05/26/2026
Iāve been thinking about the day I finally deleted the word āREALTORĀ®ā from my bio.
It took me four tries.
Four times I wrote out everything else I am; investor, speaker , coach, creator⦠and four times I snuck it back in at the last second. Like if I left it out, I was admitting something I wasnāt ready to say.
The truth is I had already left. Mentally and emotionally I was gone. I had clients I never called back. Showings I couldnāt bring myself to schedule. A version of my life I was performing because I didnāt know who I was without the title.
And thatās the quiet part that no one says in the industryā¦.
We tie our entire worth to our production. You meet another agent and before you even shake their hand youāre calculating their volume. Thatās just the culture. And after enough years in it you stop being a person and start being a number.
I had built everything around being āChauncey the REALTORĀ®ā My email. My brand. My reputation. My self worth.
So walking away from that word didnāt feel like a rebrand. It felt like a loss.
But hereās what I know now that I didnāt know then.
Real estate didnāt make me who I am. It just gave me the first room. And I spent years standing in that doorway too afraid to see what else was inside the house.
The moment I stopped performing a version of myself I had outgrown⦠everything changed.
If youāre a top producer whoās quietly feeling this right now - youāre not ungrateful. Donāt feel guilty. Youāve simply grown past the first version of yourself.
And thatās not something to be ashamed of.
Thatās just something to pay attention to.