85 - A surprisingly good business!

29m · Doing (good) Business · 09 May 04:00

Life insurance can be good business? It sure can! Meet Carey Earle, President of Bluestone Life - not your grandparents’ life insurance company. Learn about Bluestone - they’re a B Corp, Public Benefit Corporation, AND 1% for the Planet member (!); how Carey’s personal values overlap with Bluestone’s, and how she prioritized those values when finding her next career move (and ended up at a company whose mission includes protecting community and planet).

Throw in a couple of great quotes:

“Education is expensive, no matter how you get it.” – Ernest Leigh Earle, Carey’s grandfather, a Vermont dairy farmer and sage

“Mistakes are gemstones that help us become better people” -Carey Earle

…and you’ve got another powerful example of doing (good) business!

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