Lending Leaders

Lending Leaders

Mortgage Lending and Personal Brand

For this week’s episode of LodeStar Lending Leaders, Alayna spoke with Joe Wilson, Founder of Social Coach. Together they talked all things social media, the future of the mortgage lending process, and how to develop a personal brand.

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Industry Update with Jim Paolino

For this week’s LLL, LodeStar’s Jim Paolino gives his take on what is going on in the industry and where things are headed.

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“Don’t Get Too High on the Highs”

For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, Jim had the pleasure of chatting with Bob Ventola, Branch Manager, and Tim Shultz, SVP of National Sales Administration, with Draper & Kramer Mortgage Corp. Both are industry veterans who’ve seen their share of “good” and “bad” mortgage markets.

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Leveraging AI in Mortgage

For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast—the very first of the new year!—CEO Jim Paolino sat down with Hoyt Mann, President and Co-Founder of Alanna.ai, a virtual assistant software for the title industry.

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2022: Reflecting on a Crazy Year

2022 has been, well, a year. To quote Jim: “Least fun but most important year of business we’ve had.”

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Let’s Talk About Automation

This week on LLL, LodeStar Sales and Marketing Director Alayna Gardner interviews the CEO of Lender Toolkit, Brett Brumley, to talk all things automation and the mortgage industry. They touch on scalability, layoffs, market downturns, and leveraging tech during tough times.

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Clarifying Homeowners Associations

For this week’s episode of LLL, Jim interviews Anton Tonev, CEO and Co-Founder of InspectHOA.

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Mortgage, Tacos, and DEI

For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, we were so excited to sit down with the host and founder of Love and Tacos, the indefatigable Dalila Ramos. LodeStar’s Alayna Gardner chatted with Dalila about the mortgage industry, the origins of Love and Tacos, and the importance of DEI.

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LIVE from MBA Annual 2022!

For this week’s LLL, Alayna Gardner and Jim Paolino touch base with some friends, partners, and fellow industry experts at the 2022 MBA Annual conference in Nashville, TN.

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