Tinsley English joins host Meg McKeen for a conversation recorded during an intimate gathering of women in insurance during the Atlanta stop on the Bound & Determined℠ Live in 2025 tour. Tinsley reflects on the notions of resilience - and reinvention - as we align our career with our purpose – and how to identify your purpose if you’re not sure, and we chat more about journey many women are on today as they navigate menopause. As only she can do, Tinsley provides actionable wisdom with honesty and heart throughout. Thanks for joining me in Atlanta, Tinsley!

Tinsley English is a best-selling author, operations leader, female development coach, keynote speaker, and podcast host with over two decades of commercial insurance expertise spanning regional agencies, national firms, and carriers. As the founder of The Three G Consulting Group LLC, she transforms women leaders through her proprietary G-Force Code System. Her signature 24-Carat Leader program empowers professionals to amplify their visibility, accelerate career advancement, and master strategic decision-making. A dynamic speaker, Tinsley champions male allyship, prepares college students for professional excellence through her Next Step Navigator Program, and inspires audiences through her podcast, where she shares insights on leadership, resilience, and career growth.

Bound & Determined℠ Live in 2025 is presented by RISE: Empowering Women in Insurance™ by Liberty Mutual, a program dedicated to bringing women in insurance together through connection, education, recognition, insights and allyship. Join us in the RISE LinkedIn Community today.

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• Grab your copy of GRIT, GROWTH AND GUMPTION: Three Keys to Lead Yourself and Others with Confidence here
• Learn more about the ways Tinsley can support you or your organization here
• This gathering was hosted in the beautiful Poe & Company Bookstore in Milton, Georgia
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Diane Wagner joins host Meg McKeen for a conversation recorded during an intimate gathering of women in insurance during the Charlotte stop on the Bound & Determined℠ Live in 2025 tour. Diane reflects on her earliest days in insurance, the urgency she felt to find success - and the lengths she'd go to find it - and what that success looks like for her today. We talk about money - it's not easy, but it's necessary as women plan for their own financial futures. Thank you for joining me in Charlotte, Diane!

Diane Wagner is the VP of Strategic Planning and Education for FirstChoice a MarshBerry Co., Insurance Journal’s number one agency partnership for two consecutive years. Diane has 45 years of insurance experience, 20 years on the carrier side and the last 25 years starting two top insurance networks from scratch.

Diane sits on the board of Invest, a nonprofit arm of the Independent Insurance Agents Association. Invest educates students on insurance, financial services and risk management while encouraging them to pursue insurance careers. Introducing insurance as a career to young people and helping agencies build effective talent pipelines is Diane’s passion project.

Diane travels extensively, enjoys concerts, golf, and spending time with her life partner, friends, and her two grown children.

Bound & Determined℠ Live in 2025 is presented by RISE: Empowering Women in Insurance™ by Liberty Mutual, a program dedicated to bringing women in insurance together through connection, education, recognition, insights and allyship. Join us in the RISE LinkedIn Community today.

• Connect with Diane Wagner on LinkedIn
• Learn more about Invest, a program through the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America, supporting and encouraging students as they consider a career in the insurance industry.
• Join Meg for one of the remaining eight live podcast recording events she'll be hosting in 2025. Learn more about Bound & Determined℠ Live.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

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Heather Stoffer joins host Meg McKeen for a conversation recorded in front of a live audience during Ohio Insurance Agent's 2025 LeadHERship Collective. Heather describes her career like a hurricane: Hurricane Heather took a few sharp turns – from her service in the Air Force into municipal government and manufacturing, before she fell – or was she pulled? - into insurance four years ago. As she’s grown in her career and her life, Heather’s core values, rooted in the same values she learned during her experience in the Air Force, have shaped her beliefs and her decision-making.

Growing up in Southern Louisiana, Heather's career took a variety of turns before she found insurance four years ago, where she currently works as a Business Account Executive with Hummel Group in Ohio. She's a proud veteran, a mom, and wife, whose core values, Integrity, Service, and Excellence, guide her in all she does.

• Special thanks to Ohio Insurance Agents for including this experience in your 2025 LeadHERship Collective. Learn more about OIA here
• Connect with Heather on LinkedIn
• Catch up on past conversations with Erin Keller and Mercy Komar
• Join Meg for one of the eight live podcast recording events she'll be hosting in 2025. Learn more about Bound & Determined℠ Live.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

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Listen in as host Meg McKeen is joined in conversation with Adrienne Lieberthal. Together we chat through the decision Adrienne and her husband recently made – for him to leave his job and become the primary caregiving parent, and how they got there. We share more about what it looks like to thrive in values aligned relationships – both personal and professional – and the first step you can take to get there - if that’s what you need to hear today.

Adrienne Lieberthal is the CEO of ATHENA Actuarial Consulting, an actuary, business leader, wife, and mom dedicated to driving innovation in actuarial and strategic advisory services. With a passion for taking the road less traveled, she has built a firm that prioritizes excellence, collaboration, and forward-thinking solutions while balancing the demands of leadership and family. She is committed to creating a life of fulfillment and purpose, inspiring others to chart their own unique paths to success.

