Opening Doors with Annette Compo

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Opening Doors with Annette Compo is a guided conversation on home ownership, stability, and personal direction. Annette sits down with respected voices in the community and speaks from experience on what it takes to get started, build security, and move with purpose. Each episode is led by Annette Compo. Follow so you do not miss out on the great upcoming episodes.

Episodes

  1. 4D AGO

    From Bosnia to Farmington: How Dragan Tasic Built a Business, a Brotherhood & a Community Legacy

    From Bosnia to Farmington: How Dragan Tasic Built a Business, a Brotherhood & a Community Legacy Forty years of friendship. Two decades of service. One community that feels it every day. In this episode of Opening Doors, Annette Compo sits down with Dragan Tasic — co-owner of Z Painting, current President of the Greater Area Farmington Chamber of Commerce, and one of the quiet forces behind CARES of Farmington Hills. Dragan shares his journey from Yugoslavia to the United States, why he and his business partner Z started their company later in life and never looked back, and what it really means to pour into a community from a place of contribution — not obligation. He also opens up about their partnership with Sherwin-Williams, how Z Painting meets every client exactly where they are, and why giving back through their craft — whether it's a fresh coat of paint or a restored food pantry — is just as important as any job on the books. 🖌️ Connect with Z Painting: 🌐 Website: https://zpaintingllc.com/ 📞 Phone: (248) 893-7761 📧 Email: admin@zpaintingllc.com 📸 Instagram:   / zpaintingremodeling  👍 Facebook:   / zpaintingremodeling  🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO 🌐 Website: https://vist.ly/4u5gv 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram: https://vist.ly/4u5g3 👍 Facebook: https://vist.ly/4u5g4 ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn:

    18 min

  2. APR 6

    From City Hall to Center Stage: Big Band, Mentorship & the Music That Moves a Community

    Jazz, leadership, and the art of pouring into the next generation. In this episode of Opening Doors, Annette Compo sits down with Joe LaRussa — Mayor of Farmington and 32-year member of the Henry Ford Big Band. Joe shares what it was like to audition as a teenager and never leave, why the band made it their mission to uplift emerging artists like vocalist Olivia Van Goor, and how the Farmington Civic Theater became the perfect stage for something truly special. He also opens up about the joy of giving young musicians opportunities they've never had — and why a $20 ticket to a world-class show is exactly the point. 🎟️ Big Band Goes to the Movies is coming to the Farmington Civic Theater — and as a listener, you get an exclusive discount! Use promo code OPENINGDOORS at checkout to get your tickets for just $20 (reg. $29). 👉 https://tinyurl.com/BigBandGoestotheM... 🎷 Connect with Joe LaRussa & the Henry Ford Big Band: ▶️ YouTube:    / @henryfordbigband  📸 Olivia Van Goor:   / oliviavangoormusic  @oliviavangoormusic @councilmanjoelarussa 🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO 🌐 Website: https://vist.ly/4u5gv 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram: https://vist.ly/4u5g3 👍 Facebook: https://vist.ly/4u5g4 ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn: https://vist.ly/4u5gh 🎙️ OPENING DOORS PODCAST CHANNELS 📸 Instagram:

    14 min

  3. MAR 27

    Healing What We Cannot See: Energy, Intuition & the Wisdom of the Human Body

    hat if your body knows more than you think it does? In this episode of Opening Doors, I sit down with Elaine Grohman — energy healer, intuitive, author, and lifelong Farmington Hills resident. Elaine shares the hospice moment that awakened her gifts, why learning to trust what we feel may be the most important thing we can do, and how true healing extends beyond the individual — into community, the earth, and each other. She also opens up about her work as a founding board member of CARES of Farmington Hills. 🌿 Connect with Elaine Grohman: 🌐 Website: https://www.elainegrohman.com/ 📞 Phone: (248) 514-5853 📧 Email: elaine@elainegrohman.com 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elainegrohman1 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/elaine.grohman/ 🎙️ Going Beyond Medicine Podcast: https://www.empoweradio.com/home/m/podcasts/810592-Going-Beyond-Medicine-with-Elaine-Grohman.html 🛍️ Etsy Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElaineGrohmanStudio ❤️ CARES of Farmington Hills: https://caresfh.org/  🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO 🌐 Website: Annettecompo.com 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Fa

