Recruiting Stories

Recruiting Stories

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Recruiting Stories episodes

  • Episode 19 - Trey Griggs on why branding can make or break your business.

    This month our guest is Trey Griggs, the founder of the Beta consulting group and host of several podcasts in the transportation space. We discuss his recruiting story and how he landed in the transportation and logistics space, and ultimately how he chose to focus on marketing, branding and sales consulting with his company. We also discuss the WHY behind his work that drives him and his team.   

    You can connect with Trey on Linkedin here. 

    You can find the Beta Consulting webpage here. 

    You can subscribe to Trey's daily podcast here. 

    46 min
  • Episode 18 - University of Arkansas Supply Chain Professors Brian Fugate and David Dobrzykowski

    This month's guests are Brian Fugate and David Dobrzykowski of the University of Arkansas supply chain program. We talk about their recruiting story, why Arkansas is the number 1 supply chain program in the country, and their outlook on the current state of the transportation world.   


    If you are interested in the University of Arkansas supply chain program, go here:  https://walton.uark.edu/departments/s... 


    If you'd like to connect with Brian and David, feel free to connect with them on Linkedin.   


    The books they recommend are:

    • The Goal - Eli Goldratt
    • The 5th Discipline - Peter Senge
    • Deep Work - Cal Newport
    • The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
    • Good to Great - Jim Collins
      • 52 min
    • Episode 17 - The Great Resignation and How to Recruit Sales talent now
      In this month's episode, Adrian is interviewed by Kevin Hill, an executive publisher at Freightwaves for their 2022 Sales and Marketing summit. They discuss what the Great Resignation is, why it's happening, and how to compete for talent in a demanding environment where the talent is hard to find. 
      For the article by freightwaves, the video, and more on the sales and marketing summit, click here.
      20 min
    • Episode 16 - US Olympian Johnny Quinn on his journey from unrecruited, to the NFL, Keynote speaker and Entrepreneur
      This week, Johnny Quinn joins us to tell us about his story from being an unrecruited high school athlete to breaking college football records at North Texas, becoming an NFL football player and then an Olympian. We also discuss how his setbacks in sports led him to a successful career as a keynote speaker and entrepreneur and the mindset you need to overcome the challenges you have in life.  
      Connect with Johnny here: 
      His Website: https://www.johnnyquinnusa.com/
      Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnnyquinnusa/
      Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnnyQuinnUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor 
      The books Johnny Recommends:  
      His Book! https://www.johnnyquinnusa.com/push/
      Johnny's Top 10 -  https://www.johnnyquinnusa.com/think/
      The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer 
      Atomic Habits by James Clear 
      Living for Eternity by John Bevere
      30 min
    • Episode 15 - Zachary Green on his journey from Marine, to firefighter to Warrior Entrepreneur.
      This week our episode guest is Zachary Green, Founder of LumAware Safety and former Mariner and firefighter. We discuss the mindset needed to overcome career obstacles and how recruiting impacted his journey.  
      Connect with Zachary on Linkedin.
      Check out The Warrior Entrepreneur Book here: https://www.warriorentrepreneurbook.com/
      The Books Zachary recommends are: 
      The Go-Giver
      Extreme Ownership
      33 min
    • Episode 14 - Anthony Petitte and his journey from corporate recruiting to Transportation Tech Founder

      In this episode we speak with TruckPark founder, Anthony Petitte about his journey from corporate recruiting to Transportation Tech founder. We discuss how companies can retain more people, including drivers by treating people like people and not numbers.   


      The book he recommends is: The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

      Anthony's Linkedin

      TruckPark Website

      47 min
    • Episode 13 - Molo Cofounder Will Jenkins: His journey from Cutco & College Athlete to Freight Founder

      In this episode, we speak with Molo Solutions cofounder, Will Jenkins on his recruiting story coming from selling Cutco, to being a college athlete, to finding his way in to freight and then cofounding Molo solutions.   


      The books he recommends are: 

      • Think and grow rich by Napolean Hill 
      • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 
      • The like Switch by Jack Schafer and Marvin Karlins
        • 42 min
      • Episode 12 - Family leads to freight with Tom Curee

        This week our guest is Tom Curee, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation for Kingsgate Logistics out of Cincinatti, Ohio. We talk about how Tom landed in the logistics industry due to a family nudge, why authenticity matters, culture is crucial, and how artificial intelligence plus people equals the perfect solution for most shippers. 


        Books Tom Recommends:

        Driving Eureka: Problem Solving with Data-Driven methods & the innovation engineering methods


        Links to get in touch with Tom Curee:

        Linkedin

        Kingsgate Logistics

        38 min
      • Episode 11 - How starting a podcast led to a personal and industry transformation with guest Timothy Dooner

        This week our guest is Timothy Dooner, Director of Audio and an on air Host at Freightwaves. He's the host of "WHAT THE TRUCK!?!" an award winning podcast in the transportation space, "Freightwaves Insiders," Freightwaves Morning Minute" and "Put that Coffee Down" among other content.  He's been a TEDx speaker, Director of Marketing, and of course a podcast and TV Show producer with a focus on the transportation industry.   We talk about Tim's recruiting story, his journey in to transportation, how he started podcasting, how he overcame alcoholism, and how personal branding can help you be authentic in your space.   

        • Tim's TEDx talk
        • Tim's Linkedin
        • Tim's Twitter
        • WHAT THE TRUCK?!? podcast
        • Freightwaves Insider




          • 48 min
        • Episode 10 - A journey from football player and coach to lumber trader, with Stinson Dean, CEO of Deacon Lumber

          This week we have Stinson Dean - CEO of Deacon Lumber company as our guest. 

          With lumber prices on a rocket ship much of this year, it has caused havoc for mills, supply chain, homebuilders, and more. We talk about Stinson's recruiting story being a former d1 football player going into coaching, medical sales, and then commodity trading.

          We also talk about how the lumber market has effected the transportation industry and advice for brokers interested in hauling lumber.

          The books Stinson recommends are:

          • Spin Selling - Neil Rackham
          • The World For Sale - Javier Blas and Jack Farchy

            • Follow Stinson on Twitter here: 

            https://twitter.com/LumberTrading 

            53 min

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          This show explores how recruiting has impacted the story of leaders and top performers. At some point, we were all just undiscovered, but recruiting creates a fork in the road.