# #799: How to Hire the Right People: Building a Real Estate Team That Runs Itself with Georgia Tusch

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Podcast: [John Kitchens Coach Podcast Experience](https://stenobird.com/podcast/john-kitchens-coach-podcast-experience-5249454)
Published: 2026-07-21T10:00:00+00:00
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Episode Overview: Learning to hire the right people is the difference between a business that depends on you forever and one that runs without you. In this episode, John Kitchens sits down with Georgia Tusch, a top-producing realtor and team leader at Twiss Real Estate Group in Ontario, to unpack her journey from solo agent to CEO. Georgia shares the hiring lessons that took her team from chaos to scale, why she is no longer allowed anywhere near her own onboarding process, and how storytelling through video became the engine behind her brand. If you are still doing everything yourself, this episode is your reminder that you do not have to. Topics Covered: From Part-Time Agent to Full-Time CEO Georgia started in real estate young, learned the business the hard way selling farms with no real social media to lean on, and eventually rebuilt her career after stepping away during a difficult personal season. The turning point came when she stopped treating real estate as a side hustle and started running it like a business. The Hiring Mistake Most Team Leaders Make Georgia's first hire, an admin, doubled her business almost overnight simply by taking paperwork off her plate. The advice that stuck: hire someone who is the opposite of you, someone you would not necessarily go have a drink with. That admin has been with her for four years. Georgia's take: you do not have to already know how to hire the right people, you just have to be willing to let go of the paperwork first. Building a Gold Standard Hiring Process Early on, Georgia hired whoever reached out and wanted to be on her team, with no real vetting against values or mission. It worked for a while, until toxicity crept in and those hires were not aligned with what she needed. Rebuilding around a real hiring process,…

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