Recruitment Mentors Podcast

By Hishem AzzouzBusiness Entrepreneurship Careers

Recruitment Mentors Podcast episodes

July 02 Golden Nugget #118 | She Stopped Taking Every Role. Then She Hit a Million $ Billings For The First Time with Mollie Gunn
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20 min
June 29 £298K, Two People, £2K Overheads: How Sam and Ulli Built Brand Partners Without Burning Their Marriage
In this episode, I sit down with Sam and Ulli, co-founders of Brand Partners, a two-person Munich-focused recruitment business they built from £20K in savings while navigating a non-compete, a second child, and the blurred lines of working with your partner every day.
From Ulli taking an interim TA role to keep the lights on, to hitting £298K in revenue with just £2K a month in overheads, this episode covers the real numbers, the deliberate choices, and the trade-offs that most husband and wife business owners never say out loud.
We get into how they split roles, why they stay 90% contingent, how their community of 250 senior marketing leaders became a genuine BD engine, and what it actually takes to protect a marriage when your business is also your life.
Connect with Sam and Ulli here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambrand11/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulli-brand/
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1 hr 14 min
June 25 Golden Nugget #117 | What Happens When Football Ends, One Ex-Pro's Road Into Recruitment with Paul O'Shaughnessy
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19 min
June 22 No Office, No Team, No Exit Plan: £585K a Year As a Solo Founder with Patrick Reynolds
In this episode, I sit down with Patrick Reynolds, founder of Nord Search, who walked away from leading a nine-person team to build a half-million-pound recruitment business entirely on his own terms.
Two young kids, a pregnant wife, and a deliberate decision to stop optimising for someone else's version of success.
We cover the niche strategy that shrunk his entire target market to 300-400 companies, the podcast he launched in month two that now generates fully inbound business, and why 65% profit margins beat a big headcount every time.
Connect with Patrick here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patnordsearch/
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1 hr 4 min
June 18 Golden Nugget #116 | Recruitment Non-Compete Clauses: What's Actually Enforceable When You Start Your Own Agency with Blake Thompson
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9 min
June 15 £2.5M Billers, £70K Average Deals & a Phone-First Culture: Inside H&P Executive Search with Jack Hayes
In this episode, I sit down with Jack Hayes, founder of H&P, one of the fastest-growing legal executive search firms in the world.
Jack launched the business after just two years in recruitment, with no management experience and no existing database, and has spent six and a half years figuring out how to build something truly world-class.
We cover the hybrid exec model that sets H&P apart, the six-vertical mistake that nearly diluted everything, and the structural shift that saw them do £5M in revenue in their last six months alone.
Connect with Jack here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack--hayes/
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1 hr 4 min
June 11 Golden Nugget #115 | Recruitment Outsourcing Strategy: How to Build a Support Desk and Double Your Billings with Adrian Byra
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15 min
June 08 The Contract Founder's Transformation: Stew Wallace on Going from Chaos to £45K Weekly GP
In this episode, I sit down with Stew Wallace, founder of Construct, a specialist contract recruitment business operating across Europe.
Stew takes us through the full founder journey, from launching with £10K and a lifestyle-business mindset to navigating three years of hiring mistakes, a back-office crisis, and £250K in uncollected invoices, before building the infrastructure to scale to £45K in weekly GP across four billers.
You can connect with Stew here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/constructiontrecruiter/
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1 hr 10 min
June 04 Golden Nugget #114 | Solution Selling in Recruitment: The 4 Pitfalls That Keep You Transactional with Oliver Peters
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15 min
June 01 Be Kind, Not Nice: 30 Years of Hard Lessons for Recruitment Founders with Dean Kelly
In this episode, I sit down with Dean Kelly, a 30-year recruitment veteran, serial business builder, and mentor to some of the most ambitious founders in the industry.
Dean has built and sold multiple businesses, scaled teams to 100+ people, and now works with a select group of founders through Kellstar, helping them build recruitment firms that are resilient, repeatable, and built to last.
Connect with Dean here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deankellyuk/
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1 hr 16 min