Life Happens again this year presented its RealLifeStories program at the NAIFA Performance + Purpose conference in Las Vegas. The powerful, emotional stories told by people who overcame tremendous difficulties in their lives with the aid of insurance products captivated the General Session audience. At once heart-breaking and uplifting, this year’s RealLifeStories demonstrate the real-world benefits of life, health, disability and long-term care insurance.

How to Jumpstart Your Career

During the NAIFA Performance + Purpose Conference currently under way in Las Vegas, attendees learned the top steps they can take to boost and jumpstart their careers. They learned these important steps from Dan Finley, president and co-founder of Advisor Solutions, a financial advisors business consulting and coaching service dedicated to helping advisors build a better business.

Don Trone, founder and CEO of 3ethos, spoke on the concept of behavioral and inspirational governance (BIG) and how it will define the value of an elite insurance and financial advisor in the year 2020. His presentation was one of the Big Ideas talks on the Main Stage of NAIFA’s 2016 Performance + Purpose conference. BIG is focused on understanding the governance process of critical decision making. It provides a framework to link the qualities of leadership, stewardship and governance.

Rick Liuag, in his workshop “Obamacare. The Greatest Opportunity to Sell Life Insurance” at NAIFA’s Performance+Purpose conference in Las Vegas, explained how the Affordable Care Act has “created a prospecting bonanza for generating senior and business owner clients for financial services professionals. Obamacare, he explained, has increased costs for senior citizens and businesses and their employees creating a need to replace

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NAIFA has recognized Kim Kieschnick with the association’s most prestigious honor in association management: the C. Carney Smith Award. Kieschnick has served as the executive director for NAIFA-Austin (Texas) since 1997.

The National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA) and the National African American Insurance Association (NAAIA) have formed a partnership to collaborate and work together to strengthen programs that advance member professional development and education, and support political advocacy and engagement. NAIFA and NAAIA will launch the partnership with a NAAIA Membership webinar on Thursday, August 25.

NAIFA members in Louisiana are impacted both directly and indirectly by ongoing flooding in the state. The flooding, which began a week ago, is likely to result in excess of a billion dollars in damage and has so far claimed at least 13 lives. The federal government has declared 12 parishes to be disaster areas, and thousands of people have lost nearly everything they own. A Red Cross spokesperson called the flooding the worst U.S. disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

On July 26, John P. Dewald, CLU, ChFC, John R. Milam, CLU, and Dennis R. Stephen, all current or former (retired) NAIFA members, were inducted into the Robert E. Musto Tennessee Insurance Hall Of Fame located on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.

Have you registered for NAIFA Performance + Purpose 2016? The conference, September 17-19 in Las Vegas, is NAIFA’s premier event and largest gathering of the year.