Full Disclosure

Welcome to the fully rebranded LodeStar podcast, Full Disclosure. Join Jim Paolino and Alayna Gardner, AMP, on this new chapter of the LodeStar podcast.

For the final installment of the LodeStar Lending Leaders Summer Session, Jim and Alayna do a quick recap of summer industry conferences.

Continuing with LodeStar's 2025 Summer Session, we're getting an update from Jim and Alayna about what's new at LodeStar.

The Summer Session is all about trying things, right? So, in that spirit, we’re asking Jim what he’s been reading lately.

For this week's installment of the Lending Leaders Summer Session, Jim and Alayna open up about what's been grinding their gears lately—from LinkedIn posts about vacation to overuse of AI in content creation. Tune in!

Continuing with our Summer Session, Jim and Alayna sit down to give you the rundown on regulation.

Welcome back to the Lending Leaders Podcast! For this year’s Summer Session, we’re trying something a little different. Tune in to find out what Jim and Alayna have in store!

Per Lending Leaders tradition, Jim Paolino and Alayna Gardner sit down with LodeStar CTO David Spektor to take stock of growth and look ahead at the future.

This one's all about keeping creativity alive, even and especially when the market is uncertain. LodeStar's Director of Revenue, Alayna Gardner, chats with Marketing Content Manager Tim Austen to discuss creativity, and how to invest in it—no matter what's happening in the industry.

Jim Paolino sits down for a hard-hitting and heartfelt conversation with Coby Hakalir, VP of Mortgage and Ancillary Services at T3 Sixty, to discuss the difference practicing gratitude can make.

This week's Lending Leaders is a special crossover event... On her other podcast, Thirsty Thursday, Alayna Gardner had the pleasure of interviewing NFM Lending's Managing Director Greg Sher. The conversation was just too good for us not to feature it here, as a special episode of Lending Leaders. Cheers! 🥂

Alayna Gardner interviews Nick Friedman, President of Homelight Homes, to talk about the relationship between profitability and growth in the mortgage industry, and how to help borrowers break barriers to homeownership.

It's all about scalability this week. Jim sits down with Optimal Blue's Director of Product Management, Kevin Foley, to discuss how tech vendors can deliver solutions at scale.

LodeStar's own Amanda Benincasa, a Philadelphia area realtor, sits down with Alayna Gardner to share her take on the home buying and mortgage processes.

How do you drive down loan origination costs? Jim and Alayna sit down to discuss LodeStar’s new vision for 2025 and onward, and how lenders can push back against the rising costs of loan origination.

Jim takes an opportunity to visit longtime friend, Matthew VanFossen, CMB, CEO of Absolute Home Mortgage and The Big Point-of-Sale. They chat about regulation and what’s ahead for 2025.

Alayna sits down with Space Coast Credit Union's Malik Wilkes, CMB, AMP, a passionate advocate for tech-forward loan origination, diversity in the mortgage community, and the value of continuing education.

Jim sits down with Todd Hougaard, CEO of BLITS, to discuss the evolution of tech in the mortgage and title spaces, and what's ahead for 2025.

LodeStar's resident Encompass Admin, Kelsey Wright, our Director of Customer Success, returns to the Lending Leaders Podcast to give an update on the EPC Changeover.

For this week's episode of Lending Leaders, Alayna interviews John Haring, head of compliance at Wilqo.

The Lending Leaders Podcast is back! Jim Paolino sits down with Fractional Chief Strategy Officer at Silk Title Co, Jeremy Potter. Jeremy has a wealth of experience in the legal, regulatory, and mortgage worlds, and his perspective is one you won't want to miss.

LodeStar's Alayna Gardner chats with Chris Gassel, Enterprise Account Executive at Polly, about how lenders can adopt new mortgage tech the RIGHT way.

Jim, Dave, and Alayna sit down together to bid farewell to 2024; a year of immense growth for both LodeStar and SettleWise.

For this week’s episode of Lending Leaders Alayna chats with  Dan Smokoska , Director of Sales and Growth at HousingWire.

Ever wonder how LodeStar monitors closing costs throughout the entire country? Here to explain just a little bit of what our commitment to accuracy demands is Ron Carvalho, LodeStar's own Director of Data Operations.