Playing the Long Game: Lessons from a HUD Specialist and a Soft Serve Stand
I sat down with Gemma Geldmacher, Managing Director of Mortgage Banking at Berkadia, to talk about her successful career and her blog — Playing the Long Game: Hard Lessons Through Soft Serve. It's the story of watching her parents immigrate from Australia in 1984 with three kids, buy a local community ice cream shop, and the lessons that came with it. The business lessons inside that shop can help all of us in business and life.
Here are a handful of the lessons Gemma and I talked about:
* Efficiency is an act of love.
* The universe may have plans you didn't expect.
* Consistency isn't a tactic. It's a legacy.
* The partner you choose changes everything.
* Showing up isn't optional.
* The rigid path is a trap.
* Someone saw it before you did.
* Legacy is built in the ordinary moments.
* Reflection is a competitive advantage.
* AI won't replace you. Accepting the output will.
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Gemma is a managing director at Berkadia where she has been a loan originator for 10 years. Prior to that she had over eight years experience underwriting and screening commercial real estate loans.
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Connect with Gemma Geldmacher:
Website: www.berkadia.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gemmageldmacher
Article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/playing-long-game-hard-lessons-through-soft-serve-gemma-geldmacher-q05he/?
Bio: https://www.berkadia.com/people-and-locations/people/gemma-geldmacher
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