All Episodes

Season 9 | Ep28 Blaine Daws: £1.5M Year One to £15M Today. Working 7 Days a Week to Get There.

Season 9 | Ep27 Andy Strong: Why He Waited 17 Years to Start His Own Recruitment Business

Season 9 | Ep26 Jon Woolley: How a Solo Recruiter Billed $1M in Two Years from Home

Season 9 | Ep25 Christian Mather: The Wealth Planner Recruitment Founders Are Calling First

Season 9 | Ep24 How David Bloxham Flipped a 130-Person Agency to 95% Contract Revenue

Season 9 | Ep23 Ben Richardson & Mike Bott: Why LHi Group appointed two CEOs

Season 9 | Ep22 Lucy Robinson: Fired from her job, now running a £650k global search firm

Season 9 | Ep21 Jory Humphreys & Sam Hope: How they built $25M in 25 months using offshore leverage

Season 9 | Ep20 Emma Storey: How 2 part-time working mums billed £500K in their first 2 years!

Season 9 | Ep19 Avetis Antaplyan on how he spent millions protecting his team (they still left anyway)

Season 9 | Ep18 Peter Kornberg: How a Non-Recruiter Built $1M+ Revenue 15 years in a row (with Just 6 People)

Season 9 | Ep17 Alex Hashash: A Decade of Building Offshore Teams Across Three Continents

Season 9 | Ep16 Logan Naidu: How he made 100 cuts after a £30M deal (and survived the downturn)

Season 9 | Ep15 Ryan Gorman: How He Built £250k in Fees Without Making a Single Cold Call

Season 9 | Ep14 Stuart Mitchell: How he built $3M in 3 years (then realised he hated his own job)

Season 9 | Ep13 Pete Watson: 22 years as a solo Rec2Rec in Australia (and why he'd never do it again)

Season 9 | Ep12 Michael Green: How he made $700K in year one (after not billing for 6 years)

Season 9 | Ep 11 Jen Gaster: How she sold her business to her team (and kept the tax bill at zero)

Season 9 | Ep10 Helen Buchan-Connor on why she's building offshore teams and hitting $600K revenue

Season 9 | Ep9 Emily Van Eyssen on why she's firing staff and replacing them with AI

Season 9 | Ep8 Mark Thomas walked away from a six-figure salary without a concrete plan.

Season 9 | Ep7 Chris & Gemma built a 7-figure agency by saying NO to 90% of clients

Season 9 | Ep6 Mick Donaghy: How he built $1.4M from $7K (after his partnership collapsed)

Season 9 | Ep5 Jordan Shlosberg: Why agency recruiters will win (and internal TA won't)

Season 9 | Ep4 Ricky Burns: How to build £1.1M profit in year one (after losing it all at 32)

Season 9 | Ep3 Matt Fox achieved a life-changing exit and walked away in 90 days!

Season 9 | Ep2 Nick Hoadley on scaling Insurance Search to 7-figures at 50% plus profit

Season 9 | Ep1 Samm Green on rebuilding Few & Far towards £1m EBITDA in 2025, despite serious burnout and two years of losses

Anthony Webster on authenticity, inclusion and leading DVF Recruitment to success

Laura Clark on taking over OA Group from her mum and leading it into the future

How Ben Wallin and Dan Cox scaled Edison Smart to 31 staff and expanded globally

Kevin Frater on leading global recruitment growth from 12 to 180 at Frank Group

Joe Jani on growing Metric Search to 90 heads and a private equity deal in six years

Jordan Shlosberg on how AI can help you remove admin forever!

