Her boss fired her over a company she hadn't started yet. Twenty-two years later, she runs one backing twenty-five brokerages in eight states.

Patrick Merrill has sold Mississippi Gulf Coast real estate for sixteen years, a RealTrends Verified Top Agent holding the ABR and GRI designations. On this episode of Lifted he sits down with Megan Ware Marsh, twenty-two years into the mortgage industry, who was fired from the company where she was top producer after her boss assumed she was quietly starting her own business. Two coworkers walked out behind her, and a lawsuit followed.

That's what pushed her to open her first mortgage brokerage. She's since opened three of her own and now runs a franchise model backing roughly twenty-five brokerages across eight states, aimed at the loan officers and brokers she calls boots on the ground, the ones stuck on what she calls the hamster wheel of selling nonstop just to get paid.

Hosted by: Patrick Merrill

Guest: Megan Marsh

Megan Marsh is the Founder and CEO of Co/LAB Lending and its franchise division. A mortgage and real estate veteran with over 18 years of experience, she helps loan officers and industry professionals launch their own independent mortgage businesses. Through a proven franchise model, done-for-you back-office support, and education, she empowers entrepreneurs to be in business for themselves, but never by themselves.

What You'll Learn:

• Hear how getting fired over a business she hadn't started yet led to opening her own, with two coworkers walking out behind her

• Borrow the one to ten scale her team uses to size up a bad day, where someone dying is a ten and a nasty email is a two

• See how hiring three people in ninety days while pregnant with her third child turned into a 30 to 40 percent growth year

• Compare Gulf Coast numbers to her own market, from average home prices to why she's never paid an annual car tag

• Learn what boots on the ground support looks like inside a twenty-five brokerage franchise

• Get her take on builder buydowns, and why she'd rather work with agents than compete against them

• Hear why investors and self-employed borrowers, the ones with complicated tax returns, were her favorite clients

Connect with Megan Marsh:

Website: https://colablendingfranchise.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moneymentormeg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/megan.w.marsh/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/moneymentormeg/

Connect with Patrick Merrill:

Website: https://cbsmithhomesalabama.com/agents/patrick-merrill

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LIFTED-Patrick-Merrill

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lifted/id1882611045

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/30tXkqPjyDfrcfPOoxd0kE

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