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In this episode of The Power Producers Podcast, David Carothers and co-host Kyle Houck interview Caryn Seifert, President of Streamlined Business Insurance. Caryn talks about her experience on The Protege and how she is applying what she is learning in her agency. 

Episode Highlights:

  • Caryn shares that prior to getting into the insurance industry, she was in B2B sales and management in a lot of different capacities. (3:22)
  • Caryn discusses the turning point that led her to start her own agency. (5:44)
  • Caryn mentions that making an appointment to get her agency license in Florida was her first big challenge. (12:59)
  • Caryn shares that the thing she hates the most about phones is it’s so hard to get anybody to answer their phone today. (21:19)
  • Caryn discusses her motivation for joining The Protege and who her coaches are. (22:23)
  • Caryn discusses her biggest surprise with The Protege and what she loves about it. (27:43)
  • David discusses what they did differently on this year’s Protege that they didn’t do last year. (29:57)
  • Caryn discusses the challenges she faced aside from the The Protege challenges. (33:45)
  • Caryn mentions what she is learning from the workshops, such as the need to tweak her cold calling scripts. (41:53)

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “You can’t get better if somebody’s just telling you what you want to hear. I prefer brutal, honestly. So like, tell me the truth.” – Caryn Seifert
  • “I took this serious, I took this like this is part of my job. I mean, yeah, I want the Killing Commercial program. But I’m still going to do my best on every single challenge because I know this is going to help me build the foundation going forward.” – Caryn Seifert
  • “There are some things you know, as I’ve been going through the production, like, there are some things like, I’m finding like, I need to tweak and change some things, like my cold calling script after the workshop that you and Mick did the premiere selling one recently. I changed up my cold calling script. So I’m using something different now because of that workshop.” – Caryn Seifert

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