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In this episode, Kristen interviews Gessie Belizaire, CEO and founder of GB Consulting Group, who discusses the importance of living a purposeful life and overcoming feelings of being stuck or burnt out. Gessie shares insights on recognizing signs of burnout, the significance of relationships in both personal and professional settings, and the necessity of a supportive network. The conversation also touches on the importance of gradual progress towards success and the upcoming community-focused events organized by GB Consulting.
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Gessie B. (00:00)
I think it’s important that we fail forward and not look at failure as something that is a bad thing. I think the quicker that we fail, I think anybody who’s a millionaire, a billionaire, whatever, has multiple businesses, six figures.Kristen (00:03)
Mm.Gessie B. (00:16)
They are the ones that have never been afraid to fail and they do it quickly and they’re able to recover quickly and they’re able to really step back from themselves, die to their ego and say, what needs to change, whether it’s systems, whether it’s personnel, like, where do I turn the bat? How do I move forward? How do I learn from this? And so that I don’t repeat that behavior. so. Not afraid to go forward.Kristen (00:43)
Welcome back to the Real Estate Pros Pod. I am Kristen and I’m here with Gessie Belizaire, who is the CEO and founder of GB Consulting Group. They help people who are stuck and living on autopilot live a purposeful life. So thank you so much for being here, Gessie.
Gessie B. (02:31)
No problem. Thank you so much for having me, Kristen.Kristen (02:35)
So how about you give us just the brief overview of GB Consulting and kind of your guys’ mission?Gessie B. (02:40)
Absolutely. So we started the company back in 2019 really out of a need. I found that myself included, sometimes you go through life and you feel like you’re stuck or like what’s next or there has to be more to life or you find that you’re kind of living on autopilot. And so I really wanted toCreate a company that would focus from a holistic standpoint to help people to find and live purposeful lives. ⁓ And also, you know, the love piece kind of came afterwards ⁓ as I was single for a very long time. And ⁓ I think companionship ⁓ is
as humans, like that’s what we need. Like we were meant to be in connection with other people. And so I’m glad with the company we, we
Our focus is event planning as well as consulting. I’m also a life and relationship coach. So I help people to, you know, attack their goals. 1, 1 step at a time. And so I’m excited to be here again.
Kristen (03:50)
Yeah, that’s amazing. mean, I think a lot of people in the real estate world definitely feel that pull away from their personal life, maybe focusing too much on their career. What are some signs that you see of people who are perhaps in burnout?Gessie B. (04:05)
⁓ I think the sign of burnout is ⁓ inability to focus, ⁓ being easily irritated, ⁓ to anger, ⁓ and just you work, work, work, work, work. You feel like if you’re not working, your validity as a person is dampened. And so your parents lies and consistently being busy.So those are signs that you might need to take a step back and really, I think rest is resistance. So it’s really critical for us to even attack the work from a better standpoint. ⁓ So yeah.
Kristen (04:52)
Yeah, absolutely. And with GB Consulting, how do you help people?Gessie B. (04:57)
Yeah, absolutely. So,lot of the focus is on the events that we curate. We do it with a lot of intention. So, we help to bring our audiences and audience and sister of single professionals between the ages of 25 all the way to 55. Sometimes it’s a little older and most of them are, they live in the DC, Maryland, Virginia area, and they are.
professionals in their own right, ⁓ lawyers, doctors, real estate agents,
investors, ⁓ the gamut. ⁓ And so ⁓ we just try to create a safe space for them to see if there’s genuine organic connection. And as a life and relationship coach, you know, I work one-on-one and I’m looking to offer ⁓ group ⁓ services for people to really
Work on attacking the goals working on healing healing is my specialty working on past trauma relationship hurt and just really focusing on what is the pattern and how do I break that pattern and what do I want moving forward? What am I looking for when I want to consciously couple with someone else? And so we use we use data we use.
