Women in Business Highlight: Sazan Powers, The “Wolf of Wesley Chapel”

As we close out the year and step into the holiday stretch, the season where life feels both

Sazan Powers, Realtor

slower and busier at the same time, it’s only fitting to spotlight a woman who understands pressure, persistence, and purpose better than most. While many of us are winding down, Sazan Powers is often hitting her highest stride. Some people find their rhythm; Sazan built hers, and it’s carried her into becoming one of the most trusted real estate professionals in the greater Tampa Bay area.

This month’s Women in Business feature dives into her world: the long hours, the family-first mindset, the clients who become extensions of her household, and the courage required to build something from the ground up when life isn’t handing you the easy route.

From New Agent to Full Force: The Early Years

When you meet Sazan, you immediately understand one thing: she wasn’t handed a blueprint. She built her own. Sazan did not grow up planning to be a real estate agent. Her degree is in nursing, a path that looked respectable on the outside but left her feeling depressed and unfulfilled. While she was still trying to figure out what was next, life sped up. She married, had her first daughter, and, like many women, found herself making big career decisions with a baby in the mix.

She got her real estate license in March 2019, just seven months after having her first child. She was 26, navigating new motherhood, marriage, and a career pivot she hadn’t exactly planned. What started as a leap of faith quickly became the foundation of her professional identity.

But it didn’t explode overnight.

The early days were quiet during times when everyone else was busy, and busy when the industry was usually slow. While others were thriving in summer months, Sazan found herself closing deals during the holidays. It never made sense on paper, but it made sense for her. And by the time she hit her stride full time, she was clocking 70–80 hours a week, juggling three kids, and gripping her business with everything she had.

Today, she remains consistently busy year-round, a level of demand most agents dream about. Her 2025 numbers speak for themselves: over $33 million sold by mid-August and pacing toward $40–45 million for the year.

And she’ll be the first to tell you that momentum wasn’t luck. It was relentless work.

The Wolf of Wesley Chapel

The nickname came from her husband, half joke and half prophecy: “The Wolf of Wesley Chapel.”

It was meant as a joke, but then clients started using it, and it stuck. The nickname does not come from aggression. It comes from how she approaches work.

Most of her business is within about an hour of Wesley Chapel, with a heavy concentration in that community. She knows the neighborhoods, the streets, and the stories behind the sales. She does not just look at comparable properties on a spreadsheet and call it a day. She studies why one house sold high and another sold low, why one buyer connected emotionally and another walked away.

That attention to detail is one reason she has become a strong listing agent in a market that currently favors buyers. Around seventy to seventy-five percent of her volume this year has been listings, and she invests heavily in them. She’s not a “put the sign in the yard and wait” kind of agent. She’s hands-on, sleeves rolled up, coordinating cleaners, landscapers, painters, stagers, and contractors often doing the work alongside her husband, who’s also her unofficial right hand as a licensed home inspector. Their partnership is a quiet powerhouse. She brings the strategy; he brings the tools. Together, they elevate homes and lives.

People call her because she sees the full picture - the comps, the psychology, the neighborhood rhythms, the hidden details that separate a “listed home” from a “sold home.”

A Heart-Centered Win: The Listing That Defined Her Year

One of her standout experiences involved a seller who had been through tremendous loss and financial hardship. Many agents would have seen the project and quietly walked away. Sazan moved in the opposite direction.

She went above and beyond what a typical agent may do. She helped revitalize the house for maintenance and repairs not just with paid professionals but also, she and her husband personally lending a helping hand. Sazan knew she wasn’t just selling a house but was helping someone restart, rebuild, and breathe again.

The house went under contract in four days. When the appraisal came in lower than expected, she did not fold. Confident in her research, she pushed back and ultimately got the buyer to come up to cover the difference above the appraised value. The seller was able to get out of house that that had great emotional and financial weight.

For Sazan, that transaction was not just a highlight in terms of execution. It was a reminder of why she works the way she does. She had known of this family for years through the neighborhood and being able to carry them across the finish line meant more than the number on the closing statement. It’s community and relationships, the heart of real estate.

Building a Business While Climbing Out of Debt

Sazan’s story starts long before real estate. She came to the United States as a child, the daughter of refugees. She was six years old when she started first grade without knowing a word of English. That experience shaped how she sees opportunity and struggle. Nothing felt guaranteed.

Years later, when she and her husband bought their first home, they had what she now recognizes as a bad real estate experience. Major issues surfaced within days of moving in, including a forty-thousand-dollar pool repair they were not prepared for. It set them back and left a deep impression about what can happen when a client is not truly guided or protected.

Fast forward to the home they live in now. Shortly after closing, she encouraged her husband to step away from a job that no longer fit and take time to find his next direction. Around the same time, they were surprised with their third pregnancy, and the season that followed required both patience and resilience. With one income and limited capacity to slow down, the pressure was real.

The past couple of years have been about rebuilding, finding stability, and intentionally creating a stronger foundation for their family’s future.

What Keeps Her Going When It Would Be Easier to Slow Down

There are weeks when it all hits at once. Recently she had a stretch that included personal loss, extra client emergencies, and more new listings than she expected. She found herself in tears, telling her husband she just needed one day without phone calls.

In almost the same breath, she reminded herself what those early paychecks felt like, the relief of paying three months of bills and groceries in advance, and how far they have come since then. She still has moments where she wants to tap out. She also has enough perspective to know that many people are dealing with circumstances far beyond their control. That balance keeps her grounded.

Her motivation is simple to name but not simple to live: her family and her community. She wants her children to look back one day and see that she did not just use her income for herself but poured it into creating something better for them and for others. She loves nice things, but she describes herself as a homebody at heart, happy cleaning her house, spending time with her animals, or doing her one unusual hobby: showing Persian cats at competitions around the country, often with her laptop open between rings.

In her neighborhood, she is the mom planting milkweed so kids can release monarch butterflies in the summer, the neighbor who knows the local families, and the agent whose clients call her at midnight because they know she will pick up.

Relationship-First Business and Her Advice for Future Entrepreneurs

Sazan’s business is built primarily on repeat clients and referrals. She does not buy leads. She shows up on Facebook, stays active in her community, answers her phone, and communicates more than most people expect. She is the one who follows up with other agents multiple times to get feedback after a showing, not once and done.

Her perspective on real estate is very clear. To her, it is a relationship business, not something that can be fully automated or reduced to data. She believes the agents who remember that are the ones who will last, especially in a volatile market.

Her advice for anyone entering real estate or starting a business is direct: stay true to yourself, your beliefs, and your morals. Do not change who you are just to land a client. Not every client is meant for you. When you work with the ones who are, the business has a way of returning.

Where to Find Sazan Powers

You’ll find her where her clients find her - Facebook, text, or a direct phone call. She’s old-school that way. If you reach out, she’ll respond. If she misses your call, she’ll follow up. That’s simply how she does business.

You can spot her around Wesley Chapel, likely juggling real estate, family life, and maybe a cat show or two.

Contact – Sazan Powers for your next real estate needs.

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