Pursuing Freedom: Helping Realtors & Mortgage Lenders Build Profitable, Scalable Businesses and Lives They Love — No Hustle

Erin Bradley, Pursuing Freedom
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Pursuing Freedom is a place you'll find the inspiration and advice you need to take your real estate business to the next level. You'll hear from the most successful realtors nationwide, as we explore the habits, strategies, and mindsets of the top producers. We discuss real life challenges, niche markets, goal setting, team building, daily routines, and more! Our mission at Pursuing Freedom is to "build a life you don't need a vacation from," and live the life of your dreams. Welcome aboard!

  1. 12/19/2025

    Creating Community & Possibility with Edith Espinola

    Listen in as Erin and Edith discuss: How growing up in a tight-knit family shaped Edith's desire to create community and connection in both life and business. The importance of seeing people — truly hearing their stories and understanding how human dignity affects every decision they make. How hard seasons can become catalysts for finding purpose, building resilience, and creating support systems that strengthen entire communities. Edith's belief that leadership comes from generosity — giving time, attention, and encouragement even when life feels full. Building businesses that are heart-forward, aligned with service, and grounded in relationships that last.  …and much more!                                                   About Edith Espinola, a top-producing, award-winning Luxury Realtor and intuitive life coach who helps high-achieving women find homes that align with their values, vision, and next-level selves. As founder of the Espinola Real Estate Team at KW Bay Area Estates, Edith blends over 20 years of real estate success with a soulful, service-driven approach. Her clients, often executives and entrepreneurs, aren't just buying homes; they're creating sanctuaries. How to Connect With Edith Website: edithespinola.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edithespinola Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EspinolaRealEstateTeam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edith_espinola/

    38 min

  2. 12/12/2025

    Raising Your Belief Lid: The Agency Operating System with Angela Totman

    Listen in as Erin and Angela discuss: How a career pivot during college opened the door to an unexpected, purpose-driven path in entrepreneurship and financial education. The Agency Operating System, an acronym-based framework designed to realign your identity, energy, and actions so you can grow in life and business simultaneously. How accountability is actually a form of self-love — and why most people avoid it due to fear of being "called out." How limiting beliefs shape our "belief lid," and how small wins, intentional measurement, and behavior awareness help raise that lid over time. The emotional side of growth — releasing old identities, checking the facts behind fear, and using visualization to reshape your internal reality. …and much more!                                           About Angela Totman is a business and accountability coach, veteran financial educator, and community leader who helps individuals and organizations elevate performance through her Own Your Operating System™ framework. With decades of experience in business leadership, financial literacy, and systems development, Angela equips others to align mindset, strategy, and structure—transforming potential into measurable results. Her mission is to lift others up through empowered accountability and wealth-building principles, helping them lead with clarity, confidence, and purpose in every area of life and business. How to Connect With Angela Website: angelatotman.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelatotman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angelatotman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/azhomeswithangelatotman

    31 min

  3. 12/05/2025

    Joy Is the Strategy: Rewiring Success with Jennifer Liss

    Listen in as Erin and Jennifer discuss: How "fun first" became Jennifer's unconventional success strategy after burnout in two careers Why most high achievers block joy — and how childhood moments often hard-wire that pattern The simple daily question that doubled her income almost overnight How curiosity, not hustle, becomes a reliable business strategy Jennifer's C-M-O Framework for magnetic marketing: Clarity, Magnetism, Offer                                           About Jennifer Liss helps visionary entrepreneurs break free from invisible blocks so they can build businesses and lives that are joyful, abundant, and aligned.​ She blends somatic work, sales and abundance energetics, nervous system regulation, and breathwork to help entrepreneurs step into their power, gain clarity, and make quantum leaps in their business and life. Jennifer hosts Untethered with Jen Liss, a top 2.5% podcast inspiring thousands of leaders to align with their truth and create businesses they love. When she's not coaching or podcasting, you'll find Jennifer hiking in Portland with her husband and husky dog, Alfred. How to Connect With Jennifer Website: https://www.jenliss.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferreneeliss/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.liss.5 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifer.liss.coaching Recommended Resources  Take Jennifer's passionfinder quiz to get a full profile on how to get paid doing what you love! jenliss.com/quiz

