This week, we’re keeping it real and cozy with a short and sweet pep talk. It’s time to be thankful, recharge, and get ready to close out the year. We’re talking about letting go of work expectations, setting priorities, and the importance of being truly present with loved ones. Work isn’t everything, and sometimes, you need permission to unplug—this week, we’re here to remind you to do just that!
In this lighthearted episode, we dive into how to balance your real estate business with some much-needed downtime, plus our favorite quotes to get you in a reflective, grateful mood. Let’s talk about how to embrace the “don’t miss twice” rule, lower those holiday expectations, and celebrate our successes without burnout. Grab your pie, turn off your phone, and join us for a Thanksgiving moment of gratitude, laughter, and self-care.
Here’s what we’re covering:
How to set boundaries and truly relax over the holiday
Why your work is not your identity—and why that matters
How “don’t miss twice” can help you keep up with goals without guilt
Quotes that remind us to focus on family, friends, and gratitude
The best advice for finishing the year strong and setting realistic goals
Why it’s okay to lower your expectations and simplify the season
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! We’re so thankful for you and can’t wait to finish the year strong—together.

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Hi, Alyssa, hey. Katie,

Katy 3:07
Happy Thanksgiving. Yay.

Alissa 3:08
Thanksgiving week is here. The kids are out of school. We’re cleaning our house. We’re baking turkey. We’re baking the lights, casserole and

Katy 3:18
the cocoa.

Alissa 3:21
So many things, so

Katy 3:22
many things. So

Alissa 3:23
what do you want to talk about today? Well, so

Katy 3:25
we’re just gonna motivate everyone. By the end of the year, we’re gonna wake up from our food coma. Yes, yes, we’re gonna start motivating. Woo hoo. This will be short and sweet, yeah. And just wanted to encourage everyone to finish their year strong. What a year it has been. You’ve survived. And we’re gonna do a year recap later, probably later in December. Yeah, so this is just our Happy

Alissa 3:53
Thanksgiving.

Katy 3:54
Pat. We’re just here to give you a little rah, rah. Cheer you on. Yeah? You know, lots happened this year, right? So much has happened. So you want just, just read us a quote, okay? Like, get us going with a puzzle. What I

Alissa 4:10
thought was funny is that my quotes went into a direction I wasn’t expecting them to, and they’re probably going to be different than yours. I can’t wait. But also, it’s a reminder too, like it’s Thanksgiving week, right? Work is not life. We must work for life, yeah, but it is not all that. There is okay. I can’t

Katy 4:31
wait the quotes now. What are they gonna be okay?

Alissa 4:35
This is a I got a lot of these off of James clear,

Katy 4:39
I love James. These

Alissa 4:40
are ones I had saved. Okay? The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly, but she does not forget that the work is not her.

Katy 4:49
Oh, you’re not defined by your you’re not defined by

Alissa 4:53
not defined by your work, meaning you do not have to answer your phone on Thanksgiving, right? Like you.

Katy 4:59
You can also be a mom or a daughter or

Alissa 5:03
a sister. There are other things that you are this week. Be those. Be those things. Please be those

Katy 5:09
things. Yeah, yeah. Please be those things. Okay, yeah, you should. You should probably give us the rest of yours. Let

Alissa 5:15
me give you a second one that goes with that. Okay, great, because it’s about like, I think it’s so hard sometimes when people think you either have to be so strict with your boundaries that you cannot possibly be flexible at all. And that’s not necessarily what we’re trying to say here. We’re just trying to remind you your priorities and you know what’s really important, okay, but and when you have to work, we work, yeah, but sometimes we put self imposed work on us, and again, we make things urgent that aren’t urgent. Yeah.

Katy 5:50
I’ve heard someone say that they felt like they had to give themselves permission, like they had to work super hard in order to have permission to relax, yeah? But like, maybe you’ve been slow this year and you’re like, Well, why should I relax? I hardly made any money at all, right,

Alissa 6:02
but you should. Tanner just sent me an Instagram meme that was like, she’s a 10. That’s short for tense. Thanks. Oh, my God, wouldn’t be so tense if you put your things away

Katy 6:24
like it’s a mess in here. Help me. Okay,

Alissa 6:28
so this one said, when you’re on the field, play as if nothing else matters. When you’re off the field, remember that the game doesn’t matter at all. I love it isn’t that good. Great piece of advice, like when you’re at where wrote that. It was in his newsletter, I think it was one of his guests one, oh, you gotta Okay, but, yeah, it was in his James clear newsletter. But I was like, you know that that helps me, because it’s when I am at work, I do give it my all you should, yes, and when I’m at home, I want to give it my all also, right? Your family shouldn’t just get your leftovers. Yeah? That’s terrible. In a season where leftovers, full of leftovers, so many leftovers, your family should not receive yours, your leftovers. Yeah, you’re the main course.

