The Tori Nook Talk Show

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The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Hosted by Tori Nook, commercial real estate CEO, founder of Anchor Retail, author of Intuitive Certainty, and spiritual practitioner, this podcast explores the inner work behind outer achievement. Through candid, grounded conversations with founders, executives, investors, wellness leaders, and personal development voices, the show goes beyond the highlight reel to unpack the decisions that shape a life. The pressure, doubt, faith, sacrifice, and turning points that define true success. This is a space for higher thinkers who want to bridge intuition and strategy, faith and execution, ambition and alignment. Each episode offers perspective-shifting insights and practical takeaways you can apply immediately in business and life. If you’re building something meaningful—and want to do it with clarity, integrity, and intention—you’re in the right place.

  1. 1d ago

    Anthony Behar: What Nobody Sees Behind Being a Top Producer 

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Anthony Behar, Executive Vice President and Partner at Major Properties in Los Angeles. Anthony has spent more than two decades specializing in the sale, leasing, and acquisition of commercial and industrial properties throughout downtown LA and surrounding markets. He has earned Major Properties' President's Award and multiple Salesman of the Year honors, and is recognized as one of commercial real estate's top LinkedIn influencers. Anthony is a second-generation LA native who studied speech communication at San Diego State. He spent his first eight or nine years after college in advertising sales, selling commercial television time for ABC, Disney, CBS, and Katz Media Group, then briefly working in the dot-com world. When the internet bubble burst after 9/11 and his father became seriously ill, he took a year off, then networked his way into real estate through a charity connection with one of Major Properties' owners. He joined the family-owned boutique firm in 2002, was eventually made partner, and has never left. 🎯 Topics covered: Second-generation LA native and San Diego State gradNearly a decade in television advertising salesDoor knocking in college and why those skills transferredJoining Major Properties in 2002 and becoming partnerWhy he chose a boutique firm over a big corporate brokerageWalking downtown LA district by district for five yearsWhat nobody sees behind being a top producerWhy there's no paycheck for the first few yearsTraining juniors and senior broker responsibilityHow the LA market has changed since 2002Best advice: learn to be a chameleonThe habit that mattered most: taking emotion out of the deal ⸻ 👤 Connect with Anthony Behar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonysbehar/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anthonysbehar/ X: https://x.com/Anthonysbehar  Company: https://www.majorproperties.com/  ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  2. Sep 8

    Helen Chong: From a Student Visa to the Top 1.5% of Real Estate Teams

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Helen Chong, CCIM and founder of HAYLEN Group in San Jose, California. Helen has spent more than 20 years in real estate, moving from analyst work into residential, ultra-luxury, and finally commercial real estate investing. She serves on the board of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors, is a two-time president of the Northern California CCIM chapter, was named one of the top 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal, and her team ranks among the top 1.5% of real estate teams nationally. She is also the author of Power to Change Lives. Helen's family went through bankruptcy when she was twelve, sending her parents to work in Indonesia and leaving her largely on her own by sixteen. She joined them in Indonesia, working in the restaurant they built where a plate of fried rice sold for fifty cents and a good day meant ten dollars. At eighteen she secretly applied for a student visa and came to America alone, starting at Santa Monica College while waitressing, selling pastries, tutoring, and taking unpaid internships to build a resume. They discuss learning English by refusing to only socialize with other Hong Kong and Indonesian students, sending out hundreds of resumes to find a company willing to sponsor an H1B visa, why watching retirement accounts crash as a pension analyst pushed her into real estate, leaving a stable job in 2004 for mortgage brokering, founding HAYLEN Group around 2009 to do things her own way, and how earning her CCIM changed her career. 🎯 Topics covered: Family bankruptcy at twelve and living alone by sixteenWorking her parents' Indonesian restaurant for penniesComing to America alone at eighteen on a student visaLearning English by immersing in every culture but her ownHundreds of resumes to find an H1B sponsorBeing the only woman in an all-male sales departmentWhy the pension analyst job pushed her into real estateLeaving a stable job in 2004 to become a mortgage brokerFounding HAYLEN Group to do business her own wayBeing questioned about how she earned her listingsHow the CCIM designation changed her careerFinal advice: success is happiness, not numbers ⸻ 👤 Connect with Helen Chong Website: haylengroup.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenhchong/ Book: Power to Change Lives Instagram: @haylengrouprealestate ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  3. Sep 1

