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Insuring Your Success

Insuring Your Success

By: 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 Economics Marketing Marketing & Sales Social Sciences
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  • Inside the Legacy: 36 Years of The Samosa & Sweet Factory | Live from the Diwali Mela

    Inside the Legacy: 36 Years of The Samosa & Sweet Factory | Live from the Diwali Mela
    Oct 31 2025

    In this special on-site edition of Insuring Your Success, host Bram Bains takes you inside one of the GTA's most celebrated family-run businesses — The Samosa and Sweet Factory.

    Recorded live from the 36th Annual Diwali Mela, this episode offers a candid look at the legacy, leadership, and lessons behind a business that's been serving Canadian communities since 1989. What began as a small restaurant has grown into a global brand producing over half a million samosas a day — built on unity, innovation, and an unwavering work ethic.

    Guests:

    • Mr. Harpal Sandhu, CEO & Founder – on the immigrant story, perseverance, and the role of faith in success.

    • Harman & Param Sandhu, Second Generation Leaders – on legacy, leadership, and adapting in the modern era.

    • Manraj Sandhu, Director of Retail – on scaling operations, partnerships with major retailers, and customer experience innovation.

    Key Themes:

    • Building from humble beginnings

    • Hard work, faith, and family unity

    • Generational succession and leadership transition

    • Pivoting with purpose: from radio to social media

    • Modernizing a legacy brand while staying rooted in values

    Recorded at:
    Elite Banquet Hall, Etobicoke – during the 36th Annual Diwali Mithai Mela

    🦁 About Insuring Your Success

    Insuring Your Success is a platform created to spotlight real success stories and share wisdom that plants seeds — helping elevate the entrepreneurs, creators, and professionals who make our communities stronger.

    🤝 Partner With Us

    We're actively seeking partners and sponsors who believe in the power of storytelling to inspire growth and impact.
    If you'd like to collaborate, sponsor an episode, or explore creative partnerships that align with your brand — we'd love to hear from you.

    📩 Contact: bram@brambains.com
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    45 mins
  • Mental Health in Insurance: A Real Conversation with Canadian Underwriter

    Mental Health in Insurance: A Real Conversation with Canadian Underwriter
    Jul 14 2025

    In this episode, host Bram Bains participates in an interview conducted by Alyssa from Canadian Underwriter as part of a broader exploration of mental health within the insurance sector. The discussion covers Bram's professional path across multiple roles in the industry — including brokering, underwriting, and claims — and explores his reflections on stress, burnout, and workplace support structures.

    📌 Key Discussion Points:

    • Career trajectory: Starting at Grey Power, moving through claims and underwriting, and entering the high-net-worth insurance space as an Underwriter before becoming a Broker

    • Personal experience with burnout and how personality-job fit plays a role

    • The value of peer support and creative outlets

    • How self awareness leads to better decisions and better outcomes

    • Perspective on shifting from competition to collaboration over time

    • Recommendations for industry leaders regarding employee wellness

    🧩 Selected Quotes:

    • "Burnout is very real… it's very high demand."

    • "You can be a leader without the title — it's an energy thing."

    • "At the beginning, I was competing. Over time, it shifted to collaboration."

    • "Organizations that integrate wellness practices will see better long-term results."

    🔗 Full article: Canadian Underwriter – Read Here

    Connect with Bram:

    WEB: www.maverickinsurance.ca
    INSTAGRAM: @insuringyoursuccess

    LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brambains/
    EMAIL: bram@myinsurancebroker.com

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    8 mins
  • A Conversation on Family, Faith and Bold Moves

    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, the entrepreneurs, ...
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    12 mins
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