Better & Better - A SPAAR Podcast

REALTOR®-REALTOR® couples who maintain a relationship while they grow a business: how do they navigate personal and professional commitments?  Is work/life balance a myth? How do you decide who’s the “fun one” and who gets to deliver hard news to clients?  In the first of a series of occasional episodes, we spoke with Dean Schlaak and Tom DeGree.

A recent article by the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that during the pandemic more than 20,000 people took the MN Real Estate License Exam. We sat down with one of those agents, Charles Osugo, to hear his perspective and experience being a new REALTOR® in real estate today.

On average, SPAAR offers more than 300 CE hours of classes to its members each year, with approximately 5,000 of student/participants attending either in-person at SPAAR or virtually in our live Community Campus zoom classroom. Kristin Parker, SPAAR's Education and Event Director, joins the podcast to talk about SPAAR adding On Demand style CE.

SPAAR sat down with Diana Dalsin and Mark Wilkening from Bridging to talk about their positive environmental impact, the impact of the pandemic on Bridging, and more!

Kasey Kier, Assistant Commissioner at MN Housing, came on the show for a special Fair Housing Month episode! Kasey spoke with us about MN Housing's mission, their strategies for reducing housing disparities in Minnesota, current housing programs, and much more.

SPAAR sat down with Soren Jensen, Executive Director of the Midtown Greenway Coalition, to talk about the Greenways history, their plans to extend it into St. Paul, and what the expansion would mean for real estate.

Jonathan Kopecky from Minnesota REALTORS® joined us on the podcast to talk about the recent changes to the Code of Ethics approved by NAR Board of Directors back in November of 2020.

In this episode of Better & Better, Joe McKinley interviewed 2020 Rising Star Award Winners and MetroYPN Chair and Vice-Chair Danielle Pelton and Jennifer Livingston to discuss their experience as REALTORS® and MetroYPN's new program Real Estate Fundamentals.

In the very first episode of the Better & Better podcast, Joe McKinley sat down with SPAAR’s 2020 President Patrick Ruble to discuss the challenges the association faced this year, the impact of association involvement, and the future challenges facing the real estate industry.