About Linna Li

Hi There,

Thanks for being curious enough to stop by this page to learn a little bit more about me.

I personally consider myself to be a very boring person but that’s probably because I spend all day with ME.

Let’s not start at the beginning of my life. Instead I’ll start in the present (Oct 12, 2025), this moment as I’m building out my website (again). I’m hoping that there will be multiple iterations of this about me page as I grow my blog.

This might actually be the 5th or 6th time I’m starting a blog.

The first time was in college (2016) when I wrote a short post about how I was procrastinating on my studies for an exam that was coming up. That’s usually how I run my life. I spend a lot of time procrastinating on things that are the most important at the moment.

But have to say that writing this is the most important thing I could be doing right now because you are reading it.

Ok, now lets finally get into talking about me after that long tangent that wasn’t even an introduction.

I’m a 32 year old, college educated woman who hasn’t quite figured out what to do with life.

I’m decided to go into real estate full time. I’ve made it official by joining the Premiere Team at Real Broker. I’m now an associate real estate agent with them and have a mentor who will keep me accountable on making real estate sales!

I realized that I’m very very very bad at sales. I’ve decided that it’s something that I NEED to get better at so I’m working on it. (I’ll tell you what I used to do for work in a bit)

While I’m working on being a real estate agent, I’m also trying to build my YouTube channel and my Instagram.

Everyone tells me that it’s important to have an online presence when you try to sell things. My teammates at REAL Broker are all pushing for us to be more active on Instagram, YouTube, build a website, write on Twitter, …the whole package.

I agree with them. Having a person brand nowadays is a requirement if you want to start or grow your business. And I need to do both right now.

Unfortunately, I’m someone who is not good with posting online and barely looks at instagram. I think I might check it once every 2 months.

But since this is all so important I decided I need to take some action.

So here I am, building a brand for myself with this website, a youtube channel, instagram page, and whatever other platform I can manage.

More importantly, I have noticed that I’ve learned a lot of things from people online.

Now that I have some life experience, it’s probably time to share what I’ve learned so others can benefit. And creating content online is the best way to do this.

I’m not the best teacher at the moment and I’m working on improving how I package what I know to be more easily digestible. Please excuse my lack of polish in the meantime.

Ok, so not what I’m done explaining my present situation I’ll give a quick snapshot of the past year that lead me to becoming a real estate agent.

In January 2025, I was still working as a senior software engineer at an insurance tech company and juggling the renovation of my first house (I bought a multi-family house with a good college friend).

We were wrapping up with the renovation and I couldn’t wait because I had wanted to leave my job since November 2024.

It’s not that I don’t like the company. The people were great. I just wasn’t a good fit. I decided that I had to leave and try to make it on my own without a corporate job.

You might think that it’s a very irresponsible and irrational decision given that I had a secure job that had amazing work life balance.

But I didn’t want to disappoint future me by playing it safe with a job that I didn’t see any growth opportunities in. imo, given the emotional suffering I would have endured if I had kept my job, I think I made the most rational decision.

Luckily my friends and family didn’t care too much.

I put in my notice and left job January 28, 2025 (this might be a day or so off but it’s very close)

So now it’s almost 8.5 months.

I can’t say that I accomplished very much in that time. But reflecting back on it, I think I’m satisfied with the progress I’ve made so far.

Apologies if you think I have low standards. I usually have unreasonable expectations myself but for my current situation, all I can say is – I’m just not as smart, or capable, or fast as the entrepreneurs who are making it online – at least not yet.

If you’ve read to the very end, I’m blown away by your generosity in the time you gave to learn more about me. I hope that my babbling was at least entertaining given that the content is likely not very informative or helpful.

I hope that you’ve found the articles that I’ve written (and will write), and the videos I make, to be useful. You can find me directly on IG @linnalihe.

Thanks again for stopping by and reading this unnecessarily long post.