The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast
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The RAG Podcast - Recruitment Agency Growth Podcast

by Sean Anderson

We’re having real and raw conversations with successful recruitment entrepreneurs about what is happening in their businesses right now and their plans to navigate market changes.

100 episodes
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Season 9 | Ep23 Ben Richardson & Mike Bott: Why LHi Group appointed two CEOs
1:16:12 Mar 25, 2026
2
Season 9 | Ep22 Lucy Robinson: Fired from her job, now running a £650k global search firm
1:03:10 Mar 18, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep21 Jory Humphreys & Sam Hope: How they built $25M in 25 months using offshore leverage
1:15:56 Mar 11, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep20 Emma Storey: How 2 part-time working mums billed £500K in their first 2 years!
1:18:21 Mar 4, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep19 Avetis Antaplyan on how he spent millions protecting his team (they still left anyway)
1:05:41 Feb 25, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep18 Peter Kornberg: How a Non-Recruiter Built $1M+ Revenue 15 years in a row (with Just 6 People)
56:25 Feb 18, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep17 Alex Hashash: A Decade of Building Offshore Teams Across Three Continents
1:01:31 Feb 11, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep16 Logan Naidu: How he made 100 cuts after a £30M deal (and survived the downturn)
1:05:50 Feb 4, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep15 Ryan Gorman: How He Built £250k in Fees Without Making a Single Cold Call
1:12:44 Jan 28, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep14 Stuart Mitchell: How he built $3M in 3 years (then realised he hated his own job)
1:09:22 Jan 21, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep13 Pete Watson: 22 years as a solo Rec2Rec in Australia (and why he'd never do it again)
1:10:03 Jan 14, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep12 Michael Green: How he made $700K in year one (after not billing for 6 years)
1:14:14 Jan 7, 2026
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Season 9 | Ep 11 Jen Gaster: How she sold her business to her team (and kept the tax bill at zero)
1:06:40 Dec 17, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep10 Helen Buchan-Connor on why she's building offshore teams and hitting $600K revenue
1:07:22 Dec 10, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep9 Emily Van Eyssen on why she's firing staff and replacing them with AI
1:00:38 Dec 3, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep8 Mark Thomas walked away from a six-figure salary without a concrete plan.
1:11:32 Nov 26, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep7 Chris & Gemma built a 7-figure agency by saying NO to 90% of clients
1:22:00 Nov 19, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep6 Mick Donaghy: How he built $1.4M from $7K (after his partnership collapsed)
1:05:06 Nov 12, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep5 Jordan Shlosberg: Why agency recruiters will win (and internal TA won't)
1:02:47 Nov 5, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep4 Ricky Burns: How to build £1.1M profit in year one (after losing it all at 32)
1:10:49 Oct 29, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep3 Matt Fox achieved a life-changing exit and walked away in 90 days!
1:37:38 Oct 22, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep2 Nick Hoadley on scaling Insurance Search to 7-figures at 50% plus profit
1:16:51 Oct 15, 2025
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Season 9 | Ep1 Samm Green on rebuilding Few & Far towards £1m EBITDA in 2025, despite serious burnout and two years of losses
1:14:25 Oct 8, 2025
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Anthony Webster on authenticity, inclusion and leading DVF Recruitment to success
1:08:48 Sep 17, 2025
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Laura Clark on taking over OA Group from her mum and leading it into the future
1:10:16 Sep 10, 2025
26
How Ben Wallin and Dan Cox scaled Edison Smart to 31 staff and expanded globally
1:10:58 Sep 3, 2025
27
Kevin Frater on leading global recruitment growth from 12 to 180 at Frank Group
1:06:54 Aug 27, 2025
28
Joe Jani on growing Metric Search to 90 heads and a private equity deal in six years
1:05:06 Aug 20, 2025
29
Jordan Shlosberg on how AI can help you remove admin forever!
1:29:05 Aug 13, 2025
30
Stuart Mitchell on using personal brand to build a seven-figure agency in nine months
1:03:19 Aug 6, 2025
31
Digital nomad to 60% profit: Chris Redmond on remote success and exit plans
1:13:10 Jul 30, 2025
32
Season 8 | Ep41 Season 8 wrap-up: What I’ve learned from 40 founder stories this year
13:50 Jul 23, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep40 Jamie Trevett on going all in on the US and shutting down his UK contracts business
1:09:08 Jul 16, 2025
34
Season 8 | Ep39 Matt Tyson on two life-changing exits and the personal cost of chasing growth
1:25:30 Jul 9, 2025
35
Season 8 | Ep38 Dan Grim on what top recruitment talent really wants and why most agencies miss the mark
1:22:49 Jul 2, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep37 Why Martin Smith spends 90% of his time on what he's best at - BD and brand growth
1:12:31 Jun 25, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep36 Philippa Smith on losing it all then scaling back to build a £1m+ EBITDA lifestyle agency
1:15:02 Jun 18, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep35 How Levy Global is scaling post-MBO with a clear vision for growth and legacy
1:24:40 Jun 11, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep34 Jay Wynter on $1m billing for 7 years straight and leading Precision Sourcing’s largest and highest-performing team
57:35 Jun 4, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep33 Dan Moussa on growth, consulting skills and leading rec forward in the age of AI
1:02:57 May 28, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep32 From cleaning to global recruiter - Leon Mitton on scaling with AI at the core
1:02:48 May 21, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep31 Tom Warner on why he downsized his agency and now prefers building solo at a £500K+ run rate
41:43 May 14, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep30 James Waissel on hitting £300K within 7 months as a rec agency founder
1:06:08 May 7, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep29 Graham Cosgrave on growing MatchMedics by going niche and marketing to doctors worldwide
1:06:45 Apr 30, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep28 From recruiter to founder at 25: Haseena Mooncey on building a global life sciences business
1:05:08 Apr 23, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep27 From refugee to 7-figure founder: Klajdi Bega on building Luminary Group by age 27
1:09:32 Apr 16, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep26 Tom Johnson on securing investment from Lord Sugar and buying back 100% of his recruitment business
1:02:41 Apr 9, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep25 Helen Yarrow on embracing solo entrepreneurship after 30 years in recruitment
1:13:22 Apr 2, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep24 Tom Essex on losing their niche, and completely rebuilding the agency inside the first five years!
53:31 Mar 26, 2025
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Season 8 | Ep23 Marc Cohen on scaling in the US and securing an 8-figure exit!
1:13:37 Mar 19, 2025
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