Playing 20 Questions: A Staff Spotlight with John Galvin

Playing 20 Questions is our new blog series where we get up-close and personal (and have some fun) with our favorite team members here at Berry Insurance. On deck today is John Galvin, personal lines Client Success Manager.

1. What’s one thing you couldn’t live without?
   My family.
2. Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why?
   Maui-my wife and I went for two weeks for our honeymoon. Simply put, the most incredible travel experience I’ve ever had.
3. What does true leadership mean to you?
   True leadership is leading by example. The less you have to try to be a leader, the better leader you are.
4. What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?The internet.
5. If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
   Playing center-field for the Red Sox.
6. What would you most like to tell yourself at age 13?
   Listen to your parents, because they’re right about pretty much everything.
7. Tell us something that might surprise us about you.
   In 2010 I donated a kidney to one of my closest friends.
8. If you could learn to do anything, what would it be?
   Speak another language fluently.
9. What are 3 words you’d use to describe Berry Insurance?
   Caring, knowledgeable, community-oriented.
10. If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do?
    Take my family on a long, expensive vacation.
11. When you have 30 minutes of free-time, how do you pass the time?
    With a 2 ½ year old and a 2 month old this pretty much never happens.
12. What was the last experience that made you a stronger person?
    The birth of my second daughter.
13. What’s the best gift you’ve ever received?
    There’s two, and their names are Abigail and Elyse.
14. What is the first concert you attended?
    Counting Crows. Don’t really remember why.
15. What is your favorite thing about working in insurance?
    The ability to help people protect everything that is important in their lives.
16. What chore do you absolutely hate doing?
    Unloading the dishwasher.
17. If you could meet anyone, living or dead, who would you meet?
    Abraham Lincoln.
18. Ten years ago, who did you think you would be now?
    I honestly had no idea, but I’m very happy with how things turned out.
19. If you had to eat one meal, every day for the rest of your life, what would it be? Anything my wife makes.
20. If you could witness any event past, present or future, what would it be?
    Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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