I am a mortgage industry leader that has dedicated her career to educating, supporting, and lifting others to their highest potential. I am also dedicated to serving the mortgage community through being the Chair of NAMMBA’s Visionary program, The Chair of the MBANJ Women’s committee, The Chair of Women with Vision, and a mortgage executive coach.
I am a coveted speaker, and well-regarded champion for the industry as well as a 3 -time best-selling author.
My recent honors include: 2024 Industry Titan, 2023 Vanguard award, 2022 and 2023 Lending Luminary, 2023 Most successful Business leaders to watch, 2023 Most influential women to watch, 2022 Legends in Lending award. 2021 and 2022 MPA Elite Women in Mortgage. 2022 10 Most Inspirational businesspeople, 2022 NJBIZ leaders in finance, 2021 MPA housing industry icon, a 4-time winner of most powerful women in mortgage, a 3-time Woman of Influence and a three time “Woman with Vision”.
I am happily married to my high school sweetheart, the mom of two boys and enjoy hiking, biking.
“The biggest thing that I learned is that if you go into every situation with no preconceived notions or expectations you can do ANYTHING!”
– Laura Brandao
So, I decided to start saying YES to situations that I normally wouldn’t. It all started with being asked to moderate a panel discussion at a mortgage conference. Since then I have gone from sitting in the office to taking center stage in more than one way.
See jumping on a stage is one thing but sharing your voice without fear is another and once I realized how much the world needed positivity I continued to think of ways to share my message.
Spotlighting spectacular mortgage women is very important to me. In 2020 I launched the WMN column in the Women with Vision digital magazine in efforts to bring more women front and center and allow them the opportunity to share their life journey and perspective with our industry.
If you already look forward to checking in Monday mornings for my Motivational Monday message, you are going to be excited to tune in on Wednesdays for Wednesday Wisdom, the newest chapter in my mission to encourage positivity and joy in the world. We will expand on the Monday message and be addressing topics like: Being a positive role model every day Doing business with a generous heart Strengthening unbiased listening as a means to understand Making time to volunteer in your community Bringing your authentic self to relationships Seeing vulnerability and honesty as strengths Tapping into empathy The importance of having and being a mentor Embracing opportunity, equality, and diversity …..and many more! Please tune to my YouTube channel for Wednesday Wisdom! We look forward to seeing you there!
