Bill Cotter is a man who has seen it all. 🌍He's been around the world, and he's no stranger to success. There's not much that can take this man by surprise, but when it comes to his📊 leadership and management of Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates, he's got an eye for detail that shows in everything he does.

Bill has led a nomadic life- 🙌from New York to Hong Kong to Seattle he brings a wealth of experience and institutional knowledge to his team. 🚁

He credits his father 👨for getting him into the industry through a funny twist of fait that allowed AIG to take a chance on him nearly 30 years ago! 

Today, Bill is focused on fulfilling Physicians mission which is protecting defending and serving their members with a major focus on claims management. 📌They do claims differently, they don't just support the individual physician—they treat everyone involved with respect and empathy.☝️

Bill has achieved incredible things in his career and he is looking forward to the next🚀 30 years :) 

Chris Senskible is no stranger to success 💯. He is one of the top talents to come out of the Silicon Prairie, and today I could not be more excited to share his story🏰.

Chris is a man who knows his purpose, and he's not afraid to pursue it with everything that he has. He is a competitor who lives for the thrill of competition—whether it's on the football field 🏈(glory days at University of Nebraska at Kearney) or in business, he's always going hard.

About a decade ago, Chris would take his work stress out on the basketball court and found out his pick up ball team🏀 was a group of top notch producers an Unico. The quickly filled him in on the industry and Chris was all in on Insurance.

Chris is a great communicator 🎥with a laser focus on detail. He is an excellent advocate for both his clients and colleagues alike—you'll often hear him say that "it's all about the people." 💪 As he was winning middle market clients he knew there had to be a better way to reduce the work load on his customers and enhance their customer experience….he knew the status quo could continue but that is not in his DNA - he had to give his customers the best. 🙌 This led him to found Ferro - 📝 Ferro was born to speed up renewals by 75% by giving producers and policy holders a single source of truth for schedules and other policy-related information 💵so they could actually ENJOY the insurance process!

Follow his journey and listen to what he has to say- this man is on fire🥊!

🌟Let's get to it.

Today I am so excited to sit down with Dr. Billy R Williams today. He’s a true genius, mentor, investor and leader in the insurance industry. 🔥 We are grateful for his military service and when he was getting ready to retire from the military in 1999; 💯he knew he was ready to dive into his true entrepreneurial spirit and make his family generational wealth. 💪 Listen to him share how he did not “land” in insurance but chose it because he knew insurance drives the entire economy and is SO important to our entire financial model.

He is the CEO of the Williams Family Investment Group,💵 a group of more than 160 partner insurance agencies that produce almost a billion dollars a year in new and renewal insurance premiums. 🏆He is also the founder and president of Inspire a Nation Business Mentoring Services, 📱America’s best insurance agent and Small Business coaching and mentoring company. 

LRP, The Loss Run Pro is so honored to be sponsoring his 📍 “Fix My Insurance Agency Process Implementation Workshop” next week that is teaching every agent how to Build a $10 Million Revenue Insurance Agency- 💻 if you have not registered check out this podcast and go register!

I'm here today with Michael Zalle, 🌟CEO and founder of YellowBird. Michael founded YellowBird just three years ago and they have been off and running.🏃💨

Michael has been instrumental in hiring a 🏳️‍🌈diverse staff that has created a culture where people believe in their mission and are all in to change the landscape for safety and how business is conducted.🔸

Besides the main core value to be a continual learner—Yellow Bird also prides itself on being "Spicy." 🔥 🔥 They have a goal to be spicy in every way possible—through their work as well as through their life experiences. 🏥And this isn't just an empty statement; it's something that you can tell from talking with everyone there.

Michael is a "why" driven leader 👍with extensive tech experience in environmental, health & safety markets. Hel has been responsible for creating, building, and launching new concepts and companies, 🙌 resulting in successful exits over a 35-year tech career ; yes he was selling fiber internet back in the 1990's!

Michael might be newer to the insurance space than some other folks out there,💥 but he's rapidly scaling YellowBird up as one of the most recognizable names in insurance agencies today. 💪Listen in as he shares more about his start and journey!

Today I am sitting down with Mark Smith, 🎉 President of K2 Insurance Services a specialty MGA that is set to write nearly $1.5 Billion dollars of premium this year! 💵

Mark has spent over 30 years in the insurance industry, and as he states, "life has been good to me." 🎯 Over his 30 years, he's gone coast to coast, and he's been successful at every step of his career.

He started out as an actuary geek, 📝 then developed a deep skill set to manage and run teams and divisions of insurance with a focus on loss ratios and profitability.

He's innovative and proactive, 🔌 with an approach that's led him to develop many strategies for K2 to drive profitable revenue and develop over 7 start ups in the last 18 months.

