Brandon Hutchison. How you doing, my man?

I'm doing great, Carl. How are you?

So we met, what answer your question? I'm looking forward to this. So we met in Phoenix.

And you reminded me we've seen each other a couple more times or something at

some events somewhere probably over the years right over the years yeah and how long you've been

to do this man uh 24 years 24 years wow good for you i tell people i got in when i was eight so

i was going to say you that that that surprise you hold your age well i'm just saying i'll pay you for that later well

that's that's uh and uh where do you live i live in franklin tennessee so just outside of nashville

uh what a great place man oh it's it's beautiful i you know i think i was telling you before when we

met it's like main street u s a it's just like the quintessential little small town, the oldest town in Tennessee.

It's a really great place to live. But we're right in a very wealthy area. It's like the eighth wealthiest county in the nation. So there's just a ton of a lot of money here, country music stars, professional athletes, a lot of things like that. So it's a really, really wealthy area. It's just a cool, very safe, you know, good area.

Did not like that. So it's a really, really wealthy area. It's just a cool, very safe,

you know, good area. Did not know that. Yeah. So it's a, would you say the fifth wealthiest? I think the eighth wealthiest last year, um, county in the nation. And so it's just, it's a tremendous amount of money. So Nashville's a big, obviously it's music city, but then it's also a big health care hub. And so you've got like all these health care billionaires, you know, and everything. And they're here. But then we have a lot of like professional athletes, movie stars, things like that as well moved to this area. It's just there's no state income tax. Our property taxes are really low. So it's just a real, and like I say, it's a safe place to live. Great public school system.

So it's just, you know, shameless plug for Franklin, I guess, or for Williamson County where I'm at. But, yeah, it's a really good place to live. Wow. Very interesting. I have to go check that out, man. That's, that's interesting. So I live here in the Tampa Bay area,

but we got a place up in High Point, North Carolina.

But see, they got a state tax area. We're thinking, well, do we move there? You know, so anyway, hey, so what I want to talk about here is our mutual friend Jimmy hooked us up together. And he said, hey, if you want to hear a good story about overcoming adversity, you need to talk to my main man, Brandon. So I have no idea what this is about. I don't

know what your adversity is, but I love good stories of overcoming the odds. My favorite story

is like small town boy, small town girl makes good, you know,

kind of stuff. Because frankly, it just, it reflects me on my journey, you know, growing up

very, very, very, very lower middle class, not middle, lower class, very, you know, poor,

grew up poor, and things have turned out pretty good. And I love hearing people that, hey, things were stacked against them, either in the beginning or something happened somewhere in point in time. And so what's he talking about, man? What's this, is it okay for me to open with it? Oh, yeah, hey, before we do that, before we do that. So a little bit of homework, tell me about, are you branch manager, are you a loan officer? Do you own a company? Like, give me a little bit of layland of that. Yes, I'm a producing branch manager for Summit funding. Okay. So I have just a small branch for them. And so I did about 86 units last year. Fifteen minutes. So we're about about 30 million. So, yeah, that's kind of a little bit about us. And I've been with Summit for a couple years now. And I've known, I've known Todd, Jimmy, all those guys from Corday's back dating like 2009. Yeah, good few men. They're good, solid people. I love, I love Jimmy and Todd, you know, Todd, well, they don't come and he's just the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. So I really, uh, I had instant connection when I met that guy. He was he came to, came to an event we had up in Lake Tahoe, it was. And, uh, his brother was a member of our, the Freedom Club here. And so, uh, called me up and said, hey, is it okay if my brother comes, which was Todd? and I said, dude, of course. And gosh, just a really good guy.

So. and so called me up and said hey is it okay if my brother comes which was Todd and I said dude of course and gosh just a really good guy so so tell me about your challenge man what

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