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We aim to demystify the world of safety, risk management, and insurance by having informative discussions with industry experts. Episodes come in two varieties; one is focused on providing informative content for small businesses. The others are inside baseball episodes where we interview interesting people to discuss insuretech, insurance trends, and emerging technologies.
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San Diego Culturecast

Voice of San Diego

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Culturecast is Voice of San Diego's podcast about arts and culture in the San Diego region. In the first season, host Kinsee Morlan will zero in on Barrio Logan and the tension between the locally driven DIY arts renaissance and the new wave of outside developers setting up shop in the neighborhood.
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Broker Brett Radio

brett@brokerbrett.com, Brett Fulmer

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Broker Brett radio is a range of conversations with entrepreneurs, startup folks, family, and friends. We're here to break down the usual walls in business and society, to have vulnerable, real, but hopefully uplifting and helpful conversations around small businesses, startups, health, and more. Some content reshared from Insurance Nerds as well, InsNerds.com. brett@brokerbrett.com is a great way to connect if you want to talk shop or join me on the show.
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Today, we are talking with Andrew Chermark of Ensure Analytics, a company that specializes in Telematics. Ensure Analytics is a data science analytical and loss control company. It’s an end-to-end, technology-driven service geared toward insurance carriers, brokers, and auto policyholders for collaboration to help lower costs, reduce liabilities, a…
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Today, we are talking with Elnor Rozenrot of Claimsetter, a company that is described as the ultimate claim support partner to get you back to business. They bring speed and ease to the claims process by preparing claims and funding repairs while you wait for the payout. Elnor has an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He was Co-Foun…
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Today, we are talking with Sharon Fox of Trustlayer. TrustLayer automates the correspondence, collection, storage, and verification of standard compliance documents, like certificates of insurance (COIs). TrustLayer has built a solution for carriers, brokers, and businesses. Sharon Fox is VP of Partnerships at TrustLayer and has over 15 years combi…
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Episode Intro: Today, we are talking with Doctor Rob Long, Executive Director of Human Dymensions. Human Dymensions specializes in developing organizations and people through a better understanding of human factors at work. It was founded in 2002 and has trained over 20,000 participants across 30 countries since then. Dr. Long has a Ph.D. in learni…
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Today, we are talking with Raphaelle March of Cowry Consulting. Raphy is an accredited Behavioral Scientist specializing in perceptual psychology. In 2015, she helped launch Cowry, the largest business-focused behavioral science consultancy in the UK. At Cowry, Raphy leads the integrated services (research, academy, and innovation) and has establis…
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Today, we are talking with Brian Glover of Previewed, which is an app designed to transform the way people connect with their dream jobs. As founder and CEO of Previewed, he’s on a mission to help job seekers showcase their skills and experiences in a way that truly reflects who they are. With over a decade of experience in Sales, operations, marke…
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Nicole Corey is an expert in claims management and started her career in 2001. Nicole holds numerous professional designations, including Worker's Compensation Claim Professional, Self-Insured Certificate, associate in risk management, OSHA 10, Construction Risk Insurance Specialist, and most recently, a WCIRB certification. After transitioning to …
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Bobby Touran is changing the restaurant insurance game through UseRainbow.com, where they are building custom insurance products for the restaurant industry and proudly using independent agents for distribution. Bobby is a serial Entrepreure, he and Broker Brett get into the restaurant industry, their shared experience in the space, new innovative …
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Pulled from InsNerds - One of Broker Brett's oldest insurance buddies and an InsNerds friend from the start Pat West comes on this attachment point news roundtable to talk b atomic, their new data operations analysis offerings, AI, APIs, Insurance being a System of Systems, and more. Pat's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pat-w-977501102/ b at…
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Todd Greenbaum CEO of Input 1 and gotoPremiumFiance sits down with Broker Brett to talk all things insurance payments. They get into the history of the company, the trends they're seeing in the insurance landscape, consideration agencies should have when taking on tech, and where they see the industry going. Todd and Brett round out the conversatio…
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I pulled this audio over from my work on Insurance Nerds, InsNerds.com, I felt it could help all sorts of Small Businesses and wanted to share it broadly: It is not often Insurance Nerds gets to help kick off a product launch. We are excited to help John Morlan get SmarterRisk out, a solution that automates safety and risk control aimed at giving s…
