Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate blends honest conversations about relationships, life decisions, and real estate, focusing on clarity, alignment, and long-term fit.
Episodes
In this episode, LJ takes a brief detour from conversations about dating and real estate to reflect on her experiences working in the school system.
After witnessing repeated teacher turnover, burnout, and staffing changes, she asks an important question: When organizations constantly replace people, are they addressing the real probl...
🎙️ Episode Title: Buyer Lesson 101: Communication Matters 📅 Release Date: May 15, 2026 🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate 🎙️ Season 4, Episode 4 ⏱️ Runtime: ~4–6 minutes 🎙️ Host: L.J.
📝 Episode SummaryToday’s episode was inspired by a real experience after a buyer ghosted a scheduled home showing without communication or follow-up.
What started as frustration became a deeper reflection on how comm...
🎙️ Episode Title: Approved but Not Ready 📅 Release Date: May 2026 🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate 🎙️ Season 4, Episode 3 ⏱️ Runtime: ~3–5 minutes 🎙️ Host: L.J.
📝 Episode SummaryThis episode started from a conversation with a renter who wants to become a homeowner but admitted they were scared once the process started becoming real.
In this episode, LJ talks about a side of real estate that many peopl...
🎙️ Episode Title: Didn’t Make It to Closing 📅 Release Date: May 5, 2026 🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate ⏱️ Runtime: ~2–4 minutes 🎙️ Host: L.J.
📝Show Notes
In this episode, LJ shares a real-life deal that made it all the way to the finish line… but never crossed it.
The buyers were fully approved and under contract, but their relationship fell apart before closing, bringing the entire...
🎙️ Episode Title: What the For Sale By Owner Hid📅 Release Date: April 3, 2026🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate⏱️ Runtime: ~3 minutes🎙️ Host: L.J.
Real estate agent LJ shares a weekend showing in a desirable neighborhood where a well-kept FSBO home raised red flags such an unpermitted garage conversion and an irregular lot that could affect permits, financing, insurance, and resale.
Through research and persisten...
Host L.J. closes Season 3 of Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate with a focused Q&A on what led her to finally let go.
🎙️ Episode Title: When to Let It Go (Q&A: Gaining Clarity & Letting Go) 📅 Release Date: March 2026 🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate Runtime: 1 minutes 49 seconds Host: L.J.
Show Notes: Host L.J. closes Season 3 of Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate with a focused Q&A on wh...
🎙️ Episode Title: Financial Infidelity Subtitle: When Debt Is Hidden in Dating
📅 Release Date: March 10, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: ~6–8 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary:
Earlier this season, we talked about financial transparency in dating. This midweek episode continues that conversation through the lens of Love Without Illusion.
What happens when financial problems are hidden until they...
🎙️ Episode Title: Patience vs Inconsistency [S3 E4]
📅 Release Date: March 8, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: ~6–8 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary:
Sometimes the shift in a connection isn’t loud. It shows up in silence, delayed responses, and small changes in communication.
In this episode, L.J. reflects on the difference between patience and inconsistency. Through a personal lens, she explores ...
🎙️ Episode Title: Choosing Each Other vs Auditioning
📅 Release Date: March 4, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: ~6–8 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary:
Being chosen is not the same as being cherished.
In this episode, L.J. builds on last week’s conversation about financial transparency and overextension to explore how auditioning quietly shows up when mutual effort is unclear. Through a subtle real...
🎙️ Episode Title: Financial Transparency in Dating
📅 Release Date: February 25, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: ~5–7 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary:
Money is one of the fastest ways to expose maturity in dating.
In this episode, L.J. explores financial stress, ego, projection, and the difference between honesty and performance. Through a subtle real estate lens, she discusses why stability req...
🎙️ Episode Title: Green Flags Your Nervous System Doesn’t Recognize
📅 Release Date: February 17, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: 8 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary: Season 3 opens with a conversation many of us were never taught to have. We learned how to identify red flags. We were trained to notice inconsistency, mixed signals, and emotional highs and lows. But we were not taught how to recogn...
