#live coaching

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i'm a big fan of tv shows where they do an episode from the POV of a side character and they're living in a completely different genre than the main character

[thelonesgroup]

New Opportunities to Expand Your Expertise

What an amazing year it has been so far for our ENCORE coaching members! We have just completed our 7-month course around the ADU and Middle Housing changes and challenges that are coming to Washington State in the coming years due to House Bills 1337 and 1110. We have taken a deep dive on what constitutes an ADU, where to find information on ADU potential, how to learn more about how the ADU situation is being handled in local jurisdictions, and most-importantly, how to price and market ADUs depending on the buyer demographics.

Our ENCORE brokers who have successfully completed all their training, completed their exams, and who have created a CMA to my satisfaction will begin to receive their Housing Options Certification at our meeting next month. Learn more about ENCORE.

How can The Lones Group possibly top our ADU / Middle Housing training? It won’t be easy, our Housing Options Certification course has been an incredible adventure, but we have an awesome line-up of robust training content that we are rolling out for the second half of the year. This is training that that can help you attract and secure all the business opportunities you want to pursue! Check out what we have planned for the upcoming months:

Listing Presentation Deep Dive

With all the changes that have occurred with practices, forms, and commission over the last several months, we are going to be setting the stage for how to frame up your most powerful listing presentation yet – one that is going to help you shine for any compensation you charge for your services.

We are splitting the listing presentation into six sections: Pre-Presentation Essentials, Home Conditions Strategy, Pricing Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Buyer Attraction Strategy, and Closing.

I am going to demonstrate each with materials and then it will be your turn! When we are through this this mini-course, you will have turnkey essentials that you can apply to your listing presentation. We’ll also be recording my presentations so that you can access them through your Encore classroom. You are going to be a formidable listing presentation force! One successful listing can pay for ENCORE. It is time to sharpen your tools to compete in the new era!

Buyer Broker Compensation Issues

We completed some modules around this topic when the new forms came out at the beginning of 2024. Now that you have been working with the new model for several months, sellers are actively making choices regarding SOC, and stumbling blocks regarding the buyer presentation and implementation have been revealed. We will dive back into this topic and reveal some new tools for discussing this topic with your buyers.

Making Investors Out of Your Past Clients

Past clients have earned a lot of equity in the last few years. Is it time to put that equity to work with an investment property? We will review how to explain investment property benefits to clients, hot areas for investments, finding agents who specialize in investment properties and setting up successful referrals. This can be an amazing way to generate somewhat-passive income within your current database.

1031 Exchanges

While there are some clients who are ready to become investors, some are ready to trade in their local investment properties for different types of investments or investments in other areas. In order to help this niche, you need some 1031 investment property knowledge and a referral. We will supply you with both! This is also a strong lead generation opportunity now and in the coming year!

Field Trips

We just had an amazing field trip to Floor & Décor in Everett where we learned about different flooring options for different applications, how to use flooring and tile, new products, prepping the surface, and more! We are planning two additional field trips between now and the end of the year that provide the hands-on learning that ENCORE Members crave!

Continued Middle Housing and ADU Training

As local governments udpate their comprehensive plans, the effects of HB1110 are already being felt on the ground, shaping communities and creating challenging transactions. Brokers in ENCORE have already reported how these two-House Bills have begun to shape their communities and challenge transactions. Our Encore members are prepared from our middle-housing certification program offered earlier this year and we will continue to keep Encore members on the leading edge of this important topic!

Make ENCORE Part of Your business

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How Will You Grow Your Knowledge These Next Six Months?

I am very excited about the rest of 2024. I hope you will join me for ENCORE. It is a GREAT time to learn a new skill and improve your business knowledge. Wondering which program is best for YOUR business? Schedule some time to talk with us!

By Denise Lones CSP, CMP, M.I.R.M. The founding partner of The Lones Group, Denise Lones has over three decades of experience in the real estate industry. With agent/broker coaching, expertise in branding, lead generation, strategic marketing, business analysis, new home project planning, product development and more, Denise is nationally recognized as the source for all things real estate. With a passion for improvement, Denise has helped thousands of real estate agents, brokers, and managers build their business to unprecedented levels of success, while helping them maintain balance and quality of life.

[aliencatart]

a summary of mochi mayhem minus the mochi mayhem

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

What Does ADHD Look Like?

The Mini ADHD Coach

[tinylilemrys]

it's not a real hyperfixation until i make the live from snack time post

[nijuukoo]

Forget 2023, let's just party like it's 2009

Happy new year! Hope y'all have your own safehouse shenanigans ♥

Memes used: 1 2

[thewynne]

Think I've said this before but the thing that really gets me about Yuri On Ice is that it's so much kinder than the world we live in. Russia isn't violently homophobic. Men's figure skating isn't homophobic. The Russian coach won't let his youngest star do quads until he's old enough to do them safely. Just things that should be true but aren't yet.

[radio-show]

Thinking about how Grant (and the other kids yeah but specifically Grant) had only known Henry (yeah the other dads too but I'm thinking about Henry) for less than a day before getting dropped into the forgotten realms and then at least a month later when he sees him again he has to see totally different sides of him and his dad. How jarring must that be? You meet a guy and his insane sons and your first impression of him is that he's some tree hugger granola dad who's a total pushover and then the next time you see him it's in a death game where he volunteers to kill a man by shotgun blast to the face and then leaves the dead body of the guy outside to send a message to the other players. Imagine meeting this guy whose whole gig is being vegan and a free range granola parent and the next time you see him he's breaking into another explosive burst of anger and yelling at the arena that he will fight and/or kill anyone who comes to hurt you or his friends. Imagine knowing your dad all your life and seeing him one day and then having to know that your dad has killed someone. And then you kill a chimera and you're changed forever. And then you grow up and marry a man named Marco.

