Tony chats with incredible rockstar Waleed Zayid, an incredible rockstar that went from the sales call center at Geico to a Director in the same companies in record breaking time. Waleed's story is incredible and we spent almost an hour discussing lots of advice for young insurance professionals. This is a must watch episode!

Waleed Sayid: https://www.linkedin.com/in/waleed-zayid/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/mpUWPMpcDuo

Tony chats Skip Gilleland, Director of Product Development at DisburseCloud. They make payments as simply as sending an email to the received and let them choose which of many, many ways to actually get paid. Your claimants can even choose to get their claims payment TODAY at any CVS or Walmart.

Skip Gilleland: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skipgilleland/
DisburseCloud: https://www.tranzpay.io/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/vhuai-S13qI

Tony chats with Aaron Ammar, Co-Founder and CEO at Briteside. They help independent agents and brokers by taking any insurance document, upload it into Briteside, and quite literally talk to it! What are the limits of my policy? Do you have a summary for me? Ask it potential claims scenario. Compare two policies side by side. This is AMAZING! Don't miss this one!

Aaron Ammar: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-ammar-14a41022/
Briteside: https://www.brightsideai.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/fnsrDQ-E51c

Tony chats with Jane Wang, Co-Founder and CEO at Optimity. They exist to help people live healthier and longer. A holistic approach to physical health, mental health, and financial wellness. Their platform has codified 30 years of behavior science and created a lot of ways to help people proactively improve all these important things.

Jane Wang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janejwang/
Optimity: https://www.myoptimity.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/Hm_y348PaMw

Tony chats with Jeremy Keating, Co-Founder and Director at The Price Writer, a General Insurance (P&C) pricing services company. They work with leaders in GI pricing to solve their problems using The Price Writer 9 Step Method. A very interesting conversation about insurance pricing and the future of pricing.

Jeremy Keating: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-keating/
The Price Writer: https://www.thepricewriter.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/K9Wnp-MnVEs

Tony chats with Megan Thomas, Owner at The Social Coverage Collective, a done-for-you social media option for insurance agents to help them stand out online and be the go-to agent in their space.

Megan Thomas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganethomas/
The Social Coverage Collective: https://www.socialcoveragecollective.com/

Tony chats with Jane Vevea about her career from life insurance to insurtech. Lots of lessons and advice for young insurance pros!

Jane Vevea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-vevea-clu/
Video Version: https://youtu.be/DIcOUG7DUlc

Tony chats with Connor Thomson, generational speaker for the CPCU class of 2023 and law student. We chat about why insurance, and especially claims is an awesome career, and why he did CPCU and chose to go to law school.

Connor Thomson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-michaels-7aa350172

Video Version: https://youtu.be/_LgBvM7nALc

Tony chats with Torey Maerz, CEO at ClientCircle by Rocket Referrals. Torey is a recurring guest, having appeared on PIR back in episode 249. They have now rebranded as ClientCircle. They have added a mass amount of features to the referrals and reputation management they originally did. They now also do automated communications, websites, web chat, text messaging, and so much more.

Torey Maerz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toreym/
ClientCircle: https://www.clientcircle.com/
Prior appearance on PIR Ep. 249: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orWnvJBFYfg
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/ybgCQsG3ai0

Charles Morgan, Co-Founder at ScreeCred. They are working to create additional pathways for marginalized communities to gain access to credit, by tracking and reporting their auto insurance premium. People of color pay roughly 70% to 80% more for auto insurance premiums due to their credit scores. Reporting proper payment of premium and having it positively affect credit scores could be huge difference maker for marginalized communities.

Charles Morgan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-morgan-ab61a370/
ScreeCred: https://www.screecred.com/

Video Version: https://youtu.be/OiLV2Q6ilUA