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🎧 Episode 444: Rise of Embedded Finance in Australia & Digital for Good

In this episode Brett King returns to his roots to explore investment opportunities in and from Australia, how Australian capability can act as a launch pad for global innovations and investments within the fintech and insurtech ecosystems. Our guests Simone Dossetor, Insurtech Australia, CEO; Ben Smith, Railsbank, Chief Operating Officer (APAC) and Christie Downs, CEO & Co-Founder, handdii, cover how the rise of embedded solutions creates new financial services distribution models in the fintech and insurtech markets.

🎧 Insurance Broker Secrets for Business Buying – Tom Gilroy – Acquisitions Anonymous Episode 98

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Tom Gilroy (@TomG_GKG) to talk about insurance. We talked about the role of an insurance broker, how to be proactive and minimize claims and risks, how to structure a deal, the different types of insurance you should be looking at, and much more. —– Thanks to our sponsors.

🎧 The CTO Perspective with Mario Paluzzi

The CTO Perspective with Mario Paluzzi Mario Paluzzi and Joe Lynch discuss the CTO perspective. Mario is the Chief Technical Officer at Reliance Partners, a commercial insurance agency specializing in risk management solutions for the transportation and logistics space. About Mario Paluzzi Mario Paluzzi is Chief Technology Officer of Reliance Partners, a top ranked commercial insurance agency specializing in Logistics and Transportation.

🎧 Interview with Morgan Lloyd Independent Insurance Agent with Trailstone Insurance Group-Insurance for Short Term Rentals

You will want to get a regularly updated Reconstruction Cost Estimate. Make sure that this is up to date and accurate. Get the maximum available dwelling replacement extension coverage. Make sure that you have sufficient ordinance and law coverage based on the age of your home. Make sure that you have enough loss of use coverage to provide housing for your family while you rebuild.

🎧 How a Fascination with Maps Lead to Geospatial Analysis and Flood Zone Control (w/Bob Frady, VP HazardHub acquired by Guidewire)

Bob Frady, CEO of HazardHub decided to start a company when a family member’s home unexpectedly flooded. HazardHub’s goal was make those tools available to every single homeowner in the United States. ”While we can’t prevent disasters from happening, we can give you a leg up in preparation.” Today Bob provides direct, no-nonsense insights into what it takes to bootstrap your vision, not take early capital, having enough confidence in your vision to walk away from partners who are not ready, and operating as a team.

🎧 Leading Your Independent Insurance Team On Renewal Reviews

In this episode of the Ridiculously Amazing Insurance Agent Podcast, we had the honor to speak to Teresa Kitchens of the Sterling Insurance Group.  This is a woman paving her own path in life and insurance as a mom, a successful agency owner, and the host of the Power of Women in Insurance Podcast. We caught up with Teresa to discuss things like leading your team lovingly, providing resources, and how that all tie into renewal calls.  This podcast for anyone looking at their retention rates scratching their head wondering how it got here. We all could use a lesson or two from Teresa.

🎧 Debunking the Life and Health Insurance Myths with Beshak (Part 2)

This week on the #PaisaVaisa Podcast, Anupam Gupta is in conversation with Mahavir Chopra, Founder – Beshak.org where they discuss many different aspects of Life and Health Insurance in India. Anupam and Mahavir initiate the conversation on the ideology behind starting the insurance advising company ‘Beshak’ and its business model and why an individual needs a financial advisor when choosing insurance.

🎧 Branch Insurance Head of Claims, Charlie Wendland

Rob and Lee talk with Charlie Wendland, Head of Claims at Branch Insurance (Branch). By putting data and technology to work and harnessing the power of community, Branch continues to make insurance better and more affordable for all. In our second interview with Branch, Rob and Lee talk with their Head of Claims, Charlie Wendland, to learn more about Branch, how their claims operations is, how he built it from the ground up, their corporate culture, and much more. Learn more about Branch Insurance at 

🎧 Using Whole Life Insurance For Retirement Income w/ John Shedenhelm

#retirementincome #retirementtips #financialstrategies #wholelifeinsurance On this episode, Gino talks with John Shedenhelm, from the 100 Year Team, about ways to leverage the cash value of a properly structured whole life insurance policy for retirement income. John has been in financial services for over 20 years, and recommends whole life policies for several reasons.

