Living The Red Life - The Smartest Insurance Strategy No One Talks About

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

SUMMARYFilip Lundstedt, a seasoned insurance strategist and entrepreneur, joins the podcast to break down the hidden opportunities in insurance that most people overlook. With years of experience work...ing for major providers before going independent, Filip shares why traditional insurance models often work against consumers and business owners. He explains his "Gift Box" strategy, which layers catastrophic insurance, indemnity policies, and wellness programs to provide maximum protection while lowering costs.In this conversation, he also dives into smart financial moves for entrepreneurs, including how business owners can use tax codes to cut costs and even get paid through insurance. He reflects on a major career mistake—losing 800 clients overnight—and how that moment shaped his path to success. The discussion wraps up with insights on personal development, the importance of investing in oneself, and why success is about strategic thinking rather than luck.CHAPTERS02:35 - The Strategy Behind High-Stakes Insurance04:54 - Why Most People Overpay for Health Coverage07:21 - The "Gift Box" Approach to Insurance Planning09:43 - How the Wealthy Protect Themselves Differently12:05 - Business Owners’ Secret to Reducing Insurance Costs14:27 - The Tax Loophole That Pays for Employee Benefits16:52 - How to Turn Insurance Into a Profit Opportunity19:18 - The Biggest Mistake That Cost Me 800 Clients21:42 - The Power of Personal Development in Business24:08 - The #1 Lesson I’d Tell My Younger SelfGUEST DETAILSFull Name - Filip LundstedtInstagram (Personal) - ftlundsInstagram (Business) - Pro_care_consultingLinkedin - Filip LundstedtWebsite - procare.consultingConnect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Every business is eventually gonna wanna grow and then eventually wanna scale. You have to remember as entrepreneurs and business owners, we know how much money we can get so we don't have a cap on that. But the people that you want working for you that maybe are W2s, they don't have that same mindset. They want security and safety. And benefits are some of the biggest things that employees are chasing. Yeah, I think to a lot of the employees, it's not even for them,
Starting point is 00:00:22 it's their nagging spouse. We call it spouse in the house. You have one that works and one that doesn't, or one that's an entrepreneur and one works. My situation, my wife has a W-2 job, great job, a phenomenal benefit, so I'm like, I don't have to go out and get private health care. I get phenomenal benefits here,
Starting point is 00:00:38 and then I add these other little plans to make it a better 360 degree amazing product, right? Because it's a better strategy. When I get involved and I start putting indemnity policies in and HSAs and all these extra things. I'm making money. If I go to a doctor or I go to a hospital
Starting point is 00:00:53 or have a surgery, I'm gonna make a profit. And a lot of people are like, how is that possible? Just explain that at a third grade level to people. Of course, of course. So imagine. My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Light podcast. I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week If you're ready to start living the red life ditch the blue pill take the red pill join me in wonderland and change your life What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of living the red life joining me today is for leave a good friend
Starting point is 00:01:21 He's been in our community for a long time, helps a lot of our members and myself with advanced insurance strategies, my own personal insurances, insuring my team. And then also, he's a bit of a master on the sales side. He runs these big in-person sales events, so selling one to many. Had dozens of sales reps, trained tons of salespeople, took tens of thousands of sales calls.
Starting point is 00:01:46 So we're gonna cover some good stuff today. Welcome to the show. Rudy, thank you so much for having me, man. So I know we've been trying to do this for a long time. What you do is very advanced and cool because most people listening, right, they don't understand as an entrepreneur all the insurance options for them, right,
Starting point is 00:02:03 for their own personal health and everything. Yeah. But then also how to ensure, get insurances for their team, their employees, and actually save some money doing it while adding a ton of benefits. Yeah. So I want to dive into that today, but then I also want to dive in on the business side because we've been working with you for years on the business side, like how you're, you know, building sales teams, selling events, hosting your own mini seminars and how that's applicable to the audience too.
