Ep. 210 Samantha Irwin – The Warm Cookie Effect!

🎙️ Conversations with Buddy — Samantha Irwin! ✨

Thank you, Dana Lyons, for connecting us for this podcast! 🙏🙏🙏

Samantha has many gifts and talents! 🙌 She has been a middle school teacher, a hotel owner, and now a coach, an author, speaker and business owner. 📚🏨🎤

But wait until you hear the full story of her and her husband buying the historic Balch Hotel in Dufur, Oregon. 🏨❤️ It is an incredible God story involving prayer, a “Hail Mary” moment, a little curiosity, and a whole lot of “Can Do” attitude! 🙏✨ 

We talk about leading people, coaching, customer experience, imposter syndrome, the Four Tendencies, the “warm cookie effect,” Kaizen, and taking the next step. 🚀 She shares why supporting people with prayer matters—and why sometimes you just have to go full throttle, rain or shine! 💪🌧️☀️

And yes… we even talk about her steamed pistachio drink, coffee-shop vibes, the Ironman mindset, Lawrence Welk, and the Oregon State Beavers! ☕️🥤🏃‍♀️🧡🖤 This conversation is full of wisdom, laughter, faith, and plenty of lightbulb moments! 💡

🎧 Listen to this episode of Conversations with Buddy!
 👉 Take the next step.
 🙏 Start to pray.
 💡 Stay curious.
 🚀 And keep moving forward!

To learn more about Samantha and her coaching, go to: https://kaizen.zone

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The Gospel is “good news”… The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15: 3-4, “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.”

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About Buddy Puckett:
Buddy Puckett has been in the mortgage and finance space and mentoring men for over 25 years.  A mentoring opportunity all started when he first began in the mortgage industry in 1998, when he began to mentor a younger guy who happened to be married.  This person was not making great choices and it was sadly affecting his marriage.  We all are 1 decision away from something really dumb, so accountability became something Buddy knew he needed as well.  Buddy’s wife, Shawn, suggested he start a podcast in 2022 to share the stories of people who have struggled,
failed, overcame by realizing the life of love, joy and peace is only available through a relationship with Jesus Christ!

“Jesus said to him, ’I am the way, and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me’.” John 14:6

Buddy Puckett NMLS #270057, Arizona BK#0018883, AZ LO-1032154; OR ML-176 For more licensing information, please visit www.guildmortgage.com/licensing. The positions, strategies or opinions of the author do not necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of Guild Mortgage Company or its affiliates.

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