Mortgage Champions

From our team to yours, Merry Christmas! We’re so grateful to enjoy time with loved ones and hope you’re able to do the same!

Special thanks to HousingWire and Sarah Wolak for not just shining a light on the impact trainers and coaches make in our industry, but starting a conversation around what makes a great training/coaching partnership. We're honored to be featured alongside so many top-notch voices in mortgage!

Such an honor to partner with the team at USA Mortgage! Incredible people always looking to serve their borrowers better.

2024 was one for the books at Mortgage Champions, and it’s all thanks to you. From the clients we were blessed to serve, to the partners we labored alongside, to the voices we were fortunate to elevate, we’re incredibly grateful for another year of connecting, learning, and serving in the best industry on the planet. So plug in your Spotify Wrapped playlist, pour another cup of coffee (or eggnog), and join us as we look back on a memorable year. 📉 In 2024, we saw some our clients hit some impressive numbers, including: ‣ A 25% increase in average pipeline for one team at the nation's top lender ‣ A 40% decrease in loan fallout for a CD lender CRUSHING refis ‣ And a client snagging LendingTree's Top Refi Originator award 👏🏻 🏆 We won a few awards ourselves, including: ‣ An impressive 4th HousingWire Vanguard Award for Dale ‣ And Best Use of Video in eLearning from the Brandon Hall Group. ✈️ We attended some of the best events in the industry, including: ‣ ICE Mortgage Technology's Experience in Vegas ‣ HousingWire's The Gathering in Scottsdale ‣ AIME's FUSE conference in New Orleans ‣ HousingWire's IMB Summit in Dallas ‣ Mortgage Bankers Association's Annual in Denver ‣ And LendingTree's Summit in Charlotte Just to name a few... 🎙️ We also featured some of the brightest minds in mortgage In Season 3 alone, Dale interviewed Hunter Strong, Barry Habib, Mike Simonsen, Diego Sanchez, Nathan Knottingham, Kristin Messerli, Rene F. Rodriguez, Shant Banosian, and Peter Benjamin, CMB® 🙌🏻 Our Wrap got so long, we didn't even mention that Dale and Jake started a new weekly show with Coach Bill Hart and Kyle Draper💡 Needless to say, our 29th year in business was one to remember. But as we look back, we’re even more eager to look forward. There’s still work to do—to make this industry better, to smooth the process of buying a home, and to help loan officers become integral to the largest, most personal financial decision most people ever make. We’ve got some exciting plans for next year, but how about you? What was memorable in 2024, and what are you excited for in 2025?

From all of us at Mortgage Champions, Happy Thanksgiving 🍁

Congratulations to our friends at Royal United Mortgage LLC for winning Top Refi Closer at this year’s LendingTree Summit 👏

We're so fortunate to work in an industry that not only serves Veterans, but has served as a vehicle to help them achieve their dreams #HappyVeteransDay 🇺🇸 Special thanks to the two Veterans who help our team serve those we work with every day. Michael Brucato and David Gage Hall, grateful to have you alongside us in our trenches!

Have you subscribed to the #Batting1K podcast? Our Founder & CEO Dale Vermillion recently interviewed industry legend and close friend Barry Habib, and both Dale and our CMO Jake Vermillion wrote about their takeaways from the conversation 👉🏻 https://bit.ly/3zypteh

With the right mindset, the right teammates, and the right target, anything seems possible.

Meet your co-host: Dale Vermillion As the Founder & CEO of Mortgage Champions, Creator of the Guaranteed Path for Success, Author of Navigating the Mortgage Maze, Host of Batting 1,000 with Dale Vermillion, and Founder of Mortgage Professionals Providing Hope, we're not sure there's anything Dale hasn't done! Having started in the business 41 years ago as a Loan Officer, Dale worked his way into middle management and then executive leadership before founding a consultancy in 1995. Since, Dale has trained over 1M professionals representing over 700 companies. He's won awards from the Association for Training Development, Better Business Bureau, Brandon Hall Group, Mortgage Professional America, HousingWire, and NAMB. But, most importantly to him, he has helped millions of consumers secure the right loan for themselves and their loved ones, and helped to house, feed, and clothes tens of thousands of people across the world through charity. We're incredibly honored to have Dale share not only his extensive industry experience, but his #OthersFirst approach to life and business. Follow Dale on all his socials, subscribe to his newsletter and podcast, and then find time to pick his brain LIVE every Monday morning on #SuccessByTheBook.