[rooolt]

need a sklonda/gorthalax update from Brennan so desperately, like are they still together? What’s their relationship like? How do riz and fig feel about it? I simply must know everything I think about them daily

[medusainmind]

It’s so funny how the second Neil stands his ground he from then on out looks at Kevin and is just like “we are done taking everyone’s shit, we do not back down, we have a new shot at life and we’re sure af not gonna waste it being cowards” and Kevin is just like “We?!”

[leveloneandup]

That is so fetch!

[medicalunprofessional]

merged my two psychonauts doodle pages with a bit of appearance headcanons thrown in… uuwgghh

+ these little thangs i never posted

sorry for making you look at bobby. i am half asleepe

[yuzuyoon]

can you explain more about jimin's vocals sounding different? i noticed something but i know nothing about singing 😭😭 he said that he had been taking singing classes for 2.5 months tho

Ofc I can explain. I'm not very good at explaining things and I tend to trail off into tangents, so just bear with me for this. 

To understand how his vocals have changed, we have to look back on his old vocals and what made them “bad” compared to today. I'm sure you’ve unfortunately seen the clip all the antis use to drag jimin from the fake love performance with charlie puth. I hate the clip because Jimin seemed super tired and sick, but it is regretfully the best clip to show the difference between then and now. In the clip, he sings his lines, but they’re super shaky and it just doesn't sound good. You can hear that he sounds tired. His vocals lack control and stability and pitch. It’s just not good. 

Now this doesn’t mean Jimin was a bad singer. Jimin has never actually been a bad singer, but he did use some techniques that put a lot of strain on his vocals. This on top of bts’s crazy schedules at the time meant Jimin's voice was getting overworked. It led to his voice sounding quite tired at times and fatigue in general, manifesting in sore throats, losing his voice, voice cracks and even getting sick, like the fake love performance. if you wanna kinda feel what i'm describing, just try and belt incredibly high notes for 5 minutes straight very loudly and see how your voice feels after. I mean, you can just yell for 5 minutes straight too. it's exaggerated, but your voice becomes super tired and raspy after it and trying to sing nicely after it is super hard and your voice is super shaky after it. 

In the minimoni music episode, jimin mentioned how he needs to learn balance between his new and old techniques and said to sing older songs, he sings forward and up in his head, near his nose. Generally, when belting high notes, you want to aim for the power behind it coming from your diaphragm and your abdomen. Jimin saying that's where he sang makes me think he hit all those bts high notes by tightening his vocal cords to hit high notes. This is not good technique if you want to produce healthy sounds. When you watch him sing you can tell it takes a lot of effort to reach and sustain the note. The high tone he has is beautiful but his producers assumed high tone = the capability to belt high notes.

Jimin's voice sounded best when he would use falsetto and head voice. when he would use chest or mix it could sound a bit shaky and weak. this and his vibrato was inconstant and shaky as well. Sometimes these problems would completely disappear, but that’s not a good thing at the core because it meant he lacked consistency to continue with good technique. These are the main things that I notice a difference in. The key word for Jimin's old technique would be "tight.” If there’s anything i’d want you to focus on it’s listening to how high and tight jimin’s vocals used to sound. They sounded thin. It lacked the depth it needed to thrive. 

So what’s the difference now? Well if i described jimin’s old vocals as tight, high, and thin, I would describe his new technique as open, deep, and resonant. I’ll have to find some clips to show the difference side by side. 

he's not tightening his vocal cords to produce higher notes. if there is a note that's very high, he leans more towards a mix voice (head voice and chest voice) to produce a sound that can sound like belting without actually belting and puts breath support behind it to really push the resonance or he goes straight head voice. He’s not trying to hit challenging notes by pushing himself and hurting his voice anymore. he's pulling the weight of singing from lower down now for those more middle to lower notes and then leaning more into a mix for those higher notes. you can start to hear the difference back in the like crazy jazz version. He skips the highest notes to catch his breath and his voice sits more at the back of his throat instead of up in his nose making a lovely sound. I know to make the difference happen in my own voice but i don't know how to explain it, so you’ll have to try to sing the difference for yourself?

Jimin saying that he knew his technique would hurt his voice really was the confirming detail for me. We knew he was never satisfied with his vocals, but we never saw him outright say he knew how he was singing was wrong. I think the lack of vocal lessons back then was probably from their insane schedule and simply just a lack of time to get them done. No time to do vocal lessons meant that their schedule was packed to the point of overwork, which is another reason he was sounding off at that time. With the huge break bts got to work on solo stuff, there was so much more room for lessons, and i'm glad he took the opportunity because now he sounds amazing!! All these differences aside, Jimin still sounds like Jimin, and that’s the most important part

here's a little comparison video so you can try to hear the difference

I explained the fake love clip already, but when you listen to the who clip, you can tell he’s singing from a deeper spot and he’s really pulling strength from his breathing. Those higher notes are actually easier to sing when you use a “deeper” sounding tone. (and earlier in the clip when he sings the pre-chorus the final phrase sounds so crisp and clear an resonant and i basically swoon each time i listen to it)

[gaytedlasso]

Meanwhile Ted blue screens and nearly trips over his own feet

[eightiesfan]

Ligne Roset Furniture (France ~1980)

[coachbeards]

i think we as a society moved on from the whole "beard almost beating up his own friends because they insulted ted + ted literally having to go 'down boy, heel' as if beard's his pet dog" thing wayyyy too soon