It has been fun to get to know him, work closely with him, and be a small part of the K2 rocket ship's journey.🙌🚀

👀Today I'm sitting down with my good friend and Executive Vice President of Aurenity, Janet Beaver. Aurenity is a new digital MGA that's taking the old school insurance fundamentals of pricing risk, finding the best talent, 🏆and empowering them with the best tech-enabled platform to truly change the industry.

Janet Beaver has been in the insurance industry for nearly 30 years, and she's seen a lot of change. 📈From the beginning, she was determined to succeed—to make her way in a field that had traditionally been dominated by men. 👩

Janet is no stranger to hard work and perseverance; she's always led 🤝from the front and fought hard to be one of the leaders in her space. 🍀 She stumbled into the insurance industry nearly 30 years ago and has worked hard ever since to successfully underwrite complex risks while developing lasting relationships with her broker partners.🤓

When Janet was approached by Aurenity to head their Excess division, 💥 she knew it was the right fit to combine her experience, grit, and entrepreneurial spirit to continue to change the insurance landscape—🚀she is a force to be reckoned with in the insurance industry and she is just getting started! 

Today I am sitting down with Jeremiah Howard and I have no idea where to begin. He is one of the more forward-thinking, innovative, strategic, and wonderful people I've met in my career. 

18 months ago our paths crossed and I jokingly refer to him as my (insurance) big brother Jer has a heart of gold and is extremely authentic, loved by everyone, and a team player by all definitions. 

Jer truly care about the industry, bringing it forward, but more importantly he is a leader that cares about his people. He wants them all to thrive, develop, and grow. 

Thank you for being such an inspiration—not only to me but also to many others who look up to you. 

You are a true class act and I feel honored to have you in my network and in my corner!

Today I'm sitting down with 💪 Abraham Boling, CEO and founder of Insurance Professionals, a cluster group with over 600 independent agents.

Abe is the true definition of 💥 self-made, self-built, and determined to work his way out of poverty to the top. He knew he wanted to create a legacy and revenue stream that could give his family of six the life they deserved. 🚨He got his start with Aflac and quickly pivoted to founding his own independent agency called Contractors Insurance NW INC. 🙌 He successfully sold and exited that company at the start of the pandemic, and has been off to the races ever since.

Now, Abe is building a reputation as a leader in the industry 📈—based on trust, decisiveness, and open communication with his brokers and carrier partners. His fundamental insurance background and entrepreneurial spirit is setting him apart. 

🗣️ Listen in as he shares the grit and grind needed to thrive in this industry!

🙋Today, I'm sitting down with Kevin, the president of Cover Whale. I've been following their company for a while and have been impressed; They've already written 💰$100 million in premiums so far this year, and they're aiming to double that in the second half of the year.

Listen 🎧 in as he tells us how they're insurtech 2.0—driving growth while maintaining market-leading loss ratios, focusing on profitability and leveraging data to make roads safer and save lives! 🙌

Kevin has grown up in the insurance industry, surrounded by legends like Peter Hearn, Rod Fox, and Rob Bredahl  —the list goes on 📄; all of whom have helped shape his dynamic and aggressive approach to business.

And now, he's building a reputation🗣 for himself as a leader in the insurance world, 💬 based on trust, decisiveness, and open communication with his brokers, carrier & re-insurance partners and capital markets 💫. He's using his fundamental insurance background and pairing it with propriety tech solutions to better utilize data to better price risk 💥.

I can't wait to see where these guys are in the next few years...the 🚀rocket ship is just getting loaded!

 Today I'm sitting down with Adam Keifer, CEO & Co-Founder of Talage.

You may have seen him ripping it up on the University of 🏈Nevada football team—he was shooting for the NFL, but he ended up landing in the second-best career: 💲Insurance!

He got his start at a local independent agency in Reno that was eventually acquired by Wells Fargo. He credits his agency roots and mentor, Dave Strickler, with helping him realize that there was a huge opportunity to revolutionize small business insurance for agents and carriers.🗣

🎤 At 6 ft 5 inches with a ponytail, he might not look like your standard insurance agent or tech entrepreneur, but he's revolutionizing small insurance alongside his childhood best friend. 💪

What I love most about Adam and Talage is that he's revolutionizing small insurance by pulling the best practices of Silicon Valley startup life into humble Reno roots to give people a great career. 📰 He takes it as a big responsibility to guide them and mentor them to excel in their careers and build something really special.

He's put together a team of top-notch experts — all of whom share his vision — and they're already making waves in the industry. Listen in and keep an eye out for Talage as they are working with dozens of carrier and agencies across the nation.

💥His commitment to making small business insurance easy and efficient is unmatched in the industry. The talage team is full of top-notch experts — all of whom share his vision — and they're already making waves in the industry.🙌 Listen in and keep an eye out for Talage.