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. 2d ago

    Aviva Sonenreich: A Million Followers and a Warehouse Hotline

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Aviva Sonenreich, managing broker of The Warehouse Hotline in Denver, who represents tenants, investors and owners across Colorado’s industrial market while building a portfolio of her own. Aviva hosts the Commercial Real Estate Secrets podcast and has grown a following of more than a million people, which is nowhere near the norm in commercial real estate. Aviva was born and raised in Denver, worked restaurant and DJ jobs through college, and had songs out on Atlantic Records before deciding to lean into the work that came naturally to her. She joined her family’s industrial business in 2016, learning on a salary she could not live on and a father who answered most questions by telling her to call his buddy Bob. When the phone stopped ringing in 2020, she went all in on TikTok and posted four times a day before most brokers were even on the app. They discuss branding, intuition, tenant rep, Google Ads, hiring people who follow through, and what successful guests all have in common. 🎯 Topics covered: Why DJing taught her more about marketing than brokerage didWhy “just closed” posts are not valuableGoing all in on TikTok in 2020Treating intuition as a skill setLearning the business by calling her dad’s friendsBuilding a website as a digital storefrontThe grocery store moment that named the companyCompetitors copying her brandingWinning tenant rep deals straight off the internetStanding out against the big brokerage housesHiring people who do what they sayGoogle Ads moving her into A class buildingsPicking up her daughter at three o’clockA warehouse that burned down under contractHow funds buy differently than mom and pops ⸻ 👤 Connect with Aviva Sonenreich Website: https://warehousehotline.com Social: @AvivaRealEstate on all platforms Podcast: Commercial Real Estate Secrets ⸻ 👤 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. Oct 13

    Michelle Buckley: One Woman, One Shop, 25 Years in Retail

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Michelle Buckley, principal and founder of Buckley Commercial Real Estate in Charlotte, an exclusive retail tenant rep and buyer rep serving the Carolinas.  Michelle founded the firm in 2013 after 16 years at national, regional and boutique brokerages, and has spent nearly 25 years in site selection, land acquisition, ground up development, investment sale acquisitions and leasing. She has been an ICSC member since 2001, served on the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors, and co-chairs the virtual lunch and learns for The Pipeline. Retail is in Michelle’s blood. Her father started as a stock boy at Marshalls and spent 38 years there, finishing as a regional VP who oversaw nearly 200 stores. Her mother was a buyer for a family-owned children’s clothing store in New England, and her great-grandparents ran the Italian restaurant that was the heartbeat of their small Massachusetts town. Everyone told her not to go into retail. They discuss cold calling, reading leases, going out on her own, and the lead her boss nearly threw away. 🎯 Topics covered: Growing up with retail as dinner table talkTurning down commercial real estate the first timeGetting hired at a country club interviewLearning retail with no mentor and no internetPlacing Sally Beauty in 44 Carolinas locationsMoving Bombay Company out of the mallsReading leases until she knew too muchA throwaway lead worth a 27-year relationshipFour credit unions and a million in feesWhy she felt paralyzed at her last firmThe partnership conversation that ended itOpening her own shop out of adrenalineWhy every client came with herHiring a coach as her best investmentThe Pipeline and women in retail real estate ⸻ 👤 Connect with Michelle Buckley Email: Michelle@buckleycommercial.net Phone: 704-589-9832 ⸻ 👤 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. Oct 6

