Welcome to Loan Stars, the podcast for aspiring referral partners who want to shine in the world of business lending. Hosted by ARF Financial, each episode unpacks the tools, trends, and tactics you need to succeed in today’s lending landscape. Whether you’re new to referrals or looking to sharpen your edge, Loan Stars offers practical insights, real-world case studies, and interviews with top-performing partners. Tune in and discover how to turn referrals into revenue—and become a true star in the loan game.
ARF Financial’s Loan Stars Podcast
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Welcome to Loan Stars, the podcast for aspiring referral partners who want to shine in the world of business lending. Hosted by ARF Financial, each episode unpacks the tools, trends, and tactics you need to succeed in today’s lending landscape. Whether you’re new to referrals or looking to sharpen your edge, Loan Stars offers practical insights, real-world case studies, and interviews with top-performing partners. Tune in and discover how to turn referrals into revenue—and become a true star in the loan game.
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Recent Episodes
July 13, 2026
Loan Stars Episode 12: Navigating AI in Brokerage: Insights from Cheryl Tibbs
On the Loan Stars podcast, host Celeste Deal-Maunoir (Chief Sales Officer at ARF Financial) interviews Cheryl Tibbs, founder of One Stop Commercial Capital and an AI/automation strategist, about practical ways brokers can use AI to improve speed, workflow, and client experience while keeping human judgment in the loop. Tibbs argues deals often go to the fastest broker and describes AI as a “junior loan officer” that can handle intake, qualification, and follow-up 24/7, including instant text/email responses and document flagging. She outlines using agentic systems with guardrails for security and brand voice, leveraging tools like ChatGPT and Claude, and scoring leads against ARF guidelines to route “hot” deals into a GoHighLevel pipeline. She emphasizes automating first touch while reserving packaging/structuring decisions for humans, and advises brokers to fix one major workflow leak—usually follow-up—before adopting many tools.
June 22, 2026
Loan Stars Episode 11: AI, Regulation, and Opportunities in Business Financing with Shane Mahabir
Host Celeste Deal-Maunoir welcomes Shane Mahabir, founder and president of Funder Intel, to discuss the current business financing landscape. Mahabir recounts entering alternative lending in 2014, launching Funder Intel during the 2020 pandemic, and evolving it from company ratings into a community platform offering data, news, resources, and networking events. They describe an industry that is rapidly improving through technology, giving business owners more options and faster funding, while banks remain tight and may partner with or adopt underwriting software. Mahabir notes ongoing lender growth alongside potential consolidation, plus inflation, energy costs, and tariffs shaping cautious cash-flow management. They cover AI-driven underwriting speed, embedded finance awareness, fraud and security risks, and state-by-state commercial finance disclosure laws increasing compliance costs. Mahabir predicts AI agents will increasingly apply for financing within 12–24 months.
June 3, 2026
Loan Stars Episode 10: Building a Robust Business Pipeline with Select Capital's Steve Champlin
Host Celeste Deal-Manouir (Chief Sales Officer at ARF Financial) interviews Steve Champlin of Select Capital about building a robust referral-partner pipeline in private commercial credit. Champlin, a former manufacturing owner-operator for 27 years who sold his last company in 2022, founded Select Capital in 2023 after seeing a Midwest gap for private commercial credit. He says bank, CPA, and attorney referrals—especially banks—outperform expensive online marketing because bankers provide credibility and a “captive audience.” He defines his pipeline as tracking referral relationships and multiple potential transactions per client, advising consultants to offer a broad lender “Rolodex” (unsecured revolving lines, small-balance CRE, ABL, bridge, SBA, equipment finance, factoring, specialty finance) and to avoid bad lenders charging upfront due diligence fees. He recommends clarifying positioning, leveraging LinkedIn, meeting bankers regularly (coffee/lunch), using newsletters to stay top of mind, asking for internal bank introductions, and being patient with long trust cycles; he notes banks are conservative, understaffed, and increasingly concerned about unpaid-down principals.
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