Why Real Estate?

Why Real Estate?

Hello everyone, my name is Gloria Miller. I am a real estate agent, or if you want to be fancy, I am a realtor; not to be mistaken for a broker. Not yet anyway. 

A little background…

I have a degree in business, 4 beautifully stubborn young women/girls, and I am my own boss. I have had a chance to serve my community in multiple industries throughout the years, but none have come close to the level I am at today.  I have a cosmetology license, an alcohol distribution license to now a real estate license. I have liked, loved, and hated positions I've held, and I never quite seemed to fit into any of them just right. After obtaining my business degree, I began a journey that put me into the corporate world and management. I loved working with people and being in leadership. I never get into the corporate mentality. My ethics refuse to align with the corporate competitive world. It only took me a few years to realize my ascension into management wouldn't last very long, unless I went along with their expectations. 

I became frustrated. Why couldn't I just have the skills to fit into one perfect box? I wanted to be exactly what everyone or anyone needed. I could be a teacher anywhere or a nurse. That's pretty much as far as I had thought it through. 

Then, I thought, I would change the world and help kids with disabilities receive healthcare. Though I did not change the world, I did find out that I was not as detail-oriented as I had claimed for so long. Let's just say, it did not work out. God opened up an opportunity while being unemployed and questioning my future. Going through a divorce, being unemployed, and saving my home from being repossessed by renting all at the same time didn't seem like the best time to consider Real Estate.  Yet, so many doors opened up at the same time that I could not say no to the idea of a career where I could build a new future on; and so, I did. That is how I got into Real Estate! 

Why am I still here four years later? 

Today, I couldn't imagine myself doing anything different in my life. When I jumped into real estate head first, there was no turning back. It took about a year to breathe, and about two years to really build community within real estate. Finally, I was able to see that every tool that God had given me over the past 20 years worked perfectly in sync with my purpose. I finally had my “box”, but my box was so big I needed a community to share it with. 

I had heard other people say “they loved their job”, and to me, that was a joke. I thought “no one loves their job”, that was something people just said to make their life seem better than it was. Well, let me tell you, today I love my job. 

It’s not really just a job, it's a privilege to run my business based on my ethics and dedication to people who trust me with their business. I take everything personally because 95 percent of the time my clients are putting their hopes and dreams in my hands. 

I have made so many amazing friends and built relationships with people I would have never met had it not been for real estate. I am always amazed at the blessings I receive through the same people I have helped over the years. All because I failed at health care. What I thought was my biggest disappointment, became my biggest blessing. 

Through real estate, I have had the opportunity to learn from people much smarter than I, I have mentored agents within multiple brokerages, built a team, released a team, built processes, changed processes, adjusted and readjusted, learned about friendship, learned about loss, learned there are paths you take with others, learned there are paths you must do alone and at the end of the day, and I wouldn't change a thing. 

Do you believe in the American dream? Because I do! I am living it.