Starting point is 00:02:30 So let's start with you and your background. How'd you get into all this? Yeah, so I've been doing this about 22 years. When I got out of the military, I had a part-time job at Sam's Club, you know, packing meat. It was a terrible job. I was dead broke. I was project living, just, you know, living on scraps. And I went to a mass hire and it was these bankers life and casually, they were hiring a bunch of people. They convinced me I was gonna make 500 grand a year
Starting point is 00:02:54 and I didn't need a college education. So I was like, this is great. And my oldest daughter who's 26 now was like four years old then, right? So I got into the sales of insurance and I just really found my passion by serving other people because before I'd been serving my country and that was great, I had this great life
Starting point is 00:03:11 and then serving other people really made it interesting and easy to do, right? Because I had a purpose and I had a reason and it was driving me constantly. And then all the challenges that were involved in it, you know, and helping people through all these different unique problems, you start to realize not everybody's the same, but we all have the same problem.
Starting point is 00:03:30 So it's like once you find one solution and another and you get through about 20, 30 different solutions, you can start to see it repeat itself. Well, and what's interesting just on the entrepreneurial journey side is a lot of people get into sales, but then they just stay in sales whereas you decided to come a business owner and then grow a team and So what made that transition?
Starting point is 00:03:57 COVID right so like COVID hit and I was coming off the best year of my life in my in my career And I was doing it solo as an independent, and I thought man I'm still killing it during COVID like I thrived during quarantine And I saw so many of people suffering and I was like, you know I thought, man, I'm still killing it during COVID. Like I thrived during quarantine. And I saw so many of people suffering. And I was like, you know, I could probably teach people how to do this and give them the tools and resources that no one ever gave me or ever thought to give me.
Starting point is 00:04:14 And that's really where ProCare Consulting came from. It came from me having a lot of time on my hands because it was quarantine. And I was like, how can I develop this? And I put a plan together. And then I just started hiring brokers and really training them and teaching them on how to better put dollars in their pockets and live with a purpose and live with passion at the same time.
Starting point is 00:04:33 But I think what's great with you knowing you and working with you for so long is, you know, as the CEO now and the owner, you're really trying to build those systems and those processes and, you know, I see all the in-depth training you give to them and the quality care. Because I think when I think of insurances and sales, it's like this Wolf of Wall Street style sales floor, right? But yours is definitely, I feel more like the Louis Vuitton style, the bespoke, custom, right?
Starting point is 00:05:00 And you put a lot of bells and whistles around it, like Louis Vuitton does, right? When you go to Louis Vuitton, they give you water on a little glass plate, you know? And there's a line outside, and they let you in one by one, and the stanchions, and like I feel that's what you're doing. So how did you, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:16 and that's part of being a smart business owner, is you're USP, and so how'd you come up with these things to separate yourself? I really wanted to give people a Ritz-Carlton experience on a Motel 6 budget. So it was just beautiful that I could, I know their names, I know their wants, I know their needs by asking them at least 22 questions because that typically breaks down the walls of defense with people. Because most people, they run into an insurance salesperson.
Starting point is 00:05:42 It's probably right below having a root canal. That's how much you wanna get it done, right? It's like right below, you'd rather have a root canal than deal with an insurance guy. Because like you said, most people wolf a Wall Street, they're banging on my door, they're blowing me up on the telephone nonstop. So when you come in with this tailored service for people
Starting point is 00:05:59 and say, listen, I'm just gonna educate you and then I'm gonna show you all the options because I have no bias, I represent all the companies, so I don't really care what insurance you choose. That's what should be happy. Well that's a big thing up front, right? Because I think most of them, they're like, they have that go-to thing, that's the gimmicky thing,
Starting point is 00:06:14 and then they just sell that no matter what. Yep, yeah. And most brokers do, they represent three or four companies and then they just hammer those three or four. And they get the most commissions from Wands, they push people. Exactly, exactly. And for me, I'm terrible with four. And they get the most commissions from Wands, they push people. Exactly, exactly. And for me, I'm terrible with it.
Starting point is 00:06:28 I don't really count commissions. I just work and I have systems that do it for me. And I'm just like, if it's the right fit, it's the right fit. But you have a slight customer value, right? If you do it that way, you probably make more in the long run. Because of referrals. Yeah, referrals, happy customers versus someone gets sold in the wrong plan, they're looking every year.
