The Foundation Program
Picture your first year as a broker, twelve months from now. The aggregator induction is a distant memory, you’ve settled your first loans, and when a tricky scenario lands on your desk, you know exactly who to ask, because you’ve been asking all year. That’s the version of year one the Foundation Program is built to give you, and it’s worth pausing on how rare that is: across the industry, roughly three in four new brokers don’t make it past their first twelve months. Not because they weren’t capable. Because they were alone.
You won’t be.
What the program is
The Foundation Program is a structured mentorship for new-to-industry mortgage brokers, led by Ben White, an MFAA endorsed mentor with over $1.8 billion in settled lending.
What's included:
Duration and session cadence
Most mentees carry two set weekly sessions as a baseline in their first twelve weeks, with additional sessions bookable as your needs develop. For anything urgent between sessions, WhatsApp and phone are open.
Wednesday Group Chat
70+ episodes strong, a live community of brokers at your stage and beyond.
Deal support
The FYI Broker Toolkit
Video library
42 hours of instructional video, organised by stage.
Thursday Wins
Because progress you celebrate is progress you repeat.
Is this right for you?
- Who this is for
- You’re new to broking, or inside your first two years.
- You’re prepared to do the work, show up to sessions, and bring real deals and real questions.
- You want a mentor who checks your thinking, not one who reads you slides.
- Who this is not for
- Experienced brokers looking for high-performance business coaching (that’s our Business Coaching pathway, and we’d love to talk to you there).
- Anyone wanting a certificate without the work.
- Brokers looking for the cheapest possible box-tick; endorsed mentoring is an aggregator requirement, but treating it as a formality is how first years end early.
We assess fit in both directions before we accept a mentee. It’s your career; we take it as seriously as you do.
91% of FYI mentees are still writing loans 12 months after starting with us, in an industry where, by trade estimates, between half and three-quarters of new brokers leave within their first year.
The Foundation Program
Pricing on request
- Structured 1-on-1 mentoring
- Weekly Wednesday Group Chat
- FYI Broker Toolkit access
- Instructional video library
Free first chat. We check fit both ways.