Living Large Las Vegas - Inaugural Issue March 2020

Edition 1 • Mar 2020

Inaugural Issue

LIVING LARGE LAS VEGAS THE PARENT TEAM

DEREK PARENT & COBY SHERLOCK The life of a successful mentor & mentee

CITY OF HENDERSON POLICE

Captain Eric Buck

CONTENTS

6 Cover Story: A Mentor’s Impact Women’s 10 Hospitality Initiative Co-founders of the Women’s Hospitality Initiative pose at their inaugural event at UNLV on Feb 18. | Photo from Angie Ortaliza

Q&A: Captain 16 Eric Buck Newer members of the Henderson Police Department pose together. | Photo from City of Henderson

Charity Spotlight: 24 Scale the Strat The Wright Engineers posing for a photo with their medals after completing this year’s Scale the Strat on Feb 23. | Photo from Scale the Strat

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Top 10: St. Patrick’s Day Events People participating in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. | Photo from reviewjournal.com

Letter from Founders It is with gratitude that we have this opportunity to share our vision with you and all who experience Living Large Las Vegas. This digital magazine is the product of the ever-evolving Living Large Las Vegas Podcast, and with it we look to showcase to the world our incredible City of Las Vegas and it all it has to offer.

Please enjoy this work as we venture through the lives of leaders and innovators in our community and highlight just what makes Las Vegas a global destination for businesses to come and flourish and for families to come and have great success.

We are so proud of our community and the elements that have bound in unity at the core of what drives us forward in innovation, industry, hospitality, education, healthcare, and charity. We hope that our magazine can be a viewbook for you to experience a city like no other and ultimately have you ready to join us in becoming a resident and a contributor in our world-renowned City of Las Vegas.

Thank you and we look forward to hearing from you!

Derek Parent & Coby Sherlock Derek Parent & Coby Sherlock, Founders of Living Large Las Vegas

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A MENTOR’S IMPACT Looking into the relationship between mentor, Derek Parent, & mentee, Coby Sherlock

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ne of Las Vegas’ most successful loan officers, Derek Parent has taken a newer, upcoming loan officer, Coby Sherlock, under his wing and together are working on the rebrand and marketing of what it means to be a successful company in the mortgage industry.

Parent has been working in the mortgage field for the last 20 years and has been operating out of the Las Vegas Valley since 2000.

“I started back in 1998 in Providence, Rhode Island. I won a trip to Las Vegas from the company I was working at and after I came home, I packed my bags and decided to move to Las Vegas 28 days later. So, I’ve been in Las Vegas since April 2000. I’ve always been in lending for my late adult years,” Parent said.

As a kick-off for Parent’s career, he and his company set up financing and lending for condos that were then made attainable for those receiving a medium income here in the Las Vegas Valley.

“We opened up a market that no one was lending in. In condos, details matter and I like being where the details matter. Condos are a difficult thing because you need a lot of documentation: a budget, reserve, reserve study, condo questions, etc,” Parent said.

“We have over 200+ condo projects approved to this day, but we pay for the condo certs [certifications] which is different from any other lender because lenders normally don’t place their money where their mouth is. We created a condo project approval process, but, also on top of it, we’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get these projects approved just so that realtors and

Coby Sherlock poses in the Living Large Las Vegas podcast office.

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Derek Parent poses in the Living Large Las Vegas podcast office. | All photos from Headlock Studios

clients never have to pay for a question they might have.”

However, Parent’s interest in condos didn’t just appear out of nowhere. He initially started out in the mortgage industry doing residential mortgages. It was through his own experience in buying a condo at Veer Towers in Las Vegas that shifted his passions to focus on condos. The condo Parent was looking at had no financing available and ended up having to get a private loan and vowed to figure out the financing side so others wouldn’t have to endure the same process he did.

“I went to buy a property and there was no financing available for a property I thought was elite and had to quickly figure out the financing part,” Parent said.

In a fitting fashion, Parent became the first lender to offer financing at Veer Towers and is Las Vegas’ condo expert. However, he also helps buyers get into all types of residential homes, not just condos.

“After figuring out the financing, and then I realized that in this town, medium income wasn’t as high as some of the home prices that were starting to go up,” Parent said.

Breaking the stereotype of what a mortgage company “should” look like is what Parent and his team are doing from mentoring to shifting the perspective and meaning of what it really means to build a brand.

