Mike Hardy is an Ironman, student pilot, real estate investor, speaker, and a nationally ranked top 1% mortgage originator for the past 10 years. He is currently on track to surpass one billion dollars in funded career loan originations this year. Recently, he merged his group and partnered with Ethos Lending to help build culture and drive business development. He has brought leadership to a top-performing mortgage group that has assisted over 10,000 families over the past 20 years with refinance or purchase mortgages through a unique strategy for holistic and comprehensive mortgage management.​ / As an active real estate investor and Opportunity Zone expert, Mike has been involved in over 100 real estate projects. He has spoken at national mortgage and real estate conferences, including Keller Williams Family Reunion and Todd Duncan’s High Trust Academy. He has also been interviewed or quoted by CBS News, Fox News, Fortune, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Money, and USA Today. / On a personal level, Mike has been married for 27 years and is a father of four. He has found a winning formula that allows for work-life balance, mental health resilience, a bulletproof mindset, and systematic growth in all areas of life without compromise. He enjoys mountain climbing, working out, spending time at Big Bear Lake, and, most of all, investing time with his kids.