Stuart Mitchell on using personal brand to build a seven-figure agency in nine months

Digital nomad to 60% profit: Chris Redmond on remote success and exit plans

Season 8 | Ep41 Season 8 wrap-up: What I’ve learned from 40 founder stories this year

Season 8 | Ep40 Jamie Trevett on going all in on the US and shutting down his UK contracts business

Season 8 | Ep39 Matt Tyson on two life-changing exits and the personal cost of chasing growth

Season 8 | Ep38 Dan Grim on what top recruitment talent really wants and why most agencies miss the mark

Season 8 | Ep37 Why Martin Smith spends 90% of his time on what he's best at - BD and brand growth

Season 8 | Ep36 Philippa Smith on losing it all then scaling back to build a £1m+ EBITDA lifestyle agency

Season 8 | Ep35 How Levy Global is scaling post-MBO with a clear vision for growth and legacy

Season 8 | Ep34 Jay Wynter on $1m billing for 7 years straight and leading Precision Sourcing’s largest and highest-performing team

Season 8 | Ep33 Dan Moussa on growth, consulting skills and leading rec forward in the age of AI

Season 8 | Ep32 From cleaning to global recruiter - Leon Mitton on scaling with AI at the core

Season 8 | Ep31 Tom Warner on why he downsized his agency and now prefers building solo at a £500K+ run rate

Season 8 | Ep30 James Waissel on hitting £300K within 7 months as a rec agency founder

Season 8 | Ep29 Graham Cosgrave on growing MatchMedics by going niche and marketing to doctors worldwide

Season 8 | Ep28 From recruiter to founder at 25: Haseena Mooncey on building a global life sciences business

Season 8 | Ep27 From refugee to 7-figure founder: Klajdi Bega on building Luminary Group by age 27

Season 8 | Ep26 Tom Johnson on securing investment from Lord Sugar and buying back 100% of his recruitment business

Season 8 | Ep25 Helen Yarrow on embracing solo entrepreneurship after 30 years in recruitment

Season 8 | Ep24 Tom Essex on losing their niche, and completely rebuilding the agency inside the first five years!

Season 8 | Ep23 Marc Cohen on scaling in the US and securing an 8-figure exit!

Season 8 | Ep22 Kyle Winterbottom on how building his brand isn’t just attracting clients—it’s making his business an acquisition target!

Season 8 | Ep21 Lloyd Gordon: Merging 2 rec firms with 100+ staff into one unified team

Season 8 | Ep20 Alex Dick on why 400 recruiters apply to work with his business every week!

Season 8 | Ep19 FIFA to Founder: How a 20yr old Harry Portch built HM Staffing by accident

Season 8 | Ep18 How 100K LinkedIn followers delivered customers, revenue & an exit strategy

Season 8 | Ep17 Jordan Shlosberg: Using tech, branding & social selling to drive revenue

Season 8 | Ep16 James Sanders: 200 employees & 4 brands to selling 50% for £1 to survive!

Season 8 | Ep15 From doubt to £1M in 2yrs: How Hemish Ilangaratne built RX Group

Season 8 | Ep14 Nick Asbridge on building a £1M AI rec business in 2 years – and working less!

Season 8 | Ep13 Reflections, resilience & recruitment: my take on 2024 and goals for 2025

Season 8 | Ep12 Keith Cronin on life without alcohol: Sobriety and living with purpose

Season 8 | Ep11 The road to a successful MBO: Lessons from Chris Peace’s £Million exit

Season 8 | Ep9 Catherine Roughan on balancing a thriving solo business and parenthood

Season 8 | Ep8 Joe Jani on building towards a £100M valuation (at just 31!)

Season 8 | Ep7 Don’t make this mistake on LinkedIn in 2025

Season 8 | Ep6 Jim Sloan on how to build a scalable and profitable agency that doesn’t depend on you!

Season 8 | Ep5 Craig Whiting - On 6 years billing £1.5m per year before learning to “step off the tools”

Season 8 | Ep4 Kate Cross on running an agency with her husband and maintaining £500,000 in contract revenue annually for the past 17 years!

Season 8 | Ep3 Paul de Rozarieux on going from no recruitment experience to solo founder billing £1m a year!

Season 8 | Ep2 Jordan Shlosberg on building The ONLY AI-first CRM for recruiters

Season 8 | Ep1 - Life After a Major Exit with Tom Glanfield: A Story of Success, Sacrifice, and What's Next

Season 7 | Ep48 Introducing ELAY - The recruitment automation platform recently acquired by The Access Group!