• Connect with Adrienne on LinkedIn
• Learn more about the work Adrienne does through Athena Actuarial Consulting
• Join Meg for one of the eight live podcast recording events she'll be hosting in 2025. Learn more about Bound & Determined℠ Live.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

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Did you choose insurance or did insurance choose you? Listen in as host Meg McKeen is joined in conversation with Whitnee Dillard and we go to the way, way back, sharing more about our insurance career origin stories - and the responsibility we have as professionals here to support the next generation as they find their own place in the industry.

Whitnee Dillard is the executive director for Invest - a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to educating, preparing, and attracting diverse new talent to exciting insurance opportunities and career paths. Whitnee's own insurance career began in 2012 as a licensed property and casualty insurance agent. Before she joined us here, Whitnee managed multiple nonprofit programs focused on youth development and college preparation in partnership with both middle and high schools, along with the foster care and juvenile justice systems. Whitnee is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

• Connect with Whitnee on LinkedIn
• Learn more about the ways you can support the next generation of insurance professionals through Invest
• Join Meg for one of the eight live podcast recording events she'll be hosting in 2025. Learn more about Bound & Determined℠ Live.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

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What if we aren't climbing career ladders but playing career hopscotch instead? Listen in as host Meg McKeen is joined in conversation with Laura Rauba - a conversation sparked by this very question. Laura shares more about the sense of curiosity that led to her latest career move and how timing - and knowing yourself - really is everything when we're deciding which part of our life will be our priority - and how that priority can change.

Laura has been with The Hartford since 2020 and has been involved in the industry for 15 years - including majoring in Insurance at Illinois State University. Laura is Mom to three young kids (ages 6, 5 and 2) who keep she and her husband busy. Laura enjoys working out at F45, listening to all different types of podcasts and coming up with home renovation projects she doesn't have time for.

• Connect with Laura on LinkedIn
• Read the post that sparked this conversation here
• Translate insurance jargon using Insurance Nerds' Simplest Insurance Glossary
• Join Meg for one of the eight live podcast recording events she'll be hosting in 2025. Learn more about Bound & Determined℠ Live.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

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Listen to a recording of Bound & Determined℠ Live in Phoenix, where podcast host Meg McKeen was joined in conversation by Elissa Kelly. Recorded in front of a live audience, Elissa shares more about her definition of success - and how it's changed over time - and the choice she made to shift her perspective from employee to business owner.

Elissa Kelly is a solopreneur business coach who guides experienced business leaders as they transition from corporate roles into thriving, strategic, risk-savvy solopreneurs. She is also the Founder and CEO of Surya Partners, a successful professional development firm focused on elevating diverse talent, as well as a mother of two amazing kids, bookworm, avid hiker, and reformed Fortune 100 Risk Executive.

• Connect with Elissa on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook
• Learn more about the ways Elissa supports executives as they transition to self-employment here
• Special thanks to the folks at Valley of the Sun United Way in Phoenix for use of their lovely space.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode.

Bound & Determined℠ Live is an intimate, in-person gathering curated to provide connection and support to women in the insurance industry in a highly accessible way. It is open to a woman regardless of her role or title or tenure, is low-cost, hyper-local, and does not require extensive time away from work or family. Join us as we take the conversations we're already having on the podcast and invite you to participate in them, too. Learn more about the 8 events planned in 2025 and consider supporting these events financially here.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

Love the podcast? To show your support, consider leaving a positive review here, sharing this episode with a friend, or making a financial contribution here. Thank you for listening!

Listen to a recording of Bound & Determined℠ Live in Columbus, where podcast host Meg McKeen was joined in conversation by Ash Fitzsimmons. Recorded in front of a live audience, Ash shares more about her journey to motherhood and the challenge it can be to ask for help. We talk about fear and change - and the importance of honoring where we are in each moment.

Ashley Fitzsimmons: Millennial. Beyonce of Insurance. Director of Professional Development & autoimmune disease badass (both literally & figuratively).

• Connect with Ashley here on LinkedIn
• Catch up on Ash's past appearance on Bound & Determined℠ here: 5.06 | Giving Grace with Ashley Fitzsimmons
• Learn more about the Ohio Insurance Agents’ 2025 LeadHERship Collective, coming up in Columbus on March 18th and 19th
• Special thanks to the folks at Studio 4980 in Westerville, OH, for use of your lovely space.
• Have a question for Meg? Submit it here and she may answer it on a future episode!

Bound & Determined℠ Live is an intimate, in-person gathering curated to provide connection and support to women in the insurance industry in a highly accessible way. It is open to a woman regardless of her role or title or tenure, is low-cost, hyper-local, and does not require extensive time away from work or family. Join us as we take the conversations we're already having on the podcast and invite you to participate in them, too. Learn more about the 8 events planned in 2025 and consider supporting these events financially here.

To learn more about this podcast, and the work Meg McKeen does to support insurance professionals, visit Adjunct Advisors. To receive To Taking the Risk, the monthly newsletter Meg curates, including updates on her #digitalnomad adventures, subscribe here.

Love the podcast? To show your support, consider leaving a positive review here, sharing this episode with a friend, or making a financial contribution here. Thank you for listening!