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Our disabled veterans need your help · The Financial Exchange Show

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  Speaker 1: Join us now is Bob Barlow.
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  Speaker 2: He's the president and owner of NBA Mortgage out of Braintree, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: He's an Air Force veteran and DAV member, and joins
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  Speaker 2: us now on the line to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about his company's partnership with the DAV.
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  Speaker 1: Bob, thanks for joining. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I am glad to be on.
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  Speaker 2: So starting off here, I want to get to NBA
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  Speaker 2: Mortgage and it's partnership with the DAV. But would you
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  Speaker 2: mind telling us a little bit about your own military
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  Speaker 2: service and your time with the Air Force.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. I come from a family where my grandfather
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  Speaker 3: was in the military, My dad was in the military,
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  Speaker 3: My Michaele was the whole nine yards. So when it
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  Speaker 3: came to be my time, I felt compelled serve. I
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  Speaker 3: grew up that way sure always you know, UH community service, country,
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  Speaker 3: that kind of that kind of an upbringing. So yep,
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  Speaker 3: might turn I'm in. So if I go in and
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  Speaker 3: you know, I spent a few years they side, you know,
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  Speaker 3: traveling uh and getting to see a lot of the country.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the best parts of the country, you know,
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  Speaker 3: UH Mississippi and UH Oklahoma and UH Western Washington. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: all the places you want to go. But if I
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  Speaker 3: was still to still a really great experience, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: ten years in and and you really realize that the
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  Speaker 3: people that you're working with is is what it really
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  Speaker 3: becomes all about, you know, more of the mission more
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  Speaker 3: than anything else, about the guys and girls that are
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  Speaker 3: that are with you when you deploy, that are you know,
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  Speaker 3: in the tent and the you know, the proverbial foxhole
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  Speaker 3: next to you. So of course you leave, that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stays with you and in the brotherhood and sister
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  Speaker 3: that we will always share.
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  Speaker 2: So Bob, tell me a little bit about NBA Mortgage
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  Speaker 2: and how you got involved with the av of Massa Chusetts.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. So NBA Mortgages, Well, we're a mortgage company and
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  Speaker 3: it's something that myself and previous partner was started in
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  Speaker 3: two thousand and five because it was always the smartest
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  Speaker 3: thing to you to get into mortgages, right for two
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  Speaker 3: thousand and seven, So we decided that that was a
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  Speaker 3: great time. And I guess because we just started in seven,
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  Speaker 3: we had the you know, uh, the hood spot to
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  Speaker 3: get through two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 3: But anyways, right around when we started in two thousand
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  Speaker 3: and five. My current partner Matt Scott and I we're
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  Speaker 3: doing a presentation. I forget which town, you know, hotel
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  Speaker 3: lobby room, but we were doing one, and Matt meets
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  Speaker 3: Damn Stack, which I think we all know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I said, sitting sitting right in our lobby.
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  Speaker 3: All right, yeah, our former edjectant, but basically our you know,
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  Speaker 3: our d av Our dav guy. So Matt meets Dan.
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  Speaker 3: Dan's doing, uh, a seminar for veterans in the same place.
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  Speaker 3: So he asked Matt he wants to come by and
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  Speaker 3: talk about the A loans and so does that and
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  Speaker 3: that's it. And Matt was like, I want you to
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  Speaker 3: meet the owner, a veteran, and we met and we
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  Speaker 3: started talking about how we used to work together, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, Dan and I get the talking and uh,
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  Speaker 3: he's looking for us to help him out with some
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  Speaker 3: sponsorships with the golf tournament. So we're like, okay, we'll
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  Speaker 3: do the best ken kind of a you know, ten
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  Speaker 3: man shop. And I don't know how much of a
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  Speaker 3: corporate sponsor shipper you could do, but this is what
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you I can do. Dan. We are
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  Speaker 3: a very good group of people of networking and getting
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  Speaker 3: the word out. So how about I do that? And
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  Speaker 3: I am very very good at that, and so was
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  Speaker 3: Matt and our team. You know, we're out there meeting
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  Speaker 3: business partners, we're out there talkable clients, so it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of an easy thing for us to do.
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  Speaker 2: Well any Well, Bob, your story really echoes and mirrors
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  Speaker 2: the stories of so many I've heard from. And it's
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  Speaker 2: all a little bit different, obviously, from a lot of
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  Speaker 2: different industries, but the story I consistently hear that everybody
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  Speaker 2: that partnerships with the dav is just very impressed by
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  Speaker 2: the work that they do and the impact that they
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  Speaker 2: have here in Massachusetts. Bob, I really appreciate you coming
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  Speaker 2: on the show today, talking a bit about your partnership,
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  Speaker 2: sharing a bit about your own service, and and looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to this weekend in Castle Island in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: So, Bob Barlow, thank you so much.