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Steve Watson

I’m Steve Watson CFO / CHRO and I chat with benefit professionals from all over the country in order to share their stories with you.Why? Because the world of employee benefits is complicated. Your employees are a large part of your company and you care about them. You want to give them the best benefits, but rising healthcare costs make this difficult. These decisions are important for the health of your business, but they’re so overwhelming.The Trendbreakers Podcast is designed by CFO and HR executives like you that help you find the right solution. We’ll help you take control of this confusing area of business so you can focus on what matters most – running your business!

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And if you're looking for a speaker for you next event, please check out www.stevewatsonlive.com. 

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Connect with Bob: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobmccollins/
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Connect with Brian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-a-cappel-61750120/
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Connect with Derek: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekwinn/
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Connect with Aaron: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronwitwer/
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Connect with Allison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allison-de-paoli/
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Steve chats with Ryan Miller, High Performer Coach about the importance of focusing on the importance of focusing on how you want others to know you.  Ryan is a powerful, engaging speaker and it comes out in this podcast.

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Steve chats with Eric Kirsch, Founder of Beacon Healthcare Benefits about building a new way to buy healthcare services.  Eric is a former physician assistant and saw firsthand the difference between how he wanted provide care and how the insurance carriers paid for care.  He knew there had to be a better way which is what Steve and Eric talk about on the podcast. 

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Steve chats with Steven Perchikov, Founder of Art of Sales Academy about direct marketing using Linkedin. 

Steven talks about the how most companies are missing the market with their direct messaging and how companies can better craft and deploy market better on Linkedin.

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Steve chats with Spencer Smith, SVP, Plansight about Stop Loss insurance basics.  We also take a deep dive into how the actual process of brokers getting renewal bids work and how that process can be automated.

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Steve chats with Juliana Stachurski, Founder, Ellis Pond about Content Marketing 101.

Juliana is the marketing wizard behind Trendbreakers and has been instrumental in helping Steve Watson with building out the website, social media groups, podcast, etc. 

In this episode, Juliana dives into content marketing.  The how and the why.  As well as where to start. 

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Steve chats with Eric Silverman who is the founder of Voluntary Disruption which partners with Employee Benefits Advisors to provide enhanced benefits such as life, disability, dental, and other employee benefits to employers. 

In this episode, Steve and Eric dive into marketing. They talk about social media marketing, podcasting, and personal branding.  Why it's important and how others can replicate what Eric has done. 

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In today's podcast, Steve gives an update on everything he has been working on the last 2 months ranging from the podcast, building out two courses, and the summer vacation he went on with his wife and 7 kids visiting all of the southern states. 

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Steve chats with Tim Christ who is a Senior Executive Account Manager at Express Information Systems as well as a published author with his second book Outgrowing Quickbooks set to be released in September.

Tim discusses his background in forensic engineering as well as working as a management consultant.  He also discusses different areas that small businesses can focus on to help them as they scale.

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Steve chats with Niko Caparisos, Advisor, Stimulus for Business Initiative about a plan that allows small employers down to 2 employees to create a pay-as-you-go (ie self-funded) health insurance plan. 

Niko explains why the initiative was created and how it works as well as how other brokers can help use this as a solution for their clients.

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Steve chats with Sharon Tiger, Creator of sharontiger.com about her personal journey building her brand while she was working full-time at a company.  She talks about how to do it as well as the benefits of having a personal brand.

Sharon also shares stories about how companies can do a better job marketing and improving their sales processes.

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Steve chats with Veronica Bray, Expert Witness and CEO of Retirement Plan Advisor Search about her work helping employers through the required due diligence process of evaluating their advisors and record keepers. 

Veronica explains areas where all employers need to be aware of when reviewing their partners.  She lists out important questions to ask and areas to push back on to ensure that you get the best plan in place for your employees.

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Steve chats with Adam Aguilar, Pharmacy Benefit Consultant, Action Pharmaceutical Consulting about PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) and why all employers need to understand their role in their employee benefit insurance plans. 

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Steve chats with Francisco Oller Garcia, Digital Operations & Marketing, BeniComp.  They talk about Francisco's talent of building meaningful connections on LinkedIn and why it's important for others to learn how to do the same. 

Francisco also talk about his passion of helping others and how his company BeniComp helps employers break the rising trend of healthcare insurance costs.

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Steve chats with Frank Cardenas, President, FEDlogic.  They talk about Frank's passion about helping individuals and families navigate the world of federal and state benefits.  This passion came from helping his sister as well as Frank's time working at the Social Security Administration office.

Frank explains that he started FEDlogic in order to go above what he could do at the Social Security office to help consult with families on what programs were best for them and how he now helps employers help their employees with which options are best for them.

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Steve chats with Michael Juergens, Benefit Consultant from CIA-Leavitt Insurance.  They talk about Michael's journey from being an undrafted free agent for the Carolina Panthers to a summer that he received a $99,000 bill for a complication that his son had during birth. 

Michael also shares how he is now on a mission to help individuals, employees, and employers navigate the healthcare insurance system.  He relates how he helped one recent employer move from a 38% increase to a 17% decrease in annual costs by putting in a a different solution.

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Steve chats with Josh Butler, President of Butler Benefits and Consulting.  In this episode they talk a lot about solutions that can get lower rates than even the large insurance carriers.  Not because the carriers can't get lower rates, but that their incentives are in place to keep rates high. 

Josh shares the story of helping one employer lower their annual costs by 50%.

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Steve chats with Dennis Hartin, President of Hartin Dynamics.  They discuss the ins and outs of the health insurance industry as well as give actionable insights for employers going through renewals for 2021 amid the Covid-19 pandemic.  Dennis shares a story of helping a charter school save $100,000 that they can use to reinvest back into the school. 

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Steve chats with Derek Winn, President and Co-Founder of Distilled Concepts.  They discuss Derek's background as a high school history teacher and how communication and education are keys to all employee benefit programs.  They discuss ways businesses of all sizes can lower their insurance costs.  They also discuss how Covid-19 will impact 2021 insurance renewals.

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Steve chats with Alex Dampf, CEO of Oakmont Benefits.  They discuss Alex's story of becoming an employee benefits advisor.  How he got fed up with the plans that employers were being presented with each year that kept going up in costs.  And how he broke through a lot of the health insurance myths and started lowering the costs for employers.

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Steve chats with Robson Baker, Founder of Healthcare Warrior.  They discuss what Robson did when he personally got a $8k surprise bill and how that sparked him to create Healthcare Warrior to help individuals and companies around the country to break the rising costs of healthcare.

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Steve chats with Tim Spooner, CEO of Spooner Physical Therapy.  They discuss how he was able to increase the revenue of his practice as well as decrease the cost of his employee benefits all by changing the conversation with insurance carriers.

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Steve tells his personal journey of getting a 30% rate employee benefits rate increase and how that sparked him on a journey as a CFO/CHRO to break the rising costs of healthcare insurance. 

Along the way he was able to discover 5 steps that helped him lower the costs by 1k/employee.  Steps that you can replicate this year for your company.

Now Steve is on a mission to help 1,000 employers do the same thing he did by learning and implementing the Trendbreaker's formula.

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