lot to be said about getting outside of your comfort zone, seeing other cultures, being able to communicate. Uh I have to go back. This is a such a common thread that I hear the difference one teacher can make. It wasn't necessarily the German uh specific, right? I mean, like it was your teacher was the thing was the person that had a dramatic impact on you. That and he definitely he or she uh happened to be in the German specialty, right? The German language. Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and he was a very compassionate professor. He was very intelligent, he knew his stuff, but he cared about his students and he wanted us to thrive. And so that was a similar lesson I had seen in my parents who were educators, and that struck a chord with me, and that's the type of teacher and leader I've tried to be who can impact people to make positive decisions.

SPEAKER_02

The the the classroom is a catalyst for so much life impact on kids. Yes. So you went on to did you get and forgive me, did you go on to get your master's degree, or you have your undergraduate from Davidson, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, so my undergraduate degree is from Davidson, and then later, after starting in the field of public education, I ended up getting a master's in school administration so I could do more leadership roles, and then eventually got my educational doctorate in ed leadership, which also gave me licensure, like if I ever wanted to work as a school superintendent. And so it was actually after about 14 years in the public education system and after finishing the doctorate that that's when I kind of made a leap into the corporate sector using those educational and leadership skills to do educational writing for large global companies.

SPEAKER_02

Incredible. Yeah, what a trajectory.

SPEAKER_00

Well, and it wasn't a planned trajectory, right? The fact that I'm now running a business that says I can help you try to figure out your career is ironic because some of my career shifts were not planned. Um, I'd say it was just the good Lord guiding me and directing me in new ways to use my talent and skills in

The Leap Into A New Chapter

SPEAKER_00

new ways. Sometimes we can't always predict what the next step is in our career path. And that's okay that we can't predict it. We just kind of need to roll with it at times.

SPEAKER_02

Well that that's what my observation is you were willing to pivot.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

You were willing to take a chance, you were willing to try something different and new, and and and you leaned into it.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I had very strong writing skills. I love teaching. I thrive when I'm in front of people and like here with you today, but I have very strong writing skills that can be done at a laptop by myself.

SPEAKER_02

Well, you're you are a published author, correct?

SPEAKER_00

Yes. I have published at least one book um specific to the topic of school safety, mash school shootings, etc., because that was a focus of my doctoral studies.

SPEAKER_02

And where did you get your doctorate from?

SPEAKER_00

So it came from Western Carolina University. It's an EDD, an educational doctorate and ed leadership with a concentration in curriculum and instruction.

SPEAKER_02

This isn't, I mean, that's no small undertaking. Yeah, right? That's a significant accomplishment. I just have to acknowledge.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, well, that's very kind of you. I'm proud of my doctoral work and the research I did as a doctoral student at Western Carolina University. I had a great dissertation committee, and I loved my research, which really looked at mass school shootings and the impact of school violence, etc. And again, those research lessons learned in my doctoral program, they help me today as a business owner.

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely. The and your skills that you had to develop to be yeah, have you there's a saying that our our business we say this in business your business grows to the extent you grow.

SPEAKER_00

So true.

SPEAKER_02

Your own personal growth. I mean, like, and we're all on this hopefully everybody's on this jerth uh growth journey. Yeah. And and whether it's personal, business, but again, our businesses are reflections of our personal growth. How how do you feel? Uh you know, I mean, after you completed your doctorate and you transitioned from you know the educational, you know, public education into the corporate, you know, sector, what you know was what was the catalyst for that? Uh I mean, like how did that evolve? And and and and we want to talk about what you're doing now with North Star learning.

