Suzilla: Family Business Podcast

Stop over grilling your life and find fulfillment and joy.

We ask about budget's alot and a surprising amount of people do not have one. It's critical because when selecting a health insurance plan if you can't pay for it then it makes no sense to recommend it. 

Is your life being burnt up by how you are living it? Is everything a swipe right, flash of dopamine high? Are you able to budget, enjoy long term relationships? We watched a Simon Sinek interview talking about millennials and saw some very relevant trends with our self and business. Let’s talk about creating joy.

We are going to work on focusing more on the journey and the process in order to work on relationships and joy. 

The Return from Insurance Soup Live

Howdy from Suzie Health Solutions, the full service enrollment center in Wenatchee, WA.

Suzie has returned from a massive insurance convention called Insurance Soup Live. It’s from an online group of 42,000 Insurance Agents. There was amazing speakers and a ton of information. Today we are going to talk about what she learned.

Some of the topics are:  the rule of 72; The importance of Referral partners; Competence verses warmth; the importance of Automation; Search Engine Optimizations. 

It was a ton of information packed into just two days with some of the industry leaders. It is important to do these quality events and have processes in place that you are not buried. 

 

Thanks to Michael McCormick, Taylor Dobbie, Brian Blair, Ron Wadley, Matthew Hahn, CJ Hutsenpiller, Malia Rogers and all the good energy to put together an event like Soup Live!

We need to bring Boss back.

After being our own boss for almost a decade by running an insurance agency. We are going to talk about Boss. Not just the stereotypes today, we are going to get into the past displays. Have you ever been asked who died and left you in charge and had an answer? How to never be in the “Joe or Jane is no longer employed by the corporation.” How to get affiliated with your emotional and financial wellbeing. We are going to get into being the Boss.

Everything is about Community.

It has been almost 10 years since we started Suzie Health Solutions on the principles of helping others without charging a fee. Health Insurance was expensive, and we knew that it is confusing so we started. We didn’t start it to help friends and depending on time between ¼ and ½ we receive zero funds. It was a comment on our the Wenatchee Police Department's page that made us ask the hard question, what is going on? It has always been the right thing but have we drifted away from our local community with this ideal of helping others? On this week, doing the right thing, everything is about community.

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 have to fight off aggressive people, deal with a pandemic, watch movies from 30 years ago and eat junk food. It’s good for a short time but It stunts growth. Let’s get in to reaching out and enabling others around you to grow and blossom with new things.

So here we go on this week’s Suzilla.

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 make sure that the new business knows that they are valuable usually through payment, sometimes a positive review. There are traps such as college will increase your knowledge however debt can limit your opportunities for starting up. It is a lifestyle that becomes evident in the actions and language of people. It became clear when one candidate spoke. On today’s Suzilla Sparking business.

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. A Placebo effect can occur up to 60% of the time. The opposite is also true. 

The Nocebo is something that you think will produce a negative result, so it does. What happens why your Uncle Fred is talking about businesses failing when he running a business? He starts to slide toward that negative result. Here is the thing, both are environmental and habitual, so we are talking about some in our lives and how to avoid them.

When you are a small business, you hear no all day long.  We are going to get into identifying when you are in a Nocebo and what you can do.

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 not a quick reward. On today’s Suzilla, we are going to talk about the importance of travel for growth.

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 business partners. It is one of the biggest drivers for new business. It is why we are excited to see non-business people see it as infrastructure. Today on Suzilla, we are going to have a quick look at the internet.

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, we are talking about waking up and you know it is going to be a bad day.

It requires some acceptance, some coping, and preventative work. So we are going to talk about being OK with a Bad Day,