Two Days to Finally Build the Business You’ve Been Putting Off for Years

THE LAB — Nashville, TN | Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2026

For loan officers and agents stuck under the same ceiling for years. Spend two days building the systems that scale your production and hand you back your time, next to people already producing at the level you’re aiming for.

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Limited seats available
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This is a workshop, not a conference

The work happens in the room, not after you get home.

Most events sell you a feeling. You fly home fired up and three weeks later nothing about the business has actually changed. The LAB runs the other way. Every session puts you to work, off your own numbers, in a workbook, with the people teaching it standing right there. By the time you leave Nashville the systems are built and running, not sketched on a page you’ll never open again.

The LAB · Nashville · Sept 30–Oct 1, 2026
▶  See what happens inside
Who the LAB is for

If your clients love you and you’ve closed roughly the same amount for the last few years, this room was built for you.

Loan Officers

You’re funding around $20 to $30 million a year, and $100 million feels out of reach from where you’re standing. Every deal still runs through you, so a real week off isn’t something you’d risk. Nothing you built last month is working for you this month, so you start every month back at zero.

Real Estate Agents

You’ve hit a ceiling and can’t seem to push past it, closing the same number year after year no matter how hard you work. You’ve got the reputation and the skill, but the business still lives and dies on you chasing the next deal yourself. The growth you want isn’t going to come from working more hours.

Team Leaders & Owners

You’ve already got people, and the business still leans on you more than you’d like. You want the hiring, the referral network, and the structure that holds together the week you step away. The breakouts are built for that.

What you walk out with

A business that grows without running you into the ground.

Built in the room, ready to run the day you get home.

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A business that runs on systems

Get out of the daily chaos of holding everything together in your head. You build the systems that keep deals moving without you touching every one, so the business runs whether you’re in the office or not.

02

A plan for your biggest year yet

Stop reacting to whatever the market hands you. You map out exactly where the business is going next year and leave with the plan already built, not a vague resolution you forget by January.

03

AI that grows your business

Put the tools top producers are quietly using to work for you. You walk out knowing how to bring in more clients and handle more volume without hiring a bigger team or spending more to do it.

04

The hires that actually pay for themselves

Know exactly when to hire, who to bring on first, and how to make every seat profitable. You stop guessing at your team and build one that adds to your bottom line instead of eating it.

05

A referral network that feeds you on repeat

Land the partners who send you business again and again, taught from both sides of the table so you know exactly what makes them refer. This is the pipeline that fills itself while you sleep.

06

More closings out of the deals you already have

The deals sitting quiet in your phone aren’t dead, the last conversation just used the wrong words. You build and rehearse the language that turns what you already have into your next three closings.

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Limited seats available
Limited seats available

Meet the Coaches

Every coach in the room is producing at the top of mortgage or real estate today, in this market. You get what’s working this quarter from the people it’s working for. Tap any coach to see their work.

The Impact Elite coaching team
PHOTO → IG Gavin Ekstrom
Gavin Ekstrom
Founder, IEC · $235M funded in a year · $3.4B region built
PHOTO → IG Oleg Tkach
Oleg Tkach
#1 in Washington by units, back to back
PHOTO → IG Joe Soto
Joe Soto
20+ yrs · leads The Soto Team
PHOTO → IG Haley Garcia
Haley Garcia
One team, $150M+ · Houston top 10
PHOTO → IGJJ Mazzo
JJ Mazzo
EVP, CrossCountry · Founder, IEC
PHOTO → IGJosh Sigman
Josh Sigman
Founder, The Sigman Team
PHOTO → IGLisa Wells
Lisa Wells
5,900+ loans closed since 1999
PHOTO → IGDanell Riggs
Danell Riggs
20+ year mortgage career
PHOTO → IGNiki Salter
Niki Salter
Top-3 San Antonio originator since 2014
PHOTO → IGAllen Huggins
Allen Huggins
Managing Broker, WH Properties · 950+ families
PHOTO → IGAna Warmke
Ana Warmke
NAHREP Top 100 Teams · Warmke Real Estate
PHOTO → IGJen Davis
Jen Davis
Leads a team closing 500+ homes/yr
PHOTO → IGStewart Sadler
Stewart Sadler
Ex-Accenture · Neighborhood Loans
PHOTO → IGPhil Puma
Phil Puma
$1B career sales
PHOTO → IGJulie Holmes
Julie Holmes
Guest keynote · AI for your business

What Makes This Different

Most Events

A retired name on stage talking about how they did it years ago

Two days of getting pumped up, then back to the same business

A notebook you never open again

Half the room gone by the second afternoon

You leave inspired and change nothing

The LAB

Coaches still closing loans and running deals in this market

Two days of building, with the work done in the room

Systems built and running before you fly home

Lenders and agents working side by side, where the growth is

You leave with it done

How the Two Days Run

Two days, built to move in order. Day one you get clear. Day two you build.

