The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

Season 10 | Ep4 Rich Rosen: 30 Years, 1,300 Placements, and Still a Team of One

Rich Rosen has been recruiting software sales talent from his home outside Boston since 1996. Thirty years, almost 1,300 placements, and he's done it pretty much solo. H

Season 10 | Ep3 Dom Khedun: Two Billers. Just Under A$1M. No Plans to Hire Again.

Dom Khedun landed in Sydney in 2007 on a sponsored visa with Michael Page. Ten months later he moved companies, and then the financial crisis arrived. He was made redunda

Season 10 | Ep2 Mike Williams: My Team Can Bill $250K Off My Accounts. That's the Problem.

Mike Williams was handed a cold desk in a rural US town and told to place accountants. There weren't any. So he placed an engineer instead, and kept going, until his boss

Season 10 | Ep1 Jordan Shlosberg: Why Your Old Conversations Are Now Your Best Asset

Three years ago Jordan Shlosberg walked up to me at an expo and asked to sponsor this show. I said no. I'd had enough of CRM companies. Two years on from our first conve

Season 9 | Ep40 Max Learmonth: From Kitchen Table to £2.4m in Three Years

Max Learmonth was a professional rugby player who fell into recruitment by accident. He answered one trainee ad at Robert Half, started two weeks later, and never looked

Season 9 | Ep39 Scott Lechley: How a Solo Founder Went 100% Retained and Had His Best Year Yet

Scott Lechley started Lechley Associates with £10,000, a new baby at home, and six months of recruitment experience. Twenty four years later he is still the only person i

Season 9 | Ep38 Louise Archer: From Zero Retained Revenue to £12M and 1,500 Recruiters Trained

Louise Archer spent more than twenty years as a contingent recruiter. She believed retained was probably smoke and mirrors, something dressed up to justify a bigger fee,

Season 9 | Ep37 Tom Kelly: £10M NFI in Space Recruitment With 35 People

In 2022, EVONA had eighty staff, a Manchester office, a six-hundred-thousand-pound monthly cost base, and had just spent three hundred thousand pounds flying the whole co

Season 9 | Ep36 Mike Ames: £39M in Exits. The Life He Almost Missed Building It.

Mike Ames built his first recruitment business from scratch in 1989 with six months of industry experience and two partners. One of them died in a car accident after 18 m

Season 9 | Ep35 Oliver Paull: £800K in 3 Years, Solo, From a London Flat

At 28, Oliver Paull runs Rec Gen completely alone from his flat in London. £209K in year one at an 81% profit margin. £298K in year two. Past £270K already this year. Clo

Season 9 | Ep34 Mathew Gollop: 7 to 85 People, a Near Collapse, and the Free Idea That Paid Him Back

Mathew Gollop found Hong Kong in the back of Recruiter magazine. A glossy advert, a Chinese temple, a palm tree. He flew out, signed the contract, and landed in February

Season 9 | Ep33 Greg Fischer: $4.2M Revenue, $1.4M Net - Then He Left With Nothing but a Handshake

Greg Fischer did not plan to spend ten years in recruitment. He joined a solo healthcare practice in LA as employee number one, figured it would pay the bills, and planne

Season 9 | Ep32 Paul Strouts: When Growing Headcount Is a Strategy and When It Is Just a Cost

Paul Strouts has run a business of four people. His first business, James Harvard, quickly grew beyond 100 people and sold to Hays for approximately £20 million at 32.

Season 9 | Ep31 Nathan O'Connell: Building a £1M R2R business on 4 x Retained Clients

Nathan O'Connell spent nine years as a British military officer. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan. He finished on the withdrawal with 16 Air Assault Brigade and left the forces t

Season 9 | Ep30 Emily Angeloni: Why She Nearly Walked Away From WOW After 9 Years of growth

Emily Angeloni co-founded WOW Recruitment in Sydney at 22. No salary for six months. Just her laptop, working from a building set for demolition. Nine years later: a team

Season 9 | Ep29 Charlie Saffro: What Nobody Tells You About Selling Your Recruitment Business

Charlie Saffro started CS Recruiting by accident. Pregnant with her third child, out of a job overnight, doing free matchmaking from the school carpool line in Chicago. H

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

Blaine Daws started in data centres in 2008 with a stack of papers and a wired phone. By 25, he was billing £475k a year as a solo 360 recruiter. At a family Christmas pa

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

Andy Strong spent 10 years in retail selling mobile phones. Then 17 years building the biggest delivery team at a SaaS recruitment firm in Dorset. He became one of four d

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

Jon Woolley spent nearly a decade at Vantage Consulting. He opened their US arm, built a team of eight, and scaled it to $1.6 million. Then, three weeks before his third

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

This is not a typical RAG episode. Christian Mather is not a recruiter. He has never filled a role, run a desk, or managed a team. He is a wealth planner. And since nich