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The Mortgage Game — 308 episodes

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308: How 1 DM Can Change Your Business

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307: The Three Things Keeping You Average

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306: $100 Million Broker Burnout

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305: If We're All Selling the Same Thing, Why Do Top Broker's Win More?

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304: Most Mortgage Brokers Are Slowing Down. She's Heading to $70M+. Why?

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303: Building a Lead Machine, One Channel at a Time

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302: From Firefighter to $346k Mortgage Broker: The Exact Strategy!

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301: The First 18 Months: The Hard Truths of Building Team Wiley

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300: Mortgage Brokers Are Too Stressed to Notice They're Stressed

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299: Why 10x is Easier Than 2x

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298: The Mortgage Team Trap - Chasing Passive Income

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297: AI in Mortgages. Tool or Trap?

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296: The 3 Decisions That Changed Everything in My Business

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295: Why Most Brokers Fail on Instagram (And the Simple Fix)

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294: Interest Rates Just Went Up. What Did You Do About It?

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293: The Renewal Lie: Why 2026 Isn't Automatic Business

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292: This Might Be the Most Important Episode I've Ever Recorded

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291: The Industry Didn't Get Harder, Brokers Got Softer

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290: Reaction to Dustan Woodhouse's Podcast - Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Team or Brokerage

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289: My Motto for 2026 - F@$% Yes or NO

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288: Your Environment is Failing You

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287: Your Pre-Approval Playbook...Without the Chaos

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286: Forget the Vision Board, Build Systems That Actually Make You Money

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285: Shiny Objects Don't Build Business, Reps Do

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284: Rate Shoppers Aren't the Problem, You Are

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283: The Silent Skill That Can Make or Break a Mortgage Broker

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282: What Brokers Say vs. What They Do

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281: Why Brokers Are Losing Deals Right Now

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280: Are You in a Mortgage Funk?

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279: To Niche or Not to Niche

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278: You're Not Stuck. You're Just Invisible.

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277: The Industry Changed. They Didn't. Welcome to the Broken Brokerage.

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276: What I'd Do If I Had to Start Over in 2025

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275: How to Turn Content Into Booked Calls

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274: You Can't Build a Broker's Business on Bankers Hours

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273: Do Brokers Even Need a CRM?

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272: Why Brokers Suck at Social Media (And How to Fix It)

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271: How He 10x'd His Business: The 2.7M to 40M Broker

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270: What is the Secret Sauce?

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269: The Niche Broker... 27M, 20-Hour Weeks, & 8 Vacations

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268: The Secret Mortgage Agent

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267: How Much is Isolation Tax Costing You?

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266: How to Weaponize Your Calendar

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265: Ask Yourself This One Question...

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264: 2 Massive Mistakes Brokers Make 99% of the Time

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263: The Secret Weapon Behind My Success as a Broker

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262: The Smoke & Mirrors of the Mortgage Industry

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261: Let's F%$ing Go!

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260: Adapt or Die: The Harsh Truth for Struggling Mortgage Brokers

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259: How a Broker Closes 100+ Deals a Year From TikTok

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258: 5 Questions I Get Asked Every Week

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257: I've Coached 500+ Brokers...5 Biggest Mistakes They All Make

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256: Behind the Scenes of the Mortgage Industry

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255: How to Build Your VIP Realtor Plan

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254: 3 Ways to Get Clients

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253: This Industry is a Gong Show!

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252: The VIP Club - Past, Present, and Future

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251: WHO You Market to is More Important Than HOW

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250: How a Broker Did $108M of Volume in His First 3 Years

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249: Hey Mortgage Broker, Stop Lying to Yourself!

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248: Things I Learned While on the Road + 2 Massive Problems in Our Industry

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247: Common Problems I See with Mortgage Brokers

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246: What I Learned After 1 Year on Social Media

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245: My Spicy Take on Where Brokers Spend Their Money

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244: The #1 Reason I Was a Successful Broker

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243: 3 Biggest Mistakes Top Producing Brokers are Making Right Now

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242: Content is More Important Than Relationships

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241: My Simple Blueprint to Build a Marketing Machine for Your Mortgage Business

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240: The Future of Our Mortgage Industry

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239: The #1 Tool to Make Money in Your Mortgage Business

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238: Hear How Other Mortgage Brokers Are Winning!!

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237: The Missing Piece to Your Business

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236: Does Your CRM Suck??

