Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers

Main Street Banking: A Podcast for Community Bankers

The Paul W. Barret, Jr. School of Banking is a non-profit independent school created by and governed by a Board of Regents, whose members are executives from banks and other firms involved with the financial services industry.The mission of the School is to provide an adult learning experience for the career-oriented individual in commercial banking or a related financial services industry business.

Episodes

Want to take another shot at Bank Sim?

September 4, 2025 • 34 mins
Ever wanted to take another shot at bank sim? Have you ever heard about bank sim and wondered what it was? Regardless of whether you have no clue what we're talking about, were victorious in a graduate school of banking sim in the past, or (like me) tasted the sour taste of bitter defeat...you've never done sim like this. And that's the point. Now, you can take another shot at it, actually learn banking, talk a little trash...a...
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Small Business Lending: Untapped Potential. Joe Ehrhardt with Teslar

August 13, 2025 • 28 mins
Teslar Software has been a really cool company to watch. We were first introduced to them way back during one of the first ICBA ThinkTECH's and it's been a joy to see them grow and get to know them. Also, I've always believed that the merging of small business and consumer business banking is a path to profitable banking in most communities. These become sticky customers and brand evangelists. Joe and the gang at Teslar agree...
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Stable Coins: Justin Muscolino With High Risk Education

August 6, 2025 • 21 mins
Stable coins have gotten a lot of news lately...but what are they? Are they here to stay? Is this something community banks are going to have to deal with...whether we like it or not? I don't know, but it is always best to arm ourselves with information because, as my good friend Justin says, "we fear the unknown until we know the fear". I think it's a powerful statement as it pertains to all types of shifts in the industry. ...
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Main Street Banking Economic Update (August 1, 2025)

August 1, 2025 • 14 mins
With all the news this week, time to bring on Jim Reber, CEO of ICBA Securities. Be sure you sign up for Stifel's Quarterly Strategy Webinar for Banks at https://stifel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Rk2fDcs1Q2iNsWFfT7iF6A#/registration
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Treasury Services: What It Is...and Isn't

July 23, 2025 • 27 mins
I have to be honest here...one of the things that I didn't fully understand in my time in production was treasury services. I understood what they were...but it was never really part of the strategic process. The more I'm around banking, I see the same thing with other banks and I don't think it's because it's a bad idea but rather it's because we don't understand it very well. Laura Wetherell with Treascent LLC has a history of...
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A New Idea From First International Bank and Trust

July 9, 2025 • 23 mins
Peter Stenehjem is the Pres/CEO of First International Bank and Trust in North Dakota. He's a returning guest, friend of Barret, and a fascinating banker to talk to. FIBT has been family owned for over 110 years now by Peter's family and has branched out into doing some really cool stuff in the world of fintech and payments. They've owned Kotapay (https://www.kotapay.com/) for years now and are a Top 40 Payment Processor and, th...
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Generational Crossroads: Career Paths in Banking and Being Curious

June 18, 2025 • 36 mins
C.J. Tate and I connected a while back and just had some really interesting conversations around career advancement in community banking and the role of education. He made some great points about how it's a two-way street and the role of culture AND the role of the greener banker's attitude towards learning more. He's dead on right.... His story is really cool and I don't want to spoil it so, take a listen! Many thanks to ICBA...
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Scale Link: CDFI's and Small Business Microloans

May 28, 2025 • 23 mins
Scale Link is a really cool CDFI that offers a secondary market for small business microloans and trading platform. Their CEO, Jonathan Brereton, stopped by the show to have a chat...and y'all know what a fan we are of CDFI's on Main St. Banking. Love meeting other true believers out there!!! Be sure to check out Scale Link at https://scalelink.org/ And many thanks to ICBA Securities for their sponsorship!
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The CEO/CFO Relationship Part 2

April 30, 2025 • 22 mins
Wrapping up our discussion with Eric and Brett this week. If you missed last week's, be sure you go back and check that out. Otherwise, you just landed right in the middle of a conversation and it probably doesn't make much sense! Thanks to ICBA Securities for their continued sponsorship.
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The CEO/CFO Relationship Part 1