Starting point is 00:06:48 They're like, because they kind of tells them, oh, I did it this year, but next year I'm going to look again. Exactly. And it was like you were saying with systems, we're constantly educating people. We're doing Q&A sessions every quarter for each individual insurance company. We're doing nurture systems where I'm doing about 67 touch points per year per client and that's between letters, Yeah, cards, yeah emails, text messages,
Starting point is 00:07:11 seminars, member meets, luncheons, all these different ways of making sure that we're in front of them, right? Because tippets on top of minds, right? So I just want to always make sure that my clients are gonna call me, me, our company, rather than call the insurance company. I want them to call me first. So I believe that, you know, the no-like-trust triangle, right? If they get to know me and they get to like me,
Starting point is 00:07:34 they will trust me. And if they can trust me with their problems and I solve it once, then I impact their life. Then they're gonna tell everybody, hey, you gotta call my guy, you know? Whether it's a business owner or a senior or even a solopreneur, right? It doesn't matter if I'm giving them that attention
Starting point is 00:07:48 and that understanding so they're clear about what their choice is, it just, everybody wins. Well, and it's funny in sales because people will definitely pay more if they have that relationship. Like I know when I found a good like car dealer, right? Or a good, I'm trying real estate person, for example. Like, I don't care if the car's a bit more with that dealer,
Starting point is 00:08:08 if I just know I can like, he's reliable, I trust him, he's a good guy, you know? And so I think, obviously some people always just go for the best deal, but especially more upper class people and entrepreneurs, I think we'll all happily pay more if we feel that connection. Do you see that even with the customers on a budget?
Starting point is 00:08:26 They'll still sacrifice sometimes the cheaper option because of the relationship you've built? I do. I see sometimes people are on a plan and they're like, well, I love my plan, but I don't like my broker or my agent. And I really like you. And I'm like, well, I can't do an agent of record switch
Starting point is 00:08:41 on this company, but there are other programs that you could look at and they're like, I'm willing to go to another program and get less to be with you because with you, I'm gonna get more and by more, it's time, right? Because time and money are commodities that we all have, but you can't replace time. God's only giving us so much.
Starting point is 00:09:01 So for those people, I'm saving them time and that's the value and the frustration, I mitigate the risk of frustration and anxiety around something that's below a root canal. You know what I mean? So how do the entrepreneurs watching this, they have some sales reps, probably right now, sales reps are just doing sales calls, sales meetings, and they've not thought about all these other bells
Starting point is 00:09:22 and whistles around it that you have. What are three or four tips they can implement instantly to get more referrals, happier clients, improve sales processes? Yeah, I think really understanding that your systems have to be automated, and if you're not automating your systems, like if you're using Google Sheets and Excel spreadsheets,
Starting point is 00:09:38 like you're missing the boat, right? And trust in your reps to do the 67 search points. Exactly, it's never gonna happen, but if you automate it and you spend one day a week with your guys and just say, hey, listen, let's get some ideation here. Let's create some structures for you. And then you put your own personal twist on it so it's authentic. And I'm going to show you how to put it in a system where you can just automate it out
Starting point is 00:10:00 for the next 90 days. And then every 90 days we meet again and we refresh the information going on. We did a lot of that and we've actually just recently now, we actually hired four VA's, so four grand a month grand a VA for our sales team and they do a ton of custom work even beyond automation now. One of them's we started just doing was custom proposals for everyone. Love it. So they take the transcript from the Zoom, write this custom proposal out, the rep approves it
Starting point is 00:10:26 every morning at 9 a.m. And now they send custom proposals out. And it's like, and I teach my team, because it's so much work, and I teach my team, I mean, the winning in business lies in the irregular things, the things that sound stupid, sound crazy, sound like that's a ton of work. Why would you ever do that? But that's actually where you win
Starting point is 00:10:47 because no one else is doing it. It's the uniqueness, right? Of doing something different so you stand out from everybody. Yeah, like you sending handwritten thank you cards and hosting free lunches, it's like, that's so much fricking work, you know? But that's why it works.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Yeah, exactly. I have a 52 week video nurture series where they're getting a video, two, three minute video that's highly produced and I'm talking 52-week video nurture series where they're getting a video, two, three minute video That's highly produced and I'm talking about how to pick a dentist, how to pick a primary care, How you know the hospital's ripping you off, what red flags to be looking for in your insurance bill. Don't pay the bill until you do this, right? Just like those little tips that people don't think about and most brokers don't do that. They sell and they disappear.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then their books getting flipped all the time. Yeah. It's like, wow. Here's one more example. We're just starting. That's even crazier. So, you know, we sold funnel builds for many years. We just hired like a whole separate design team division.
