KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa (Fri, 21 Jul, 2023)

KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa on Fri, 21 Jul, 2023

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the one that decorates first, andcome to my house all the orphans and
have no place. I'm gonna haveno place to go. Okay, okay,
come on over. Life is soamazing if we can stop off that
exhausting amstray wheel and into balanced livingwith Doctor Marissa from Doctor Marissa, also

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known as the Asian Oprah, hermission to be a beneficial pressings on the
planet her purpose to be your personaladvocate, to live, laugh, love,
learn her life motto, don't diewandering. Take back your life with
Doctor Marissa pay and welcome your tunedinto take my advice. I'm not using

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a gift balance with Doctor Marissa.The Morning Show here on KCAA, MBC
News Radio, CNBC News and NBCSports Am ten fifty FM one oh six
point five, home to the AsianOprah and streaming everywhere I Heart Radio,

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Spotify, Stitcher, iTunes, tuneIn, Tiki Live, Rumbull, Audible,
Amazon Music, Geosan and more.Why so many places, because I
want to maximize my splatters one formore hope and happiness. So there's no
gossip on this show, no scandal, and no kaywords, no Kanye talk

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at all. Instead, I wantyou to focus on your own reality show
and how you can be happy eightyeight percent of the time. So there's
topics and guests to that end andspecial series. And today you see the
lovely, beautiful inside and out alongCarter. She is broadcasting remotely and she's
on time, and I'm happy aboutthat. Please welcome back to my studio.

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The daughter of the founder of theTemptations Otis Williams, past model,
playmate, um dancer, Soul Train, and the manager for my favorite musician
right now is Trace Austin her sonwho did not fall far from her grandfather's
his grandfather's musical tree. Please welcomeback to the studio along Carter, exhausting

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amster wheel and into balanced living.Marissa from the Huge Dudes. Oh,
I am like not. I thinkI need a little more sleep. I
need I need coffee. I'm remoteand so I need to go down as

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in order to get my coffee.Oh well, I'm just so happy that
you're here and you look beautiful.Kit Where are you? I am in
Beverly Hills Hotel. I'm nice,nice, Well, I um, let's
just get started and pretend you havea coffee coffee and we're gonna have breakfast

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with doctor Marissa. And that istaking a bite of my gratitude sandwich.
And y'all know we've been doing thisfor about a year. I want to
start your day in the most positiveway. Eight specific things that we're grateful
for, and then eight things thatwe like about ourselves. So alan you
want to start, Yes, Iam grateful that I had a beautiful day

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yesterday they had a beautiful dinner ina nice room, had a celebration,
and I am grateful. And Alanis like myself. We celebrate birthdays for
the entire month and because why not, right, so uh be Booth,

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Happy birthday, dude, you happybirthday again. Hopefully I get to see
you today. I still have yourpresent in my car, but I am
grateful later today, go ahead,no problem, Um, Can you turn

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off any other windows because you arebreaking up? Not as bad as at
home before, but yeah, itis uh good. I am grateful that
I can multitask as I try toput this link on my bio in Instagram.

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Those of you who are driving,please do not try to comment or
put your gratitudes in the chat.You wait till you are steady. Freddie,
I know a lot of you tunein on my AMFM channel on kseya
A one or six point five tenfifty am. But I'm happy I see

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eyeballs rolling in. Please do putyour gratitudes in the chat and we can
share them with the world and wecan start our Friday in the most positive
way. I am grateful that Ihave lost a significant amount of weight that
I can wear. I wore thisjust for you. This is a I

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think it might even be called avintage now, but I just want to
show it up to you because she'smy fashion easily. Their all friends.
It's a Mark Jacobs and so Iknew you would like it. It's got
a funny hood in the back.So anyways, I'm grateful that I can
fit into clothes that I have notfit into for a while. So it

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feels like a new wardrobe. Whatdo you need your secret? I need
your secret. I'm gonna be really, you don't need a secret. You're
fine. I can fit into someof the stuffies into. What are you
grateful for? Um? I amso sleepy this morning. I think I'm

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gratefulness. I'm grateful to have abeautiful sunny day, even though it's extremely
hot. I'm grateful that the weatherhad has been absolutely beautiful in California.
I am grateful for getting back onmy um toneing routine. Oh that's good.

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I am grateful that we're going tohave some spectacular guests. I joined
a real estate team and we're gonnahave the on here and they're gonna tell
us about what to buy, whatnot to buy, and so grateful that
we get to have two lovely guestson today. Okay, I'm grateful that

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we have running water and clean waterwhere we live. That's something that not
everybody has around the world. Probablywe live in the top eight to fifteen
percent of quality of life, andI want to really appreciate that. I
appreciate thank that too. I amgrateful going to have I don't want to

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be opportunity just but we got anew restaurants to go too. It's most
I had the most amazing food lastnight. I'm grateful, so good.
I'm grateful. I'm grateful that.Um, I'm really good friends with foodies

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like a lawn. We went toa new restaurant that I've never been to
in Beverly Hills. Um missus.Oh, I'm not gonna say the name
until they become sponsors. Oh,this is one of my favorite restaurants.
I go over here for my birthday. I try to go there at least
on my birthday. It's an amazingrestaurant. I mean, it's a huge
dust you could say if you wantto, they're they're really big restaurants.