🎧 Ep. 172: Airbnb’s Hiroki Asai on Designing Environments for Creative Teams to Thrive

Airbnb’s Global Head of Marketing, Hiroki Asai, grew up riding his BMX through the orchards of Cupertino, CA. But it was the visual language of skateboard culture that ensnared his creative imagination and grew into a passion for graphic design. Always industrious, he took night school art classes as a teenager, went on to earn a BA in Graphic Design, and then got straight to work freelancing.

🎧 Rushing into Agency Ownership with Katherine Rushing

Welcome to Declaration of Independence. Today, we meet Kristine Rushing, co-owner and risk consultant at Rushing Insurance Agency in Pensacola, Florida. At the beginning of her career, Rushing interviewed with a bank and an insurance agency. The insurance agency was the first one to offer her a job—and so her insurance career began.

🎧 Throwback: Remember Why You Started with Ciara Gravier

In this throwback episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Ciara Gravier, CIC, PWCA, CPIA, Founder, and CEO of The Bunker Insurance & Risk Management. Ciara talks about her knowledge and expertise in the insurance industry and how COVID-19 has affected her business.

🎧 How To Get Paid What You’re Owed When You Have An Insurance Claim With Jack Hanks

How safe is your insurance claim? How do you ensure that any claim that you make is paid fairly by the insurance company? This is a discussion that Eric Anderton and CEO and president of Velocity Public Adjusting, Jack Hanks, take on in this episode. Jack has had deep experience since 1989 in the space of public adjusting. He shares his insights on how contractors can maximize their payout from their insurance companies. Tune in as they talk about how vital documentation is and how it’s important to ensure that you have the right coverages in place for the projects you’re building.

🎧 The Benefits of Data-Driven B2B with Dylan Steele, CMO of Coalition

This episode features an interview with Dylan Steele, CMO of Coalition, the leading provider of cyber insurance and security, combining comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Dylan is an accomplished marketing executive with experience leading marketing efforts for high-growth technology companies. On this episode, Dylan shares his insights into the benefits of data-driven B2B, why sales enablement matters, and why mapping the customer journey is important.

🎧 [AI is Here] – Current Use-Cases of NLP in Insurance – with Gero Gunkel of Zurich Insurance

Today’s guest in our second episode of the AI is Here series is Gero Gunkel, COO for Zurich Customer Active Management at Zurich Insurance. He was formerly the company’s Global Head of AI. In this episode, Gero provides his perspective on the accessibility of NLP applications in insurance and where it’s making a difference today.

🎧 How to Prevent Insurance Frauds

Galen M. Hair, Owner of Insurance Claim HQ is a property-casualty insurance attorney operating in more than seven states: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Atlanta, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi. Through property-casualty insurance claims, Galen and his team have helped over 800 families rebuild their homes and businesses.

🎧 251: Red Flags You Could Be Overpaying for Workers Comp & How to Get Your Money Back with Scott Priz

How do you know if you’re getting overcharged for your workers comp premiums?  If you are 100% happy with the checks you’re writing for workers comp, and feel great about how much you’re paying…you should probably skip this episode. What you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with workers comp overpayment recovery specialist Scott Priz: There’s a 30% chance you’re getting overcharged for workers comp, and what to do about it.

🎧 Tanguy Touffut On Raising $140 Million To Offer Corporate Insurance Against Climate Risks

Tanguy Touffut has gone from corporate to a startup entrepreneur. Raising many millions of dollars to grow a global company that helps others anticipate and protect against climate change risks. His venture, Descartes Underwriting has attracted financing from top-tier investors like Eurazeo, Serena, Cathay Innovation, and Seaya Ventures.

🎧 Affordable Life Insurance with Omar Kaywan

LifeBlood: We talked about affordable life insurance, disrupting the insurance industry by making it affordable, accessible and convenient to buy a policy from an app, why life insurance is so important, and how to find out how much coverage is for you with Omar Kaywan, CoFounder and VP of Growth with Goose Insurance.

🎧 How Do You Underwrite in the Virgin Islands and the Caribbean? With Theresa Fabela

Theresa Fabela is the President of Dorchester Insurance Company and is accountable for Underwriting, Claims, Accounting, Budget, and Reinsurance. She leverages the company’s expertise in writing island-based property and casualty exposures to profitably grow the business. She is also the President of the Virgin Islands Insurance Guaranty Association and Virgin Islands Association of Admitted Property & Casualty Insurers.

