Let Nothing Stop You BY MELANIE ROBITAILLE, SR. STAFF WRITER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Angela Powell with a photo of her youngest grandson, while on the Appalachian Trail Climb for Kids.
Imagine literally staring cancer in the face not once, but twice, turning your mouth and ability to speak against you. Would you stop selling? This is a story of perseverance, of wanting to be a real estate agent since childhood. It’s a story of a woman who would make five attempts at the real estate exam while helping her brother navigate a terminal illness. It’s also her story of success, and survival so please be warned there are triggers ahead. It begins in 1993 when Franchisee, Angela Powell finally obtains her license and starts on a path to a promising career, only to have her own cancer diagnosis stop her in her tracks two years later. “I noticed something on my tongue found to be cancer and underwent surgery. In 1997 it returned, and I proceeded through radiation treatment, which took a great toll on me, but I fought through,” she proudly shared. Following these arduous years Angela returns to real estate as a broker’s assistant, determined as ever to realize her dream. She’s first introduced to EXIT in 2003 by her husband, Bob, who gave her a presentation on CD by EXIT Founder and Chairman, Steve Morris, and asked her to watch it. “We both knew we wanted to open an office one day, but this came faster than I expected,” she recalled of buying their first EXIT Team Realty office in Georgia later that year. They’ve attended every EXIT Convention since, and hit the ground running, going on to open subsequent locations and even a real estate school.
We go through life thinking we have so much time and I now know that’s not true. We don’t take the trips, buy the things that make us smile, or go to fancy restaurants, but we need to. This is self-love and care for oneself.”
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