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Ladies in LendingFrom Brownies to Brokerage: Melissa's Journey in Mortgage LendingIn this episode of the Ladies in Lending podcast, your host Krista Russo interviews Melissa Cohn, the Regional Vice President of the Southern Division for William Raveis Mortgage.
With nearly 43 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Melissa shares her journey from starting as an entrepreneur at a young age to becoming a leading figure in mortgage brokerage.
She discusses her impressive accolades, including being featured in the Scotsman Guide and Crain's New York Business, and offers valuable insights on navigating the current market, building lasting relationships with clients, and the importance of timely communication.
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2025-08-0829 min
Ladies In LendingFrom Brownies to Brokerage: Melissa's Journey in Mortgage LendingIn this episode of the Ladies in Lending podcast, your host Krista Russo interviews Melissa Cohn, the Regional Vice President of the Southern Division for William Raveis Mortgage. With nearly 43 years of experience in the mortgage industry, Melissa shares her journey from starting as an entrepreneur at a young age to becoming a leading figure in mortgage brokerage. She discusses her impressive accolades, including being featured in the Scotsman Guide and Crain's New York Business, and offers valuable insights on navigating the current market, building lasting relationships with clients, and the importance of timely communication.
2025-03-2628 min
That's So MentalPermission To Face Your Undiagnosed ADHDCristina and Ilana introduce themselves, share their official diagnosis, and current medical treatment. They’ll also talk about being actors, ADHD, daddy issues and explore how the hell Cristina is on 600 Mgs of Wellbutrin. Ilana will do a terrible Jennifer Coolidge impression (she’s working on it). They’ll play, “This is how old I am” where Cristina talks about drinking Carlo Rossi on a Spirit Airline flight and Ilana admits that she may have been the first and last person to ever fly with a Kombucha mushroom in a Nalgene bottle, thank you Virgin Airlines. You may n...
2024-11-2754 min
Going North PodcastEp. 929 – Glory Through Pain with Christy Callahan (@ChristyCromwel1)“Failure is the number one way that I've become more successful.” – Christy Callahan Today's featured bestselling author is wife, coach, and motivational speaker, Christy Callahan. Christy and I had a fun on a bun chat about her book, “Glory Through Pain: An Athlete's True Story of Finding Light in the Darkness”, her transition from coaching volleyball to starting her speaking business, why it’s important for authors to market their books, and more!Key Things You’ll Learn:Some of the challenges she faced during the writing process and what helped Christy to overcome them after 14 yearsHow faith plays a role i...
2024-07-2436 min
New Things Under the SunTwitter and the Spread of Academic KnowledgeA classic topic in the study of innovation is the link between physical proximity and the exchange of ideas. But I’ve long been interested in a relatively new kind of serendipity engine, which isn’t constrained by physical proximity: Twitter. Lots of academics use twitter to talk about new discoveries and research. Today I want to look at whether twitter serves as a novel kind of knowledge diffusion platform.This podcast is an audio read through of the (initial version of the) article Twitter and the Spread of Academic Knowledge, originally published on New Things Under the...
2024-06-2022 min
Books and BitesMusic and Musicians: Books and Bites Podcast, Ep. 81This month, we discuss books about music or musicians, one of the prompts on the Books and Bites Bingo Reading Challenge. From mixtapes to AI, music memoirs to YA novels, we share our thoughts on both music and books. Michael's PickMichael recommends The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl. This memoir describes the passion that Grohl has had for music since he was a kid and goes into his punk-rock roots. He tells stories that are hilarious and heartfelt, from his days in Scream to the rise and fall of Nirvana...
2023-09-0627 min
WHAT I'VE LEARNTWhat I've Learnt - Dr. Rick Hodes “Whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.”Dr. Rick Hodes is JDC’s medical director in Ethiopia.JDC is the leading Jewish humanitarian organization, working in 70 countries to lift lives and strengthen communities. Initially arriving in 1984 to help famine victims, he returned in 1985 to teach at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine, and has worked for JDC since 1990.Dr. Hodes is a graduate of Middlebury College, the University of Rochester Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins...
2022-12-0541 min
Power Women with Victoria SchnepsMelissa Cohn, Regional Vice President at William Raveis Mortgage
Melissa Cohn, Regional Vice President at William Raveis Mortgage, speaks of the people who impacted her early life, her role there, and her secrets to success.
