How We Built An Empire As A Power Couple With Alex Corona and Jaime Birks
June 19, 2026
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5 min readAlex Corona and Jaime Birks run a real estate brokerage and investment company just south of Chicago, managing a team of about 25 agents alongside lending, title, and investment operations. They are also life partners of 26 years. In this conversation, they explain how they make the partnership work, what drives their growth, and why execution and coachability matter more than any single strategy.
Dividing the Work, Not the Vision
The core of their operating model is a clean division of labor. Alex describes himself as the "rainmaker" — he generates leads, builds relationships, and creates content constantly. Jaime is the problem solver and negotiator who handles the back end. They are explicit that this separation is intentional: Alex does not micromanage Jaime's side, and she does not second-guess his. "I try to stay in my lane," Alex says. "I know what I have to do in my part of the business, and Jamie knows what she has to do in her part of the business. I don't ask too many questions on that side."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:35) **Introduction and Guest Background** - Host Brandon Brinningham introduces Alex Corona and Jaime Birks, a power couple who run a 25-agent real estate team, a lending operation, and an investment company south of Chicago.
- 2 (03:19) **Managing the Power-Couple Dynamic** - The couple explains how they make their business and life partnership work by staying in their lanes and leveraging their different personalities.
- 3 (05:48) **Aligning on Mission and Vision** - The key to their partnership is having the same destination (mission and vision) even if their journey to get there differs.
- 4 (09:06) **Key Growth Drivers: Execution and Coaching** - The couple identifies the specific behaviors that propelled their massive growth.
- 5 (11:53) **The Power of Being Present and Coachable** - The host highlights that Alex and Jaime are not just in the room, but they are present and execute on what they learn.
- 6 (15:23) **Social Media as a Lead Generation Machine** - Alex details his journey from being afraid of social media to using it as the primary, free lead source for their business.
- 7 (17:36) **Events and the "Stain on the Brain" Strategy** - The couple explains how social media feeds their event strategy and creates a pre-sold audience.
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Show Notes
In episode 65 of Wake Up to Wealth, Brandon Brittingham interviews power couple, top real estate brokers, and serial investors, Alex Corona and Jaime Birks, on how they turned adversity into opportunity, scaled through strategic implementation, and continue to inspire and lead their teams through honesty, empathy, and unstoppable determination.
Tune in for a dynamic conversation packed with actionable insights, real talk about partnership in business and life, and the secret ingredients that top producers use to break through limits—together.
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Brandon Brittingham
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Alex Corona
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexcoronatheshark/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoronaRealtyGroup
Jaime Birks
Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/jaime.birks.2025
Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/jaime.birks/
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