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Hosted by Connor Bartley · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 119 episodes
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The LO Down Mortgage Podcast is THE podcast where we talk to the Top 20% of Loan Officers about the path to growth, the struggles they encountered along the way and the triumphs they celebrated. Each episode is packed with valuable insights on how to grow and scale from $1-2M a month in volume to $2-5M a month and beyond. If you're serious about growing your production volume, learn from those that have already been through it.
Connor Bartley hosts The LO Down Mortgage Podcast, a business show with 119 episodes published.
Most loan officers think the ceiling they're hitting is a lead problem. It's not. Trevor Higgins walked into the mortgage industry with a copy of Mortgages for Dummies and zero plan. He sat in a Wells Fargo call center d
Most loan officers are trying to do more. More leads. More calls. More volume. Corey Petree figured out that more is actually the wrong direction. In this episode, Corey breaks down the exact shift that took him from rea
Clayton Tyrel walked away from a mechanical engineering degree at Georgia Tech, asked his grandmother one honest question, and built a mortgage business from zero to nearly $100 million in five years. No refi boom to rid
Here's a question most loan officers never ask themselves. What's your time actually worth? Scott Pendleton did the math for you. Take your loan volume, divide it by 2,000 hours a year, and there's your number. For a lot
Nick Muccigrosso built his mortgage business the hard way. Started in his twenties taking the files nobody else wanted — Chinoa loans, down payment assistance, credit-challenged buyers. Not because he had to. Because he
25 years. Five company closures. Same team still standing. That is not luck. That is a system. Mike Burke spent two decades watching the mortgage industry make the same mistake on a loop — recruit, neglect, lose, repeat
Most loan officers spend 20 years getting better at closing loans. Richard Lytle spent 20 years getting better at building a business. There is a difference. And this episode is that difference made audible. Richard got
She went commission only in January 2013 with two kids under six, no salary, and a mother who thought she had lost her mind. Then 2013 happened. She got hit in the face with a softball. Twenty stitches. Hospital bed. Sta
She couldn't walk for two years. She built a 100-loan business anyway. Blaire Laudermilk got her mortgage license at 19. Closed 8 deals her first year. Then over 100 the next. Then life came for her — hard. Two years of
She was a fisherman, a lighting tech, a bartender, a drafter, a teaching artist, and an escrow officer — before she ever closed a mortgage. And somehow, that's exactly what made Amanda Filori dangerous. In 2023, she went
What if your best business development move wasn't a cold call, a CRM campaign, or a paid ad — but a dog walk? Meet Matt Hunter. Chemical engineer. Farm owner. Nearly thirty years in mortgage. And one of the most quietly
What does a $5 million/month mortgage producer, an elected mayor, and a dad who almost lost his son have in common? The same guy. And he's giving you the playbook. Chet Mann built one of the most productive mortgage busi
She Stumbled Into Mortgage at a Christmas Party. 23 Years Later, She's Just Getting Started. Erin Hamilton didn't plan this career. She ordered Bailey's on the rocks, met a woman who saw something in her, and the rest is
From Yoga Mats to $30M: How Alex Turner Figured Out What Actually Builds a Mortgage Business Most loan officers are out here competing on rates, chasing every lead, and wondering why they're exhausted and stuck. Alex Tur
Most loan officers are out here chasing the next app, the next platform, the next "hack" — while Bryant Delgado is driving to client apartments and closing 100+ units a year doing it. Bryant didn't stumble into mortgage.
Greg Anderson almost got fired in 2005 for refusing to put people in bad loans. Twenty-one years later he's in the top 500 loan officers in the country and building toward a business that runs without him. That is not a
You built a book of business. You've got referral partners. And you're one bad quarter from watching half of it walk out the door with them. Brett Baldwin saw it happen to himself — stepped away from production, handed o
Nearly 4 Decades. One Rule. Zero Shortcuts. Monica Bowman started in finance at 19, managing a branch of middle-aged men while she was still in college. Law school was the plan. Mortgage was the calling. In this episode,
From Cat Memes to Closing Loans: Evan Robinson's Unconventional Playbook Most loan officers will tell you they never planned to be in mortgage. Evan Robinson takes that to a whole new level — we're talking internet cat m
Zero sales experience. Zero origination experience. $51 million by year three. Ben Naranjo did not stumble into mortgage because it was the easy play. He spent a decade in corporate finance building financial models and
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The LO Down Mortgage Podcast is hosted by Connor Bartley. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 119 episodes.
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