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Friendships, Failures, and Finding Your Path with Álvaro Cortés
Episode 12117th December 2025 • The Performance Mindset Show • Amy Calandrino
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Amy sits down with Senior Advisor and SIOR Álvaro Cortés on today’s Performance Mindset Show. Based in Costa Rica, Álvaro brokers office, industrial, retail, and investment deals across Costa Rica and greater Central America, helping both local and international clients navigate one of Latin America’s most active commercial real estate markets with a strategic and highly relational approach. He is part of the global online commercial real estate community, building connections across borders.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. Álvaro Cortés’s background in architecture and how getting fired from an architecture job ultimately led him to commercial real estate.
  2. The importance of mentors and how they often spot your potential before you do.
  3. What Álvaro wishes he’d known when he first started in commercial real estate.
  4. Costa Rica’s commercial real estate industry and why it’s an exciting market right now.
  5. The history of Costa Rica’s economic rise since the 1980s and 1990s, which led to its thriving real estate market today.
  6. Mental health’s role in success and building relationships.
  7. Accountability as a factor in alignment and success.

Connect with Amy Calandrino here:

Amy Calandrino - https://linktr.ee/amycalandrino

Connect with Álvaro Cortés:

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajcortes/

SIOR - https://www.sior.com/viewprofile?PersonID=73884

Cushman & Wakefield AB Advisory - https://ab-latam.com/our-team/

Rich Relationships by Selena Soo - https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Relationships-Million-Dollar-Network-Business/dp/B0F35GH7RQ

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