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Broker Brett rounds out the nuclear family pods by sitting down with his Mom, Diana Fulmer, to talk about Relaxed Retirement and other fun threads. They get into tackling education at a later age with a family, yoga, the importance of getting outside walking, reading, volunteering, as well travel, and other insights on the Relaxed Retirement good l…
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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Episode 6 We're going to go back about 18 years — roughly when the region's newest voters were being born. In this episode of SD101, we'll guide you through the scandals that shaped San Diego, explain how the region's leadership shifted from predominantly Republican to Democrat and share tales of those who have risen to power and shaped the region.…
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Shane Crotty, a lead researcher at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology, has helped us out here on the VOSD Podcast throughout the pandemic. He laid out the science of COVID vaccines when they were new. He explained the Delta variant as it swept the country. And this week, he’s back in an interview with Scott Lewis to talk about Omicron — the lates…
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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Buckle up and grab a snack. We're hitting the road. This week, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña are taking you on a drive through the week's local news. We start at the bathroom shortage the city says it'll fix by putting one within five minutes of anyone downtown. Then, we're on the roads of SANDAG and some major hiccups…
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You’ve probably noticed that San Diego is a really expensive place to live. The city has a large homeless population, the cost of rent eats away our paychecks, and for most people, buying a home is out of reach. For years, we’ve been hearing about the housing crisis in San Diego and throughout the state of California. But how has it gotten so bad? …
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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Last year, Voice of San Diego sued the County of San Diego to get death records for local residents who died directly or indirectly from COVID-19. A few months ago, we won. Since then, a team of reporters has blazed through thousands of these records to assemble the data and reveal trends — to show the true impact of COVID, how our region works for…
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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This week on a special Friendsgiving edition of the show, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña are joined by local journalists Alain Stephens and Cristina Kim to talk about happy holiday things like bathrooms, racist deeds and guns. Happy Thanksgiving! Follow Cristina @Cristinakim830 Follow Alain @AlainStephens Support the sh…
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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This week, we jump into the fray of redistricting and discuss how new changes in the city’s population affect how people are represented in politics. Plus: Palm trees, a park tax and a new trolley line. Support this podcast by sharing it with a friend! Send them to vosd.org/pod Or tag us on social media @voiceofsandiego See omnystudio.com/listener …
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Episode 4 Local government can get complicated. But there's one major distinction you need to understand in order to follow it all: the difference between the city government and the county government. In this episode, we spoke with a few government experts to help us understand what the city does, what the county does, who the representatives are …
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly on Tuesdays at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us…
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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria released a draft of the city’s updated Climate Action Plan — with an ambitious new target of net zero emissions by 2035. This week, we look back at the previous Climate Action Plan, which didn’t do all it set out to do. And now, even if the city does everything outlined in its new, super ambitious plan, it still falls sh…
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The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We release weekly at 5am EST. If you want to contact us or if you have questions about the show here is how you can reach us: Twitter - …
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San Diego’s Air Pollution Control District is forcing industries to reduce cancer risk in San Diego. There was a major change this week in how many canceer-causing toxins local industries were allowed to spew in the air. We sat down with environment reporter MacKenzie Elmer to talk about what goes into these standards, what local industries had to …
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Episode 3 Throughout San Diego – and across the country – there are lots of meetings happening, in which communities are talking about how they can maximize the power of their vote by creating new maps. This is because every 10 years all sorts of political entities from cities to school districts to state legislatures go through a process called re…
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Welcome to the very first episode of our new campaign! The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! We are so happy to have you here for the start of this adventure! If you want to …
