In this episode, I sit down with Luke McCluskey, Founder and CEO of Circle Recruitment, to unpack how he built a £100K weekly GP contract business from just £2,000 in the bank, a toddler at home, and maintenance to pay.

We cover the full journey across eight years and four distinct chapters of growth, the frameworks Luke uses to run a high-performance contract sales floor, and the strategic moves he's making now to get from £100K to £180K weekly GP.

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In this episode, I sit down with Ashley Lawrence, founder and CEO of Trinnovo Group, to unpack one of the most raw and honest rebuilds you'll hear in recruitment.

In 2022, Ash had built a £20M fee business across three brands with a £35M PE offer on the table one week from close, the deal collapsed.

What followed was a complete reset. Ash stepped back in as CEO, sold BioTalent, rebuilt the leadership team from scratch, and made a series of deliberate decisions across culture, systems, product and strategy that drove 40-50% YoY growth and repositioned Trinnovo as a genuinely PE-ready business.

You can connect with Ashley here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleylawrencetg/

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In this special live episode, recorded at RMP Live London, I sit down with three founders at completely different stages of the journey.

Ricky Burns (Pulse Recruit, 18 months in, £1.1M EBIT year one)

Dan Cox (Edison Smart, five years in, pushing £9M NFI)

Mike Bott (LHI Group, 300 people, £47M GP).

We cover the real challenges, the hard calls, and the strategies each of them are betting on right now to build businesses that go the distance.

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In this episode, I sit down with Zach Creighton, founder of Hemans Talent, a financial services search firm he built from zero in Dallas.

Texas. Zach spent a decade in recruitment, scaling the Selby Jennings Dallas desk to nearly 40 people, before walking away with 30 direct reports to go it alone, self-funded, with no brand behind him.

We cover how he hit $1M in year one and backed it up with another $1M in year two, through relentless face-to-face BD, a disciplined niche focus, and a client strategy built around exclusivity without ever dropping his fees to get it.

Connect with Zach here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-creighton-14b080a0/

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In this episode, I sit down with Joe Jani and John-Joe Walker, Founder & CEO and Chief Commercial Officer of Metric Search, the perm-only recruitment business that went from a New York startup to a $100M valuation in just six years across two private equity deals.

We cover the micro-niche strategy and grad-led blueprint that made Metric PE-backable, what actually happens inside a PE roadshow, how they grew 56% in a down market, and what the Southfield majority investment means for the business and the people in it.

You can connect with Joe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-jani-b5667a57/

John-Joe here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-joe-walker/

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