The plea for females on the podcast...

[Sarah Hood]

David and Brandon, I was thinking about why women who were asked would not want to appear on the podcast. Then i wrote out two different posts about ways to be more woman friendly, and then I was afraid to come off bitchy, and there didn’t seem to be a less public way of expressing negative feedback, and then the forum structure seemed very unfriendly to the subject. So... if you are interested is there a place to talk about barriers women face in the Real Estate boys club. 

[Jer Yeung]

to play the other side of the coin - why prioritize the content provider's gender rather than the content itself?  Shouldn't the content be the primary goal?  While I understand wanting diversity and the need for different voices, do we want to hear diversity on the podcasts? or do we want to hear the best available content?  

I think diversity is great, and I work with a female real estate agent - but I work with her because she knows what she is doing, and because we have a great working relationship, not because she is female.  It may sound insensitive (and if so, I apologize, as that is not my intent), but I don't prioritize equality over quality.

I haven't seen it as a topic on the podast (and it may have already been done), but perhaps a good topic (or topics) would circle around women and/or minorities and having a discussion about what their biggest challenges were in getting established and how they overcame those challenges (regardless of whether the challenge was actually gender or ethnicity)?