🎧 The Career Opportunities in Insurtech : A FLITe Series Webinar

Hello and welcome the latest episode of the Leadership In Insurance Podcast, we are sharing a special episode this week, the live recording of our first FLITe series panel event. The FLITe series is FinPro’s new events series that brings together aspiring future female leaders in InsurTech through round tables, panel events, and discussions.

🎧 IAM1375 – Social Entrepreneur & Owner of Insurance Agency Helps Families, Women & Girls Realize Their Dreams

Erin Lewis is the owner and risk advisor at one of the fastest-growing personal lines insurance agencies in the country – Goosehead Insurance. She and her team help families protect and realize their dreams by utilizing unbiased risk management expertise to provide the right insurance coverage at a fair price.

🎧 Episode 48: Being Inspired by the Mission in our Day-to-Day Operations with Tom Denomme and Sandra Stephens

On this episode, Tom Denomme, Managing Director of Assured Choice Insurance Group, and Sandra Stephens, VP of Operations, join Jeremy and Marisol. Tom shares the origins of Assured Choice and how it leverages Qualfon’s vast experience in the insurance business. Sandra looks back at her beginnings in the industry that led to Kramer Direct and the eventual Qualfon acquisition. Both highlight how the Qualfon Mission fits well in their management styles and how it helps them mold their people into being the best version of themselves.

🎧 103. News: HUMN, Amenli and Getsafe prove it’s a good time to raise money

Nigel Walsh and Benjamin Ensor are joined by a great panel of guests to discuss the most recent and exciting news in the world of Insurtech. Joining us today are: Susan Holliday, Senior Adviser, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Mark Musson, Founder of HUMN We cover the following stories: London-based insurtech Humn secures £10.

🎧 Episode 304: Duff the Wife Returns!

Hello, everyone! In this epidode, my beautiful wife, Joelle, comes back on the show for a quick chat about life. We sat on the couch and had a cozy talk about all sorts of topics. I hope you enjoy! As always, you can send me questions to future episodes to duffthepsych@gmail.com and find the show notes for this episode at

🎧 Amazon Product Insurance LIVE Q&A

Amit Batzir is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Office at Spott, the world’s first financial services platform designed exclusively for e-commerce sellers. He has extensive experience in the world of data & risk and formerly led the Data Intelligence team at PayPal.  Spott was founded in 2021 and grew to a staff of 25 spread across offices in Tel Aviv and New York, after completing an $8.

🎧 EPISODE 21: AI, Machine Learning, and Digital Transformation w/ Colby Tunick

In this episode I interview Colby Tunick. Colby Tunick is the CEO of ReFocus, an AI-platform that derives insights from every interaction and helps match customers’ wants and needs with products and services at scale for insurance professionals. He currently works at the CA Earthquake Authority which is the second largest, single-line, natural catastrophe insurance company in the world.

🎧 EP 155 – Simon O’Dell – InsurTech Gateway Australia – Let’s Hold Hands and Partner, Please

The Asia InsurTech Podcast spoke with Simon O’Dell, the managing director at InsurTech Gateway Australia, about the state of InsurTech in Australia and how the industry has accelerated over the past years. Here is the transcript of our conversation: Michael WaitzeHi, this is Michael Waitze. And welcome back to the Asia InsurTech Podcast. This is […]

🎧 Self Confidence and Healthy Confidence with Gina Iovino

Today I welcome on Gina Iovino who brings some immense value about improving our healthy habits to impact our self confidence. You can find more from Gina here: I’d like to thank our sponsor Athletic Greens today for all the work they are doing to boost people’s health around the world. Also Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase.

🎧 Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: The Intern

At Work in America – Workplace Movie Hall of Fame: The Intern Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane This episode of At Work in America is sponsored by Paychex, one of the leading providers of HR, payroll, retirement, and insurance solutions for businesses of all sizes. Nearly one-third of U.S. employees say their work schedule still remains unpredictable as a result of the pandemic, a factor they report as having a significant effect on their overall well-being – from causing financial stress, to feeling disconnected from family friends.