Season 7 | Ep47 Volcanic: the story since The Access Group acquisition!

Season 7 | Ep46 Remembering Ryan McCabe

Season 7 | Ep45 Helen McGuire on her journey from founding the first women’s careers platform in the Middle East to exiting a global DEI tech business!

Season 7 | Ep44 Callum Beaumont on 5 key mistakes he’s made over the last 5 years of owning his recruitment agency.

Season 7 | Ep43 How team Hoxo and I generate 1000+ inbound leads per month, consistently generating £2m in sales for the past 3 yrs!

Season 7 | Ep42 Diane Prince on receiving a $10m payout within 6 yrs of launching her recruitment agency!

Season 7 | Ep41 Why investing in AI to drive new business could be the biggest mistake you make right now!

Season 7 | Ep40 Leo Hewett on building a purpose-led recruitment agency, donating 3% of revenue to make a positive impact on society!

Season 7 | Ep39 Jake Frazer on turning a team of ex-industry experts into remote headhunters!

Season 7 | Ep38 - The 5 traits that all successful Recruitment Owners possess with Hishem Azzouz

Season 7 | Ep37 Lysha Holmes on building a 100% inbound Rec2Rec business since the pandemic!

Season 7 | Ep36 - Scott Brown - from unfulfilled lawyer to world-leading ‘community first’ recruitment agency for in-house lawyers

Season 7 | Ep35 Paul Smith on completing the MBO to buy out his original partners and take full ownership of his recruitment agency!

Season 7 | Ep34 - Mirtes Lobaito on her journey from cleaning houses to successful recruitment agency owner!

Season 7 | Ep33 Chris Abbass on growing from £9m to over £30m in NFI in less than 4 years!

Season 7 | Ep32 - Oliver Legg on the move from home security sales manager to global Cybersecurity recruitment leader within 7 years!

Season 7 | Ep31 - Ephram Stephenson on building an agency of 140 people with 500 years of recruitment experience under one roof (all in 2 yrs!)

Season 7 | Ep30 - Alex Woodhead on why recruitment companies that build the best PRODUCT will always win

Season 7 | Ep29 - Oscar Orellana-Hyder on his journey from a sceptic of LinkedIn personal branding to doubling his billings and building a successful recruitment agency in the UAE.

Season 7 | Ep28 - Jonathan Berry on how building his LinkedIn brand has attracted lawyers from across the Middle East and converted into serious revenue!

Season 7 | Ep27 - Calvin Lee-Picket on building a revenue-generating candidate community!

Season 7 | Ep26 - Abdul-Rahman Risilia on building a modern recruitment agency with a core permanent team and a range of global freelancers!

Season 7 | Ep25 - Sean Anderson: what I have learned from almost 300 episodes of The RAG Podcast!

Season 7 | Ep24 - Richard Morton on why it’s never too late to start your own agency!

Season 7 | Ep23 - Jamie Reynolds on the changes required to deliver multiple 7 figures of profit as former CEO of Cordant Group

Season 7 | Ep22 - Laura Clark on her vision for growing OA Group, an agency founded by her mother that she recently purchased!

Season 7 | Ep21 - Josh Huggins on driving a trade sale exit with a 5-year earn-out process before starting his own agency!

Season 7 | Ep20 - Owen Myers & Jenna Mackie on doubling revenue YoY whilst working a 4 day week!

Season 7 | Ep17 - Vincere part 2 - what features are coming in 2023/24?

Season 7 | Ep18 - Dan Moussa & Kevin Warner on reaching over 7 figures in 11 months of trading through a 100% retained, productised recruitment model!

Season 7 | Ep17 - Chris Redmond on transitioning from lifestyle business to building an agency of value and scale!

Season 7 | Ep16 - Anthony Kelly on growing his own recruitment brand DeepRec.ai to 5 heads in 5 months inside the wider Trinnovo Group

Season 7 | Ep15 - Stuart Fry & Lloyd Cremer on why they are focusing the growth of Halian (1100 staff) in the Middle East and NOT entering the US market!

