Suzilla: Family Business Podcast
Suzie and Matt McColm have been helping people figure out the confusing world of insurance for years. The last three years, we have helped the Washington Healthplanfinder run a full service enrollment center in Wenatchee, Washington.
Our webpage is www.wahbroker.org
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 208
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Environmentally friendly is business friendly.
Insurance is not an instant business as we have to look at things over long periods of time and then plan.
We have folks building dream homes out of concrete and steel to protect from wildfire. We ha…
Every Second Counts
By focusing on effect you can affect a response with the people around you. The Bear season 2 is a real good example of the details a restaurant can have to create an experience. Other businesses can…
Are you treading water or are you getting new experts in your life?
It is amazing how much people spend on time and money by avoiding experts. We see it a lot in our independent Insurance Agency. We are going to talk about experts today and the value they add. What h…
Are you an inclusive or an exclusive business?
Between last week’s SCOTUS decision and our town’s Prayer meeting masquerading as a 4th of July Celebration, it’s time to sort some things out. Our business has always been inclusive by design. We su…
Nostalgia sucks in the long run
While we run a lot of mid-century with Suzie Health Solutions. We can not rest on that for Wenatchee Insurance.
My teenager reminded me how bad nostalgia sucks when we walked into a 50s diner and we…
Lessons from the bottom of the ocean.
There are lessons everywhere to improve your business and yourself. Two hours after launch to see the Titanic, Titan lost contact with the surface. There are lessons everywhere and especially over th…
What are signs that you are adulting well?
Seriously, what signs does a person display when they have their house in order? What does it look like when they are a hot mess? We are no angels however there are habits that effect people display …
Are kids interested in Branding
We are going to get into branding and marketing today thanks to Nikki Darling Productions brochure that I have in my lobby. We keep a rack in our lobby for local businesses brochures which is one of …
Why do I look for Sacrifice in Leadership?
I learned from my time in the Army. It is a dividing line between management and leadership. A manager will cling to self-importance that pretty Instagram image of what the top looks like. A leader …
Rainbow in the Room
We run an inclusive insurance office. This includes the LGBTQIA+ members of our community. We have been doing so for over a decade because things like supporting Gay Marriage and Section 1557 of the …
What’s your back up plan?
Since we have an insurance business we ask What If Questions all the time to each other.
Your partner gets sick, vendors fail, and equipment breaks down. How many backup plans do you have in place fo…
As a small business owner, how valuable is your time?
When politicians come to town, they want to take their pictures with us. Charities have their hand out and we sponsor events. We are called the backbone of America. How valuable is the time of a smal…
May the 4th Be With you Nerd Business Owners.
We are big-time nerds around Wenatchee Insurance. We met at a convention. Have Star Wars tattoos. We also nerd out when it comes to insurance. Being a Nerd business owner is incredibly useful and I o…
Building a Black Sheep Business
We built an independent insurance agency that is definitely different. We have put ourselves into our business for over a decade.
What if all the stereotypes surrounding business are true? Everyone …
Marketing moments with archetypes, how to turbo your messaging.
Supernova had a big week were we talked about Marketing archetypes. If you followed Suzie Health Solutions through the years then you would have seen a variety of archetypes used.
How do they work in…
Difference in the workplace
The minute that someone steps into our insurance office a person knows that they are in for a different experience. We set out over a decade ago to not make something that sucked. As our kid puts it …
America needs more gambling
I am not talking the poker chips and scratchers. We are getting into risks and rewards today. Comfort & safety versus growth & discovery. How if we remove all of the risk then we never win. If we nev…
Capitalism Meltdown
We operate a little different. In an industry where women make about half as much as men we focus on inclusive capitalism. If you want an to work with a different kind of insurance agency in Washingt…
SuperNova and starting a business.
Suzie Health Solutions has been around for over 10 years working with Health insurance. Recently we decided to start improving Property Insurance in our area and Launched Wenatchee Insurance Agency.
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What do you think of when your hear Insurance Agency?
Supernova is putting Wenatchee Insurance in a competition with 24 different businesses and it looks like there are some assumptions about what goes into a business. We have been in a few clashes wit…