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Bound & Determined℠Live with Heather Stoffer at OIA's 2025 LeadHERship CollectiveHeather Stoffer joins host Meg McKeen for a conversation recorded in front of a live audience during Ohio Insurance Agent's 2025 LeadHERship Collective. Heather describes her career like a hurricane: Hurricane Heather took a few sharp turns – from her service in the Air Force into municipal government and manufacturing, before she fell – or was she pulled? - into insurance four years ago. As she’s grown in her career and her life, Heather’s core values, rooted in the same values she learned during her experience in the Air Force, have shaped her beliefs and her decision-making. Meet Heather S...2025-04-3049 min
The Business Strategy RoundtableMaking Cyber Insurance a Win-Win-WinMercy Komar, CIC, CyRM, MLIS, CCIS, Founder of @Komar Insurance Educators and long-time Risk Consultant with L Calvin Jones & Co, joins the Business Strategy Roundtable for a conversation about cyber insurance. Join our live conversations as we explore how MSPs and brokers can work together to support SMBs.2025-04-2358 min
Bound & Determined℠9.01 | For All the Right Reasons with Kate Scully KrebsbachHost Meg McKeen welcomes Kate Scully Krebsbach to open this 9th season of the podcast. Together we chat through Kate's decision to join her family insurance agency - it wasn't an obvious or easy or quick one - and how she's been able to navigate a new career in insurance sales by narrowing her focus to a single type of business and then going deep into her understanding, and her support, of it. Kate is so generous in this conversation, sharing her ideas for growing your own insurance practice - and in doing so, reminds us that there's more...2024-09-1950 min
Discover the Duncan DifferenceThe Essentials of Cyber InsuranceIn this episode we sit down with Mercy Komar who is our expert in cyber insurance. As technology progresses the importance of cyber insurance and understanding it has never been greater. We get into how Mercy got started in cyber, how she helps her clients and more!Discussions in this show should not be construed as specific recommendations or investment advice. Always consult with your investment professional before making important investment decisions. Securities offered through Registered Representatives of Cambridge Investment Research, Inc., a broker/dealer, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services through Cambridge Investment Research Advisors, Inc., a...2024-08-2026 min
MSP Cyber RoundtableE47. Aligning MSPs and Insurers to Communicate With Each OtherJoin Matthew Fisch and Zach Keeney of FortMesa on the MSP Cyber Roundtable along with special guest Mercy Komar from L Calvin Jones & Co. as they talk about optimizing communication between MSPs and Insurers. In addition, we go over CJIS Framework at a high level.2024-05-151h 02
Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark HistoryMoved by the Spirit: The Murder of Mercy Babcock HallEpisode 312: In a home in Shediac, New Brunswick, on February 13, 1805, Amos Babcock, driven by delusions of divine mission, subjected his family to a horrifying ordeal. He gathered his wife, children and sister, Mercy, instilling fear with his erratic behaviour and unsettling declarations. Spurred by imagined threats and seeing himself as an instrument of God, Amos prepared for a sacrificial act, treating his family with cruelty dressed up as a religious ritual. His deep descent into madness was evident as he inflicted violence upon his loved ones, sparing none from his erratic wrath. Babcock's final act of brutality saw him...2024-04-081h 09
ATO Podcast#71 The Cyber Insurance Diva with Mercy KomarMercy Komar is a treasure!! Mercy has held every position in the insurance industry. She loves it!! She's got all the stories. Mercy was in the industry when there were very few women and frankly during a time when women weren't treated so well. She endured and thrived. Today Mercy is a commercial lines agent with L. Calvin Jones & Co. https://www.lcalvinjones.com/ and an educator in her specialty of Cyber Insurance. Mercy helps educate the Ohio & Pennsylvania Insurance Association. This was a really fun conversation. We could have talked all day. Enjoy! https://www.linkedin.com/in/mer...2024-01-2949 min
Bound & Determined℠7.03 | With Age Comes Wisdom with Mercy KomarMercy Komar - the Cyber Diva - joins host Meg McKeen to share the wisdom she's gleaned from her more than 40 years working in the insurance industry as a CSR, agency principal, and producer. As this one will show you, Mercy doesn’t shrink in hard conversations and her passion for supporting women, as well as seniors, in the insurance industry, is strong and evident in the way she’s showing up in the industry today.Meet Mercy KomarAs a seasoned insurance advisor and risk manager with over 40 years of experience, Mercy Komar has help...2023-11-0242 min
100 Women in Insurance007: Changing the Language Around Sales with Ema RoloffHow do you navigate the transition from a corporate role to owning your own business? How can we encourage more women to enter revenue-generating positions in the insurance industry? How could we alter the parlance pertaining to insurance sales to be more inclusive of alternative methods for closing sales?
