Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers

2018 has been an amazing year. Main Street Banking started out as a wild idea about doing a podcast before I even really knew what a podcast was! However, we have covered some really interesting topics relevant to the community banking industry and next year is already shaping up to be even better. Here's our "mix tape" of 2018's "greatest hits".

From all of us at Barret School of Banking, happy holidays to your family, customers, and your staff!!

Philip Smith of Gerrish Smith Tuck sits down with us and goes over some of the main points to consider when conducting your strategic planning sessions with your management and your board. Though important, "strategic planning" goes beyond SWOT and bank products as Philip explains.

Ag lending is a crucial part of many community banks. On December 7, Barret will be hosting our first annual Ag Lending Summit in Memphis. In advance of that, we sat down with Dr. Bert Greenwalt and Scott Stiles from Arkansas State...two of the most respected voices in agricultural economics to hear about the state of ag industry. To hear more from these two, come to our Ag Lending Summit on December. Registration is located on our website at https://barret.ws/programs/core/senior-lender-summit/

Jimmy Sawyers of Sawyers & Jacobs has been at the forefront of technology in community banking for a long time. Jimmy is also one of our most popular instructors here at the Barret School and when he put out a Top 10 Predictions for 2018, I thought it'd be a good idea to look back on those and do a "year in review" episode through the lens of those predictions. Hope you enjoy.

https://sawyersjacobs.com/

Sitting down with Lindsay LaNore to talk about bank education and its importance. There is so much more to bank education than the standard compliance "have to do this because my boss says so" that we have done for so long. Education has cultural, personal, and financial benefits to the bank and grasping that can be the difference between a good bank...and a great bank.

We are starting a new series today..."Main Street Economic Update". Every quarter, I'll sit down with Jim Reber from ICBA Securities to talk about what's going on in the markets and how that impacts the community bank. Should be interesting!

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Wrapping up the 2018 ICBA Lead FWD conference. It's been an incredible and inspiring two days here in Louisville KY. The conversations...the networking...the ideas...it's just more evidence that community banking is in good hands.

Day 1 of ICBA's Lead FWD conference is in the books and it's been amazing! Check out some interviews and thoughts from this amazing event!

We sit down today with Blake Crow with Eide Bailley in Sioux City SD. Blake works with, among many other things, community banks and their taxes. With the recent tax law changes, Blake sits down with us to talk about those changes...and our shared love of good music! Hope you enjoy!

Be sure to follow Blake on Twitter @BankTaxBlake

I sat down with Jim Reber of ICBA Securities to have a general conversation about what he does. We'll be having Jim on once a quarter or so to give our listeners and brief market report as well as anything else going on in the bond and investment world that he runs across. Please feel free to subscribe, share, and rate this episode and thanks for stopping by.