Scale Your Insurance Agency | Hosted by Mike Stromsoe
Scale Your Insurance Agency Podcast is the executive-level show for independent insurance agency owners who are done with fragmented systems, inconsistent producer performance, and being the “glue” holding everything together. Each episode delivers straight, operator-grade insight on how top agencies create predictable growth by installing a unified operating system across leadership, sales, and automation—so the agency runs without constant owner rescue.
Hosted by Mike Stromsoe and built for the ELITE operator, we focus on the real levers that move an agency from “successful but maxed out” to strategically led, system-driven, and scalable—including the Time Dividend (10–15 hours recovered), Private Profit Dashboard visibility, workflow automation, team adoption, and revenue engines that actually stick.
If you’re a growth-minded agency leader (typically $1.5M–$5M+ revenue with a team that’s ready to execute), this is your weekly edge: leadership alignment, AI & automation that reduces friction, retention and cross-sell expansion, and the discipline to collapse years of progress into months - without burning out your people.
Episode 343: The 90-Day Agency Reset: How to Decide What Actually Matters Next
When everything in your insurance agency feels urgent, it becomes difficult to know what actually deserves your attention. Mike Stromsoe breaks down how a focused 90-day reset can help agency leaders cut through competing priorities, create clarity for their teams, and concentrate on the few outcome...
Episode 342: How to Get Out of the Weeds and Actually Lead Your Insurance Agency
If everything in your insurance agency still depends on you, you may be acting more like the agency’s best employee than its leader. Mike Stromsoe explains why owners can unintentionally create a ceiling on both growth and freedom when they stay buried in service work, routine decisions, and day-to-...
Episode 341: How to Build an Insurance Agency Team That Takes Ownership Without Micromanagement
When team members keep bringing every decision back to the owner, the problem may not be a lack of initiative. It may be a lack of clarity around authority, expectations, and outcomes. Mike Stromsoe explores how agency leaders can build teams that make sound decisions, take ownership, and operate wi...
Episode 340: You May Not Have a People Problem
When an insurance agency feels overloaded, the instinct is often to hire another person. Mike Stromsoe explains why the real issue may be how the work itself is designed. He breaks down the difference between machine work and human work, showing how highly skilled insurance professionals can lose va...
Episode 339: You Don’t Need More Time — You Need an Executive Assistant
Agency owners often assume they need more time when what they really need is greater capacity. Mike Stromsoe explores how an executive assistant can help protect an owner’s most valuable resource by taking lower-value work off their plate and creating space for leadership, strategy, relationships, a...