🎙️ Episode Title: Episode 5: Rebuilding the Future
📅 Release Date: February 14, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: 7 minutes 8 seconds
Host: L.J.
Episode Summary: In the final episode of the Rebuilding series, L.J. explores what it means to plan again after life shifts. Rebuilding the future is not about rushing to prove progress. It is about setting goals that align with your current season, moving ...
🎙️ Episode Title: Rebuilding Trust
📅 Release Date: 2-10-2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, & Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 3 minutes 33 seconds
🎙️ Host: L.J.
Episode Summary: This episode explores rebuilding trust after identity begins to settle. It focuses on trusting your judgment again, learning from experience without becoming closed off, and understanding boundaries as protection rather than walls.
This reflection builds...
🎙️ Episode Title: Rebuilding Identity
📅 Release Date: February 6, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, & Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 2 minutes 28 seconds
🎙️ Host: L.J.
Episode Summary: This episode explores the quiet work of rebuilding identity after life shifts. Not through reinvention or explanation, but through recognition. It is about noticing...
🎙️ Episode Title: Rebuilding Income
📅 Release Date: 2-4-2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, & Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 2 minutes 9 seconds
🎙️ Host: L.J.
In this episode, L.J. continues the Rebuilding series by focusing on income. While housing creates stability, income is what holds everything together during transition. This micropod explores maintaining income while everything else shifts, managing multiple streams, p...
🎙️ Episode Title: The Art of Storytelling
📅 Release Date: February 1, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: ~2-3 minutes
Host: L.J.
Episode Description:
In honor of African American history, this short spoken-word reflection explores storytelling as survival, preservation, and truth. Long before records, protection, or ownership, stories carried names, lessons, and hope. Told through words, songs, da...
🎙️ Episode Title: Rebuilding Starts With Shelter
📅 Release Date: 1-31-2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, & Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 2 minutes 30 seconds
🎙️ Host: L.J.
In this first episode of a series on rebuilding after breakups, LJ explores what comes after the end—focusing on housing stability. Through the story of a woman who changed addresses twice in under two years, this episode examines how rebuilding isn't glamo...
🎙️Episode Title: She Sold Her House. He Sold Her a Dream.
📅 Release Date: January 30, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, & Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 3 minutes 15 minutes
🎙️ Host: L.J.
Episode Summary: In this reflective micropod, L.J. shares a fictionalized but true-to-life story about the intersection of love, money, and major life decisions. It explores how hope can sometimes outpace clarity, and how peace can arrive on...
🎙️ Episode Title: Weekly Interlude The Pause Between
📅 Release Date: 1-27-2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
⏱️ Runtime: 1 minute 52 seconds
🎙️ Host: L.J.
This weekly interlude is a brief pause. Not a lesson. Not a push forward. Just space to breathe, reflect, and listen to what your body and mind may be asking for beneath the noise of the week.
In this episode, L.J. invites listeners to slow down, let the ...
🎙️ Episode Title: When Love Stops Feeling Like Survival
📅 Release Date: January 21, 2026
🎧 Podcast: Stories on Love, Life, and Real Estate
Runtime: 4 - 5 minutes
Host: L.J.
For a long time, I confused intensity with connection.
In this episode, L.J. responds to a listener’s question about how she will know when the right relationship comes after a history of difficult ones. She reflects on what it means when love feels like sur...
Popular Podcasts
Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Betrayal Weekly is back for a new season. Every Thursday, Betrayal Weekly shares first-hand accounts of broken trust, shocking deceptions, and the trail of destruction they leave behind. Hosted by Andrea Gunning, this weekly ongoing series digs into real-life stories of betrayal and the aftermath. From stories of double lives to dark discoveries, these are cautionary tales and accounts of resilience against all odds. From the producers of the critically acclaimed Betrayal series, Betrayal Weekly drops new episodes every Thursday. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at betrayalpod@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.