THE YOUNG PRO-FILES IT’S GOOD TO BE THE QUEEN Indiana young pro creates agency division dedicated to the beauty industry By Christopher W. Cook In the insurance industry, certain dedicated young professionals stand out among their peers and are members of an elite squad of individuals. These are their stories. “Dun dun.” the start of the COVID pan-demic, many of us adjusted our daily lives. We socially distanced, wore masks in public, ordered groceries through delivery services and worked remotely, for those who had been reporting to the office. For this writer, having been previ-ously signed with an adoption agency, had I known my son was arriving in July 2020— we were matched in late May—I probably wouldn’t have spent all my time during the lockdown playing Farm Simulator . For Crystal Fox, creator and founder of Beauty Queen Insurance, a division of The Smith Saw-yer Smith Agency, in Rochester, Indiana, the pandemic found her scrambling for a new career path. “I was in the beauty and makeup industry for about 15 years before going into the insurance industry,” she says. At 46 ROUGH NOTES
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