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They're yeah. Yeah. Although althoughalthough my father would was turning over in
his grave at the size of theportions. Oh yeah, but the hills.
What do you expect right in London? When I lived in London and
there's one New York I my favoritefoods, it's like Asia Confusion, which

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is her favorite foo and yeah forum it's it's really fami. See.
So of course she's like the footballpersons are small. But it's a Chinese
restaurant. But it's not your tradition, you know, so you're you're not
gonna get what you normally get inthat type of restaurant. Yeah. That
that that's the thing that's in myblood. Yeah no, but you you

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don't go there for that. Yougo there because of the dish are so
unique and um, you sit inside, you get to see them make the
noodles from scratch, which is reallythe show, which is beautiful. Next
time will see the inside, soyou see them they do this really spectacular
show and they make the noodles rightin front of you to feel the flower

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they do altogether they string. Itis the coolest thing. But you don't
we got small dishes. There's somedishes there are spectacular, they are big.
We just happen to get some smallerthings. I lash gratitude. I
am grateful that I do not haveto tell my body to digest my food,
or to breathe or to uh cleanout all the impurities in my body.

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That that is an example for methat we live in a friendly,
energetic universe. We are really worksof art as human beings that you know,
there is something bigger out there thatis not orchestrating but powering us energetically.
And for that I am grateful.So that's what I think. Oh

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think, okay, I think we'regonna go to the bottom of the bun,
and that is you can tell.I'm trying to get a copy run.
The bottom of the bun is whatwe appreciate about ourselves. And some
people, especially, I would sayJapanese and Chinese, we have this saying

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the nail that stands up is hammereddown. So we're not taught or encouraged
to speak well of ourselves, totout our own horn. I have been
a constant disappointment to my family fora long time because of that, because
I have a bit of a mouthand I do like to be in front
of camera, and that is sortof counter and the problem is that if

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you don't like yourself, you mightbe walking around with little antenna looking for
someone to approve of you, orto say you know, you're wonderful,
er, thank you, or allof that, and as a result,
your moods are up and down,depending on it if you get a compliment
or a criticism. And I wantyou to be really stable in the self

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love that you have. I believethat's the foundation of good mental health.
That's my BS, my belief system. So in order to help you with
that, I want you to thinkabout eight specific things that you love about
yourself and do that before you goto bed, which is a whole lot
better than thinking about all the thingsthat go wrong or who done you wrong.

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Then of course you're gonna have troublesleeping. So what I like about
myself is that I love to expressmyself creatively through my dress and my fashion.
So I'm I appreciate that I'm afashionist. Stuff, Alan, what
do you appreciate? I appreciate thatI am myself. I like myself enough

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to be who I am. Itwould be very oddest and take and I
don't care what people think because I'mat the age where I don't really care
they like me or not. Ilike myself, so that's all that matters.
So I appreciate it. I likemyself enough that I don't I'll be
validation. That's one of the reasonswhy Alana and I are friends. We
definitely got cut out of the samecloth from that one. Could you speak

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just a little louder and maybe that'lltake the Oh, that'd be great.
Is that what I will will giveto this sound up? You know,
I'm not on the other computer thatguy norm Yeah. Actually, this one
is the one that's kind of likea little shady. I don't know if
it's a new one, but it'sa shady one. It's a bit shady,

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Yeah, a slim shade. Yes, it's still a little bit of
the cut in and out. Butwe'll we'll deal with it. We'll deal
with it. I know you areromote. Yeah, and I'm talking being
pretty loud and there's nothing there's nosound in the room. It's pretty airtight.
Copy that I'm that I'm I'm actuallyI'm actually able, not grateful,

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but I appreciate that I have thetechnology that say that I can move around
when I need to do remote showsand work. I mean it's it's it's
wonderful that we appreciate the technology wehave. Absolutely, Um, I appreciate
that I I'm a work in progress. I am definitely not perfect, and

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I'm no longer trying to be perfect. If I'm eighty eight percent fabulous,
the rest you know, I Igoof, I'm not. I'm not the
best version of myself twelve percent ofthe time, and I'm okay with that.
So there's two appreciations in that one. So you go for two,
Okay. I appreciate that I'm abetter person. I have coffee because I

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haven't had it yet, and I'ma happy person. I eat, but
I like my good dance. Ihad a happy dance last night. That's
my two appreciations. Coffee and perfectiallysushi. Last one, I appreciate um.
Last one, I appreciate that it'seasy to laugh and it's my favorite

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sound on the planet. So Ijust love to laugh, even if it's
just at myself. And dance.You dance the dancing Queen. I click
on your videos and dancing, I'mlike, there's scales. I'm impersonating the
dancing Queen. Last one, whatdo you appreciate about yourself. A long