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235: The 30 Day Webinar Plan to Crush Mortgages

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234: What I Learned in 2023, Part 2

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233: What I Learned in 2023, Part 1

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232: Naughty or Nice List

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231: How to Create Unlimited Content Ideas

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230: Things I’ve Learned as a Coach

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229: A Simple Plan to Get Realtors Through Instagram

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228: The Best Partnership You Could Have for Your Mortgage Business

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227: Become Obsessed with These 3 Skills and You’ll Win the Mortgage Game

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226: This Marketing Strategy Can Change Your Mortgage Business

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225: Running a Mortgage Business is Hard, But So is Being Poor

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224: If It Was Good Enough for Amazon, It’s Good Enough for You

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223: Are You In or Are You Out?

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222: Stop Working with Fool’s Gold

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221: What I’ve Learned After Hosting 2 Accountability Groups

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220: The Evolution of the 10 Loans a Month Academy

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219: The Secret Sauce of Top Producers

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218: Building a Brand in 2023

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217: From $0 to $70M in Two Years and Now Business Partners

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216: The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Mortgage Business

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215: How to Prioritize Your To-Do List

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214: The Best Resource to Up Your BFS Game

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213: There are Only 4 Ways to Get Leads

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212: Are You Marketing a Crappy Service?

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211: My Social Media Plan for 2023

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210: Every Mortgage Broker Needs a Podcast

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209: How to Build a Social Media Blueprint That Actually Works

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208: How to Build a Marketing Plan That Appeals to Any Client

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207: What is the Motto for Your Mortgage Business?

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206: It’s Time for a Wake Up Call!

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205: Every Mortgage Broker Needs This!

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204: The Most Influential Person in My Life

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The 12-Hour Broker 203: The Last Episode

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The 12-Hour Broker 202: The #1 Mistake 99% of Mortgage Brokers Are Making

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The 12-Hour Broker 201: The Framework I Use to Make Daily Decisions

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The 12-Hour Broker 200: Why You Should Audit Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 199: How to Be a Lazy Broker

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The 12-Hour Broker 198: We Are All One Call Away From Changing Our Lives

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The 12-Hour Broker 197: How to Build an Unsuccessful Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 196: How to Build the Perfect Rolodex

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The 12-Hour Broker 195: I Use This Tool to Decide Where I’m Going to Spend Time in My Work Day

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The 12-Hour Broker 194: When is the Right Time to Niche Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 193: Fixed Rate Ninja Move You Need to Know

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The 12-Hour Broker 192: How to 10x Your Database

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The 12-Hour Broker 191: How to Fix the Biggest Problem Most Mortgage Brokers Have

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The 12-Hour Broker 190: Reality Check for 2023

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The 12-Hour Broker 189: What Your #1 Focus Should Be for 2023

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The 12-Hour Broker 188: The Pros & Cons of Different Referral Partners

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The 12-Hour Broker 187: Questions from Listeners, Part 1

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The 12-Hour Broker 186: A Solution to Help Someone Not Lose Their Home

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The 12-Hour Broker 185: Does Hiring an Assistant Actually Make Sense?

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The 12-Hour Broker 184: Audit Your Mortgage Business Coaching

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The 12-Hour Broker 183: How Do We Treat Christmas Gifts and Parties

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The 12-Hour Broker 182: How I Simplify Things in My Life and Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 181: What Cool Projects am I Working on Now

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The 12-Hour Broker 180: How to Take Your Realtor Presentation to the Next Level

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The 12-Hour Broker 179: Don’t Miss Out on an Amazing First Impression

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The 12-Hour Broker 178: Find Your Starving Crowd

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The 12-Hour Broker 177: Don’t Sell Your Stock in a Down Market

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The 12-Hour Broker 176: Two Ninja Moves for Your Variable Clients

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The 12-Hour Broker 175: It’s Time to be the CEO of Your Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 174: One Webinar Funnel

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The 12-Hour Broker 173: Variable Rate Ninja Moves

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The 12-Hour Broker 172: How to Leave a Great First Impression to a New Lead

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The 12-Hour Broker 171: How Building Out Your ”No” List Can Dramatically Change Your Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 170: How to Master Your Discovery Call, Part 2

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The 12-Hour Broker 169: How to Master Your Discovery Call

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The 12-Hour Broker 168: How to Become the Best Version of You

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The 12-Hour Broker 167: Make Sure You’re Being The Best Version of Yourself

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The 12-Hour Broker 166: How To Protect Your Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 165: The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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The 12-Hour Broker 164: The Best ROI for Lead Generation...Hands Down

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The 12-Hour Broker 163: This is a Big Mistake I See Most Business Owners Making

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The 12-Hour Broker 162: This is the #1 CRM to Make Money!

