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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

Coach's Corner: The ALIGN Framework

April 17, 2026 • Carla Higgins

0:00 | 13:07

If you know conversations grow your business but keep falling into a stop-start pattern, this episode will help you understand what is really getting in the way and how to return to momentum without shame.

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 coaches around one of the most common struggles double duty agents face: inconsistency.

When you know conversations matter but still find yourself falling off, it is easy to make that mean something is wrong with you. In this Coach’s Corner, Carla walks through the ALIGN framework to help you uncover what is really happening beneath the inconsistency.

She explores how guilt, all-or-nothing thinking, emotional avoidance, lack of structure, and hidden beliefs can quietly interrupt momentum, even when your intentions are good. Most importantly, she offers a more supportive and sustainable way to think about consistency so you can stop starting over and begin building trust with yourself again.

YOU’LL LEARN:

Why inconsistency is usually not the real problem, but a symptom of something deeper
The thoughts and beliefs that often show up right before agents avoid conversations
How the ALIGN framework can help you coach yourself through a stop-start pattern
Why consistency does not mean perfection, but learning how to return quickly
How one conversation at a time can build real momentum in your business

“Consistency does not mean doing a lot. It means returning quickly.”

What is one conversation you can have today that helps you rebuild trust with yourself?

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