“I’m a servant leader and lead by doing. I think it’s really important, especially today where the workplace is starting to change.

People who started this business back in the 80s and 90s are starting to age out of the industry. We have to start teaching younger or just newer people in the industry and be willing,” Parent said.

It is with this mentality and belief system that Parent took Sher-

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won’t see any fruitful results. It’s an enduring career. But those that make it in this industry really see those big results after putting in the work.

“I look for someone who’s driven or has drive. Someone that’s committed because it’s a commitment and drive to be in this industry, it’s not an easy business. They have to be willing to do what it takes, this isn’t a 9-to-5 job. If you want to be a loan officer, it’s seven days a week and sometimes you’ll get a call from a client at 10 p.m. and you need to pick up the phone,” Parent said.

“With Coby, he did what it took: went and got licensed, put the time in, picked up the phone. He’s really fast in picking things up and it’s easy to teach a guy that’s committed.

He’s the guy that took commitment right from day one and implemented it into his business.”

In addition to having drive, Sherlock proved he had the grit, consistency, and commitment Parent referred to when talking about what qualities he looks for in potential mentees to see if they’ll make it in the mortgage industry.

I’m a servant leader and I lead by doing.

We have to start teaching younger or just newer people in the industry and be willing.

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lock under his wing and showed him the ropes of the significance and behind the scenes of what it takes to make it in this industry. Sherlock moved to Las Vegas with the idea that he would be attending law school until he took a risk which changed the course of his career path.

“When I came to Las Vegas, my intention was to go to law school. I started studying for the LSAT and then I took the LSAT with the intention to go to law school and then I met Derek and we really started to connect. Derek was very enrolling with his opportunity to come and work in the mortgage industry,” Sherlock said. “So, as a result of my relationship with Derek and the opportunity he layed in front of me, it sounded like something I could be highly interested in and good at. I agreed to jump in the game with Derek and take on this challenge and here we are. It’s really been a great experience, I’m glad I decided to take him up on his opportunity to work in mortgages.”

Like most things, the mortgage industry is where you have to constantly be putting in your all and always working hard or you

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Coby Sherlock and Derek Parent have a conversation together during a podcast in the Living Large Las Vegas podcast office.

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“When Derek gave me this opportunity, I had no idea I was going to be looking down this pipeline of transitioning into a new career at the same time I was having a son,” Sherlock said.

While transitioning into his current role as a loan officer, Sherlock was simultaneously making other various life changes.

“While I was moving into this new career, my fiancée was pregnant and we had our son right before I received my license, so there was a lot of fear that was setting in for me, especially financially. I was a little scared because here I am, 29 years old, starting a family and I was unsure how this career was going to play out.

Essentially, with my back against the wall I knew I had to do great and show up big and I had to learn and come from a place of gratitude. I didn’t at all come from a place of scarcity. I just kept my head down and was consistent, stayed focused and committed to helping people become homeowners,” Sherlock said. “My son was born in September and my licenses cleared around September or October so around that same time, I was still crushing to drive and produce results. Now, here we are and my son is five months old and I’ve been consistently doing well each month here and it’s been fun. You just kind of have to say screw it and get to work and do your best just to do your best.”

Even though some people shrink and become paralyzed with stress in the face of hardships or other trials and tribulations, Sherlock and Parent aren’t those people.

“Adversity is absolutely nothing new to me, I’ve been in positions in my life before where I had to accept the situation and decide if I was going to let my situation dominate me or if I was going to dominate the situation,” Sherlock said.

After making shifts in various parts of your life, one might feel overwhelmed, but with the right perspective on life, keeping your focus and motivations become easier.

“When I produce big results and I stay committed, I know that I can achieve more money. Also, I know that what I do correlates directly to having more homeowners. If I’m making a lot of money, then I’m also creating a lot of homeowners, which is what really motivates me.

If I’m at two loans a month, I want to be at ten, which is just how I operate in general,” Sherlock said. “Outside of the workplace, my motivation is so big because it goes hand in hand. My entire family motivates me as well as this community having accepted me with welcoming and open arms. So, I know as I work hard and do extremely well in my career, I can give back whether it be time, service, money, whatever it takes. I know that I can give back, leave an impact and a footprint here. It’s a perfect wheel and the way I see it is if I do well and create massive results, then ultimately, I can impact the community, my family, my friends and it really all just feeds into each other.”