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carter, My four, I'm fun. That's it, folks four having breakfast
with doctor Marissa and a long carter. She is my co host. This
is Friday and it's tempting conversations withdoctor Marissa, and thank you for joining

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us. We're gonna launch right intoday to talking about a long carter.
Is going to introduce that. ButI want to show you and everyone some
appreciation. I want you to takeyour right arm up right now, raise
it ready, a long on,put your right on over, pat yourself

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on the back for doing the exercise. I promise that if you do this
for twenty eight consecutive days, yourdays will be sandwiched in the best possible
way. All right alone, what'sthe topic for today, Well, we're

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gonna talk about realists date and whetherit's a good time to buy. What
are our options, specially for thefirst time buyers. There's a lot of
scam comes out there for people thatare buying, and especially with I've learning
because I'm actually in the process ofgetting my real estate license, but a
lot how are elderly people right nowgetting the scam so their life savings.
People that are selling their home andtry to buy new property. That got

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a big thing on how they're divertingpeople's funds. So it's just a little
things that I thought that people shouldbe aware of right now what their options
are. Um So I'm learning too, and I thought that it would be
a good lesson for us. Sothe the owner of Hardcourts in Beverly Hills,

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which is very hot and real estatecompany. Me. They're all over
the country and and he started orrun the business. They are phenomenal.
I mean, he has the mostbeautiful kids. They're so amazing and smart,
and they're gonna come on and sharetheir success. So we're gonna see
them in a few minutes. Fantastic, fantastic. They're gonna be coming in

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at the bottom of the hour.And we have I didn't I didn't see
this. We have someone participating inour breakfast this morning. It's Lee Stroud
and she was great yesterday helping meout when Sam had internet issues, and
so she was my um stand inguest co host yesterday. Lee. I'm

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glad to see that you're back,she says. She appreciates her recipe for
life. I love the way thatit's said. Yeah, So welcome Lee,
thank you for joining me and alot again. And so real estate
is definitely one of those is itstill or has it always been a good

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investment? I know for myself it'sthis is the time right now when a
lot of people are in fear becausethose things that you traditionally may have grown
up with, as you know,the safe way to grow your money,
like putting into the bank, andthen you hear these horror stories of banks

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that are going out of business.Stock market that also was an avenue that
used to be very a safe way, or you know, playing the market,
mutual funds, all of that,and that has been a nightmare for
a lot of people, including myself. You know, I just keep my

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bs. My belief system is untilI cash it in. It's unrealized loss,
which I'm not going to look at, but it certainly is a concern
those of you while we were waitingfor them to come on, those of
you who are free on August thefifth, I would love to invite you.

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Sam and I have been been coachedby John Shinn, he was on
our show earlier. I'm trying toget a line to meet them as well.
They have an estate in Calabasa.It's not too far from her,
and he is the head of Accianta, which is part of World Financial Group.
And I didn't know that if Ibought life insurance, there's a component

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that actually gives me a high doubledigit percentage for interest on my money that
I can, you know, uselater. So I didn't know that because
I didn't grow up with any kindto financial training. And I think that's
something that's an opportunity for all ofus. It's a free lunch, free

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day of education. So just messageme or go to doctor Merca dot life
and I'll send you a link forthat. So Sam and I will be
there. We're bringing a bunch ofpeople. I want you Alan to see
some of his artwork. I knowMaya, our past guest. She went
and she was pretty impressed with hisartwork at the house. Yeah, and

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he has you know Rolls Royce,you know that emblem in front of the
Rosolie. He has the original sculpturethat Rolls Royce used to make the anc
So it's pretty cool. But yeah, money is something that we all could
use a little education on. Andreal estate is one of those avenues of

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making your money grow. And youknow, I'm all about happiness, right,
happy eighty eight mission eighty eight millionmore happy people in the next eight
years. And in this in thisum environment, post pandemic, there's some
fear out there, right do Iyou know? Do I do I use
the money? Do I put itunder my mattress? Again? So when

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Alan said I'd like to have umthe hardcourts on and not the hardcourts?
Sorry, how do you how doyou pronounce her last name? Who?
And cotineahuh okay, No, wewill tell you exactly how to spell it.
Yes, you will tell, youwill tell. But there your Portuguese.

