"The Rise of a Midwest Nomad": Meg McKeen of Bound & Determined on The Messy In-Between

“The shiny object syndrome is very real when you’re on your own.”Meg McKeen has a folder in her Google Drive full of ideas. Some became real things. Some were completely built and ready to go before quietly dying. Some might come back someday.That feels about right for someone who has spent the last eight years figuring out what she actually wants her career, business and life to look like.Meg, founder of Adjunct Advisors and host of Bound & Determined, joins The Salty Adjuster for a conversation about choosing freedom, building confidence by actually using it, and accepting that there isn’t always a clear path from idea to success.She talks about selling her house and taking her life on the road, turning a podcast she originally gave herself permission to quit after eight episodes into a 100-plus-episode show and live event series, and why bringing women together in coffee shops, bookstores and art galleries feels more like her kind of insurance event.The conversation also gets into sobriety and insurance’s deeply ingrained drinking culture, why Meg intentionally creates alcohol-free spaces, and what it might take to make industry events feel safer and more inclusive for the next generation.Plus: airport tofu, networking hikes, the dream of mailbox money, Salty’s questionable caterpillar-to-butterfly metaphor, a proposed insurance podcast roadshow and the eternal truth that 7 a.m. conference sessions should probably be illegal.Because for all the freedom Meg has created, she’s refreshingly open about the Fridays she’s wanted to quit and the Mondays she came back anyway.As she puts it: “It’s messy in the in-between, to put it mildly.”Spaces are still available to join Meg's Bound & Determined Midwest Tour! Tickets here: Methods for Modern Insurance Professionals