1149: How to Stand Out, Multiply Your Opportunities, and Win People’s Confidence with Justin Humphries
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Justin Humphries reveals his fundamental principles for rapidly growing opportunities and income in an uncertain job market.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to multiply your inbound opportunities
2) The simplest way to expand your professional network
3) The key that keeps people coming back to you
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— ABOUT JUSTIN —
Justin Humphries is a dedicated Loan Officer with experience since June 2021, specializing in VA, first-time homebuyer, and DSCR loans. A Nashville native, Justin is deeply motivated by personal and professional growth, drawing strength from his faith, family, and a passion for building meaningful relationships. He takes great pride in helping clients align their mortgage strategies with their life goals, aiming to support them in building long-term wealth. Justin values the opportunity to develop lasting connections with customers who return to him year after year for their mortgage needs.
Beyond his professional work, Justin is actively involved in his church community, serving on the parish council and volunteering with the Society of St. Vincent DePaul to assist families at risk of homelessness. He is happily married to his wife Stephanie and is a proud father of three young children, including twins.
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| 0:00.0 | The first half of that equation is people have to know you, you'll be likeable, it can't be incompetent, they got to trust you. |
| 0:16.0 | And the more important half to maintain that relationship is you have to solve their problems. |
| 0:20.1 | And you've got to keep solving them. That's Justin Humphreys. He's a rising star in the mortgage game as an in-demand |
| 0:30.4 | loan consultant. Since 2021, he's helped clients align their mortgage strategies with their life |
| 0:34.6 | goals and build long-term wealth. Justin's helped me tremendously with my own mortgage needs and now the real estate matters, |
| 0:40.4 | but more than that, he's impressed me with just how quickly he's grown his career in this |
| 0:45.6 | uncertain job market at just 27 years old, so I made him share his wisdom with all of us. |
| 0:50.8 | So learn one, how to multiply your inbound opportunities. |
| 0:53.5 | Two, the simplest way to |
| 0:55.1 | expand your professional network. And three, the key that keeps people coming back to you. And if you |
| 1:00.5 | want a quick summary write-up of the actual wisdom that Justin shares, I recommend you sign up |
| 1:03.9 | for the free Gold Dugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com. I'm Pete McItis. |
| 1:09.2 | This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now he's Justin. |
| 1:16.9 | Justin, welcome. Hey, Pete. Great to be here. Appreciate you. Having me. Well, I am excited to be chatting. |
| 1:22.6 | We've known each other for just about five years now here in Tennessee. And boy, I say this and I mean this, |
| 1:31.8 | not just because we're pals, but it sure seems that you're awesome at your job. |
| 1:37.3 | Much appreciated. I think you're awesome at yours as well. And I've enjoyed listening to your |
| 1:40.7 | podcast over those last five years too. Thank you. Now, your job specifically is you're in the mortgage game. |
| 1:47.0 | You've assisted me with some real estate mortgagee lending things. |
| 1:51.4 | And I was very impressed at the way you delivered. |
| 1:56.0 | But what I got you on here today for is here we are in 2026 and people speak about the job market being |
| 2:03.7 | terrifying and here you are a younger feller still in your 20s and you recently made a switch |
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