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The 12-Hour Broker 161: The Best Storyteller Always Wins

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The 12-Hour Broker 160: This is What I Would Look For When Joining a Brokerage

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The 12-Hour Broker 159: Stop Bitching and Start Building

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The 12-Hour Broker 158: How to Create a Lifestyle Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 157: How to Repurpose Your Marketing Efforts

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The 12-Hour Broker 156: What I Learned About My Mortgage Business From Applying For a Passport

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The 12-Hour Broker 155: This is How We Follow Up with Our Leads

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The 12-Hour Broker 154: How to Stand Out From Day One as a New Agent

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The 12-Hour Broker 153: You Should Hire Staff Like the Navy Seals Do

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The 12-Hour Broker 152: How I Burned All Boats

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The 12-Hour Broker 151: I Lost a Deal, but Learned a Lesson

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The 12-Hour Broker 150: Things That are Broken in Our Industry

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The 12-Hour Broker 149: Don’t Fall Into the Trap of Being Defined by Your Mortgage Volume

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The 12-Hour Broker 148: Here’s a List of All the Tech We Use to Run Our Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 147: Stop Over Complicating Your Process, Here is What We Do!

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The 12-Hour Broker 146: We Use This Simple Tool to Track All of Our Documents From Start to Finish

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The 12-Hour Broker 145: Doing This Will Save You a Ton of Time, Reduce Stress, and Make You More Money

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The 12-Hour Broker 144: The 3 Biggest Mistakes I Made Early in My Career

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The 12-Hour Broker 143: Should You Start Your Own Mortgage Team?

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The 12-Hour Broker 142: If I Only Had $100 a Month to Spend on the Marketing, I Would Do This

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The 12-Hour Broker 141: This Simple Automation Will Save You Hours and Make You Money

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The 12-Hour Broker 140: How I Turned an RBC Employee into a Client

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The 12-Hour Broker 139: Protect Your Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 138: Trust the Process

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The 12-Hour Broker 137: This Marketing Plan Will Get You Instant Applications

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The 12-Hour Broker 136: Show, Don‘t Tell, Will Always Win

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The 12-Hour Broker 135: Invest in You First

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The 12-Hour Broker 134: We Create 40+ Deals a Year by Doing This

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The 12-Hour Broker 133: This is How We Keep as Many of Our Clients With ”A” Lenders as Possible

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The 12-Hour Broker 132: How to Get Realtors on a Zoom Call

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The 12-Hour Broker 131: Realtor Webinars

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The 12-Hour Broker 130: How to Increase Your Volume Without Needing New Clients

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The 12-Hour Broker 129: Domain Name For You

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The 12-Hour Broker 128: Marketing vs Lender Guidelines

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The 12-Hour Broker 127: How to Scale Your Mortgage Business the Quickest

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The 12-Hour Broker 126: Leaving a Review For a Realtor

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The 12-Hour Broker 125: Sending Videos Instead of Emails to Realtors

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The 12-Hour Broker 124: Master Drip Campaign

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The 12-Hour Broker 123: Why I Think My Customer Journey is One of the Best Out There

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The 12-Hour Broker 122: Stop Bitchin’ and Start Building

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The 12-Hour Broker 121: How to Handle the Biggest Pain Point Most Brokers Have

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The 12-Hour Broker 120: Be Authentic All the Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 119: How to Attract the Clients You Want to Work With

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The 12-Hour Broker 118: This Business Practice Helps Me Close More Deals in the Least Amount of Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 117: Brand Yourself, Not Your Brokerage

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The 12-Hour Broker 116: How Many Hours Do You Need to Work to Get the Volume You Want?

