In this vlog, Palm Coast, Florida realtor Natalie Barnes takes viewers through a typical workday, blending professional real‑estate duties with personal life. She starts at a Starbucks, ordering a Cannonball Refresher while dropping her daughter Arabella at school. Natalie then drives to 42 Moana Court for a listing‑photo appointment, coordinating with a photographer to capture an empty home for MLS. Throughout the morning she handles administrative tasks: sending listing documents, arranging a pre‑approval for an out‑of‑town buyer, and planning an open house. She documents the process for social media, filming Instagram and TikTok clips, and discusses a recent TikTok that went viral (200 K views) after she cut her hair. Later she updates her June planner on an iPad, setting goals (2 sales, 2 listings, a closing) and scheduling recurring commitments like Meritage builder coverage. Natalie outlines her content calendar, color‑coding social‑media posts across YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. After a brief break, she picks up Arabella and her mom, enjoys dinner in Ormond Beach, and ends the day with Dairy Queen while reflecting on the busy schedule. The video showcases the multifaceted role of a modern realtor—photo shoots, client communication, marketing strategy, and work‑life balance.
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All righty, what do we got for you? Can I do a Cannonball Refresher please? House is so cute. Okay, I just got off the phone with my office. I've been there too. Yeah, it is bright, probably awful lighting, but good morning everyone! Welcome to or welcome back to my YouTube channel. If you've never seen me, hi, my name is Natalie Barnes. I am a local realtor in Palm Coast, Florida who specializes in new construction, and you are spending the day with me. We actually have a listing appointment, but it's for photos. Um, I've already listed their house before, but they just moved into their new house, so we're redoing all the photos and we are putting it live on the MLS completely empty. So we're hoping it sells. So we have an appointment with the photographer at 10. It's currently 8:35. I still need to drop Arabella off at school. Also, I cut my hair. We're at Starbucks right now and we are gonna get a little drink. Hi, good morning. Is there any breakfast or food items we can start for you today? Hi, no. All right. All righty, what are we getting for you? Can I do a Cannonball Refresher, please? Can I do a venti with, um, um, lemonade? All righty, what else for you? Yes, it already comes with lemonade. Oh, perfect. Yep, that's it. Anyways, I can't really decide if I like my part like this. I never wear my part like this. I feel like a little crazy doing it this way, but whatevs. But today, let me get my app for Starbucks. Today we are actually doing the photos. We had caravan, which is basically where my whole office jumps in, uh, our little bus, and we go to different houses that we have listed on the market and we give our feedback. But it starts at 10 and I will be at my appointment, so I will probably be missing— I'll probably be missing that. Arabella wants to say hi. Hello! I also have a couple listing documents I need to send out. I need to schedule for next week an open house. And then I also need to send my new client some more information about the house we're interested in, and he needs to get pre-approved. So he's out of town, that's fine, we'll get him pre-approved. So spend the day with me, I'm super excited. I recently just did a TikTok and it blew up, and it was me cutting my hair and it got like 200K views. And then Dyson, because I got a new Dyson, or I got the Dyson Airwrap commented on it too. Ah, crazy! What is life? This is so crazy. Thank you, have a great day. You too. Okay, let's go drop Arabella off at school and race to the house because the house is on the other side of town, but I think we'll make it. Okay, I just dropped Arabella off at school. We're also getting a fence, that's new. I just signed the contract Yesterday, Arabella has been obsessed with the song Friday by Rebecca Black. I don't even know how she heard that song. Okay, let's go to the property. 42 Moana Court, 7 miles, and it's gonna take 28 minutes. We're actually extremely early. I thought I'd be late. It says we'll get there at 9:15, so we're taking the long way because I don't want to pay $3 for a stupid toll. Isn't that ridiculous? There's a bridge in my like town, Palm Coast, and to get to Beachside from North Palm Coast to Beachside, you have to take a toll and the toll is $3. That's crazy. 3 minutes, $3 per minute. Literally, we save money here. I should tell my husband that. Okay, so this is called the Cannonball Drink from Starbucks and I guess it's mango dragon fruit refresher. I think I could be totally wrong. It's lemonade as the base, then it's, um, Mango dragon fruit refresher, like the juice. And they do the strawberry refresher juice, super good, and it makes me pee like crazy. Anyways, okay, well, we're 26 minutes away now. I'm currently at my new listing and I need to film some content, so we're turning on all the lights and we are going to get this home sold because I need it sold. And the problem is this home is so cute. Well, it's not really a problem, but this house is so cute and I just know it's just perfect for someone. So currently My photographer is inside. She's getting all the photos that need to be taken. I am currently on my phone. I am shooting a couple things for my content. I just filmed a— I just filmed an Instagram video of a house tour for 42 Moana Court, my new listing, this house. Now I'm going on TikTok editing a little more footage of different things, and then we are gonna try and see if we can get on caravan. So we'll see. I don't know for sure if we will make it in time, but it's