We recently connected with DaVida Bilal and have shared our conversation below.
DaVida, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about the best advice you’ve ever given to a client?
The best advice I’ve ever given to a client was to allow the healing that she was seeking to be her guide to her purpose! This was beneficial to the cllient at the time because while she was seeing accountability there was a root that was causing her not to fully grasp the healing, joy, and peace that she so rightly deserved. We all go through life unhealed and just move through life like robots.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
If you don’t know me I’m Davida Bilal, Virginia native and currently living in Texas. I’m a Licensed Realtor for the state of Texas. I’m most importantly a mom with a entrepreneurial spirit! The most important services I provide my clients along side purchasing a home, is clarity and compassion! I pride my work on ensuring my client is clear on what the next steps are. I never want my clients to feel rushed and not informed. I organically show compassion because every transaction I want to protect like family. And I don’t want my family to fail so neither will my client.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
The lesson I had to unlearn was the attitude I carried as a young kid into my teenage years and even early adulthood. I was angry because I didn’t understand certain things. I took it out on people around me. My attitude started to rub off on people and rub them the wrong way. While in my younger years it wasn’t intentional. After a while it was something I used to protect and defend myself. I thought everybody is already thinking bad of me. Trust me the people around me during that time surely treated me different. And when you young it hurts so much more because you barely get to tell people how you really feel. So as I got older I took healing seriously forgave my mom and improved my attitude. Which is far from perfect! Today I’m taking what I learned and teaching my daughters about their feelings and explaining things to them. Talking to them just providing them a sense of understanding and foundation. I’ve taken on numerous teenagers and given them this same game. I now translate the compassion I had to have and still have in helping my clients decide on a purchase that could change their lives.
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
I feel like having a small p next to your name for PIVOT, would be nice. I believe wether we know it or not we all pivot! Probably thee most pivotal moment in my career was transitioning from working a 9-5 to being a Realtor and then back again! This is a story for many. I allowed myself and others included make me believe that I could just quit and work full time as a realtor. Not to say you can’t, I COULDNT! And we all know people who did. Kudos to them! However the reality is you have got to plan. I did plan but not to the magnitude to which I later found out was far more necessary than I originally planned. Soo I sat out from working for a year and all the support I was promised to help be better vanished. Everything turned into a continuius loop of messages and emails instead of CRMs and Content Tools. But that was in the time when I didn’t know what to expect so I took what I could get but I also took that time to quickly learn how I needed to manage the next year! It made me better to pivot and understand that I can work and be a realtor. I had to find my balance! Not everyone else’s! PIVOT!
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Image Credits
Davida Bilal Kennedy Ballard