Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

Ep 32 airs tomorrow: I Hosted a Retreat for Top Advisors. Here’s What I Learned.

14 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Andy Neary (host) describes his motivation for organizing a retreat for top insurance advisors. He contrasts the retreat with typical industry conferences, criticizing conferences for information overload (long days, excessive late dinners/drinking) and framing his event as an intentional, healthier, 'unconferenced' alternative.

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When I was selling insurance, this was always a goal of mine to host a retreat like this. Because I'll be honest, when I used to go to the industry conferences as an insurance advisor, it would frustrate me because the conferences were designed to be anything but healthy. You know, it would be fire a fire hose of information from 8:00am in the morning to 5:00 clock at night. Then you go out and you eat a dinner way too late, you ate, you eat way too much, drink way too much, and it's just a rinse and repeat every day at these conferences. And I wanted to create something that was the opposite, the unconferenced version of what we see so often in the insurance industry.