The Profitability Standard
A short podcast series for making profitability a professional standard in real estate.
Podcasting since 2026 • 11 episodes
The Profitability Standard
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Episode 0: Production Notes on How This Series Was Produced
A brief, factual account of the production process behind this series. An AI agent running inside Claude Code drafted the scripts and organized them in Google Drive. Robert Lee reviewed every episode — rewriting several of them. Each episode wa...
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Episode 1: The Standard We've Been Missing
Real estate has a Code of Ethics, fair housing law, continuing education requirements, and disclosure mandates. What it does not have is a requirement that agents run a profitable business. Eighty-seven percent of agents leave the industry with...
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Episode 1
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7:52
Episode 2: The Diagnosis Before the Prescription
The real estate coaching industry's default response to any business problem is a prescription: more leads, better scripts, a new CRM, a different marketing channel. The prescription comes before the diagnosis. In medicine, that's malpractice. ...
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Episode 2
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Episode 3: Meet Your Constraint Finder
The Five Whys is a free AI diagnostic tool built on the five whys methodology from the Theory of Constraints. It asks you a sequence of questions about your business, identifies the symptoms you're experiencing, traces them to a root cause, and...
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Episode 3
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Episode 4: The P&L That Tells the Truth
Most agents do not have a real financial picture of their business. They track GCI and assume the rest will work out. This episode introduces throughput accounting — the financial framework that asks three questions in a specific order: Is this...
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Episode 4
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