    43 min

  4. 11/28/2025

    Freedom Has a Feeling: Step Into Your Next-Level Self with Erin Bradley

    Listen in as Erin shares: Why freedom has a feeling — and how most real estate pros postpone it instead of accessing it now. The origin story of Pursuing Freedom and how misalignment — not effort— created burnout during the early success. The moment I stopped tolerating what wasn't aligned and started leading with authenticity, joy, and "vacation energy." How stepping into your future self requires choosing new standards, new boundaries, and new levels of belief. The powerful reminder that the decisions you make — especially the scary ones — shift your timeline and open new doors.  … and much more!                                       About Erin Bradley Erin Bradley is a speaker and business coach, bestselling author, and host of the real estate podcast Pursuing Freedom. As a mortgage lender, Erin learned the hard way just how hard entrepreneurship and success in sales can be. From flat broke to 6 figures, and then to burnout, Erin and her team have been through it all! Erin operates under the mindset that you never give up, and you never settle, in life or in business. Anything is possible when you have the right mindset, great systems, and an amazing team. Erin is passionate about helping others design their ideal life, then create a business that is a vehicle to support that lifestyle, rather than rob you of it. And she's on a mission to help you believe in, and achieve your biggest dreams! How to Connect With Erin Bradley Business Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/PursuingFreedomOfficial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pursuingfreedomofficial/ LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-bradley/ Recommended Resources  Learn more about the Collective at https://pursuingfreedom.com/collective Save $1,000 on the annual membership with code YES1000 and save $100/month on the monthly membership with code YES100 at checkout… for the lifetime of your membership! Get a copy of Pursuing Freedom on Amazon here. Subscribe to the Pursuing Freedom podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or your podcatcher of choice for weekly inspiration and strategies.

    26 min

  5. 11/21/2025

    From Exhaustion to Empowerment: How Rebecca Green Built a Business She Can Retire From

    Listen in as Erin and Rebecca discuss: Rebecca shares how she built her first real estate team while raising two babies under two—and what she learned about letting go of control. She reveals the turning point when she stopped chasing volume and started prioritizing profitability and peace of mind. Learn the mindset and systems that helped her step off the hamster wheel and finally build a business she could retire from. Rebecca opens up about walking away from a million-dollar income to rebuild intentionally—and how that decision transformed everything. Discover the mission behind her CEO Agent Academy and why real success means doing "less, better."                                             About Rebecca is a mom first — her family is her first team. She's a serial entrepreneur second. She started my real estate business in 1991. Sge was a solo agent for two years before she built her first team. With two babies under two, at 24 years old, she was in the top 2% of brokers nationally and selling 45 homes a year. Fast forward to being licensed in three other states with a 9-year stint abroad, and several years in leadership with two luxury brands. 10 years ago, she didn't just step into a new market—she built a seven-figure real estate business from scratch using the exact systems she's here to share with you. After 30+ years in the industry, Rebecca knows one thing for sure: success is not about the grind—it's about working smarter, building to scale, and being profitable. Rebecca helps real estate agents, team leads, and brokerages create systems that generate leads, streamline operations, and scale revenue—without burning out. She's candid and has a no-frills approach, both in business and in life. Feeding people is her love language — She's a sucker for good wine, can make a mean Paloma, and wants every meal to feel like an exquisite dinner party — whether it's just her husband with her at the kitchen island, a house full of kids, or a room full of friends + neighbors. Rebecca sees renovation projects in almost every piece of furniture or space she encounters — indoors or out. Her current obsessions are gardening and our chickens. Let's talk authenticity, systems, collaboration, coffee, travel, and good design. Rebecca fully believes we are the architects of our destiny and every day presents a new opportunity to improve!  How to Connect With Rebecca Website: https://www.rebeccagreen.co/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-green-real-estate/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rebeccagreen.co Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebeccagreen.co/ Recommended Resources CEO Agent Academy Use code FREEDOM to save at checkout.

    38 min

  6. 11/14/2025

    Joy as Strategy: Amy Wilkinson on Soul-Led Success, Future-Self Guidance & the "Vacation Energy" Advantage

    Listen in as Erin and Amy discuss: Why "feeling good" can be a legitimate business strategy—and how Amy built multi-location success by following what resonated rather than what was "supposed to" work. Masculine vs. feminine operating modes: getting out of the head (constant doing/figuring out) and back into the body, heart, and receiving. The future-self practice: "Have tea with the you who already made it" and act from that state today. Coherence matters: pairing a clear mental intention with the magnetic field of the heart to avoid success that costs your well-being. September's invitation to let go: releasing identities, "shoulds," and old voices to step onto a higher-frequency timeline ("vacation energy" on demand) … and much more!                                                 About Amy Wilkinson is a Soul Embodiment Mentor, intuitive guide, manifestation teacher, and host of the global podcast The Abundance Club. She supports spiritual, soul-led women to embody their highest expression and manifest their most aligned lives through frequency, identity evolution, and divine co-creation. With over 20 years of experience in personal growth and spiritual leadership, Amy is known for her grounded wisdom and deeply transformational spaces. She built a thriving yoga and wellness brand from scratch - growing it to multiple studio locations before successfully selling the business as part of her soul's next evolution. Amy's own journey has included navigating burnout, identity shifts, motherhood, and the path of spiritual awakening. Through it all, she discovered the power of aligning with her soul's truth, shedding limitations, and becoming an energetic match for the life she was truly here to live. Now, through mentorship, retreats, and her signature teachings, Amy guides women to awaken their intuitive gifts, reclaim their power, and rise into the radiant, abundant version of themselves who is already living the dream. Her work is rooted in the knowing that we are expansive souls having a beautifully human experience and that manifestation is not something we do, but who we be. Amy lives on the Sunshine Coast, Australia with her husband and three children, living a life she once called a dream and now teaches others how to do the same.   How to Connect With Amy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-wilkinson-1152b52b9/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amy.wilkinson.583 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amy_thelightplace/ Recommended Resources  Activate Your Wise, Worthy & Wealth Identity FREE somatic practices: https://www.thelightplace.com.au/opt-in The Abundance Club Membership: https://www.thelightplace.com.au/the_abundance_club 1:1 Mentoring: https://www.thelightplace.com.au/one-to-one-mentoring

