Season 1 | Russ Laggan — You Grow First (Part 1 of 2)

Most real estate leaders are trying to grow their team while they are still the smallest person in the room. In part one of this two-part conversation, strategic advisor and eXp Realty VP of Training Russ Laggan gets direct about what growth actually requires.

Russ built an organization that recruited 2,079 agents in 15 months with a team of just 15 people. This is not a motivational episode. It is a systems episode.

In this episode:

• Why your team cannot outgrow you — and what to do about it
• The Ferrari and Pinto framework for understanding leadership pace
• The recipe method — how to teach anything so it actually transfers
• How the 200 Club was built and why the number 200 matters across every industry
• Why guilt drove Russ to get radically clear on roles and responsibilities
• What great training actually looks like versus training that just sounds good
• Why it is only lonely at the top if you do not bring people up with you

Quotable moments: "You grow first. Your group can't grow ahead of you." "It's only lonely at the top if you don't bring people up with you." "I stopped feeling guilty for people's failure. It wasn't my failure. It was their failure." "Growth isn't about expansion. It's about alignment. And alignment is earned through lived experience."

About Russ Laggan: Russ Laggan is a strategic advisor, speaker, and VP of Training at eXp Realty. He is known for helping professionals scale without burning out and for building systems that actually get used. He also builds electric bass guitars — one of which went platinum with the band KEM.

These Real Estate Streets is a We Are P.A.I.D. production where leadership is examined, not performed.

Part two drops next. Standards. Training. Leadership. Action.

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