Episodes

Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Ep 24: Becoming More with Dianna Kokoszka: A Special Edition Episode
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
Wednesday Dec 20, 2023
You don’t want to miss this special edition episode! The host, Cheryl McDonald, interviews Dianna Kokoszka about her new book titled, Becoming More: You Can’t Get to Better Until You Get to Different. Forward by John C. Maxwell.
As an award-winning business leader, Dianna has established herself as a prominent figure in the business world, developing many leaders during her longevity. Dedicating thirteen years as CEO of KW MAPS Coaching and Training at Keller Williams Realty International, she played a pivotal role in propelling the company to become the largest and most profitable coaching enterprise in the real estate industry. As innovator, creator, and author of the KW BOLD Experience and Coaching Skills Camp she helped lead the company to be recognized as the number one training company in the world.
In this special edition episode, Dianna talks about her book where she details how to live the life you were designed to live. She discusses how to re-train your brain based on five different stories you might be telling yourself. Words have power, and how you use those words in your mental stories predicts your future. Using the frame of Neuro-linguistic Programing coupled with research about stress, the book is designed to help you recognize and harness your innate potential.
EXTRA BONUS: Cheryl is giving away Dianna Kokoszka’s new book titled, Becoming More: You Can’t Get to Better Until You Get to Different (with Forward by John C. Maxwell). Click on this link to register to win this free book giveaway!
Learn how to access her free assessment tool to discover your seven mindsets that liberate you as well as the seven that limit you. She ends the interview with this question: When are you going to get started on having the story you deserve and living it out each and every day, becoming more, and helping others?
#BecomingMore #DiannaKokoszka
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Monday Dec 18, 2023
Ep 23: Your Mindset During the Holiday Season
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
In this holiday episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach, talks about mindset. Some say this is the most wonderful time of the year, but is it? Greater stress. Pressure to decorate. Lots of holiday events to attend. Pure exhaustion. So…what is your mindset going to be this holiday season?
During this short, 12-minute episode, Cheryl talks about setting your mindset:
- Plan your day. Work your plan.
- Better to be happy than right!
- Difference between happiness and joy.
Cheryl poses these questions to help you with holiday mindset and to start 2024 strong:
- What are you chasing?
- What are you looking for?
- What stress are you bringing on yourself to make other people happy?
- How might you pick your battles, rather than being right?
Don’t miss new episodes in 2024. Simply click the “follow” button in the upper right-hand corner to receive a notification when each new episode is dropped. Discover how to get the right mindset, perfect your skills, and build wealth.

Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Tuesday Dec 12, 2023
Welcome to another episode of Real Estate Trifecta, where you discover how to get the right mindset, perfect your skills, and build wealth. In this episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach, discusses how to avoid making something more complicated than it needs to be. Ask yourself, “What are you putting off that needs to get done? Why is it hard to get started? How can you work through those challenges?” Grab your earbuds and learn how to push through.
EXTRA BONUS: Cheryl is giving away Dianna Kokoszka’s new book titled, Becoming More: You Can’t Get to Better Until You Get to Different (with Forward by John C. Maxwell). Click on this link to register to win this free book giveaway!
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Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Welcome back to another episode of Real Estate Trifecta. Are you looking for strategies to make a difference in others while growing your own leadership? In this episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach interviews Caryn Prall, a self-described serial entrepreneur. Presently, Caryn is Chief of Growth & Industry with Keller Home Loans | Mutual of Omaha Mortgage as well as an operating partner with E to P Group with 10 locations and growing. Other past roles include serving as an Operating Principal, Broker Associate, Director of Business Management, and in leadership assignments within high-end hospitality.
In this episode, some of the leadership strategies you will hear are:
- Surround yourself with the right people.
- Create a climate of high standards and hold true to them.
- There is duality in every decision.
- Discover what brings you joy without apologies.
- Make deposits in others and your own value.
- The way you treat others…matters.
- Impact one person at a time.
- Consider the 10- and 5-Foot Rule.
- Take a class on improv.
- Look for future talent and nurture those individuals.
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Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Are you looking for a way to have better performance in reaching your goals and building wealth? Have you ever considered using a productivity coach (PC)? In this episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach interviews Michelle Andersen, who pioneered the role of Productivity Coach and actively coaches PCs today as a full-time MAPS Leadership Head Coach.
In addition to facilitating a weekly national PC Development call, Michelle leads PC Masterminds and Panels across the United States and abroad. With over 15,000 hours of coaching and training behind her, Michelle is the creator and author of Coaching for Better Performance, a certified, accredited course by the International Coaching Federation. What’s more, Michelle is a John Maxwell Coach, a KWU Approved Trainer, Certified DISC Consultant, Certified in Conversational Intelligence and is an active member of the International Coaching Federation and an approved ICF Coach Educator.
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
In this episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach interviews the amazing Sam Powell. The energy and leading-edge ideas shared during their discourse will reveal why Sam is a successful realtor, national speaker, educator, mentor, trainer, and coach. As a broker with Pride Homes Chicago, her tagline — “Real answers, real people, real estate” — speaks to the culture she has created with co-workers and clients serving the LGBTQ community in the city and suburbs. Learn how to get the right mindset, perfect your skills, and build wealth.
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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Ep 18: The ONE Thing! Cheryl McDonald Interviews Sue Vencill
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
Welcome to another episode of Real Estate Trifecta. Learn how to get the right mindset, perfect your skills, and build wealth. That’s what Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach, means by trifecta. In today's episode, Cheryl interviews Sue Vencill, a highly successful Certified Business MAPS and ONE Thing Coach. Click here for a chance to win a copy of The ONE Thing or a Complimentary Business Assessment with Sue Vencill, ONE Thing Coach.
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Monday Oct 23, 2023
Ep 17: Are You Listening?
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
In this timely episode, you will be asked a number of reflective questions. For example:
- What are you listening to?
- Who are you listening to?
- To what extent do you listen to those who empower you to live the life you want?
- Does what you listen to edify or hold you back?
Throughout this podcast episode, Cheryl McDonald, a proven business, industry, and productivity coach, will engage you in finding the greatness within yourself. Through her stories and conversation, she will motivate you to take steps needed to live the life you want. What’s more, Cheryl talks about having the courage to change how you think by considering what you listen to.
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