Season 7 | Ep14 -Sean Anderson on how Q3 was probably the most transformational of my life both professionally and personally!

Season 7 | Ep13 - 4 steps any recruitment company can adopt to become an inbound recruiter and drive warm leads on LinkedIn

Season 7 | Ep12 - How Precision Sourcing made $2.5M in revenue following Hoxo’s 3X System

Season 7 | Ep 11 - The new leadership team at Vincere are answering my questions on what’s been happening since being acquired by The Access Group and why customers aren’t very happy!

Season 7 | Ep10 - Kyle Grainger on helping you hire highly experienced recruiters from untapped locations around the world (with up to 70% cost savings in the process)

Season 7 | Ep9 - Mel Kang on his mission to build a top 200 law firm by focusing on being a headhunter!

Season 7 | Ep8 - LinkedIn for recruiters: Transform your team's posting power in just 30 minutes!

Season 7 | Ep7 - David Spencer-Percival on securing £4 million in investment funding for Life Science People and what he plans to do with it!

Season 7 | Ep6 - Ben Wallin and Dan Cox on growing their business by 40% in 2023 and no longer being reliant on their own billing

Season 7 | Ep5 - Joe Curtis on how his recruitment portfolio of 100 staff has grown in headcount and, importantly, profit, through a unique shared ownership structure which helps recruiters realise their ambition

Season 7 | Ep4 - Janette Marx on her inspiring journey of beating stage two breast cancer, staying calm and motivated whilst running a global recruitment business with 900 people!

Season 7 | Ep3 - Alexander Antoniou on growing a 25-staff business in five years at the age of 25!

Season 7 | Ep 2 - Louise Campbell on going from MD of Robert Walters Ireland to Global Head of L&D

Season 7ㅣEp 1 - Kevin Frater on growing one of the highest performing recruitment teams in Frank Recruitment Group globally

S6 | Episode 41 - Stuart Mitchell on billing over seven figures within 9 months of starting his business - all from his personal brand

Season 6 | Ep40 - James Emmett on his growth strategy powered by strategic acquisitions

Season 6 | Ep39 - Roheel Ahmad on growing to 80 staff in 8 years and looking at the next phase of growth - a £60 million valuation.

Season 6 | Ep38 - Matt Green on his mission to take his business from £10m to £100m gross margin!

Season 6 | Ep37 - Adam Richardson on building a SaaS sales recruitment agency in a market where over 70% of their candidates are underperforming in current market conditions!

Season 6 Episode 36 - Sean Anderson on 3 Clever ways to boost your business development using LinkedIn during today’s tough market

Season 6 | Ep35 - David Spencer-Percival on losing £800,000 in three difficult months at the end of 2022 - and what his team are doing to ensure that results are picking up!

Season 6 | 34 - Adrian O'Connor on how his agency increased fill rates to 78% despite a decrease in job flow during the current economic downturn!

Season 6 | Ep33 - James Leighton on facing the issues that plague new companies

Season 6 | 32 - Matthew Wragg on the reality of being CEO of a Global Agency with over 500 people!

Season 6 | Ep31 - James Wardle on overcoming gambling addiction to building Alderson James to £2 million revenue with a 3-person team!

Season 6 | 30 - Elliot Dell on how Salt has doubled to 400 staff & 20 offices in 3 years

Season 6 | Ep29 - James Caan CBE on selling Alexander Mann for £260m, appearing on Dragons’ Den, and why he still loves investing in recruitment agencies today!

Season 6 | Ep28 - Antony Pitt on going from a debilitating alcohol addiction to running a multi-million dollar business in the US

Season 6 | Ep27 - Jonathan Field on building a super profitable recruitment business where everyone has a responsibility to drive business

Season 6 | Ep26 - Daniel Puttick on how taking his foot off the gas was a HUGE mistake for his recruitment business

Season 6 | Ep 25 - Gary Redman on growing a business that now turns over up to 6 million pounds per year in net profit

Season 6 | Ep24 - Jo Sellick on growing business revenue from £45m to over £95 million in less than 3 years!

