Fitzburgh Realty Team's BIG Adventure To The Shark Tank Auditions at Morongo Casino!

​In case you all didn't know it, I am a HUGE FAN of the TV show "Shark Tank"
If you are not familiar about the show, Shark Tank, think American Idol but for inventors and business ideas. The show is about giving a 60 second pitch to investors to see if you can get any of them to invest in your business and help you take your idea to the next level!

FYI: In a past life, before I became a real estate broker, I was a consulting engineer and always loved to tinker with inventions and actually have about 4 or 5 US patents issued in my name (you would think I would know exactly how many patents I have but I'm really not sure - lol!

​But I digress...  Back to Shark Tank!

I think I was watching an episode of "The Bachelor" (don't judge!) and I saw a commercial that there was going to be a casting call for SHARK TANK at Morongo Casino on March 14th.

WELL, I couldn't resist the chance to go for it so with less than two weeks to get ready we put together a 60-second pitch (we were informed that the pitch has to be no more than 60 seconds)

Oh, wait! I forgot to talk about the idea that I wanted to pitch!

What you all probably know already is that for the past 2-1/2 years, The Fitzburgh Realty Team has been promoting fostering of rescue pets at our open houses and community events and while it's been great that we are doing our part to help grow the foster volunteer community, we wanted to do more so we decided to create a national coalition of realtors who are animal lovers who want to promote fostering and grow the foster volunteer community.

Instead of just The Fitzburgh Realty Team, what about thousands of real estate agents across the country helping to save many, many thousands of rescue pets?

So basically, the idea I wanted to pitch was our next venture:

REAL ESTATE AGENTS TO THE RESCUE 
www.RErescue.org

RErescue.org is a National Coalition of Real Estate Agents and Animal Lovers who promote fostering at their open houses and community events. Our mission is to GROW THE FOSTER VOLUNTEER COMMUNITY AND HELP SAVE THE LIVES OF HOMELESS ANIMALS!
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Well, I prepared a script with all the content that I wanted to convey but it was taking me about 2 minutes to read through it all.

So after about 50 re-writes (yes, at least 50 re-writes!) I finally came up with a script that I could get through in about 57 seconds!

I practiced and practiced until I felt that I really had it down. I thought I was totally ready!

So off to Morongo Casino (near Palm Springs) I went with my wonderful sister-in-law Eliter and my amazing nephew Alex (their job was to dress up in a mascot costume of a doggie and a kitty and look all adorable while I gave my pitch) and we all drove off to the desert!

With a little traffic the drive was about 2-1/2 hours and I absolutely tortured Eliter and Alex the entire trip because I kept reciting the script over and over and over and over again until they were going insane!

To me the trip seemed to go by in the blink of an eye- but to them the car became a complete torture chamber with Brian going on and on and on with the same script.

Hey- I needed all the practice I could get!

Okay, we arrived at the hotel and tried to do our best to get the lay of the land and to strategize on how to get at good spot in line the next morning.

Well, it was a confusing process! It seemed that each person we talked to had a different idea of how it would all work the next morning on (3/14/2019).

So after getting all sorts of different stories we decided to go with a tried and true strategy - get up at the crack of dawn!

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That's what we did, but even still, we ended up being #137 in the line but that was better than being at the end of the line. There were about 600 or 700 people total that showed up to audition.
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Even though it was cold and there was a fierce wind to make it feel even colder, the comradery amongst the hopefuls was great. Sharing stories about their journey and what their idea was.

It was very powerful to be in the midst of so many people that have all worked very hard and dedicated so much time and energy (and money!) to try to achieve something great- really great!

In any case, after waiting in line for hours, I was finally issued our #137 wrist band and told to come back and stand in line again starting at 12:00 noon.

Cut to the chase, we ended up giving our pitch at about 2:45pm and only a few minutes before being called for our audition I decided to "ditch the pitch" and instead of acting out the pre-prepared pitch that I had worked so hard to perfect and perform, it just seemed that speaking from the heart was going to be best. So that's what I ended up doing- with my doggie and kitty mascots by my side we walked up to the table where we were to be given our 60 second shot and I simply engaged our judge in conversation and instead of only having 60-seconds our judge let me go on for about five minutes. I took that as a sign of encouragement.

FYI: we were all informed that there will be about 30,000 people who audition and apply to be on next season's show and that there are only 88 people who will make it.

I might be overly optimistic but somehow, even with such daunting odds, I think we have a good shot at making it to the show!

Let's see what happens! FYI: we were told that if we make it through to the next round of auditions that we will hear from the show by April 1st...
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Stay tuned for an update in about two weeks!! :)

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Brian Fitzburgh
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