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
Don’t get trapped in your comfort bubble.
It’s an everything insurance year and if you behaved in a responsible manner, then you might be experiencing some hesitancy.
Comfort & Safe are the sweetest traps. Build something that you don’t ha…
How do you spark business?
It is a collision of risk and opportunity that produces food on the table. When we are not doing our own small business then we have been assisting others with theirs. Yes, we risk helping others and…
Toxic People and Nocebos
Today is a perfect day to talk about the Nocebo effect and toxic people. You are probably aware of Placebos. Something that is innocent however you think it will produce a positive result and it does…
How important is travel to a small business?
To a family? Why would you separate to experience something different than you partner? There are trade offs in any business and mistakenly, travel is one that is tossed aside because of expense and …
You want to improve your business? Add some internet.
We have store and we work with products that have been around for years. The internet enabled us to be found by customers, offer different products, and even reach out and make new friends and busine…
It’s OK to have a bad day.
Time for a reality check, it’s being positive 24/7 is unreal and harmful. Not everything is going to be beer and skittles.
Yes, there are times that you are going to have to embrace the suck. However…
Living in outrageous joy and prospering
There are two places to run a business. When you walk into our office tell us what you see.
One is business model is creating a xerox of a previous business and day in day out repeat. The other is to…
Being the best sucks.
We do a lot of innovation when it comes to our business. Suzie is getting ready to go to her first Insurance Group Convention because she is the best person to bring back new materials and attitude t…
Fraud is stealing our community
We can use less fraud. As insurance agents we literally take classes about ethics and fighting fraud on a regular basis. Do we need more people regularly trained in these types of materials?
We have …
How do I get Healthcare outside of Open Enrollment
Special Enrollment. Everything has it limits. We completed our 9th offering Healthcare. It’s not different than other seasons, tax season, group insurance season, fishing season, strawberry season. I…
Time to get an expert
Life is not a DIY experience. It takes a village....many hands makes for light work....no man is an island. Let's get over our fears and ask for help.
We look for experts around us to enrich our expe…
How does need play into buying for home and business?
For most people, buying something for your business or home has a process. Can I use it? Do I need it? Why do I want to buy it now? Can I put it off later for something else?
Sometimes you can’t, you…
What do you do for Hobby?
When you run a business or do a startup there is a requirement of a vast collection of skills. You often only get these from hobbies and time.
You are not a robot so what do you do for fun? Do you r…
Working through Christmas and the Holidays.
We have worked through plenty of holidays over the years. Running a small business, we have a choice of whether to be open or not to open. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Why personal choice matte…
You run a business what do you give for presents?
Time to stop being Scrooge McDuck. There are perfectly good reasons to gift. In the insurance industry we are limited to what we can do for promotions. We have ours necked down to $50 per year for cl…
Your treasure map is your ability to follow plans
Goals, Plans, Budgets, Quest are all maps to success. With insurance, we do a lot of planning for the next year right now.
They can be big of plans: We saw 14 Peaks last night on Netflix with Nimsd…
How do you survive the Holiday Wars at work?
Warning, we make it a point to have fun during the holidays, spreading joy and merriment. What do the holiday’s look around your business? With this War on Christmas, what is safe? Do you say Merry C…
Inflation, Skimpflation & unemployment and what 2022 can bring.
There are options available don't be stuck by fear.
Inflation hit a 30 year high where consumer had more demand (and money) than goods so prices increased. The Fed tries to keep it around 2% with con…
Setting Boundaries and Expectations in business and home.
Running a small insurance office is not always easy. Boundaries and expectations are important to success.
Is the customer always, right? What do you do with a coughing customer that refuses to mask…
Is it OK to make money from lying?
We are talking about ethics today at Suzie Health Solutions. Because we are licensed insurance producers, we must take regular ethics courses and we wish that more professions did. This conversation …