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In this inspiring interview, Ms. Jacqueline Schwartz shares her remarkable journey of overcoming a stroke through neuroplasticity, her diverse career in education, real estate, and training, and her vision for empowering others through her Center for Excellence in Learning.
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Jacqueline Schwartz (00:00)
I said, you don’t know this story because I haven’t been here since it’s happened. I said, but I have a new brain. ⁓ And he listened to my story and he said, Jackee, you’re right. You do have a new brain. It rewired as it healed. It took almost exactly a year for it to heal and make those new connections.Quentin Edmonds (00:07)
Mmm, yes, yes.Yes.
Hello everyone. Welcome to the Real Estate Pros podcast. I am your host, Q Edmonds. And today’s a treat. You know, if y’all be following me, you know, I always say I’m excited to be here today and today is no different. But I have just the sweetest person here. And I have someone who, listen, has been a pillar of our community. She’s been an educator. And if you know me, my wife’s an educator. I a place in my heart for educators.
but also she just has something that she’s doing that’s special and that’s different. And so I can’t wait for her to talk about it. want to get, you know, get to know her, get to know her story. And so I want to introduce to some presented some introduced to others, Ms. Jackee Schwartz. Ms. Jackee, how you doing today, ma’am?
Jacqueline Schwartz (02:43)
I’m great.Quentin Edmonds (02:44)
Absolutely. Well, listen, like I said, I’m a said on camera. Thank you for your perseverance. Thank you for your time. Thank you for being here. Thank you for making this happen. I appreciate you. And so, yeah, absolutely, Ms. Jackee. And so listen, what I want to do, I want to dive right in. ⁓ I want you to tell the people what your main focus is these days, like, you know, what you’re doing, you know, these days now. Ms. Jackee, also, if you don’t mind, give us an origin story, kind of how you got started, how you got to where you are today.Jacqueline Schwartz (02:53)
Thank you.Quentin Edmonds (03:12)
And if you don’t mind, tell us geographically what part of the world you’re in. So tell us what you’re doing, your origin story, and where you are. Ms. Jackee, you have to pull them out.Jacqueline Schwartz (03:21)
Okay, thanks, Quentin I started my career right out of college, got married first, and then I taught school for 10 years. And that led me to, this path has been a very big roller coaster ride. And that’s kind of what my life has been like. Learning all the way, my husband and I both believeQuentin Edmonds (03:23)
Yes, ma’am.Yeah.
Jacqueline Schwartz (03:49)
that we are lifetime learners and we didn’t have children. I had so many wonderful children when I was teaching. So that kind of fulfilled the motherhood need, I guess. So anyway, after getting out of teaching, getting my master’s degree in education, I went into real estate and I sold real estate for about 25 years.Quentin Edmonds (04:02)
Yeah. Yes ma’am.Jacqueline Schwartz (04:16)
And that evolved into owning my own relocation services business. That was my entry into the business world. And two different worlds, they absolutely were. Then that led to a training company because I was hired as a contractor for ⁓ this company no longer exists. It was called Gallery of Homes. And I traveled the country teaching.Quentin Edmonds (04:26)
Yeah.Jacqueline Schwartz (04:44)
real estate agents how to do corporate calling. So again, my teaching background came into play and I love to teach. So that came back to me as the love to teach. That led to my getting into the training arena.And I had two things. I had a training company that worked with corporations to teach.
soft skills and things that actually are kind of the most important things about work is making good decisions and how you think and how you behave ⁓ on the work site. And that then led to my owning a marketing company where I did the social media marketing and other training for business owners.
So that’s now what led to today, the training arena of this whole mixed bag of skills that I’m learning. And by the way, Max and I both learned as part of our lifelong learning practice and need, we gave ourselves kind of a self-directed MBA. We started reading business books, starting with the E-Myth.
