“Frustration is the warning light on your dash.” James Shaw uses MREA pages 38 to 40 to explain the cycle most agents live in without realizing it: you hit a ceiling, you get frustrated, you start to blame and justify (the market, the sellers, the co-op agents), you slide into resignation, and then you go looking for greener pastures. The way out is to ask a different question: how will I break through? The answer isn’t some shiny new idea. It’s a proven model, adapted. Every agent hits a ceiling, whether yours is eight feet or eighteen. The call ends with a genuine moment: an agent who had pulled away from real estate entirely, came back to the call, and got a surprise phone call from a stranger in this community who just wanted to show her some love. If you’ve been banging your head against a wall lately, this one is for you.Aired on October 16, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

“Only 31% of agents are optimistic about the market. 58% are optimistic about their own business.” James Shaw shares the results of a survey he sent to 35,000 agents after a friend told him she’d need 50 leads going into the new year just to hit 30 deals. Nearly 500 replied. 83% said their market feels slower than it did 60 days ago, only half think they’ll hit their 2026 goal, and the number one challenge wasn’t the market, it was their own consistency. He also shares which groups are the most and least optimistic. The big takeaway: 2026 can be an informational year, and the market is just information. What matters is what your business looks like in response.Aired on October 15, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

Liz Landry has spent nearly two decades coaching people into the right leverage so they don’t have to do it all. Her new book, From Operator to Owner, is based on her experiences and I can’t wait for her to walk us through it.In this call, she shares:Why it’s so hard for agents to let go of doing everything.Her four-level “leverage ladder” framework and where agents get stuck.How to empower your team to make decisions instead of just handing them tasks.Aired on October 14, 2026Every Wednesday, James Shaw interviews elite people who are doing elite things, on an elite level. The webinar is a space where you can draw inspiration from writers, agents, teachers, coaches and even athletes. Prepare to be inspired!JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

“Creativity is great when it’s built on top of a model. Creativity used as a shortcut around one is how you end up exhausted.” Fresh off Advance, James Shaw brings the room to everyone who couldn’t be there, and agents share their biggest ahas: putting fear in the back seat, the power of the pause, reminding leads about an appointment instead of confirming it, and judging your success over a whole career instead of one rough year. Then he pulls from MREA pages 37 and 38 to make a point that’s easy to forget when the market gets wonky: more conversations are now needed to get the same result, and the temptation is to get creative and wander away from the fundamentals. If you’re feeling burnt out or like you’re reinventing the wheel every week, this one’s for you.Aired on October 14, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

Halloween lead generation is the main event, and guest host Nik Alvarez has a very good reason for asking: it’s less than two weeks away, it’s one of her favorite holidays, and every year this call turns it into a way to reconnect with the database and show up in the farm. Skeletons playing pickleball. A Batmobile. A hayride that started by accident. The agents on this call are treating Halloween like a lead gen holiday, and it’s glorious. Costume swaps at the library, movies in the park (yes, someone dressed as Beetlejuice), trunk-or-treats with giveaway QR codes, a golf cart parade for a 15,000 home community, and scary mailers that say “real estate doesn’t have to scare you.” One agent also shares a tip for any party you walk into: ask people about themselves first, then have an elevator pitch that’s way more interesting than “I’m a realtor.” Come for the Halloween ideas. Stay for the candy math.Aired on October 13, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

Not every seller table is worth sitting at. Guest host Arthurine Johnson pulls from Shift page 107, where Gary Keller says that in a shifted market, unmotivated or unrealistic sellers can cost you time and money, and asks agents the question most of us avoid: how do you know whether a listing is worth the second appointment? Agents share the exact pre-listing questions they ask on the phone before ever driving to the kitchen table, like “If everything I say makes sense, is there any reason we wouldn’t move forward?” and “If now isn’t the right time, when would be?” One agent walked away from a seller who micromanaged everything through ChatGPT. Agents also talk about the difference between a listing appointment and a home visit when working with seniors, and why curiosity questions help sellers self-discover the right price. If you’ve ever taken a listing you knew in your gut wouldn’t sell, this one is for you.Aired on October 12, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

Money gets you started. It’s not what keeps you going. James Shaw pulls from MREA pages 75 to 77 and asks agents to dig into their “big why.” Your why doesn’t have to be huge, and it’s allowed to change. Years ago his was being able to afford a tank of gas, and today it’s something completely different. He also shares a challenge from Gary Keller: when you’re already pretty good, make doing your best and being your best the point of everything you do, and the rest follows. If you’ve ever wondered whether your why is “big enough,” this one is for you.Aired on October 9, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

"Are you taking care of you?" Guest host Nikkia Dollar opens the call with a question that most agents skip right past in the grind: when work takes more effort to get the same result, what's keeping you going? Agents get honest about what self-care actually looks like when it doesn't cost a dime, from morning prayer and meditation to pickleball, painting with a daughter, music blasting in the car, barefoot grounding in the grass, and one very real "I turned my alarm off and went back to bed." Then Nikkia brings in Bessel van der Kolk's "The Body Keeps the Score" and asks how mindfulness shows up in the clients you take, the ones you walk away from, and the energy you protect. One agent shares how her mindset carried her through seven medical emergencies and her plan to live to 100. Another reminds us that saying no is a complete sentence. A grounded conversation about showing up for your business without losing yourself in it.Aired on October 8,2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

As a rainmaker and partner, Divya Chugani is a major contributor to the 100 homes the Jac Smith Group closed last year. Even more impressive is that virtually all of her business is from the referrals she receives from a small circle of VIPs.In this call she shares:● The weekly rhythm she uses to stay top-of-mind with her VIPs in an authentic way.● The things that earn someone a spot in her VIP circle and what causes her to remove them.● The annual conversation she has with VIPs to turn relationships into business.Aired on October 7th, 2026Every Wednesday, James Shaw interviews elite people who are doing elite things, on an elite level. The webinar is a space where you can draw inspiration from writers, agents, teachers, coaches and even athletes. Prepare to be inspired!JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com

85 days left in 2026. What did you say you'd finish this year, and what's on your calendar to make it happen? Guest host Kristen Jungles pulls from Shift page 81, "When the market changes, you don't slow down, you ramp it up," and makes the case that time blocking is the real secret to getting in the path of business. Her favorite line from Gary Keller: show me your calendar and your bank account, and I'll tell you how your business is doing. Agents share what's working for them right now, from calling 50 people from the database in a single day (80% of her business comes from it) to events with tons of touches before and after, weekly lunches with past clients, and one agent's idea to start a movement of 250 three-way text referrals a year. If your calendar doesn't match your goals, this one will help you fix that.Aired on October 7, 2026The Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call is in an interview format, where agents across the globe share their expert input on various real estate topics. If you are stuck, we have the solution. This mastermind prepares any real estate agent to be several steps ahead of a market shift.James Shaw started this community during the pandemic. After 6 years, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead is composed by 126.400 real estate agents. Through playbooks, masterminds and events, Shaw provides a growth and accountability space for those who need support.JOIN US ON FACEBOOK FOR FREE & EXCLUSIVE MASTERMINDS: facebook.com/groups/SHIFTDailyReady to Scale Your Real Estate Business? JOIN THE INSPIRE COLLECTIVE FOR MORE www.jamesdshaw.com