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Oh really, he's Australian, sohe's only been here for a few
years there from Australia, and he'sactually says Portuguese. That's so cool,
because I thought I thought it wasa Taliano based on his last name.
Yeah, I guessed him that.I thought so too, But you know,

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I was trying to figure it outbecause I was like, oh,
I lived in London, so Ilike, I know it's not British accent.
You know, it's just slightly different. You have to. It's very
hard because it's confusing. It almostsounds exactly the same have to listen to
people. But anyway, Um,he says, oh no, we're from
Australia. We've only been here andmaybe only three years. I think four
years, maybe very long. Ilove accents, all accents, I think

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all spirit. Yes, very verycool accent. And they're so lovely.
They have really good energy, sothey'll be perfect for the show. So
let's do a look quick commercial foryour client, your sons. If you
see me looking down, guys,I'm cheating and I have my hardcourt scarf
on because if I don't have thisis our signature scar and so I had

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to wear it. Fantastic. OhLee has experienced also in the industry,
so we're gonna we're gonna have agreat Uh. You can try Hive five,
a loge one two, yeah,five people that will be actively talking
about real estate. UM, tellme what Trace is doing, because I

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so love I can't say date.The Trace is gonna be performing at the
Trube Door, which is a bigdeal. Um, we have a date.
But you know now when I whenyou sign that down in line,
then that okay change. So he'sdoing that. He's a couple of things
in the can right now, whichis keeping my fingers crossed um the whole

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the fact that we're on stripe.It gets really a bit difficult because there
was some really good things coming up. Everything's coming a bit put on hold
a little bit because of the strike. But also I think it's fair for
the people to get what they want. You know, I was I didn't
know a lot of dot it.I know we covered it on a show,
but I did find out some thingsabout you know, the executives that

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are getting paid a lot a lotof money, you know, people that
work for Netflix and some of themthe other cable shows. The writers just
not get think hardly any money.And I didn't realize that, you know,
and even the residuals they're not makingmoney. So and people just don't
think that. They don't think alot of time to just bought out.
And you know, if we don'thave them, we don't have a good

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show because we're not good stories.So I think we should come to oh
we I think people should come tocompromise and give them something, give them
what they want so we can getback to work and everyone that could have
jobs. Actors are not working,the restaurants are not working. When everyone's
on striking like Los Angeles who BeverlyHills is shut down, you know,
the industry shut down, so it'saffecting restaurants, just affecting coffee shops.

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So hopefully we'll give passes, they'llcome to some type of agreement. Because
people have homes and real estate,like we're getting to talk about, they
have to take care of that stuffand it's expensive. Its costly, and
you know, you not like havingwhen you go work for studios, but
it's not like a magnified job.You go projects a project, which could
be what's or you're you're in between, so you have to have something that

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you can consistent sustained. And whenexplain thinking like that, like yes,
it makes sense, yeah, yeah, for sure. If there's any silver
lining, and you know, Iput my life jacket on every morning that
has a silver lining. One ofthe silver linings of the strike is an
appreciation of how many people behind thescenes are part of the success of the

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industry, because you usually associate Hollywoodor all of that with just the actors
and actresses or the talk show hostsor whoever, and not recognizing the plethora
of people behind the scenes, likewriters who are so important. So the
good news is we're recognizing. Yeah, I love the The one protest that

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I um that I enjoyed the bestwhen I saw the pictures of the writers,
was I mean, it's not funny, but it said, um,
please, we're just asking for oneless yacht. You guys have one less
yacht, which I thought was prettyfunny. It was pretty funny. We've

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got a couple of comments here.Let's see, Lee. If we treat
the pandemic much like coming out ofa war, then we're already ahead of
the game. Yes, a war, there are a lot of opportunities to
create great wealth. Absolutely, andthat's all where it starts. It's the
bs, the belief systems that youcarry in your head about whatever's happening to

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you. And I'm your big cheerleaderto create unconditional happiness, which is happiness
that does not rely upon the conditions. Right, So, if things are
going well, you're happy. Ifshift happens, you're pissed. And shift
is happening all day. But ifyou have the awareness that there's good anywhere

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and everywhere. Guess what happened tome yesterday, Alon, I went down
to do my laps at the poolsix thirty in the morning and I was
doing my story that I do beforeI get in the pool, and dolphins,
dolphins right there in front of me. And I know you've been busy,

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So did you see my video ondoc balance on Instagrams. I know
you've been busy, but on theand then when I got out of the
pool, they were even closer.I was so excited. And I have
this practice that I want you allto adopt. It's my bliscipline hashtag bliscipline

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that when I see a dolphins surface, I make a wish. And wishes
are like intentions. Wishes are thelaw of attraction at work. I am
setting the intention for something more.I don't set intentions for I want the
book to you know, be translatedinto however many languages, because that's already

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done. That's already you know.I don't need to ask for that.
But I want more joy, morelove, more bliss, more wonder,
more laughter. Those are the thingsthat I set. So I invite you
to go to doc balance on Instagramevery time you see a dolphin surface and
play make a wish. And thatfor me is uh. I was.

