Meet a Real Estate Agent for Ryan Serhant's Million Dollar Listing San Diego

Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors · Aug 21, 2026 · 42m · transcript

This week, we sit down with an anonymous San Diego real estate agent with 22 years in the trenches to talk about the real work behind buying and selling homes, including the chaos you never see on reality TV.

We trace her path from a first job at a grocery store to hotel management ambitions, then the pivot into real estate to build a life without constantly relocating.

Along the way, we get candid about what makes the job rewarding and what makes it brutal. We dig into modern client behavior, from 'for sale by owner' shortcuts to relying on ChatGPT for complex home buying advice.

Then the…