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Industry Award Winners Announced

I am very proud to announce the winners of the RESA Staging Industry Awards and I would like to say a few words about each person.

RESA Rookie Stager of the Year:

Bevin Googer

I have not met Bevin personally but I can tell you have heard a lot of great things about her. Bevin was trained by First Impressions Staging and Re-Design (Melissa Marro) Congrats Bevin!!

RESA Staging Realtor of the Year:

Terrylynn Fisher

Terrylynn is a Realtor and has been in the business for 30 years. She started staging her listings 18 years ago and now is the perfect example of how Realtors should work with stagers. Another amazing business women who is a mom, grandma and mentor. I am very lucky to have known Terrylynn for many years. She is generous, not afraid to tell you how it really is and gives the soundest advice ever! Congrats!!

RESA Professional Stager of the Year:

Kate Hart

Congrats Kate!! This is a very well deserved award. I met Kate several years ago and we hit it off for sure. We had a great "tag team" working relationship where she brought the clients in and I closed the deals. I have known Kate to be a phenomenal trainer, stager and business women. In addition to being an amazing business women she is a wife and a mother and holds it all together!!

Staging Innovator of the Year:

Christine Rae

Congrats Christine!! I met Christine in early 2003. Over the years we have kept in touch and I can tell you that Christine Rae is one of the most giving, helpful, generous, inspiring people I have ever met. Christine has always had a warm heart and has always been there for everyone she knows including myself. She is an amazing business women and this is well deserved.

RESA Leadership Awards

RESA Chapter President of the Year

Charlene Storozuk

Halton & Hamilton-Wentworth RESA Chapter President

Charlene is the poster child for the PERFECT Chapter President. In a very short period of time Charlene has 18 chapter members, she is having regular chapter meetings, she got the owner of C2 paint line to speak at one of her meetings and she secured a deal for them to give her chapter members a 10% discount. I have no doubt that Charlene will take this chapter and her members to new levels. Congrats Charlene!

RESA State President: Sharon Ahrens

I cant say enough about Sharon. Sharon contacted me many months ago wanting to get involved with RESA. Sharon has been a supporter and believer in RESA from the first day she read about it. I work on many projects at a time and Sharon is always there for me to bounce ideas off of, give input, etc. She has great ideas and cares about this industry. Congrats Sharon!

RESA RVP: Michelle Minch

Michelle Minch was also a believer in RESA from the beginning. She stepped up to the plate to take on the Regional Vice President Position for California, Nevada and Hawaii. Michelle is one of the busiest stagers I know and she still makes time for RESA. We work on project via email and she is always there to give input and suggestions. I was able to meet Michelle a few months ago when I took a trip to Los Angeles and she is just as great in person as she is here in the rain. Congrats Michelle!

RESA National Board Member of the Year: Sheron Cardin

And Finally Sheron Cardin. Can I say it's al her fault!! A little over a year ago I had the idea to start a trade organization. Not a new idea of mine because I was contacted by stager after stager telling me our industry needed this. Well long story short I had already been talking with Sheron on AR and I was on the fence about what to do for my next career goals etc. I ran this idea past Sheron about starting a trade organization. We bounced ideas back and forth. (she is the best collaborator) Sheron was the one that convinced me to start RESA. With Sheron's help, feedback, advice and personal strength RESA was born. Sheron gives me feedback any time I need it day or night. She has great ideas and I could not be doing this without her.

I would like to personally congratulate not only the RESA Leadership Award recipients but the entire leadership team at RESA. I could not do any of this without each and every one of you. Your feedback, ideas and support are priceless and I am grateful for each of you. I feel so grateful that I get to work with such talented people each day. I get to work on many projects at a time because each of you stepping up and working with me.

I want to again congratulate each of the RESA Industry Award Winners again. The voting in each category was very close and everyone nominated is a winner!!

The actual awards will be ordered this week and I will have them delivered to each of you and all of the nominees will also get a nominee certificate.

Congrats to all!!

Posted by Shell Brodnax- President/CEO- RESA on 01/13/2008 10:02 PM

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51 Comments on Industry Award Winners Announced

JAN

2008

CONGRATULATIONS Ladies!! What a fine group of winners and more importantly, a wonderful group of colleagues! These awards are well-deserved and something for each person at AR and throughout the industry to aspire towards in their staging career!

