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Fuel Your Drive. Sharpen Your Skills. Win the Day.
With Driven to Close, you’ll get daily strategies, mindset shifts, and proven techniques to help you stay focused, improve your skills, and close with confidence — one lesson at a time.
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It Started with a Question in the Car
Driven to close: daily lessons from the carpool closer
When David Carothers' son Grayson began his career in sales, he had a lot of questions—about how to prospect, how to follow up, how to stay disciplined, and most of all, how to close. Like any good dad and seasoned producer, David answered the best way he knew how: in the moment, from the front sear of a car on the way to and from work each day.
Driven to close: daily lessons from the carpool closer
What started as a simple way to pass down wisdom turned into a daily TikTok series called The Carpool Closer. Grayson would ask one sales question, and David would answer it in under a minute. The result was hundreds of micro-lessons, straight from a veteran commercial insurance producer to the next generation of sales professionals.
Driven to close: daily lessons from the carpool closer
Now, those conversations have been expanded into Driven to Close: Daily Lessons from The Carpool Closer. This is a full-length, 365-day sales reader filled with practical strategies, mindset shifts, and real-world sales wisdom to help producers in any industry improve their craft one day at a time. Whether you're a new producer like Grayson or a seasoned closer looking for daily fuel, this book will give you a fresh perspective, a clear focus, and the confidence to show up and win every single day.
ONE QUESTION A DAY. ONE LESSON AT A TIME.
ONE YEAR CLOSER TO BECOMING UNSTOPPABLE.
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The Value Inside
Driven To Close is your year-long guide to sales mastery, with daily lessons, proven strategies, and mindset shifts to keep you motivated and confident in closing deals.

Sharpen your skills every day with 365 bite-sized lessons you can apply immediately.

Master proven sales strategies that help you close more deals, faster.

Adopt powerful mindset shifts that build lasting confidence and resilience.

Gain clarity on what to say, when to say it, and how to guide conversations to the close.

Stay motivated and on track with a year-long roadmap for personal and professional growth.
Meet David R. Carothers, CIC, CRM
David has 20 years of experience providing clients with creative solutions to more effectively manage their total cost of risk. He specializes in commercial property and casualty insurance placement for middle market companies of all types and has specific expertise in under-performing workers compensation programs.
He holds general lines insurance licenses in Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania and several other states. He also holds the Certified Insurance Counselor and Certified Risk Manager designations from The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research and is currently pursuing the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter designation from the Insurance Institute of America.
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Meet Grayson S. Carothers, CWCA
Grayson S. Carothers, CWCA is an emerging force in the commercial insurance industry and the leader of the Private Risk Division at Florida Risk Partners. As a Certified WorkComp Advisor (CWCA), he brings a modern approach to risk management while helping families and businesses protect what matters most.
Grayson’s journey into sales began with a simple idea—ask better questions. As a new producer with a thirst for knowledge, he started recording daily conversations with his dad during their commute to and from work. Those car rides turned into a TikTok video series, which quickly gained momentum and evolved into Driven to Close—a full-length daily sales reader packed with real-world lessons and mindset shifts for producers of all levels.
Authentic, driven, and deeply coachable, Grayson represents the next generation of insurance professionals. His contributions to this book reflect a unique perspective—one grounded in curiosity, humility, and the determination to get better every single day.