Starting point is 00:11:36 And now they actually design the funnel for the client before a sales call. Oh, wow. It's ridiculous. It's like the most ridiculous thing ever, because you're like doing a free website build to show the client before a sale is cool. That's smart, I love that. Yeah, but it's like so ridiculous it works because now they get to see a funnel before they even get on the sale. It takes the guessing out like what's the product going to look like and yada yada right so then you're just able to show it right up front. And we're about to try it with a copy team doing books. So I actually was writing with chat GPT and then a copywriter writing someone's book before they get on a call.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Before they get on a call. I love it. And we do the same thing customizing the plans before someone has an appointment with me. There's an intake form where they give me some information and from that I can shave off a lot of time and then already show them customized plans and then they're like, whoa, wow. And we all love that. I think when we've like gone for our own sales processes, right?
Starting point is 00:12:27 Like the first thing you wanna visually see and understand how it works. So when someone turns up and can demonstrate that, it helps me buy way quicker, whereas a lot of times in sales process, they're like, oh, I can't answer that. I'm like, whoa, I'm not interested in that. So tell me who can answer that, or I'll
Starting point is 00:12:46 find someone else that can. Exactly. Exactly. I think that's a great tip for everyone listening, is how can you meet the customer closer there so they can visually see it? For me, in my world, that might be pre-designing a website mock-up or social mock-ups.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Or even the book's an extreme thing, but even the title of the book are in the chapter outlines, right? Could work and for you, like come in prepared. Exactly, you know, it's super smart and especially when you're dealing with small business owners because they're not thinking about insurance most times, right?
Starting point is 00:13:17 They're thinking about commissions and systems and strategies and then they're like, well, I'm a small business, I don't have to offer health insurance. Why would I? I think that's, yeah, so let's leave, let's transition into that. Why would they? Right, so why would you offer health insurance?
Starting point is 00:13:32 Well, it depends on what kind of business owner you're at, right? We kind of talk, some people are just salespeople and they just sell. They don't ever grow from there. And some business owners are just like, well, I'm okay doing 80 grand a year, and I'm like, it's a hobby then, right?
Starting point is 00:13:44 Like you have a hobby, not a business. Every business is eventually gonna wanna grow and then eventually wanna scale. And a great way of doing that, cause we have to remember as entrepreneurs and business owners, we know how much money we can get. So we don't have a cap on that. But the people that you want working for you
Starting point is 00:14:02 that maybe are W-2s, they don't have that same mindset. They want security and safety. And benefits are some of the biggest things that employees are chasing. Yeah, I mean, I learned about that, like when we were hiring and growing to, you know, 50 people plus in office, it was coming up all the time, right? As an entrepreneur, I don't know. Yeah, right. You know, and I would have to just keep sending them to HR and eventually I got so sick of people asking us, I had a one-pager made so I could just say, here it is. So it's funny how much that's valued.
Starting point is 00:14:36 And at one point, because before we really took it seriously, I was just like, oh, we'll pay you another 500 a month. And then it's like, figure it out. But they didn't even want that. They were so crazy about it. So that's so important for people listening. Because you think as an entrepreneur, whatever, right? To a normal person, that's so important.
Starting point is 00:14:56 And I think to a lot of the employees, it's not even for them, it's the nagging spouse. That's like, you're not taking that job. The kids, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. We call it spouse in the house. You have one you're not taking that job. The kids, right? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's like, we call it spouse in the house. You have one that works and one that doesn't
Starting point is 00:15:08 or one that's an entrepreneur and one works. My situation, my wife has a W-2 job, great job. She's got phenomenal benefits. So I'm like, I don't have to go out and get private health care. I get phenomenal benefits here. And then I add these other little plans to make it a better 360 degree amazing product, right?