SPEAKER_00

So my last role in the public schools when I was still in the schools full-time was as a grant writer for a school district, and that was using my writing and research skills well. That's kind of what propelled me into the corporate sector with a large education company looking for an educational proposal writer. And so um it seemed like a good fit for my skills, and I'm very grateful for my time in the corporate sector, spent about 14 years. But ultimately, what pulled me out of that last July, about a year ago this week, was me saying, I have great writing skills, etc. But the teacher in me is kind of dying, and I need to get back to working directly with people. Wow. I need to get back to more of my teaching and coaching skills on a on a one-to-one basis. Yes, small groups, one-on-one. And that so that's what eventually then led me to enter kind of what I call this third chapter of my career now in my 50s. Like who walks away from a set salary and good benefits in their 50s to launch a new business that you have, you know, no assurance it can thrive and grow, that's a huge risk. But it was a natural progression of skills and talents and abilities.

SPEAKER_02

Right. Again, you because of the and this is I again it's a it's I'm following all this. I think it's remarkable. Again, everything that's been leading up in your life prepared you for that moment. I one of the I think that I mentioned this to you, one of the definitions of an entrepreneur is jumping off a cliff and trying to put a plane together before you have to like fly it. Like, I mean, it is not for the faint of heart. No. And I mean, the truth is, you know, a lot of times you have to hold your breath long enough uh for businesses to get launched. I mean, it there's the there's so many components of it. And uh as a small business owner myself, and you know, it just you know, you rely on uh again your your your own income, your prop you know, ability to provide for yourself and creating this business, and then you know, driven by your own, you know, dreams and purpose and mission to make a difference in other people's lives. Again, yes, there's so many things that go together with with small businesses and what you're doing. But again, remarkable, it's fascinating. I again I I knew some of this story. Uh I was reading about you. I think it's amazing what you've been doing and where you're at. So here, so let's get into specifically. You're you're sort of boots on the ground now. You're in the trenches of teaching again. It it and and if you got boiled down to it, I mean, it is, I mean, it's you're consulting, you're advising, you're teaching. But so let's talk about how this envision of North Star learning, what what that means, and how you decided to do what you're doing and and what you're doing with with the your clients and your students and what and what that looks like.

What North Star Learning Does

SPEAKER_00

Sure. So, you know, when we think about a North Star, we think about kind of that bright light in the sky that kind of points us in a direction and kind of tell helps orient us. And what I have tried to do under my umbrella as North Star Learning LLC is say, let's look at what the direction is for making core decisions around our careers. And we know that research tells us by the age of three, we're developing career identities. So if you're a little toddler who sees the plumber come fix the pipes in your house, you may think that's the career for me because that's what you see in your little tangible world. Wow. And so if we're gonna help people see that they could be a plumber, but then there's about a thousand other things they could do, then that means from those young um or those early years, we've got to be showing them all their career options.

SPEAKER_02

So my business is exposing them does many things that to expand their thinking.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. So the way we you expose them to those ideas, one you have those conversations in the home. So, like on my website, one of the free resources I offer is conversation prompts for families to talk to elementary, middle, and high school age kids about careers to get the conversation started. But then under my business specifically, we offer some career exploration courses. I can design, like specially design the course, say for a small homeschool co-op, et cetera. And then our biggest service is career coaching, where we're doing one-on-one and we can also do some small group small coaching to help get teens more career ready to make better decisions, and then for that college or young working professional to help them drill down more and maybe make some career shifts, or maybe say, what do I do if I have college degrees but no career yet? Which is common today.

SPEAKER_02

What is in the in in the environment of education, especially higher education, again, the the push, and again, there's there's no necessarily right or wrong path for kids,

Degrees Versus Skills Based Hiring

SPEAKER_02

right? Which is interesting. But and then the there is this incredible epidemic of the student debt uh challenge that we have. I think it's a trillion dollars, I mean, which is incredibly burden burdening our young people in in their ability and freedom to make choices in what career they want, or you know, that's a whole nother conversation.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But I'm gonna back up. I imagine in your career early before you launched your North Star Learning, you were having these conversations with students, and and you I I imagine there was maybe some specific students that you remember early on in your career where you were doing this naturally as part of your role. Yeah. And and then here you are now this is your your own business doing this for for students.