🎧 Dr Nag Vaidyanathan, CTO, Duck Creek Tech – Pioneering Insurance Industry Digital Transformation

Dr. Nag Vaidyanathan, Ph.D. is Chief Technology Officer and EVP at Duck Creek Technologies ( a leading provider of core system solutions to the Property and Casualty and general insurance industries, where via the company’s enterprise software-as-a-service solution, pioneering digital transformation, insurance carriers are able to navigate uncertainty and capture market opportunities faster than their competitors.

🎧 Insurance, Tenacity & The Law of Averages with Tompkins Insurance’s Daniel McDevitt

Daniel McDevitt is the top Account Executive at Tompkins Insurance out of Pennsylvania. Dan is a highly knowledgeable and skilled sales professional who always prioritizes his clients and their needs. Dan is committed to his craft, is a forever learner, and, most importantly, gets results. Today, Dan talks about his role at Tompkins Insurance and what it has taken to become the top seller in his organization.

🎧 EP368: How to Successfully Roll Out New Benefit Designs to Employees and New Care Delivery Models at a Provider Organization, With Ashleigh Gunter

People are averse to change. It’s a thing. It’s a thing that affects even those of us who consider ourselves highly educated and/or very smart. Nobody likes disruption or, even worse, the prospect of disruption and the uncertainty that goes along with that. Nobody likes to feel like the rug just got pulled out from under them or that they’ve lost control of something, especially something important like their health benefits or how they care for patients.

🎧 InsurTech Enzo bekommt siebenstellige Pre-Seed-Finanzierung für seine Wohngebäudeversicherung (Insurance)

In der Nachmittagsfolge sprechen wir mit Sascha Wolf, CEO und Co-Founder von Enzo, über die Pre-Seed Finanzierung in Höhe von rund eine Million Euro. Mit einem Mix aus modernem Versicherungsschutz, Smart Home Technologie und Künstlicher Intelligenz will das Heidelberger Startup das Problem der Wohngebäudeversicherungen bei Leitungswasserschäden lösen.

🎧 Fully Covered With Fatberry

One thing’s for sure, the pandemic has taught us you cannot be prepared for everything. However, you can most certainly try your best to be prepared, and what better reflects that in life than applying for insurance? The matter of insurance can get complicated, confusing, and inconvenient, so John Tan, CEO of online insurance aggregator Fatberry, explains his idea to simplify the entire process and his hopes for the future of Fatberry. Image Credit: Fatberry Official Website

🎧 E91 – Building India’s largest New-Age Insurance Company w/Digit Insurance’s Kamesh Goyal

In this Episode, I (@Jivraj Singh Sachar) speak with Kamesh Goyal, Founder & Chairman of Digit Insurance.  Digit Insurance is India’s largest New-Age Insurance startup, valued at almost 3.5 Billion Dollars. Digit offers a variety of insurance products across motor, travel, health, and property categories, and is the leading tech-first company in the under-penetrated Indian insurance market.

🎧 368: An example of engineering a disruptive product – with Konrad Heimpel

Lessons from disrupting the insurance industry – for product managers Today we are talking about creating disruptive products that challenge existing industries. A classic example of this is the digital camera that disrupted the film industry and contributed to the collapse of Kodak. Disruption occurs when we think of how a problem can be solved in a completely different way.

🎧 The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Law with Chris Garrod, Director of Insurance and Technology at Conyers Dill & Pearman

In this episode of On Record PR, Jennifer Simpson Carr goes on record with Chris Garrod, Director of Insurance and Technology and head of the FinTech group at Conyers Dill & Pearman, to discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the practice of law. Learn More Chris Garrod is a Director in the Corporate department of Conyers Dill & Pearman.

🎧 Costa Rica Cost of Living for Foreigners and Expats

Find out what the cost of living is in Costa Rica and categories of expenses to include in your living abroad budget.  In this episode, Kristin details her exact cost of living in Costa Rica and shares what other foreigners are spending to live there (singles, couples, and families).  Find out the cost of internet, various rent prices around the country, and other factors that could impact your cost of living there.

🎧 Ask HTM – Special Accounts for Baby Expenses, Dissuading a Listener from Using the Beloved Roth, & Choosing the Best Life Insurance #514

We’re kicking off the week by answering listener questions! And if you have a question that you’d like for us to answer on the show, we’d love for you to submit your own via HowToMoney.com/ask , send us your voice memo. Regardless of how random or bizarre you might think it is, we want to hear it.