Starting point is 00:15:25 Because it's a better strategy. When I get involved and I start putting indemnity policies in and HSAs and all these extra things, it really limits our out of pocket expenses if something were to happen, right? So in most cases, I'm making money. If I go to a doctor or I go to a hospital or have a surgery, I'm gonna make a profit.
Starting point is 00:15:43 And a lot of people are like, how is that possible? So you just gotta structure your strategies correctly, right, with indemnity policies. Well, let's talk about that for a couple of minutes, and then we'll come back to the, what to add for your employees. So if it's a solo entrepreneur listening, they just need it for themselves.
Starting point is 00:15:56 What are a couple of these good extra things to add? So I think like, it all comes down to your lifestyle and your budget, of course, and you've got two kinds of people. Some people that have a very clean lifestyle and people that don't have a clean lifestyle. Whatever, I'm not here to judge. I mean, it is what it is.
Starting point is 00:16:12 If you have a very clean lifestyle and you're not drinking, you're not drugging, you're pretty healthy, going with like health share ministries, right? Like ministry programs can be phenomenal because they're such a low cost and they have this share program which is a deductible that's relatively low and then it's 100% coverage afterwards.
Starting point is 00:16:29 So it's really great to get in those and then you put like a hospital indemnity on the back end or like what we call a mega indemnity that covers everything. So when you go to the doctor and you have a $40 copay, this other insurance company is sending you 125 bucks. So you're making a profit. You go to the- Did you just explain that at a third grade level to people? Of course, of course.
Starting point is 00:16:51 So imagine, I'll give you a great example. You fall off a ladder or you're riding your bike, right? You're riding your bike, you fall off the bike and you hurt yourself. You dislocate your shoulder. You've got to go to the emergency, you gotta go to the emergency room, you go to the emergency room, you've gotta copay for that. Let's say it's $400, that's your copay.
Starting point is 00:17:10 So you go to the emergency room, now you owe $400. Then they keep you overnight in the hospital. Then you've got another, let's say $2,000, $2,500, because you have a deductible. Well now you're up to $2,900. You get this other program from another insurance company that makes you a bet and they say, well, I bet you nothing will happen to you
Starting point is 00:17:31 and you just gotta pay me $100 a month and if something does happen to you, we're gonna pay you out. So you say, okay, great. You go to the emergency room and they say, okay, now we owe you $300. So they offset 300 of the 400 that you have to spend. So you're like, okay, now what about the rest of the money
Starting point is 00:17:47 that I owe the $2,500? That's where it really comes in with hospitals because you get an emission rate of up to $3,000 and then up to $5,000 a day that you're in the hospital. So now you got eight grand, so you're making a profit. You have a baby, you make a profit. So they're giving you like a couple of grand more to go up to five grand. Yep, per day, per day.
Starting point is 00:18:08 And the beautiful- So it's kind of like stock trading, but betting when it goes up and then also if it drops. Exactly. It's mitigating all your risk, right? Yeah. And the thing is most people will look for low deductible insurance because they're worried that if something happens to me- Well, that's what I did.
Starting point is 00:18:22 Yeah. I would always say, find me, you know, I don't mind paying more. I just, I don't want to have to pay nine grand because I fall off my bike. Right, exactly. It would annoy me. And the thing that we do with most people, including you, is we go, no, you don't want to do that.
Starting point is 00:18:34 What you'd rather do is have a higher deductible pay or lower premium and then get an indemnity product on the back end. Because it's cheaper to add the indemnity monthly than it would be just to pay for the higher premium. It's cheaper to have the two products and then you have full safety and protection between the two. I call it like a gift box strategy.
Starting point is 00:18:51 The insurance, catastrophic insurance is the foundation and then the box around it is the protection of an indemnity policy and then the ribbon would be like dental or mental therapy or something of that, or an HSA, something that's just that little bit extra to make it a little bit fancier. And if you've got 20 million in the bank, you probably don't care if it's a five grand deductible. Right? Oh, you don't, right.