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Day 1  ·  September 30

Intention

The first day is about getting honest. You clear out the chaos of running everything in your head and get a real look at where the business actually is and where the ceiling is really coming from. Then you map exactly where it’s going next, so day two you’re building against a plan instead of guessing. It closes with dinner and a room full of producers operating at the level you’re headed toward, which is where a lot of the partnerships start.

02
Day 2  ·  October 1

Implementation

The second day you build. You work through the systems one at a time and do the reps in the room: how to bring in more clients and handle more volume without more overhead, when to hire and who to bring on first, how to land the referral partners who feed you deals on repeat, and the words that turn the deals already sitting in your phone into closings. You leave with the pieces in place, running, not a page of notes you’ll never open again.

Hour by hour

The full agenda

Both days, session by session. You are building the whole time.

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Day 1 Intention
Wednesday, September 30
1:00 - 1:20PM

Welcome

with Gavin Ekstrom
1:20 - 2:30PM

Clear the chaos, scale faster

with JJ Mazzo & Niki Salter
2:30 - 2:45PM

Break

2:45 - 4:00PM

Clarity before the climb: your 2027 by design

with JJ Mazzo & Josh Sigman
5:30PM

Welcome dinner

02
Day 2 Implementation
Thursday, October 1

Breakouts run two rooms at the same time. Take the one built for your side of the deal.

6:00 - 6:30AM

Wake up & warm upOptional

with Scott Jansen
7:30 - 8:30AM

Breakfast & check in

8:30 - 9:00AM

Opening session

with Josh Sigman
9:00 - 10:10AM

AI hacks to grow your business, not your overhead

with Julie Holmes
10:10 - 10:25AM

Break

10:25 - 11:35AM

Breakout 1: when to hire, who to hire, and how to make it pay

Realtor room
Phil Puma & Ana Warmke
Lender room
Stewart Sadler & Josh Sigman
11:35 - 11:45AM

Break

11:45AM - 12:55PM

Breakout 2: the referral network that runs without you

Realtor room
Jen Davis & Allen Huggins
Lender room
Joe Soto & Oleg Tkach
12:55 - 1:55PM

Lunch

1:55 - 3:05PM

How to close more of the deals you already have

with Haley Garcia & Lisa Wells
3:05 - 3:35PM

Impact Awards

with Gavin Ekstrom & Danell Riggs
3:35 - 3:50PM

Break

3:50 - 4:35PM

Keynote session

with Adam Hughes
4:35 - 5:20PM

The Top 10

with Gavin Ekstrom
7:00PM

After partyOptional

All times Central. Agenda subject to change.

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Limited seats available
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What your ticket includes

Both full days and every session

All your meals across the event

The after party

VIP — everything in regular, plus

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Access to Realtor and Lender Tactic Hour calls

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Lender Sales Academy: module access for 30 days

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Welcome dinner

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Event Details

Dates
September 30–October 1, 2026
Location
Conrad NashvilleNashville, TN
Address
1620 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203Reserve your room in the block →
Conrad Nashville entrance at night
Conrad Nashville
Hotel lobby with grand staircase and piano
Two days in a room built for the work.

Frequently Asked Questions

Loan officers and real estate agents who are good at the work and stuck under a ceiling they can’t seem to break. The room puts lenders and agents together on purpose, because the referral relationship between them is where a lot of the growth comes from. Plenty of people bring their partner.
Seats are limited

The LAB is nearly sold out.

Every LAB we’ve run has sold out, and this one is nearly there. When the last seats are gone, they’re gone. The only question left is whether you’re in the room or hearing about it after.

THE LAB  ·  NASHVILLE  ·  SEPTEMBER 30–OCTOBER 1, 2026
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