TruTalk Podcast with Luis M. Perez

The $311 Million Realtor: Speed, Systems, And Sacrifice

489 deals. $311 million in volume. 2 years.Joanna Jimenez, founder of The Opes Group in Miami, sits down with Luis Perez to break down exactly how she built one of South Florida's most dominant real estate teams — without sacrificing her family, her health, or her sanity.In this episode, Joanna gets raw about the moments most top producers won't talk about: hitting rock bottom in 2010, ending up in the hospital twice from stress, letting go of people she considered family, and the mindset shift that took her from counting beer money at a bar to closing $150M+ in a single year.If you're a realtor, entrepreneur, or anyone trying to build something real — this one's a masterclass.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━⏱️ TIMESTAMPS━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━00:00 – Intro: $311M closed in 24 months01:41 – Brain surgery at 16 and the YOLO mindset04:23 – Rock bottom: broke at a bar in 201008:05 – From Morgan Stanley to real estate10:30 – What finance taught her about money14:58 – Why she's a real estate ADVISOR, not a salesperson17:03 – Speed as a superpower21:16 – How to train speed without losing quality28:54 – Quality control inside a top-producing team31:46 – Communication systems that keep clients happy34:33 – Why vetted vendors change everything41:30 – Meeting twice a week: growing 15x faster44:18 – The hardest year: hospitalized twice45:36 – The rocket ship analogy that changed her leadership50:13 – Volume queen, mom, wife — how she balances it all59:28 – Why family beats followers1:00:14 – The best advice she's ever gotten━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📲 CONNECT WITH JOANNA JIMENEZ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Instagram: @joannajimenez_miamiThe Opes Group | Compass Miami━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🎙️ CONNECT WITH LUIS PEREZ & TRUTALK━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Instagram: @truviewinspectionsSubscribe for new episodes━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━💡 ABOUT TRUTALK━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TruTalk is where business meets real life. Hosted by Luis Perez, founder of TruView Inspections, the podcast brings on top performers in real estate, business, and entrepreneurship to share the story behind the success — not just the highlight reel.New episodes drop bi-weekly.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#TruTalkPodcast #RealEstate #MiamiRealEstate #JoannaJimenez #LuisPerez #RealEstatePodcast #TopProducer #TheOpusGroup #CompassRealEstate #BusinessPodcast #EntrepreneurPodcast #RealEstateTips #RealEstateAgent #MiamiBusiness #VolumeQueen

Trailer Park to $13M Miami Penthouse | Calli Wolff’s Real Story

From trailer park to a $13M Miami penthouse. This is the real story. In this episode of the TruTalk Podcast, we sit down with Calli Wolff, one of Miami’s fastest rising real estate agents, who closed $25.2M in sales in 2025 alone. This is not luck. This is discipline, mindset, and execution. Calli breaks down how she went from humble beginnings to closing high-level deals, building a personal brand that actually converts, and developing the habits required to win at a high level. This episode is for anyone serious about growth. We get into: • The mindset that separates top performers • Why consistency creates confidence • How she built momentum early in her career • The truth behind her $13M penthouse deal • Why comparison will slow you down • The role faith and discipline play in long term success If you are building a business, in real estate, or pushing to the next level, this conversation will give you clarity on what it actually takes.

How a Top 1% Realtor Built a $2B Career | TruTalk Ep. 1 w/ Angel Nicolas

In this episode of TruTalk, Luis Perez sits down with top Miami realtor Angel Nicolas to break down the mindset behind over $200M+ in annual sales. From attracting opportunities and mastering discipline to handling rejection and building long-term success, this conversation dives into what truly separates top agents from the rest. If you’re serious about growing in real estate, this episode is a must-listen.