SPEAKER_00

Um, yes, I I it's funny that you bring that up. I can remember when I was a high school assistant principal, had this beautiful young gal who had the prettiest hair in the entire school. She wanted to be a cosmetologist and she loved working with hair. And so, but her parents were like, we really want you to go get a four-year degree. We don't want you to go to cosmetology school. Well, she tried that route and then dropped out because it wasn't where her heart was. Eventually, I saw her a couple years later. Guess what? She had gone to cosmetology school. She was so talented, she's probably making far more money than I ever will because she went with where her heart's passion was and she perfected the trade. And I remember as she was a junior in high school saying to her, honey, you need to really think about if this is where your heart is, you kind of need to go that path.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. And she's thrive thriving in her path. Yes. There's something to be there's, I mean, it's a very powerful story. And then the question is, whose story are you living? Are you living your parents' story? Are you living your own story? I mean, like, and again, of course, our parents have wisdom and guidance, and we want to be respectful and honor honor. We want to honor our parents. For sure. And yet, maybe the path that the child's taking is not what the kid what the parents might have had in mind. And sometimes that happens.

SPEAKER_00

Um, well, it does happen, and my heart goes out to parents, and I tell parents all the time when I'm working with their students, listen, we want to honor and respect your thoughts and your inputs, but understand today that we're out of this day and age where a degree necessarily equates to a career. And there's many ways to get skills today that don't necessarily involve a three or four-year pathway, right? Right. And that's okay. Yeah. Because we are in a skills-dominated economy today where an employer, I just had an employer say to me last week, I don't care where you went to school or what degree you have, I need to know can you fix my problems in my business?

SPEAKER_02

Can you get the job done?

SPEAKER_00

That's all I care about. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Results.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And so sometimes helping parents understand it's okay if they have lots of different options to gain skills. There's still something to be said for college degrees. I have four of them. I love college degrees. Clearly. I did a doctorate. You're a professional student at one point. I am a professional student, so go college. But we're in a different day and age, and you don't necessarily today need that four-year degree or even a doctorate to do some of the things even I've done. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Again, again, everybody's individual path, and and sometimes it is the thing that that's so important. And it does open up doors that you never would have had if you didn't have your doctorate. I mean, for some people that is absolutely the right way.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, it is. Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_02

And again, maybe it's not. Again, this is where in and I imagine when you're chatting with this the the students and you're chatting with uh the parents. And and you mentioned young adults that maybe started one direction and they're like, this is not what I should be doing.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, yes. And actually this fall, I'm looking at rolling out a new offering, even though I focus more on the younger working professional up to about 30, 35. I'm looking to roll out an offering for adult working professionals of all ages, focusing on burnout. I mean, I walked away from the corporate sector because I've really had burned out and my heart wasn't in it anymore. I had lost my joy in my work.

SPEAKER_02

And that's the truth. That's when you when you if someone's listening or someone they know it's takes it's it's a it takes courage to step away, but you if you've gotten to that point, you should step away. Yes. For yourself, yes, but even for the students you're serving, it's you're doing a disservice to your to both you yourself and to the to the students.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and I tell my students and families all the time, listen, I'm proof of the fact that in my mid-50s, I kind of disrupted my whole life and my career to say there's a new path. You can always find a new path, and that's what we're here to help you do through kind of a faith-based, values-driven approach. We help you figure out what those pathways can look like.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I I love, and I again I love looking at your website, which can you share for our listeners your website?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, it's just northstarlearning.org. And you can also follow us on multiple social media platforms under North Star Learning.

SPEAKER_02

That's awesome. You I love how you um really organize your approach around these four um career um conversations, right?

