Age: 102 by life circumstances, but just a baby in reality. More accurately, 39. Birthplace: Mississippi. The dirty south. There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi. Profession: Real estate sales. Organization: RE/MAX PRIME, The Ron Sawyer Real Estate Team. Title: REALTOR®. Pronouns: He/Him/His.
Recent recognition: Glowing reviews on my teams page, and my personal Google pages. The 100% Club award from RE/MAX. Recent professional development: Recently licensed in North Carolina as a real estate agent, closing six deals a month on average. Latest accomplishment: Got twelve clients under contract recently, with almost all my buyers’ closing costs covered. Latest contribution to others: Support to my local church, St Jude, CHKD, Edmarc. I give my time to all my clients and help my sellers with getting their homes ready to sell and maintain the properties as needed. What’s been your big (or biggest leap)? The decision to leave a seventeen year career in government for real estate. Hobbies: Cycling, reading, and working out. Hiking. Recent travel or adventure: Luray, Shenandoah, Appalachian Trail. Last book read: The Outsider, by Colin Wilson. Recently viewed and recommended: Beard Meats Food (YouTube). Recent unique acquisition: 1935 Standing Liberty Quarter.
Personality profile: ISTJ-A (logistician). Straightforward, transparent, brutally honest, direct, enthusiastic, witty, goofy. What one word would your closest friend use to describe you? Diligent, or dedicated. Moral compass: The Bible and the Stoics. How do you define a perfect friendship? Honest, available, mutual growth and steady presence. How do you define an ideal business relationship? Timeliness, honest, long-lasting, aligned goals, reliability. What is your greatest joy? My relationship with my wife and my children, and helping my clients buy or sell their homes. What is your greatest fear? Not accomplishing my full potential. Also, drowning. What is your guilty pleasure? Ice cream, burgers, chips. What word or phrase do you use far too often? Absolutely. My pleasure. What natural talent have you neglected? Teaching; physical acumen. What occupation, other than your own, do you most admire? Lawyers.
What three emojis best describe you? 🤔🤨😤.
What is your favorite place (or way) to spend money? Books. What is at the top of your bucket list? Vacation to New Zealand. Visit Glacier National Park. See the Grand Canyon. How do you relieve stress? Cycling, breathing exercises, time alone in the woods, cold plunges and washing my cars. What is your go-to workout? Rowing and deadlifts. What ingredient is essential to your perfect vacation? Mountains, a lake, no other people except my wife and kids, isolated.
What was your first paying job? Shop hand at Express Oil Change. What was your favorite college course? Psychology, Philosophy, History, Accounting. What was your favorite childhood toy or game? Trucks. What book have you repeatedly read? The Count of Monte Cristo, The Bible, Holiness, by J.C. Ryle. What movie have you repeatedly watched? Fight Club, Inside Llewyn Davis, Snatch. What’s prominently featured on your home or office wall? Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, by Rembrandt. Besides your parents, who has had the greatest influence on your life? Great Thinkers, including Carl Jung, Edmond Dantes, Arthur Schopenhauer, J.C. Ryle, Thomas Brooks and Epictetus. What’s the best advice you received growing up? You have time. Enjoy your youth. Don’t take everything so seriously. What’s the best advice you received in your career? Consistency is key. Show up every day. Love the process, not the results. What modern technology innovation do you most appreciate? Cell phones. What is your favorite app? HEVY. What is your go-to source of news and information? The Daily Wire, Reuters, The Economist. What is your go-to source of creative inspiration? Other artists. What company or organization do you most admire? Edmarc, RE/MAX, CHKD. What world event has had the greatest influence on your life? Covid pandemic, which made me focus on what truly mattered. What personal circumstance has had the greatest influence on your life? Becoming a husband and father.
What is your big idea? Buy one rental property every year to build generational wealth for my children to have a lasting effect for generations to come. What change are you working on to effect in your profession or field? Honesty and transparency. Educating buyers and sellers on every step of the process and how each decision will affect them. What change would you like to see in the world? People just being kind to one another and actually contributing to the betterment of their fellow man. What message do you want to send out into the world? Don’t be governed by what you think people will think about you, but be considerate of one another. What widely held belief do you reject? Napolean was short. Debt is always bad. Solar power is sustainable and good. Nuclear power is dangerous.
What title would you choose for the movie about your life? A Cursed Life: Blessed in Disguise. What actor would you choose to play you in the movie about your life? Paul Rudd or Oscar Isaac. Who would you like to spend an evening with, in heaven? My maternal grandmother. As a kid, what did you first want to be when you grew up? An architect or an accountant. After your loved ones, what object would you first save from your burning home? My Citizen watch that my children bought me as a Father’s Day gift. How would you choose to spend tomorrow, if you knew it was your last day on earth? On a lake in the mountains with my wife and kids making smores and fishing and sitting by the fire. What advice would you give your younger self? Be true to yourself. Don’t compromise for anyone. What day in your life would you choose to re-live? The birth of my first daughter. What period in your life would you do differently, if you could? The early years of my marriage, to be a better husband to my wife.
Personal mission: Building generational wealth for my kids, grandkids, and great grandkids. Personal motto: Chaos doesn’t scare me, it trained me. Stumbling gracefully into success since birth. Favorite quote: “Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research” (Carl Jung). Desired epitaph: Finally ran out of plot twists. Survived everything, except this.