This idea of “massive results” and giving back to the community sparked the interest for Parent and Sherlock to want to shake the mortgage and business world by creating multiple forms of

branding that other companies have yet to grasp.

“We’re working on a lot of things. We’re working on marketing initiatives and other things currently. With the marketing and branding, it’s focused a lot on the ‘what’s next’ aspect,” Parent said.

As a testament to Parent’s follow-through, Sherlock suggested the idea that they start a podcast, but this one idea has now sprouted and flourished into something much bigger than they originally thought.

“Derek and I from the beginning kind of knew that we were going to take an unconventional approach to the mortgage industry. In a sense of wanting to really connect to the community, we wanted to separate ourselves,” Sherlock said. “We have a podcast called Living Large Las Vegas and it’s a lot of fun. We highlight community leaders and just individuals who are leading in their areas of our community. We’ve found many pillars in the community and what they do and who they serve and this is just a chance for us to connect with those individuals and just to hear their stories. It’s been incredibly special. From the podcast, Derek and I decided to keep going and Derek was like ‘let’s do a magazine.’ In the time between establishing the podcast and coming up with the idea for a magazine, Derek and I partnered up and filed Living Large Las Vegas as an LLC, so we’re 50-50 partners with Living Large Las Vegas LLC.” Parent didn’t just get to where he is now with his company and its marketing and mentoring aspects without putting in the work to become one of the best to then teach what he’s learned so far, though. The lessons and knowledge shared with Sherlock are the keys that brought Parent to where he stands today as a mortgage professional in the Las Vegas Valley.

“Derek has provided me with a platform to literally explode off of in this industry.

You know, loan officers everyday, they don’t get the opportunity that Derek’s given me right on the front end.

I mean that in the sense of exposure, partnership, and ability and Derek gives me the freedom to exercise my skill set and go meet with people and service people, which is important to us. It’s one of our principles - to give back to people and connect.”

Parent’s influence and dedication to Sherlock really reflects the significance and power that comes out of just simply taking the time to both share and take knowledge from other people.

“When I think of Derek I think of a straight-shooter and a giver. The guy will tell you what he means; what he says is his honest opinion and if you like it great and if you don’t, that’s okay because Derek is going to be Derek and he’ll still be a great giver and leader,” Sherlock said. “Derek not only invested the time to teach me, get my licenses but to also get me hired and onboarded with his company. He went out and invested because he believed in me.

When somebody invests like that, you know that they believe in you which really pushes you a little bit more to be great.” LV

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and he wants you to be great.

That’s another thing I’m grateful for with Derek, he lets me be great and I think great people let others be great.

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THE FUTURE IS FEM LE T All photos are from the Women’s Hospitality Initiative’s inaugural event on Feb. 18 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).

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have this conversation to bring these issues top of mind, but actions are always louder than words.

he Women’s Hospitality Initiative is a fairly new non-profit organization based in Las Vegas and was founded in November 2019.

This initiative is “committed to developing and implementing programs for women to grow and achieve leadership positions in the restaurant community, and is a component fund of Nevada Community Foundation, ” according to their Facebook page.

Elizabeth Blau, the founder and CEO of Blau and Associates - a restaurant planning and developing company that helps businesses expand their concepts for both food and business initiatives - is the co-founder of the Women’s Hospitality Initiative.

“I feel like we have to do something. The city is ready for this. This is a time for men and women to work together, there is no one to blame here. We need to solve a problem,” Blau said in an interview with Eater Las Vegas.

On Feb. 18, the Women’s Hospitality Initiative hosted its first event at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) that highlighted the strive to increase the amount of women working in the restaurant and hospitality industries overlapped. Specifically, in increasing the number of female

restaurant owners and chefs as the numbers are currently sitting fairly low.

“If we can create equality and develop more women leaders in Las Vegas, we can be the catalyst for global change,” Blau said.

The organization showed the screening of a highly-acclaimed documentary, A Fine Line by director Joanna James, kicked-off the start of the inaugural event. The film displays the gender disparity and gaps as well as the obstacles that aspiring women leaders often face when climbing the ladder. After the film, a panel with Chef Lorena Garcia from CHICA Las Vegas & Miami; Valerie James of Val’s Restaurant in Holden, Massachusetts who was featured the documentary; Katherine Miller, the Vice President of Impact James Beard Foundation; Chef Mary Sue Milliken, the co-owner of Border Grill; and Executive Chef Jennifer Murphy from operations of Caesar’s Entertainment took place to unpack some of the themes and issues present in A Fine Line.

