Ben Shaw, host. New York.
Insure Podcast · Season One · Hosted by Ben Shaw
A long-form interview show with the people who work inside small independent insurance agencies in the United States. One conversation, every other week. No pitch, no takeaways slide, no panel.
No spam. One email when the show launches.
Ben Shaw, host. New York.
What this show is
“No pitch. No takeaways slide. Just one good conversation, every other week.”
Most insurance media is for carriers, brokers at the largest firms, or industry consultants. Insure Podcast is different. Every episode is one kind of conversation: an hour with someone who works inside a small independent agency — owners, producers, operators — and has stayed in the game through every wave of consolidation, technology change, and market dislocation.
We talk about how they actually do the work — how they place a tough home account in a hard market, how they handle the renewal that goes sideways, what they wish their software did better, who they hire and why, what the next generation gets right and wrong.
Who this is for
That's not a slight. There are good shows for those audiences — this one is built for the people who work inside the agencies.
Gallagher · Syracuse, NY
From a workers' comp adjuster internship to building a commercial book at one of the largest brokerages in the world. Prospecting, cold calling, and earning trust in an industry where business owners have used the same broker for decades — plus how producers, account managers, wholesalers, and underwriters actually interact behind the scenes.
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Be a guest
One hour, Zoom or in person if I'm in your city. Light editing. Your full review before anything publishes. No prep — the best conversations don't follow scripts.
Prefer email? I'm at ben@insurepodcast.com.
Ben Shaw at his desk in Brooklyn.
About the host
Ben spent the last several years working in commercial insurance technology. He started Insure Podcast because the people who actually work inside independent insurance agencies — at every seat, not just the corner office — are rarely the ones being interviewed about how the industry works — and that's the conversation he wants to have.
He lives in New York. Get in touch at ben@insurepodcast.com.
Things I want to talk about on the show
The ongoing show
The show now goes upstream — to the brokerages that hold the pen and underwrite their own programs. See what's next →