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Insuring Your Success

Auteur(s): Bram Bains
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For entrepreneurs who think different and build bold. Welcome to Insuring Your Success, hosted by entrepreneur, insurance broker, artist, and content creator Bram Bains.2025
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  • A Conversation on Family, Faith and Bold Moves
    Jul 6 2025
    Episode Summary: In this powerful and intimate episode, Bram speaks with Rishi Jaitley, COO of My Insurance Broker — the partner brokerage behind Maverick Insurance Brokers — to reflect on what it means to build something bold, personal, and legacy-driven. Set against the backdrop of Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square (on 4/16 no less — a nod to the city’s area code), this conversation dives into Bram’s motivations for launching publicly in such a big way, and what this milestone means for his family, his business, and his future. They talk about entrepreneurship, identity, inner voice, and what it looks like to lead by example — for your peers, your kids, and your community. Later in the episode, Bram's Wife Gurpreet joins the mic to share her journey of founding The Gratitude Company, how it grew from a personal healing experience into a movement, and how their family is building with purpose across multiple brands. In This Episode, You’ll Hear About: Why Bram chose to “plant a flag” in Toronto with a digital billboard How inner child healing and full-circle moments are driving his work The values behind Maverick and what makes the business different Lessons from underwriting high-net-worth clients — and how they shape Maverick & Aura Kids The power of faith, alignment, and creative execution How Gurpreet turned her postpartum journey into a gratitude-driven brand The family vision behind building generational impact Key Quotes: 🗣️ "We can do anything we want — if we have the vision and the courage to act on it." — Bram Bains 🗣️ "The Gratitude Company is about giving people tangible reminders of what matters — because everyone has something to be grateful for." — Gurpreet Virdi-Bains Mentioned in This Episode: Maverick Insurance Brokers Aura Kids The Gratitude Company Connect with Bram: WEB: www.maverickinsurance.ca INSTAGRAM: @insuringyoursuccess LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brambains/ EMAIL: bram@myinsurancebroker.com Subscribe to Insuring Your Success Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere you get your shows. New episodes weekly. Full Transcript Rishi: Well, first and foremost, if I can say anything, congratulations to Bram. You'll see the signage. Maverick insurance, big launch day. Doing a lot of work over the last 12 months to bring this thing to fruition. So. Bram. Congratulations. Super proud of you. This is a big milestone. And thank you for letting me be a part of this journey, man. Honestly, we believe in you. We know that you're going to be the biggest success to come out of this camp and couldn't be prouder of what you're doing, how you're doing it, and what you're set to accomplish. Big things. Bram: Thank you. I'm grateful. Rishi: Can I ask you….Why? Why are you planting a flag here today at Dundas Square and doing what you're doing? Bram: Because we can, man. Because we can we can do anything we want. I really believe that we can do anything we want if we have, you know, the vision and we actually have the courage to act on that vision. I believe we're capable of anything. And if anything, today I've got my girls here with me as well. 416, April 16th. We're in Toronto. Toronto. What are you grateful for? It's just one way of spreading positivity and and planting that flag on a special day and a special place. I was telling Andrea as well. I spent a lot of time up and around these streets growing up from a creative standpoint, doing videography, photography, and I'd always look up, but I never thought, I never thought there would come a day where I would be able to do something in this space. And here I am. I think it's a bit of a full circle moment for me. It's a nod to my inner child. And it's just paying homage to a lot of the people that I've had the privilege of growing up with and collaborating with. Rishi: It’s big man. Bram: To me, it's normal. I'm trying to really ground myself and appreciate this as a milestone. Like looking up there and seeing that. Rishi: That is a big milestone, my friend. That is a big milestone. Bram: It’s pretty f**king cool, man. Rishi: Insuring your success Bram: Insuring your success. I'm grateful man. Rishi: God bless you man. Sky's no longer the limit. Bram: No longer the limit. I'm here looking around at all these other billboards. And I can see a future where we take them all. We just do what Dundas Square takeover do a whole Dundas Square takeover. Rishi: Coming soon. Bram: We’re in year two. Year ten. Maybe year five. God willing, you'll see the whole thing in our colors, in our brand. You know, we just got to champion something, do the best we can. And just live that role model for that next generation. My kids, as well as all the other young folks that come through the insurance industry. Rishi: I think I think it's also important for us to highlight that it's leading by example. You talk about doing things for the creatives, ...
