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Your board thinks $100,000 is too much for a CEO because they never made more than $40,000 on the factory line. Your C-suite wants the credit union of old. And your employees? They're leaving, not for better pay, but because you're offering them a 1995 compensation package in 2026.

In this episode:

• What age is your leadership thinking in?
• Why somewhere you lost your ability to be creative
• Why they don't want pizza they want a path to your chair
• Why you can't keep absorbing benefit increases every year

Host: Joshua Barclay
Guest Co-host: James McBride, SVP of Credit Union Relationships at CU Benefit
Guest: David Simms, Creator of CU Benefit

A huge thanks to our sponsor, CU Benefit

Stop absorbing annual benefit cost increases of 20-40%. CU Benefit is a strategic CUSO partner designed to help Credit Unions pre-fund up to 100% of employee benefits and unlock balance sheet potential. Generate investment returns 4-5 times higher than traditional bonds. Strengthen employee retention and increase net income by as much as 50%. Visit CUBenefit.com to learn more.

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We all think it: "If I just work longer, I'll get more done." But when one of your high performers starts operating this way, you need to step in immediately. Because they're not going to tell you they're burning out. So how do you catch it before they quit?

In this episode:

• Why AI isn't making you dumber
• Why working 70 hours isn't making you more productive
• Why better due diligence won't prevent vendor breaches

Host: Joshua Barclay
Co-host: Becky Reed
Guest: Ray Ragan, CIO at Securityplus Federal Credit Union

A huge thanks to our sponsor, CU Benefit

Stop absorbing annual benefit cost increases of 20-40%. CU Benefit is a strategic CUSO partner designed to help Credit Unions pre-fund up to 100% of employee benefits and unlock balance sheet potential. Generate investment returns 4-5 times higher than traditional bonds. Strengthen employee retention and increase net income by as much as 50%.

Watch this video or visit CUBenefit.com to learn more.

Ray is organizing the Banking on AI Conference in Atlanta. Credit union professionals and banking professionals will discuss new and novel uses of AI throughout the industry. Learn more at bankingonai.info

Read the shownotes and full transcript on our site: growyourcreditunion.com

Credit unions are out there chasing new members—spending on billboards, opening branches, crafting the perfect rate specials. Meanwhile, 80% of your existing members have one product with you and you haven't called them once. Maybe the new members you're looking for are actually the members you already have.

In this episode of Grow Your Credit Union, host Joshua Barclay and co-host Becky Reed welcome Elizabeth Osborne, COO at Great Lakes Credit Union, to talk about:

• Everyone's measuring trust wrong
• The growth obsession is backwards
• You're tracking the wrong economic data

Plus we play a BRAND NEW GAME that we hope you really enjoy.

A huge thanks to our sponsor, CU Benefit

Watch this video or visit CUBenefit.com to learn more.