Oct 9, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 16 segments
While Conrad Thompson may be known as “Conrad the Mortgage Guy,” he also know a thing or three about podcasting, business, advertising, and professional wrestling. What started with a love of…
Conrad ThompsonGuestPodNumbra HostHostYeah, well, that's a great introduction to kind of how you got to where you are right now, Conrad.
And going back, you mentioned that in 2010, you were dumping a lot of money, trying a bunch of different ideas, trying to, you know, get your businesses to grow and things like that in the mortgage business.
And also in 2010, 2011, everybody might remember a little something in the mortgage industry called the financial crisis.
So obviously, You were in that starting in 2001 and kind of rode the wave up to that crisis and continued to ride the wave after that crisis.
So tell me a little bit about how you were able to sustain your business and continue to grow despite the economic downturn that you were facing.

I'd venture down to Birmingham and do some loans or maybe do some down at the beach every now and again.

But 99% of the loans I was doing during the housing collapse of 2007, 8, 9, I was just Huntsville based.

They just assume that it's a bunch of farmland and cows and don't get me wrong.

We have some of that, but the city of Huntsville itself is different really from the rest of the state.

You know, down in Florida, you would hear horror stories where people were buying a house for say 400 grand and 18 months later, it was worth 800.
Yeah, well, that's a great introduction to kind of how you got to where you are right now, Conrad.
And going back, you mentioned that in 2010, you were dumping a lot of money, trying a bunch of different ideas, trying to, you know, get your businesses to grow and things like that in the mortgage business.
And also in 2010, 2011, everybody might remember a little something in the mortgage industry called the financial crisis.
So obviously, You were in that starting in 2001 and kind of rode the wave up to that crisis and continued to ride the wave after that crisis.
So tell me a little bit about how you were able to sustain your business and continue to grow despite the economic downturn that you were facing.

I'd venture down to Birmingham and do some loans or maybe do some down at the beach every now and again.

But 99% of the loans I was doing during the housing collapse of 2007, 8, 9, I was just Huntsville based.

They just assume that it's a bunch of farmland and cows and don't get me wrong.

We have some of that, but the city of Huntsville itself is different really from the rest of the state.

You know, down in Florida, you would hear horror stories where people were buying a house for say 400 grand and 18 months later, it was worth 800.
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