10 posts found
10/18/2021 · 5 min read
Every insurance agency owner operates in one of four modes at any given time: manifesting, thriving, surviving, or prevailing through adversity. Understanding which mode you're in and what it takes to shift changes how you approach every decision in your business.
10/18/2021 · 5 min read
Manifest, thrive, survive, prevail are four cycling stages of agency ownership. Manifest constructs a vivid three-year vision. Thrive executes. Survive triages two or three vital signs. Prevail integrates what survival taught you. Naming the stage targets the strategy.
10/15/2021 · 6 min read
Stoicism gives insurance agents three operating tools: the dichotomy of control (act only on what you can move), negative visualization (mentally walk worst-case scenarios to defuse them), and equanimity without indifference (care about the work, detach from the outcome). Daily reflection makes it stick.
10/15/2021 · 5 min read
Stoic philosophy isn't abstract ancient wisdom : it's a practical operating system for navigating the chaos, setbacks, and pressure that come with running an insurance agency. Brian Johnson's modern take on stoicism has direct application to how agency owners think and perform.
10/02/2021 · 5 min read
Turn agency disaster into growth by treating the rebuild as a design exercise, not a restoration. Extract the specific lessons about your own failure modes, build systems that account for those blind spots, and use the stress test as a structural advantage over agencies never forced to examine their foundation.
02/15/2021 · 6 min read
Insurance agents who complain less grow faster because complaining feels productive but burns the time and attention that builders spend responding. Run a one-week complaint audit, categorize every gripe as within or outside your control, and shorten the gap between problem and response.
02/08/2021 · 6 min read
Prepared agencies have four structural buffers: diversified lead sources so no single channel is above 60% of new production, multiple carrier relationships, a book not dependent on any one producer, and three to six months of cash. Build them before you need them.
03/18/2020 · 5 min read
Treat uncertainty as a condition to operate in, not a problem to solve. Lean on existing relationships, accept that figuring out video selling and remote staff will involve repeated failure, and treat humor as load-bearing infrastructure. Confidence based on conditions being normal collapses the moment they aren't.
11/01/2019 · 7 min read
William Hung turned globally televised rejection into a recording career and 200,000 albums sold by separating performance from identity. His resilience framework for insurance agents: feel the rejection, time-box it to five minutes, then pick up the phone. Track rejections as proof of activity, the leading indicator of results.
09/27/2019 · 7 min read
Garrett J. White's Warrior Way teaches insurance agents that business performance is downstream of body, being, and balance. Build all four domains daily or expect collapse: physical health, clear purpose, relationship investment, then business. Sixty-hour weeks on coffee and fast food are a debt that always comes due.