Before: a busy broker who started as a podcast guest
Daniel owns RE/MAX Prestige Properties in New York and was rated #1 by RateMyAgent in New York and Westchester County in 2022 and 2023.
His own show started with an appearance on another podcast. Seeing how it worked, he realized hosting wouldn’t be that hard if someone else did the setup.
"The Adventures of a Real Estate Broker, the podcast wouldn’t have happened if I really wasn’t on someone else’s podcast originally. And I realized that it wouldn’t be that hard to do that because Icons basically does all the hard work."
What changed: Icons does the setup, Daniel does the conversation
"They basically set it up. They explain things to me whether it’s the Zoom, the setting up the appointments, they do the hard work."
- Setup handled: Icons explains the Zoom side and sets up the recording appointments.
- Short prep: Daniel’s part is about 20 minutes to half an hour of homework on each guest, either just before the recording or a couple of days ahead.
- Professional look: the finished episodes look like they were recorded in a studio.
- Published everywhere: each episode goes on YouTube and the podcast platforms.
"My effort is to do a little bit of homework on the person that I’m going to be interviewing with, which only takes about 20 minutes or so, half hour before the podcast or a couple days before."
After: a weekly show past its 100th episode
Adventures of a Real Estate Broker published Episode 100 in October 2026 and had 102 episodes on Apple Podcasts by mid-October. Daniel doesn’t need the show to pay for itself to be worth it: in his words, one or two clients from it would more than cover it, and it adds value for him either way.
"I look like I have a studio behind me and then the rest of it is just having great conversations and then it’s on YouTube and it’s on everywhere the podcast can be seen."
What other agents and brokers can take from it
- Guesting is a good test. Daniel’s own show started with an appearance on someone else’s podcast.
- The setup is the hard part, not the talking. With Zoom and scheduling handled, hosting comes down to half an hour of prep and a conversation.
- Set a realistic bar. Daniel’s view is that one or two clients would more than cover the show, and the content adds value on top.