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I was so happy. Do wehave our no they have not signed in
at all, so they I sentyou the link yesterday. They have that
language. Okay, so let's seeLee Life Insurance is one of the safest

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and very best opportunities to messed inas it is one in short. Absolutely,
you are absolutely correct, and thankyou for that. And I would
like to invite you Lee, ifyou are local, or even you don't
have to be local, you feellike come to southern California and going to
Calabasas. August fifth is the day. Um, just message me and I

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would love to meet you in person. And Sam and I were talking yesterday.
Lee is actually married or wait,I don't know if you're still married,
but she's um, she's an act. She was twenty years swinger and
we we haven't had that topic.I don't think Sam wants to do that

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topic. Alan, that's a that'sa tempting conversation. What did you say
about about swingers? About swingers?Oh yeah, there's a lot of that
companted parties I want to hear andI oh yes, we kind of talk
about everything. All right, herewe go, we go, all right,

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well, let me do this thatway when Brooke gets there. Well
maybe not, um Hill I'm happy, Thank you fantastic? So yeah,

(35:35):
yeah, um, can you turnyourself this week? Because I'm afraid that
when Brooke gets here? Ah thefunny, Um, we're yes, I
can tell we're gonna have a goodtime. There we go. So,
yes, that's gonna help because whenBrooke comes on, she'll have room to
get her head in there. Yeahright, but cool. So, Glenn,

(36:00):
I don't have an answering machine.I have a questioning machine. And
when do you call me? Itsays, who are you and what do
you want? So, Glenn,who are you and what do you want?

(36:21):
Oh? Are you single? Areyou single? Na? Oh well
then never mind, I promises,promises. I have a claim to fame.
I've been married thirty six years andI have not had an argument with
my life yet. What's your secretlywhatever? She's always art, he's smart,

(36:45):
he says, she's always right.Yes, I asked my bonus dad.
He's been married seventy three years.He's ninety three, she's ninety.
I asked him, what is thesecret to your longevity in the marriage?
And he said, um, uh, neither one of us have wanted a
divorce. At the same time,I like that and we do have Brooke,

(37:13):
but her uh camera is not on, so I'll let you their settings
on the bottom where the three dotsare where you can add your camera.
I'm just gonna look at you rightnow. Uh No, she her mic

(37:36):
is also off, so we'll lether um pull that one together. But
in the meantime, Glenn answer myquestion. Please? Who am I the
question? Yes, I said,Glenn Quartan out on the end of Cockles
Beaverly Hills with my partner Brook AndWe've been in business here for four years.
I've been in real estate to thirtyideas and uh so we sell houses.

(37:59):
That's what we do houses, that'sreally our main goal. And then
I have five children and now sixthmy daughters. My sons just had a
baby and a wife. Decided todo that very fast and we flew from
Melbourne here to launch our youngest twoboys music career. So sixteen seven,

(38:19):
any I wanted to be rock stars, not real estate agents. Somehow convince
us to pack up and leave ourlife for fifty years and just coming and
started all over all over again atthe age of fifty, which is mad
fantastic. And I then he throughtrees. Yes, we met on the
street. We met on the streetand connected immediately, and yes, now

(38:40):
we're in business together. So thatwas a really big win. Guess how
Alan and I met on the street. Nope, through trees on the carpet.
Wow. Yeah. Kids are thebest networking group and they're the best
connectors. You know, I lovetrees very much. Okay, before you're

(39:01):
oh, go ahead, I wasjust going to sign the kids need to
connect me with people because they're theones that made me move and it's about
my happy lot to come here.Absolutely, we do love our children.
So um tell us. We've beensort of prepping this. Uh why is
real estate a good investment right now? At post pandemic? I call it

(39:24):
hashtag DC nineteen the time before COVID. Uh. You know, it was
a good uh investment, so tospeak, except for that one time when
people had upside down mortgages. Ifyou watch the movie The Big Short,
I think it is the best explanationof what happened. Why is real estate

(39:45):
a good investment right now? Well, there's a couple of people good brook.
My dad was probably easier because itwasn't worth a miand there were real
estate. Okay, real estate isa great investment for a couple of things.
One, you're in control and youcan walk past your investment every day.

(40:07):
You're not putting it in shares whereyou can't see its control by companies
in other parts of the world.You are in touch with it. A
lot of older people like real estatebecause they can look at their investment and
it does go up and down alittle bit, but not much. Over
the long term. Real estate alwaysgoes up, you know every I mean,
if you try and buy and sellin the year, it's hard.
But if you're going to buy aproper and hold for five seven years,

(40:28):
you're always going to do well outof it. And I think that's one
of the best things about it.And everybody needs a house, every single
person you know it needs a house. Not everyone needs a car, not
everyone needs shares. Everybody needs ahouse. And that's why real estate's a
great investment. Where'd you go?Do we lose it? I don't know
where I'm trying to I'm playing peekaboo. No, I'm trying to fix the

(40:52):
lighting here. But a line youyou you take over with some questions they're
your guess. Well, no,I just it's what I come to the
classes every every week and he's kindof helping to group. He so I
can get my license. So I'mactually learning. So the reason why I
wanted to have been on I wantedto give him and Broke an opportunity to

(41:16):
tell people look out the market.I learned some of the things that we
had on two weeks ago, aguy I came in and said, a
lot of people are getting scammed withtheir finances. Um, you know,
so very be verily careful. Therewere some things that I wasn't aware of
with when is a good time tobuy, what to look out for,
Um, there is a lot ofthem. To where bright down certain areas,

