Awkward Insurance

Voices in the episode in order of appearance : Josh Paskewicz, Talent Acquisition Manager at Hylant Allison Garcia, Talent Acquisition Leader at Hylant Kevin Ray, Vice President of Learning & Development at Erie Insurance Group Meaghen Paterson, District Sales Manager at Erie Insurance Group Will Kegg, Insurance & Risk Management Student at University of Cincinnati, GIS Chapter President Benjamin...

Speakers In this Episode In Order: Marguerite Tortorello, Managing Director of Insurance Careers Movement and President of Tortorello Communications Company Kyle Steele, PL Product Management Supervisor at COUNTRY Financial® Scott Fleming, MBA, CPCU, Multiline Claims Manager at Erie Insurance Group Y’llon Harron, Small Business Underwriter Leader at Westfield Nonya McNiel, CIC, CPIA, District Sale...

Leah Robinson, CIC, CRM, AINS, CAWC is a Commercial Lines Agent at the My Member Insurance Agency in Saginaw, MI. Considering herself a generalist, Leah enjoys working with clients ranging from cannabis cultivators to contractors, and everything in between. Leah has been on the Big I Michigan Young Agents Committee since 2018 and is currently the Past-Chair until August 31, 2023. In September 2022...

Do you want to continue upskilling?   Check out our Insurance Bootcamp Series! Tabitha  Richardson is the National Learning & Development Manager for Business Insurance at Marsh & McLennan Agency. As an L&D Manager, Tabitha is responsible for supporting national initiatives through colleague and carrier/vendor training with a focus on the Business Insurance division. She helps to develop and instr...

Joe Hollier - As 16-year, independent insurance agent veteran, Joe Hollier has learned and seen firsthand the importance of building a community around your business and your brand. Although much of his insurance career has been based in P&C sales and risk management, he has for the last five years strategized on building a new kind of value-driven community for agents. An ecosystem that would cel...

Tracy Leigh Cotton, CIC, CISR, CPIW - An insurance enthusiast for over 27 years, Tracy thrives on steering her career to new horizons through education and an open mind. She's been an underwriter, account manager, producer, team leader, consultant, marketer, and trainer. Her newest role is one that taps into all those former experiences as a tool kit to create better results for the middle market...

Legacy Insurance Partners Jonnie Anderson loves spending her days helping to protect people against the unknown. She brings her experience and insurance background together to help families get the coverage they need for their home and autos. She began her career as an independent insurance agent and has now started her own legacy as one of the owners of Legacy Insurance Partners. When Jonnie is n...

Kim Beach A relentless marketer, Kim has worked in various sales and marketing occupations for over 30 years. The large majority of her career was spent in the television industry and, more recently, the insurance industry. She started Village Insurance in 2018 (from scratch) and currently supports more than 300 clients. Village Insurance is where her passion for empowering women in the insurance...

It's story time! In this episode host, Dustyne Bryant invites, fellow colleague Paula Price to extract tales of the good 'ole days from two figures without whom The National Alliance For Insurance Education & Research would not be where it is today. Enjoy industry folklore, tales from the past, and hopes for the future as Dr. William T. Hold, CIC, CPCU Co-Founder of The National Alliance for Insur...

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Better protect the families you serve by learning the ins and outs of Personal Residential Insurance– CISR Insuring Personal Residential Property Amy MacDonald has worked for Nationwide Insurance almost 20 years and moved over to the pet team 6+ years ago. Being able to tie her personal passion of pets and professional career of insurance has been a dream. The peace of mind that insurance brings w...

TED A. KINNEY, CIC, CPCU, ARM, CPIA, AAI, AU, AINS, CRIS, AAM Ted Kinney is the owner/President of Kinney Training and Consulting, LLC, which specializes in providing quality insurance training programs to agencies and companies throughout the United States.  Ted also serves as the Director of Education and Technical Affairs for the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents in Birmingham, Alabama.  In...

Katlyn Eggar Katlyn is the Director of Education at Quantum Assurance, a national insurance agency with main hubs in Texas and Virginia. She has owned both captive and independent startup agencies and now gets to help other insurance professionals and agency owners launch their insurance careers. The Age of Independence Podcast Quantum Assurance   Learn more about how The National Alliance for Ins...

