Empowering People More Podcast with Eddy Perez Eddy Perez

Kristy is a dynamic senior-level executive recognized for her strong business acumen and for translating strategy into results. Some of Kristy’s key strengths include the ability to deliver results, effectively influence, and impact a wide range of audiences across organizational and cultural boundaries, facilitate teams through complex problem-solving to action, and create highly effective organizations with a collaborative leadership style. Kristy’s resume certainly speaks for itself with over eight years at Pepsi, almost sixteen years with Fannie Mae, then to Presidency at Flagstar Bank, and presently with Wells Fargo as the Head of Home Lending. As head of Home Lending, Kristy oversees one of the nation’s leading combined home lenders and servicers, funding one of every twelve loans and servicing one of every eight loans in the country. Kristy leads a team of more than 25,000 mortgage professionals in sales, operations, servicing, capital markets, portfolio management, related business, risk management, and supporting functions. Kristy is a force in our industry, and I am grateful to have had her as a guest on the show. 

Take notes because, as the title permits, this episode exudes leadership.

Jeffrey Hicks is a native of Atlanta, GA. He is an Associate Broker with Apollo Associates Realty where he started his real estate career in 1995. His concentration has been in the area of acquisitions, feasibility analysis, financial performance, asset management, and sale of real property. 

Jeffrey was also the former and 30th  President of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB ®) where his goal was to continue the roll out of its Black Wealth through Home Ownership initiative – Two (2) Million New Black Homeowners by implementing an operational management system that supports the program and increases NAREB’s value through planning, structuring and organizational control. NAREB is intensely focused on implementing initiatives that identify economic solutions, rebuild communities, increase real estate values, and elevate the rate of Black homeownership.

Jeffrey is a graduate of Georgia State University and is happily married to his wife with two beautiful children, Jessica and James. Jeffrey lives by the words, “Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts”. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

In this episode, Eddy and Jeffrey discuss all the pertinent issues in equal housing and how Jeffrey has made a difference in this space.

Jake Thompson teaches people how to compete every day to reach their full potential – in their careers and life. It’s through Jake’s own experience as an athlete, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker that he has learned how we can move closer to the career, health, and life we desire by changing just a few of our choices each day. It’s the small shifts in our focus & daily actions that build our winning mindset –and winning life, according to Jake, and on this episode he tells us why!

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Laura Brandao calls it blessed for the opportunity to serve the mortgage industry proudly and present her unique and authentic self. Laura is our Chief Growth officer of EPM & the soon-to-be CEO of Lighthouse Lending Capital, as well as a speaker, best-selling author and Chair of the National Association of Minority Mortgage Bankers of America (NAMMBA) Visionary program, Chair of the Women’s Committee for the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey, and the Chair of Women with Vision. Laura is way more than this bio, but we will leave it that!

In this episode, we discuss with Laura how not only as an industry we can be better but as individuals too. Tune in!

In all things Jesse Iwuji does, there are two constant elements: his devotion to service and his inspirational nature to many. Jesse went from competing at the top level of Division-1A college football to rising the ranks of the military as a Lieutenant Commander and is now one of only three Black drivers in all of NASCAR at the national levels that actively serves his country as a US Military member.

In this episode, Jesse and Eddy have a beautiful conversation about where Jesse has started and where he is today as well as the lessons he picked up along the way.

Tune in for this incredible episode.

Robert Broeksmit is the President of MBA, The Mortgage Bankers Association, and has been for what will be four years this coming month. A senior finance executive and corporate officer with more than 30 years in the mortgage sector, Bob now heads the real estate finance industry’s leading trade association, uniting the interests of diverse stakeholders, from Main Street to Wall Street, spanning all aspects of real estate finance, including residential, commercial, and multifamily. 

During his career in the industry, he has directed all aspects of mortgage lending activities, including marketing, sales, operations, secondary marketing, loan servicing, and default management. As a leader of a major financial services consultancy, Bob worked with a diverse clientele including large banks, independent mortgage lenders, community banks, credit unions, and service providers, offering litigation support and guidance on regulatory implementation and other operational aspects of mortgage banking.

In this episode, Bob and Eddy discuss why our associations are so important to the mortgage, banking, and finance industry.