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The Real Value PodcastAuthor: Blaine Feyen
The world's best podcast about the mindsets, behaviors, attitudes, and activities for the Appraisal, Real Estate, and Lending industries. Hosted by well known Real Estate and Appraiser Success Coach, Blaine Feyen, founder and CEO of the Real Value Group and Real Value Coaching Academy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the Real Value Podcast covers a variety of topics involving all three of those businesses, as well as the topics of success, communication, leadership, balance, marketing, social media, SEO, NLP, and a bunch other awesome stuff! Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Your Backup Plan Sucks
Episode 18
Saturday, 31 October, 2026
Interest rates are climbing. Clients are concentrated. The internet goes down mid-deadline more than any of us would like to admit. Most appraisers handle all of it the same way: hope nothing changes, and keep doing what they did last year. In this episode, Blaine introduces PACE — Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency — a planning system borrowed from military and first-responder communications. The idea: decide your backup moves before the crisis, while you're calm, so you're not making decisions under stress. The real teaching isn't "have a backup." It's the same-failure test: a backup only counts if it wouldn't fail for the same reason the primary did. Five clients in the same industry isn't diversification. A backup hard drive next to your computer isn't a backup. Two credit cards at one bank isn't redundancy. Blaine walks through all four PACE layers across five areas: finances, health, family, home, and business, and gives you four questions to ask about each: What's my single point of failure? Would my backup fail the same way? When exactly do I switch? What happens if the backup fails too? This isn't doom prepping. It's one afternoon and a few hundred dollars that buys you the ability to take bigger swings, because you already know how you'd land.