    Melina Cordero: The Winding Path from CBRE Research to Leadership Coaching

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Melina Cordero, former real estate executive, speaker, facilitator, leadership development advisor, and founder of P20 Leadership. After building her career inside commercial real estate, Melina shifted her focus to helping organizations and leaders build stronger communication, trust, and inclusive cultures, with a major focus on helping women in commercial real estate become stronger leaders. Melina was born in Washington, D.C., raised outside the city and later in New Jersey, and grew up bilingual in a bicultural Puerto Rican household that valued curiosity and reading. She studied urban studies and international development in grad school, focusing her thesis on the shopping mall explosion in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her early career wound through market research, a mobile data startup that closed suddenly, and then CBRE, where at 28 she became global head of retail research. She later stepped into leading CBRE's retail investment sales and capital markets brokers, the only woman and the only non-former-broker in that role, after her predecessor Mark Bratt put her name forward as his successor. They discuss the power of sponsorship, why almost no successful CRE executives have a straight-line career path, splitting her time between Mexico City and D.C., leaving corporate to found P20 Leadership, her CRE Women's Leadership Lab and the Speak Up program, and the number driving her mission: female representation in commercial real estate's C-suite has moved just one percentage point in the last ten years. 🎯 Topics covered: Growing up bilingual in a bicultural Puerto Rican householdStudying shopping mall development in Sao Paulo, BrazilEarly jobs in market research and a mobile data startupBecoming global head of retail research at CBRE at 28Leading CBRE's capital markets brokers as the only womanThe power of sponsorship and being put forward as a successorWhy career paths are rarely a straight lineSplitting time between Mexico City and Washington, D.C.Leaving corporate to found P20 LeadershipThe CRE Women's Leadership Lab and Speak Up programWhy the C-suite gender gap has moved one point in ten yearsChanging what leadership looks like, not lowering the bar ⸻ 👤 Connect with Melina Cordero Website: www.melinacordero.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinacordero/  Programs: CRE Women's Leadership Lab, Speak Up ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  4. Aug 25

    Alreen Haeggquist: Breaking Generational Trauma, One Case at a Time

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Alreen Haeggquist, founding and managing partner of Haeggquist & Eck LLP, recognized as one of the best law firms in America. For more than 23 years, Alreen has dedicated her career to standing up for people who have experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and other workplace injustices. She is also the author of Fired Up: Fueling Triumph from Trauma, and founder of the HAE Fired Up Foundation. Alreen grew up in the San Fernando Valley in a household with an abusive father and a mother who stayed silent. She moved to San Diego for UCSD, then attended Cal Western School of Law, discovering in college that education could be her way out. After realizing criminal defense work only made her sad, she spent five years at a class action firm before launching her own firm in 2008 with just $5,000 and no clients, at a time when woman-owned law firms were rare. She and her co-founder worked out of their home, reinvesting every dollar back into the firm, and slowly built it into a 25-person team. They discuss why she never marketed at first, believing good work alone would bring clients, until she realized survivors didn't know she existed as an option, the case against Trump University, having a survivor advocate on staff to help clients process trauma, the emotional toll of writing her book and reliving suppressed memories, why releasing the book meant exposing her family's secret, breaking generational trauma for her daughter, and why her advice to her younger self is simple: start sooner. 🎯 Topics covered: - Growing up with an abusive father and a silent mother - Discovering college as her escape and path to law school - Realizing criminal defense work wasn't her calling - Five years at a class action firm before striking out alone - Starting her firm in 2008 with $5,000 and no clients - Learning that clients can't find you if they don't know you exist - The case against Trump University - Having a survivor advocate on staff to support clients emotionally - The emotional toll of writing and publishing Fired Up - Why releasing her story meant exposing her family's secret - Breaking generational trauma for her daughter - Final advice: start sooner and take action ⸻ 👤 Connect with Alreen Haeggquist Website: alreen.com Book: Fired Up: Fueling Triumph from Trauma Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alreen-haeggquist/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alreen/ ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  5. Aug 18

