The Jeffrey Scott Stanton Podcast

Real conversations.
Real performance.

Direct discussions about performance, leadership, and what it actually takes to build a business that holds up under pressure. No fluff. No recycled advice.

Most conversations about real estate and business performance stay on the surface. This podcast goes deeper.

Two shows make up The Jeffrey Scott Stanton Podcast: Outside The Corporate Box, conversations with people who stepped away from someone else's structure to build their own, and The Leadership Series, where leadership stops being theory and becomes a practical discipline.

No fluff. No recycled advice. Just direct, honest conversations grounded in 30 years of experience inside the industry.

The series.

Outside The Corporate Box

Conversations with leaders, builders, and thinkers who knew they were never meant to stay inside someone else's blueprint — reinvention, courage, and what it actually takes to build something of your own.

The Leadership Series

For brokers, team leaders, and executives who want to think differently about how performance gets built and sustained inside an organization — practical frameworks on trust, accountability, influence, and culture.

The Leadership Series

008: Decisive | Chip and Dan Heath | Decide Like They're Watching

A decision is never private — teams reverse-engineer every leadership choice to determine what you actually value. Four decision-making traps, and the pre-mortem and tripwire tools that counter them.

Outside The Corporate Box

She Had the MBA, the Six-Figure Salary, and Was Crying in a Parking Lot at 10 PM | Tezeta Roro

Tezeta Roro had the MBA, the six-figure salary, and the badge she was proud enough to wear to the grocery store. Then came a moment nine months pregnant on a corporate campus that made the structure impossible to keep climbing.

The Leadership Series

007: Atomic Habits | James Clear | When Motivation Runs Out

Consistency isn't willpower, it's systems and identity. James Clear's framework applied to the leadership "valley" where most people quit right before results show up.

The Leadership Series

006: Emotional Agility | Susan David | The Most Dangerous Moment

What happens in the three seconds before a leader responds determines whether the moment gets led or gets dominated. Four emotional agility moves for high-pressure leadership situations.

Outside The Corporate Box

From Fortune 500 to Founder: Why Staying Comfortable Is the Biggest Career Risk

Jackie Phichith spent nearly two decades inside Fortune 500 boardrooms guiding McDonald's, Merck, and Pfizer through transformation — then applied the same framework to herself.

Outside The Corporate Box

Leaving Corporate to Build Relay Recruiting: Lauren Dunkle Dlugosh's Story

Lauren Dunkle Dlugosh was placing $550K–$650K in fees annually at her Rochester firm, with no real reason to leave. The night before she quit anyway, she slept perfectly.

The Leadership Series

005: The Speed of Trust | Stephen Covey | You Lost Them Before They Left

Trust is an economic force that sets the speed and cost of everything an organization does. What happens to commitment the moment trust starts to erode — and how leaders lose people before anyone announces they're leaving.

Outside The Corporate Box

Laid Off at 50, #1 Agent at 51: Donna Baker on Reinventing After the Floor Falls Out

Donna Baker climbed the corporate ladder for 30 years to one of the highest-paid executive-assistant roles in Los Angeles — then the 2000 Nasdaq crash erased the job and the stock options in seven months.

The Leadership Series

004: Good to Great | Jim Collins | What You Tolerate Becomes the Culture

Every organization runs on two sets of standards — the stated ones and the real ones — and the real ones always win. What happens when leaders tolerate a violation instead of enforcing the standard.

The Leadership Series

003: Crucial Conversations | Kerry Patterson | The Leadership Talk You Keep Avoiding

The leadership conversation everyone avoids, and why avoiding it is itself a decision with consequences. Applying Crucial Conversations to the moments leaders keep putting off.

The Leadership Series

002: Start With Why | Simon Sinek | Vision as Leadership Responsibility

Vision is a daily leadership responsibility, not an annual kickoff speech. Four diagnostic questions for whether a team's vision is actually clear, repeated, rewarded, and believable.

Outside The Corporate Box

We Were the Corporate Box: JMan and Jeffrey Get Honest About the Day Everything Changed

JMan and Jeffrey turn the mic on themselves. For over a decade, Jeffrey was EVP of Learning and Development at Douglas Elliman, shaping the careers of 6,000 to 7,000 agents — this is the day that changed.

Outside The Corporate Box

From Admin to Co-Broker Owner: Lindsay Hart on Relationships, Risk, and Real Estate Reinvention

Lindsay Hart started at the front desk of a small-town brokerage in 2005 and took a pay cut to do it. Twenty years later, she's co-broker owner — the slow, unsexy path from admin to partner.

Outside The Corporate Box

She Almost Lost It All: How Carrie J. Little Built 29 Years of Real Estate Success From Nothing

Carrie J. Little walked away from a tech career and built her business with doorknob bags and laundromat flyers because there was no marketing budget. Twenty-nine years later: managing broker, bestselling author, national speaker.

Outside The Corporate Box

She Left Real Estate Twice. The Second Time, She Did It Her Way | Megan VonDeylen

Megan VonDeylen built her business over ten years, reached the top of her brokerage, and walked away for her family — twice. The second return came with one decision that changed everything.

Outside The Corporate Box

He Left a $500K Job at 40, Built a $10M Agency, and Never Looked Back | Eric Winegard

Eric Winegard didn't start building his own thing until 40, walking away from a $500K sales-leader salary. Today he runs an 8-figure marketing agency serving 300+ clients.

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