In this special Father’s Day episode of Lykken on Lending, David Lykken will be interviewing Chris George, Founder, President and CEO of CMG Financial.

Christopher M. George has spent three decades cultivating an organization capable of sustaining and thriving through cyclical market fluctuations. He accomplished this through responsible risk management while identifying and capitalizing on key emerging markets. George prioritizes regulatory compliance and champions industry and consumer advocacy through direct participation at the local, state and federal levels, served as the former Chairman of the CMBA and was a member of the Board of Directors of the MBA.

As part of this interview, we’ll also have Chris George’s family on the show: AJ, Phil, Harrison, and Adam who are all part of the mortgage industry!

As usual, the first half of the program will feature Joe Farr providing you a rate & market update, followed by Les Parker’s Market-Logics Live, a macroeconomic perspective on the economy with a music parody.  Next is Alice Alvey of Union Home providing a regulatory & legislative update followed by Allen Pollack giving us a Tech Report of the latest technology impacting our industry. Then we wrap up the first half the program with Andy Schell, a/k/a “Profit Doctor” sharing ideas on how to improve your bottom line.

Excerpts from this Podcast:

1. Listen: With the last name George, it is incumbent upon me to be curious…
2. Listen: We had to have 2 jobs before we worked for him IF we got hired, and he emphasized IF…
3. Listen: After 1 year in food service he said you must do 1 year of hard labor…
4. Listen: Early is on time, on time is late, and late is never acceptable…
5. Listen: I think there is big value to bringing the cost of originating a mortgage…
6. Listen: Making a home more affordable for the consumer…
7. Listen: I remember him coming home and bing eager to do things with us… even during the hardest times of the economic downturn…
8. Listen: For me it seems now seems normal growing up filing in a 10-03 for lunch money…
9. Listen: Finding the work-life balance between mortgage professional and being a dad…
10. Listen: If you do something you love you never work a day in your life… we want to maintain a particular kind of culture in our business…
11. Listen: Difficult times will either divide you or bring you together…
12. Listen: There’s a lot of ways to judge a person’s character, and it’s not when things are going well..
13. Listen: There’s a skill to be able to teach lessons both professionally and personally…
14. Listen: You can see how optimistic my father is all the time… and that leads to how can I be better tomorrow than I was yesterday…
15. Listen: There is a sense of family that he holds in high regard, and not just our family, but everybody’s family…
16. Listen: You never know when your next meal will be… you’ll feel better when your plate is cleaned… and if you’re not living on the edge then you’re taking up too much space…
17. Listen: What we learn about ourselves through those moments of difficulty…
18. Listen: Education is different than teaching… enthusiasm and creativity bodes well for our industry…