    Tracey Watts Cirino: From Cutting Hair to Coaching Entrepreneurs on Their Voice

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with her longtime friend Tracey Watts Cirino, a six-time number one international best-selling author, business growth strategist, and founder and CEO of Beyond Common, a coaching and consulting company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Tracey helps business owners, coaches, and creatives turn their voice into cash through her signature Voice to Cash method, refining their messaging and building profitable brands that connect with the right audience. Tracey grew up in Cleveland, got her cosmetology license at 17, and started working under her mentor Ron before she'd even graduated high school. She began traveling the world teaching advanced cut and color techniques, which eventually led to opening her own salon that she ran for over a decade with a highly trained team. They discuss selling mixtapes to her uncles at age 9, why she never set out to build a business but felt God pointing her there, believing for 40 years she "wasn't good at grammar" because of a failed ninth-grade English class before writing six bestselling books, the myth that you need 250 no's before a publisher says yes, building a publishing division within Beyond Common that has helped 13 clients become bestsellers, and how the Voice to Cash method shapes how entrepreneurs tell their story. 🎁 Free gift for listeners: DM Tracey and let her know you heard her on the Tori Nook Talk Show to receive her free gift. 🎯 Topics covered: Selling mixtapes to her uncles at age 9Getting her cosmetology license at 17 and her mentor RonTraveling the world teaching advanced cut and colorOpening her own salon and running it for over a decadeNever planning to be an entrepreneur, feeling God-led into itThe limiting belief from failing ninth-grade EnglishThe myth of needing 250 no's before a publisher says yesWriting six bestselling books and building a publishing divisionHelping 13 clients become bestselling authorsCreating the Voice to Cash methodWhy your voice is either making or costing you moneyFinal advice: show yourself some love ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tracey Watts Cirino Website: tracywattscirino.com Podcast: Beyond Common Business Secrets Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/traceywattscirino/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traceywattscirino/  ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  6. Aug 11

    Linda Day Harrison: The Fax Machine, the Rolodex, and CRE's Digital Revolution

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Linda Day Harrison, a 35-plus year force in commercial real estate and founder of The Broker List, one of the largest online communities exclusively for CRE professionals. Linda is also co-founder of the annual DNA of CRE Survey with Buildout, a leader behind the CREI Summit, and co-host of the annual Let's Get Social networking event at ICSC Las Vegas. Linda started in real estate as a receptionist in Chicago, memorizing every tenant, phone number, and voice in her buildings because there was no computer, just her memory and a desk full of Rolodexes. She worked the landlord side for most of her career, keeping buildings full by staying in front of every broker in the city. She lived through the entire evolution of office technology: typewriters without correction ribbon, DOS terminals in the mid-80s with no Windows or Microsoft, broadcast fax machines, and finally email and LinkedIn, which she joined in 2004 when it barely had a million users. They discuss the old broadcast fax system that listed available space every Monday morning, shared email addresses brokerages used before individual accounts existed, meeting tech developers who called her in as a subject matter expert, launching The Broker List as a beta in 2010, finding her first developer through a LinkedIn group post, growing from 500 early signups to nearly 11,000 today, why top brokers grab their digital footprint early, and her advice that learning to speak well is the most overlooked career skill. 🎯 Topics covered: Starting as a receptionist in Chicago commercial real estateMemorizing tenants, phone numbers, and voices before computersLiving through typewriters, DOS terminals, and broadcast faxKeeping buildings full by networking with every broker in the marketJoining LinkedIn in 2004 before it had a million usersMeeting tech developers who tapped her as a subject matter expertLaunching The Broker List as a beta in 2010Finding her first developer through a LinkedIn group postGrowing from 500 early signups to nearly 11,000 membersWhy top brokers grab their digital footprint earlyThe CREI Summit and Let's Get Social at ICSC VegasFinal advice: learn to speak and present yourself well ⸻ 👤 Connect with Linda Day Harrison Website: thebrokerlist.com LinkedIn: Linda Day Harrison Instagram: @lindadayharrison  X: @dayharrison ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  7. Aug 4

    Logan Freeman: Mr. Kansas City on Attention, AI, and the Next Infrastructure Cycle

