Respected residential and commercial realtor Tina Damadyan has been making a name for herself in the Greater Los Angeles area over the last few years with her remarkable gift for uniting colleagues with their dreams, no matter how seemingly unattainable. But her natural inclination for managing real estate behind-the-scenes wasn’t immediately apparent to her.

Tina moved to the Glendale/Burbank area with her family when she was less than a year old...