Hi, I’m Coach James Short, host of the Leading and Growing Your Real Estate Business Podcast. 🎙️

In this episode, I sit down with Amanda Gould, a seasoned real estate professional and proud member of the Empowerment Collective. With nearly 30 years of property buying experience, Amanda shares her journey, her role in supporting women through divorce, and valuable insights into today’s property market.

✨ 5 Key Takeaways from this episode:

🌟 Holistic support for women in divorce — The Empowerment Collective brings together family lawyers, financial planners, mortgage brokers, accountants, and buyer’s agents.

💔 Gen X women face unique challenges — navigating divorce later in life often requires new strategies for financial independence and property ownership.

🏘️ Tailored property advice matters — every stage of life demands personalized financial and property guidance.

🧠 Emotional and mental empowerment — helping women regain confidence and autonomy in decision-making post-divorce.

📊 Real estate market insights — rise of off-market sales, the role of buyer’s agents, and the importance of collaboration in the industry.

📖 Episode Summary:
Amanda Jane Gold highlights the crucial work of the Empowerment Collective, a compassionate, multi-disciplinary network supporting women through the emotional, financial, and practical challenges of divorce. She also shares current real estate market trends, from off-market transactions to the growing presence of buyer’s agents. Amanda emphasizes collaboration between buyer’s agents and sales agents and unveils exciting future plans for the collective, including workshops and expanded services to empower women beyond property.

👉 Listen to this episode now and gain valuable insights into real estate, empowerment, and collaboration!

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#CoachJamesShort, #LeadingAndGrowingYourRealEstateBusiness, #RealEstatePodcast, #WomenEmpowerment, #PropertyMarket, #RealEstateAustralia, #FinancialIndependence, #BuyerAgents, #DivorceSupport, #BusinessGrowth

EP107 - Coach James Short with Amanda Gould: Empowering Women in Real Estate 💪

💧 Volunteering and Contributing to Community is Good for Business

In this episode, Tara McCaulley from the Elgin Business Resource Centre and Grayden Laing from Establish Media sit down with Chris Patriquin from Simply Pure Water to talk about how giving back to your community can also grow your business.

💡 What You’ll Learn:

- How Simply Pure Water is celebrating 25 years in business, thanks to community support
- The role the community plays in building business longevity
- Why community involvement can feel overwhelming and how to find your balance
- How to identify when to say yes and when to say no
- The biggest impacts Simply Pure Water has seen by staying active in the community
- Why giving back also builds a strong network and keeps your business top of mind
- Practical advice for businesses that are hesitant to get involved

👥 About Our Guests:

Chris Patriquin, alongside his wife Jame, owns Simply Pure Water in St. Thomas. Their business provides bottled and bottle-less drinking water solutions for homes, offices, and industrial needs. The store also features a Local Love Section with local products and a Zero Waste Refillery that offers Canadian-made, plant-based household and personal care refills.

Grayden Laing is the owner of Establish Media, a creative agency helping organizations and entrepreneurs amplify their presence through photography, videography, drone footage, motion graphics, and live-streaming.

🎧 Tune in to learn how contributing to your community can strengthen both your business and your network.

Volunteering and Contributing to Community is Good for Business

In this episode, we dive into the world of startup success with Eric Tippetts, a visionary entrepreneur and thought leader. He reveals how technology is reshaping the future of business, helping startups compete globally, boost efficiency, and deliver powerful customer experiences. Visit here: https://erictippettsoffici.wixsite.com/erictippetts/


Eric Tippetts Talks About The Power Of Technology In Startup Success

In this episode, Rob O'Sullivan shares why purpose-driven leadership is changing the way businesses grow. He explains how leaders with strong values attract loyal customers, inspire employees, and create long-term success. If you want to learn how to lead with purpose and make a real impact, this episode is for you!

Rob O'Sullivan Talks Rise of Purpose-Driven Leaders in Business

When your career path zigzags from Wall Street to pastry kitchens and back to finance, you pick up lessons most playbooks miss.

