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From $25 Million Government Contracts to Owning Valor & Vine: Why Discipline Beats Talent | Lauren Davis
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Lauren Davis (@ldavisrealtor) is a United States Air Force Academy graduate who served as a lieutenant in Iraq negotiating multi-million dollar government contracts. She closed 32 deals her first full year in real estate, scaled to over $19 million in volume in 2025, and just launched her own brokerage – Valor & Vine Realty.
In this conversation, Lauren reveals:
How negotiating $25 million government contracts made her fearless in real estate negotiations
Why she refused to use a transaction coordinator her first two years (and why new agents shouldn't either)
The discipline…
The skinny
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