09/22/2026
Real estate agents love to say, “I’m basically a therapist.”
No. We’re not.
But after more than 20 years in real estate, I understand exactly why they say it.
Because selling a house is almost never just about selling a house.
It’s divorce.
It’s death.
It’s aging parents.
It’s adult children moving back home.
It’s families combining households — or trying to separate them.
It’s money.
It’s grief.
It’s guilt.
It’s siblings who don’t agree.
It’s couples who don’t agree.
It’s realizing Mom probably shouldn’t be living alone anymore.
It’s staring at 30 years of belongings and having absolutely no idea where to begin.
And sometimes it’s simply knowing you need to make a change, but being completely unable to get yourself to make it.
That is the space between On Hold and Sold.
And that is where the idea for Let’s Get It On started.
Over the years, I’ve developed some incredibly deep relationships with my real estate clients.
When you’re sitting at someone’s kitchen table helping them make one of the largest financial decisions of their life, you hear things.
You learn about families.
You learn about marriages.
You learn about parents and children and money and fear and resentment and responsibility.
You learn very quickly that the house is often only one piece of the problem.
I’ve listened to real estate agents joke for years that we become “therapists” for our clients.
And while I absolutely believe a great real estate agent should be able to listen, understand people and navigate difficult conversations, there is an important distinction:
We are not therapists.
That realization made me start thinking about something I had never really seen in our industry.
What if a real estate broker and a licensed clinical social worker actually sat down together and talked about the things happening behind the transaction?
Not just interest rates.
Not just inventory.
Not just staging, inspections and contracts.
The real stuff.
Why someone has wanted to sell for three years but still hasn’t.
Why siblings can’t agree about their parents’ house.
Why someone stays in a home they can no longer afford.
Why an empty nester feels guilty selling the family home.
Why a divorce can turn a relatively straightforward property sale into an emotional battlefield.
Why adult children and aging parents can look at the exact same situation and see completely different problems.
And how people actually move forward when life, money, family and real estate are all tangled together.
The person I immediately thought of was my longtime friend Nicole Grywalski, LCSW.
Nicole is a licensed clinical social worker, and she brings a completely different professional lens to these conversations than I do.
I understand the real estate.
I understand houses, markets, contracts, negotiations, buyers, sellers, preparation, timing and the hundred decisions between “maybe we should move” and sitting at the closing table.
I also understand people, and a huge part of my work has always been recognizing what is really happening underneath a real estate decision.
Nicole brings the clinical training to that human side of the conversation.
She understands family systems, communication, stress, grief, conflict, relationships and the emotional dynamics that can make an already complicated situation even harder.
She is also levelheaded, funny and incredibly candid — which matters, because neither of us wanted this to feel clinical, scripted or painfully serious.
These are real conversations about real situations that a lot of people are living through right now.
Baby Boomers are aging and making decisions about homes they may have lived in for decades.
Generation X is often caught in the middle — helping aging parents, supporting young adult children and simultaneously trying to figure out our own homes, finances and next chapters.
Adult children are moving home.
Parents are moving in with their children.
Families are creating multigenerational households.
Other families are trying to figure out how to unwind them.
Housing costs are changing family decisions.
Relationships are changing housing decisions.
And housing decisions are changing relationships.
That is what I want to talk about.
So I created my new podcast "Let's Get it On" and I invited Nicole to be my co-host.
From the moment the record light went on, I knew I found the best partner for this project.
A podcast about real estate problems that cannot always be solved with a comparative market analysis and a contract.
We’ll talk about the families behind the houses.
The money conversations.
The uncomfortable conversations.
The emotional decisions.
The situations people may be embarrassed to admit they’re dealing with.
And the things that keep people stuck long after they know something needs to change.
Because sometimes the hardest part of selling a house isn’t finding a buyer.
It’s getting to the point where you’re actually ready to move.
And if we can help families get from On Hold to Sold — then that is exactly the conversation I want to be having.
Now, Let’s Get It On.😊
The link to our first 3 episodes is in the comments. We are working to get syndicated onto other platforms.
If you have a question you want us to address on the next episode email me at [email protected] I would also like to give a special thank you to friend and former 2x client Sandy Marie for taking the time to listen through all 3 episodes to make sure the sound was good, Sandy you're a life saver!