    Courtney Ettus: Building Brands at Visa, Beats by Dre, Crexi, and More

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Courtney Ettus, a marketing executive with nearly three decades of brand building behind her and now CMO at Resimplifi, a commercial real estate data platform. Her career spans Kenneth Cole, Visa, Bank of America, Beats by Dre, Luxottica, Emirates and Slack, a CMO run at Greenfly, and six and a half years scaling Crexi from roughly 30 people to more than 350. She also curates one of the CREi Summit lists and speaks regularly for GlobeSt's Women of Influence community. Courtney grew up outside Chicago, put herself through the University of Michigan, and took a sales job at a local shoe store. When she noticed her sorority friends were cabbing to the mall for dress shoes, she told the owners the store should carry them. At nineteen she was handed a $250,000 open-to-buy and sent to the Las Vegas footwear show, where she met Kenneth Cole and sold out every run she ordered. They discuss brand differentiation, asking for what you want, negotiating as the only woman in the room, taking equity instead of hours, and where AI actually helps a broker. 🎯 Topics covered: Buying dress shoes at nineteen with no experienceA decade in nineties corporate fashionWhy someone should buy your black pantsStarting a media agency job 13 weeks pregnantRunning Visa, Beats by Dre and LuxotticaBecoming a CMO in her fortiesScaling Crexi from 30 people to 350Democratizing commercial real estateWhat makes a brand people actually likeTaking equity in companies she believes inWhy CRE tech has outpaced its usersAI as a starting point, not an endingFinding your slog before buying softwareHow a majority-women room changes the conversation ⸻ 👤 Connect with Courtney Ettus LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyettus/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cdettus/ X: https://x.com/cettus Email: courtney@resimplifi.com Website: https://resimplifi.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.

  4. Sep 29

    Kaylan Knitowski: 20 Million Impressions and a $60M Track Record

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Kaylan Knitowski, Associate Director at Franklin Street in Miami, specializing in value-add unanchored retail centers and net lease sales nationwide across the Southeast and Sunbelt. Since entering the business in October 2022, Kaylan has closed roughly $60 million in retail investment transactions and built a following of more than 20 million impressions across X, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. Kaylan grew up in Austin, graduated early from the University of Miami, and walked away from law school. With no jobs available during COVID, she took a bottle service job in Miami nightlife, where she spent her nights serving brokers celebrating closings and decided she would rather sell the buildings herself. She started at Sands Investment Group in 2022, landed $24 million in listings in her first three months, then waited nine months for a first closing. They discuss cold calling, mentorship, social media as a listing tool, national tenant rep accounts, fee sharing, and why her competition is other brokers' fathers. 🎯 Topics covered: Leaving a law school plan behindFrom bottle service to investment salesLanding $24M in listings in three monthsSurviving nine months without a closingLearning to underwrite as a junior brokerCold calling and the extra ten secondsDon Tepman's advice that changed her social mediaBuilding a brand on X, LinkedIn and TikTokWinning the Seven Brew tenant rep accountWorking with Culver's and national retailersSelling visibility instead of tenureWhy she has no problem sharing a feeTurning down a commission to protect a clientA $29M portfolio that came from a conferenceAdvice for senior brokers mentoring juniors ⸻ 👤 Connect with Kaylan Knitowski LinkedIn: Kaylan Knitowski Instagram and X: @kaylanknit TikTok: @bottlestobuildings ⸻ 👤 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. Sep 22

    Edward Winslow: How Proof Stacking Wins on Google, AI, and Everywhere Else 

    Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Edward Winslow, creator of the trademarked Proof Stacking method and a career spanning commercial real estate, investment sales, entrepreneurship, marketing, PR, and now the rapidly changing world of search and AI. Ed was the first sales broker hired by Bob Knakal at Massey Knakal Realty Services, and today he teaches brokers and owners how to build a brand so strong that clients come to them. 🎯 Topics covered: The Coldwell Banker system nobody ever taught himCold-calling Bob Knakal and spending Saturdays learningJoining Massey Knakal as the first sales hire with no deals closedPhotographing every building on the Upper East Side block by blockDigging up 20 years of comps in the city archivesThe research mailing that kept owners on the phoneLanding the front page of the Sunday New York TimesWhy nobody called for 30 daysReverse engineering that article into an SEO structureSteven Pressfield and naming doubt as the enemyTelling owners not to sell (and why it works)Long-tail specificity and winning on AI searchFinal advice: keep stacking and stop being afraid to invest⸻ 👤 Connect with Edward Winslow Website: proofstacking.ai LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edwardwinslow/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edwardjwinslow/  X: https://x.com/EdwardWinslow20  Company: https://proofstacking.ai/  ⸻ 👤 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. Sep 15

    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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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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
    44
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    Explicit
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    © 2026 Tori Nook
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