JPG

I am so blessed to have found or rather more accurately been found by my trusted friend and colleague Joe Guarino. I’ve known him for nigh on 18 years now and although I never worked directly with him before now I’ve always admired his honesty and his undaunting energy of trying to do the right thing. He never in my eyes got caught up in the greed that is pervasive in our business. He is transparent and even when he could be justifiably self centered he chooses the high road instead and he shares like no one I know. He makes me want to rise as high as my God given talent will allow. 

I’ve always been a lone wolf a one-man band now for the first time in my business life I can be part of a team. It takes courage for me to be a group member but I am embracing it whole heartedly because Joe makes me feel that working as part of a team will bring my clients more and satisfy my wildest dreams as well.  Letting go of ego is a difficult task in the insurance world but being a cast member with my own specialties I don’t have to rely on skills I simply don’t possess.  

I believe in signs and Joe arrived just in time before I gave up chasing the ghost of Christmas past. Now I can share my talents with those that don’t have what I possess and I in theirs. It’s comforting to know I don’t have to be the producer or the director I can do what I love to do and that is to pitch the 9th.  Yes I haven’t felt this good in 10 years and this time I don’t think there will be any side effects.