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Sticking to Core Values
While at TMC’s “The Mane Event” in Louisville, Kentucky, Alayna had the opportunity to chat with Stephen Huang, Key Account Director at MeridianLink, about sales, the benefits of being a vendor vs. a lender, and the importance of sticking to your core values.
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What To Do When Things Are “Kind of OK”
One of our core values at LodeStar is Clarity. We aspire to be honest and straightforward. Sometimes that’s easy. Sometimes, especially when the market is just “kind of OK,” that’s tough.
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Tennessee’s Biggest LE Challenges
Home to The Grand Ole Opry, the longest running radio show in the world for any genre, Tennessee is also the birthplace of cotton candy, Mountain Dew and the Moon Pie.
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Thoughts on the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
As we explored more deeply our potential relationship, I was struck by how densely concentrated SVB’s investments were. The focus was on high-value, high-yield businesses. That’s great when everything’s going well. But with high wealth comes high risk.
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The Irreplaceable Value of Mentorship
For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders Podcast, Jim sits down with Michele Kryczkowski, a passionate advocate of mentorships with twenty years of mortgage industry experience.
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With Great Automation Comes Great Responsibility
It’s fairly simple. The decisions we make when designing and implementing these incredible and advanced technologies are going to reflect our own biases, principles, beliefs, and viewpoints.
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Empowering Down Payment Assistance
For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, Alayna sat down with Rob Chrane, Founder and CEO of Down Payment Resource. Together they discussed all things down payment assistance, empowering local lenders to help borrowers, and fighting the uphill battle of homebuyer education.
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It’s All About Staying in the Game
There are signs that this down cycle, too, will not be permanent. Some of the industry’s best and brightest are starting to suggest that the market will return to some level of stability this year.
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Predicting Better Futures
For this week’s episode of the LodeStar Lending Leaders podcast, Jim sat down with Laird Nossuli, CEO of iEmergent, a data and analytics technology provider focused on forecasting the future of the mortgage industry. Since 2000, iEmergent has been focused on delivering insights to help organizations navigate the industry’s changing landscape. Jim and Laird talked about using data to forecast the future, navigating changes, and the importance of championing diversity and underserved markets.