This week our guest is Adrian Chapman! Adrian is the founder of Cover 3 Consulting and is interviewed by friend of the show, Shawn Varner. Shawn is a former successful freight broker based out of Kansas City, and has since made a career pivot to financial advising and serves freight industry professionals around the country.

Shawn and Adrian dive in to some of Adrian's background, the state of the recruiting market, the freight agent versus w2 conversation, how to stand out in today's market and more.

This week is a solo episode hosted by Adrian Chapman. This week we celebrate our 40th episode by discussing 5 things Adrian would do if he were on the job market, between jobs, or job hunting.

The 5 things are:

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This week's episode is with Marina Brown, founder and CEO of Moneiva. We discuss her family's background immigrating to the United States and how that gave her confidence to build a startup. We also discuss her initial interest in robotics and how that led to AI and freight payments as an idea for her current business.

Check out her website here:

www.moneiva.com

Books She recommends:

Atlas Shrugged - by Ayn Rand

Execution - Lawrence Bossidy and Ram Charan

On this episode our guest was Jeremie Kubicek.

We discuss some of his recruiting story and how great leaders work to understand their people to build championship teams.

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www.jeremiekubicek.com

This episode is celebrating 5 years of business for Cover 3 Consulting!!

To celebrate I wanted to drop a few podcasts talking about some learnings I've had in that time. Here are 5 general lessons I've learned:

In this episode, our guest is John Powell, VP of Logistics at PT Brokers. He's a 15+ year veteran of the transportation industry and leads a growing 3pl team focused on both bulk and general freight. We discuss his career progression, recruiting story, why the bulk/ag industry and how culture is crucial to building a championship team.

Book John recommends:

Our guest for this episode is Lindsey Trent, founder and President of the Next Generation in Trucking Association. We talk about Lindsey's recruiting story and how she came to found a non-profit dedicated to engaging and training the next generation of trucking industry professionals.

Next Generation in Trucking Website

Lindsey's Linkedin

Books Lindsey recommends:

In this episode we welcome back Shawn Varner, former freight broker- turned financial advisor serving freight folks. Shawn breaks down what he'd do in this market to build a book of business, and how he'd approach his mindset when freight rates are down, margins are down, and demand is down.

You can connect with Shawn on Linkedin here.

This episode is with Carrie Elizabeth Ballenger, the Vice President of Sales, National Accounts with Need it Now Delivers. We discuss how she went from a recruiter, to final mile expert owning a logistics business to selling it and now helping shippers nationwide solve their transportation issues.

She discusses how recruiting helped her in her journey in to logistics and what kind of mindset you need to succeed in the transportation industry.

To get in touch with Carrie, connect with her on Linkedin.