Justin Stoddart
So the big question is this: How do those of us in the real estate industry, with crazy amounts of ambition, how do we Think Bigger than the building of our own empires? How do we simultaneously seek success and significance, income AND impact? My name is Justin Stoddart, and this is the Think Bigger Real Estate Show.
Justin Stoddart
Welcome back to the Think Bigger Real Estate Show. I'm your host, Justin Stoddart, where we help you not just pursue success, but significance. Today's guest is all about significance. He's someone who I admire deeply. I can't wait to introduce you to him. Before we go there. I want to remind you that inside of the Think Bigger Real Estate Group on Facebook, we go deeper on these topics. Listening gets you to one level of understanding, but when you start engaging with it, that's when it really becomes knowledge and even onto wisdom.
Justin Stoddart
Super excited to have again, today's guest His name is Josh Kalinowski He is a former professional baseball pitcher, turned real estate agent, now investor. His story is fantastic. Before I go deeper on your story, Josh, thanks for coming on the show today, man.
Josh Kalinowski
I just Oh man, this is a pleasure. Super excited to be talking with you and your audience.
Justin Stoddart
Talk about a big thinker and you your early days of baseball. Now let me let me bring in some context here for everybody that's, that's listening that saying, Okay, I'm not a baseball player, does this relate to me right? Today, what we're going to be talking about is how to overcome disappointment. Okay, so whether your first career didn't quite work out now you find yourself in the real estate industry, and or even in the real estate industry right now you're finding yourself, like a little frustrated not getting the wins that you expect yourself to be having, this episode is for you. So Josh, let's go back, you from a very young age knew that you had some talent. throwing the ball, right?
Josh Kalinowski
Yeah, yeah, I grew up with knowing my purpose. And that was to be a professional athlete in some form or another, right. So either a quarterback in the NFL, or left handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. In fact, I really kind of wanted to be both man, Bo Jackson was my hero. And coming from a very small town, I was a pretty big fish. And so success came very easy for me at the very early stages of my life. And so that was everything. To me sports, was it and I felt like that's exactly what I was created to do. And I felt like God already had that plan. And I was etched in stone to be a very successful Hall of Fame, professional athlete.
Justin Stoddart
Did you have the shirt made? Josh knows kinda like Bo Knows?
Josh Kalinowski
Yeah, right. Basically, it was pretty much that already did there's no, I had my, I had my number picked. I knew where my stadium was going to be. And I knew exactly it was gonna be called Cal's corner, and that was gonna be my pressbox area. Like, dude, it was already there. You know, those vision boards had a vision board before they even knew what a vision board was. Yeah, this is, you got it? Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Justin Stoddart
So it's super interesting, because you hear you talk to any of the success gurus, right. And they say, if you want to accomplish something, get laser clear on what you want to accomplish. And it's just a matter of time. And that's what you had been taught. It sounds like and you were like, crystal clear on this is exactly where I'm going. This is one way to have. And, and like you said, I knew my life's purpose, it was to be a professional athlete. Right. And with that, you're gonna do a lot of good along the way. But that was the climax. That was where you were headed.
Josh Kalinowski
That's exactly right. And yeah, my father had he always, you know, my dad was a great he was an athlete as well, too. He was an all American Basketball Player. And so he understood the competitiveness, I was literally like, I was a miniature Dave Kalinowski. And he always set goals for us, he always helped us set goals for ourselves. And so at every level, no matter where I was at whether I was in, you know, t ball, or in high school, or in college, I had a list of goals that I want to wanted to accomplish. And they all revolved around sports, right, if I was going to get A's in school is because it allowed me to play baseball, not because I really wanted to be a great student, was because that's what allowed me to play the game that I absolutely loved.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah. Well, just to put some context to this to how good you were, and you probably wouldn't say this, but you pitch the no hitter. Right now. It's extremely rare, right? For anybody that that knows baseball, knowing that pitching a full game and having zero, like on base is a phenomenal accomplishment, right, which just fed the fuel right, we just fed up to be like that. I'm absolutely on this path. Right.
Josh Kalinowski
Exactly.
Justin Stoddart
That and then being strikeout King right in your league, being drafted in the minor leagues by the Rockies, right. Just all these things are just lining up just the way they're supposed to. Then some things kind of started to not go your way. Right. Talk to us a little bit about the disappointment because again, whether people have experienced disappointment in the past and they're still hanging on to it, or they're experiencing it right now in this crazy market and or just in their personal life. Yeah, a little bit about yours so we can kind of relate to a guy like you.
Josh Kalinowski
You bet. Well, let me make it very relatable if you were in the market, selling real estate prior to 2006 and you were having success, and you were doing everything right, right. And then the market gets crazy. And you're like, Oh my gosh, like, I'm like, I am the best agent out there. I cannot believe how much money I'm making. I can't believe how many clients I'm serving. I can't believe how easy this is right? Well, that's what baseball was for me. In a sense. I was throwing a no hitter. I, I had a 20 game strikeout I was MVP of the league. I was an all star candidate. For three years of those years, I led the minor leagues and strikeouts, a little Colorado Rockies in strikeouts, you know, so everything was saying, you are going to be a Hall of Fame pitcher, it's just a matter of time for you to get there. Right. So 2006, you're in real estate, this is going to be awesome. I'm going to retire by the time I'm in 2010. Or I'm going to take over the world in 2010. And then 2008 hits and you're going What just happened? Like I wasn't ready for this. I wasn't prepared for this. This was so so go on forever, right? Well, that's what happened to me. in my baseball career at the age of 26. Too many surgeries and baseball really shut its doors on me and and I had to retire as I like to say, but it was more of a I had to really walk away from the game that I absolutely love because it was moving on without me. And I could not keep up with it.
Justin Stoddart
Yeah. Well, yeah, we've all felt that I love the context you brought in because you're right. I was a homebuilder up intil 2009. For a while, I felt like I could do nothing wrong. Maybe real estate agents here over the past little while have felt that way, right? had a pretty hot market for the past number of years, almost in the past year and a half or so it's been like, wait a minute, this isn't quite as fun. All of a sudden, I've got eager buyers, I just can't find the sellers, right. I've got sellers, and how do I possibly go through all these offers? Like it's just a...