Thank you to Shell for taking up the task of creating RESA. I am glad that Sheron helped you find the path to develop a new association for us all to join and become a team together in this industry. I am proud to be a member of RESA and a part of the community here at Active Rain. Like many, I would be lost without the support and constant ideas which flow here each day!

The generosity of these winners is unparalleled and I hope that we will have an opportunity to meet each one of you in person some fine day in the not so distant future!! I am proud of each one of you!! Congrats!! (Popping of champagne cork....whooo-hoooo!! Claps, cheers, fireworks and more!)

Warmest Regards-Kathleen G

PS-Congratulations to all of the nominees!! Each person contributes a great amount to the Home Staging industry and I hope you know that it was a tough task choosing between everyone. Feel good about your well-earned nomination because every one of you professionals deserved it! : )

I just want to congratulate all the winners, the suspense was thrilling and as a nominee I felt proud. Again, CONGRATS or as we say in spanish, FELICIDADES!!

Congratulations Everyone - including all other nominees. You are all stars in the staging industry and have been leaders in this rising staging market. Shell, thank your for creating RESA and Christine, thank you for including all your CSP's in the membership. Betty

Congratulations to all the winners!! I am especially proud of my Bevin! She works really hard and completely deserves this... as all of the nominees & winners do!

Now, I can't wait to watch the upcoming Stager Idol!

Congratulations to all the winners!

Shell - thanks for having coordinated. Like Fernando, I too felt proud to have been nominated. What an absolute honor!

Kathy

I didn't know anything about this. Thanks or turning us on to it. We recognize Sharon from here on AR.

cheers

I am so happy for Terrylynn and Christine! Much deserved!

Thanks for the update Shell, nice to see so many AR stagers getting their due respect & recognition.

Congratulations to all the winners and all the runner ups. Good job guys and gals.

My congrats to all of you; nominees, winners and RESA. Also thanks to Shell for getting this all started!

Diane Concialdi - www.dcredesign.com

Congratulations ladies, you should be very proud.

Congratulations to all those that won! Your contributions help each of us in our own businesses. Thank you!

Jackie

Look how far we have come in such a short time - congratulations to all the staging stars and nominees.

My heartfelt congratulations to all the winners. This has really been fun and interesting. Thank you Shell for putting it all together and making it happen.

JAN

2008

Shell, Congratualtions to you and all the winners. Christine Rae is great, she Trained me 2 years ago before she went out on her own. I think I may have spoken to you on the phone about that class!

Ginger

Congratulations to all of the winners! It's neat that we've been able to meet many of them right here in the Rain. I'm looking forward to picking up more staging knowledge from their blogs in 2008.

Congratulations Ladies! I can't tell where they work though. Is everyone in the same State?

Congratualions, keep up the good work.

Congratulations to all the winners. I have read blogs by some of the winners and hope to read more.

Congratulations to all the winners!! You are a wonderful bunch. It was an honour to be nominated with you.

Congratulations to all the winners AND nominees!

Shell, this has been a total blast! Thank you for all your hard work in this endeavour, and congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

Congratulations to everyone!!! It is well derserved and you should be proud!

Congrats everyone! And of course, a HUGE thanks to Shell for everything you have done. This is going to be an exciting year for RESA!

Congratulations to all of you and I am proud to say I was nominated along side such a phenomenal person as Kate Hart. She certainly deserves this more than I and was rightly chosen. Kate - You ARE the best!

Congratulations to you ALL! Your expertise makes our job as REALTORS SO much easier!

Congratulations to everyone! All well deserved - nominations and winners!

Congradulations to ALL the winners. What a wonderful way to start the year. Keep up the great work.

Congratulations to all of the winners. I was not even aware that such an award ceremony. Hmmm, you learn something new each day.

THANK You all for the votes and the honor. As it has been said so eloquently in all of these comments, the nominees are all such high calibre that we are winners just to be among them. I am honored and blessed and will do my best to live up to the title. THANK you again.

Congratulations Everyone!!! This was so much fun and I was truly honored to be nominated with such a wonderful and inspiring group of professionals. I want to thank you, Shell for all your hard work. Having Industry awards through RESA only strengthens our professional existence as stagers. Thank you for such a wonderful experience!

Congratulations to all the winners and the leadership as well!

