Creating Synergy: How Evie Blair Builds Empowerment and Innovation in Benefits

In this episode

In this episode I sit down with Evie Blair, president and founder of Synergy Benefit Advisors. I first met Evie when she started showing up to some of my women's events in the Tulsa area, and over lunch I got to know her heart for what she does. And yes — people really can be passionate about insurance! Evie's story isn't a straight line. She dreamed of owning her own company at 20, set a ten-year goal, and ended up launching it at 30. That long-burning desire to build something of her own — and to make a positive impact on both her employees and her clients — is what got her here.

We talk about what it actually looks like to take the hassle out of a complicated industry. Evie shares the "duck on the water" analogy — calm on top, paddling hard underneath — and a real story of fighting a $30,000 heart-monitor claim down to a $2,000 deductible by getting the cardiologist and the insurance carrier talking to each other. That's the kind of behind-the-scenes work her clients don't always see, and it's where her servant's heart really shows.

We also get into the things I love asking about: where she finds joy, how she stokes the fire when the daily grind sets in, the give-back work her office does with Sky High for Kids, and her honest take on balance as a business owner and a mom. Her formula for thriving — hard work plus consistency plus discipline plus patience — is simple, doable, and worth sitting with. Keep going, friend.