currently— what time is it? 10:22. And photos should take about 30 minutes. The house is empty, which is good. Um, and then she's gonna go to the beach because we don't have any beach pictures because this house is walking distance from the beach. So I'm also gonna brainstorm some content ideas for not only Instagram and TikTok but for Facebook to see how I can market this house differently and get it sold. So that's what we're doing. Photos are taken. I'm on my way home to go back to my office to get some listing documents sent out. I need to come up with a social media marketing strategy for the house, get my other guy pre-approved, and then also set up an open house for Friday, tomorrow. I think I have time to do it tomorrow. I have to double check. I'm almost positive I do, so I have to connect with the agent to make sure it's okay, and then I'll do that tomorrow. Okay, I just got off the phone with my office. I had to ask them a quick question about my 42 Moana Court, if I had to resend all of the documents, and I don't because our listing agreement— I'm still in that. So what I want to do now is I have on my planner, I have on my iPad all of our— what I'm doing basically for the month of June. I already did it on my app, but I want to do it on my desk calendar. Basically a refresh because it's June, create some goals and kind of know what I'm doing this month. So let's do that together. I love this calendar Sam bought me. Goodbye May, hello June. One of my biggest things for this month is focusing on social media. I'm doing really good on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, which is amazing. So on my planner, I have designated days of what I'm going to post on Instagram. Obviously, I post on YouTube Thursdays and Sundays, and then TikTok, I'm trying to post every single day. That's my goal. Let's see if that's actually going to happen. Now, for my calendar, I'm going to also put my goals for real estate. My goals for this month is 2 sales, 2 listings, so 2 contracts, 2 listings, and then I also have a, um, closing at the end of the month, which is amazing. It's supposed to be the 11th, but we might have to push it out a little bit. Um, so let's write the goals: 1 sale or 2 sales, 2 listings. I need to get creative on how I'm gonna pick up more listings. I do like having a lot of listings. Um, so I don't know how to actually get listings things. I don't call, I kind of just let them fall into my lap. Um, but that's not the way to go. What I'm gonna do right now is write out my schedule that I know is not gonna change. Like, I know for a fact on Wednesdays I have Meritage— Meritage the Builder coverage, 10 to 2 every single Wednesday. Then I also have a trip. So let's fill in all my Wednesday slots for Meritage. Okay, so I just filled in all my marriage days on Wednesdays. I also filled in, um, on the 4th and the 5th I have something with my mom. Um, so we're going on a trip just for one night. So me, my mom, Arabella, and Sam are going the 4th and the 5th. So I wrote that down. Now I'm gonna put all my appointments in, and then after I'm gonna color coordinate everything so I know what I'm doing and when I'm doing it. Okay, so I think what I'm going to do now is pick out my colors for the month and then do all my social media like what I'm doing for the month. Okay, basically did everything. Now what I'm gonna do is come up with a marketing— let me actually, before I do anything else, I need to go in my iPad and go to this week and write down what else I have to do today because I feel like I have 15,000 things in my mind that I have to do and I keep saying to myself, oh, I gotta do this today, and then, oh, I gotta I gotta do that, and then I forget what I gotta do, and then I get overwhelmed. So let's write down really fast what I'm doing today that I realistically do today. Okay, so I just emailed my— let me put you guys over here. I just emailed my sellers for 42 Moana Court, double-checked with them to make sure everything was good and kind of give them a timeline on what we're doing. And then also I asked them if I could host an open house for this Sunday, um, I think it's the 31st or maybe it's the 30th. So I'm waiting to hear back with that, and then from there We are good to go. We should get the photos back tomorrow. That way I have Saturday and Sunday to promote the open house if they say yes, which I think they will. So I think now what I'm going to do is go through my phone and go through my photos and see what I need to delete off of my phone because I had so much, um, that I can delete. Okay, it's a little bit later. I had to redo all the documents for my listing, which took me a little bit, but I feel like I'm kind of mentally fried right now. So I'm gonna take a little bit of a break and then go pick up Arabella, and then my mom and me and Arabella have dinner tonight, which I'm super excited for, in Ormond Beach. So I will talk to you guys in a little bit after my break. Just picked up Arabella. We're gonna go pick up my mom and go to dinner at Sonapa. Let's go! I also changed. Now I'm wearing this like white two-piece outfit with a navy bandeau underneath. I've been there too. Yeah, we got dessert. We already ate. Arabella's playing a game on my phone again. What'd you get? We're at Dairy Queen now. How is it? Anyways guys, I am finishing the video off here. We are heading home from an amazing dinner. After dinner we got Dairy Queen for Arabella. She ate it and then it was raining so bad, so we had to wait for the rain to stop. But now it's not raining anymore, so I just dropped my mom off at her house. We're heading home. And yeah, I just wanted to say thank you guys so much for watching and spending the day with me. I hope you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. Anyways, guys, I will see you guys in my next video. Bye!