Season 6 | Ep 22 - Paul Sammeroff on how starting a rec business with two strangers backfired within 3 years!

Season 6 | Ep21 - Tom Glanfield on launching Lhi from his house and growing it to be one of the best-known rec agencies in the UK and beyond!

Season 6 | Ep20 - Chris Allaire on how his agency was voted the SIA’s best staffing agency to work for in the USA!

Season 6 | Ep 19 - Sinead Connolly on billing $1m AUD in the first year of launching Lotus People and what happened to her next…

Season 6 | Ep 18 - Luke McCormack on building a super modern, lean and highly profitable agency that ONLY sells retainers

Season 6 | Ep 17 - Edmund Blogg on helping rec startups unlock revenue and growth goals earlier by removing friction involved in building a business

Season 6 | Ep16 - Greg Savage on the metrics you should be measuring to ensure your rec business is scaling profitably

Season 6 | Ep 15 - Ephram Stephenson on growing to over 100 people in 12 months of trading

Season 6 | Ep14 - Ben Duffill believes you don’t need to set up your own recruitment company to be successful in the industry

Season 6 | Ep13 - Simon Hair on building one of the most socially engaged recruitment firms on the planet.

Season 6 | Ep12 - Kayleigh Bottomley on only hiring inexperienced people and still making a profit

Season 6 | Ep 11 - John Dyson on surviving a major snowboarding accident and running his agency in his own way!

Season 6 | Ep 10 - James Brown on owning the fastest-growing recruitment agency in the world

Season 6 | Ep 9 - Sean Anderson on the 3 fundamentals every agency needs to maximise its brand and stand out from the competition on LinkedIn

Season 6 | Ep 8 - Richard Wright on enjoying his recruitment career more than he ever has before in his mid-fifties

Season 6 | Ep 7 - Laurie Boyall on how he has never ever found himself bored during his 35 years as Founder & Group CEO of McGregor Boyall

Season 6 Ep 6 | Sean Anderson on 3 simple things every recruiter should implement now before LI changes6

Season 6 | Ep 5 - David Morgan on going from sending CVs by fax to driving business via social media over his 22 years as founder of Morgan Law

Season 6 | Ep 4 - Hannah Donaldson on the reality of leading and executing an MBO backed by Private Equity to fuel a long term future for Meet with significant strategic growth.

Season 6 | Ep 3 - Lloyd Gordon on the details of his acquisition of Cognitive Group and how his business is now 107 staff!

Season 6 | Ep 2 - Alex Odwell on building a truly automated system that generates shortlists in seconds and allows his lean team of senior recruiters to outperform the competition!

Season 6 | Ep 1 - Ed Rossiter on securing 1 million euros of investment to hire 250 recruiters in the next 3-5 years

Season 5 | Ep 40 - Ben Wallin & Dan Cox on invoicing £1.7m in their first year in business despite only forecasting £200k!

Season 5 | Ep 39 - Rogier Rouppe van der Voort on working his way up to becoming a CEO at age 33!

Season 5 | Ep 38 - Chris O’Connell on how he went from owning a £25m recruitment agency to a painful exit and subsequent suicide attempts

Season 5 | Ep 37 - Toni Phoenix-Coles on her journey from senior consultant to MD of Digital Gurus whilst growing a family at the same time!

Season 5 | Ep 36 - Kyle Winterbottom returns to discuss how Orbition has generated 100% of its 7 figure revenue as a direct result of his brand

Season 5 | Ep 35 - Lawrence Rose & Elliot Payne on going into business as life long best mates and achieving £1m GP in their first full year during a pandemic!

Season 5 | Ep 34 - Matthew Baird on the reality of both the highs and lows of his first 16 months as a solo recruitment owner

Season 5 | Ep 33 - Jamie Trevett & Tony Robbins on taking a huge risk during the pandemic to keep the business alive - and it worked!

Season 5 | Ep 32 - Anthony Webster on his story of coming out as gay and the impact this has had on his recruitment career!

