At 41 years old, Mark Holland had won the game. He sold his agency, BenCom, and was in the Cayman Islands planning a life of philanthropy and leisure.

Then, the check didn’t clear. The buyers defaulted, destroyed the company, and Mark went from retired to restarting from scratch overnight.

But the story doesn’t end there. After building a second agency, Benefit Help, to nearly $2 million in revenue, he was hit with a 36-month storm of client acquisitions and COVID shutdowns that wiped out 90% of his business.

In this episode, Mark, now the CEO of CoVerica, joins me to share the raw truth about resilience. We discuss how he navigated losing everything – twice – without losing his faith, why he refuses to sacrifice his family for profit anymore, and how he turned his biggest professional failures into the leadership philosophy that runs a 40-year-old powerhouse agency today.

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