(41:37):
especially along So Angeles, especially forfirst time buyers, the young couple.
It's smart for your young you knowkids to buy a house. Um,
just for you to give us thebackgrounds. But I'm still learning,
so I want everyone to kind ofthe west. So, what are three
things that people should keep in mindwhen they are buying real estate? Well,

(42:02):
look, the funny thing is ourbusiness is more about selling and buying.
We spend most of our time helpingpeople sell their houses than people buy
houses. That's the strength of areal estate business is getting listings and helping
people are going through unfortunately death,divorce, job placement, They leave the
town and then our job is toprotect their asset and get them the highest
price for that asset. That's reallyour specialty. It's rare that we're in

(42:27):
the car showing to buy our house. That's an unusual part of our business.
We're really you know, when youwant to sell your house and you're
retired, you call us. Weput it up for option, where we
try and get you the best possibleprice. That's really what we do.
In looking for a house. Asa buyer. The three things you want
to look for is how long hasit been on the market, What is
the access to schools and shops?And then the second thing, a third

(42:50):
thing is is it a mass street, is it a tree line street?
And then obviously what is the averagevalue of everything in the street. So
don't go and buy a house forfive minim with everything else in this treats
one, because then you're in bigtrouble. The best truth is the worst
investment. So anything we buy housefor two million, I want to make
sure thing around these two and ahalf to three we're good. Yeah,

(43:13):
and check out sit outside the housein the evening and make sure you haven't
got a crazy neighbor. Yeah,oh we all have crazy neighbor. I
have crazy neighbor. Yeah. Iinterest meets affecting the market, you know,
not really not where we are.So we're in Beverly Hills and in
the valley and in these areas.Infrastruates were not that sensitive in this area.

(43:34):
If you go further out, thirtyminutes out of town, yes it's
a it's a very sensitive conversation.But you know, the average south parce
in Beverly Hills is three million upto fifty so I don't think those people
are worried about the infrastrucates. Itdoesn't developers a little bit. It does
affect their margins, but properties stillselling them. So is there about Oh

(43:55):
I forgot to do a station idea. I just got reminded. If you've
just tuned in and you're wondering,who's in my studio today while it is
Friday, so you know that itis the special series Tempting Conversations with doctor
Marza and who is the daughter ofthe founder of the Temptations, Otis Williams,

(44:15):
which is why the series is calledtempting conversations and her guest today are
a father daughter team. It isGlenn and Brooke coutine hole say that for
Meta that sounds good, Cotina okay, And I understand you are Portuguese,
so the only one thing I knowis tootobang tootobang? Is that is that?

(44:40):
Is that right? Well for Portuguese? Yeah, Alan said you were
you Portugueseza, So our found isactually from Goa, so called Goa,
which is in India, So IndianPortuguese colonized. Okay, so you find
a lot of Anglo Indians this.So my grandmother was Anglo Indian and my
grandfa mothers from Goa. So that'swhere we get the continue last name.

(45:04):
A lot of them think we're relatedto the famous soccer player Philip Continua.
So we get a bit of amix. And obviously my mom's is chilling.
So we get the mix of Chillian, Indian, Portuguese and then real
and then were really having a strikenext sits that really is? Michaelove Sis
was trying to explain her I gotshe thought Italian. I go, now
that's Tellian. Yeah. I thought, yeah, I could have sworn you

(45:25):
were going to be at Daliano.I was gonna show up my dover.
If I'm showing a house for you, I'm any internationality, you want me
that, but just not single.They have the most. They have the
most beautiful, cool kids. I'mlike, you know, sometimes you'll have

(45:46):
kids. Maybe one of them won'tbe like, oh alive, it's a
gorgeous I'm like, yeah, wegotta give you. That's where you kept
going. It's it's a beautiful family. Oh you're so funny. Yes,
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(46:32):
and the Temptations and more. Thisis the Station that leaves no listener behind.
And today's guests are Glenn and hisdaughter Brooke Ku Tito and they are
with hardcourts. They're talking to usabout real estate. When to buy,
when not to buy? Is mynext question? Is there a perfect time

(46:55):
to buy and or sell? Tobe honest, there's not because people say
wait till the market moves, butreally generally you buy and sell in the
same market. So when the marketmoves, properties go up, Your house
goes up. The one you buygoes up. When it goes down,
yours goes down. There's goes down. And say, there's no really perfect
time to buy. We have alot of clients that wait for the market

(47:15):
to drop and they miss the market. It's impossible to predict if you here's
the deal. If you're renting,you're paying somebody else's mording. So buy
a house and get on the blood. That's the most important. You don't
want to be paying somebody else's morkandropping if you're paying three thousand dollars or
four thousand a month, you mightas well own your own property if you
can get get the loan. That'smost importantly is getting and then then you

(47:38):
can think about whether you when youbuy your second or third home. But
your first home is critical, andsome people pay enough rent to buy a
house over a period of time.Yeah, so I'll give you a personal
let's talk about our scarves. Sowe've grown Brooke and Eyed his partners.