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Produced by Jacquelyn DeStasio and Eric Hercules
2022-10-2712 min
From Start-Up to Grown-Up#28: Melissa Daimler, UdemyMelissa Daimler helps leaders design, operationalize, and scale their culture. She currently serves as the Chief Learning Officer for Udemy, where she develops learning strategies for both customers and employees. Melissa brings over two decades of experience across Learning and Development, Talent Management, and Organizational Development. Prior to Udemy, Melissa created and built Learning, Organizational, and Talent Development functions for Adobe, Twitter, and WeWork. Melissa is a speaker, panelist, and contributor to broad industry publishers including Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, Chief Learning Officer, and Chief Talent Development Officer magazines. She has served as a board...
2022-10-191h 02
My Entertainment WorldCorona Cold Reads: Angels in America: PerestroikaThese are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.
We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our yearly Critics’ Pick Awards had to be cancelled (we’ve still got trophies to give out, eventually). We started the Corona Movie Club to help curb our boredom and constant need to talk about movies with other hum...
2022-06-273h 41My Entertainment WorldCorona Cold Reads: Angels in America: Millennium ApproachesThese are crazy times and we’ve all taken on a bunch of new projects as we socially isolate in order to help stop the spread of Covid-19.
We’re donating where we can, we’re cleaning the pantry, we’re organizing the 2300+ title dvd library. We finished work on the Nominee Interview Series even though the live event for our yearly Critics’ Pick Awards had to be cancelled (we’ve still got trophies to give out, eventually). We started the Corona Movie Club to help curb our boredom and constant need to talk about movies with other hum...
2022-06-203h 19
100% Hits Vol. Pod100% Hits Vol 1 Side B with Gen Fricker and Alexei ToliopoulosGen Fricker and Alexei Toliopoulos join me to discuss Side B of the very first 100% hits compilation.Tracklisting Gypsy Woman - Crystal WatersRead My Lips - Melissa TkautzIt Ain't Over 'Til It's Over - Lenny KravitzSlave - James ReyneLove Junk - DieselWalking in Memphis - Marc CohnMore Than Words - ExtremeTough Me All Night Long - Cathy DennisThe Grease Megamix - John Travolta and Olivia Newton JohnSpotify...
2022-05-1851 min
Bowie Book Club PodcastAwopbopaloobopalopbamboom by Nik CohnWelcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn.
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2022-03-2132 minTruer WordsElection DecompressionMentioned in this Episode: VCFA Alumnx Mini Residency When it Happens playlist by Melissa Resistance Revival Chorus Fuck Donald Trump by YG & Nipsey Hussle Fifth Avenue video of marching singing “Na Na Hey Hey Good-bye” “Watch: New York City Erupts in Celebration After Race is Called for Biden” - New York Magazine Adam Sternbergh on Twitter comparing it to V-E Day: “Hard to quantify the mood in the streets of NYC today. Non-stop honking and cheering, people just roaming and greeting each other in joyous...
2020-11-1531 min
The 7-Day Work Week PodcastEpisode 10: The Politics of SAHMsIn this episode of the podcast, Em and Liz talk about where stay-at-home mothers fit (or don’t) into a feminist paradigm.
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Cohn, D’Vera et al. “Chapter 2: Stay-at-Home Mothers by Demographic Group.” Pew Research Center, 8 Apr. 2014, https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/04/08/chapter-2-stay-at-home-mothers-by-demographic-group/. Accessed 5 Oct. 2020.
Collins, Lois M. “Rich and Poor Married Moms are More Likely to Stay At Home With the Kids, But for Entirely Different Reasons.” Deseret News, 24 Jan. 2019, https://www.deseret.com/2019/1/24/20664077/rich-and-poor-married-moms-are-more-likely-to-stay-at-home-with-the-kids-but-for-entirely-different. Accessed 5 Oct. 2020.
Cooper, Marianne. “Mothers’ Careers...
2020-10-2327 minTruer WordsRobin BenwayRobin is the National Book Award-winning author of FAR FROM THE TREE, as well as: EMMY & OLIVER, ALSO KNOWN AS, GOING ROGUE, THE EXTRAORDINARY SECRETS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE and AUDREY, WAIT! Find Robin on Twitter: @robinbenway and Instagram: @robinbenway. Her website is robinbenway.com Show Notes: Books, authors, movies, TV, specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include: The Confusion of Laurel Graham by Adrienne Kisner Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner Rachel Cohn Looking for Alaska by John Green Twilight...
2019-06-031h 26
Melissa Cohn's PodcastMelissa TurqmanAnother fabulous successful woman from our Ladies who Launch Series, bringing her expertise around marketing to the real estate industry! What a pleasure to sit down with Melissa Turqman, Senior Vice President of Digital for Modern Luxury, the preeminent luxury lifestyle publisher, with eighty-three titles across twenty-three major markets, including Hamptons Magazine. The topic? New opportunities for direct digital marketing to active leads in real estate and, of course, the debate around whether or not print is dead for real estate agents. Here’s a preview. It’s not dead at all but it has to change in a number of w...
