Unleash Your Lady Power Podcast Casey Kuckert

Heidi’s Story
Heidi worked for an ad agency, radio, and selling internet to higher education. She got laid off from her job, and her dad recommended that she become an insurance agent at All-State. She started her agency from scratch in 2004 and grew pretty quickly. She opened a second office in 2008 right before the market crash. How to get through difficult times
Control what you can control. Let the other things go. Control your attitude. Be a positive leader. Marketing and getting Leads
You should have a lot of different sources for leads. Don’t put all of your lead generation in one bucket. When you have multiple sources of leads, if one lead source is underperforming one month, you’ll still be okay. Being successful as a business owner
Have a good attitude. Your employees will match the attitude that you bring inn. Know you’re core values and mission statement. Hire, fire, and evaluate on those core values. This will build a company culture around your values. These values and mission statement can be fluid. They can change. That said, you shouldn’t be changing them all of the time. It’s easy to train skills and software, but you can’t train core values. Hire people that align with your values and train the skills.How do you keep everything together?
Hire the right people to do the right things. You won’t be good at everything. Advice for new agency owners
Find mentors or other people in the industry. Bounce ideas off of other business owners. Be willing to try new things. Follow Heidi
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Katlyn is currently the Director of Education and Development at Quantum Assurance International
She started in the insurance industry in 2011. She started from scratch with her husband.
Since they started from scratch, they had do everything from selling door to door and managing their phone system.

Jennifer has been an Allstate agent for 9 years and owned an agency for 7 years.
She has been in the insurance industry for 17 years.
She loves it, and can’t imagine doing anything else.
She is passionate about growing other people in her agency.

Alison is a mom of four from Ohio. Allison has 2 physical Allstate offices. She’s built a large team with Allstate and been very successful there. Allison is a natural hard worker, and she is always going.

Ami is an Allstate Agency Owner in Washington State. She has 3 children, and she’s married to her high school sweetheart. She has been an Allstate agent for 11 years, and worked in an agency for another 8 years before that. Even before that, she worked as a telemarketer for insurance. Needless to say, she’s spent a lot of time in the insurance space. Ami has a team of 15 people across 5 locations.

Judy Wigins is an award winning and recognized Allstate agency owner in the Houston, Texas area. She has been living the small business owner dream/rollercoaster ride since November, 2012 after leaving a 12 year teaching career. She owns two locations and currently employees nine people on her team. She loves collaborating with other small business owners, especially women owned business as we have our own unique challenges and strengths. She has been married to Michael for almost thirteen years and they have one son, Luke, who is eight. As a family, they love to travel, go for daily walks, and seek out adventures. She loves to binge watch TV shows, read, run, and when she’s in the mood, cook and bake. Judy also truly enjoyes working in her community and being of service to others.