How the Purple House Found Me
Every once in a while, business hands you something that feels less like a transaction and more like a teaching. For me, that moment arrived in the shape of a 2.9M cosmic, colorful, unapologetically iconic home — the Purple House. It is hands-down the most unexpected listing of my career and very likely the most unique home I will ever sell. If you’ve seen the photos, you already know it’s not a typical luxury property; it’s wild, whimsical, and entirely itself. And if I had a nickel for every time someone asked, “How did you get that Purple House listing?” I wouldn’t be rich, but I could buy a candy bar, which for six-year-old me was the ultimate measure of wealth.
It’s a story with a little luck, a little karma, a lot of synchronicity, and honestly, some good old-fashioned validation that inner work, as strange as it can feel, sometimes does work. If you’ve been following along, you know I re-launched my sales business in February during what’s objectively been one of the hardest real estate years in a decade. It has taken longer than I expected. It has required more tenacity, creativity, and discipline than I sometimes thought I had. And this summer, when I still only had a handful of transactions in my pipeline, I was doing everything: open houses, door knocking, FSBO calls, weekly database marketing, social media, and all the other things you try when you’re thinking, “Well, I’ve got nothing to lose… might as well try this too.”
At the same time, I was reading book after book on co-creating the life you want: Think and Grow Rich, Super Attractor, Creative Visualization. Not manifesting in the “rainbows and good vibes only” sense, but the real work of training your mind over and over again to choose the thoughts that serve you. At its core, it’s about becoming the person who achieves the things you want before they happen — thinking, believing, visioning, and living in a frequency that aligns with your goals. It sounds fluffy, but honestly, it’s been some of the toughest work I’ve ever done. It’s like training a dog... except the dog is your brain, and the brain is a little feral.
Even so, I stuck with it. And I kept getting this recurring vision of myself taking on multiple luxury listings a year. I didn’t consciously choose that vision; it just kept showing up. Eventually, I decided to stop debating it and simply allow the possibility. And I want to be very clear, because this matters to me deeply: it has never been about the price tag. I work with clients at every level, and every single one truly means something to me. The vision wasn’t about chasing a “luxury” label. It was about the version of myself I would need to become — the capacity, the creativity, the trust to hold something bigger. This opportunity expanded something in me.
I didn’t know how it would happen; I just kept holding the frequency of “the woman who does this.” And then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, I got an email. It was from a closer I had used ten years ago, someone who had been quietly listening to my podcast The Whole Shebang — not a real estate podcast, not a “how I market homes” podcast, but a spiritual-growth-meets-personal-evolution podcast. She had listened long enough to know me beyond the professional surface. That same week, she happened to receive an email from a woman looking to sell two properties, each just under three million dollars, and looking for a realtor who could meet her at the right frequency. Not the one with the longest résumé, not the one with the most trophies, not the one with the forty-seven-point marketing plan. The energetic match. And my closer thought of me.
We exchanged emails. She told me the meeting wouldn’t be a normal listing appointment. I said, “I know.” We set it for September 1st. That morning, I meditated, grounded myself, and didn’t plan a thing. Ten minutes into meeting her, she looked at me and said, “You’re perfect. I’d like you to sell both of my properties.”
And that’s when the real work began. We had two and a half weeks to bring a nearly ten-thousand-square-foot home on thirty-six acres to market. This was not a house you could just tidy up and photograph. There was staging, landscaping, window washing, deep cleaning, lighting presets, contractor coordination — every possible detail. We had a custom mural painted on a ceiling with two days’ notice because the room needed to reflect the portal energy of the home. We created a Marvel-inspired cinematic video as a nod to its cosmic nature. We managed vendors, timelines, budgets, and creative direction with precision. My seller later told me she knew she had put me through the fire and that I handled every detail with professionalism and ease. It was a whirlwind and also some of the most creatively fulfilling work I’ve ever done.
Two and a half weeks after that first meeting, the Purple House was on the market. So that’s how the listing came to be. It wasn’t conventional, but I’m completely here for it. The synchronicities were wild, more than I could ever fit into one article.
More importantly, though, the experience reminded me of something I hope lands for you too: whatever you are building — a career, a business, a relationship, a sense of self — don’t underestimate the nonlinear, unpredictable ways possibility can find you. Sometimes the path makes no sense until suddenly it does. Hold the vision anyway. Let it expand you a little. Let it change who you’re becoming.
And may the sweet baby synchronicity fairies send this story to someone who is holding a big vision and could use a reminder that what seems impossible is, in fact, possible. And maybe also to someone who could use a realtor who understands both strategy and synchronicity.
Stay tuned for Part Two. It gets even wilder.
xo - Jen