Katy 7:16
Yeah, you’re the turkey be there.

Alissa 7:19
You’re the main thing we need. I love

Katy 7:21
it. Okay? I have starting strong is good. Finishing strong is epic. Epic. Robin Sharma,

Alissa 7:29
it’s easy to start right? Yeah. Everyone loves January 1, yeah? Like,

Katy 7:33
we’re getting to the season now. We’re like, oh, well, this one’s a wash. Yeah, my kid didn’t quite go. But By that same token, I think we’re gonna have this week that’s holiday, if you celebrate. And then there are these couple of weeks of December where people are like, Well, wait a minute. I am still I have time for work. I am still technically working. So there’s this little window that’s coming, like next week where I feel like plan, plan for next year, do your business plan. Set yourself up for success, even if it means you’re not gonna pound the pavement and make 500 calls. How are you gonna make it easy for yourself to hit the ground running whenever you do January or whatever?

Alissa 8:17
And we’ll be playing an episode for that to help you

Katy 8:21
do those things, yes, yes, yes, okay. What else do you have?

Alissa 8:24
Hmm,

Katy 8:28
I think it’s also now the best time for you to lower your expectations, okay, and give yourself a break. We’re so motivational. Well, I mean, I feel like giving permission is kind of one of our signposts here.

Alissa 8:41
That’s why I’m laughing, because that’s why we’re so different. Any of like, literally preparing for this episode, trying to find motivational podcasts. I had to, like, turn them off. Like,

Katy 8:54
I know, because it’s like, more

Alissa 8:59
fame. I’m like, join

Katy 9:00
me while I lower my expectations. But it’s true. I know I like to wrap a gift, but it’s also okay to, like, toss it in a pretend gift bag. Like, that’s what I do. That’s great, yeah. But like you, you really don’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. I have a quote for that. Great. Let’s hear it. Keep saying what you were gonna say. No one is gonna remember how you wrapped the gifts. No, you know, the only thing that I wrap gifts for hours every year. I love it. I think it’s so fun.

Alissa 9:34
So Katie is a very mindful, thoughtful gift wrapper. Two the paper is beautiful. It usually has some sort of, like decoration on top, like pine cone, maybe, or something. Sometimes

Katy 9:48
you never know yeah or no. But also made no one remembers really what it looks like, except for the year when I bought glitter. Paper and the glitter would just like, fall off when you opened it, and everyone was so mad. Yeah, don’t

Alissa 10:07
buy glitter paper. It

Katy 10:08
was like, a non gift. They were like, This is no thank you. But again, my point is, lower your expectations, because no one is going to remember. Yeah, you probably won’t even remember, right? If it brings you joy,

Alissa 10:20
do it. Do it. If

Katy 10:21
it doesn’t, don’t it’s very simple. So

Alissa 10:24
on comparison, when you compare external, no, hold on, I messed it up. Okay, ready? Do it again. When you compete externally, yes, you compare. When you compete internally, you improve. Oh, what a delight. External equals comparison. Yep, internal equals improvement. It’s

Katy 10:47
just me against me. Yeah, there’s actually, it’s an actual Thanksgiving episode of Friends, where Monica is like, I’m not making the Thanksgiving dinner this year. I’m just not doing it. And they’re all so upset, and they’re like, and she’s like, No, you you can’t convince me. And Monica is super competitive. And Phoebe says, I mean, gosh, you know, how will we know if you’ve gotten better or like, basically, like, she convinces her to compete against herself. Oh and Monica says I’m gonna outdo last year’s me, this is my favorite kind of competition. Who can outdo last year’s like, she, like, She tricks her into it by, like, making a competition. She’s like, I’m gonna outdo me. That is hilarious. My favorite kind of competition, but it’s true, because you always win no matter what. Yeah,

Alissa 11:41
right. Always win. When you’re competing against yourself,

Katy 11:44
you’re always winning. Okay, I

Unknown Speaker 11:45
have a quote, right? Can’t wait.

