The RAG Podcast
13 April 2023
Season 6 | Ep28 – Antony Pitt on going from a debilitating alcohol addiction to running a multi-million dollar business in the US
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13 April 2023
Season 6 | Ep27 – Jonathan Field on building a super profitable recruitment business where everyone has a responsibility to drive business
Jonathan Field on building a super…
29 March 2023
Season 6 | Ep26 – Daniel Puttick on how taking his foot off the gas was a HUGE mistake for his recruitment business
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29 March 2023
Season 6 | Ep 25 – Gary Redman on growing a business that now turns over up to 6 million pounds per year in net profit
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21 March 2023
Season 6 | Ep24 – Jo Sellick on growing business revenue from £45m to over £95 million in less than 3 years!
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17 March 2023
Season 6 | Ep23 – Mike Lee on scaling and exiting his business and making well over seven figures
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11 March 2023
Season 6 | Ep 22 – Paul Sammeroff on how starting a rec business with two strangers backfired within 3 years!
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4 March 2023
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!
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28 February 2023
Season 6 | Ep20 – Chris Allaire on how his agency was voted the SIA’s best staffing agency to work for in the USA!
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21 February 2023
Season 6 | Ep 19 – Sinead Connolly on billing $1m AUD in the first year of launching Lotus People and what happened to her next…
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31 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep 18 – Luke McCormack on building a super modern, lean and highly profitable agency that ONLY sells retainers
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31 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep 17 – Edmund Blogg on helping rec startups unlock revenue and growth goals earlier by removing friction involved in building a business
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11 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep16 – Greg Savage on the metrics you should be measuring to ensure your rec business is scaling profitably
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6 January 2023
Season 6 | Episode 15 – Ephram Stephenson on growing to over 100 people in 12 months of trading
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6 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep 14 – Ben Duffill believes you don’t need to set up your own recruitment company to be successful in the industry
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6 January 2023
S6 | Ep13 – Simon Hair on building one of the most socially engaged recruitment firms on the planet
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6 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep12 – Kayleigh Bottomley on only hiring inexperienced people and still making a profit
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6 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep 11 – John Dyson on surviving a major snowboarding accident and running his agency his way!
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6 January 2023
Season 6 | Ep 10 – James Brown on owning the fastest-growing recruitment agency in the world
In early 2021, I interviewed James, the…
16 November 2022
Season 6 | Ep 8 – Richard Wright on enjoying his recruitment career more than he ever has before in his mid-fifties
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20 October 2022
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
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20 October 2022
S6 Ep 6 | Sean Anderson on 3 simple things every recruiter should implement now before LI changes
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7 October 2022
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
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30 September 2022
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
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23 September 2022
Season 6 | Ep 3 – Lloyd Gordon on the details of his acquisition of Cognitive Group and how his business is now 107 staff!
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15 September 2022
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!
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7 September 2022
Season 6 | Ep 1 – Ed Rossiter on securing 1 million euros of investment to hire 250 recruiters in the next 3-5 years
We are back with season 6 and WHAT a…
31 August 2022
Season 5 | Ep 40 – Ben Wallin & Dan Cox on invoicing £1.7m in their first year in business despite only forecasting £200k!
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24 August 2022
Season 5 | Ep 39 – Rogier Rouppe van der Voort on working his way up to becoming a CEO at age 33!
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17 August 2022
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
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2 August 2022
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!
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2 August 2022
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
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2 August 2022
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!
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8 July 2022
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
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30 June 2022
Season 5 | Ep 33 – Jamie Trevett & Tony Robbins on taking a huge risk during the pandemic to keep the business alive – and it worked!
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24 June 2022
Season 5 | Ep 32 – Anthony Webster on his story of coming out as gay and the impact this has had on his recruitment career!
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24 June 2022
Season 5 | Ep 31 – Jez Heard on billing £500k in his first 6 months as an agency owner at the age of 24!
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9 June 2022
Season 5 | Ep 30 – Nader Beshara on growing to 10 staff at his own pace during the pandemic!
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9 June 2022
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!
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9 June 2022
Season 5 | Ep 28 – Matthew Eames on why he still loves the daily challenge of growing Eames Group after 20 years since inception!!
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26 May 2022
Season 5 | Ep 27 – Jake Anderson on burnout, depression, anxiety, insomnia, Covid and winding down a 7-figure global agency
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26 May 2022
S5 | Ep 26 – Joshua Rayner on restructuring his agency and growing to 20 x self-employed ‘licensees’
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20 May 2022
Season 5 | Ep 25 – Dan Taylor on being a Recruitment Intrapreneur – showing that you don’t have to start your own agency to have a hugely successful career in the recruitment industry
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3 May 2022
Season 5 | Ep 24 – Emrah Baykal is building an agency that doesn’t revolve around booze and billers’ lunches!
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3 May 2022
Season 5 | Ep 23 – Chris Sheard on building a socially responsible recruitment brand
Chris Sheard built a socially…
3 May 2022
Season 5 | Ep 22 – Ed Stevens on building his second recruitment group to over 1000 staff
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30 March 2022
Season 5 | Ep 21 – Liam Thomas on leading his agency whilst losing his business partner to cancer
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30 March 2022
Season 5 | Ep 20 – Adrian Carboni on why he walked away from over £1m worth of shares to launch his own agency!
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21 March 2022
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!
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18 March 2022
Season 5 | Ep 17 – Stuart White on his journey from starting Provide 21 years ago and his current role post acquisition by TXM Group!