(48:00):
Well, actually ill technically work first, she busts me loud. Look,
I've got this note on my deskthis morning. Make a hundred calls today,
no excuses, That's what I haveto put up with. But our
business book and our business partners,we've worked together for ten years. We
have opened Beverly Hills. We nowhave seventy agents out of this office,

(48:22):
which is growing from zero to seventy. So we're a fast Billy Jumpington,
fastest growing real start agent in probablyla. Oh. This is my son,
Billy Sailor Billy is he single?I have a one track mine?
Sorry, We've got three in realestates and we've rested music. But so

(48:45):
we've grown this office to seventeen people. We've got an office in Where's the
Brook we just opened up with aNancino Irvine and Pensionity. So we've expanded
about three locations in these last coupleof months, which we are really excited
to, you know, expand coverOrange County, cover over in the Batley
Side and obviously Central City Westward isa really neighboring city, but it's very

(49:07):
much a vertical New York kind ofvibe, very corporate, so we're really
trying to attack all areas as bestwe can. And of course our biggest
strength is actually our auction system.Yeah, that's right. So we're the
only agent really in Beverly Hills andall from California that runs a non distressed
option platform where we can sell ahouse in four weeks done, rarely falls

(49:28):
out of scrow. It's a powerfullighthoods. A lot of competition gets to
seller the best price, and thatof course comes from you know where we're
from in Australia. Harcock is aNew Zealand based company and in New Zealand
and Australia, that's how we sellabout eighty percent of our homes. So
on average, our houses here forauction, or about forty five days on
the market, got about a ninetytwo percent cerience rate at the moment,

(49:49):
so it's really fantastic. As acompany. We did about eleven hundred options
last year, so I'm really excitedto offer that as a great recruitment tool,
but also to our sellers just tooffer them something that's really clear and
transparent, but also something that's workedinternationally as well. So we do of
course traditional real estate, but welove to auction off of auctions as a

(50:09):
benefit. And you'll recognize our companyby the blue scarfs, the blue ties,
blue socks. Everything's quite blue inour office as ELI. There's a
question actually, yes, Lee Stroudis asking are they all with the same
real estate firm. I'm only askingbecause they're wearing the same uniform colors,
so that marketing strategy is working.Yes, we have blue ties, blue

(50:37):
and that's something that comes from outMike and Irene Green from New Zealand to
like our founders of Harcourts and introducedus to the company. They're amazing family
are inched business. It's very muchvalues of people first, fun, laughter,
you know, encouragement and cooperation andwe really pride ourselves and our values
here. Um. Yeah, we'rereally proud to have these colors. You
know. We had someone walked pastin China the other day and he recognized

(51:00):
the blue time. He said toone of our agents, you and hot
Coots and he said yes, Iam. He said, not fantastic.
I'd love to come and see youroffice, so you know, it's a
great way of you know, recognizingwho we are internationally, and it's supported
around the world. Fantastic And leeIs also has experienced in this field.

(51:21):
She is putting her eight cents worthin here do number one. I had
asked the question, what's the mostimportant thing to do or know when you're
buying or selling due diligence? Checkthe market, which is what you had
said earlier. Variables shifting all thetime. So my personal experiences, I

(51:42):
lost my house in a very expensivedivorce, and I know I'm not getting
married again. I do everything oncemarriage divorce. But if you're still single
in the background there we can talk. But anyways, I'm just teasing.
I want you to turn red toadd to your blue and blue. The

(52:06):
thing about divorces, unfortunately, it'sa big part of our business is probably
I don't know, twenty percent ofour business is divorce. And it's really
when there's a divorce, there's fourhouses. There's you, there's the other
guy that you're with, and theother couple that are breaking up to make
the marriage. So we normally getfour sales out of it, and then
they go and buy something to me. So that's a really big part of
the business. So you like,divorce is where you're oh, just lost

(52:34):
right on the good party. Ohthere we go. A divorce for an
agent is not about the best price. It's it's a full social working job.
They're fighting over the light, opinions, the dog, the kids.
It's his fault, it's her fault, and we put up with all that.
That's that's really a skill set,is to keep them friendly so that
we can get the deal done.Okay, I did. There's a niche
right there. So um uh.In my situation, so I lost the

(53:00):
house. I have not felt likeinvesting in real estate because people say,
you know, why don't you buyanother house. I had a house in
Seal Beach. That's the one thatgot to let go. I live on
the water right now, which Ilove. It is not a purchase.
It is a rent. And mywhole thing has been it's okay to rent

(53:23):
because if I were to buy thisunit, which you can't buy, but
if I bought along this stretch,there's no way I would qualify for that
much in a very small place.They're going for like one point eight two
point five million for a one bedroomon the water. So for me,

(53:44):
it makes good sense. I livefor the present moment and I live in
this gorgeous place that I get tosee the ocean every time I wake up,
So why would I want to investin real estate? Let's see,
there's the I don't know if thereare other options. There are options of
doing sell a finance where if youcan't qualify to a traditional bank, you

