Women make up more than 60% of licensed real estate agents in the United States. In the greater Philadelphia market — across Montgomery County, Bucks County, Delaware County, Chester County, and the city itself — female agents represent the majority of the industry's working professionals.

Every real estate event has sessions. Most of those sessions follow a familiar structure: a speaker presents a topic, you take notes, there is maybe five minutes of Q&A at the end before the next segment begins.

There is someone in your phone right now who needs to be at this event.

There is a version of professional development thinking that assumes cost equals quality. Pay more, get more. Events that charge admission must be more serious, more valuable, more curated than the ones that do not.

Let's be honest about something the real estate industry rarely says out loud.

If you are a real estate agent who has spent any time on major industry stages, inside large brokerage training programs, or in the company of the most serious professional development conversations in the business — you have probably encountered the name Skye Michiels

Which towns should we be looking in?" "How do the school districts compare?" "Are we going to be able to compete for what we want?" "Is this a good time to buy?"

It is one of the most common conversations in real estate right now, and the answers you get depend entirely on who you are asking.

Ask any successful real estate agent where their best clients come from and you will almost always get the same answer: referrals.

Somewhere around 2020, a whole generation of real estate agents got the same piece of advice: post more on social media. Post every day. Be omnipresent. Build your following and the business will come.