# Rough Notes Front Cover, June 2026: Bradley Flowers, Portal Insurance

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Podcast: [Agency Intelligence: The Insurance Podcast Network](https://stenobird.com/podcast/agency-intelligence-the-insurance-podcast-network-1320779)
Published: 2026-06-01T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://theinsurancepodcastnetwork.com/front-cover/
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## Resource

In this episode of Front Cover: A Rough Notes Podcast on the Agency Intelligence Podcast Network, Jason Cass sits down with Bradley Flowers, Founder of Portal Insurance, the agency featured on the June 2026 front cover of Rough Notes Magazine. Key Topics From selling cell phones and planning to teach to dropping out of college for insurance Taking a $15K salary to learn P&C: chasing opportunity over money How a Snapchat article led to Wall Street Journal recognition as the number one insurance agent on the platform Podcasting as a strategy to get close to people worth learning from How Bradley launched Portal in January 2019 after years inside the captive world Portal's M&A approach and why he's pausing in today's softening market The Under The Hood Workshop: paid in-person and online program built around how Portal operates Portal Pure: replacing generic welcome gifts with personalized, customer-specific ones The client concierge role and how it develops stronger producers before they sell Why hiring discipline starts with the courage to fire Reach out to: Bradley Flowers Jason Cass Visit Website: Portal Insurance Rough Notes Magazine Produced by PodSquad.fm

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