Season 5 | Ep 31 - Jez Heard on billing £500k in his first 6 months as an agency owner at the age of 24!

Season 5 | Ep 30 - Nader Beshara on growing to 10 staff at his own pace during the pandemic!

Season 5 | Ep 29 - Harry & Rex from Rec Hub on why focusing on your staff being HAPPY first leads to success and not the other way around!

Season 5 | Ep 28 - Matthew Eames on why he still loves the daily challenge of growing Eames Group after 20 years since inception!!

Season 5 | Ep 27 - - Jake Anderson on burnout, depression, anxiety, insomnia, Covid and winding down a 7-figure global agency….

Season 5 | Ep 26 - Joshua Rayner on why his franchisee model was completely broken, restructuring his agency, and rapidly growing to 20 x self-employed ‘licensees’!

Season 5 | Ep 25 - Dan Taylor on being a Recruitment "in-trepreneur"- showing that you don't have to start your own agency to have a hugely successful career in the recruitment industry

Season 5 | Ep 24 - Emrah Baykal on building a recruitment agency that truly invests in the health and wellness of the staff and doesn’t revolve around booze and billers lunches!

Season 5 | Ep 23 - Chris Sheard on building a socially responsible recruitment brand that has found it relatively easy to recruit strong, experienced recruiters!

Season 5 | Ep 22 - Ed Stevens on building his second recruitment group to over 1000 staff (without hiring a single employee with recruitment experience along the way)

Season 5 | Ep 21 - Liam Thomas on the reality of leading his agency whilst losing his business partner after a 7 year battle with cancer

Season 5 | Ep 20 - Adrian Carboni on why he walked away from over £1m worth of shares to launch his own agency!

Season 5 | Ep 19 - Spencer Knibbe on his move from working as Head of Risk for global investment management firms to building his own talent sourcing and advisory business in the same space!

Season 5 | Ep 18 - Lysha Holmes on tragically losing her dad to Cancer in October 2021 and why we are together taking action to raise funds and awareness for Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund!

Season 5 | Ep 17 - Stuart White on his journey from starting Provide 21 years ago and his current role post acquisition by TXM Group!

Season 5 | Ep 16 - Sean Anderson (me) on 5 weekly tips any recruiter can adopt to build a personal brand on LinkedIn!

Season 5 | Ep 15 - Tom Hibberd shares his secrets to scaling Precision Resource Group (PRG) to 175 staff in 12 years

Season 5 | Ep 14 - James Osborne on his predictions for the global recruitment market in 2022!

Season 5 | Ep 13 - Clare Cooper (Part 3) on her experience of the first 12 months after launching Storm3 and reaching 60 people across London, Amsterdam, Dallas and Singapore!

Season 5 | Ep 12 - Alex Zoboli on building one of the fastest growing agencies in Japan reaching 40+ staff in the last 2 years with 100% of the team being in the office!

Season 5 | Ep 11 - Adrian Kinnersley on building TwentyAI based on core values that go against the classic recruitment agency!

Season 5 | Ep 10 - Lewis Maleh on building a global, boutique search firm with a clear focus on building profit rather than scale

Season 5 | Ep 9 - Amy Golding on her journey of scaling Opus from 150 to 300 people, consolidating the 13 brands down to 3, becoming a Mother and securing PE investment in less than 5 years!

Season 5 | Ep 8 - James Johnson on how the stress of being a global Recruitment Agency CEO led him to changing his entire lifestyle and career

Season 5 | Ep 7 - On why choosing the right business partner is essential to growing your recruitment business!

Season 5 | Ep 6 - Nick Vaughan on scaling Hamlyn Williams to 100 people and then leaving the business to build the Bloomberg of the recruitment sector!

Season 5 | Ep 5 - Dr. Aria on optimising your mindset for higher performance inside and outside of your recruitment business.

Season 5 | Ep 4 - David Spencer-Percival on his secrets to growing £100m recruitment agencies multiple times and doing so without a laptop, purely operating on his iPhone!