Justin Stoddart
Hey, welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. I'm your host Justin Stoddart, excited to be here today and have an absolute superstar, both in business and in life, who has become a very good friend of mine, here in the Think Bigger Studio. Haris, total pleasure, we're thinking big today aren't we?
Haris Hadziselimovic
We're thinking big. I'm right here.
Justin Stoddart
For those of you who don't know who Haris is, he's a top resale agent in Southwest Washington has an enormous brand presence and that today we're going to debunk some myths. But before... In fact, here's the here's the myths that we're going to debunk which are this, which is, is it possible to have a really big business that sells a lot of homes, and at the same time, have very personal relationships with your clients. Many think that the two are exclusive, you can't you can't have one or the other. And Haris is here today to debunk that myth because that's exactly how he's built a big business. So, before we get into further introducing Haris, let me just say that remind you that the purpose of this show is to help you to think bigger. I know that when you start thinking bigger your activity starts to follow, you start to believe that there's something new and possible for you and as you do the different activities, you get different results, which then enables you to have a life of tremendous impact. And that's what we're all about here. And so again, thank you, Haris. I'm going to have the courage to pronounce Haris's name... which sounds so smooth when it comes out of your mouth. I'll practice it. But the next time we do this episode, I'm going to nail that sucker. So um, Haris, tell us a little bit about you. You're out of Vancouver, Washington. Last year you guys sold how many homes?
Haris Hadziselimovic
Yeah, out of Vancouver, Washington. Last year, we sold 172 homes, which is pretty awesome. That was great. Killer year. Yeah, that comes down to selling a home but every 2.1 days, which is incredible, something I really wasn't sure how be possible or achievable. And then we went for it and we did it.
Justin Stoddart
Man, that's impressive feat. Let's even touch on maybe before we go delve into how in the world did you do that? Something that you're even, you've prioritized much higher than business, take care of your clients is taking care of your beautiful bride, and beautiful little girl. Tell us about kind of what that's done for you in life and just kind of the pride of being a dad.
Haris Hadziselimovic
Yeah, it's incredible. So a little Eva, now's one years old. It's awesome. And it's so crazy to think how much energy and love you just want to give, give, give, give, give, and what you get really good at is being prioritize doing stuff that matters. And and it just transformed really the life and business you get great at saying yes and great at saying no. And it actually in the funnest part of the journey has also been to share even with the world, you know, have her be present on social media, how people see her. I can't even tell you how many clients reached out event friends and said, Hey, we love that you had or tell us more or Let's reschedule that appointment. You're a new dad and spend your time with her. So it's been really cool just to see that support and I think part of that is just being being a business that being human, and then actually seeing people see you for who you are. So it just opened up a whole new world and we're just tickled. We're just thrilled. He's such a good dad. It's It's It's fun to watch him. I know, having your you and your wife having a child didn't come easy for you guys. Right? There was some challenge there. Yeah, absolutely. It was it was a long road, a year trial, a trial run, and then successfully without an embryo and ended up being surrogacy situation and everything worked out. And now we have a beautiful little girl and life is amazing.
Justin Stoddart
So cool. And I would say probably anything really good at life rarely comes really easily. And I think that's probably true both in in personal things, right. Having a great marriage, being a great dad and building a great business. It's not like you just were born to do this stuff. You had to become this right?
Haris Hadziselimovic
Sure. You know, I think part of it is some learned behaviors, some of is your environment. Others is just, you know, maybe who you are a little bit starts to creep up into the business world and it keeps expanding. And then that turns into just having a large business and being connected to a lot of people. So but definitely a lot of learned behaviors that summer, I would say natural and others are more learned talents. Now, I know. I think the last time we spoke we went deep into this. We will go deep in it today. But your background, you come from Bosnia, yes. And your childhood looked a lot different than probably most of us that are listening to this today. And that remember the story of you guys playing outside with football helmets on not because you're afraid of getting tackled, but because of why? Oh, yeah. So there was definitely times where we had we had helmets on and then we were friends with like the UN people to that were there and there's a time I had like the bulletproof vest on. It just life is different life is different here than it is someplace else. And there's certainly other countries that go through something similar I think us is a little bit of unrealized potential and opportunity. And I think it's somewhat normal that people wake up and they just wake up, they brush their teeth, they got water, they got just see they go to work, everything's normal. And maybe we just don't often realize that not everybody has that. And in their situation, so it's cool to realize that we're really great country with a lot of opportunity.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah, yeah. That's you've really helped me to see that even more clearly Harris is the fact just hearing your story. I spent a couple years in Brazil and know firsthand, not as well as you do. But But we live in it in a country in a time in an era of unlimited opportunity. Very much so. And if we're, if we don't yet have the life that we want, either we're furiously working on it, or we just maybe are missing the fact of how, how ripe success is for the picking here. Right? Not that it's easy, but it's available.
Haris Hadziselimovic
Yeah, it's available. It's up to you to decide if you want to take it so and and I have a lot of friends in the business and out of the business that have always asked for advice on what to do next. And sometimes you have to step back and realize that somebody may want to ask for it but not willing to do it. Yeah. And others will just doing it, but then maybe don't ask him for help yet. So you offer healthy, but it's definitely a place for everything's possible. There's just are you going to do the work? Yeah, yeah, we actually had this conversation a day or so ago, about when people reach out to be mentored, like a filter, sometimes you have to use is, is this person going to do anything with it, because last thing you want to do is, is be that escape for them that they're looking for, which is to continue learning instead of actually doing? It's a very natural, I think it's a good feel for them to say, Hey, I talked to so and so I got some advice. And then they can kind of say I did this today, and they move on with their day, but not really get productive. So you have to be careful of, I would say enabling that. Yes. Sometimes you tell people, let's talk about let's do this. They feel good about the phone call, but they don't actually have any action plans afterwards.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah, yeah. I...