Kristen (07:03)
Okay.Gessie B. (07:07)
We lose, we use lived experiences. We use anecdotes, real life anecdotes to really drive the message home that if you don’t fill your cup up first, that there’s really, you can’t, there’s no overflow to get to someone else. So until you, until you know how to service yourself and you are content with being alone with yourself, only then can you consciously couple with anybody else. And that spills into business as well. You know, a lot of people,⁓ use, I think it’s the right side of your brain where it’s like analytical or left. I think it’s left that uses like the analytical side and things of that nature, but you need both aspects. You need to be, you need to come alive. You need to feel inspired. And that is only going to help whatever industry you’re in, whether it’s real estate, whether it’s capital investing. There are so many layers to who we are as people.
Kristen (08:05)
Absolutely. what I mean, because I know you work with a lot of real estate professionals, what kind of patterns do you see frequently that pop up with people that maybe hold them back in their career?Gessie B. (08:19)
I think it’s important that we fail forward and not look at failure as something that is a bad thing. I think the quicker that we fail, I think anybody who’s a millionaire, a billionaire, whatever, has multiple businesses, six figures.Kristen (08:22)
Mm.Gessie B. (08:35)
They are the ones that have never been afraid to fail and they do it quickly and they’re able to recover quickly and they’re able to really step back from themselves, die to their ego and say, what needs to change, whether it’s systems, whether it’s personnel, like, where do I turn the bat? How do I move forward? How do I learn from this? And so that I don’t repeat that behavior. so. Not afraid to go forward.Kristen (09:02)
Yeah.Absolutely. And when you work with people, how do you kind of get people in the mindset of accepting success in their lives? I think so many people hold that, hold themselves back in that way. ⁓ Maybe not even letting themselves having a purpose-filled life. How do you kind of help them create that purpose?
Gessie B. (09:26)
⁓ I think it’s important that sometimes when we look at a concept like, talks about ⁓ having everybody, majority people know about scarcity mindset. But when you’re in the process of being successful, that’s scary, right? If you spent like a majority of your life in a scarcity mindset.Once you start being blessed with things, you’re like, oh my gosh, I don’t know what to do with this capital. I think it’s taking things into smaller bites so that people can really feel the impact.
Until you know how to govern $1,000, you’re not really going to know how to accept or receive $100,000 or $1 And so we start, you know, as a life and relationship coach, I like that I’m able to
Okay, what do you want to work on from week 1 to week 2 and we, make it something that’s more attainable and we work with smart goals. Right? There’s smart measurable attainable time stamped things of that nature. So really. Really taking like a macro idea and really. Breaking it down into something that’s more tangible something that they can really relate to.
Kristen (11:25)
Yeah, and can you talk about kind of what progress actually looks like? Because I think people are expecting to go from zero to 100 or from 100 to zero overnight. But what does that kind of look like in practice?Gessie B. (11:38)
I think in practice, it’s doing something every day to inch yourself forward towards your goal, I think is the most important thing. Every day is going to look different and ⁓ your best every day is going to look different. Some days you’re to be like, you know what? I woke up today and I got out of bed. That might be your best for that day. And that’s okay, right? Because without you, there is no business.Kristen (12:02)
Mm-hmm.Gessie B. (12:07)
If your mind is not where it needs to be, what business, right? So just making sure that you are pouring into yourself and doing something, even if it’s a small thing to inch towards whatever that goal is you want, whether it’s, okay, I want to go from being a single family owner to being a multifamily property owner. What do I need to do to get there? Okay, I know I need to.Fix my credit. What are some of the negative inquiries on my credit? What can I do to then? Reach out to those negative inquiries and see how I can rectify those things right and then you you break it down into things that are manageable okay today, I’m gonna call the negative agency that has my credit and and do a deal with them or ask them to prove my debt right and these are all things that we might not be aware of but
It is doable if we break it down and say, tomorrow I’m going to make a phone call. That is more like, I can understand that versus I need to fix my credit. Where do I even begin? Right? Because I know I want to go from a single family owner and I want to have a multifamily property. Where can I get access to capital? Who has capital? I don’t have it.
