47: Insurance for Small Business with LeRoy Wilkerson
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2016
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Health Insurance for you and your staff? Life insurance for you and your business partners? Independent Insurance Agent LeRoy Wilkerson explains how small business owners can benefit from insurance to protect their business and gain a competitive advantage. He also shares how he builds his business through referrals, and benefits from his chamber of commerce membership. LeRoy enjoyed a successful career before realizing that the only way to secure his future was to become his own boss.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business. |
| 0:10.3 | The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way. |
| 0:18.6 | This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues, |
| 0:22.7 | challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts |
| 0:27.4 | of the how of business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of the how of business. |
| 0:36.0 | This is Henry Lopez with you here today. And my special guest, Leroy, Wilkerson, Leroy, welcome to the show. Thank you, Henry. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:44.7 | Let me give you a little bit of background on Leroy, and then I'm going to have him expand on that. Leroy is an independent life and health insurance agent and broker. He's the owner of an independent agency called |
| 0:55.5 | Wilkerson Insurance Agency based in Texas, although he's also licensed in the state of Oklahoma. |
| 1:02.4 | He helps his clients find the right health insurance coverage for their families, but he also |
| 1:07.7 | specializes in employee benefit solutions and innovations for small businesses. |
| 1:13.2 | And of course, we're going to dive into that in today's episode. |
| 1:16.8 | Before starting his own agency, he enjoyed a diverse career, including positions in sales. |
| 1:22.2 | And so once again, Leroy, welcome to the show. |
| 1:23.9 | And if you'd please add a bit more to your background before you opened your agency. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay. So career started, I guess, back in the late 80s and I enjoyed a long career, |
| 1:36.8 | actually at the U.S. bankruptcy court. And a lot of people don't realize that, but I spent about |
| 1:43.1 | 14 years there. And what I found out |
| 1:47.1 | working there is that at some point that the workforce in corporate America was changing. And we |
| 1:56.4 | started growing and they started doing a lot of outsourcing and that companies and businesses |
| 2:03.2 | were having to make decisions not based on employees, but really just based on what was |
| 2:09.4 | changing in the market for them. |
| 2:11.3 | Meaning your position, no matter how hard you worked or no matter what you did, didn't necessarily govern what they needed |
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