How I got here.
Calgary's been home for a long time. I know the inner-city communities, the growing family pockets further out, and the corners that don't make the magazine spreads. Real estate wasn't the original plan. It turned out to be the thing that fit how I actually like to work.
Before this, I was operations manager at the Calgary Marketing Association for a year, spent five years producing radio, and started out as a web developer at a small marketing shop. Not the usual path in. It took me a minute to see the line through all of it. Web dev taught me to respect the data. Radio taught me to listen without rushing people through their own story. Marketing ops taught me how to run a process with a lot of moving parts. This job is all three, applied to one of the bigger decisions most people make. I didn't expect that, but it's the part I like.
The clients I work best with aren't chasing the top of the market. They're buying because the commute is wearing them down, selling because the kids outgrew the yard, or sitting on the fence because the numbers don't quite work yet. My job, most of the time, is to make the decision legible: pull the comps, walk the streets, tell you what the data actually says, and let you choose without being rushed. That's the part I like.