Fit, Fulfillment, And Burnout

SPEAKER_02

Identity, interact, initiative, and improve, right? I mean, this is those are your core conversations. Can you touch on that?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so we We have focused on kind of those four I words, so to speak. Actually, this fall we're kind of rolling out a newer framework that works a little bit better for us. Okay. But those concepts will be seen even under the new framework that we're calling for to source to just be a little tighter in our language and our approach. But really, like one of the key words in what you're seeing on the website right now is this notion of investment. If we don't invest time in understanding who we are and what jobs exist, learning about the world of work and learning about ourselves. About ourselves? Then how can we ever make a match between the two? And some of that investment means maybe I come and I sit down and I talk to you about your career in real estate because you're the expert. So educate me about what you do all day to help me see as a young adult, do I want to pursue that career? Right. So I'm asking people in our community to invest in my clients, in my teenagers, my college students, my young adults.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I uh what you do is so fascinating to me because in in one sense, we we're we're having these career conversations with people, people call us all the time and they want to say, hey, we're thinking about a career in real estate, and then it's a a wonderful uh conversation to understand who you know their story and and and their dreams and goals and how does this align with them. And um, one of my favorite conversations, and tell me if this where this might play into what you're doing. Okay, we talk a lot about uh natural versus adaptive. We talk a lot about this a lot. And and when you're in your natural abilities, you're gonna thrive. You're not gonna you're not gonna have the burnout. You're gonna work doesn't work feels like play actually when you're in that natural. Now, most people are intelligent enough to adapt and do certain skills and tasks temporarily, yeah. Whether it's it could be three months, it could be six months, it could be a whole year, but at some point, if you're constantly, if the majority of the things that you're doing are in an adaptive state, it's not sustainable. You're gonna have the burnout, you're gonna have the the bitterness, the frustrations, and it's not gonna be sustainable. And we love to have those conversations, and whether it's somebody coming on our staff in a in a uh administrative role, in a support role, or in a real estate um agent role. I mean, like we want to identify and learn about you know their natural abilities versus their adaptive abilities. And again, most people can adapt temporarily, but it's not a sustainable role that they're gonna be in if they're in that adaptive phase.

SPEAKER_00

Um, you make a great point, and here's a prime example of that. Talked with someone last year who really has a heart for working with children and really has been thinking a career in early childhood. But then they're like, but the pay is not always the best with salaries, so maybe I need to go be an ultrasound technologist. Well, those are two very radically different fields. She may thrive in ultrasound technology, it's a great field of work, but if her heart is drawn to working with children, ultimately she's going to be drawn back to working with children.

SPEAKER_02

Let's have the real let's have a real honest conversation. You this is a real issue in life right now, just being able to afford everybody is trying to afford life, right? They're trying to survive the the prices of of groceries and gas. And and there is a reality in the sense of like, how do I make how do I do something I love and be able to pay the bills, right? Like, yes, and I would argue, and obviously, money's uh I do have this perspective on money. Money's not good or bad, but it's good for the good it can do. Money itself, right? Yes, we know the love of money is not good, but the money itself is is not good or bad. But the love of money is bad. But but here's the interesting thing. I would argue if you're doing what you love and you have enough, it I mean, you're not gonna let's just be candid, and you you said it, the pay for this particular job working with children is not a lot, yeah, compared to an ultrasound tech. Let's just let's just be really candid. But I would argue you're gonna be happier, more fulfilled. Again, assuming you can cover all your life expenses, you're gonna be more thrilled, you're gonna be more fulfilled. You know, you're gonna your life is the quality of your life compared to, I mean, money can't buy happiness. Yes. And if you're miserable in what you do, just to trade it for a paycheck, I mean, that and I and I and I know there's that's that is a very common conversation. And and this is really candid. It's maybe it's an even uncomfortable conversation for some people hearing this. Yes. Are you are you trading are you I mean, what you what are you trading your time for? Yes. I mean, but that I think if we can if you dive into these hard conversations, again, the fulfillment people can have and what they love doing. Uh huh. Again, assuming, and and of course, some people are are single and they have to support themselves by themselves. Some people are fortunate, might maybe have dual income, or maybe they they have parents that are helping launch the kid. I mean, these are just I'm sure really real conversations that people have to navigate.

SPEAKER_00

They are, and they're hard conversations, they're painful at times, they're sobering.

SPEAKER_02

They are.