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    12 min
  • Planting the Flag
    Jul 6 2025
    In this premiere episode of Insuring Your Success, host Bram Bains reflects on a milestone moment — the launch of the Maverick Insurance Brokers website, celebrated with a bold 24-hour digital billboard in the heart of Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square. Bram opens up about why this moment matters deeply, not just professionally, but personally. From the symbolism of “416 in the 416,” to the influence of creative culture, family, and legacy, this conversation explores what it means to build a brand with intention. He shares how his philosophy is rooted in IKIGAI — the intersection of what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for — and how that lens is shaping Maverick’s growth and messaging. In This Episode, Bram Talks About: Why he chose a billboard in downtown Toronto to mark Maverick’s launch The personal meaning behind “416 in the 416” How year one taught him to stay close to the ground before scaling His motivation behind building Maverick as a creative-first, values-driven brokerage The importance of bridging the gap between creatives and business owners Being a father and building a legacy that his daughters can be proud of Why creating and serving with intention matters more than performance "I don’t want to get 20 years down the line telling my daughters they can do anything, and they ask me, ‘Well, what did you do?’ This is me living it — for them." — Bram Bains Connect with Bram: WEB: www.maverickinsurance.ca INSTAGRAM: @insuringyoursuccess LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brambains/ EMAIL: bram@myinsurancebroker.com Subscribe to Insuring Your Success Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and everywhere you get your shows. Full Transcript: Andrea: Ready? Bram: Yeah. Let's do it. Andrea: So this billboard launch is a huge moment for Maverick Insurance Brokers. What is seeing Maverick up on that big billboard mean to you, and why is it a significant milestone? Bram: t’s a very significant milestone for me personally and intentionally. I wanted to do it here, specifically at Yonge-Dundas, just to plant a flag in Toronto. It's April 16th as well. So 416, um, just my little nod to Toronto. You know, growing up for me, I spent a lot of time around creatives and photographers, videographers and artists and things like that. So I'm very used to like the hustle and the bustle and being being around, being in the city and seeing things from a creative point of view. So this is just my way of launching and planting that flag and giving a nod to the people that I've worked with through my path. Andrea: Awesome. So what inspired you to launch the new Maverick Insurance Brokers website with a 24 hour digital billboard takeover in the heart of downtown Toronto? Bram: Yeah. Great question. The website was necessary, you know, for the path that I'm on to to build the build out a brokerage. The tech was something that was absolutely necessary going through that first year, just learning the business from the ground level, learning the admin piece and how the organization moves and how the work flows in different places. So I wanted to stay really close to the ground before I integrated the website. So going into year two, out of necessity, you know, renewals are starting to come through. Plus still prospecting new business. I needed to have something to support me so I could focus on the the growth and the clients and the relationships. So working with the MIB team and Avi and integrating the quoter tool, that is going to be, you know, essential for my growth, for the brokerages growth as well moving forward. So having that in place just alignment being 416, we've got other brands that are going up as well that I'm connected to. So my wife Gurpreet, she's championing The Gratitude Company and the messaging really being 4 1 6 was Toronto, What are you grateful for? So that really set a deadline for me to execute towards and get the website in place. Andrea: So this campaign is more than just about insurance. So what's your bigger vision for the message that you're trying to share with this launch? Bram: Yes. So the message for me, I'm really pouring a lot of myself into this business and designing and creating it in a way that's in alignment with who I am as a person. So for me, a big philosophy that I believe in is the IKIGAI philosophy. And that is what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs and what you can get paid for, and just blending all of those different elements in into the insurance brokerage. I've been doing insurance now for going on 13 years, so it's the accumulation of my experiences and my relationships blended into what I can offer to the world. Service, People, Relationships, Integrity. You know, all of these things are values that I'm alchemizing and putting together into the brand. So to me, that's what Maverick stands for. Maverick is an independent thinker, somebody ...
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    6 min

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