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The 12-Hour Broker 115: Protect Your Mortgage House

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The 12-Hour Broker 114: How to Sell Yourself to a Realtor

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The 12-Hour Broker 113: CRM vs. Marketing Database

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The 12-Hour Broker 112: Hire an Expert vs. Learning On Your Own

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The 12-Hour Broker 111: How to Quickly Re-Engage Your Database

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The 12-Hour Broker 110: Building a Facebook Group to Expand Your Network

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The 12-Hour Broker 109: Building Your List Using Your Facebook Profile

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The 12-Hour Broker 108: Set Up Your Mortgage Business Like A Dentist Office

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The 12-Hour Broker 107: My Hired In 7 Days Journey

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The 12-Hour Broker 106: Everyone Gets in a Funk

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The 12-Hour Broker 105: Sometimes You’re too Close to It

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The 12-Hour Broker 104: How We Find Opportunities on Every Call

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The 12-Hour Broker 103: How to Fill Up Your Calendar with Scheduled Calls

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The 12-Hour Broker 102: You Need to Find Your Avatar Client

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The 12-Hour Broker 101: How to Hire a Document Specialist

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The 12-Hour Broker 100: 2021 Social Media Plan

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The 12-Hour Broker 99: Q&A From Listeners - Part 2

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The 12-Hour Broker 98: Q&A From Listeners - Part 1

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The 12-Hour Broker 97: Gratitude + What I’m Doing in December to Build My Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 96: What Gift Do You Give Your Top Realtor Referral Partners?

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The 12-Hour Broker 95: How to Get More Referrals From Realtors

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The 12-Hour Broker 94: If I Could Only Do One Thing to Generate Leads...I’d Do This

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The 12-Hour Broker 93: What is Your Budget For Business Development?

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The 12-Hour Broker 92: Own Your Mistakes...And Quickly

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The 12-Hour Broker 91: Part 2: Lead Generation Strategy For This Month

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The 12-Hour Broker 90: Part 1: Lead Generation Strategy For This Month

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The 12-Hour Broker 89: How Do You Handle the Rate Conversation?

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The 12-Hour Broker 88: Websites vs. Social Proof: Which is Better Bang For Your Buck

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The 12-Hour Broker 87: A Free Strategy That Will Blow Your Referral Partners and Clients Away

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The 12-Hour Broker 86: How to Build Your Mortgage Business with Webinars

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The 12-Hour Broker 85: Are You a True Expert or a Jack of All Trades

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The 12-Hour Broker 84: How You Frame a Situation to a Client Could Make or Break the Deal

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The 12-Hour Broker 83: Documents SUCK...Here Are My Best Practices for Getting Documents

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The 12-Hour Broker 82: You Need to Be More Than an Order Taker

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The 12-Hour Broker 81: How to Find Business When You Have Nothing in the Funnel

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The 12-Hour Broker 80: Three Lessons to Help You Stand Out and Close More Loans

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The 12-Hour Broker 79: How We Turned One Simple Renewal Into 2 New Deals

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The 12-Hour Broker 78: Where Do You Spend Money in Your Mortgage Business?

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The 12-Hour Broker 77: We Actually Bought a Rate Down

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The 12-Hour Broker 76: This Will Increase Your Volume With No Extra Work

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The 12-Hour Broker 75: How to Find a New Deal in the Next 24 Hours

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The 12-Hour Broker 74: Doing This Will Double Your Volume in 12 Months

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The 12-Hour Broker 73: Take Advantage of This Small Window in Time = More Referral Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 72: Be the Best in the World...Why Not

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The 12-Hour Broker 71: I’m All for Lead Generation But You Need to Do This First

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The 12-Hour Broker 70: I’m Back + A Big Mistake I See Most Brokers Making

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The 12-Hour Broker69: What Exactly is the Halo Effect?

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The 12-Hour Broker 68: The One Thing That Made The Biggest Impact In My Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 67: Sales Secrets I’ve Used Over the Years to Close More Mortgages

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The 12-Hour Broker 66: In Just 10 Minutes You Can Find the Blind Spots in Your Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 65: Would You Pay $15 to Have Someone Listen to You as an Expert for an Hour?

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The 12-Hour Broker 64: Two Small Changes to Our Facebook Ads = Huge Impact

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The 12-Hour Broker 63: Making Assumptions Like This is Costing You Valuable Time and Money

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The 12-Hour Broker 62: The Results are In! Facebook Ads to a Live Webinar

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The 12-Hour Broker 61: This Free Tool Makes Us Over 100k a Year

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The 12-Hour Broker 60: Simple Strategy to Grow Your Brand On Social Media

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The 12-Hour Broker 59: Application Over the Phone Or Bust...