Quentin Edmonds (06:50)
Mmm.Jacqueline Schwartz (06:55)
Have you ever read that book? It is the, the entrepreneur myth and it is kind of the basic pathway to having a successful business. Then we started reading the more technical stuff like Jim Collins, um, Kahneman on thinking fast and slow. I got really heavy into emotional intelligence.Quentin Edmonds (06:56)
I have not.Jacqueline Schwartz (07:20)
and got certified as a trainer for the process of, I don’t know if you’ve heard of it, it’s very popular around the world, but a system of how to think and make better decisions by avoiding the normal patterns your brain takes. And that led to one year ago when I had a stroke and everythingwent quiet. Literally, I went quiet. I could not function. I was pretty much a vegetable for the first three days. I credit the EMTs with saving my life and the emergency room doctors. It happened at 3 a.m. in the morning, almost exactly one year ago. And I had an appointment yesterday with my neurologist and
Quentin Edmonds (07:51)
Mmm.Jacqueline Schwartz (08:17)
I said, you don’t know this story because I haven’t been here since it’s happened. I said, but I have a new brain. ⁓ And he listened to my story and he said, Jackee, you’re right. You do have a new brain. It rewired as it healed. It took almost exactly a year for it to heal and make those new connections.Quentin Edmonds (08:25)
Mmm, yes, yes.Yes.
Jacqueline Schwartz (08:45)
So that’s where I am today and I’ll hand it back to you.Quentin Edmonds (08:51)
Ms. Jackee, thank you so much. Thank you for taking us through the journey, taking us through your journey. ⁓ I have a saying Ms. Jackee, and I think you are the perfect personification of the saying. I say destiny has no wasting moments. And I say this by once time every podcast, like destiny has a way of not letting you lose any moments. Like every moment builds on the next.And it kind of makes us who we are today. And for you, when I just think about you yourself said the roller coaster of your life, know, being, being, getting married, going to college, being a teacher, no kids, masters in education, started selling real estate, you know, for 25 years training company stroke, all these different moments kind of brought us to this moment today. Right. And so I would have to ask you.
Jacqueline Schwartz (09:20)
Yes.Hahaha!
Right.
Quentin Edmonds (09:43)
And you’re like, for me, the perfect person to ask this, what has these moments taught you about yourself? What has these moments revealed about you?Jacqueline Schwartz (09:53)
think persistence is one of my biggest qualities and that I just don’t give up. ⁓ When my brain changed, it literally changed how I view everything. And I had a pretty good brain before, but I think I have a much better one now. One of my friends said to me when I told her my story, she said,Quentin Edmonds (09:55)
Yes.Yeah.
Yeah.
Let’s end.
Jacqueline Schwartz (10:21)
Jackee, it was a silver lining. And I said, you know what? It was because I am a better person because of what happened. And I see things more strategically. When I told somebody yesterday, I said, you know, when I plan, I stand at the back door every morning. I do my exercises for the three surgeries I had last year.Quentin Edmonds (10:24)
Mmm.Yeah.
Jacqueline Schwartz (10:49)
Well, one of them was the stroke, but the other were a hip replacement and a knee replacement. So I’m doing my exercises and my brain is going to work and I plan out my day and my brain, I can feel it working.Quentin Edmonds (10:56)
Yeah.Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, perfect. Yep.
I don’t want to ride people up in you. So you got the floor. Please tell me about the XC traffic. Your goals, please.
Jackee (11:43)
Okay.Okay,
the Etsy store is going to be funding my Center for Excellence in Learning. So that’s where the future is taking me in addition to, I really love vintage and collectible, old things, either vintage, which is 20 years old, or antiques, which is 100 years old. And actually, ⁓
put a couple of things in front of me to show you some of the things that my Etsy store is offering. Right now I have 500 listings on my Etsy shop, which is called Time and Tide, Time and Tide on Etsy. And here’s an example of one I just found yesterday. So after I finished at the doctor yesterday, I…
Quentin Edmonds (12:26)
Wow.Jackee (12:41)
celebrated by going to a thrift store ⁓ and buying some more. This is actually an antique. It was made by a high-end company in Dallas, Texas, and they’re known for making Rococo and Baroque style picture frames that are very expensive. So this is walnut and an overlaidQuentin Edmonds (12:50)
you⁓ wow.
