Press Play Ventures

I’m passionate about supporting people who feel underestimated—whether by others or themselves—to flip the script and step into their greatest strengths. Whether you’re an individual battling self-doubt, a leader striving to inspire your team, or an entrepreneur navigating growth, I’m here to guide you with tools that create real, lasting change.

My journey from overcoming personal obstacles to building successful businesses allows me to connect authentically with my clients. I understand what it’s like to feel stuck, underestimated, or unsure of your next move—and I know how to guide you through it. With a mix of practical strategies, NLP techniques, and a commitment to fostering authenticity, I empower people to take bold action and embrace their full potential.

If you’re ready to rewrite your story, I’m here to help you press play on your transformation.

Founder

Allegro Insurance Group

Agency Principal

BizFit Meal Solutions

Tucson’s #1 meal prep company for business professionals, athletes, and more!

Co-Founder

Openly

I help agents be more competitive-- through Openly's product, but also lead gen strategies, recruiting, renewal processes, social media marketing, team building, and KPI tracking.

Openly: Insurtech start-up providing premium homeowners insurance to mid to high-end consumers using modern technology and pricing.

Sr. Agency Success Manager

Drove regional territory growth and agency appointments for innovative InsureTech firm.

Business Development Manager

Stratton Everything Insurance

🥇2020/2021 Arizona Daily Star Readers Choice Winner - "Best Insurance Agency”
A multi-award winning agency with a lively culture and exceptional customer service. 
Recruited, coached, and managed a team of 11 cross-functional sales and support staff
Cultivated highly profitable strategic partnerships with regional real estate and mortgage companies
Won "Tucson’s Favorite Insurance Agency" honors in 2020/2021 and the Pekin Life Silver Key Award (2020)

Agency Principal / Founder / Partner

Farm Bureau Financial Services

Assistant Agency Manager

American Family Insurance

🥇 2015 Arizona Daily Star Reader's Choice "Favorite Insurance Agent"

🥇 2016 "Tucson's Favorite Insurance Agent" by the Arizona Daily Star, Reader's Choice Award.

7x District Agent of the Month
2x All American
Life Honors
"Delivering promises, not just policies."

Owner/Agent of Kimiko Donahue Agency

State Farm

- Property and Casualty Specialist for high producing State Farm agents
- Managed a small team of telemarketers
- Developed new leads through networking
- Marketed to existing book of business
- Full time while pursuing 4 year degree at NAU
- Admin, late pays, account changes
- Solicited State Farm Bank auto loans, checking accounts and certificates of deposits
- Top Sales month: 76 applications

Property and Casualty Insurance Producer

Innovative, high-energy leader with 16+ years of award-winning sales, marketing, and business-building success within competitive market ecosystems. Recognized consistently throughout career for exceptional relationship-building and influencing skills, as well as the ability to develop outside-the-box marketing ideas and disruptive marketplace solutions. Equally adept in direct sales roles, as well as assignments involving the recruitment, development, and leadership of high-performance teams. Additional creative problem-solving skills and resiliency gained as an entrepreneur, musician, and former competitive athlete.

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🔹 Insurance professional since 2009

🥇2020/2021 Arizona Daily Star Readers Choice Winner - "Best Insurance Agency” 

🥇 2015/2016 Tucson’s favorite insurance agent Arizona Daily Star Reader Choice Awards
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My life motto: #kindnessisfree

Kimiko Donahue, CIC ▶️

Andrew Filar 🚀

Chief Executive Officer

Peachy Insurance

•	Provide exemplary employee-experience for 50+ people in a fully remote environment  
•	Negotiated prices and terms on seven acquisitions of Allstate Agencies
•	Grew from $0 to $40,000,000 in Annual Premiums in 6 years

Managing Partner/CEO

Next Call Club

Ted Todd Insurance

• Created, optimized, and scaled outbound sales process to grow rapidly.

•	Led expansion into new market achieving 600% of target sales and maintained 350% sales growth 
        YOY
•      Successfully led implementation and deployment of Salesforce across multiple departments. 
•	Re-built formal organizational chart creating department heads and middle managers reducing 
        the average employee to manager ratio from 15:1 to 6:1.
•      Established Analytics Department to drive efficiency, establish monitoring systems, and improve
        forecasting.
•      Lead and professionally develop firm's employees to increase morale, performance, and turnover.

Chief Operating Officer

• Led an initiative to increase involvement in the employee tuition reimbursement plan resulting in a 5x
  increase in participation rate (↑ 50%)
• Implemented weekly one-on-one's for every employee leading to increased morale, individual 
  performance, and agency sales production. 
• Implemented new recruiting process and hired an in-house recruiter to reduce employee acquisition 
  costs by 30% and fuel growth.

Director Of Operations

• Increased sales by 75% (+$2.5 million in sales) while lowering departmental payroll 30% ($350k) in first
  18 months.
• Led, coached, and mentored an amazing team of 25 en route to three straight record sales months in 
  2017 and a record sales year.
• Oversaw build out, maintenance, and continuous improvement of our sales crm.
• Successfully developed a training program that reduced ramp up time for new sales persons by 50%
• Designed and implemented a merit based compensation plan to fit within existing bonus scheme to 
  align incentives of the organization with the sales team.
• Built and maintained fortuitous relationships with marketing partners in the internet lead space.
• Overhauled the marketing strategy reducing Cost Per Sale by 55% and remained within budget.

Director of Sales

• Introduced new sales process by implementing digital marketing funnels in conjunction with high volume outbound calling.
• Trained and led team of 5 to work new process that provided a rapid increase to sales.
• Conducted research and outreach to innovative technology companies in the insurance space.
• Promoted to Director of Sales within 4 months.

Sale Representative

• Prospected into local businesses for commercial auto insurance - Sucked for the first 8 months. 
• #1 ranked sales numbers in the state of Florida in second year ($1,650,000 in sales).
• Implemented a training plan for new salespeople
• Measured marketing campaign performance and made recommendations to ownership.
• Developed best practices around Life Insurance to drive a 250% increase ($60,000) in sales over prior year.

Sales Representative

10,000 Hours of Lead Management experience | Growing to $100million in Insurance premiums | Helping Small-Business Owners scale through outbound sales |

How did I grow my agency from $0 to $45 Million in 7 years? 

Through a combination of intentional outbound selling and data-influenced approaches to marketing. 

The method is simple. Not easy. 

Now I'm helping other small business owners do the same. 

Want to scale rapidly?

Curious about what it looks like to work with me? 

Shoot me a DM!

•	Provide exemplary employee-experience for 50+ people in a fully remote environment  
•	Negotiated prices and terms on seven acquisitions of Allstate Agencies
•	Grew from $0 to $32,000,000 in Annual Premiums in 5 years

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Kimiko Donahue, CIC ▶️

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