AIME Podcast Network

The AIME Podcast Network is best understood as three shows sharing one feed, each built around the working life of a mortgage broker. They differ more in format than in subject. Broker Power-Up is the one with a running order. Tommy Golightly introduces it alongside Jonathan Haddad, and the pair lay out an agenda: a fortune cookie, a Broker Buzz look at the top posts in the Brokers Are Our Best Facebook group, sales pitch training led by Jonathan, and story time. Jonathan calls Tommy the operator and himself the salesperson, and the labels fit. When Jonathan jumps straight in, Tommy steers him back to the schedule. Tommy then turns that into a YouTube tip: use the first minute and a half to say what an episode covers, and the rambling can come after. The banter never lets up. There is coffee in hand, a holiday-season episode about not letting off the gas, and a fortune cookie that flew to Puerto Rico and back because the pair never found time to record there. Under the jokes sits practical advice. One conversation on reverse mortgages says a loan officer who cannot explain the product well enough for clients to decide confidently should pass the file to someone who can. It also recommends getting a client's sons and daughters on the phone. Broker Power-Up signs off with a refrain: lead by example, lift each other up, grow together. Broker to Broker is a more straightforward interview show. Mark Summers, who introduces himself as AIME's founding president, sets up his talk with branch manager Kyle Koller around the current state of the market. Koller says he has been a broker his entire career and could not explain the difference between retail and broker work, because he has never known anything else. The Women's Mortgage Network Podcast leans toward biography. Nicole interviews Cindy Ertman, founder and CEO of Defining the Difference and a keynote speaker at a network event, who observes that 'we all end up here by accident'. Her own story shows how. She was pregnant with her first child and buying her first house when she brought her employment verification to her boss. He told her the company would shut down that Monday, because of its ties to Gibraltar Savings and Loan, as the federal government came down on the savings and loan industry. In another episode, WMN chair Julie Yarbrough, who also sits on the AIME board as director of growth, talks with Kim Mason, and the conversation takes a detour through the Seahawks and the Super Bowl. For a first listen, Broker Power-Up suits someone after sales habits. The Women's Mortgage Network episodes suit someone curious how people found their way into mortgage work.