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Logan Freeman, managing broker of Midwest CRE Advisors, host of the Kansas City Market Pulse podcast, and a LinkedIn top voice with nearly 40,000 followers. Logan and his team have completed around $450 million in commercial real estate transactions, spanning single-family portfolios, a $50 million fund, 1,500 units across four states, and 600,000 square feet of commercial space. He recently sold what may be the largest single-family home portfolio in the U.S. this year: 503 homes in one deal. Logan grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri, played collegiate football at Central Missouri, and had a brief stint with the Raiders before being cut in 2013. He paid for college making 265 cold calls a day at a telemarketing company, which taught him to separate rejection of his offer from rejection of himself. After being fired from his last W-2 sales job in 2017, he went all-in on real estate, buying and renovating 280 rental houses in 18 months before moving into brokerage and multifamily, eventually building a 10-person team doing hundreds of millions in deals a year. They discuss his growth mindset philosophy, David Ricardo's law of economic rent and why location beats vintage, tracking planning and zoning meetings to find the next hot corridor, launching his podcast nine years ago, becoming the "refrigerator magnet" for Kansas City commercial real estate, why attention is the new currency in CRE, and pivoting into powered land and data center deals. 🎯 Topics covered: Growing up in Jefferson City and playing college footballGetting cut from the Raiders in 2013Making 265 cold calls a day to pay for collegeBuying and renovating 280 rental houses in 18 monthsBuilding a 10-person team doing hundreds of millions a yearDavid Ricardo's law of economic rent and location vs. vintageTracking infrastructure and zoning to find the next hot marketBecoming the refrigerator magnet for Kansas City CREWhy attention is the new currency in commercial real estatePivoting into powered land and data center dealsHis 5-7 AM faith, silence, and intuition routine ⸻ 👤 Connect with Logan Freeman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/livefreeinvestments/  Website: mwcreadvisors.com  Podcast: Kansas City Market Pulse ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

  8. Jul 28

    Jim Lampassi: 45 Years, 50 States, and a Career Built by Networking

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Jim Lampassi, Senior Vice President of Real Estate and Construction at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Jim has spent over four decades in retail real estate, site selection, construction, and development, holding senior leadership roles at Ross Stores, Barnes & Noble, and Petco before joining Academy, where he oversees strategy behind real estate, construction, store design, and growth for one of the country's leading sporting goods and outdoor retailers. Jim grew up in Somerville, Massachusetts and studied geography with a concentration in urban planning at Salem State University. After graduating in 1981 into a job market with no urban planning openings, he stayed on at the grocery store he'd worked through college. His break came when he met a stranger, an usher at a friend's wedding, who connected him to the market research department at Grossman's Lumber Company. That conversation launched a 45-year career, starting with mapping out entire markets by hand using census books before the internet existed. They discuss climbing from analyst to head of location research at Marshall's, growing the chain from 150 to 550 stores over 11 years, bringing Marshalls to Puerto Rico, meeting his wife Lucy at a store managers' conference, jumping to Petco and then Barnes & Noble as its real estate department head, landing an unadvertised SVP role at Ross, and choosing Academy Sports for its growth runway, its refusal to hire based on age, and its all-American, always-game family mission. They also cover navigating tariffs and steel costs, and why networking has been the throughline of his career. 🎯 Topics covered: Growing up in Somerville and studying urban planningLanding his first real estate job through a wedding usher connectionMapping markets by hand with census books at Grossman'sRising from analyst to deal maker at Marshall'sGrowing Marshall's from 150 to 550 stores over 11 yearsBringing Marshalls to Puerto RicoMeeting his wife Lucy at a Marshall's conferenceLeading real estate at Petco and then Barnes & NobleLanding an SVP role at Ross through networkingWhy he chose Academy Sports over staying at RossAcademy's growth runway and refusal to hire based on ageFinal advice: talk to as many people as possible ⸻ 👤 Connect with Jim Lampassi LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-lampassi-8668bb4/  ⸻ 👤 Connect with Tori Nook Website: https://torinook.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torirendanonook/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tori_nook/ X: https://x.com/ToriNook Email: hello@torinook.com ⸻ 🎧 The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Subscribe for episodes exploring how leaders build personal and professional fulfillment on their own terms.

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The Tori Nook Talk Show is where real conversations meet real success. Hosted by Tori Nook, commercial real estate CEO, founder of Anchor Retail, author of Intuitive Certainty, and spiritual practitioner, this podcast explores the inner work behind outer achievement. Through candid, grounded conversations with founders, executives, investors, wellness leaders, and personal development voices, the show goes beyond the highlight reel to unpack the decisions that shape a life. The pressure, doubt, faith, sacrifice, and turning points that define true success. This is a space for higher thinkers who want to bridge intuition and strategy, faith and execution, ambition and alignment. Each episode offers perspective-shifting insights and practical takeaways you can apply immediately in business and life. If you’re building something meaningful—and want to do it with clarity, integrity, and intention—you’re in the right place.

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  • Creator
    Tori Nook
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
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