Ann

Congratulations Ladies...Proud to be in the company of such amazing women. Wanted to also congratulate every one of the nominees...when you think about how many people are in this profession from all over the world, your nominations speak volumes of the work that you are doing and the work that you will continue to do. No doubt we will all continue to hear of you and learn from you. Lastly...one more big ol' congratulations to that tired-less Shell Brodnax that makes it all look so darn easy when we all know...that is certainly not the case!

RESA and it's members are starting off 2008 bigger than ever and what better way to do that than to acknowledge the shinning examples of the individuals lighting the way. These awards show all of us that we are a team! The sky is the limit when professional home stagers work together!

Scrolling down the list in this post was really exciting for me to see who won in which category...then I see my hat! Shell, you give me way too much credit but thank you so very much for the acknowledgment!!! I am very proud to be a part of something that will do so much good for so many. I was a loner all my career, especially in the beginning so I see RESA as a gift to all the up and coming stagers entering the field. It will be nice to have a group to lean on and look to for unconditional support in this industry.

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! YOU WILL HAVE THE DISTINCTION OF THE AWARDED TITLES UNTIL NEXT YEAR WHEN WE NOMINATE AND VOTE ON WHO KNOCKED OUR SOCKS OFF IN 2008! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

Congrats to all the winners - I tried to vote for Missy Caulk yesterday and I couldn't get the vote to take. Thanks for sharing the news with us.

Great job....congrats,

Patricia AUlson/Hampton NH Real Estate

What a wonderful presentation, Shell! Thank you for coordinating this. Congratulations to all the winners! You are an amazing group of home staging professionals and I'm honored to have been nominated to stand among you all.

Shell

Great presentation, congratulations to all of you people for your hard work and dedication.

Congratulations to all and all the nominees were winners in my book anyway!

Congratulations to all of you. You all deserve a round of applause for the work that you do and continue to do!

Wow! This is better than the Golden Globes! Alas, not a guy in the bunch.

Congrats to everyone who won and also to those that were nominated! Keep us the great work!

C-O-N-G-R-A-T-U-L-A-T-I-O-N-S !!!

EXCELLENT work Ladies and Fellas!

All I can say is you are all so incredibly deserving...and so were the wonderful and deserving nominees.

Keep Staging it Forward and spreading the word!!!

JAN

2008

All well deserved, how exciting, and what an honor. Congratulations to all the winners and the nominees!

Congratulation to everyone on their awards. A special congratulation to Christine Rae, my trainer who sincerely deserves her award. Another special congratulation to Charlene who is my RESA Chapter President. Charlene has worked very hard to get this going and has done an excellent job. See you on the 21st Charlene.

Admiration to all nominees and winners, especially those here on AR who respond with helpful comments to newbie stagers like myself. Very grateful for the support.

Kathy

JAN

2008

You've had a great year Shell.

I'm very pleased to see how much you and all the members of RESA have accomplished.

Each nominee was deserving of a win in my books...and really so are you Shell.

I know I've given you a hard time so I wanted to say congratulations to you and thank you for all you've done through RESA for the industry in such a short time!

Congratulations to all nominees and winners!

Thank you Dane!! I appreciate the feedback. Has anyone noticed all the Realtors that have commented here??? This means we are reaching where we need to be.

We hope to accomplish the same for Stager Idol. Raise the bar on staging and tell the world about it.

JAN

2008

I know I blogged this seperately, I want to be sure it doesn't get missed...

Thank you to all who supported me during the RESA Industry Awards. "Staging Innovator of the Year 2007" is a great achievement, one that I will wear proudly and although I would like to take a bit of credit, I have to say that my innovation accomplishment is a combined effort of many of you who stand with me to witness change and make this industry a great one to belong to. Although it takes only one person to have an idea and begin the ripple of change... it takes many to implement and make a huge impact in an industry as large as ours.

Only a small handful were nominated, however we know there are many who make a difference, you know who you are! Take a bow, and truly smile. Just this award ceremony is proof that this industry is growing leaps and bounds and you are part of it!

Shell, your ideas and dedication never cease to amaze me, you truly are an inspiration to many, and we are blessed to have you in the forefront of RESA.

Again, thank you to all who took the time to vote, your belief and support is greatly treasured. - Christine Rae

JAN

2008

Congratulations to all of the winners! Well deserved!

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