2019-03-2232 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastOnline Travel Agent BookingMeet Louise Lloyd OTA (online travel agency) & AirBNB guru. Are you running the marketing for a hotel and trying to figure out the ins and outs of how to make the most of things like Travelocity and AirBNB? Louise has doubled the business of the Sandcastle Resort in Provincetown on Cape Cod, and she talks all about it in this week’s Ladies Who Launch Podcast sponsored by Melissa Cohn, from Family First Funding.
2019-03-1115 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastMeet & Connect with AHOHO.org: A Home of Her OwnChristine Merser of Blue Shoe Strategies talks with Melissa Cohn about A Home of Her Own, a new not-for-profit, where we seek to have more than 1,000 people in the real estate industry - across this vast country of ours - join together with a goal of providing housing for those on their way out of situations that, but-for-the-grace-of-God, could be our own.
2019-03-0309 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastStaging a Listing with Sarah Minardi & Geoffrey WalskyThe Iconic Modern Home approach to staging is to bring in furnishing of equal value to the listing itself, and then can sold as part of the listing itself. Who wants to spend six months furnishing a $7 million plus home when you can walk in, add you personal touches and live your life? Sarah Minardi, from Saunders Real Estate, in The Hamptons interviews Geoff about staging tips and his philosophy around furnishing a home. Brought to you by Melissa Cohn from the private banking division of Family First Funding, providing excellence in the mortgage market in Connecticut, New York and...
2018-04-2610 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastMelissa Cohn Interviews Harold Kobner, Broker ExtraordinaireMelissa Cohn interviews Harold Kobner, broker extraordinaire from Argo Real Estate. Harold hails from Seventh Avenue fashion and his answers to Melissa's pointed questions about the biz are filled with the honest vulnerability that makes Mr. Kobner one of the most successful brokers in New York City.
2016-10-0413 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastMelissa Cohn Interviews Debra Halpert, Publisher from Greengale MediaMelissa Cohn interviews Debra Halpert, Publisher from Greengale Media, who publishes Hamptons Magazine and who has made a success of lifestyle magazines filled with editorial and advertising that mirrors the content inside the magazine. She talks about real estate ads today and the movement to advertising the broker rather than the property.
2016-08-2610 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastSelling Real Estate to the MillennialsThe Millennials are buying real estate. Took them long enough! Melissa Cohn interviews Christine Merser, from Blue Shoe Strategy, about how to market to those joining the real estate market for their first home purchases.
2016-05-2012 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastElizabeth Ann Stribling-KivlanMelissa interviews Elizabeth Ann Stribling-Kivlan on all things around life in New York City, real estate, what she is reading, what reality TV she is watching and more. Elizabeth Ann is thought-provoking, brilliant, clever and managing the largest boutique real estate firm in New York City. She's a lady who launches, friend of Melissa's, and an efluential in the world of real estate. Don't miss it.
2016-03-1621 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastNeil GarfinkelMelissa interviews Neil Garfinkel, renowned Mortgage Legal Counsel, from Abrams Garfinkel in New York City, who talks about mortgages, what to expect in 2016, TRID, and of course, The Big Short.
2016-01-2421 min
Melissa Cohn's PodcastFed Hike Repercussions for the Real Estate MarketMelissa Cohn's take on the Fed interest rate hike and what it will mean to the real estate market.
2015-12-1601 min
Her Screen Thoughts - Movie & TV ReviewsEp. 67 - A Royal Night Out Movie ReviewIn the last of our podcasts from the Hamptons International Film Festival, Hollister and O'Toole - along with guests Bill Harts and Melissa Cohn - take a look at the delightful A Royal Night Out, a reimagining of a real-life event: V.E. Day, 1945. Winston Churchill has just declared the war in Europe over. In this "reverse Cinderella" story, a young Princess Elizabeth (wearing her wartime uniform) and Princess Margaret sneak out of Buckingham Palace to join all of London in a night of celebrating and revelry (incognito, of course).
Starring Sarah Gadon and Bel Powley. Co-starring Rupert Everett and...
2015-11-2824 min
hurryupandwait11: An Actor’s ProcessIt’s back to the craft this week on hurryupandwait: the podcast for actors who are in it for the long haul. Ethan and KC talk process, from breaking down audition sides and prepping for rehearsals, to staying inspired in tech and performances.
As promised, here are some of the fantastic resources discussed on the episode!
Audition by Michael Shurtleff, and a breakdown of his 12 Guideposts
A Practical Handbook for the Actor by Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, and Scott Zigler
Actions: The Actors’ Thesaurus by Mar...
2014-01-1700 min