In this episode of the Focused on the Future podcast, host Suzanne Siracuse talks with Bridget Venus Grimes, CFP, founder and president of WealthChoice and co‑founder of Equita Financial Network, about centering a firm on breadwinner women, elevating Gen Z through a Rising Professionals program and crafting succession plans that reflect a founder’s values.

Bridget shares how personal experience shaped her niche and why community and retention remain pivotal for women advisors.

Key Points:

- Her unconventional journey from trader to pastry chef to planner, and how life events led her to serve breadwinner women
- Building a niche around women attorneys, then expanding to women in tech, executives, and business owners, who are often the primary earners at home
- Launching WealthChoice to align work with impact after pay disparity and advancement barriers at a prior firm
- The Rising Professionals program that meets Gen Z where they are, with fee‑for‑service guidance on 401(k)s, budgeting and first goals
- Equita’s curated succession planning approach to each founder’s vision, values and client continuity

Resources:


Listen to Focused on the Future on WealthManagement.com: https://bit.ly/4m0yHnC 
Subscribe and listen to Focused on the Future on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3EJ5MUe 
Subscribe and listen to Focused on the Future on Spotify: https://bit.ly/44jXhJI 

Connect With Suzanne Siracuse:
 
LinkedIn: Suzanne Siracuse: https://bit.ly/4e8Zyt0 
Twitter: Suzanne Siracuse: https://x.com/suzsiracuse 
Email: Suzanne@suzannesiracuse.com

Connect With Bridget Venus Grimes:
 
LinkedIn: Bridget Venus Grimes - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridget-venus-grimes-cfp/ 
Website: Equita Financial Network - https://www.equitafn.com/ 
LinkedIn: Equita Financial Network - https://www.linkedin.com/company/equita-financial-network/ 
Website: WealthChoice LLC - https://wealthchoice.com/ 
LinkedIn: WealthChoice LLC - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wealthchoice-llc/ 

About Our Guest:

Bridget Venus Grimes, CFP is President of WealthChoice, a wealth management firm for women executives, and Co-founder of the SEC registered investment advisor Equita Financial Network, a community of women-led financial planning firms. Bridget began her career in 1987, trading stocks for private hedge funds in New York City, before pursuing her passion of financial planning for women.

Bridget believes in empowering women to take confident steps toward a better life. She authored the best-selling book Corner Office Choices: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom and has written countless articles for major US media channels. Her commitment to women’s financial education extends not only to women professionals but also to fellow financial planners. She has spoken at major industry conferences and co-hosted the Financial Planning Association’s Women’s Knowledge Circle.

Bridget splits her time between Arizona and California and enjoys boating, golf, entertaining, anything French, and, most of all, cooking. She holds a B.A degree in German language and literature and a minor in Art History from Mount Holyoke College.

Breadwinner Women, Gen Z and Succession with Bridget Venus Grimes

In this episode of SCU Buzz, Dr Owen Hogan chats with Lara Goode, SCU alumna and founder of Coastal Therapies, about her journey from new osteopath to thriving clinic owner. Lara shares the highs and lows of starting a business, including rebuilding after a flood, managing staff, and balancing work with motherhood.

They also discuss the upcoming Graduate Certificate in Small Business Management, designed to help professionals - especially in allied health - gain the business skills needed to launch and grow their own ventures.

Learn more about the Graduate Certificate in Small Business Management: https://www.scu.edu.au/study/courses/graduate-certificate-in-small-business-management-1008130/

The musical introduction to this podcast was written and performed by Alako Myles.

Launching a business as a health graduate

Afsar Ebrahim, Executive Director at Kick Advisory, is a leading corporate strategist with expertise in business growth, corporate restructuring, and strategic transformation. With years of advisory experience, he empowers organizations with innovative strategies that enhance financial performance, resilience, and long-term sustainability.


