The Independent Adjuster Podcast (IA Path)
Ready to stop gambling with your career and start winning?
The Independent Adjuster Podcast is where Pathfinders like you find clarity, take action, and escape the traditional grind of the adjuster industry.
Host Chris Stanley redefines success with the EXP Free Path, teaching you how to think differently, act boldly, and claim your future without waiting for luck or experience. It’s time to build a career that works for you, one episode at a time.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 300
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
IA 180: Are You Listening?
Today Chris asks the question, "Are you listening?" He shares how listening has completely pivoted his entire business and career and how it can help you in your business or career.
He shares how bei…
IA 179: How to Make Sales as an Independent Adjuster
Today Chris interviews one of the leader experts on sales and former adjuster, Steve Benson of Badger Mapping. With Covid 19 and all the challengers independent adjusting business owners face, Chris …
IA 178: The Future of Insurance with Bryan Falchuk
What is the future of insurance? Will independent adjusters or HUMANS even be needed in claims?
Today Chris interviews author and claim expert, Bryan Falchuk, about his new book "Future of Insurance…
IA 177: What I Learned in 12 Years as an IA Pt. 2
Chris shares what BIG lessons he's learned each year of his twelve-year IA career on his twelve-year work history.
From practical tips about how to handle claims to moral and priority lessons in his …
IA 176: What I Learned in 12 Years as an IA
Chris shares what BIG lessons he's learned each year of his twelve-year IA career on his twelve-year work history.
From practical tips about how to handle claims to moral and priority lessons in his …
IA 175: How Mileage Works for Independent Adjusters & Auto Damage Appraisers
Mileage can make or break your career in daily claims as an independent auto adjuster or auto damage appraiser. In this episode Chris walks through how mileage typically works for IA's.
He also gives…
IA 174: How to Skyrocket Your Adjusting Career
There are MANY things that we need to know how to do, write estimates, talk with customers, use computers, identify damage, but NONE of that is what will cause your career to skyrocket.
Today Chris r…
IA 173: A Hurricane is NOT Coming
Chris goes on a RANT today about how there will be NO major deployable hurricanes this year.... that YOU should plan on.
He talks about how we shouldn't plan our lives around the weatherman and how y…
IA 172: The Key to Letting People Know That You Exist
Ultimately to get work you must get people to KNOW, LIKE, & TRUST you! It seems that for most new independent adjusters and auto damage appraisers we struggle with the "KNOW" aspect the most.
Today C…
IA 171: Why Do Veteran IA's Struggle?
As you get more established in the industry, life should get easier.... right? For some yes, for others, no. Why is this?
Chris Stanley talks out some of the reasons he has personally struggled as an…
IA 170: What Laws and Beliefs Guide Your IA Business?
This week Chris dives into how the laws and beliefs that you operate your business out of GREATLY affect your ability to deliver superior service and your ability to succeed.
Chris reveals his 5 Laws…
IA 169: Why Tech, Why You, Why Now?
What is IA Path doing behind the scenes? What are they creating for IA's in terms of technology, apps, and solutions?
Today Chris Stanley pulls back the curtain a bit on what they've been working on …
IA 168: Why IA Pay Hasn't Increase and Won't Anytime Soon
Many independent adjusters and appraisers complain that we haven't seen a pay raise as an industry in a long time. Why is this and should we?
Today I play the devil's advocate and explain my take on …
IA 167: 10 Ways to Speed Up Your Estimate Writing
How can you write your claims and estimates FASTER as an IA? Today I do my best to answer those questions with 10 practical tips of how you can write your estimates faster as an independent adjuster …
IA 166: 3 Stages of Getting Work as an Independent Adjuster
Getting work as an independent adjuster requires a lot of patience, hard work, and networking... but how do we DO IT?What is the process that we go through and how do we get an IA Firm to take notice…
IA 165: Can Auto Damage Appraisers and Adjusters Work During the Cornovirus?
Today on the podcast I play interviews of ACD's CEO Ernie Bray and SCA Appraisal's President Tim Davis jr about how the coronavirus is affecting the industry.
They also answer the question "can we ke…
IA 164: The Makeup of a Good Auto Damage Appraiser or Adjuster
Being a successful auto damage appraiser means being GOOD at what you do.
What makes an auto damage appraiser or adjuster good? Do you meet the requirements of what "good" looks like to others?
In t…
IA 163: How the Coronavirus May Affect Independent Adjusters
The coronavirus is affecting EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, but how will it affect independent adjusters and auto damage appraisers? I have a fireside chat with you on this podcast episode.
Check out our v…
IA 162: What is the Difference Between an Adjuster and an Appraiser
I get asked EVERY week, what is the difference between an appraiser and an adjuster?
In this episode, I'll dive into that so you can make a decision if you want to become an adjuster or an appraiser.…
IA 161: How NOT to Get a Complaint Against You
When inspecting a person's car, you need to be careful not to cause them to complain about you.
Proper respect for a person and their car is called "Inspection Etiquette" and that is what we talk abo…