The NOW Nation Story
Before real estate, Michele built a career in pharmaceutical sales, rising to become a top 1% performer worldwide. It was a career built on discipline, relationships, and results — skills that would later become the foundation of something much bigger.
That foundation met its purpose through an unlikely connection: Michele met Courtney when their daughters attended preschool together. Courtney had just launched her own brokerage in the Sierra foothills, just outside Yosemite National Park. There was no office, no staff, no infrastructure — just Courtney, her family's mobile home, and a kitchen table that doubled as company headquarters. Michele joined her there, and together with a single agent, the three of them began building a brokerage from the ground up.
Over the next ten years, that kitchen-table operation grew into something remarkable. Michele and Courtney built the business side by side — recruiting, training, and earning a reputation for excellence that got the brokerage voted best in the region year after year. What started with two people and one agent grew into three brick-and-mortar offices and nearly 50 agents at its peak.
As the business scaled, Courtney faced a decision every growing brokerage eventually confronted: how to keep giving agents the best technology, stay ahead of an industry that moves fast, and protect the business against liability as it grew. Roughly three years ago, Courtney made the call to align the brokerage with eXp Realty. That decision became the turning point — the moment Courtney and Michele chose to formalize their partnership and build something new together: NOW Nation.
Since then, NOW Nation has grown from a single brokerage's next chapter into a multi-state organization, now home to 100 agents across six states — and still growing. What began at a kitchen table in the Sierra foothills has become a nationally expanding team built on the same principles that started it: hard work, loyalty, and a relentless drive to help agents build something real.
