{"id":2591,"date":"2025-06-25T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:55:21","slug":"lets-get-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/lets-get-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Get Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2592\" style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2592\" class=\"wp-image-2592 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/cover-cover-photo-courtesy-we-capture-media.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/cover-cover-photo-courtesy-we-capture-media.jpg 750w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/cover-cover-photo-courtesy-we-capture-media.jpg?resize=300,450 300w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/cover-cover-photo-courtesy-we-capture-media.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekhawaii\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/06\/cover-cover-photo-courtesy-we-capture-media.jpg?resize=335,502 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy WE CAPTURE MEDIA<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Shawnalei Tamayose is taking a bite out of the Big Apple by rising to the top of its real estate empire.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">T<\/span><span class=\"s1\">he first time Shawnalei Tamayose sold anything, she was 6 and had to go door to door selling malasadas to her neighbors. She didn\u2019t know it at the time and was just being a dutiful daughter, but years later her mom revealed that their family was down to their last $40 and had to figure out how best to use it. They decided to buy the ingredients for the malasadas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">It turns out that Tamayose was a natural at selling, and years later, she would fundraise for all the extracurricular activities she participated in at Kapa\u2018a High School, including dance, cheerleading and tennis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Today, the Kaua\u2018i native is an award-winning luxury broker, mentor and partner at boutique real estate brokerage APT212 in Soho, New York, and the founder of its luxury division, Aloha Luxury Estates, where she handles $4 million price-point transactions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Tamayose leads an elite team of 25 agents who are committed to providing discreet, high-touch service to discerning buyers, sellers and developers. The motto for her business is \u201cluxury with purpose,\u201d and 10% of her proceeds go toward efforts to provide clean water, end world hunger and give underprivileged children access to education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Most recently, she authored <i>Becoming a Real Estate Agent: The Truth You Need to Know<\/i>, which was released in March and is available online on Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Target, Walmart and other retailers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"> \u201cThe reason why I wrote this book is to write it for my younger self,\u201d Tamayose says. \u201cI wrote it for the person that I felt could\u2019ve been in my shoes and needed a little more guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAnybody that has been in this business for three years or less, I would recommend this book to them or if they\u2019re thinking about getting into real estate because if they\u2019ve already been in this business for three years and they realize, \u2018Hey, my business is not taking off. What am I doing wrong?\u2019 You can take a look at it as a blueprint and see here are the things you need to be doing in order to generate business,\u201d she continues. \u201cI think that if they read this book and then they analyze their own business, they can see where the missing pieces are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">W<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hen Tamayose moved to New York City in December 2010, she was just 23 and planning on living there for maybe a year. That all changed when she experienced the magic of the Big Apple. Falling hard for the city, she told her mom, \u201cOh, my God, I love it. This is amazing. I\u2019m going to move. This is where my home is going to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">She has been in the real estate business for 14 years and has accumulated numerous accolades in that time, including being named the 2023 Most Influential Broker in New York City and the 2022 Emerging Broker at New York City&#8217;s Real Estate Development Awards; and being featured in <i>Top Agent Magazine;<\/i> and making America&#8217;s Top 100 Real Estate Agent&#8217;s Top 100 People in Real Estate list. She\u2019s taken all her experiences and lessons learned, both in her career and in her personal life, and put them in the heart of her book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat makes this book really great is for anyone and any child, really, growing up in a singly-family home, growing up in poverty \u2014 I definitely grew up in poverty \u2014 and really inspiring people in a way that shows them it doesn\u2019t matter where you come from, it doesn\u2019t matter what your upbringing is, but if you truly want something and you truly want a career in real estate, this is what it\u2019s going to take and are you ready to fully commit yourself and throw yourself into it. Because I\u2019ve spent and I still spend the past 14 years working seven days a week,\u201d Tamayose says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Some of the topics she covers in her book are how to avoid burnout, how to connect with people, how to build a career out of nothing, and how to build a network and support system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Tamayose admits that moving away from home to a new city and not having her support system was her biggest obstacle. She\u2019d often reflect on how she was able to do so much back home on The Garden Isle because she had her family \u2014 noting that she didn\u2019t have to worry about what she was going to wear for her Miss Hawai\u2018i pageants (she won titles of Miss Kaua\u2018i and Miss L\u0113\u02bbahi) because her mom would purchase her gowns, her auntie would do her hair and makeup, and the rest of her family would offer their unwavering love and support. It made her realize how much all of those things helped her emotionally and how she unknowingly took those things for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I came (to New York), and I didn\u2019t have friends and I didn\u2019t have family \u2026 I needed to build all of that in addition to be in a city where I was completely out of my element,\u201d she explains. \u201cAnd I was in a business that I didn\u2019t even know if I was going to survive in or not. There was a lot of mentally difficult days where I missed my family, where I didn\u2019t know if the city was the right city for me because just the way the city operates couldn\u2019t have been any more different than we are back home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">It was in these moments that Tamayose would rely on her faith and visit Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, where she prayed for things to turn around for her. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt brought me to my knees and shortly thereafter, my entire business started to change,\u201d she says. \u201cI truly believe it\u2019s because I genuinely put all my faith in God and I promised Him that if He would take me to levels that I couldn\u2019t go to on my own that I would use that for good, and that\u2019s what I\u2019ve done. I have a really close relationship with God \u2026 and that stems from all the struggle that I endured. Because I fully came to Him and fully surrendered, I feel like all of these things that I\u2019m doing is a part of a greater purpose.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">t\u2019s these two main lessons she hopes readers learn from her book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI hope that they take away the bigger picture, which is two things: one, faith in God, or faith in something bigger than them; and two, with that success, using that success to create a bigger impact in other people\u2019s lives, whether that\u2019s giving back in time, money, or just advice and the impact that you have with people,\u201d Tamayose notes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSuccess in the root of just selfishness holds no meaning,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;The real meaning behind true success is being able to elevate other people and being able to give back to other people. Because when we are no longer within this world \u2026 it\u2019s about the amount of lives you\u2019ve impacted while you were here and I think that is the core message that I want (readers) to feel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Tamayose explains that growing up in Hawai\u2018i has helped her tremendously in the real estate industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201c(It&#8217;s) helped me to show up in my most authentic way, so that people could understand that when I say I\u2019m from Hawai\u2018i and that I show up differently, you understand why I\u2019m showing up differently. And if you\u2019ve been to Hawai\u2018i, you get it,&#8221; she says. \u201cIf you\u2019ve experienced the Hawai\u2018i heart &#8230; (it) isn\u2019t led by money or by what it is we want but we genuinely care about other people and we want what\u2019s best for other people, and we put the relationships before the money.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Her advice to anyone chasing after their own dreams is this: \u201cIf you have a burning desire in your heart or in your mind to accomplish something, then that means that was put in you for a reason. If it never goes away, just because things get a little difficult doesn\u2019t mean that you should give up. Because in that period of difficulty, that\u2019s where you start growing and that\u2019s where you start evolving. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cBut if that burning desire to do whatever it is you want to do never fades, it\u2019s because there\u2019s something else bigger than yourself that wants you to do it. There\u2019s meaning behind it. 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