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Primerica

Primerica

Primerica Inc is a provider of financial services to middle-income households in the United States and Canada. The company offers life insurance, mutual funds, annuities, and other financial products, distributed on behalf of third parties. Primerica has three main subsidiaries: Primerica Financial Services, a marketing company; Primerica Life Insurance Company, a principal life insurance underwriting entity; and PFS Investments, which offers investment and savings products, brokerage services, and registered investment advisory. It has three segments Term Life Insurance; Investment and Savings Products; and Corporate and Other Distributed Products. Geogriphically, it derives a majority of its revenue from the United States.www.primerica.com

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Sep 29, 2026

Blake RuffinoHOST
9:32
This is BS.
Blake RuffinoHOST
9:33
I don't want somebody who's selling Primerica insurance calling my games and reffing my games on Saturday.
Blake RuffinoHOST
9:41
Sorry, I don't.
Blake RuffinoHOST
9:44
They have a problem.
Josh WaxmanGUEST
19:17
And then what happened was they started creating the stock market 401ks came out, IRAs, and people started investing in index funds in the 70s.
Josh WaxmanGUEST
19:25
And in 1979, Ralph Nader talked about that whole life insurance policies are not the way to go and we should learn to buy term and invest a difference, which is something Primerica brought to the forefront.
Josh WaxmanGUEST
19:39
And that was created during a time that interest rates were skyrocketing, the stock market was skyrocketing, and a lot of people started switching over to buying term and investing in the difference.
Josh WaxmanGUEST
19:50
The challenge is that's what caused the Black Monday in 1987.
James CatledgeGUEST
7:48
We had 110,000 agents there.
James CatledgeGUEST
7:51
And Hubert Humphrey was the founder of that company, and he had helped form Primerica, which used to be called ALW, or A.L. Williams Company.
James CatledgeGUEST
8:00
That's where I came from, and I think it set me up to go build my own companies, sell my own agencies, and today I consult, and I help a guy run his own agency, and then I consult with companies like FFL and many others.
James CatledgeGUEST
8:15
I just love it.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
49:54
You know, it's crazy, Tom, you're saying this.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
49:56
Uh, I was in the insurance industry, okay? And in the insurance industry, I used things that I learned from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, that I helped, uh, apply to PHP, as well as, Tom, if you're with me, and as well as some things on the recruiting model that I learned from some other high-volume recruiting businesses, like Primerica and others who were net- or some would say network marketing or all this other stuff, right? Okay.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
50:19
Great.
Patrick Bet-DavidHOST
50:20
And we grew the business, and then we succeeded, and we won, and we sold.
Christian AllenHOST
6:02
When I first got home from a Mormon mission, I was 21 years old.
Christian AllenHOST
6:06
My cousin was in Primerica, recruited me in.
Christian AllenHOST
6:10
I was in there for like six, eight months.
Christian AllenHOST
6:12
And eventually I feel like I saw the light and made a transition into other things.
Christian AllenHOST
6:18
But for a good while, and even when I was transitioning, right? Even when I was leaving Primerica, I was like, okay, well, I don't know if I want this MLM stuff necessarily.
Christian AllenHOST
6:28
But...
Christian AllenHOST
6:30
And I wanted more legitimacy around what I was teaching people, helping people with.
Christian AllenHOST
7:33
key reasons no not like systemic racism and like none of that kind none of those things it's it's whole life insurance that is the source of of it's just insane but he used to also say funny things like this office will do
Steven HassanHOST
1:42
Yeah, it's a pleasure.
Steven HassanHOST
1:45
assume my audience has never heard of you or perhaps hasn't heard of Amway or Herbalife or Primerica or Metalluca or Mary Kay, blah, blah, blah.
Steven HassanHOST
2:01
What's the deal, Bill? Why is this taking your attention and why do you feel so passionate about educating people?
William KeepGUEST
2:09
Well, and I know that You have done a deep dive in this.

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William KeepGUEST
18:24
More recently...
William KeepGUEST
18:27
I had done a little bit of analysis.
William KeepGUEST
18:29
Actually, I think on your website, you might mention this new book that came out with Claudia and Diana, right? In that book, there's some analysis that I had shared with Claudia on recent lobbying and political giving, where I compared lobbying and political giving by Primerica, Melaleuca, and Amway as a percent of revenue to the same kind of giving from Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, and Meda.
William KeepGUEST
19:07
With these three being an example of enormous players in their industry, right? The financial industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the tech industry.
Michael KitcesHOST
20:06
Um, I remember client's name, we'll call him Larry.
Michael KitcesHOST
20:10
Uh, like, L- Larry had a version of this whole life insurance that he got from a, a hairdresser who sold Prima- Primerica.
Michael KitcesHOST
20:22
I remember that part quite clearly.
Michael KitcesHOST
20:24
Uh, um, and it was actually a similar situation, like, was coming in because was getting married, wanted financial plan, wanted to figure things out.
Ryan MichlerHOST
9:15
I shook his hand.
Ryan MichlerHOST
9:16
I said, "Hey, what's going on?" He's like, "Hey, this is my trainer for Primerica or whatever." And I looked at the guy and I'm like, "Bro, are you serious?" And he's like, "What do you mean?" I said, "You're lying to me." I said, "I came to connect with you and catch up.
Ryan MichlerHOST
9:33
You didn't tell me you were gonna bring your trainer to talk to me about your opportunity to join your downstream and your multi-level marketing thing." Which by the way-
Brett BartholomewGUEST
9:42
Yeah, yeah
Travis ChappellHOST
0:44
Larry has spent more than 50 years studying what separates the world's highest achievers from everyone else and building them.
Travis ChappellHOST
0:51
He's a founding member of the Al Williams organization, the company that became Primerica, ultimately.
Travis ChappellHOST
0:59
and one of only eight of its founders still living.
Travis ChappellHOST
1:02
In its early years, he built one of the largest sales organizations in the industry, recruiting more than 24,000 people.
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0:51
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1:00
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1:24
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1:32
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