Reinvention

It seems as though I have spent a lifetime reinventing myself. As a lifelong resident of the Washington DC area where I grew up and raised a family, I had multiple careers with every decade bringing a new professional endeavor…starting as a model in the 1970’s and now into my 70′s as a real estate agent. A marketing entrepreneur at heart, I had careers in sports marketing where I developed the world’s first high-tech horse racing facility in the 1980’s with new technologies including the first computerized handicapping system and video replay libraries. Then in the 1990’s, I created the original concept and business plan for what became the first ESPN Zone in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor working with ABC Sports. In the early 2000’s, I started an online themed gift business that won a ‘best of the web’ award in 2004 working with my daughter. In the early 2010’s, I developed a DC-based real estate business LegendaryHomes.com generating over $250M in sales. Most recently, in the 2020’s, at the age of 70, I took a job as SVP of Strategy & Innovation for one of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages where I developed new programs and technologies to help real estate agents be more efficient, effective and successful.

Looking back now, I can see how these reinventions revitalized me. New challenges force us to dig down and find the inner strength to put ourselves out there knowing we might be risking potential failure. It forces us to think more creatively, act more courageously and believe that we can succeed. That ignites our passion … and passion is what fuels us and makes us feel alive. It good for our brains, our bodies and our spirits!