Starting point is 00:19:15 It's like if the five grand's still gonna hurt you, then it's worth paying $100 a month to get that, or whatever it would cost to get that reimbursed, right? But you know, Rudy, even if you had $20 million in the bank and you go to the hospital and you show your insurance card And the next thing you know you get a check and you made to and you're gonna be like, yeah What yeah, it's just for most people. It just doesn't make sense. They're like, how does this how did that happen? You gotta remember 80% of people that are paying premiums for insurance never use it. Well, that's how insurance works exactly, they always win unless there's a people that are paying premiums for insurance, never use it. Well, that's how insurance works. That's how they make your money. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:19:46 They always win, unless there's a hurricane in Florida. Right, yeah. Then they might lose out. That's why I'm not in that business. Homeowner's insurance, forget it. It's crazy to me. But with health insurance, it works like that all the time. And same thing with business owners.
Starting point is 00:19:58 They're looking at it from an aspect of, well, these are dollars that have to go out for employees and I'd rather put that into marketing or whatever, whatnot. I said, well, what about retention and hiring people? You should have a great benefit system. But they can even, even the dollar amounts of pay for insurance for health employees, there are ways to even like get tax write-offs from that and strategies where it's not as much as you think
Starting point is 00:20:18 once you do the maths, right? Correct, not only that, you can do, there's certain, if you offer wellness programs, there's a tax code section 125C that the government will actually give you breaks in your FICA tax. And it's up to $500, $600 sometimes per employee per year. So if you got 100 employees,
Starting point is 00:20:38 you're getting all this money back in tax breaks, right? As the employer, the employee then has an indemnity product and the indemnity product is like a mental health, nutrition counseling, something like that. And we automate the system so every month we're sending a text message to the employee saying like, how are you feeling today? Just to keep it in layman's terms.
Starting point is 00:21:02 And they're like, I feel great, fantastic. Well, that initiates the indemnity. So then the indemnity reimburses the money they pay. So it cuts their taxes in half for the employee. So they're paying half in taxes and the savings that they get in their taxes then buys insurance. So a lot of times with the companies we have, one they're getting massive rebates back. Two, the employees are getting free health insurance. Free health insurance, free life insurance, free HSAs. And it's like, what? And most of these business owners are like,
Starting point is 00:21:32 how is this possible? That's one of my favorite things is going to a business and giving them a check for 27 grand. They're like, what is this for? And I said, well, I put you on a level funded product, which means at the end of the year, you get access to your claims dollars that are left over. And they're like wait what?
Starting point is 00:21:45 And I'm like, yeah, you had $27,000 left in claims that's your money I give you that check back and they're like So I'm paying less a month for insurance and I get money back at the end of the year and then I get a wellness Program and the employees get a tax break exactly exactly employees get a tax break which allows them to get extra insurance And one of the companies I deal with gives a whole life insurance policies, which collects cash value.
Starting point is 00:22:10 And it's guaranteed issue, which means for your wife and your kids, guaranteed issue life insurance. So if wife is unhealthy, kids are unhealthy, they're gonna get guaranteed issue life insurance, which you would never be able to get on the private market, right? Not for these amounts that we're getting 100, 200,000,
Starting point is 00:22:27 right, depending on how much the employees are making for years, so the tax break is different. But it's just these really intricate strategies that sound kind of up there in the clouds, but that's the whole thing, right? I mean, strategies are chess. And there's so many movements you can make where most people are playing the game checkers,
Starting point is 00:22:45 whether it's insurance or marketing, right? How many people do you run into that are playing their marketing game or ads game? Like checkers, you're like, what are you doing here? And it's sometimes those little micro movements. I mean, when I met you, I was playing checkers. And you were like, hey man, if you just move this here and move this here, you're gonna see great results.
Starting point is 00:23:01 And I was like, what? And when I did it, I was like, It's crazy. It's like magic, right? Yeah, so it's the same thing in insurance is those little changes you do and then having someone that can be an advocate for you And really lay all these plans out for you and I pay attention in the market. So when things change them like hey listen There's a new rule. There's new products. Let's get you on this. Let's shift you over because I don't care what insurance you're on I just want you to win, that's it. Love it. So, last couple of questions.
