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In this episode Steve and Jason discuss:

• Important life insights throughout our episodes.  
• Recognizing and understanding what you are grateful for. 
• The feelings and meanings of hope.
• The importance of self-care to your overall mindset. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Recognize that our mindset around transition may be the problem or the key.
• Parts of our brains are always trying to keep us the same as a result of transitions feeling threatening.
• Embrace and accept your life’s transitions to mitigate the pain that rushing it prolongs.

“The fire is required to get rid of all the bad stuff.” - Steve Scanlon 

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Hobie Higgins is the Chief Fun Officer at Gateway First Bank. 

Hobie specializes in company culture and team member engagement. Since 2012, Gateway has been regularly recognized as a “Top Employer” and “Top Workplace” by several national publications. 

Hobie graduated from Oklahoma State University where he majored in Journalism and Broadcasting. Hobie is currently a Commissioner for Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation, but his “claim to fame” is that as a 10-year-old he said “Thanks Mom” on a nationally televised Capri Sun commercial.

In this episode Steve, Jason, and Hobie discuss:

• What Hobie does as the Chief Fun Officer!
• Taking the time to discover your purpose and living up to that purpose. 
• Finding the right seat on the bus for employees. 
• The importance of soft skills in every day business. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Just because your position isn’t a good fit, doesn’t mean the company isn’t a good fit for you. 
• It is not sustainable to work for 20 hours per day - you have to find time for fun and laughter and yourself during your day. 
• The little things matter. If you want your culture to be void of burnout, you’ve got to find ways to serve and uplift your employees. 
• It’s not just showing up - it’s showing up with a positive attitude.

“People want to be around people that they enjoy being around.” - Hobie Higgins

Connect with Hobie:

Website: GatewayLoan.com

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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With a career spanning more than 17 years, Jay Crowell has experienced firsthand the many challenges and changes of the mortgage industry. Throughout it all, he has stayed true to his core convictions of faith, integrity, collaboration, and selfless service. Jay is currently the Pacific Northwest Regional Production Manager for Cornerstone Home Lending. 

While Jay and his team have been widely recognized for their volume, Jay believes that the real value of what he does is based on much more than numbers and accolades. “My team and I share a passion to serve our clients and our community,” Jay says. “Home lending is our platform to positively transform lives and fulfill long-term goals through responsible, sustainable homeownership.” 

In this episode Steve and Jay discuss:

• Staying top of mind with your customers, however you can do that.
• Leading off meetings with gratitude from everyone, always working the “gratitude muscle.”
• Keeping your work/life balance manageable, and helping your team do the same.
• Changing expectations to operate with more joy. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Come up with a plan and be consistent, don’t focus on being perfect.
• Make sure you have new, meaningful content in regularly scheduled meetings.
• Surround yourself with people who will make you better.
• Comparing yourself to someone else is unproductive. You are comparing your journey today with theirs yesterday which is not a fair comparison.

“A wise man learns from other people's mistakes, they don't need to make the same mistake themselves. I really want to practice that, and we have people that want to learn from those situations, they don't have to make that same mistake.”  - Jay Crowell

Connect with Jay:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/team_crowell/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teamcrowell

Website: www.TeamCrowell.com

Zillow: https://www.zillow.com/lender-profile/FredricCrowell/

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Strickland Bonner

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Michael Walters is currently the Head of HR for Samsung Semiconductor, leading all aspects of HR for their US-based division. 

Prior to his tenure with Samsung, Michael has led Human Resources for divisions of big-time companies such as UnitedHealth Group and Roper Technologies as well as providing leadership for Microsoft, the Nielsen Company, and early-stage dot coms. Michael has taught a course on human resources management for the University of Washington for the past twelve years. He also relocated his family and changed jobs during the pandemic - yeah…

In this episode Jason and Michael discuss:

• The future in organizations: what companies will survive the pandemic.
• Making it about results instead of the where and the when. 
• How to use your calendar in a way that you maximize opportunities to connect.
• Adapting to the personnel that you have in a way to benefit the team. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Having and building trust, you must give trust to receive it.
• Know how you want to measure success so that you know what you are working toward and you know when you have achieved it.
• As an employer, empower the employee to decide where they are most productive. 

