Casual Coffee Conversations: Tommy Choi

Tommy Choi is the co-founder of Weinberg Choi Residential Team with seventeen years in real estate, the team has sold over 2,000 properties and over 1 billion dollars in sales volume. Weinberg Choi is consistently ranked in the top 10 real estate teams in Chicago, which puts them in the top 1% of the Chicago Association of Realtors' top producers. Tommy is also a well-known speaker on leadership and effective communication.

Tommy and I talked about having a teachable spirit and where he learned that. The importance of surrounding yourself with the people who grow with you in your leadership and life, while honoring yourself.

Tommy shares an entrepreneurial story of watching his mom own and operate a laundromat, the impact that experience had on him growing up, and how some of that helped shape his current business. Lessons from the laundromat, on fear of follow through, and fear of failure. We talked through how to catch the "rebound" to reset our clock to gain more skills that help build more confidence to try again to score. Learning to ask the questions "Who is the author in your mind and the narrative we are speaking to ourselves on failure?" Jenn shares the encouragement of Tommy's story and how that might impact her children.

Tommy explains what it means to be a modern-day real estate professional. How to blend the traditional building client base, with our online digital presence, bring value to our content, and the importance of developing our personal brand. The two are necessary for acceleration and growth. Tommy dials down on branding vs a logo while giving examples we can all relate to! If he were a branded show what would he look like?