Alissa 11:50
Oh, did I erase it? Oh, I can’t believe it. Oh, here it is on the days that you only have 40% and you give 40% you gave 100% you gave 100% of that. That’s good. So if you feel like you’re running on empty, but you’re doing the best you can, you know what

Katy 12:06
was capacity versus demand last week or the week before? That’s that. That is capacity versus that is exactly that. Quote, if you only had 40% to give, and you gave the 40% then you gave it your all right, right, that’s all you have.

Alissa 12:21
And you know what my other quote was, what, it’s better to do less than you hoped for than to do nothing at all? Oh, that’s fair. Done is better than perfect. Yeah, it’s better to do less than nothing, at least I started something. Yeah,

Katy 12:34
I love that.

Alissa 12:35
I think in the real estate community, I’ve been hearing a lot of like, it’s just a rough year. It’s a slow year. There’s a lot of changes. There’s like, the rates, the election, like all the things in one year are just making it sort of like an uncertain market. Yeah, we’re coming off of the super low interest rate COVID years, and so we’re still trying to find that new normal, normal. And a lot of people, I think, felt like this year was just tough,

Katy 13:08
yes, but I think that it’s time to stop talking about it, yeah, and realize that next year is a new year. Life is tough, but so are you think that’s great, perfect. Okay, let’s try this one, because it plays into that my mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive. Thrive, not done, and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style. That’s all we really need. Maya Angelou, so you know, have some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style, while you’re thriving, if we don’t laugh, we’d cry, right? Let’s not do that. Last one I have, and this is, are you earning you’re like, No. So many more, yeah, my last quote, also with the hard market, this will play into it. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. Yeah, that’s fun. John Kabat Zinn, okay, cool. Yeah, it’s starting to rain. Good. Listen to that. It hasn’t rained here in a while.

Alissa 14:12
I know we’ve had a drought all year. Yeah? Real rain, too. It’s like

Katy 14:17
it had some Yeah, right, heavy rain.

Alissa 14:21
Okay, this is good for a holiday reminder. Let’s hear it. No matter how consistent you are with your habits, it is inevitable that life will interrupt you at some point, perfection is not possible. Before long, an emergency will pop up. You get sick, or you have to travel for work, or your family needs a little more of your time. Whenever this happens to me, I try to remind myself of a simple rule, don’t miss twice.

Katy 14:46
Oh, like, never miss a Monday, but it’s just don’t miss twice. Don’t miss

Alissa 14:51
twice. Like, it’s sort of like when people talk about time blocking, they’re so hardcore about it. The. Like, never, never. It’s like, you’re like, yeah, just don’t miss twice. Okay, just don’t miss twice again. Done is better than perfect. Like,

Katy 15:12
only miss one Monday, yeah, never miss Monday. Only miss one month one, just the one. Never missed twice. That’s funny. Okay, one more. Okay, almost

Alissa 15:25
everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Oh, yeah, including yourself, Yeah, agreed. So we just need to reset. We do great time for a reset. I’ve always said, like, I love a major holiday, because I feel like it’s one of the only days that you can actually keep your phone off,

Katy 15:44
mindset again, you can do that on a Sunday, yeah? You can do that on a Saturday. Seems so hard. It’s not actually, if you even if you’re just like, I’m not available today, what if you were in a plane flying somewhere, you’re just not available. Yeah, but you’re right. Everyone will give you a pass. Maybe no one will even try to reach you. Right? On Thanksgiving Day,

Alissa 16:07
right? If you don’t answer at all on Sunday, you might have like, a cranky agent on Monday, that’s like, I try calling you. You might on Thanksgiving, no one’s on Friday, nobody’s gonna say, I tried calling you all day. What were you saying?