April 23, 2025 • 22 mins
One of the most important (and yet least discussed) relationships in the bank is the CEO/CFO relationship. When it works...it REALLY works but when it doesn't....it REALLY doesn't. It represents banking, in so many ways, in that these two positions have vastly different perspectives yet must work together. However, I think you'll find in this episode (and next week's Part 2) that there are more similarities than you may have rea...
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Main St Banking Economic Update April 4 2025

April 3, 2025 • 9 mins
With all the news and shake-ups we've seen over the last few days...I wanted to bring on Jim Reber to help banks understand what's going on.
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Growing As A Leader: Eric Alexander

March 23, 2025 • 38 mins
Growing as a leader in a bank can be hard. Where do you even start? What does that even look like in practical terms? Eric Alexander with Six Arrows Consulting is a frequent guest of the show because these are questions we like to discuss! Be sure to check him out at https://sixarrowsconsulting.com/ as well as on LinkedIn And many thanks to ICBA Securities for their sponsorship. Check them out at https://www.icba.org/icba-...
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Main Street Banking Economic Update: March 21, 2025

March 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Many thanks to Jim Reber, CEO of ICBA Securities, for continuing to sponsor the show as well as come on each quarter to shed light on economic news. I know it's a big help to all of us here and to many of you as well. Be sure to register for the webinar he mentions at the end on Enterprise Risk Management. Jeff Rigsby is a great speaker and it'll be worth your time. You can register at https://stifel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN...
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Reframing the Value of AI: Tim Dively from CliftonLarsonAllen

February 26, 2025 • 36 mins
I was glad to bring back Tim Dively to discuss data and AI. Tim does a great job of cutting through buzzwords and help banks understand these very weighty topics. In this episode, we discussed more organizational change management than you'd expect on an AI podcast episode but I think you'll see the importance of understanding where to start with AI but also how to implement the change. Great conversation!
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CRA Solutions: Navigating CRA's Murky Waters

February 8, 2025 • 29 mins
The CRA has always been of interest to me. There's a lot of good that's come from it but recent changes have made the implementation of the law rather murky. Today, we sat down with David Lenoir, Pres/CEO of ICBA CRA Solutions and Steffani Jenkins, CRA Liaison, to discuss the foreseeable future of the law and also how important the law is to community banking in general. To learn more about them, check out: https://www.icba.org/...
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Leveraging Flexible Work Space with Alaa Pasha from Maptician

February 2, 2025 • 29 mins
We've done quite a bit of content over the last few years about ideas to use the space we have in out banks. I think it's a fascinating discussion because the ideas are wide ranging and have a HUGE amount of opportunity. I met Alaa and got to know Maptician's work and I like the way he approaches this topic...managing leases. I thought it spoke to bankers and the way he frames the discussion around flex time/hybrid/wfh is intere...
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Main Street Banking Economic Update January 31, 2025

January 30, 2025 • 11 mins
It's been a long week this week with a ton of economic news....and you know us, when there's a news cycle like this, we bring on Jim Reber from ICBA Securities to give us a good comprehensive overview of what's going on. In the episode, he mentioned the webinar next week on Bank Strategy from Stifel. Register for that at https://stifel.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AxI4Bj-BRR62NjbUfxrneQ#/registration And to learn more about ICBA ...
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Answering an age-old question in bank management. Randy Goggans from BankerBounty

January 19, 2025 • 30 mins
There's an age-old question in bank management that I've heard all the nearly 25 years I've been in the business. How do we get more business referrals from our employees? And the next question is going to be something like..."why didn't this incentive plan work?!" If that situation sounds familiar (and I'm betting it does because, ya know...it's banking) then you might want to check out the episode today because a possible solu...
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Main Street Economic News Q4 2024 with Jim Reber

December 19, 2024 • 9 mins
December 18, 2024 the Fed made an announcement that many people did not see coming. So, whenever the Fed does something, we bring on Jim Reber to digest it for us and explain it to the community banking industry. Be sure to check out ICBA Securities at www.icba.org/icba-securities
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A Look Back and Ahead with Jimmy Sawyers Pt 2

December 15, 2024 • 30 mins
It's always fun to sit down with Jimmy Sawyers and look back at his predictions for the most recent year. We've done this since the very beginning of the podcast and it's been great every time. Today's episode is predictions 6-10 that he made for 2024...and let's see how he did! Check out Sawyers and Jacobs at sawyersjacobs.com/ And also many thanks to our sponsor, ICBA Securities: www.icba.org/icba-securities
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