By Jen Williams, Loan Assistant, Core Bank Being in the lending industry for the last twenty plus years has taught me so much. There are times when I'm talking the Banking language and clients think I'm speaking a foreign language. I frequently get the "deer caught in...
By Bridget Clark, SBA Credit Manager, Core Bank There was a time, long, long ago, where I could buy cute little purse, big enough to carry my identification, lip gloss, and a breath mint and I was ready to go out into the world. I wasn’t prepared for the amount of...
By Tricia Luedke, Vice President, Private Banking, Core Bank Doing something different isn’t easy but with strong leadership, ambition and the ability to learn from new opportunities why not try to Go Left? As I was watching my eight-year-old play basketball for the...
By Gita Smith, Senior Administration Officer, Core Bank “OK Gita, its 6:30 p.m. Pack it up and go home.” I look up from my computer screen to see our Market President, Jason Moxness, standing in my office doorway. “I will,” I respond smiling, knowing it will be...
By Jason Moxness, Market President, Core Bank Last summer, I wrote a blog about my personal Revolution (or maybe Evolution) about my battle with every banker’s strangling nemesis – the classic neck tie! I'm happy to report that I'm now 183 days free from the bondage...
By Paula Lay, SBA Senior Servicing Specialist, Core Bank Last September I was contemplating my career. After working a year as a credit analyst at a wonderful $40 million bank in my home town, I was restless. I craved professional development. I wanted to learn more,...
By Bridget Clark, SBA Credit Manager, Core Bank It was a cold dark night, and I was driving like a crazy woman to get my nervous 9 year old to his first ever wrestling practice. (I wasn’t sure if he was nervous because of my driving or his first practice, but that is...
By Jason Moxness, Market President, Core Bank Loan Production Office Who do I get to blame for the pressure of coming up with a New Year's Resolution? Dick Clark? Mariah Carey? Ryan Seacrest? I need a name! Actually, the first people to make New Year’s resolutions...
By Stacey Huddleston, Vice President, Commercial Relationship Manager, Core Bank Loan Production Office I'm baffled! Nothing my father taught me as a young boy seems to be true today. Hold Doors for Others I grew up on a small farm just outside of Moline, Illinois...
By Jason Moxness, Market President, Core Bank Loan Production Office It was only 7:30am and I was already having one of those days. Woke up too early thinking about too many things that were beyond my control, especially at 4am. I was mentally going down the list of...
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