Katy 16:21
I bet someone’s gonna write in and tell us I had an

Alissa 16:23
agent so cranky I’ve negotiated a deal or two, like on a major holiday, yeah, the the

Katy 16:32
the closest to Christmas I ever did a showing was like, maybe Christmas Eve morning, or the day before Christmas Eve. Wow. I think it was the day before Christmas Eve, but then they wanted to write an offer. So then it’s like, this is spilling into my holiday time. Yeah, don’t spill into my holiday time. The other night, I

Alissa 16:54
had already gotten in bed, I was so tired, and then I was like, Oh my gosh, I have to type that counter offer. Oh, and I was in bed. I was so tired, I texted I didn’t even want to get out of bed. I texted Tanner, and I was like, Hey, can you bring me my laptop? I forgot. I have to write this counter offer. Like, right now she you were really giving him your best you? Yeah. He was like, okay, so he like, brings me my laptop. He hands it to me with like this face, like, sorry. And I was like, thank you. And he was like, pat me on the back. He’s like, go make that money.

Katy 17:33
I love my lifestyle. All right, babe, thanks. Got it. Word of encouragement on it. Like, you’re like, I’m not money motivated. I’m sleep motivated

Alissa 17:46
right now, literally, trying to keep my it was only 830 you were, like, holding your eyes open because, like, the wife signed, and I’m waiting on the husband to sign so I can submit it to the agent, because it was due by, like, she had put, like, a 7am the next morning. You’re like, I won’t be available for that. I’m not gonna do that. I don’t want to miss I need to do it tonight so I don’t forget. And I’m like, holding my eyeball open, like, refreshing my email, like, every 20 seconds to see, did the husband sign that I’m texting,

Katy 18:17
hey, I need it now. Yeah, the time is running out. This hourglass is about to be empty.

Alissa 18:23
Can you go sign help me? I will be asleep. I know it worked out, but

Katy 18:29
I’m so glad. Oh, great. Did you get the house under contract? Yes, we took well worth it. Okay, made the money. Okay, I

Alissa 18:36
have a quote that includes sleep. Great, perfect. Let’s hear it. What if your markers of success were how well you slept at night, how many books you read, how easily you laugh, how much time you spent storytelling, feeling warm in the homes of people you adore. What if these were the markers of success? Who said that it was from the daily rest devotional? Oh, that’s very good. Isn’t that good? Those

Katy 19:04
are all good sign posts. Yeah, of success. I think personal

Alissa 19:07
success. Like, what else would be like?

Katy 19:11
Like a sign post. Like for you,

Alissa 19:13
like, what would be like? Your like, A, I know one for you. What a loaf of fresh baked sour dough on the kitchen island. See it. What if, well, I’m

Katy 19:24
living. What

Alissa 19:25
if your markers of success were how many loaves of bread you baked?

Katy 19:29
Yeah, you’d be so successful, so successful. I know. Yeah. How much time you got to spend with your family?

Unknown Speaker 19:40
Did you go for a walk today?

Alissa 19:44
The only people who remember how hard you worked on Thanksgiving 20 years later are your kids.

Katy 19:49
Yeah, and that’s and you don’t want to be embarrassed, no, you would be like, Oh, I’m so sorry. Yeah, that would be terrible. Okay. Anything else, I

Alissa 19:58
just love Thanksgiving. I do. It’s not like the frigid cold of Christmas, not that we get that here, like, what? Where are you going to Christmas? But sometimes Christmas is a little too cold for me. You are

Katy 20:10
living in a dream world that must be on television. How many times I go to Christmas in this literal short sleeve sweater? Most of the time. Sometimes I’m like, I can’t wear shorts to Christmas. That feels weird. It’s

Alissa 20:22
like, by Christmas, the leek trees are just sticks, like, right now, it’s like, the sweet spot. It’s a very short time, like a fall. We have a very short fall,

Katy 20:32
agree, but I love it. Yeah, again, you’re really romanticizing this. At this recording, it was plus 85 every day this week.

Alissa 20:41
I know better

Katy 20:43
than, apparently it was true somewhere up north without my knowledge,

Alissa 20:47
better than 105 okay, that’s true. That’s

Katy 20:50
so true. I love, I love this week. It is nice to have everyone be so grateful. Being grateful is like one of the keys to visualization, to manifestation, to like having a good mindset is being grateful. They’ll always tell you to start with gratitude. So it’s a great week for that. Yeah, just think about all the things you’re grateful for. I love that. Okay, anything else? I

Alissa 21:13
just want you all to have a happy Thanksgiving. We’re thankful for you, yes, thankful for y’all. So thankful. Turn off your phone. Thursday, right?

Katy 21:22
That’s good. Do something fun, yeah,

Alissa 21:25
eat all the pie. Happy Thanksgiving. Okay, goodbye.