From Fashion Designer to Top Mortgage Broker: Monique Gagné’s Journey of Reinvention, Wealth & Impact
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, we sit down with Monique Gagné, a woman who redefined her life by transforming career failure into an empire of inspiration, financial empowerment, and community impact.
From losing a job due to poor computer skills to becoming one of Canada’s top Microsoft Engineers, and then evolving into a top-performing mortgage broker for 20+ years, Monique’s story is a blueprint for reinvention and resilience.
She didn’t just pivot—she created purpose.
Learn how Monique:
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Discovered her passion for teaching and mentorship
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Turned rejection into a top-tier Microsoft certification
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Entered the mortgage industry “by accident” and became one of Canada’s top brokers
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Helps homeowners build wealth with simple financial tools
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Authored two best-selling books—one for adults and one for kids
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Teaches children the value of money through storytelling and magic
Feeling stuck in your career or business?
Let Monique’s story show you how embracing change can lead to unexpected success and impact.
Don’t miss this episode. It’s not just inspiring—it’s transformational.
Subscribe to The Mike Litton Experience for more life-changing interviews with industry leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries.
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| 0:00.0 | I wanted to be an architect. |
| 0:02.0 | But at the time, architect, there was no job. |
| 0:07.0 | There was basically no job in Ottawa. |
| 0:10.0 | And I didn't want to move from here. |
| 0:12.0 | So they made me a test and they said, you should take a computer course. |
| 0:17.0 | And the worst is just before I went in fashion designing, I was working part-time |
| 0:23.8 | for a company which I wanted to work full-time. And computer was just starting at the time. And |
| 0:32.3 | so they had to choose who they were going to keep according to how good they were with computers. |
| 0:41.2 | And I failed. |
| 0:42.9 | So I had lost my job. |
| 0:44.6 | I had no intention of becoming a mortgage broker. |
| 0:48.1 | That was not my intention at all. |
| 0:49.9 | But I had the friend of mine says, well, you should try it. |
| 0:52.7 | You know, because I was in middle of two contracts with my IT. |
| 0:57.2 | I said, I don't really want to do this. |
| 0:59.1 | But I always, as I told you, I wanted to become an architect. |
| 1:02.2 | I don't want to do autographs. |
| 1:04.1 | What's chapters? |
| 1:05.5 | Is it a bookstore? |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, the bookstores. |
| 1:08.8 | We don't, I don't know of them here. |
| 1:11.0 | We don't have chapters. |
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