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Today we’d like to introduce you to Jennifer Wehner.

Jennifer started her real estate career in 2003 as an investor who used her small life savings as a food server to purchase two homes to renovate and resell. She had to get top dollar on those homes and has since helped over 1000 families successfully sell their homes.

Over the past two decades, Jen has grown an award-winning team committed to helping their clients achieve their real estate goals while providing the highest level of customer service. Their consistent dedication to learning, growing and implementing the most cutting edge marketing has earned them many awards including Americas Best Real Estate Agents, Top 5 agents in Phoenix out of 60,000+, Top 40 Realtors under 40, but most importantly: referrals and testimonials from their past clients. Her team ranks in the Top 100 on Zillow in the Nation for 5-star reviews, and over half of their business comes from past clients and referrals.

Jennifer and her team have sold dozens of homes for the highest price in the neighborhood, and in many cases sold when other agents could not. Her out-of-the-box thinking and inside knowledge of marketing trends have been crucial to her successful marketing and negotiating strategy.

Jennifer’s favorite quote is “The purpose of life is to find your gift, and the meaning of life is to share it with others”. Jennifer’s passion, creativity, dedication and work ethic are her gifts she considers her life’s mission to share with her clients.

Has it been a smooth road?
Jennifer has experienced several trials and tribulations both personally and professionally. She had a lucrative real estate business in 2007, but when 2008 hit, she lost everything including foreclosing on several homes she was building. She was hundreds of thousands in debt but was determined to get back to success. Instead of filing bankruptcy, she worked harder. Even at eight months pregnant with her son, she was showing $25,000 homes in the middle of August.

Personally, Jennifer grew up in a Police family in California. From a young age, she used Alcohol to feel complete. Below is a piece about the Superpowers of an Addict Jennifer wrote. The Superpowers of an Addict.

So there I was, again, sitting on the bed in a dark hotel room reeking of stale vodka and feeling utterly hopeless. Outside of the hotel room of the real estate conference, I was at it was a beautiful sunny October day, inside the hotel hundreds of real estate agents were eagerly learning how to grow their business. But I wasn’t with them, I was so sick I couldn’t get out of bed without vomiting. This certainly wasn’t the first time I had drank too much, not even close. But somehow this time had felt different. I had to do something that always felt so unnatural to me, I had to ask for help.

I surrendered there in that hotel room, I embraced the vulnerability that terrified me as I begged for God’s mercy.

“God—I am so sorry, I have fallen off the path again. I know you are disappointed, I have disappointed so many—and what hurts me the most is how I haven’t been the mom I need to be for my children. God please just take this desire to drink away from me, and I will never ask for anything for myself again. I promise I will pay it forward by helping others, just please help me”

My name is Jennifer, I am a mother of 4, happily married and lead a top real estate team here in the valley. I’m independent, creative, passionate, a problem-solver, and I have spent the majority of my life addicted to alcohol.

A year ago, shame would have prevented me from sharing this with anybody. It was a secret I didn’t want to even admit to myself, and over the years it forced me to bury many dark memories. From the first night, I tasted alcohol from a red solo cup waking up in the ER the next day unable to walk or talk. To the hundreds of mornings, I vowed to never drink again after either recollecting my scattered memories from the night before or hearing them told to me by others. One of my most painful memories was reading a letter from my sweet daughter Haley, begging me to stop drinking on 6 tear-soaked notebook pages. That one had to get buried deep as I asked for another glass of Cab.

Through all of this darkness came something beautiful. Something that not only gave me a new lens on how I viewed life but the only way I can describe it is by having a whole new identity. And I never, ever thought I would say this, but today I am grateful for this addiction. I understand it now, I finally understand why I’m wired this way. And the same traits that make me an addict are the same traits that also make me powerful.

My entire life made sense one night as I listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast interviewing a doctor by the name of Dr. Gabor Mate, an expert on addiction. After finishing the 2 ½ hour podcast at 10 pm, I went on to Tim’s blog to read the transcripts. Dr. Mate explains that addiction isn’t some gene or deformity that you are born with, but behavior that stems from trauma in our childhood. The trauma so often gets repeated generation after generation, hence our beliefs in “the gene”. Dr. Gabor has studied and helped thousands of addicts and found that children who are sensitive and creative were much more susceptible to having depression, anxiety, ADD. Depression in itself was a defense mechanism to suppress memories and feelings one didn’t want to feel, and alcohol and drugs were a way to escape from it all.

