"They Got It From Here... Thank You for Managing Your Risk": The Riskfetti Story with Co-Authors and Friends Sandy Avina and Angel Guerra

What happens when two claims people meet on LinkedIn, become friends and decide risk management desperately needs to be more fun?You get Riskfetti.Sandy Avina and Angel Guerra both came up through claims before building careers in risk management, giving them a front-row seat to what happens when the textbook version of insurance collides with actual human beings.They also discovered they make a pretty damn good team.Angel is the big-picture, “why don’t we just do it?” half of the partnership. Sandy brings the details, the execution and some of the best comedic timing in insurance. Together, they wrote Riskfetti in six months and built something designed for the people actually doing the work, especially those who suddenly find themselves responsible for risk without a giant department or unlimited resources behind them.They join Salty and Producer Brett to talk about their claims roots, why risk managers shouldn’t be the “fun police,” the pathway to yes, why insurance has such a hard time educating people and the realities of managing risk that rarely make it into a textbook.There’s also Nick Fury, Darth Vader, a $2,000 vacuum cleaner, questionable mascot hygiene and perhaps the most convincing argument for starting the thing you keep talking about starting: “We’re on a floating rock hurtling through space. There’s no rules. We can write a book. Who’s gonna stop us?”