Yes, ma’am.
Yes.
Jackee (13:08)
finish on it so that’s gold. ⁓ anyway, that’s we have steam engines that are little miniature models that’s probably 75 years old. ⁓ We have maybe not quite that old, but it’s somewhere in the 50 ish plus range. ⁓ Really unique, cool stuff that people have an emotional connection with.Quentin Edmonds (13:10)
That’s just beautiful. Yes, beautiful.Yes, ma’am.
Yes, ma’am.
Yes, ma’am.
Jackee (13:35)
But my Center for Excellence is where I want to go with the help of Etsy funding it and get it going and paying for marketing and facility cost of, know, where do you hold this program? You you have to pay some kind of fee for using their facility, you know. So that is all aboutQuentin Edmonds (13:59)
See you.Jackee (14:02)
soft skills and here my training company comes back into play butQuentin Edmonds (14:04)
Mm-hmm.Jackee (14:08)
in a whole different level of expertise because I’ve learned so much. And it is all about how to think and then how to know how to build the marketing platforms or the marketing strategies on what platform to go to find your ideal customers. if it’s a real estate person,Quentin Edmonds (14:29)
Yeah.Jackee (14:35)
Where do their customers hang out? Are they on LinkedIn? Hmm, not so much probably. Are they on Facebook? Are they on Instagram? Are they on wherever else? Depop. I’m not that familiar with where the younger generation hangs out, but find out. Ask. Get out of the building and go do your research.Quentin Edmonds (14:56)
Yeah.Jackee (15:03)
Find out where are your customers hanging out. And that’s where you want to be on that platform. So that’s how you know, where do I do this? Well, where your customers are, follow your customers. And then I’m going to teach people how to do that, how to make videos that actually get seen.How do I work with executives who know there are problems in their organization and actually hold them accountable for producing results? Not just a test that’s not worth anything. Actually see it implemented into their organization. I’m doing too much talking.
Quentin Edmonds (16:34)
Iunderstand, Ms. Jackee, this has been absolutely excellent. You are such an encouragement and you have just given us nuggets. I love how you tied this all in at the end to real estate, telling people, you need to know where your customer is and you need to go there. And I love how you want to give people the skills, but the center for excellence on how to do just that. And so this is absolutely wonderful. If someone wanted to reach out to you, connect with you, collaborate with you.
Learn more about what you’re doing. How can I get in contact with you, Ms. Jackee?
Jackee (17:06)
If they just have questions, either where to buy stuff on my Etsy store, my Etsy store name is timeandtide.com slash Etsy. And if they want to ask a question about where I’m going or have some ideas they’d love to share with me.on ⁓ my Center for Excellence, which I work on every single day. And my customers on that are more likely to be on LinkedIn than they are on Facebook or I’m going to YouTube for that because YouTube is a search engine and the second largest in the world.
Quentin Edmonds (17:50)
Yes, ma’am.Jackee (17:59)
behind ⁓ maybe third largest, Amazon, eBay, and then YouTube. So ⁓ there’s something for every business owner to think about. I started out with LinkedIn and then I went, this is not the right platform for me. So I am switching, that’s why I madeQuentin Edmonds (18:04)
Wow. Catchy. Wow.Yeah
Yeah, yeah.
Jackee (18:24)
the video yesterday in the rain at the thrift shop. That’s for my Etsy store and it will be on YouTube and it’s called Jackee Schwartz.Quentin Edmonds (18:30)
Wow.Gotcha, Jackee Schwartz . I love it.