As I lay in my bed that night while my family peacefully slept around me, my whole life flashed before my eyes. I was a little girl hearing my parents fight again, I was a 5th grader saying goodbye to our childhood home as my parents divorced, I was a pre-teen watching my dad pass out from drinking, I was a teenager kissing her sweet grandmas’ cold dead cheek—the only person that seemed to understand her.

It felt as if I relived feeling my mom’s hurt and my dad’s deep ridden pain. I was that child again getting lost in books, playing barbie’s alone for hours, creating elaborate storylines to fall asleep dreaming I could fly. The dreams felt so real I spent hours jumping off my fence trying my best to soar into the sky. Maybe it was a way to escape all of the noise in my world, or maybe it was just my wild imagination.

Then I saw my dad as a little boy, a little boy being raised by his grandma as his mother’s cold heart only had a love for her 2 favorite children. I saw my dad as that hurt child just searching for love the world didn’t seem to have for him.

My dad and I were both gifted, creative, and sensitive children who were the perfect candidates to inherit this addict trait. But it was this revelation that dawned on me like a boulder crashing through my skull. These were beautiful traits, I wouldn’t ever want to give up my creativity nor my compassion and empathy I had for others. The same devout passion I gave so generously to the wine bottle I could now divert to great and noble things. The same traits that made me an addict could now be my superpower.

I am an extremist, and when I’m passionate about something nobody can stop me. This is where my fitness journey began, and the effects have been life-changing. As a problem solver, I rotated alcohol out and fitness in. Exercise empowered me as nothing else had so far in my life, it was my new medicine. I also began eating clean, fasting, and cutting out sugar including my signature red bulls. All of this clean eating, exercise and positive mindset also affected my life in another profound way. I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis 15 years ago and battled with horrible symptoms daily. After multiple medications failed and living with only 30% of my colon, I accepted this was just my reality. I now live symptom-free for the first time since being diagnosed. The freedom to be able to leave my home without anxiety is something I never thought I would experience.

I never thought life could feel like this, and I will never forget that promise I made to God. Shakespeare said that the purpose of life is to find your gift, and the meaning of life is to share it with others. It took me 40 years to find my gift, and now I strive to have 60 more to give it away.

I am a mom of four that loves her kids and family with the depths of her heart, a business owner who is obsessed with helping her team and clients, a devout life learner whose house and office remain cluttered with books, magazines, printouts from my favorite podcasts and journals. I have a fitness series that is allowing me to tap into my creativity and help others with my message of health and wellness. My empathy for others, creativity and passion are my superpowers, and my mission is to help as many people as I can in my life overcome mental and physical barriers. My name is Jennifer, and these are my superpowers as an addict.

We’d love to hear more about your work.
Jennifer has a relentless commitment to providing the highest level of customer service to her clients. In the ever changing real estate industry, Jennifer has pursued innovation and creative solutions when it comes to marketing, negotiating, and providing the highest value to clients and other agents in the community. Her cutting-edge marketing program helps sellers achieve the highest price in the shortest time, while she and her team prospect daily for homes both on and off the market for their buyer clients.

Jennifer is an endorsed local provider by Dave Ramsey, a top 1% Zillow Premier Agent, and the #1 Female EXP Realty Team Leader in Arizona. Her secret weapon is her team, comprised of marketing professionals, support staff, and experienced agents who make it possible to serve hundreds of families per year.

What sets the Wehner Group apart from others is creating an opportunity to educate the community by helping families build wealth for future generations. Jennifer and her team teach several of their clients how to invest in real estate and teach several free seminars to the community each year. Jen has a passion for educating others and prides herself on creating a relationship past the initial transaction.

Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Absolutely. One of my recommendations is to connect with other small business owners. One of the Masterminds I started was specifically for small business owners in the Phoenix & Scottsdale area who are looking to create lasting business relationships and also learn business strategies that are working. We meet at our office and have discussed strategy on time-management, employee hiring, marketing, technology, community events, etc.

Jennifer is passionate about fitness. This year she started a fitness series called Workout Wed – to highlight local gyms as one of her ways to share the fitness journey with her community. She provides all advertising costs for free to each local gym owner and adds it to her social media channels to bring awareness for these small business owners. She also hosts a free meet up events at these gyms to help get people involved in health and fitness.

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