Episode 30: Finding Time To Grow Your Business And Your Life With Lars Hedenborg

In this episode, Jerry and Jacobe talk with Lars Hedenborg - Founder of Real Estate B-School, former agent, an awesome father and husband who shares great wisdom for how to win in the workplace and win in the home simultaneously. Tune in to learn from his experiences and great insights!

 

Episode Highlights: 

• If you intend to grow a business, you have to talk about people’s lives and challenges and build systems.
• Traditional success in the real estate industry does not leave you with the life you are living; You have to undergo several challenges.
• Lars got into real estate in 2007 and was wrapped up in work seven days a week with no boundaries. He says there were times where he made sacrifices in a way that hurt people around him.
• Four to five years after he started, he had a fully leveraged team and they did 300+ transactions. He was then able to scale down the days he worked until it was at 1 day and in 2013, he started Real Estate B-School to help agents with building and managing systems.
• Lars shares the backdrop of his personal life, he was married in 2006 and talks about his personal journey to faith. He wanted to create a different life than what he experienced in his childhood.
• The method of thinking and planning for things is a good skill that people need to have.
• When evaluating time, categorize administrative tasks in two ways - A business administrative task and a personal administrative task.
• Lars talks about his everyday thoughts and creating  the life for his family that they didn’t think was ever possible; He explains how it was a motivation for him.
• If you’re struggling, do the work necessary to build something good and that will ultimately give you a better life with understanding of why you are doing what you are doing.
• Real estate B-School teaches six stages of business growth.
• Jerry asks Lars, “How did you get into the coaching business?”
• There is a lot of pain and suffering in businesses, specifically in real estate.
• Lars talks about his love and care for people. He genuinely cares about where somebody is in all the areas of his life, and it’s a great way to do business.
• Coaching has a different level of commitment.
• Lars quotes his motivation: “Remember your leaders who spoke the words of God to you, consider the outcome of their way of life, and keep the faith.”
• Jerry asks Lars what coach had the most influence on him and encouraged him to be a coach in real estate?
• Lars discusses his work with Tony Robbins, who has around 130 businesses and is the guy who is still impacting people’s lives at a deep level.
• We all have different findings and experiences if we succeed at a higher level in something.

3 Key Points:

1. We try to play a game of real estate on such a high level that we forget about other important things in life, says Lars.
2. Jerry asks Lars to talk about his life journey and those things that helped him to keep moving.
3. “Looking at your journey, I am wondering - are you more afraid to fail or driven to succeed?” -Jacobe

Resources Mentioned:

• Jacobe Kendrick  Facebook| LinkedIn | Instagram |YouTube|
• Jerry Weaver   Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram|
• Success Without Sacrifice Facebook page
• BJJ Realtor YouTube 
• Lars Hedenborg  Facebook | LinkedIn | Real Estate B School
• Everyday Miracles Podcast
• The E-Myth Book
• No B.S. Time Management Book