In my “Help! We All Need Somebody” blog, I referenced how a conversation with John Allen impacted my decision to become a broker. My experiences working with John – as well as my paper route as a boy to my service in the US military as a young adult – have all impacted how I approach being a broker. In 1986, I joined the US Army and became an Airborne rigger right out of high school. Those three years really changed how I see the world. Based primarily in Germany, I met and w