A Practical Path From CeMAP To Running Your Own Brokerage

About this episode

Ross McMillan discusses the Fear Academy and its role in helping advisers build their own brokerage.

Send us Fan Mail CeMAP gives you a qualification. It doesn’t give you confidence in a first client meeting, a clean process for packaging a case, or a playbook for handling underwriters, lender criteria, and follow-ups when the pressure is on. That’s why we brought Ross McMillan back to The Mortgage Broker Broadcast to explain Fear Academy and why we built it inside Fair Financial for advisers who want to be truly self-employed and build a brokerage with their own brand. We talk honestly abo...

People in this episode

Host: Craig Skelton

Guest: Ross McMillan

Topics covered

• mortgage brokerage
• self-employment
• client meetings
• underwriting
• Fear Academy

Keywords

• CeMAP
• mortgage
• brokerage
• self-employed
• underwriters
• lender criteria
• client meetings

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fair Financial

Books & works: CeMAP

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