Connect with Michael Walters:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwalters62/

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

As a devoted student and practitioner of the arts of listening, awareness, and stillness, Jack would say those are hard-learned and hard-earned skills. He was a butcher for thirty years, but his real vocation during that time was being present with his customers and serving them through listening. After retiring, he began working for various nonprofits and has been a speaker and trainer for leadership teams and individuals. He now serves as a professional mediator where he helps to resolve conflict through the active practice of listening and helping the parties involved to feel heard.

A skillful musician, Jack plays multiple stringed instruments and has a deep and abiding passion for the music of Bob Dylan, and the invitation to meaning presented through his lyrics.

In this episode Steve and Jack discuss:

• Waitressing: listening, checking in, and reviewing.
• Keys to becoming a better, leader, spouse, parent, and person.
• Asking how or what questions to learn more about the story. 
• Knowing what you are practicing, and that you need to be practicing continually.

Key Takeaways: 

• Listening starts with silence. Still yourself, have a desire to listen, attempting to understand what the other person is thinking, has felt, and has experienced. 
• Having a willingness to come together and to understand with others. You don’t need to agree or disagree, just understand.
• You don’t resolve the conflict. You manage it.

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Domenic Rinaldi helps clients buy and sell businesses. Since 2005 he’s been personally involved in over 300 transactions for businesses with enterprise values of $2 million to $50 million.

Recognizing many business owners don’t understand the full requirements of a successful exit, acquisition and scaling process, he founded K2Adviser. The mission of K2 is to educate business owners and buyers so they can maximize transaction benefits and minimize transaction risks.

Domenic is an industry-recognized expert who frequently shares his hard-earned knowledge from the stage, in print and over the airwaves – including as host of the popular M&A Unplugged podcast.

In this episode Jason and Domenic discuss:

• The business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions pandemic market.
• Develop a plan to prepare for buying or selling your business 
• The benefits of being proactive in business. 
• Be forward-thinking, lean on the experts and utilize their zone of genius. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Knowledge is power, take the time now to prepare an exit plan from your business to be ready in the event that you need it.
• Surround yourself with proper advisors that can help you understand and move through the Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) process.
• Most owners don’t have a sense of the actual value of their business and believe the buyers should pay for the potential of the business.

Books, Podcast, and tools Referenced:

www.K2Advviser.com/exit  -  This assessment is for anyone who wants to prepare for a future business sale

www.K2Adviser.com/acquire - This assessment is for anyone who want to prepare for a business acquisition

Connect with Domenic Rinaldi:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/K_2_Adviser

Instagram:   https://www.instagram.com/k2_adviser/

Facebook: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenicrinaldi/

Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKGOjZagPzUrIcWjtM7aeKw?view_as=subscriber

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domenicrinaldi/

Email: [email protected]

[email protected]

Phone: 312-720-9993

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 Stacey Harding joined Cherry Creek Mortgage Company in 1998 and today serves as Executive Vice President and National Production Manager for the company. He began his mortgage banking career in 1985 as a Mortgage Loan Officer in Wichita, Kansas.

Stacey has a diverse and broad leadership background in the mortgage industry. Prior to joining Cherry Creek, his leadership roles have included managing Secondary Marketing and Capital Markets for one of the largest thrifts in the state of Kansas, as well as managing National Operations for an Independent Mortgage Banking firm owned by one of the largest homebuilders in the nation.

In addition to his duties at Cherry Creek, Stacey has served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors for the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association and is a Past President of the CMLA. Stacey is the recipient of several prestigious mortgage banking awards, including the C.A. “Bus” Bacon Award, Debra W. Still Award and the Aksel Nielsen Award, presented by the CMLA.  He is also a recipient of the Lifetime Mastery Award, presented by the Todd Duncan Group.

