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Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! A readers digest version of our market(s). Welcome to Friday all! I spent yesterday away from offices in a thinking & planning retreat – these beautiful structures downtown inspired my day! I hope they do you. Amplifying market chatter this week in my “sweep”, encouragement to set time aside to plan for 2022 and a visual of the entertainment that has continued […]
Friday Post It’s Friday! Let’s dance. Let’s “pop” tags. Let’s plan. (on into the holidays) Welcome to Friday! I’m fired up! Why? Macklemore singing atop the Pike Place Market and my 2022 business planner is ready to distribute. A great way to wrap this week…and if you are “popping tags” this weekend (aka, Macklemore’s vernacular for shopping) – “pop” local! Macklemore: Next Year ft. Windser | The Tonight Show Starring […]
Friday Post Inspired by you – the readers! | Small Business Saturday (and beyond)… Live local. Shop local. Give local. This time last year I shared your favorite “shop local” jaunts – as inspired by you – the readers of FWL! No doubt, the same need exists for our favorite local businesses this year. Being “Small Business Saturday” I didn’t want to miss an extra post to give an […]
Friday Post Thanksgivings! “no thank you” No doubt I’ve shared many of posts around gratitude – the science behind it – and all the benefits in focusing on this super power = gratitude. And naturally we take stock this week with the Thanksgiving holiday. You would expect me to write about it again today – wouldn’t you? Well, kind of…let’s start […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | “We want to get you (Seller) to the blue – what does that mean?” Tune in to find out… Welcome to Friday all! This week I’m hitting you with new content yet with the same intentions of my podcast pre-pandemic. To be honest, running my podcast (and writing this blog) are two of my very favorite activities to do. Interestingly enough however – the pandemic environment allowed me to see much more efficient ways […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep this week! | Headlines, ask a question & a birthday… Well, that was a week! There was an election in our city. Looks like the vote was for change in Seattle. I’m very grateful Zillow wasn’t part of my portfolio. Oops, an example of an iBuying platform a bust. And oh, turns out a home’s value is not an algorithm. And, with further disruption this […]
Friday Post “The Windermere Way” Welcome to Friday and hello to the atmospheric river overhead! As promised, leaving the good read right here all of October. I’ll be back with new curated commentary next Friday. I will however share this hour long conversation from the DSA (Downtown Seattle Association) on the retails road ahead – one of the best things […]
Friday Post It’s Sunday. “The Windermere Way” Hi everyone. This Sunday evening’s blog post will take on a life of its own throughout October. I’m going to host “The Windermere Way” book right here all of October now that we have this read in a digital version (ISSUU). The “preface” below, along with a link to the entire read is now available […]
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Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | Guiding Sellers “now” Welcome to Friday all! We are certainly graced with a beautiful PNW day after a downpour yesterday. Frankly, I’ll take both! This week, my sweep is focused on Seller Conversations “now” (and always), a wee bit on burnout and a rally cap moment! Seller Conversations “now” – 3 stories… I witnessed a Seller receive 2 […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | a ditty + oh Ted + “or sooner” + could it be true? + what happened… Welcome to Friday & the end of a week where we officially said goodbye to summer and welcomed in fall. And oh, September 21st happened – thank you Ann O’Neil for sending this little ditty on Tuesday morning to start my day! Still worth us all turning up the volume and moving a bit to […]
Friday Post Welcome to Friday! | I’m not going to tell you to be positive… …I’m going to teach you how to become neutral in your thinking. I take an athletic approach to our business; and if you know me well, you’d probably say the same thing about my life. So when we brought in Trevor Moawad on mental conditioning to a recent Windermere virtual kick-off event, he took my […]
Friday Post Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! | Welcome back to Blue Friday! + Welcome back to Blue Fridays in our region! I’m wearing new blue pants for the occasion – good luck to our Seahawks this weekend vs. the Colts! The following week we’ll welcome back our Tackle Homelessness campaign when the Hawks again take their home field. More on that next week! This week a few odds […]
Friday Post Welcome to Friday! | “KMF” Welcome to the end of the week, welcome September & welcome to the launch into the long Labor Day weekend! Content light today, instead a story that keeps coming back for me – a sweet story from summer. My family was able to road trip in August to Sun Valley (ps, lesson learned – fly […]
Friday Post Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep! | certainty Welcome to Friday, let’s sweep this week and give a nod to an uncertain moment around the pandemic and lean into what we can call certain. In times like this, I look for what is certain to recalibrate and have confidence this moment will pass. You’ll notice throughout this post images of the sun setting. […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep! | keeping up with “current matters” – what is the speed limit? Welcome to Friday and yes, the lead story on today’s blog is the anticipation of the reinstatement of our WA State mask requirement for everyone, regardless of vaxx status, in indoor settings. Full update from the NWMLS here – if you haven’t digested it yet. The good news I pulled from the Covid-19 update for […]
Friday Post Let’s sweep! | 7 minutes on forbearance Welcome to Friday (almost) everyone! I’ve hit the pause button and the open roads with my family. First stop – 3v3 basketball tournament and then off to digest the grand outdoors in search of mountains, lakes, streams and time together. The goal is to power up our batteries in prep for the upcoming fall. I […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s quickly sweep this week! Welcome to a Friday, let’s quickly sweep this week! Well, my front door found it’s color – that just makes me happy! *as picture above. What else makes me pleased from this past week? Sharing… Wrapping up our Department of Licensing audit today and we came thru very nicely with our findings. To the 12 […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep this week! Welcome to a Friday, let’s sweep this week! Locally we welcomed IN the Kraken draft on the shores of Lake Union – full bleacher report here on the athletes who will make Seattle their home ice – here. I appreciated digesting this NPR article on “why it is taking longer to build homes in Seattle” […]
Friday Post It’s Friday, let’s sweep – this week! Despite being amidst mid summer there is lots going on and a handful of things worth bringing to your attention this week – let’s give it a sweep! Of particular note, the DOL is back auditing offices and I am mid-audit now. Coming soon to a FWL post will be an audit proofing summary as […]
Friday Post A quick sweep of this week! A quick sweep of this week as I know I have only seconds to catch your attention during these summer weeks! I sure enjoyed the “return of the sparkles & smiles” over the July 4th holiday. SUP boards back in the water, tried something new – an open water swim at 6am and finally cleaned […]

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