Looking to get into insurance? Check our newly revised Intro to Insurance and other introductory courses to help you decide to make the leap.   Jeff Shi launched his insurance career as a top-performing captive agent at Allstate. Along the way, he found the grass really was greener on the independent side. He co-founded Quantum Assurance International and is the CEO of Quotehound - both companies...

Sarah Muniz has been in the insurance industry for over twenty years working on the agency side as a Customer Service Representative, producer, and with an aggregator and insurtech. She currently lives in Texas with her husband and two children.   In the face of lacking industry training, earning anyone of our designations demonstrates dedication to professional excellence. Promotability and advan...

 Ryan and Andy Mathisen are the co-founders of GloveBox . Formerly agency owners of a large independent agency in Denver, CO and sold that agency to start an insurtech company.     Focusing exclusively on risk management and insurance professional development, the Risk & Insurance Education Alliance provides a practical advantage at every career stage, positioning our participants and their cl...

The National Alliance is constantly evolving and adapting to the changing world around us.  Learn more about recent efforts to change Insurance Education for a new generation.   Monica Adwani, CPIA  I was born and raised in Puerto Rico and moved to Massachusetts in 2007. I graduated with multiple degrees in Information Management, Medical Coding, and Business Management from the InterAmerican Univ...

Want to learn more about Long Term Care Insurance?  The CISR Life & Health Essentials and CIC Life & Health courses expand on the important topic.   Kelly Augspurger, CLTC® Kelly is the Co-founder of Steadfast Insurance, alongside her husband, Adam. They’re an independent insurance agency in Westerville, OH. Kelly is a Certified Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance Specialist working nationwide to help...

Kieran J. O’Rourke, CPCU, CRM, CIC Kieran has over 30 years of commercial underwriting, product, and program development experience in the insurance industry. Kieran’s career experience spans P&C underwriting, MGA underwriting for alternative energy products and alternative market product development, oversight of research and product development, and directing regional commercial insurance sales...

Bradley Flowers- Bradley is a nationally recognized insurance agency owner and business enthusiast. He runs the day-to-day operations at Portal Insurance in Mobile, Alabama, a scratch independent agency he founded and is building on the back of social media, personal branding, content, and technology. In 2019, Portal Insurance was named the "Agency for the Future'' by Safeco Insurance for the Sout...

David R. Carothers, CIC, CRM , is the Principal of Florida Risk Partners, LLC, Catalyst Funding Solutions, LLC, The Founder of Killing Commercial Insurance Training, Host of The Power Producers Podcast, and Creator/Producer of The Protégé. David is also the international best-selling author of The Extra 2 Minutes: How spending an extra 2 minutes on nearly anything in your sales career will take yo...

Download a Learning Path to Get Started On Your Own RMI Journey! Meg McKeen, CIC: A believer that there is a story within every story, Meg's career journey took a sharp left turn in 2017 when she exchanged her corporate j-o-b for a year of self-discovery. The following year, she launched Adjunct Advisors LLC with the simple belief that the people that buy, and those that sell, insurance deserve a...

Learn More about neon from b atomic !  and Listen to Olivia's Podcast: Liv Louder ! Oliva Schmitt, CIC, CISR  brings her insurance agency experience and vast industry knowledge, strong leadership track record, and small business expertise to the b atomic team.  Olivia started her insurance career in 2004 when she joined TRICOR Insurance as a customer service representative.  In 2013 she was select...

Start your own career path with a custom Account Manager , Producer , Risk Manager , or Underwriter Learning Path! Natalie Russel, CIC joined the Central Region Team as a Senior Territory Manager for Northwestern Arkansas.  Natalie is a familiar face to many of us as she had an 8-year tenure as a Senior Territory Manager before leaving to own and operate an independent agency in Hot Springs, AR. N...

Do you have an Awkward Insurance story?  Email us at podcasts@scic.com and you may be featured in an episode! Dustyne Bryant, CIC, CISR, MBA : Dustyne Bryant, is the Personal Lines Academic Director at The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research, is a self-professed and colleague–backed wholehearted Personal Lines Insurance geek. Supported by multiple degrees and designations over the...