Afsar Ebrahim – Executive Director, Kick Advisory | Financial Consultant

At KICK Advisory Services, we provide professional Investment Advisory Services tailored to help individuals and businesses achieve sustainable financial growth. With a focus on strategic planning, risk management, and wealth optimization, our team ensures your investments are aligned with your goals and deliver long-term value.
Visit us:- https://www.kickadvisory.com/ 


Investment Advisory Services

Afsar Ebrahim, Executive Director at Kick Advisory and a seasoned Corporate Strategist, specializes in corporate strategy, restructuring, and driving business growth. With vast advisory experience, he helps organizations achieve sustainable success through innovative solutions and well-defined strategic planning.

Afsar Ebrahim – Executive Director, Kick Advisory | Corporate Strategist

Umesh Arora, a lawyer, chartered accountant, and entrepreneur from Gurugram, believes that numbers never lie. With a career spanning corporate roles and business ventures, he has always combined financial discipline with purpose. In this podcast, Umesh Arora discusses five key habits for sustainable growth, including tracking every rupee, separating finances, managing cash flow, building reserves, and making data-driven decisions. His insights provide practical guidance for entrepreneurs and professionals aiming for lasting success.

Umesh Arora Talks About 5 Habits for Growth with Financial Discipline

KICK Advisory Services (“KICK’’) was founded in July 2020 by a team with an aggressive passion to drive corporate finance solutions in an era of unprecedented changes and volatility. At a time where businesses are faced with severe uncertainties, cash flow issues and are struggling to understand the dynamics of the changing world, we at KICK believe that sailing through the changing winds with a clear guide and focus will smoothen your business journey while giving you the cutting edge in competition to thrive in the new normal.

We are your one-stop location for FREE business advising, business planning, business loans and great networking opportunities in St. Thomas and Elgin County.

Umesh Arora from Gurugram is a businessman who's a lawyer and chartered accountant by profession. Umesh Arora is committed to creating meaningful employment, with a goal of generating 100,000 jobs. Umesh Arora combines professional discipline with a strong focus on social impact, making livelihoods central to his entrepreneurial journey. Umesh Arora chose the CA path not for the title, but for what it stands for: controls, cash discipline, governance, and truth in numbers. Soon after qualifying, he joined Sona Steering and rose to the role of Finance Manager by solving operational problems with financial rigor, not politics. In 2013, he left a rising corporate career to start his own real estate company, and by 2017, he expanded into wellness through two ventures that were Ganpati Arcade and US SOBO Wellness, and launched Ayurvedic treatment centres and spas. Ganpati Arcade provided spaces designed for calm, order, and service, offering local communities dignified care close to home. In 2022, Umesh added Vaidyaacharya, a clinical and manufacturing backbone that supports the centres and spas as their supply line and quality standard.

Rob O’Sullivan is a seasoned business leader with a strong record of company growth. Starting in sales, he became a top national performer before advancing to leadership roles as VP, COO, and President. Now a Director at a major commercial capital firm, Rob helps businesses secure financing for real estate projects and acquisitions. Living in Los Angeles with his wife, two kids, and four dogs, he also gives back by coaching youth sports and supporting schools, the Red Cross, and animal shelters.

Welcome to the podcast Leading and Growing Your Real Estate Business by Coach James Short. 

This podcast is designed to help you with strategies, insights, and ways to increase sales, build and lead high performing teams, and ultimately grow your business. 

Your host, James Short himself also shares some of his secret sources on how he helps his own clients achieve business growth quickly and easily. James has been coaching those in the real estate and property industry for close to 10 years now, and his clients keep on saying, since working with James, their results have been outstanding, giving them more money, time, and fulfillment, James is offering a free strategy call to those listening to see how he can assist you to take your business to where you want to go.

Southern Cross University is a multi-campus university on Australia's east coast, with campuses in southeast Queensland adjacent to the Gold Coast Airport, in New South Wales at Lismore and in Coffs Harbour, where the University’s National Marine Science Centre is also located. We have metro and the Hotel School campuses in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and Brisbane.

I am the founding partner of KICK Advisory Services. I have over a quarter century of experience in Corporate Restructuring, Litigation Support, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy and Financial Consulting and Fund Raising to clients across a wide spectrum of industries both locally and internationally.

New tracks tagged #Businessgrowth