Ep 021: Emergency Housing Solutions & A.L.E. w/ Millie Varela

Ep 021: Emergency Housing Solutions & A.L.E. w/ Millie Varela

On this episode we are joined by Millie Varela of Black Diamond Housing.  We talk about how to utilize Housing services as a tool to help you become a resource for your clients and to help you close your insurance claims faster.  We discuss the right way to do networking and some of the new amazing services being rolled out.

What We Talk About

  • Millie Varela and Black Diamond Housing
  • How Black Diamond Housing Came to Be
  • What Does the ALE Process Look Like
  • Black Diamond Housing Rvs 
  • Disaster Event ALE
  • Educating About ALE Services
  • Collaborating with Contractors
  • Networking with Other Pros
  • Shout out to our Sponsor Company Cam
  • Networking Follow Up Process
  • New Important Programs Offered
  • Books
  • How to Find Millie


Biggest Takeaways

  1.  Your Network is Your Net worth 
  2. Black Diamond Housing also buys invoices to help cash flow issues
  3. Using ALE can speed up the closing of claims

Find our Guest

Guest Book Recommendations

You can go after the job you want—and get it! You can take the job you have—and improve it! You can take any situation—and make it work for you!

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time,


How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you: Six ways to make people like you, Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking, Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment...And much more! Achieve your maximum potential—a must-read for the twenty-first century with more than 15 million copies sold!

After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator brought him face-to-face with a range of criminals, including bank robbers and terrorists. Reaching the pinnacle of his profession, he became the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator. Never Split the Difference takes you inside the world of high-stakes negotiations and into Voss’s head, revealing the skills that helped him and his colleagues succeed where it mattered most: saving lives. In this practical guide, he shares the nine effective principles―counterintuitive tactics and strategies―you too can use to become more persuasive in both your professional and personal life.

Life is a series of negotiations you should be prepared for: buying a car, negotiating a salary, buying a home, renegotiating rent, deliberating with your partner. Taking emotional intelligence and intuition to the next level, Never Split the Difference gives you the competitive edge in any discussion.

Dee Jacob and Suzan Bergland, two principals of AGI, show you how to apply their insights and methods to your organization in order to shorten lead times, slash inventories, reduce production variability, and increase sales. Writer Jeff Cox returns with the vivid, realistic style that made The Goal so entertaining yet so edifying. Thrust into the presidency of the subsidiary company where she has managed sales and marketing, Amy Cieolara is mandated by her corporate superiors to implement Lean Six Sigma (LSS) in order to appease a key customer. But as time goes on, and corporate pressure mounts, Amy arrives at the series of steps that form the core of the Velocity Approach.

Velocity offers keen insight into the human and organizational factors that so often derail growth while teaching you proven, practical techniques for restarting and revving up the internal engines of your company to reach new levels of success.

People in all kinds of jobs, in big and small companies, career builders, sales people, and aspiring executives will love this edgy, practical, and fun book in the spirit, style, and format of the best-selling Little Red Book of Selling, the country's #1 sales trainer.


Jeffrey Gitomer, offers a fresh take on networking and connecting your way to success. The Little Black Book of Connections is based on the power of "give value first". It's about how you can climb the ladder without stepping on people's backs. It's about how to earn the respect of a powerful mentor without begging. It's about how to build stronger relationships with customers, bosses, co-workers, vendors, friends, and family. It's about being in the same room with powerful people. It's about how to connect and how to not connect. It's about how to say the right things to the right people in the right circumstances to make the right impression.

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About Your Host

Rico Garcia is a husband and father to two young boys and the host of Restoration Domination as well as the founder of EcoTek Pro and owner of a private marketing firm for contractors, Alpha Media Agency.

About the Show

The Restoration Domination Podcast with your host Rico Garcia. A show sharing information, tactics, business strategies, experiences, for the Restoration industry. Solo shows and interviews with some of the top industry leaders to help your business move up to the next level.

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