SPEAKER_00

And you know, one of the things I talk to my clients is about to my clients about is let's think about being creative. If this is your dream, but you know it can't pay you enough to pay all the bills, then what kind of side gig can we do with that while you build your skills and talents till you can work into a higher paying role in your chosen field? Right. You don't have to give up the dream just because you see a low paycheck to start with.

SPEAKER_02

Right. And again, things are temporary and and sometimes sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward.

SPEAKER_00

Amen. I'm proof of that. I walked away from a set job and salary, you know. I went backwards so that I could move forward in helping my community.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I and again, these are the con I'm so grateful that you joined me this morning. I I picked up on this on some of our initial conversations, and that's why I wanted to have you uh share with our listeners this morning. I think I think it's a very inspiring story, and and that's what you're doing right now. I mean, like you're having these conversations with with young people, young adults, and I think it's remarkable.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I'm glad that you had me on. It's a joy to talk about what I get to do every day now, and any way I can ever support our community and families. If

How To Connect And Final Notes

SPEAKER_00

you have confused teenagers, college students, or young working professionals, send them my way.

SPEAKER_02

That's amazing. You know what? Time time flies when you're having fun. Our 30 minutes is uh is basically up, but I'm so grateful to have you here with us one more time. How to the best way for people to get in touch with you, follow you on social media, your phone number, and again, uh Dr. Laurie Brown, thank you for being here this morning.

SPEAKER_00

Well, thank you. And they can find us at northstarlearning.org. My email is drori at northstarlearning.org, and my phone is 828-231-3445. Call or text.

SPEAKER_02

That's awesome. Thank you so much. It's a privilege to have you here this morning.

SPEAKER_00

Thank you so much.

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And again, for our listeners, we're here every Thursday morning right after the 10 o'clock news hour. We love sharing with you about what's going on in the community, people making a difference in the community in these conversations. Again, we're working with clients every single day, helping them navigate through real estate in regards to what's going on in life. And if you are in a just curious about your own personal home, maybe it's an investment property, or maybe you've heard of this thing called a 1031 exchange. We specialize in that as well, residential and commercial. If we can help you in any way, you can call us directly at 828-393-0134. Find us online at realestate bygreg.com. Also, follow call us, stop by our office. We're at the uh Flat Rock uh Rainbow Row. We're there in Flat Rock next to the Flat Rock Bakery. Also, every Friday morning at 8 45, the George Real Estate Group sponsors the Hometown Heroes series. Tomorrow morning, Michael Sunberg, uh, he's a content creator here in Hendersonville with his website and social media hendo today. He uses high-end filmmaking, storytelling, and marketing to help feature a lot of our local businesses, restaurants, and other community leaders here in Hendersonville. And tomorrow morning, we're gonna have Michael join us at 8 45 and love for you to tune in. And again, we podcast all of our radio shows. If you're listening to us on the podcast, thank you. Be sure to subscribe, and we'd love to connect with you. Thank you so much for being here this Thursday morning. Time's flying when you're having fun. We're so grateful to be here. Dr. Laurie Brown, thank you for joining us. And to our listeners, we're here. Tune in tomorrow morning. Have a great day, have a great week, and we'll see you tomorrow morning.

Right Size, Simplify, Start Fresh

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Maybe the house feels a little too big these days. The stairs, a little steeper, the pace of life, a little too fast. But what if your next move wasn't about letting go? It was about making space for peace, for freedom, for what matters most. At the George Real Estate Group, we understand that real estate isn't just about the house. It's about transitions, timing, and trust. We've helped thousands of families in Western North Carolina make smart, thoughtful moves closer to nature, closer to family, closer to home. So when you're ready to right-size, simplify, or start fresh, we'll be here. The George Real Estate Group. Local, trusted, proven. Call us today, 828-3930134. Find us online at realestatebygreg.com because your next chapter deserves to feel just right.

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Thank you for listening to the George Real Estate Group Podcast. Tune in next time for more industry news, updates, and real estate tips. You can reach Greg, the George Real Estate Group, at 828 393 0134 or at realestatebygreg.com.