    38 min

  7. 11/07/2025

    The Joy Frequency: Tuning Into Abundance with Cathy Heller

    Listen in as Erin and Cathy discuss: how shifting from striving to receiving opens the flow of abundance Cathy's journey from record deals to spiritual mentorship — and why "God is my CFO." share why joy, not hustle, is the magnet for prosperity and purpose practical ways to "tune" yourself daily to your soul's radio station of love and possibility a heart-centered reminder that synchronicity, not strategy, is often the true source of success … and much more.                                               About Cathy is a renowned teacher, top podcaster and bestselling author. She hosts one of the top spiritual podcasts, The Cathy Heller Podcast, which has been downloaded over 45 million times and she's the author of the USA Today bestselling book, Abundant Ever After: Tools for Creating a Life of Prosperity and Ease. She's a practitioner of the law of reception, and has a deep understanding of the universal principles of manifestation. Cathy guides individuals on a transformative journey towards unlocking their highest potential. How to Connect With Cathy Website: https://www.cathyheller.com/book LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cathyhellerbiz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cathy.heller/ Recommended Resources  Cathy's Book: https://cathyheller.com/book  Coaching with Cathy https://www.pursuingfreedom.com/cathy This Abundant Life https://www.pursuingfreedom.com/TAL Wealth Identity Mastermind https://www.pursuingfreedom.com/WIM

    39 min

  8. 10/31/2025

    From Corporate to Real Estate Success: Authentic Growth with Gaby Proctor

    Listen in as Erin and Gaby discuss: Gaby's transition from 15 years in corporate media to becoming a top-producing real estate agent in Austin. How she and her husband navigated working together in business and marriage — learning to balance strengths, delegate, and grow as a team. The role of honesty and authenticity in marketing — why showing up as yourself (accents, ballcaps, lake life, and all) attracts the right clients. The power of video and podcasting for personal brand building and filtering in the right clients while filtering out the wrong ones. Gaby's insights on investing, making mistakes, and using those lessons to guide and inspire clients … and much more                                       About Gaby has been involved in Austin's real estate since 2002 with the purchase of her first home and first renovation. Since then, Gaby has bought and sold many properties (for herself and for her clients). Through her personal transactions alone, Gaby has experienced more than your average professional agent. She has invested in Single Family home rentals, condos, short-term rentals (Airbnb), renovated homes, flipped properties, owner-financed properties, invested through Self Directed IRA - nothing frightens her in the real estate investment world. Prior to joining her husband to create The Proctor Team, Gaby had a very successful career at one of the biggest local media stations in Austin. Starting as a part-time promotions support staff, she made her way up to Promotions Director before taking the leap over to the sales team. Once there, Gaby made quick connections and, through pure hard work and dedication to her clients, she built a very strong clientele and became the Top Producing Account Executive within her 2nd year. That is a position that Gaby not only never gave up, but dominated for the next 6 years as she became one of the most well-known, loved, and respected sales reps in the industry. Once she felt she had peaked in that business, and watched her husband shine in the other industry she has such a passion for, she jumped over to Realty Austin and helped The Proctor Team achieve the Diamond Club ($10+ Million producers) with Realty Austin every year since she joined. Gaby strives to make herself available to her clients, even as a busy mom of 3. Whether you are new to real estate or an experienced buyer or seller, Gaby is committed to serving you with the highest levels of integrity, ethics, and quality of service. Outside of Real Estate, Gaby is involved in many philanthropic projects, including Habitat for Humanity & Community First Village. Personal: Licensed since 2008 Mother of three amazing children Three-time Sprint Triathlon finisher Yoga/Pilates Enthusiast Loves spending time at the lake/river with family How to Connect With Gaby YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AustinRealtors-ProctorTeam LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/proctorteam-realty-austin-sanantonio-5333bb235/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaby.proctor.2025 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gabyproctor

    29 min
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Pursuing Freedom is a place you'll find the inspiration and advice you need to take your real estate business to the next level. You'll hear from the most successful realtors nationwide, as we explore the habits, strategies, and mindsets of the top producers. We discuss real life challenges, niche markets, goal setting, team building, daily routines, and more! Our mission at Pursuing Freedom is to "build a life you don't need a vacation from," and live the life of your dreams. Welcome aboard!

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