In this episode, we’re thrilled to be speaking with Ema Roloff, co-founder and principal consultant of the newly established Roloff Consulting! In conversation with Sandra Lewin, she discusses how she transitioned from teaching into the world of technology, and subsequently insurance, sales. She emphasises the importance of an...2023-10-1939 min
InsurSec PodcastMercy Komar - The Cyber DivaIn this episode, we chat with Mercy Komar, an insurance veteran with over 50 years of experience who's earned the nickname "The Cyber Diva" for her cyber insurance expertise. Mercy shares how she first got into the industry right out of high school as a claims clerk, facing challenges as one of the only young women in her office at the time. She recounts her journey into cyber insurance, selling her first policy in 2017, and becoming one of the first 100 people globally to earn the Cyber Insurance Academy certification.Mercy provides advice for attracting more young talent into...2023-09-2647 min
100 Women in Insurance001: Making Insurance Sexy with Mercy KomarAre you unsure if you are entirely suited to your insurance role, and looking to make a change? Is the industry becoming more inclusive of women, and what can we do to further push these boundaries? What can we do to make insurance more appealing to the general public, and why is it important that we do so?
In this week’s episode, we are thrilled to be speaking with insurance’s self-proclaimed Cyber Diva, Mercy Komar! In conversation with Sandra Lewin, Mercy emphasises the vast array of roles on offer within insurance, granting it a ‘sexy’ appeal fo...2023-09-1433 min
The vCISO ChroniclesEpisode 22 Featuring Mercy Komar and Cyber Insurance This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit securityexpertmarketplace.substack.com/subscribe2023-07-0727 min
The De-Risking Business PodcastThe Comprehensive Value of Investing in Both Cybersecurity and Cyber InsuranceApptega’s recent conversation with Robert Merva, owner and CEO of the security-focused managed services provider Avrem Technologies, and Mercy Komar, an insurance advisor and risk manager at L. Calvin Jones Insurance, details the relationship between cybersecurity and cyber insurance and what you need to know about both.2023-03-1538 min
Cyber Insurance LeadersEp. 17 - A Boots-on-The-ground Approach To Insuring Small and Medium-sized Businesses - with Mercy KomarCybersecurity for SMEs vs. larger companies: what's the difference?SMEs are concerned about BEC and transfer fraud—not ransomware.In this episode, Mercy Komar, a certified Insurance Counsellor and Cyber Risk Manager at L. Calvin Jones Insurance talks to Anthony about the nuances of educating SMEs and protecting them from cyber-attacks.You’ll learn:1. What SMEs are most concerned about when it comes to cybersecurity2. The importance of offering SMEs a personal service and how this drives sales3. Mistakes small businesses make when taking out cybersecurity insurance policies...2023-01-2659 min
Do Not Listen to This PodcastProtecting Your Business Against Cyber ChallengesMercy Komar joins me to chat about protecting your business against cyber risk.2022-06-1714 min
Listen to New Releases Audiobooks in Bios & Memoirs, CriminalsThe Ballad of Jacob Peck Audiobook by Debra KomarListen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go tohttp://hotaudiobook.comTitle: The Ballad of Jacob Peck
Author: Debra Komar
Narrator: Matthew Josdal
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-12-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Criminals
Publisher's Summary:
On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disemboweled his own sister before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. The Ballad of Jacob Peck is the tragic and fascinating story of...2017-05-126h 02