    25 min

  4. MAR 16

    Family Business, Trust, and Seeing the Beauty in Bugs with Dion DeGennaro

    In this episode of Opening Doors, Annette Compo sits down with Dion DeGennaro, General Manager of Sergio's Pest Control, a third generation family business serving Metro Detroit for more than 50 years. Together they talk about running a family company, carrying on a legacy, and why great businesses are built on relationships and trust. Dion shares how he found his way back into the family business and what it means to serve customers when they feel vulnerable in their own homes. The conversation also explores community connection, networking, and building relationships that last across generations. Beyond pest control, Dion discusses his passion for photography and how capturing insects through a macro lens can change the way people see the natural world. His work recently earned recognition in the pest management industry when he won the PCT Best Pest Photo Contest for a striking macro image of a Japanese beetle.  Connect with Dion DeGennaro / Sergio’s Pest Control: Website: https://vist.ly/4v327 Phone: (248) 932-0018 Instagram: https://vist.ly/4v324 Serving Farmington Hills and Metro Detroit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://vist.ly/4u5gv | https://vist.ly/4u5h3 Call: (877) ANNETTE Email: annettec

    22 min

  5. MAR 7

    Simple Living: How Organization Can Transform Your Home and Life

    In this episode of Opening Doors, I sit down with Hannah Brown of Simple Living by Hannah to talk about how the spaces we live in affect our mindset, our peace, and the way we move through different seasons of life. Hannah shares how her work goes beyond organization to help people create calm, functional homes during moments of transition, while also opening up about building her business, trusting her path, and learning to grow with grace. If you have ever felt overwhelmed by clutter or ready for a fresh start, this conversation is full of heart, encouragement, and practical insight. 📲 Connect with Hannah Brown: 🌐 Website: https://simplelivingbyhannah.com 📞 Phone: (248) 977-6797 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple.living.by.hannah ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website: https://www.annettecompo.com/ | https://www.comporealty.com/ 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/compomedemagroup/ 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compomedemagroup/ ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annettecompo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ OPENING DOORS PODCAST CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annettecompopod/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annettecompo 🧵 Threads: https://www.threads.com/@annettecompopod 🐦 X: https://x.com/AnnetteCompoPod 📌 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/OpeningDoorswith… 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opening-d… Subscribe for inspiring conversations about purpose, growth, and building a life that truly works for you.

    15 min

  6. MAR 2

    A Smart Guide to Taxes, Assessments, and Appeals for Farmington Hills Homeowners

    Property taxes can move fast, and confusion can cost you. In this episode of Opening Doors with Annette Compo, Annette shares a clear, practical way to take control of your assessment: focus on truly comparable, near-identical recent sales, then decide with confidence whether an appeal is worth your time. If you want to protect your budget and move forward with a plan, this one is for you. Connect with Annette Compo and the Compo & Medema Group: Websites: https://vist.ly/4tfp8 https://vist.ly/4tfpe Contact: Call: 877-ANNETTE (266-3883) Call: (248) 640-9803 Email: annettecompo@kw.com Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Social: Instagram: https://vist.ly/4tfne Facebook: https://vist.ly/4tfni YouTube:    / @annettecompo  LinkedIn: https://vist.ly/4tfnv My Podcast Channels: ‪@AnnetteCompo‬ Instagram: https://vist.ly/4tfnm TikTok: https://vist.ly/4tfp5 Threads: https://vist.ly/4tfn2 X:

    11 min

  7. MAR 1

    When the Unexpected Happens: A Real Insurance Conversation

    What really happens when disaster strikes — and are you actually covered the way you think you are? In this episode, Annette sits down with third-generation Allstate Insurance Agent Kristin Faber for a real conversation about protection, preparation, and what insurance looks like when it truly matters. Kristin shares her personal experience navigating a fire loss at her own office, what she has learned from walking clients through claims, and the simple steps every homeowner should take today to protect what matters most. From documenting your belongings to understanding the difference between home and auto coverage, this episode breaks down insurance in a clear, practical way — without the jargon. Kristin Faber is a third-generation Allstate Insurance Agent serving Novi and the surrounding communities. After working alongside her father for 13 years, she took over the family business in 2016 and continues to provide personalized, relationship-driven coverage guidance for individuals and families. 📲 Connect with Kristin Faber: 🌐 Website: agents.allstate.com/kristin-faber-novi-mi.html 📍 Location: 43343 Grand River Ave, Novi, MI 48375 📞 Phone: (248) 344-0460 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website:   https://www.annettecompo.com/ | https://www.comporealty.com/ 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/compomedemagroup/ 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compomedemagroup/ ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/annettecompo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ OPENING DOORS PODCAST CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annettecompopod/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annettecompo 🧵 Threads: https://www.threads.com/@annettecompopod 🐦 X: https://x.com/AnnetteCompoPod 📌 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/OpeningDoorswith... 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opening-d... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe for inspiring conversations about purpose, dreams, and achieving your goals!

