Our most popular podcast episodes of 2023

This year, our podcast episodes have been going gangbusters - and we hit the massive milestone of half a million downloads this year.

In our podcast episodes this year, we've covered everything from how Australia’s leading brokers have been helping clients refinance and prepare for the ‘fixed rate cliff’ to regulatory issues like clawback and payroll tax, to how brokers have been navigating the path to success and even recorded one from a broker from his boat in the middle of the Indian Ocean as he was undertaking a Guinesss World Record Challenge!

Oh, and we launched some new podcast series' too - welcoming Women in Finance and the What's Making Headlines shows into the mix.

Here, we reveal our top 10 most-listened-to podcasts of the year 2023:

How Theo Chambers runs a leading independent brokerage

Shore Financial was ranked as the most successful independent brokerage in Australia in the Top 25 Brokerages report 2023, ranking highly for broker productivity and volume. In this episode, we caught up with chief executive Theo Chambers to find out how they do it.

How this broker has been rapidly growing his team

Suvidh Arora, chief executive and chief solutions officer at Cinch Loans, has been rapidly growing his Melbourne-based brokerage, bringing on new staff to keep up with burgeoning demand. We find out how he built his burgeoning business.

Addressing the elephant in the room

Brenden Lowbridge, principal at Newcastle-based brokerage Money Links, discusses how he transformed his business and priorities after nearly missing elephants while on safari because he was working.

Billion Dollar Broker: Ross Le Quesne, Billion Dollar Broker, on what it takes to become a top broker

Former Aussie broker Ross Le Quesne knows a thing or two about running a successful brokerage, having headed up one of Aussie’s most prolific franchises and managing a strong team before selling his billion-dollar book and setting up his broker coaching business, Billion Dollar Broker.

Billion Dollar Broker: How Matt Punter of TSC Mortgage Brokers settled $1bn in loans

Queensland-based broker Matt Punter, the managing director of TSC Mortgage Brokers, celebrated the billion-dollar milestone after 13 years of broking.

How Mark Kevin is building a profitable, scalable brokerage

Despite making the move from banking to broking less than three years ago, Mark Kevin, managing director of Mortgage Advice Bureau Sydney, has quickly established his brokerage as a booming business. We find out how he did it.

In Focus: Mark Bouris on the payroll tax issue and the changing mortgage market

In this episode of In Focus, Momentum Markets director Phil Tarrant catches up with Yellow Brick Road executive chairman Mark Bouris to discuss the massive impost the payroll tax issue is having on the broking industry and the challenges facing borrowers in rising rate environment.

How this broker is getting ahead of the fixed-rate cliff

Sydney-based broker Anthony O'Flynn and his team at IFA Mortgages have been busy proactively repricing their clients and getting them prepared for the fixed-rate cliff, an effort that helped him win the Editor’s Choice award at the Better Business Awards NSW/ACT 2023. We catch up with the NSW broker to find out how he’s been growing his brokerage over the years

The importance of goal setting in broking

Adam Buckley from Next Lending Solutions has been in the mortgage industry for more than 20 years, becoming a broker nearly five years ago. We find out how and why he became a broker and what resolutions he’s set himself this year.

New Broker: Patrick Johnson, Mortgage Choice Sutherland

Despite being raised by successful brokers, it wasn’t until the pandemic hit that Patrick Johnson, broker at Mortgage Choice Sutherland, began thinking about broking as a career. But since joining, he’s been growing his business and his team, and enjoying the family business.

Honourable mentions:

• Rowing to Africa — why and how Rob Barton is looking to break the world record
• New Broker: Why AFL star Tom Rockliff became a broker
• How Australia’s Regional Broker of the Year overcame burnout
• From financial planner to Finance Broker of the Year