If you listen you can still hear the Auctioneer selling in fields and fairgrounds and front lawns, in ballrooms, cattle barns and on courthouse steps, their chant ringing out in varying cadences across the country, as they sell purebred cattle, real estate, classic autos, heavy equipment and thoroughbred horses.  The Auctioneer's chant focuses the crowd, captivates them and, in some instances, evokes memories of industries long departed, like the melodic chant of the Tobacco Auctioneer.  Very few professions capitivate people's imaginations like that of the Auctioneer.  

In this two-part, mini-series of "Pam McKissick Without Reserve", McKissick takes listeners inside the mysterious world of the Auctioneer’s chant and explores the fascinating profession of Auctioneering.  A trained Auctioneer herself and the co-owner and CEO of one of the world’s most respected auction firms, Williams & Williams Auction, McKissick leverages her insider access to reveal the art, science and mastery of the chant as shared by a selection of the country’s top auctioneers.  

In a world that is in a constant state of evolution and reinvention, live Auctioneering has the rare distinction of a trade that continues to play a significant role in the sale of goods for thousands of years.  Across the country, in French, German, English or Spanish, the Auctioneer moves automobiles, real estate, heavy equipment, livestock, wine, and, once, tobacco.  And, the Auctioneer's chant is America's music. 

The speed, rhythm and excitement of the Auctioneer’s chant leaves its indelible mark.  But why is it so memorable?  How is the rhythm created?  How can you become an auctioneer? McKissick and her special guests provide answers to these questions and more while they each share their one-of-a-kind, well-perfected and melodic Auctioneer's chant.

In America, we don't own our real estate, we are our real estate.  How much we own and what condition it's in communicates publicly what condition we are in...how well we are doing in life.  That's why when we sell it, if we sell it, how we sell it, becomes very personal.  This episode goes inside this fascinating topic as Pam McKissick is joined by special guest Sherry Helgoe, a psychotherapist and professor at Pepperdine University, whose counseling sub-specialty is dealing with real estate stress issues. 

The stress real estate owners feel is centered around the number in their head.  It's the number their property is "defintely" worth...what the appraisal says, the agent says, the banker says.  They forget "what our house is worth" is a virtual number untils someone pays them that amount.  Then it becomes a real number.

Also appearing on the show to discuss this topic is Carter Maxey who oversees new business development for Arvest Banks and Sheila Sanders, Vice President of Williams & Williams Worldwide Real Estate Auction.

Pam McKissick is co-owner and CEO of Williams, Williams & McKissick, LLC (WWM), one of the largest and most diverse auction firms in the United States. McKissick is a seasoned businesswoman, marketing executive and radio host and is known for her charismatic personality and uncanny ability to transform traditional thinking and chart new paths toward personal and professional growth.

For more information, visit www.pammckissick.com      

Pam McKissick catches up with JoJo Jones, the fabulously fun star of HGTV's "Beat The House" series and technology expert Gina Bradford of Bradford Marketing for some guidance on the hottest tech devices on the market.  

For 13 years JoJo Jones, along with her mom, owned a clothing boutique in Macon, Georgia called the Midnight Pickle and she worked with two high school friends selling real estate. Then a talent agent filmed her in a tennis outfit and now she’s on national television staring in HGTV’s Beat the House! Pam finds out the full back story and what's ahead for JoJo Jones.

Next up is Gina Bradford.   Gina knows her way around technology and in fact wrote an article entitled Revolutionary Devices which appeared in Tulsa Lifestyles.  She joins Pam to enlighten the less tech savvy among us to what's new in tech gadgets.

Pam McKissick is a seasoned businesswoman, marketing executive and radio host and is known for her charismatic personality and uncanny ability to transform traditional thinking and chart new paths toward personal and professional growth.  She is also co-owner and CEO of Williams, Williams & McKissick, LLC (WWM), one of the largest and most diverse auction firms in the United States. 

For more information, visit www.pammckissick.com