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The Double Duty Agent® Podcast with Carla Higgins

The Double Duty Agent® Podcast with Coach Carla is for real estate agents who are building their business alongside another career, family responsibilities, caregiving, school, or a full life.

If you have ever felt behind, overwhelmed, inconsistent, or unsure how to make real estate work with the time you actually have, this podcast was created for you.

Coach Carla Higgins, founder of Double Duty by Design™, helps busy agents turn limited time into focused, income-producing action so they can build a real estate business that fits their life and helps their license become a path to income, freedom, and confidence.

Each week, you’ll get practical coaching, mindset support, real agent stories, and simple systems to help you focus on what matters most: conversations, appointments, clients, closings, and income.

This is not about hustle, comparison, or building your business like everyone else. It is about building by design.

You are not behind. You are building.

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The Double Duty Agent® Podcast with Carla Higgins

Why You’re Not Doing What You Know You Need to Do: The Real Reason Agents Stay Stuck

April 15, 2026 • Carla Higgins • Season 2 • Episode 78

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You know the calls matter. You know the conversations are what move your business forward. So why is it still so hard to do them consistently? In this episode, Carla unpacks what is really happening underneath procrastination, inconsistency, and avoidance, and shares a new way to move forward with more compassion and clarity.

EPISODE OVERVIEW

This podcast is for the real estate agents building their dream life and business on their terms, especially if you're working another job, raising a family, or building it all at once. In this episode of the Double Duty Agent Podcast, Carla walks through one of the most common struggles agents face: knowing exactly what they need to do, but still not doing it.

If you have ever avoided the calls, stayed busy with low-impact tasks, signed up for another class instead of taking action, or felt frustrated with yourself for stopping and starting, this episode is for you. Carla explains why this is not a laziness problem, a motivation problem, or a discipline problem. It is a protection problem.

She shares how your thinking brain and your protector brain can get out of alignment, creating procrastination, perfectionism, distraction, and inconsistency, especially around the conversations that matter most. She also introduces her ALIGN framework and gives listeners an invitation to go deeper in her upcoming workshop.

You’ll learn: