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Christina Marie is an Insurance broker based in South Carolina and the owner of CM Insurance Services. She began her career as an unlicensed customer service representative for an insurance firm after working in a car dealership's title department and verifying insurance for new owners. After experiencing limitations in coverage available to the truck drivers her firm was catering to, she decided...

Kareim Cade is a business owner, keynote speaker, and a 20+ year insurance and financial services industry professional from Detroit, MI. As the CEO of Great Lakes Benefits Group, he is focused on relationship-building and creative strategic solutions to help his clients reach their operational goals. However, before he was an Insurance Pro magazine "Broker of the Year" finalist, he was a Detroit...

Joshua Morey is the Chairperson of Ori-gen Insurance Group and President of The J Morey Company, Inc. As a passionate professional from a lineage of resilient and successful businessmen, his mission is to amplify the voice of diverse communities throughout America by providing resources, services, and perpetuation planning for independent agents and brokers from diverse backgrounds. He is also the...

Chinyere "Che" Norman is a Life Coach and Medicare Executive based in Atlanta, GA. A 14-year veteran in the Insurance and Financial Services industry, she grew up a fan of the Cosby Show dreaming of one day becoming an Attorney, even getting her degree in Political Science from Morris Brown College. While in college she began working for an assisted living facility educating on Medicare benefits a...

Calvin Royster Jr is the President of Anew Financial Services, a full-service agency in Richmond, VA. With over a decade of industry experience, 4 years ago he opened his own agency with a mission to add value in his community by equalizing the racial wealth gap and educating the African American middle class on insurance planning and providing tools for financial success. After some turbulent tee...

Keiona Stewart, MBA is an Entrepreneur and Insurance Agency owner in Atlanta, GA area. Entering the industry for its business potential after a conversation with her personal agent who thought she would be good in the business, she began her professional career with aspirations in Real Estate but ended up going into corporate finance and eventually becoming a project manager with a large drug stor...

Julius Gilgur is Phoenix, AZ based Agency owner, Producer, Sales Leader and host of the Hungry For More Youtube channel and podcast. Over the last 5 years he has achieved tremendous success while being both a student and expert of his craft by helping others to be financially prepared for the most critical moments of their families lives. However, before this he was a corporate executive who thoug...

Adeola Monofi is a Licensed Insurance broker, a financial literacy enthusiast, a public speaker, a life coach, an investment consultant, and a fabulous wife and mum. Currently based in Alberta, Ca. She has been licensed in not only multiple states, but multiple countries. Beginning her career as an underwriter in her native country, Nigeria, she built a career in management occasionally opening ne...

Ngozi Nnaji is the founder of Ako Insurance Consulting firm dedicated to addressing the growing need for the insurance industry to increase the representation of Black professionals. In the 25 years prior to starting Ako, Ngozi has become an award-winning industry professional. She started her insurance career as an Underwriter but also spent a notable amount of time in production, business develo...

Zachary Wilson is a Father, Insurance Professional, & Agency Manager with Neishloss & Fleming, an FMO based in Pittsburgh, PA. He started in the insurance industry exploring several possible career paths in the automotive and education industries. Establishing a strong effort from watching his father work nights after his day job, he was introduced to an opportunity after being let go from...

Ebens “Benz” Jean is a father of two and married to his best friend, Gigi Jean. Together they are the founders of One Way Insurance Group in Delaware. Before co-founding One Way, he was a young man who moved to the US from Haiti knowing very little English. He thought he would work on computers as his career, but he knew there was an entrepreneurial calling in his heart. After taking his test 11 t...

5 years ago Nicholas Sakha was a young banking professional trying to figure out his next steps. After graduating college and spending 7 years in the banking industry and experimenting with several entrepreneurial endeavors, he found himself with "Big Why's", but "Small Pockets". After he witnessed a close friend opening an insurance office, he cashed out his 401k and decided to follow suit. Today...

Toni Sanders is a Certified Financial Education Instructor based in Houston, TX. as a young child she knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur and operated a successful cosmetology business for 20 years before joining the insurance industry when one of her clients mentioned how great her personality would be in the business. After an opportunity to get licensed surfaced courtesy of a neighbor, she be...