“The issues we address in this film resonate with so many people who work and live here,” James said. “To know that the audience is connecting with A Fine Line means we’ve done our job raising awareness, and

The three co-founders of the Women’s Hospitality Initiative pose for a photo at their inaugural event on Feb. 18 at UNLV. (Left-to-right Mary Choi Kelly, Elizabeth Blau, and Jolene Mannina.) | Photo from Angie Ortaliza

to know that it inspired, in any way, the creation of the Women’s Hospitality Initiative, is the greatest reward I could as for.”

Seeing that the event sold out shows the amount of high interest in this topic as well as the want to learn and discuss with other peers, other women, to hear their perspectives and voicing of their experiences of sexism in the workplace, and in this case, the hospitality and culinary industries.

“To see more than 500 attendees and these incredible participants rally together for this extraordinary showing is a testament to our strength as a community,” Blau said.

This event was significant,

not only because it had a great turnout and had a good organization backing it, but because it sparked conversations and problems that can only be solved when people start to talk about it.

“We needed to have this conversation to bring these issues top of mind, but actions are always louder than words, and the momentum building here tonight will lead to real change,” Blau said.

One of the projects that the Women’s Hospitality Initiative is working on right now is creating allyship between culinary groups as well as women-focused organizations. They even already formed an edu-

cation-based relationship with UNLV and plan on addressing gender disparities and inconsistencies in the classrooms.

“Hopefully, we don’t have to continue to face these challenges. We shouldn’t be forced to choose between having a baby or having a career,” co-founder Mary Choi Kelly said. “Our programs will enable future generations, and the current generation, of aspiring women leaders to have the skills needed to succeed in their industries.

At the same time, our membership will provide a resource for these women to find mentors, sponsorship, and an education in business and leadership.” LV Photo Credits: Louii Victa

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CAPTAIN ERIC BUCK Captain of the Henderson Police Department

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ith this Q&A, we had the honor of sitting down and getting to talk with Captain Eric Buck from the Henderson Police Department. Captain Buck talked about safety, potential job openings on the force and reasons to join the Henderson Police Department.

Share with our readers a little bit about yourself and your background. I was born and raised in Orange County and Anaheim, CA. I moved out to Vegas 26 years ago and worked at a truck store then moved onto working at bank doing their fraud investigations. 20 years ago, I was picked up by the Henderson Police Department so I moved to Henderson at that time and been a Henderson resident ever since!

The Henderson Police Department is everywhere in a good way. Protecting our city and giving back. With all the growth that has occurred, has that affected the Henderson Police Department in any way? Yes, absolutely. With the growth, the biggest thing everyone sees is the traffic. It’s a huge difference. What that does for the police department as it affects our response time. We have certain milestones when it comes to how quickly we respond to calls and the traffic certainly plays a huge part in that. The biggest challenges we see are in Inspirada, Anthem, the places that are growing quickly. As a result, we are in the very beginning phases of planning for a new station out near Inspirada. We want to get a whole new crew out there to be able to better serve the community in those areas.

Can you share with any of our readers who are interested in possibly joining the Henderson Police Team why they should consider doing so? Henderson is great place but working for the City of Henderson is incredible. When I got hired on, I was testing for several different police agencies but I was really hoping for Henderson. When I called the other departments, it felt like I was just a number. When I called Henderson, they actually called me back, I was able to speak to someone live and had a great personal experience. Every department with the city is like that. Which is great because I also live in Henderson so when I call the water department, or whoever I need, as a citizen, I’m put right through and not put on hold for long periods of time and treated just like a number. I love it! It’s a great department, we’re a family! We have 392 sworn officers, that’s the size of our department. We have 96 Corrections Officers who run our jail.

We’re not the small city we used to be, so we’re doing big things in the city. We have a population of 317,000 and drew almost 33,000 reports last year. Big things are happening and the department is making moves. We’re leveraging technology and there’s places to grow. We start out at $55,000 per year for guys to start the academy so we’re pretty much paying you to go to school. It’s a great department to work for.