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The 12-Hour Broker 58: How to Instantly Grow Your List and Get Live Deals

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The 12-Hour Broker 57: Don’t Forget What Worked Before

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The 12-Hour Broker 56: The Client Journey

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The 12-Hour Broker 55: Remember, You’re the Gatekeeper to Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 54: Gratitude

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The 12-Hour Broker 53: How to Build a Free Lead Machine

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The 12-Hour Broker 52: Building Digital Assets Will Increase the Value of Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 51: Things Covid-19 Has Taught Me

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The 12-Hour Broker 50: How to Improve Your Leads to Closed Deal Ratio

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The 12-Hour Broker 49: Instead of Posting on Social Media...Do This!

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The 12-Hour Broker 48: You Mean Calling My List Actually Works??

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The 12-Hour Broker 47: Stop Calling It a Database

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The 12-Hour Broker 46: Biggest Mistake Every Broker Makes

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The 12-Hour Broker 45: How One Strategic Question Can Make You $$$$

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The 12-Hour Broker 44: Be Honest...What Are You Doing With Your Time (Covid-19)?

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The 12-Hour Broker 43: 5 Tools to Help Automate Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 42: Find The Pain Point And You Win

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The 12-Hour Broker 41: CEO for a Day

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The 12-Hour Broker 40: If You’re Not Consistent in Your Marketing...People Notice

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The 12-Hour Broker 39: How to Start Your Own Podcast in 10 Minutes a Week, and for $0

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The 12-Hour Broker 38: First Time Home Buyer Leads

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The 12-Hour Broker 37: Two Rookie Mistakes a Lot of Brokers Make

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The 12-Hour Broker 36: Meeting with Realtor Partner - Part 3

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The 12-Hour Broker 35: Meeting with Realtor Partner - Part 2

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The 12-Hour Broker 34: Meeting with Top Realtor Partner - Part 1

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The 12-Hour Broker 33: Do You Want to Get Instant Leads and Also Content Ideas For Life?

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The 12-Hour Broker 32: One Project...No Excuses

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The 12-Hour Broker 31: Our Goal for 2020

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The 12-Hour Broker 30: How Much is Being Perfect Costing You?

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The 12-Hour Broker 29: Do the HARD THINGS!

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The 12-Hour Broker 28: We Offer Rate Insurance..$%^#@

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The 12-Hour Broker 27: How One Email Could = 25M to 30M in Volume

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The 12-Hour Broker 26: This System Ensures a Referral Partner Works With You

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The 12-Hour Broker 25: Our Process From Lead to Compliance

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The 12-Hour Broker 24: We’re Adding This to Our Process and It’s Gonna Be Killer

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The 12-Hour Broker 23: 5 Texts/Day For 10 Days = 2 Applications

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The 12-Hour Broker 22: We Spend a Minimum 1 Hour a Day Prospecting

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The 12-Hour Broker 21: How to Build Your Dream Network

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The 12-Hour Broker 20: How We Handle the Rate Conversation

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The 12-Hour Broker 19: This is a Must for Any Mortgage Broker

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The 12-Hour Broker 18: This One Email Made Me $85,000

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The 12-Hour Broker 17: Rate Special...Yikes

293

The 12-Hour Broker 16: Stay In Your Lane

294

The 12-Hour Broker 15: How Not to Be an Order Taker

295

The 12-Hour Broker 14: Two Tools That Save Us a Ton of Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 13: BE THE LIST...Not Just On It

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The 12-Hour Broker 12: 15 Minutes a Day to Drastically Impact Your Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 11: Here is How to Increase Your Volume 25-50%

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The 12-Hour Broker 10: I Spent Over 100k on Facebook Ads

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The 12-Hour Broker 9: Stop Wasting Your Damn Time

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The 12-Hour Broker 8: How a New Mortgage Agent Booked 5 Meetings and 2 Applications in 48 Hours

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The 12-Hour Broker 7: How to Know if Your Client is Going to Work With You

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The 12-Hour Broker 6: This Was the Best Decision I Ever Made in My Mortgage Business

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The 12-Hour Broker 5: My Motto for Business and Life in General

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The 12-Hour Broker 1: What is the 12-Hour Broker Podcast About

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The 12-Hour Broker 3: This One Thing Changed My Mortgage Business...Big Time!

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The 12-Hour Broker 2: Build the Dam List...No Excuses!

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The 12-Hour Broker 4: A Better Way to Set Goals for Your Mortgage Business and Your Life