Those in attendance at AVANCE Global 2026 may have recognized Egypt Sherrod from her hosting duties on HGTV’s Property Virgins, Flipping Virgins, and Married to Real Estate, but it seemed like the last thing on her mind. Sherrod is the CEO and managing broker of Indigo Road Realty, the principal designer at Indigo Road Design Group, and the owner of Indigo Road Home Furnishings. Sherrod was at AVANCE Global to help encourage female entrepreneurs to give themselves a moment.
“For many moons—for decades and centuries—it was a man’s world,” she says. “When women finally found our footing, we took off running and haven’t stopped. In many cases, that left no room for anything else.”
Sherrod says that women who have scrapped and clawed to make their own way in a world that often seems inherently hostile to their advancement can lose something along the way, and she wants to make sure you don’t.
The entrepreneur describes her personality type as “Triple Type A”: highly driven, tightly controlled, and convinced that keeping every responsibility aligned was essential to preventing everything from collapsing. As a businesswoman, wife, and mother of three daughters, she felt pressure to perform superhuman competence.
“I gave up wearing the S on my chest,” she says. “When we as women can relax into our softness, our divine feminine, that doesn’t make us weak. We don’t have to carry so much to show up. Just be.”
Her message: allow room for your energy to flow, open your heart, and you can still achieve your dreams. It took Sherrod a long time to find this kind of peace. She says her life included too much of what she deems “unnecessary punishment.”
Success for her today isn’t so much about the zeroes in her bank account; it’s about the freedom it allows her. The grind shouldn’t be the point. Economic freedom lets her choose who she shows up for, no matter the time. She can focus on what she loves, no matter how varied, because she’s built the infrastructure to support it.
“Success also looks like peace for me,” Sherrod says. “If I could stress that more than anything, health is really wealth. Success for me now is not about creating multiple streams of income. It’s about creating multiple streams of joy.”
Don’t get her wrong; she’s still on the move. Her Indigo Road businesses encompass residential brokerage, interior design, and home furnishings. She also authored Keep Calm…It’s Just Real Estate, which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination. She’s at the top of her game; she just doesn’t want other women to limit themselves on their own ascent.