    17 min

  8. FEB 21

    The Real Talk on GLP-1 Medications with Julia Stevens

    Are GLP-1 medications like Ozempic and Zepound really the weight loss solution everyone's talking about? In this episode, registered dietitian Julia Stevens cuts through the noise and gives us the real story. Julia breaks down how GLP-1 medications work, why managing "food noise" is a game changer, and why having an exit plan matters just as much as starting the medication. She also shares practical mindset tips and her simple two-step strategy for becoming more mindful around food — no extreme dieting required. Julia Stevens is the owner of Active Nutrition, a 100% virtual private practice based in Metro Detroit, Michigan. With nearly 20 years of experience in weight management and chronic disease prevention, Julia helps clients get the most out of their health journey — whether they're on GLP-1 medications or not. 📲 Connect with Julia Stevens: 🌐 Website: www.allfoodisgoodfood.com 💻 Book via Fay: www.faynutrition.com/dietitians/julia-stevens 📞 Phone: (248) 475-4880 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website:   https://www.annettecompo.com/ | https://www.comporealty.com/ 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram:   / compomedemagroup  👍 Facebook:   / compomedemagroup  ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn:  / annettecompo  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ OPENING DOORS PODCAST CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Instagram:   / annettecompopod  🧵 Threads:

    12 min

  9. FEB 12

    What Your Insurance Agent Wishes You Knew with Jamilah Wright

    What if the insurance policy you set up years ago no longer fits your life? In this episode of Opening Doors with Annette Compo, local State Farm Agent Jamilah Wright pulls back the curtain on everything your insurance agent wishes you already knew — from reviewing your coverage during big life changes, to insuring items you never even thought to call about. Jamilah shares why bundling is about more than just saving money, why a home inventory could save you thousands, and how her own leap of faith from 20 years in corporate America led her to build a thriving agency right here in Farmington Hills. If you've ever set your insurance on autopilot and forgotten about it, this episode is your sign to make that call. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 - Introduction & Welcome 1:00 - Meet Jamilah Wright, State Farm Agent Farmington Hills 1:24 - How Annette & Jamilah Met Through the Chamber 2:04 - Why You Should Review ALL Your Insurance When Buying a Home 3:17 - The Problem With Putting Insurance on Autopilot 4:10 - The Culture & Customer Service Behind Jamilah's Office 5:18 - What to Insure BEFORE You Buy It 6:09 - Jewelry, Boats, RVs & The Things People Forget to Insure 7:00 - Should You Call Your Agent When You Buy a Laptop? 7:22 - Annette's 800 Pound Roommate & Why She Needs Coverage 8:06 - Preparing for the Unexpected: Disaster & Fire Tips 9:09 - Why a Home Inventory Could Save You Everything 10:52 - The Finished Basement Story That Will Give You Anxiety 12:08 - Bundling: More Than Just Saving Money 13:33 - What Happens When a Loved One Passes Away & You're Not Bundled 14:33 - The Annual Policy Review & Why Beneficiaries Matter 15:18 - From Corporate America to State Farm: Jamilah's Story 16:46 - Pivot and Prosper: Betting on Yourself ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH JAMILAH WRIGHT – STATE FARM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website: https://insuredbyjamilah.com 📞 Call/Text: (248) 478-8135 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insuredbyjamilah/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ANNETTE COMPO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Website:   https://www.annettecompo.com/ | https://www.comporealty.com/ 📞 Call: (877) ANNETTE 📧 Email: annettecompo@kw.com 📍 Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/compomedemagroup/ 👍 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compomedemagroup/ ▶️ YouTube: @annettecompo 💼 LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/annettecompo ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ OPENING DOORS PODCAST CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annettecompopod/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annettecompo 🧵 Threads: https://www.threads.com/@annettecompopod 🐦 X: https://x.com/AnnetteCompoPod 📌 Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/OpeningDoorswith... 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opening-d... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Subscribe for inspiring conversations about purpose, dreams, and achieving your goals! #AnnetteCompo #JamilahWright #StateFarm #InsuranceTips #HomeInsurance #FarmingtonHills #Michigan #OpeningDoors #BundleAndSave #PivotAndProsper

