Brittany Megrath: The Ex-Ballerina Who Built a National Brokerage

Welcome to this episode of The Tori Nook Talk Show! In this episode, Tori sits down with Brittany Megrath, managing broker, principal, and founder of M Square Commercial (MSC), a national commercial real estate brokerage she launched in 2019 in Las Vegas. MSC started out representing retail tenants in Nevada and has since expanded to over 60 markets nationwide, completing transactions in 15 states and transacting over $100 million in real estate value. She holds her CCIM and FMVA certifications and is about to launch an educational platform and ebook.

Brittany graduated high school at 16 in her native Las Vegas, studied ballet at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and danced professionally across the U.S. and Canada from age 17 to 28, finishing her career as a featured performer in Donn Arden's iconic Jubilee production. While performing, she got her real estate license, worked days at a boutique brokerage handling retail leasing, and danced at night. She founded M Square Commercial in 2019, the same year she had her first child, after feeling capped at her boutique firm.

They discuss learning brokerage the old-school way with a phone book and no script, landing her first major client who carried her through COVID, cold-emailing Karen Hutton at Beth Azor's first Women's Real Estate Investment Summit and landing Modwash as a client, learning land development through daily site tours and 5 AM investment committee calls, expanding into New Mexico and the Northeast, and why perseverance from dance directly translates to surviving cold calls and rejection.

🎯 Topics covered: • Graduating high school at 16 through a credit loophole • Dancing professionally from 17 to 28, including Donn Arden's Jubilee • Finishing her bachelor's degree online while dancing full time • Getting her real estate license and boutique retail brokerage • Founding M Square Commercial in 2019, the same year as her first child • Landing her first client and navigating COVID as a new company • Cold-emailing Karen Hutton and landing Modwash as a client • Learning land development through daily site tours • 5 AM investment committee calls and expanding markets • Why dance discipline translates to brokerage resilience • Her upcoming ebook and educational platform launching this fall