

Profiles in Risk
Insurance Nerds
The largest insurtech podcast going on 700+ episodes. This is not your grandpa's insurance industry!
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Apr 16, 2025 • 37min
Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance - PIR Ep 659
Tony chats with Mike Gulla, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive Insurance, they are an AI technology platform that is creating climate resiliency products for commercial businesses across the US. Starting with a suite of parametric products allowing customers to get short duration products for different things that will impact the financial resilience of their business .Mike Gulla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gulla-32299749/Adaptive Insurance: https://www.adaptiveinsurance.com/Video version: https://youtu.be/guxrLCvDZdQ

Apr 15, 2025 • 25min
Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE - Rising Insurance Star Executives - PIR Ep. 658
Tony chats with Amy Cooper, Founder at RISE, about the upcoming RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala in Fort Lauderdale and so much more about this incredible organization!Amy Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-sarah-cooper/RISE Leadership Summit & Award Gala: https://riseprofessionals.com/events/2025-leadership-summit-awards-gala/RISE: https://riseprofessionals.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/tZna3bCi88U

Apr 14, 2025 • 1h 2min
Jon Lincoln - PIR Ep. 657
Tony chats with Jon Lincoln who had a couple of successful insurtech exits and is now running a successful startup in the ecommerce/non-profit space about everything he learned along the way. What an episode! This one is a cannot miss!Jon Lincoln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlincoln/Video Version: https://youtu.be/3IbPa-b2HE4

Apr 11, 2025 • 16min
Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures - Ep. 656
Tony chats with Adam Chadroff, Principal Insurance at Equal Ventures about the upcoming Insurance Capital Summit coming up in NYC on May 8thAdam Chadroff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-chadroff/Insurance Capital Summit: https://www.ics.equal.vc/Video Version: https://youtu.be/PDG0yolbdes

Apr 10, 2025 • 26min
CJ Hutsenger, Co-Founder at Referral Radar - PIR Ep. 655
Tony chats with CJ Hutsenger, Co-Founder at Referral Radar, an incredible new tools built for insurance agents, by insurance agents, helping them find referral partners. Not just referral partners, but the right referral partners. Every real estate agent and mortgage broker talks a big game on instagram and facebook, they kind of have to, but that's no good to your agency if you can't figure out who actually has business to refer to you and the right kind of business. Now you can figure it out, with Referral Radar! This will be LIFE CHANGING for a lot of agents. It's like Moneyball for your marketing expenses. 🤯 Don't miss out! An incredible episode that's just on 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥!CJ Hutsenger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjhutsenpiller/Referral Radar: https://referralradar.com/The Insurance Guys Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-insurance-guys-podcast/id1313000372Video Version: https://youtu.be/Dcut1oRIpR0

Apr 9, 2025 • 50min
Christian Brindle, CEO of Seven Figures Medicare Training - PIR Ep. 654
Christian Brindle, CEO of Seven Figures Medicare Training, Lead Heroes, Hire Heroes, and the Seven Figure Medicare Summit. They help medicare focused agencies in all sorts of ways. Started with his own agency, and then growing by helping other agencies. Seven Figure Medicare Training provides training and a giant facebook group. Then they merged with a leads company, a marketing company, and a virtual assistant company: Lead Heroes and Hire Heroes.Ultimately they provide: 1. Extremely high level training and consulting. 2. They help agencies with leads and marketing. 3. The Seven Figure Medicare Summit in Utah.Christian Brindle: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-brindle-a4411ab4/Seven Figures Medicare Training: https://sevenfigureu.com/Lead Heroes: https://leadheroes.com/Hire Heroes: https://hireheroes.com/christian43/Video Version: https://youtu.be/bPySP_kiMX0

Apr 8, 2025 • 24min
Rashmi Melgiri, Co-Founder and CEO at Functional Finance - PIR Ep. 653
Tony chats with Rashmi Melgiri, Co-Founder and CEO at Functional Finance, an automated finops platform for the P&C industry. They simplify and unify all things related to financial management for insurance companies. Insurance is full of manual reconciliation processes, but it doesn't have to be!Rashmi Melgiri: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melgiri/Functional Finance: https://www.functionalfi.com/Video Version: https://youtu.be/hp2QFiQcZUs

Apr 7, 2025 • 20min
The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) and their Annual Conference - PIR Ep. 652
Tony chats with Amelia Fitch and Jennifer Chase about The Society of Insurance Research (SIR) and their upcomming Annual Conference May 4-6th in Chicago, IL. I had never heard of SIR and I'm so excited to learn about this organization. Whether you're "big R" Research (with the word in your job title) or "little r" research (the kind we all do), if you love the intersection of side of insurance and research, this is your tribe!SIR Conference 2025: https://www.sirnet.org/SIR/SIR/Events/2025_Annual_Conference/2023_Annual_Conference-_Save_the_Date.aspxSIR: https://www.sirnet.org/Amelia Fitch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-fitch/Jennifer Chase: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-chase-2598104/Video Version: https://youtu.be/dZxf66unqS8

Mar 27, 2025 • 34min
Jim Sorebo, Positivity Warrior, Author & Speaker - PIR Ep. 651
Tony chats with Jim Sorebo, Positivity Warrior, Author & Speaker about his life and his new book "Positivity Warrior: Strength through sorrow. How a positive outlook can heal, inspire, and change your life." This is a wonderful and inspiring episode about Jim's difficult journey and how he turned it into a force for good. A cannot miss episode!Jim Sorebo (LinkedIn): https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimsorebo/Jim's author and speaker website: https://www.jimsorebo.com/Positivity Warrior book: https://amzn.to/4cavzAUVideo Version: https://youtu.be/lGAAuR-acRw

Mar 26, 2025 • 32min
Tom Wetzel, President of Thomas H. Wetzel and Associates - PIR Ep. 650
Tony chats with Tom Wetzel, President of Thomas H. Wetzel and Associates. Tom educates agents on how AI can help operate their agencies more efficiently and also on the cybercrime threat that comes with it.Tom Wetzel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaswetzel957/Video Version: https://youtu.be/bSCQU9QiMZI