Scott Smith, founder of True Network Advisors, grew up in rural northern Alabama with a population of about 400. He talks about how kindness and humility shaped his path from Claysville to building his insurance agency around 2016.
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Hey. Welcome back to Bullpen Sessions. I am excited today. I have one of the health insurance industry thought leaders out there joining me today, Scott Smith, founder, CEO of True Advisors. True Network Advisors, I should say. Scott, welcome to Bullpen Sessions.
Hey, thanks for having me, man. And you can just call it True for short. And the CEO was I bestowed upon myself when I was starting the company to. To get people to answer my email. So it feels good.
I've done the same thing. I'm CEO Complete Game Consulting. There's nobody else, though, so I get it. Well, hey, I know a lot of people know who you are in the industry, especially employee benefit advisors, but I actually want to start way before you launched True in 2016, and I'm going to go all the way back. You grew up in Guntersville, Alabama. Is that true?
That's true. Technically a suburb. I don't think you can have a suburb of a town this small, but I grew up in a town called CLAYSVILLE, Population probably 400, maybe a very rural part of northern Alabama.
Okay, so I am curious. Let's just kick off with having some fun here. When I was doing a little research on you, this is how I found your. You know how I found you were from Guntersville, Alabama. I online, Scott, There is actually the 1988, 1989 Alabama Huntsville University basketball annual brochure or whatever media guide still out on the Internet.
Wow.
That's how I found you out from Guntersville. So for the folks who have no clue where Guntersville is, what is one little known fan.
