Brian Montes
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Brian Montes
@brianm2
Compliance advisory for fintechs, banks & CUs | CEO at RADD_LLC · Founder NorthboundAdv | Building systems that scale.
Los Angeles, CA Katılım Mart 2009
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When I interview future employees, I look at their future potential more than their past accomplishments.
Past success doesn’t always equal future success.
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One of the most important questions I can ask as a leader:
How can I help you?
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When I worked in California, our CEO used to set the office thermostat to 78° to save money.
Honestly thought I was going to die of heat stroke.
csb@itsCSB__
bro sets the thermostat to WHAT in the summer??????????
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@jarydesign Had this same conversation the other day.
Not all business is good business.
Some client have to be fired.
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Everyone obsesses over the revenue lost from the customers you don’t sign.
Almost no one thinks about the cost of the customers you shouldn’t sign:
the 1-star reviews
the support burden
the reputation damage
the team morale hit
Not every dollar is good revenue
Operate from abundance, not desperation
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I have colleagues and friends in Sri Lanka. The haz mat situation in Garden Grove, CA has officially become international news.
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Expanding the Rusty Bucket Ranch hobby farm this weekend.
We bought bee boxes.
I have a lot to learn about beekeeping but hey, I didn’t know anything about raising cattle, chickens, hogs, but that’s all worked out.
Oh, and this is Totes the goat. He’s a rescue.
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@Seanfrank Nothing wrong with a $400k W-2 job. Live below your means and invest the difference.
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The lie that all jobs are a jail sentence is ruining an entire generation.
A 400k a year job, for a non executive, is impossible to get.
More than the average doctor makes.
More than 99% of small business owners.
You gotta hold on to that job for dear life.
1% salary.
ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ@hamptonism
This might be a hot take but I know someone at meta who makes $400k a year and is quite literally capped at that number for life - likely will never get a promotion strong enough to change that. 9-5 until they’re what, 50? This is not living. No matter the salary.
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“Can we jump on a call before our 2pm call?”
That was the message a bank COO sent me yesterday. I immediately knew what she wanted to discuss.
“Brian, I received your proposal. Your fee is double that of the other proposals. I really want to award you this engagement, but not at double the cost. If you can rework the proposal, we can work together.”
Without a strong relationship with the COO, my proposal would have gone in the round file. No phone call. No second chance. Just silence.
We reviewed our scope vs the other scopes and discovered they were not “apples to apples”. It justified our fee structure and gave me the opportunity to discuss changing the scope to align with the banks budget and their updated project requirements.
I expect we will be awarded this engagement on Tuesday.
Let’s see….
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home depot has fallen off... bunch of disinterested people walking around with scanners and no expertise
that place used to rule. you'd have a project and a 67 year old ex-foreman named Big Jim would walk you through your entire project. no more...
my local Ace Hardware is where it's at now. that's where Big Jim and Joe and Old Ed, the guy who owned a plumbing business for 30 years, work now... happy to help and talk your ear off about washers and lug nuts for twenty minutes... you know, the good stuff.
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Attending in-person events is still one of the most effective ways I am able to build my pipeline of new business.
Heading home from the Fintech Risk & Compliance event with three new referral partners and ten new relationships that could turn into client engagements.
Easy to generate ROI from the smaller, focused events.
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I would like to watch just one Netflix show without having LGBTQ in it.
Why can't they promote a healthy family dynamic?
Without families, without women having babies, the world ceases to exist.
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"Your room is on the 2nd floor. No elevator, just 14 stairs."
That's all she said at hotel check-in.
What happens without this information?
I'm hunting for an elevator that doesn't exist, then annoyed when I find the stairs.
One sentence. Problem resolved before it started.
Most problems aren't caused by the problem itself.
They're caused by someone not knowing how to manage your expectations and saying nothing.
Manage expectations early. Every time.
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I spend a lot of time inside businesses.
You would be shocked how many companies are being held together by spreadsheets, disconnected software, tribal knowledge, and people figuring it out.
One team uses one process.
Another team uses something different.
Nobody knows where the latest document is.
Reporting is inconsistent.
Onboarding depends on who trained you.
Leadership doesn’t fully trust the data.
Then the business grows and everyone wonders why things start breaking.
Growth exposes operational weakness.
The companies that scale well are usually not the flashiest companies.
They’re the ones with clear process, consistent communication, accountability, and systems that make execution repeatable.
Simple scales.
Chaos doesn’t.
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@USA_Stinger @9273Pat Can I see how the links look like so we can avoid it
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🚨 STOP clicking on links
Someone else has lost their account
To this Spammer Hacker.
Block this account
@9273Pat
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@BuzzPatterson Bishop, CA is a great stop. If you’re still there, try Schat’s Bakery as well.
763 Main Street.
Great sourdough bread.
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My wife, Nichole, and I are on a roadtrip. We’ll have to take some video! Today, we drove up CA 395 from the south. I love these Sierra towns! We stopped in Bishop, California and I popped into a BBQ shanty. I could smell the smoke a couple miles away.
Among the best pulled pork I’ve ever had. And I’m from North Carolina.
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@jasonmpearl @irentdumpsters Enjoy the time with your oldest while she is home.
The days are long but the years are short are so true the older we get.
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Ended the day with a kettlebell work out!
Now…late bday celebration with the fam now that my oldest is home from college.
Friday steaks! Just like my man @irentdumpsters
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@jasonmpearl Accountability = dependability.
If my team cannot depend on me, I’m useless to them.
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The best cultures are not built on comfort.
They’re built on accountability.
From the CEO to the newest employee, everyone owns their role, their results, and their responsibilities.
No passing the buck.
No hiding behind excuses.
No blaming everyone else when things go wrong.
Do your job.
Do it well.
That’s why you get paid.
Employment is an agreement:
You were hired to execute on your job duties.
I believe deeply in people.
I lead with a people-first mentality.
I want to see teams grow, succeed, and win together.
The only way to build a true people-first organization long term is through accountability.
Accountability creates clarity.
Clarity creates trust.
Trust creates strong teams.
If you’re the leader, it starts with you.
When something breaks, misses, or falls short, own it first.
Inspect what you expect.
Set the standard.
Reinforce the standard.
Protect the standard.
Build a culture that scales through ownership, not excuses. Your team won't scale without it.
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