Kristen (13:17)
Mm-hmm.Gessie B. (13:27)
Your network is your network, right? And so a lot of what GB Consulting Group does is we bring people together from all different industries and your network is really your network. Like the people who you are in the room with that you are surrounded by, they need to stretch you, inspire you, do something in some way, right? Because we only get one life. And so we have to give of it our best.If not, what’s the point?
Kristen (13:55)
Mm-hmm.Absolutely, and I feel like if you do try to do too much too quickly, you like do you see people give up quicker?
Gessie B. (14:06)
Yes, yes, and especially with the invention of social media, right, you see other people’s life and you don’t see the grit and the sweat equity that goes into being successful, you just see people traveling with these luxury cars and ⁓ if what you’re doing doesn’t look like that tomorrow, right, we live in a microwave society where we wantinstant gratification, want instant results. And so if you are of that camp or of that culture, you’re gonna give up very soon, right? And you’re gonna see a failure as a personal attack on you or your character or whatever. It’s like, no, you failed, fail quickly. How do you pivot, right? And how do you work on making sure that doesn’t happen again, right?
Kristen (15:43)
Absolutely. I think these are really good things to keep in mind, especially people starting out in real estate and the surrounding industries. I think it can be really helpful. And can you talk a little bit more? Because I know that relationships are the core of your business. And as you said, your network is so important. How can, I mean, not just romantic relationships, but how can you foster good business relationships?Gessie B. (16:06)
I think you have to understand that relationships, although they are transactional, even business relationships, there is another person attached to that business, right? That has a beating heart. And so if we look at the heart of the matter in anything that it is we’re doing.I think that will resonate with people. People don’t do business with transaction. They do business with other people. And sometimes we fail to remember that even in relationships, right? Today I washed the dishes and you need to take out the trash, right? Very transactional, but it’s like, what is your partner going through in that season? You know, it’s never 50-50. And when you have that understanding,
all relationships improve, including business, when you understand that there’s, you’re having a relationship with another human that has a heartbeat that came into this world and most likely they cried when they came out, right? You did as well. So you guys have a lot of shared experiences. There’s more that we have in common that we have that are not in common overall. It doesn’t matter your race, your gender, any of that.
Kristen (17:22)
Yeah, I think that’s a really good point and I definitely agree. And I know that you host events as well, so can you talk a little bit about your events and if there’s anything exciting coming up?Gessie B. (17:32)
Yeah, absolutely. I’m so excited. We have an event coming up on December 13. It is a singles mixer built in with a networking happy hour. We also have an opportunity for our business to highlight their business. month, we were graced bya real estate company in DC. I want to make sure I say their name properly. I believe it was.
a capital advisory company. And so they came and they spoke to us about ⁓ capital investing and this firm, are recognized by NIH, Black Enterprise, and really just want to give our ⁓ single professionals an opportunity, even if they’re not in real estate, to know what’s out there. And it’s an opportunity to engage, to educate, and to just let people know what’s out there.
in terms of how to acquire wealth, how to make lifetime cash flow, what are the different avenues that you can take. And so we have an event coming up on December 13th in DC. And because it’s the holiday season, we are adding a community piece to things. We’re asking people to bring lightly used coats or new coats so that we can help those that are in need during this winter season to stay warm.
So I’m really excited and I want to extend the invite to anybody listening in the DMV or who will be probably on business or anything to come on out.
Kristen (19:18)
Amazing! Well, tell everyone where to find you and where to find GB Consulting Group.Gessie B. (19:22)
Absolutely, I’m super active on Instagram so they can follow me at GB consulting group. I can also be found on my website at www.thislifeiliveintruth.com. Kristen, I’m so thankful for this time and this opportunity. It’s been a wonderful time.Kristen (19:43)
Awesome, well thank you so much. think that you gave people a lot of good takeaways and a lot of good things to think about. To everyone listening, please check out Jessie, please check out GB Consulting Group. As she said, she’s doing some group sessions, so definitely check that out. But we really hope that you got some inspiration for your business and for your life as well. So we will see you back next time. Bye.
