Jason HeLal didn’t stumble into the insurance game. Quite the contrary, he majored in it at UNT—knowing full well that helping friends, neighbors and everyone in between find the right insurance for their needs was exactly where he belonged.
That said, being an insurance agent isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when you start out being limited to one company’s products.
“It feels very limiting, especially when all you want to do is help people,” HeLal said. “So, in the spring of 1996, I sold my Farmers agency and started over as an independent agent. I called my dad, who was retired. I also called a buddy of mine from high school who happened to be working for another agency. We had one desk, one chair and one computer in a one-room office.”…