# Pick Your Mentor, Not Just Your Brokerage: 28 Years, Six Brokerages, and an LAPD Lesson

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Podcast: [Artificial Intelligence Growth Architect | Connor with Honor | Real Estate Consultant](https://stenobird.com/podcast/artificial-intelligence-growth-architect-connor-with-honor-real-estate-consultant-861967)
Published: 2026-07-04T01:00:00+00:00
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Twenty-eight years in real estate since 1998, six brokerages, and the one lesson nobody tells a brand-new agent: passing the license exam proves you can study, not that you can do the job. Connor tells the story of getting bumped up to train recruits at the LAPD police academy, fully certified as a firearms instructor, and realizing on the range that the certificate meant nothing next to what the veteran instructors had built over 20-30 years. He brings that same lesson into real estate: the...

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