Lynn Jared

Founded a Cookeville, Tennessee brokerage in 2022 that did 500 transactions in year one, 750 in year two, and over 800 in 2025 — currently pacing 57% ahead year-over-year in 2026. Roughly 90 agents, of whom about 75% are two years in or newer, work the Upper Cumberland corridor between Nashville and Knoxville. Daily morning huddles, tiered team leaders, contract-to- close fall-through tracking, and a profitable in-house lead-gen team that he personally turned around from underwater to 150+ projected closings. Land-and-farm specialty; his wife is the area's top residential agent.

Started hunting at seven on the family farm outside Cookeville with a shotgun and no hearing protection — the left ear is still paying for it. Killed his first buck at ten with his dad. Has since completed a turkey grand slam in two years (the Merriam came on public land in the Black Hills, an eighth of a mile from Mount Rushmore in three inches of May snow) and is hunting Gould's and Ocellated for the World Slam. Bowhunter by preference — Mathews Lift after seven or eight years on BowTech — and runs the YouTube channel Long Beard Legends documenting turkey hunts.

Lynn frames business and hunting with the same lens: relationships, feedback loops, and the discipline to move on when something isn't working. The brokerage growth playbook is unusually transparent — he'll walk through the morning huddle agenda, the fall-through metric his team is currently dialing down, and the under-capitalized-by-18-months mistake that kills new agents. The hunting half is the rare guest who can articulate why bowhunting turkeys is harder than rifle, why Alabama Easterns out-think every other bird he's hunted, and why a "run-and-gun" strategy that works in turkey woods is the same instinct that built an 800-deal brokerage.