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Okanagan Edge and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce are partnering to showcase some of the region’s most exciting entrepreneurs through the “Top 40 Under 40” program.
Sponsored by BDO, the “Top 40 Under 40” recognizes high-achieving professionals in our community and showcases their accomplishments. This marks the sixth year the chamber has conducted a “Top 40” showcase. Honourees will be featured throughout the year on Okanagan Edge.
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After previously working in an environment where she could live out her passion of bringing equality and accessibility to the community, Danica Dollman started as an agent with World Financial Group in 2017. It was there she found a new purpose and a new way to help the families of the Okanagan, and that was through financial education.
Over this time, Dollman was on a mission to help and touch as many Okanagan families as she could, provide a solution to a stress or provide a plan for a goal. She had a vision, and that vision was to create an agency, a brokerage, where people of the Okanagan could find exciting, fulfilling careers. Over the next two and a half years, Dollman helped many families as well as built an agency of six licences. In 2019 she was promoted in her firm and named MVP for the most families helped.
Over the years, Dollman has enjoyed coaching Westside girls youth soccer, where she herself was a part of the association growing up and was excited to coach the U6 team. It is extremely important to Dollman to be a positive role model for young girls today, and she receives great joy in exposing the benefits of sports to young girls through her coaching. She is passionate about getting to know her teammates, their most personal goals and helping them to get there. There is no better feeling than to be a part of a person’s growth and personal successes.
Since a small girl it has been in Dollman’s heart to be a volunteer and give. Over the years she has enjoyed sitting on her children’s parent advisory council at their school and currently sits on the committee for her firm’s fundraiser for Children’s Wish, where they have raised thousands of dollars to grant terminally ill Canadian children’s wishes. Dollman is also extremely passionate in advocating for women in the Okanagan; each week she interviews and promotes women in business on her Instagram page in a segment called #girlbosschatting.
Dollman graduated from the human service worker program from Okanagan University College in 2004 and went on to complete the social work program at UBCO. Dollman has also completed the Harmonized Life Licensing Qualification Program licensing requirements with the Insurance Council of BC.
In 2006 she was one of the youngest people to be awarded Key Person at Lifestyle Equity Society.
Q&A with Danica Dollman
How are you currently approaching the current situation?
My heart goes out to everyone that this pandemic has affected. I personally have seen it as a blessing in my life. I have been able to spend so much quality time with my children and family, as well as grow individually, all at the same time still helping families in my business.
Where are you now? Are you still working, at home or at work?
My firm, and all the companies I am contracted with, went remote in 48 hours when we were told to self isolate. I am able to assist my clients with life, critical illness and disability insurances, as well as investments from my home. I am currently seeing people for in-person appointments, while keeping with safe distancing and preventative measures. This pandemic was a time for Canadians to sit back and evaluate the areas in life they had been too busy to put attention to. As a result, I have been happy to help more families over these past months with placing proper protection, save and growing their money, and paying off debt than ever before.
What is your favourite quote?
“At the end it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.” — Denzel Washington
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