Angela Barias

I attribute my success to being relentless and never quitting. I always wake up to a mindset of yesterday is gone, and there's still a way. That persistence is important to me. Nothing is ever perfect. So every day, especially with women, we wake up to a new emotion and situation, whatever, right? It's just the fact that I have my faith put in God, and I know who I serve, and I understand where I'm heading and what is that vision of my life that allows me to every day say, okay, yesterday is gone, it's alright, whether it was a failure or achievement, it's in the past. Today, there's got to be another way. Just maintaining the option of having another way and just being open to discover it, because not always you have the answer for everything. It's important to just keep that mindset on.

The first thing I'll say is, you might not really understand where you're heading and what you want, but first, begin. Second, move forward. Third, continue moving forward. Never quit. And just allow yourself flexibility to reshape your ambition that you yet don't have it clear.

I think the biggest challenges today are that the market has changed tremendously in the sense of salesforce, in the sense of employment, in the sense of people being driven towards a specific goal. The challenge is, not everybody understands what they want. Not everybody understands the vision they have for their lives. So it's hard for them to fit in the nowadays, ever-changing market as the real estate is, as the economy of the United States changes. It's hard to find the talented people that stick when it's so ever-changing. The hardest challenges that we can face here is really being as flexible as possible, so we can determine the next season and be as fit into that season as we can make it possible. Just because we deal with people, and even though the real estate is a market of properties and assets, the biggest asset we have is people. So working with them and giving them a sense of direction and a sense of belonging to their own process is part of the challenge.

Personally, to me, the loyalty and the honesty comes at the highest rank. I think if I can be very honest to myself that there are areas of my life that I'm still yet to discover, and I am not all perfect, and I can accept myself for who I am, then I can also do the same with the people that surround me. So at that personal level, when I look at my spouse, or my children, my friends, the people from church, everybody I surround myself with, that is extremely important. You get from me my honest, my honest everything that I can be, and I would like to get the same from you. And so it applies the same in the work environment. I always want to see what's best from the other person, because sometimes it's not there, and there's always a reason. So I value a lot the sincerity, the honesty from the other person towards me and vice versa. I think that sets a lot of important, good relationships.