About Me
Who I am beyond the titles.
HEY, I'M BRANDY
I am a Visionary
I've always been curious. About people, business, how things work, why they don't work, and whether I could figure out a better way to do them.
I also started hustling pretty early.
When I was nine, I started my first "business" washing laundry for a quarter a load. My mom was my only customer, so it wasn't exactly a booming operation. After that came lemonade stands, custom buttons, and plenty of other little ventures.
My first real job was at Sonic when I was 15 (#GoCarhops), and that's when I discovered I really liked to work. It didn't matter much what the job was—I wanted to be good at it. I wanted to learn everything I could, and put my own spin on it.
I don't think I knew it then, but I've always been wired to see potential—in an idea, a business, or even myself—and wonder, what could this become?
the full story
My childhood was a little unconventional. Money was tight, chaos was pretty normal, I spent time in foster care, and yes—we actually lived in a van by the river for a while.
I didn’t start school until second grade. I showed up shy, awkward, behind everyone else, and rocking a pretty impressive lazy eye. With the help of a tutor, I caught up quickly, and school became one of the places where I thrived.
Home was a different story. There were times without AC in the Texas summer or heat in the winter. Cockroaches were basically roommates, and sometimes taking a bath involved a bucket and a rag.
It wasn’t glamorous. It was just my life.
Eventually, I graduated at the top of my class, went to college, earned my master’s degree, traveled, changed careers a few times, landed in real estate, and somehow ended up building a company.
Today, I own Milestone Premier Properties, a real estate brokerage and property management company in North Texas.
And building a business has turned out to be one of the biggest learning experiences of my life.
I’ve built a team, implemented EOS, created an embarrassing number of processes, made good decisions, made some really bad ones, hired the right people, hired the wrong people, held on too tightly, learned to let go, changed my mind, and changed it again.
Through all of it, I’ve become fascinated with the part of business that doesn’t fit neatly onto a spreadsheet: people.
Why we do what we do. Why smart people make irrational decisions. Why some conversations go completely sideways. Why we avoid things we know we need to deal with. Why leading people is so freaking hard sometimes. And why understanding human behavior can solve problems that another process never will.
That’s a big part of why I started this blog.
I wanted somewhere to talk about the things I’m actually interested in—property management, EOS, psychology, leadership, business, and life outside of all of it.
I don’t have some perfectly packaged philosophy to share with you. I’m still figuring things out too.
I’m a planner who can be incredibly spontaneous. I work too much and then wonder why I’m tired. I love a good process but will absolutely change it when I think there’s a better way. I set big goals, overthink things, ask a million questions, and have learned that I can be completely confident about something and still change my mind later.
I think that’s part of growing.
So this isn’t a blog about having all the answers.
It’s about the things I’m learning, the things I’ve gotten wrong, the things I can’t stop thinking about, and the occasional story I probably shouldn’t tell on the internet—but will anyway.
Welcome to my little corner of the world.