This is not your typical real estate success story. This one will stop you in your tracks.

In this episode of According to Carlo, I sit down with Peter Papashek of RE/MAX Enterprises – a man who arrived in Canada at 22 years old with no money, no English, no friends, and no family. What he did have was an attitude that failure was simply not an option.

Peter escaped Czechoslovakia illegally, spent nearly a year in Austria knocking on strangers' doors just to feed his family, and arrived in Canada in 1986 with a six-month-old baby, and a government loan. Within a few years, he had built one of the most respected real estate careers in the GTA.

This conversation is equal parts inspiring, entertaining, and deeply practical. Every agent who has ever complained about a slow market, a difficult client, or a tough pros ...