Dominating the Commercial Game with Lorin Montgomery, Episode #125

In this episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Lorin Montgomery, Vice President at Corporate Insurance Advisors, LLC. Lorin talks about her journey to moving from the company side to the brokerage side.

Episode Highlights:

• Lorin shares her background. (2:26)
• Lorin shares a story of how she moved from the company side to the brokerage side. (3:29)
• Lorin mentions one of the reasons why she wanted to move from the company side to the brokerage side. (13:10)
• Lorin shares what she’s currently doing at Corporate Insurance Advisors, LLC. (17:46)
• Lorin explains why producers tend to be expedient. (20:26)
• Lorin shares her experience with writing contractors. (28:51)
• Lorin mentions that she’s the Director for the National Association of Women In Construction. (34:57)
• Lorin gives a piece of advice to new producers. (45:14)

Tweetable Quotes:

• “The workings of retros, large deductibles, lost development, and triangulation gave me a really solid background or backbone for doing what I do now.” – Lorin Montgomery
• “You’d be stupid not to acknowledge the fact that you’re a woman in a man’s occupation, but I just never let it bother me. I just did my thing. I told people what I knew. I helped them understand their insurances and I was very, very successful on the company side. Then, on the brokerage side I did the same thing but I did a lot more networking.” – Lorin Montgomery
• “Work hard, work smart and get a really good center of influence where people respect and appreciate what you do.”  – Lorin Montgomery

Resources Mentioned:

• Lorin Montgomery LinkedIn
• Corporate Insurance Advisors, LLC
• David Carothers
• Kyle Houck
• Florida Risk Partners
• The Extra 2 Minutes