Southern but Savage: Getting Real About Estate

Shelton Wilder filed for bankruptcy, got sober, cried on national television and started a real estate career while eight months pregnant with zero transactions and a 17-dollar ring light.She is now one of the top luxury real estate agents in Los Angeles, with over a billion dollars in career sales.Southern but Savage lives between those two sentences-it's hilarious, heartfelt and packed with hard-won wisdom that no real estate course or brokerage training will ever give you. Both Wilder's story and a playbook for building a business you love in real estate or any field that rewards grit, personality and the willingness to start before you feel ready, Southern but Savage will teach you to: - Start before you feel ready and survive the cringe on the way up- Build a brand so authentic that clients choose you before they've ever met you- Hire the right people, protect your culture and fire the wrong ones without guilt- Navigate offers, inspections and escrows without losing your mind or your clients- Take radical responsibility for your results and discover that when everything is your fault, everything is also fixable- Show up for your life the same way you show up for your business-fully and intentionallyEvery chapter closes with a Positron Practice-real action steps rooted in Shelton's philosophy of grounded, intentional optimism. Not the fluffy kind. The kind that actually gets you off the couch and into the arena.You don't need a perfect past to build an extraordinary future. You just need to show up. In heels, if possible.