Speaker · Trainer · Broker · Author
Real talk.
Big energy.
Better business.
Roddy de la Garza brings three decades of real estate, entrepreneurship, media, and leadership to the stage—with sharp stories, generous insight, and the kind of humor that makes the hard truths easier to hear and impossible to forget.
REAL STORIES — SMARTER BUSINESS — BIG LAUGHS — AGENT EVOLUTION — ZERO PHONING IT IN
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
30+Years in real estate
8,000+Agents led on growth & compliance
200+Agents recruited monthly
$400M+Real estate sales
FEATURED NATIONAL & REGIONAL SPEAKER FOR
REDFINeXp REALTYEPIQUE
01 / THE BOOK
Your business only grows
as much as you do.
Above Asking is a daily devotional for real estate professionals ready to move beyond shortcuts, shiny tools, and someone else’s perfect script.
Through brief, thought-provoking readings, Roddy guides agents toward patience, purpose, professionalism, and the deeper work of becoming the real deal.
“He should be involved in the Middle East peace talks! I call him the ‘Human A.I.’ because his input is always experience- or fact-based.”
— VERIFIED CLIENT REVIEW
Read Roddy’s verified reviews02 / WHY RODDY
Experience you can feel.
A point of view you remember.
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A Harlingen, Texas native and University of Texas at Austin graduate, Roddy grew up in a family brokerage spanning more than 50 years—measuring houses and hanging signs by age eight. His own sales journey began with $25,000 duplexes and eventually reached $4 million homes in Beverly Hills: a trajectory he never imagined, built by saying yes to every opportunity.
Those opportunities carried him through real estate FinTech, media, brokerage leadership, home staging, publishing, and more than $400 million in real estate sales. He has led and supported over 8,000 agents across California and Texas while remaining close to the work: clients, contracts, culture, and the messy middle where leadership actually happens.
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FROM DIAL-UP TO AI
Roddy was helping real estate cross the digital divide before most people had an email address.
His real estate FinTech career began in New York’s Silicon Alley, where his first startup sent him across the country and around the world teaching newspapers how to make property listings immediately accessible through dial-up internet in the age of AOL. The project was later sold to Hearst Newspapers—launching a career spent translating new technology into practical opportunity.
EGOT
THE REAL ESTATE EGOT
Three down. One referral to go.
EGOT means Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony—the four major American entertainment awards. Roddy has sold homes once owned by Debbie Reynolds and Cher—including the home marketed with “the pool where Princess Leia learned to swim”—and has relocated celebrated athletes and entertainers. Now he’s looking to represent his first Tony Award winner. Know someone? Please send the referral.
Roddy doesn’t teach from theory. He teaches from the deals, decisions, reinventions, and hard conversations that built the career.
THE QUESTIONS THAT WAKE UP A ROOM
Can we retire the buzzwords and make “agent-centric” mean something people can actually feel?
Are we building careers—or simply collecting headcount and hoping nobody checks the retention numbers?
What changes when agents become the stars of real estate again—and leadership gets back to being the supporting cast?
How do we trade hack culture for the craft, community, and confidence that make this business worth loving?
Expect smart provocation, useful answers, unexpected stories, and both relateable emotion and laughter to keep the room leaning in.
03 / SIGNATURE TALKS & TRAINING
Ideas built to
work in the room.
Keynotes, leadership sessions, podcasts, panels, sales meetings, brokerage events, and custom workshops.
The Real Estate Reality Check
A lively, candid look at what our industry gets right, what it gets spectacularly wrong, and how agents can build careers that actually work.
Growth Without the Group-Chat Meltdown
Stories and lessons from guiding more than 8,000 agents—and growing at scale without losing standards, humor, or humanity.
Above Asking
An energizing reset for professionals ready to trade scarcity, scripts, and shiny shortcuts for clarity, confidence, and better work.
Make Real Estate Feel Something
How story, staging, media, and intentional presentation create attention—and turn attention into action.
04 / SELLER ADVOCACY IN ACTION
Make it easier.
Make it more profitable.
Roddy also owns a Southern California home staging company, bringing design, logistics, market positioning, and sales strategy under one roof.
His commitment is simple: remove friction for sellers, make preparation more accessible, and create the presentation buyers need to feel before they act. From $25,000 duplexes to $4 million Beverly Hills homes, the principle has remained the same—every seller deserves thoughtful strategy, honest guidance, and a team engineered around the outcome.
Explore Roddy’s real estate work05 / ON AIR & IN CONVERSATION
Good guests bring
something to say.
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06 / BOOK A CONVERSATION
Make your next event
impossible to phone in.
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