Jackee (18:39)
So that actually,that’s the easiest way to get to me. Cause that other, you know, Etsy link is kind of long, but Jackee with two E’s J-A-C-K-E-E, short with a C as CH. And you know what I learned in putting a training program together? How to help people never forget your name. One of the ways,
Quentin Edmonds (18:43)
Gotcha.Gotcha.
Okay.
Mmm.
Jackee (19:06)
to keep that name embedded in your brain is to link it to something kind of provocative. In other words, it’s making an impression in your brain that’s very deep. I told people a story about my being at a baby shower years ago, and the girls at the end who each introduced themselves, across from me, these two ladies started giggling.Quentin Edmonds (19:20)
Mm-hmm.Jackee (19:32)
And I went up to him afterwards and I said, what was so funny? And they said, we’re so sorry, but we thought you said your name was Jocky Short. ⁓somebody come up to me years later after I told that story in my training and they went, Chucky Shores!
Quentin Edmonds (19:51)
Yeah.Jackee (19:56)
So that’ll help you. You won’t ever forget my name now, will you?Quentin Edmonds (19:56)
That’s amazing!It’s…
No,
we sure won’t. Oh, that is wonderful. And again, that’s just a little small piece of how you can train your brain, right? You just get, you know, love it. So listen, I want to see if I can tease your video, because your video is going to come out on YouTube. Is that correct? All right. So I know you did it. Drift Store standing in the rain.
Jackee (20:12)
Exactly! To link it!Yes, yes.
Yeah
Quentin Edmonds (20:30)
Do you talk about the threat that happened on the video? Okay, okay, got you. Okay.Jackee (20:34)
No, I don’t.But that was certainly a memorable piece of it for me. Now, I didn’t want to put a negative tone or light on the video. I did the video in like eight different sections. So first, I’m at the doctor and I said, yeah, I’m waiting for the doctor to come in for me to telling the story of my new brain.
Quentin Edmonds (20:43)
Gotcha.Understood, okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jackee (21:03)
Becausethis just happened like a month ago that all of a sudden the awakening happened and I went, Max, have you seen a difference in me? And he said, yeah, I have. And I said, I have this new brain.
Quentin Edmonds (21:06)
Okay.Wow.
Absolutely. And that is literally what you have.
And I know people, if people really want to study neuroplasticity and and, and, and regenerates like, like growing new protein branches in the brain, I would have wanted you to get that book. I said to her, switch on your brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf. Cause Ms. Jack is not lying. She’s not, this is not hyperbole. She’s literally telling you she has a new brain. She rewilded her brain. She has a new brain. And so yeah, I love it. Yes, ma’am. Yes, ma’am.
Well, listen, Ms. Jackee, thank you so much. Let me say three things to you. Thank you for your time. You could have been anywhere in the world, but you was persistent to give us your time today. And I appreciate that. Ms. Jackee, thank you for your story. I put a premium on stories. I believe our stories have a way of planting the seed in people that can bring a demonstrative change. Like we may never see the growth, but just the seed of the story, helps in planting people and then it’s a growth that happens later.
So thank you for your gift of vulnerability, your gift of transparency and sharing your story. And lastly, and I hope you’re going to appreciate this. I say this all the time, but I think you’ll appreciate this. I say this at the end, thank you for your mindset. Thank you for the way you think and bringing that perspective to this podcast and what you have done to rewire you and have a new brain. I hope that sets in with people when I talk about the mindset, because it’s so important and you have worked hard on your mindset. Thank you for bringing that to this platform.
I greatly appreciate you, man. I appreciate you so much. ⁓ Yes, ma’am. Well, listen, y’all heard Ms. Jackee. Look in the show notes, get in contact with her, get to our Etsy shop, let her build this, goal, her desire for the center of excellence, because it’s going to bless so many people. So please get in contact with her and definitely make sure you are subscribed here, because we’re going to continue to bring up amazing people, just like Ms. Jackee.
So Ms. Jackee, thank you again. And everyone else, listen, y’all have a fantastic day.
