Every now and then, a conversation reminds you just how far mindset can take a person — and this week’s episode with Chelsea Steen of Your Castle Real Estate does just that.

Chelsea grew up in Marion, Ohio, a small-town kid with a loud laugh, a rebellious streak, and an untamable sense of independence. Her childhood was shaped by the kind of freedom that bred both curiosity and grit. She spent her days exploring the woods, breaking the rules, and falling in love with sports - basketball, soccer, even a stint in tackle football.

At just 11, Chelsea was hit by a car and told she might never walk again. Six months later, she was back on the field, a defining lesson in resilience that would follow her for the rest of her life.

That fire carried her through Catholic school uniforms she hated, top grades she earned anyway, and eventually to Case Western Reserve University. At 20, she stepped into entrepreneurship, running a college painting franchise that would make her the top-producing female in the company’s U.S. history by graduation.

She built her own real estate business from there, learned the hard lessons of leadership (including a few early “boss mistakes”), and achieved the kind of success that most would call enough. But after years of chasing goals, Chelsea and her wife made a life-changing decision: to sell almost everything and spend ten months traveling the world together. That was a reset that gave her space to breathe, reflect, and rediscover who she wanted to be outside of career and achievement.

Today at Your Castle, Chelsea continues to blend her competitive energy with compassion, helping clients make confident moves while staying anchored in what truly matters.

Her story is wild, wise, and full of lessons: that perfectionism softens with wisdom, that leadership starts with self-awareness, and that sometimes, slowing down is the power move that changes everything.

Chelsea, thank you for sharing your story, your honesty, and your mindset with me.

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As we launch the 4th season of Mindset Maters, I was thrilled to sit down with my friend Kendra Lanterman of West+Main Homes - a born-and-raised Arvada native who has been in the real estate industry since she was 16 years old. Kendra got her start answering phones at her Nana Jane's brokerage, and by 17, she knew there was no turning back. 24 years later, she's still doing what she loves - and she's doing it with a level of integrity that the industry desperately needs more of.

Having bought her first home in 2005 and facing the challenges of potential foreclosure in 2008 - all while pregnant with her first child – Kendra learned firsthand how a 2 year home can become a 10 year one, how to prepare for moments when things do not go as planned, and how she can use so many of the lessons she has learned along the years to help her show up for her clients.

As you’ll hear, it’s clear how serious Kendra takes her responsibilities to her family and her clients as we talked about balancing motherhood with a commission-only career, building her business around her family instead of the other way around, and why she's talked herself out of more deals than most agents would admit to - because it simply wasn't the right move for her clients.

If you've ever felt like the real estate or mortgage industry is more focused on the transaction than the person - this episode is for you. Kendra is the kind of professional who roots for you whether you're her client, her colleague, or a complete stranger. Tune in, share it with someone who needs to hear it, and as always… Mindset Matters.

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David Williams grew up in Bath, England, in a family where weekends were defined by rugby pitches, squash courts, and long days at school followed by even longer evenings of sport. That early love of team environments carried him across the Atlantic to Boston and Vermont, into graduate school, elite ski academies, the AHL, and eventually onto the pitch with the U.S. national rugby team, running out in front of 40,000+ fans in Hong Kong.

From there, his role evolved from player to strength and conditioning coach to national team staff — helping prepare the U.S. squad for a Rugby World Cup, building systems, and pushing athletes to their limits. And then, like so many of us, he hit a crossroads and walked away from the only world he’d ever really known.

Today, David has built a second career in commercial real estate across Colorado — office, industrial, land, investment — bringing the same team-first mindset into boardrooms, site tours, and negotiations. He’s honest about what he misses from sport, what he doesn’t romanticize, and why he’ll always choose values and long-term relationships over chasing the biggest check.

At the heart of this conversation is something simple and rare: the power of having real friends, real conversations, and a real support system while you reinvent yourself — and why being a “good bloke” and maybe even a G.C. still matters more than any title.

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