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This is the introduction to our new campaign! The Lofty Adventures Guild is a real play D&D podcast that will take place in the world of Fa'avae, a world of our creation. Our fearless DM Mark leads our group of adventurers through the new Witchlight Carnival! Episode 1 will be up very shortly. If you want to contact us or if you have questions abou…
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San Diego Rep. Scott Peters is in front of an enormous choice. It's one that could sway one of the most consequential legislative dramas in decades that includes tax credits, child care and education, climate change and — importantly — pharmaceuticals. This week on the show, we wonder: What is the point of Peters? This choice could determine that. …
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This year, we dedicated our annual local news summit to: law and justice. Politifest 2021 happened this week and it was full of great, though sometimes difficult, conversations about surveillance, criminal sentencing, the trauma of incarceration and more. This week, we're giving you the short and sweet summaries of a few panels. And we'll discuss s…
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Episode 2 of VOSD's new series Warning: This episode mentions suicide and contains graphic descriptions of killings by police officers. In light of several highly-publicized killings by police officers in recent years, more and more people have started demanding change to how law enforcement do their job and how they interact with society. Cops hav…
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Four years ago, former mayor Kevin Faulconer signed a lease for the city to take over a warehouse in Kearny Mesa where crews could repair fire trucks. No fire trucks have been repaired there ever. And now, the city wants to spend $15 million to rebuild the facility it may never own. This week, we discuss all we know that's gone wrong so far. Plus: …
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There was a major development this week in one of the most dramatic stories VOSD has followed the last couple years. Say it with me: 101 Ash St. On Tuesday, VOSD’s Lisa Halverstadt broke the news that district attorney investigators were raiding the offices of Hughes Marino, Cisterra Development and the home of Jason Hughes. Halverstadt joins the p…
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We're excited to share our newest show we think you'll really like: San Diego 101. We adapted our popular video series by the same name for podcast feeds. These stories are all new and each episode is made to teach something new about how the San Diego region works. Episode 1. Your Role In Local Government Subscribe now wherever you get your podcas…
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This week, VOSD's Adriana Heldiz saw a large-scale operation by the city of San Diego to clean a homeless camp that had been growing for months in the Midway District; it recently grew so large it was spilling into the street, according to the city. Staff loaded tents and tons of belongings into a trash truck to try and sort out the area. Officers …
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It's expensive to live in San Diego. You know this already. But it's about to get worse. As housing prices balloon, another basic need is getting costly: water. This week, we reported that the San Diego County Water Authority predicts the cost of water could swell up to 10 percent starting in 2023. Scott and Andy review everything you need to know …
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Buckle up, folks. There's another major revelation in the 101 Ash St. saga this week. (That segment starts around minute 30 in the episode if you're antsy.) It turns out the city's real estate adviser, Jason Hughes, got paid about $9.5 million dollars (as a volunteer) for the deals he facilitated. The scoop this week by VOSD's Lisa Halverstadt was …
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Shane Crotty and his team at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology have been studying viruses for a long time. We wanted to talk to him again. He first joined our podcast in March when vaccines were first becoming available and we knew a lot less. Now, after a few months and a few major variants of the virus, we have new questions. Like, why is Delt…
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This is our last podcast before the recall election on Sept. 14. So let's review the candidate we know most about: former San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer. On the show, Scott and Andy review Faulconer's trajectory over the last few months and how that squares with his mayoral tenure. Also, we discuss his weird ballot title. Plus: The city and county…
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This week, San Diego Unified — the largest school district in the region — opened up for in-person classes. Also back this week is our Parent's Guide to San Diego Schools. It's a tool we furnish every year to help parents make informed decisions for their kids' education. In this episode we preview an uncertain school year and highlight the biggest…
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A couple years ago, then-Assemblyman Todd Gloria wrote an op-ed for VOSD. In it, he coined the term "San Diego Special." We immediately became obsessed. Its definition is rough but essentially aims to label a persistent problem in local government that should be solvable but has stuck around due to lack of vision or leadership. Think vacation renta…
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