Think back to March 2020. It’s likely you remember it. We all do.

Businesses shut down, schools closed, and plans were canceled. At first, we heard the world would close for a week. Then, no one really knew what the next few months would bring. The words “global shutdown” were both very scary and very real. The overall feeling of uncertainty, and let’s face it, panic, was palpable for most of us.

It was in this moment in time that the first Pivot: SHIFT Ahead morning call was born. 

Fast forward to June 25^th, when Pivot: SHIFT Ahead will celebrate its 1,500th daily mastermind call.

That’s a huge milestone worth celebrating. But the real story isn’t the number of calls.

It’s about the people who show up for them.

A Community Was Born

James Shaw knew people needed a place to meet up with one another.

So he created the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead Facebook group and announced that he’d sign onto Zoom twice a day at first for a daily call. While he didn’t have a predetermined plan, he knew he wanted to create a place where agents could connect, help one another, and keep each other focused. When we were cut off from our usual communities, James knew we needed a place to go to get our mindset in what felt like a really unsteady time.

At first, it was a short-term fix for an of-the-moment problem.

In 2020, James believed that the state of the market was irrelevant. It was up to the individual to stay focused and determine the activities they needed to do to find the business that was out there.

Turns out 1,500 calls later, this belief still holds.  

A Temporary Community with Major Staying Power

If you asked James a few years ago, he would never have imagined that a pandemic-bred daily conversation would still be going strong years later. In fact, 25 weeks into the daily call, he was ready to wrap it up.

Do you remember this moment? Because we do.

One September day in 2020, James announced the call had accomplished everything he hoped it would do and there wasn’t any further need for it.  

Of course, that decision didn’t last long. The community wasn’t ready to hang up their Zoom screens and pushed back. Leah McCann says that the call’s emphasis on mindset is what drew her in and kept her coming back. She sums it up as the first “six months of the Pivot call was learning how to survive and support people in a state of survival…When it returned, it became a place that reshaped communities and changed realities.”

Fast forward to the years that have followed. What began as a way to help people through a scary moment in time evolved into something so much bigger: a daily source of encouragement, accountability, learning, and connection. In Leah’s words, it’s relaunch was “the birth of WHO Pivot became and still is today.”

Since that first morning, the Pivot: SHIFT Ahead community has spent nearly 75,000 minutes masterminding together. The space has grown from those early conversations to one where 125,000 people engage, group challenges push them to achieve their goals, and they meet for in-person events. Jessica Macias told us that the beauty of this community is learning from others because “everybody shares what’s working for them and what’s not.”

It’s a place where everyone is welcome, whether they have joined the call since the very first meeting, just started today, or something in between. As James says, your timing is perfect whenever you show up.

It’s More Than a Morning Call

At first, the conversations were about helping people navigate the unknown. From day one, where James talked about embracing the bad with the good and the hard with the easy, to later conversations where he described the importance of consistency, the conversations resonated. And it turns out, people didn’t sign on just for advice. What they really needed was community.

Six years and 75,000+ masterminding minutes later, Pivot: SHIFT Ahead has become so much more than a Zoom call.

Friendships have formed and systems have been swapped. And if you’re an active member of the community you aren’t just talking about success…you’re doing the things necessary to achieve it.

You’ve grown. And your business has grown too.

And perhaps most importantly, you’ve realized that you don’t have to figure out everything on your own. Like Demetria Lynch shared, “Real estate can be a lonely industry…The best thing about the Pivot call is that it gave me the community I didn’t know I was looking for.”

A Common Thread

If you’re a part of this community, it’s likely your story looks different than the person in the Zoom box next to yours. And James celebrates that.

Maybe you joined because you were a brand-new agent or a dual career agent looking to make the switch, like David Macias. He likens the call to the idea of “iron sharpens iron” and reiterates “if you want to be around people who are already doing the activities, this is the call you want to be on.”

Maybe you were already a seasoned agent like Dean Moss. He’s been part of the group for over six years and says that the call gives him “the consistency, the connections, the networking ability to take his business to the next level.”

With this community as the heart and soul of the Pivot morning call, we’ve seen firsthand that growth happens faster when you’re surrounded by people who are willing to share what they’re learning, celebrate wins, and help each other overcome challenges.

Leah McCann feels the impact first-hand. She says, “The pivot call to me is a lifeline. It’s an anchor. It keeps me grounded. It keeps me focused.”

The Best Time to Join Is Now

Sometimes we hear people are worried they’ve missed their chance to join Pivot: SHIFT Ahead. They see members who have been participating for years and wonder if they’re too late.

Bree Vaughan puts this fear to bed, saying, “There is room for everyone in this community. We are holding space for you in this community to be in, be welcome, and be seen. You are welcome and appreciated.”

We agree. Whether you’ve attended one call or all of them, the opportunity is the same. And to us, the most important call is the next one you’re on.  

We’ll see you there.