For those considering, what steps do they need to take in order to get started? First step is to get your name on the list

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Captain Eric Buck poses with a police car overlooking the Las Vegas Valley and The Strip. | Photo from City of Henderson

by going to cityofhenderson.com under HR and we are actively recruiting. I would recommend doing a ride along if you’re wondering whether or not this is going to be the right job for you. We offer ride-alongs to all of our citizens. I did a ride along back in high school and after that experience, there was no doubt in my mind that this was exactly what I wanted to do.

Do you have any safety tips for our readers you could share? Just be aware of your surroundings. If you see something, say something. Our best tool at the police department are our citizens. If I drive through your neighborhood, I don’t know what’s normal. I don’t who belongs there or who has a pool man but you do. You know your house and your neighbors. If you see something out of the ordinary, call us and let us know because even if we drive a marked police car through the neighborhood, they may not spot it. You can call 311 for non-emergency needs. These calls go to the same folks who answer 911 except they don’t put the priority on 311. Now, if you see someone breaking a window and crawling into a house, clearly that’s a 911 call. If you see a parked car in your neighborhood parked at the end of the street watching cars come and go, that’s suspicious and we need to know about that. If you go to the gym and you see someone hanging out in the parking lot who doesn’t look like they belong, let us know. That’s probably our biggest menace right now. People breaking into cars at the gym. Don’t leave any valuables in your car because if they see something, they may want to try and steal it. If you do have valuables in the car, try to leave them in trunk and out of sight.

Laptops, phones and especially guns. Whatever you do, don’t leave guns in the car as that has been a big issue as well. Don’t ever secure your weapon in the car. Remember to leave your cars locked at your home and don’t leave your garage remotes in your car. People aren’t locking their cars at home and then thefts are accessing the homes with the garage remotes. LV

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he American Lung Association’s Scale The Strat Fight for Air Climb took place on Feb. 23 this year.

For those who are unfamiliar with this annual event, Scale the Strat is a fundraiser to help prevent lung disease and promotes lung health. The fundraiser has its participants race to climb all 108 floors, 1,455 steps, to the top of The Strat Las Vegas tower. This year, more than 1,000 people attended the event, raising almost $300,000 for the American Lung Association out of Nevada.

According to their Facebook page, “the Fight for Air Climb raises money for the American Lung Association in Nevada’s mission of preventing lung disease and promoting lung health.”

This year, 28-year-old Alexis Trujillo, who was also last year’s top finisher, was the winner of the fundraiser and set a new course record with his time of 6:46 compared to his time of 7:13 last year and the previous record from 2017 of 7:03.

Additionally, a 42-year-old army veteran, Travis Strong from Colorado Springs, Colorado who lost his legs in 2006 participated in the fundraiser race as - but climbed the stairs of The Strat with his arms.

“My shoulders are smoked.

It’s a good sore. You just have to push yourself to get it done,” Strong said.

The executive director of the American Lung Association in Nevada said Strong’s mission of pushing through and overcoming is also represented in the

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mission of her association.

“A fight is a fight, and I love that he sees that, and he’s a true patriot and soldier. It’s never about giving up,” executive director of the Nevada American Lung Association, Shannon Proctor said. “It’s about fighting, and if you’ve ever seen somebody fighting to breathe, there’s no fight like it in the world.

Based on an article written by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the average climber’s time was approximately 30 minutes.

The Parent Team at CrossCountry Mortgage was proud to participate in Scale the Strat for the 2nd consecutive year and served on the event’s Executive Committee Board. The team fundraised a total of $6,322 and was one of the top companies in fundraising.

The Wright Engineers, as in Brent Wright - one of the engineers who helped build the Strat, were one of the other teams represented at this event.

Other companies and and teams in attendance were Sin City Crossfit, Bank of Nevada, Valley Health Systems, Anthem, Marquis, Desert Radiology, and Steinberg Diagnostics. Another company in attendance was the Elite Climbing team who travels all the way from Mexico alongside the team of firefighters who do the climb in their full gear.

To learn more about how to participate next year, please visit lung.org or contact American Lung Association in Nevada Executive Director, Shannon Proctor at NVinfo@lung.org or call (702) 431-6333.

(From top-to-bottom): The Parent Team, The Wright Engineers, Elite Climbing & Anthem teams at the Scale the Strat Event on Feb. 23.

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42-year-old Travis Strong at Scale the Strat on Feb. 23 before the start of the race.

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