In this episode Steve, Jason, and Stacey discuss:

• What the bigger picture of mortgage banking is.
• Meeting people where they are and providing good leadership.
• Embracing evolution in the industry and striving to stay personal.
• Being first to the consumer through a strong social media and SEO plan.

Key Takeaways: 

• See writing a mortgage as getting to help people instead of looking for a mortgage to write or money to make.
• Finding joy, happiness, and peace because we find our purpose.
• Serve the people, tell the truth, work hard, plan, get a coach, and make mistakes so you can learn.

Connect with Stacey Harding:

Website: Cherry Creek Mortgage.com

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast 

Dean Newlund is founder and CEO of Mission Facilitators International, a boutique training and development firm that helps organizations become more connected to their purpose and their people.

Dean and his company works with the likes of Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and educational institutions around the country and the globe training teams in China, the UK, South America, the Middle East, India, and many other countries. 

Dean is an author of articles and white papers along with presenting on the TEDX stage in Bend, Oregon just last year. He is also the host of the popular podcast The Business of Intuition.

In this episode Jason and Dean discuss:

• Making connections with ourselves and with others.
• Listening to more than just the resume and utilizing the entire person/employee.
• Creating a sacred space and having a presence, purpose, and play. 
• Holding meetings with your team to increase engagement and create new and better ideas. 

Key Takeaways: 

• Shoot for the stars, speak things into existence, find your passion, and follow your gut. 
• If the timing is right, people will come and people will stay. Don’t worry about what you can’t control.
• Utilizing intuition, data, and information to lead us both in life and business. 

Connect with Dean Newlund:

Twitter: @mfileadership

LinkedIn: Dean Newlund

Facebook: Mission Facilitators

Website: MFI Leadership.com

Email: [email protected]

Podcast: The Business of Intuition

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

John Settles is a proven leader known for crafting innovative strategic plans that advance organizational objectives and capabilities. John offers a unique blend of leadership, strategic thinking, team building,and creativity. He is an expert in the areas of real estate finance, real estate development, construction management, sustainability, and community/economic development.

In this episode Steve and John discuss:

• Giving back to humanity any way you can. 
• Utilizing knowledge and experiences to change the lives of others.
• Fighting through adversity to find and build success.
• Changing what’s important to you to discover what success is.

Key Takeaways: 

• Life has seasons - prepare for the storms in the spring and summer both financially and emotionally.
• Focus on what you want to happen, not the negatives.
• You can’t look back, you have to look forward, learn from what you’ve seen and experienced and use it to create good moving forward.

Mentioned: Say It In 6 by Ron Hoff

Connect with John Settles:

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

 Joel Graybeal is Managing Partner of Triangle Rock Club, a network of state-of-the-art indoor climbing and fitness facilities with 4 locations in North Carolina and 1 in Virginia.  He joined the Triangle ownership team in 2012 after a successful 25-year career in mortgage banking.  Before banking Joel spent 4 years in the Pentagon as a civilian defense contractor. Joel's degree from The University of Maryland is in Aerospace Engineering. Yeah, so that means he’s also a rocket scientist! Joel is the real deal and gives of his time and talents like no-one I know.

In this episode Steve, Jason, and Joel discuss:

• The forced multiplier effect and building business with like-minded employees toward the same end goal.
• Looking forward and keep moving, only look back once in a while because you can’t change the past, you can only learn from it.
• Working with different types of employees and believing in the potential of people.
• Strive to live up to your full potential and help the people around you to live up to theirs.

Key Takeaways: 

• Don’t compare yourself to anyone else and don’t compare your company to any other company.
• Turning mistakes into “coaching moments” not negative experiences.
• Making things happen and what happens is all about your mindset.

Books Referenced: Atomic Habits by James Clear 

Connect with Joel Graybeal:

LinkedIn: Joel Graybeal

Website: Triangle Rock Club.com

Email: [email protected]

Connect with Steve and Jason:

LinkedIn: Jason or Steve

Website: Rewire, Inc.: Transformed Thinking 

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen Braun

Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.