Dear Friend,
I need to tell you something that might make you uncomfortable.
Having insurance and being protected are not the same thing.
I've spent nearly 30 years in this industry, and I still lose sleep over the conversations I've had with business owners who did everything right — or thought they did.
A few months ago, I sat across from a woman who had built her company from nothing. She started with one employee and a dream, and over six years she turned it into a real operation — growing revenue, hiring a team, expanding into new services.
She had insurance the entire time. Renewed every year. Paid every premium. Never missed a beat.
She assumed her coverage was keeping pace with her growth.
It wasn't.
Nobody told her that her policy was still structured for the business she had six years ago — not the one she was running today. The classifications were wrong. The limits were outdated. The exposures her growing operation had created weren't even on the policy.
Then a claim hit.
And in one conversation with her carrier, she found out that the business she'd spent six years building was sitting on a foundation made of paper. The gap between what she needed and what she had wasn't small. It was devastating.
I won't sugarcoat this: that moment broke something in her. Not financially — though the cost was significant. It broke her trust. She had done what she was supposed to do, and the system she trusted had let her pass right through the cracks.
I've seen this too many times. And every single time, it was preventable.
Here's the truth that nobody in this industry wants to say out loud: your insurance policy does not automatically grow with your business. Your revenue changes. Your payroll changes. Your equipment, your contracts, your vehicles, your locations — all of it evolves year after year. But most policies just quietly renew without anyone stopping to ask the one question that matters:
Does this coverage still match this business?
If you haven't asked that question in the last 12 months, you are carrying risk you don't know about. That's not a scare tactic. That's 30 years of experience talking.
The business owners who survive the worst moments aren't the ones with the biggest policies. They're the ones who treat protection like a strategy — not a purchase. They review. They ask hard questions. They refuse to assume.
That's exactly why I created The Protection Circle.
Inside Protection Circle Insider this month, I'm breaking down the exact audit process I use with my own clients — the same process that would have saved the woman I just told you about. I'm walking through real claim breakdowns, coverage gap analysis, and the protection checklists I've built over three decades of doing this work. It's not theory. It's the playbook.
If you're a business owner who refuses to be the person on the other end of that phone call — the one finding out too late — then the circle is where you need to be.
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And if you want to start building your protection mindset right now, grab a copy of The Prestizia Protection Playbook — I wrote it for exactly this reason.
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I'm not doing this because I need more subscribers. I'm doing this because I've sat in too many rooms with people who wish someone had told them sooner.
I'm telling you now.
Stay protected. Stay passionate. And never let what you've built be taken from you.
John Crist Founder, Prestizia Insurance Author, The Prestizia Protection Playbook