(54:06):
can actually do a deal with theseller and you buy the property off them
and you still pay them the monthlyamount, but it's actually coming off off
the price. There's a couple ofways to do that. So you know,
we've done a few of those dealswhere they get to sell a finance
and instead of paying three thousand dollarsa month mortgage, they're actually paying the
mortgage off a couple of creative waysto do it. If you can't raise
the money, the only reason youbuy it is that in a few years

(54:27):
time it might have gone up twohundred thousand dollars. And sometimes the house
is the best income in the inthe family. You know, most a
lot of people would make sixty thousanddollars you or seventy thousand dollars you and
the average wage and the house makesa hundred tax three, so it is
still a good investment even though you'renot going to live there. Correct,

(54:49):
Yeah, okay? And what aboutbuying in other like you're Beverly Hills,
but you know this is your field. So what about buying income property right
now? Yeah? Income properties great. I think that you can get tied
up with the interest rate. You'vegot to remember that you might get three
or four percent and you want six. But if you get four percent on

(55:09):
something, you're doing okay. It'sthe capital growth that you get out of
it. But you buy one foryou know, you buy a fourplex for
a million dollars and five years laterit's worth doubled. So it's all about
the location and what can be done. So if you're going to buy in
other states, other cities, youneed to go and look at it.
You need to be sure of yourreal estate. You need to drive up
and down the street and make surewhat the permits are. It's complicated,

(55:30):
but if you get a good agentto represent you, you'll be fine.
Mum, what do you need tolook for when you are going that route?
You need to make sure you becareful and avoiding areas that have rent
control Oh this is cool a line. It's interesting for me. Oh there

(55:52):
you are, okay. Yeah.Avoiding areas that have rent controls the first
thing because with an investment that youcan't increase the rent, you can't put
tenants in an outsts number one.Secondly, if I'm going to buy an
investment property and scott Ford five sixtenants, I probably want to make the
tenants first, make sure there's nocrazy tenants, to make sure that I

(56:13):
could work with them all. Andthen you should spoil the tenants to last
year out of them, the morechance you have of getting your rent on
time. Great brooke and cute guyin the back. What's it like working
with your dad painful? No?I mean for me personally. I've worked
with my dad for ten years now. So I started when I was seventeen

(56:36):
writers I was finishing high school andthen went on to Monash University and while
start completing my double degrees, Iwould work pretty much full time with my
dad as well. So I've hada really great experience. Been two different
countries between very different in each,I would say, I said the first
four years in Australia, I wasobviously college student, but we were you
know, running a big operation thereand three offices and I was solely doing

(57:00):
you know PA work and managing clientele, client gifts management, which is what
my dad is renowned for in Australia. Then when we transferred here to the
United States, we pretty much cameoriginally from music. My brothers, Mason
and Jewels are Australian pop music artists, so we came for their career and
on the side, you know,I decided to open a real estate office
until they start you know, sellingout Madison Square Gardens. And it's been

(57:23):
really interesting, you know, fromthe get go, you know, we
had to relearn the whole market,the whole contract system. You know,
we didn't know a single person whenwe moved here, so that has been
really interesting, you know, startingout operations from you scratch, meeting people,
networking, and then of course becominga partner in this business and helping

(57:44):
road not only this office but thelast you know, a few months opening
and expanding it three more. Sothat's sort of my experience of it.
But he's a great operator. Dad'she's real focus as people, So for
him it's a people business. It'snever really about the house, all about
who he meets and making a lastingimpression on them. And he's a ball

(58:04):
breaker. He's very, very himat times. But I'm ready to have
my own. You know, Philly'sa college marketing student, so you know,
I think combined with his skills andhe under social media company as well,
So combined with that, you know, we've got a great a great
team and great in terms at themoment with a young mindset. So and

(58:27):
has I think Billy, oh,you know, wants what he wants really
changed his mind. So once hesays something, he's never going to say
it once after that. But otherthan that's pretty good. He's a nice
guy everything. Wait, he justcame around a proportion because my head looks
bigger than anyone. You know,I wasn't gonna say anything, but you

(58:51):
said ball breaker. Somebody said ballbreaker and bulldogging, and something changed mind
And I'm just having this vision righthere. So uh, Telly Savalis,
move over. That's right. Well, hey, you know they don't know.

(59:12):
Yeah, yeah, he's yes,Yes, he sure was. That's
him. That's him, that's him. So so, because I asked that
question, what's the thing that youlike the most about your dad. I

(59:36):
don't really like anything. It's agood thing we didn't have them on the
breakfast right. Oh shoot, Ijust got called. I'm not watching the
chat. We have less than aminute. I'm so glad that you are
here. Go to hard Courts.You can contact them. They're very up

(01:00:00):
on social media. You see thenames, just google them. If you
could do this with me right now, this is how I sign off every
show. It's all about bal