In our new continuing education membership program, Conversations with Market Leaders, you’ll have an opportunity to listen to live interviews, attend webinars, ask questions and interact with our industry’s leaders and trend setters.
Your membership will include:
Annual Membership $240 includes 12 months of live broadcast, recorded sessions and transcripts (where available). That’s only $3 per session!
Through June our “big ticket” interview sessions will be offered free thanks to Market Ready Real Estate‘s sponorship (webinars not included, subject to change at any time).
Monthly webinars and “ask the expert” call in sessions now included! Check our schedule for event marked CML.
Mark Montano - perhaps best known for three series on the Style Network and The Learning Channel: 10 Years Younger, which he hosted, While You Were Out, on which he frequently appears as a designer,[1] and My Celebrity Home on which he is both host and designer. Montano can currently be seen on WE TV’s new show, “She’s Moving In”.[2] Montano has a flamboyant design sense that homeowners on While You Were Out are sometimes less than enthused about at first, but he usually wins them over with his boisterous personality.
Mark Montano is the author of several successful books. “The Big-Ass Book of Crafts”, published through SimonSpotlight, subsidiary of Simon & Schuster, owned by parent companyCBS,[3] was released on February 18, 2008 and is now the number 1 selling craft book in America. The Big-Ass Book of Crafts is currently in its 7th printing as of January 2009. The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor is on shelves starting April, 2010.[4] For further tips from The Big-Ass Book of Home Decor, there is the companion website[5] and his Typepad blog.[6] In January 2011, Pulp Fiction: Perfect Paper Projects, was published and on October 11, The Big-Ass Book of Crafts 2 was officially on bookstore shelves everywhere.
Anthea Click - Anthea Click is a ten year veteran of the real estate industry. As a licensed broker, she put her days of selling real estate behind her and founded Fresh Perspectives Property Merchandising Services. She has assisted hundreds of families and agents prepare homes for sell while getting top dollar, no matter the market condition. She is a Featured Designer for Kirkland’s, sampling new home decor products, appearing at store Grand Openings and television segments, and provides design advice on the popular MyKirklands website.
Jennifer Duchene is a product of her own life experiences, growing up in South Africa in a home where entertaining was an everyday occurrence, style was absorbed, observed, and adored.
Jennifer completed the FIDER accredited Interior and Environmental Design Program at UCLA, where she served on the Student body, implementing new ideas for the program that are still in place. She is also an accredited member of IRIS (Interior Redesign Industry Specialists), and the founder of its Bay Area chapter, now in its 4th year.
After several life and job changes, Duchene studied Redesign and started her own business, focusing on helping her clients create delicious spaces with what they already owned␣spaces that allow women to love themselves, combining design aesthetics and the essence of the woman inside the room. Jennifer believes that the way we live is more important than where we live. Quality and style come from within. Surround yourself with people and things you love. Live in the moment. Clients have called Duchene an excellent listener, highly creative with the ability to mix odd elements and to be flexible in guiding them to a fuller, richer space to live in, while honoring their collections and tastes.
Jennifer is a lifelong learner, with a love of sharing knowledge in a witty, ebullient way. To her, everything is fascinating. Duchene has come to realize the importance of pulling together her talents to create spaces that honor women, giving them room not only to breathe, but to fly. Jennifer’s interests include reading, writing, entertaining, traveling, taking photographs, walking, and spending time in her own Chic Cocoon.
Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own business. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself for more than a decade, she deeply understands the questions and concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. Her expertise in personal and business change was developed through many years consulting inside corporations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Charles Schwab, where she coached thousands of executives, managers and employees.
“Entrepreneurship at its heart is aligning your purpose for being on earth with a business idea so compelling that you simply must do it, despite the fears that hold you back,” says Pam. Her experience teaching martial arts for 10 years to thousands of students including former gang members has helped her clients deal with fear head-on. A world traveler, Pam speaks four languages and has lived and worked in Europe and South America.
Pam’s book Escape from Cubicle Nation: From Corporate Prisoner to Thriving Entrepreneur was released in Spring, 2009 and won Best Small Business/Entrepreneur Book of 2009. Pam is frequently quoted as an expert on entrepreneurship in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek,Forbes, Entrepreneur, Money Magazine and Psychology Today. Pam is married with three kids and lives in Mesa, Arizona.
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Terry Haas - Most people know Terry for her recurring role on HGTV’s hit show “Designed to Sell.” Now in her fourth season as one of the show’s featured real estate agents, Terry shows millions of viewers how staging a home, improving curb appeal and making low-cost improvements can help to sell a property at top dollar.
Terry began her real estate career advising eager homebuyers in Atlanta. From the very start, Terry’s heartwarming smile put her customers at ease, carefully guiding them through what can often be overwhelming process. Her in-depth knowledge of the market and keen eye assures her clients will get the best price for their home. This knowledge brought her a recurring role on “Atlanta’s Best New Homes” and, more recently, as a featured guest on American Public Media’s radio talk show “Marketplace.”
Later, Terry served as regional project manager for one of the nation’s premier real estate companies, overseeing the sale of 3,000 homes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and managing more than 120 employees. She was awarded “Sales Director of the Year” in 2003 by the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association.
Now living in Charleston, S.C., Terry is partner in a real estate group, has her own home-staging consulting business, and recently co-wrote a downloadable e-book sharing her insights into preparing a house for sale. Terry also spends time sharing her real estate and networking expertise as a featured speaker for realtor associations, professional and community groups, and other organizations.
Matthew Finlason - Born in Jamaica and raised in Canada, loud, outspoken, and endlessly entertaining Matthew Finlason is a maverick designer, art director, and producer of film and television projects. The award winning host of HGTV’s television series ‘The Stagers’, Matthew is renowned for staging and transforming interiors, with DEKORA into show suites that has established him as the premiere home-staging expert in both the design community and the real estate industry. ‘The Stagers’, produced by Paperny Films and creatively produced by Keith Behrman received four Leo Awards for which Matthew won “Best Host” in a “Lifestyle Series”. In his battle for supremacy, he was invited to compete on ‘HGTV Showdown’ with team-mate Olympic gold medalist, Kristy Yamaguchi, in a high-pressure, high-octane race-against-the-clock design competition!
Learning the ins-and-outs of building and property development from the ground up he discovered, like his father, a talent for designing and renovating homes. Like his decorator mother, he possesses an eclectic knack for breathing life into any dull space leading the media to coin Matthew as “The Anti-Decorator” and “The Furniture Whisperer”. He continues to develop real estate, design interiors, decorate and stage homes throughout Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and the Caribbean. He is currently Executive Producing multiple lifestyle reality television projects with The Concept Room – an artistic collective he formed to develop and execute ideas in production design, art direction, stage design, interior design, and lifestyle programming.
Juliet, most recently, ran a successful home staging company in New Jersey where she “owned” the #1 spot on Google for “home staging NJ” for 3 years!! Upon relocating to the Deep South, she has built a service to share her social media know-how with small businesses and solo-preneurs.
Juliet has 10 years of corporate event planning experience for Showtime, American Movie Classics, Volvo, Pfizer, Merck and Bristol Myers-Squibb, just to name a few.She was also a voice over artist, voicing characters for MTV’s ‘Celebrity Death Match’ and ‘Liquid Pavilion’ and promos for Comedy Central’s ‘Adult Swim’, CNN, Netscape, Verizon, AT&T, ABC Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio’s First Wave.
*speakers are subject to change without notice.