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14 February 2022
Season 5 | Ep 15 – Tom Hibberd shares his secrets to scaling Precision Resource Group (PRG) to 175 staff in 12 years
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9 February 2022
Season 5 | Ep 14 – James Osborne on his predictions for the global recruitment market in 2022!
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9 February 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!
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9 February 2022
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!
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7 January 2022
Season 5 | Ep 11 – Adrian Kinnersley on building TwentyAI based on core values that go against the classic recruitment agency!
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13 December 2021
Season 5 | Ep 10 – Lewis Maleh on building a global, boutique search firm with a clear focus on building profit rather than scale.
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7 December 2021
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!
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7 December 2021
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
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25 November 2021
Season 5 | Ep 7 – Ishpal Bansal on why choosing the right business partner is essential to growing your recruitment business!
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17 November 2021
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!
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11 November 2021
Season 5 | Ep 5 – Dr. Aria on optimising your mindset for higher performance inside and outside of your recruitment business
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11 November 2021
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!
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11 November 2021
Season 5 | Ep 3 – Gaelle Blake on her secrets to finding ‘balance’ whilst being a mother, a yoga enthusiast and a UK & Ireland director at Hays!
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11 November 2021
Season 5 | Ep 2 – Leo Harrison MBA on growing Chapter 2 from 0-33 staff in a Global Pandemic without ever working in the Recruitment Industry!
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11 November 2021
Season 5 | Ep 1 – Mark Znowski on feeling empty after selling StaffGroup and finding purpose by starting up another agency!
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29 July 2021
Season 4 | Ep 27 – Jamie Woods on his vision for JCW Group to go from his living room to 500 staff with no intention of selling and exiting!
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18 June 2021
Season 4 | Ep 26 – Hannah Donaldson on her journey to growing to 135 staff across 4 global locations at the same time as starting a family!
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15 June 2021
Season 4 | Ep 25 – Andy Larholt on why he should have sold his agency when he had an offer in 2015!
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4 June 2021
Season 4 | Ep 24 – Daniel Fox on his journey from billing £1.4m per year as a recruiter to building a truly profitable agency with 35 people across UK, USA and EU
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4 June 2021
Season 4 | Ep 23 – Sam Crisp on how they have achieved 180% year on year growth inside 5 years and why building a team is truly the hardest aspect of being a business owner!
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20 May 2021
Season 4 | Ep 22 – Andy Morrell on taking a handful of recruiters at Oscar in 2007 and growing to 100 staff across 5 offices in the UK & USA!
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14 May 2021
Season 4 | Ep 21 – Bradley Lewington his career journey to becoming CEO of Spencer Ogden with 500 staff across 12 offices worldwide!
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13 May 2021
Season 4 | Ep 20 – Jonathan Keen on building a flexible recruitment business consisting of experienced niche Microsoft specialist recruiters!
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28 April 2021
Season 4 | Ep 19 – James Cox from launching his start up within an established group to group CEO in 3 years!
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22 April 2021
Season 4 | Ep 18 – James Fernandes and Simon Gardiner on their 10 year journey from a garage with no heating to over 60 staff and multiple industry awards!
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8 April 2021
Season 4 | Ep 17 – Logan Naidu on growing Dartmouth Partners to 180 staff through 30% year on year growth, PE investment and M&A activity!
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24 March 2021
Season 4 | Ep 16 – James Caan CBE on selling Alexander Mann for £260m, appearing on Dragons Den and why he still loves investing in Recruitment Agencies today!
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18 March 2021
Season 4 | Ep 15 – Paul Flynn on addiction, mental health and selling Staffgroup for over £20m!
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11 March 2021
Season 4 | Ep 14 – Tim Cook on what he has learnt about growing, selling and buying recruitment agencies after 34 years in the industry!
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4 March 2021
Season 4 | Ep 13 – Clare Cooper on 4 weeks into launching her start up agency Storm3 and hiring 20 grads at once!
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25 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 11 – Bernie Schiemer on going from an 8 figure exit as a recruitment owner to building the world’s fastest growing recruitment CRM!
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22 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 10 – Project 500 reaches £38,000 in donations!
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18 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 9 – James Johnson on growing and selling Nicoll Curtin to launch a community of top performing independent recruiters that is designed to give them EXACTLY what they want!
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15 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 8 – Headteacher Simon Cope on receiving the first laptops from Project 500 and what it means to the kids!
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11 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 7 – Brent Orsuga on growing a hugely profitable agency based on the power of his authentic brand!
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8 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 6 – £30,000 raised in our quest for 500 Laptops for 500 School Children in Need – ASAP!
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4 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 5 – Andy Shatwell on growing a business of 70 recruiters who all lead sales with marketing content!
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1 February 2021
Season 4 | Ep 4 – 500 Laptops for 500 School Children in Need – ASAP!
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28 January 2021
Season 4 | Ep 3 – James Brown on growing FASTEST GROWING Recruitment Agency in the world right now!
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21 January 2021
Season 4 | Ep 2 – Joel Lalgee on how he went from RAG listener to joining Hoxo Media to launch our USA Business!
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14 January 2021
Season 4 | Ep 1- Kicking off the season with a solo episode discussing my thoughts on whats coming up for the industry in 2021
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18 December 2020
Season 3 | Ep 25 – Stella Petrou Concha on why merging her recruitment agency with another small business is a sign for what our industry needs in the future!
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16 December 2020
Season 3 | Ep 24 – Jamie Beaumont on launching Fuel Payments – a FinTech that allows recruiters to provide ‘buy now / pay later’ services to their clients
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11 December 2020
Season 3 | Ep 23 – Paul Donovan on finding humour and positivity in every situation, even in the global pandemic!
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