    15 min

  10. FEB 11

    How to Publish Your Book in 6 Weeks with Naomi V. Dunsen-White

    What starts as a birthday present for your grandson can transform into an Amazon bestselling children's book and a mission to change the world. In this episode of Opening Doors with Annette Compo, award-winning children's author and "Queen of Editing" Naomi V. Dunsen-White shares her inspiring journey from writing her first book during COVID to helping other authors achieve their publishing dreams. Naomi reveals the three critical mistakes new authors make, the surprising six-week process to become an Amazon bestseller, and why every child deserves to see themselves represented in the books they read. If you've ever thought "someone told me I should write a book," this episode will show you exactly where to start. Connect with Naomi V. Dunsen-White: Website: https://www.naomibooks.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naomibooksllc/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naomibooksllc LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naomi-v-dunsen-white-703249217/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/naomibooksllc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@naomibooksllc Connect with Annette Compo and the Compo & Medema Group: Websites: https://www.annettecompo.com/ | https://www.comporealty.com/ Call: (877) ANNETTE Email: annettecompo@kw.com Office: 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Annette's Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/compomedemagroup/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/compomedemagroup/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@annettecompo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annettecompo Podcast Channels: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annettecompopod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@annettecompo Threads: https://www.threads.com/@annettecompopod X: https://x.com/AnnetteCompoPod Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/OpeningDoorswithAnnetteCompo LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/opening-doors-with-annette-compo Subscribe for inspiring conversations about purpose, dreams, and achieving your goals! TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction & Welcome 0:30 - Naomi's Journey: From Early Reader to Children's Author 1:00 - The Birthday Gift That Started It All 1:56 - How COVID Changed Everything 3:58 - What It's Like Being an Amazon Bestseller 5:26 - The 6-Week Process to Bestseller Status 7:20 - First Steps: "Someone Told Me I Should Write a Book" 10:04 - The Three Critical Mistakes New Authors Make 13:52 - Why Editing Matters & Being "Editor Ready" 14:28 - Know Your Audience (Hint: It's NOT Everybody!) 15:35 - New Project Alert: Writing About Purpose 17:48 - Why Am I Here? Teaching Children About Purpose 18:19 - Diversity & Inclusion in Children's Books 19:04 - Acknowledge, Accept, Embrace, Use & Share Your Story 19:37 - How to Connect with Naomi

    20 min

  11. 10/31/2025

    Is Real Estate the Right Path for You? featuring Christina Dedvukaj

    In this episode I sit down with Christina Dedvukaj, our team leader at Keller Williams. We talk about what real estate really is, who it is for, and how to build a career that supports the life you want. I have spent my life in this business, and I can tell you it is not only houses. It is mindset, training, and having the right support so you are not out there alone. Christina and I talk about getting started, what new agents can expect in the first year, and what experienced agents need to grow on purpose instead of guessing. If you are thinking about getting your license, or you are already in real estate and you feel stuck, you should hear this conversation. If you are ready to take the next step, reach out. Visit annettecompo.com. Visit comporealty.com. Call me at (877) 266 3883 or (248) 640 9803. You can also email AnnetteCompo@kw.com. You can find us at 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Read my book The Power of Mindset: Transforming Your Life Through Growth on Amazon. Follow Opening Doors with Annette Compo so you do not miss upcoming episodes.

    14 min

  12. 10/31/2025

    When Is the Right Time to Sell Your Home?

    I have spent almost four decades in real estate, and the truth is that timing is personal. I explain how to look at your stage of life, your payment, and your next move so you can decide with confidence instead of guessing.   I walk through what actually gets a home sold for strong terms, from preparation and presentation to smart pricing and professional marketing, and I explain how I study on market and sold activity in your area so you are positioned to win.   If you are thinking about selling, reach out. Call me at (877) 266 3883 or (248) 640 9803. Email AnnetteCompo@kw.com. Visit annettecompo.com or comporealty.com. You can also find us at 30500 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 300, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Read my book The Power of Mindset: Transforming Your Life Through Growth on Amazon. Follow Opening Doors with Annette Compo so you do not miss upcoming episodes.

    20 min
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Opening Doors with Annette Compo is a guided conversation on home ownership, stability, and personal direction. Annette sits down with respected voices in the community and speaks from experience on what it takes to get started, build security, and move with purpose. Each episode is led by Annette Compo. Follow so you do not miss out on the great upcoming episodes.

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  • Creator
    Annette Compo
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Opening Doors with Annette Compo
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