Starting point is 00:23:28 I like to ask on the show, more entrepreneurial now, right? Well, first one, where do they find you if they want to go down the rabbit hole on the insurance side, and they're like, that all sounds great. My current person I use has no clue about any of that. I want to pick your brain on it and see if I can just use you to set it all up
Starting point is 00:23:45 Where do they where do they go? I love it You can go a Facebook or Instagram to ProCare consulting or Philippe Lundstedt either one either my personal or my business And you can also go to my LinkedIn as well Philippe Lundstedt That's the best way to get a whole link it in the show notes, too So last couple of questions on the entrepreneur side. I always ask, you know a lot of success But what was your biggest one of biggest failures in business? Whoa man my biggest failure in business was when I was working for humana as a captive agent and I
Starting point is 00:24:15 Quit my job because I was unhappy with the way management treated somebody else And I didn't take my book of business, and it was over 800 clients. So I went from making six figures to nothing. I was young, it was the dumbest thing ever. I didn't have a plan. Were you allowed to take it? Yeah, 100%. I could have copied all those people and taken it,
Starting point is 00:24:36 and then when I left, I could have easily contacted them and rewrote them, because the plans change every year. I could have rewritten it, and then boom, had 800 clients off the rip So I actually did that twice. I did it with Humana and then I worked for United Health Care and they had a contract dispute over in the area that I live in and All of my clients went over to Blue Cross Blue Shield, but because I was a captain with United I couldn't do anything
Starting point is 00:24:59 That's when I was like never again. I'm gonna become a broker and it was like literally at that time I was working like three jobs. It was tough, Rudy. Three jobs, no vacation time, three and a half years, grinding, grinding, grinding. I was a mattress firm trainer. I worked at a pipe factory, third shift, and I was doing telemarketing every single day.
Starting point is 00:25:20 It was nuts, man. No dinners, no holidays, none of that stuff. And it was tough, but now I'm here, right? Yeah, yeah. No dinners, no holidays, none of that stuff. And it was tough, but now I'm here, right? Yeah, yeah. Last question. I always ask if you could go in a time machine to your younger self and tell yourself one thing, what would it be?
Starting point is 00:25:34 I would have told my younger self to invest in yourself, invest in the education, don't buy the glittery, glamorous things, invest in your business, masterminds, read more books and focus on personal growth because I would have been where I'm at now 15 years ago. It's funny how still 90% of the world does no personal development. None. But every, like the people that do, it's like they always say they wish they'd done it earlier. Yep, absolutely. I wish I would have done it earlier instead of going to concerts I wish I would have gone to you know your events or well you weren't doing events back
Starting point is 00:26:12 Right, but like Tony Robbins and all these other guys were doing them, right and it's like nah I'd rather you know go to a concert or go to the bar or whatever. Just stupid man. Like I'm lucky I like fell on Tim Ferriss' four hour work week at 18 and became upset and then I did all the Brian Tracy stuff right after and I got lucky I started it young I guess. But yeah, some people they don't start it till 40 and it's like, I lost all my 30s. And people think it's something that there's some kind of magic formula or you got lucky or whatever and it's like just, I paid attention to what was inside of me and my abilities.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Like I changed my limited belief system to be like, I could do this and here's the roadmap because success leaves clues. I just have to follow these things, right? And that's what we do. And now that you learn those, you pass those on, whether it's to your employees, to your clients, to whatever, you pass it on because you wanna pay it forward, those on whether it's to your employees to your clients to whatever
Starting point is 00:27:08 You pass it on because you want to pay it forward right and it's the absolute truth I mean, it's gospel if you just invest in personal development You see the same people that have been unfit all their life and then they lose 50 pounds And then they can't stop talking about fitness ever again Like you know, I see that with so many clients But when I was in fitness, they lost the weight with me. And then now they're like becoming personal trainers. Yeah, exactly. See how it changes.
Starting point is 00:27:29 I think if you're listening and not into impersonal development, that's how personal development feels. Yeah, absolutely. 100%. Love that. Good. So that's a wrap. Just one more time, your Instagram.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Instagram is FTLuns or ProCare Consulting. Good. Love it. Well, great episode talking about all the insurance for entrepreneurs, for their teams, building a unique sales system too. That was awesome conversation. So guys, go check him out,
Starting point is 00:27:53 and of course, keep living the red life. Bye!

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