GEICO Talks Independent Agents and Highlights from Applied Net 2025

Recorded live from Applied Net 2025 in Las Vegas, this special edition of Agency Nation Radio features insights from the industry’s biggest event. On this episode, Will Jones, editor-in-chief of Independent Agent magazine, talks with Carrie Poindexter, senior director of agency operations and Jonathan Somich, director of communications at GEICO, about attending Applied Net for the very first time. Also, Peter van Aartrijk, executive vice president at Aartrijk, talks with Richard Hartley, co-founder and CEO of Cytora, about Applied Systems’ acquisition of the company and how AI can help the industry reclaim time to reinvest in both work and life. Then, Kasey Connors, executive director of the Big “I” Agents Council for Technology (ACT), sits down with Brenna Johnson, vice president of product management at EZLynx, to discuss innovations that make life easier for users. Agency Nation Radio is where insurance professionals turn on the mic and share unscripted stories about leadership, technology, marketing, success and failure—stories that helped make them the professionals they are today. From Main Street USA to the pages of Independent Agent magazine—we’ve got the stories you want to hear. For more, catch Agency Nation Radio on your favorite streaming platform or visit iamagazine.com/podcasts.

You can listen to GEICO Talks Independent Agents and Highlights from Applied Net 2025 online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

GEICO Talks Independent Agents and Highlights from Applied Net 2025 is an episode from Agency Nation Radio - Insurance Marketing, Sales and Technology by Agency Nation - Insurance Marketing and Technology Strategists.

This episode is 44:14 long.

This episode was published on Oct 15, 2025.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Agency Nation Radio - Insurance Marketing, Sales and Technology when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.