Ron Harris is a former marketing executive who now runs Financial Literacy Group, a financial wellness company based in Santa Monica, California. After attending college in Europe, and successful business forays in both marketing and technology, 10 years ago he entered the insurance industry at the suggestion of a professional colleague and friend during the launch of the ACA aka Obamacare. He the...

Nicole Chaitan-Kissoon is a Certified Financial Services Professional based in Trinidad and Tobago. After obtaining a degree in Economics she began a career in her home government and realized that sitting behind a desk creating words and planning documents that ultimately would end up collecting dust on a shelf just wasn't appealing. In addition, she was growing a family and wanted a career that...

Nikki Carrington is the CEO of Carrington Insurance. With over a decade of experience, she has also developed a reputation as one of the best sales managers and trainers in the industry. Focusing her business on managed care insurance, Mrs. Carrington collaborates with clinicians, case managers, social workers, and behavioral health specialists to ensure access to innovative models of care, compli...

Rory Douglas aka "The Financial Gentleman" is the CEO of Aqua Financial Center in Encino, California, a speaker, and author of several books. Douglas has over 20 years of experience in the Entertainment and Investment industry empowering entrepreneurs to pursue their purpose. He transitioned from Entertainment to the Financial Services Industry as a Financial Educator and High-Performance Life Coa...

Diauntae Morrow is the President of The Morrow Group, based in Cleveland, OH. Growing up he thought his only path to a successful life was through athletics, eventually rising to become a lettered football player for the University of Iowa and University of Toledo, and eventually a Division 1AA NCAA football coach for Davidson College. Wanting to ensure he could be present for his young son, he de...

Francis Sarmiento is a Multi-Award Winning Financial Advisor and Sales Leader in Marikina City, Philippines. Growing up on a small island province in the north Philippines with no electricity or modern amenities, he dreamed of being an astronaut or a pilot and was the valedictorian of his high school class. Coming from a very close-knit family, that depended on his support, he pivoted his initial...

Ned Schaut is a veteran employee benefits advisor, a business owner, author, the host of two podcasts(Benefits Influencer & Fatherhood Field Notes), and TEDxTalk presenter. His message of Rebel & Create has helped him to achieve success in both his professional and personal life as a husband and father of five. Before finding financial services, his pension for serial entrepreneurship and...

Karen Hudgins, REBC is the founder and principal of New Hope Benefits in Midlothian, VA. A 20yr business professional with a background in Human Resources and Employee Benefits, she started her career climbing the corporate ladder ultimately realizing she had been called to build an agency that offered the level of service she aspired to provide. Hudgins's bet on herself paid off as she has both b...

David "Big Cat" Baxter, aka The Connector, is a 19 year insurance veteran and President of Right Quote, a full service insurance firm based in Colorado. A life long outdoorsman, he dreamed of being a doctor as a youth before joining the insurance industry where he use his core values of integrity, commitment, and creativity to help individuals, businesses, and new agents achieve their goals. Hear...

Jamil Warren is the CEO of Vital Care Life Insurance, an Independent Life Insurance brokerage in Pensacola, FL. Starting a cleaning business at age 20, his entrepreneurial ambitions and attention to quality service landed him a role as a supervisor in a local municipality he was servicing, eventually becoming the youngest African-American manager to be hired for the county. After running his own b...

Harvey Chambers is a 20-year insurance industry veteran and leader who has specialized in health insurance and related lines of coverage. A Virginia Commonwealth University graduate in Mass Communications, he planned for a career as a journalist before finding a bridge between his communication skills and passion for helping others. His career allowed him to be genuinely himself, while exploring a...

Eric Robinson was working in admission sales for a For-Profit university with a wife and baby on the way. He knew he was a passionate individual, but also knew that he wasn't truly living up to his full potential. At the suggestion of a friend, he visited a personal development seminar where he met some insurance professionals who set him on a path that would change his life forever. Over the next...