Solo Recruiter Episodes

Across more than 5,000 recruiters, Michelle Flynn has run the same values exercise, and money has never once come up as a core value. Part 2 starts tactical and goes somewhere most recruiting podcasts never touch. The top biller's morning. The pre call ritual before dialing a Fortune 500 C suite. What flow state actually looks like on a recruiting desk, and a live breathwork session you can follow along with in real time. Then the payoff: how to find your real driver, why money never survives to the final list, what shows up instead, and what that means for how you build your desk or your firm. Michelle walks through pieces of the Life Audit live, shares the most dramatic client transformations she has watched, and gets honest about the two fears that quietly trap founders, the loneliness of going solo, whether AI is actually costing recruiters money, and the question she wishes recruiters would ask her but never do. If Part 1 was the collapse and the foundations, this is what all the…

Michelle Flynn was living the recruitment dream: 20 placements a month as a solo recruiter, working 9:30 to 4:30, every client on exclusive, no cold calls. Then, three months after her wedding, a suspected heart attack at 39 put her on the hospital floor. From her hospital bed, she asked for her phone because an interview was still running. In Part 1 of this two part conversation, the health and performance coach recruiters call the Wendy Rhoades of the industry takes us inside the dream desk, the collapse, the second warning at 42 that finally forced the wake up call, and the foundations she now coaches into top billers and staffing firm owners. Why you cannot outwork burnout. The fact versus excuse test. The four factors of sleep quality. The breathwork reset elite athletes use before a penalty kick. And the time audit that found one recruiter 36 hours a week hiding on Instagram. Essential listening for agency recruiters, executive search professionals, and recruitment founders runn…

Gary Stauble started his firm in 1998 and almost immediately lost control of his mornings. Circumstances at home meant he could not rely on being at his desk on any given day. He had less time than his competition, and he was not hitting his goals. So he stopped measuring hours and started measuring what the hours produced. He compressed his workday, front-loaded everything that mattered into the morning, and produced more, not less. This episode is brought to you by Atlas, the AI-first recrui...

Welcome back to The Elite Recruiter Podcast! In this episode, our host Benjamin Mena is joined by the incredible Parker Chaney. Parker shares their journey of overcoming adversity in the recruitment business and how they turned their life around for the better. From being laid off twice to starting their own business, Parker's story is one of resilience and determination. They discuss the power of personal branding, the importance of focusing on one thing, and the role of failure in achieving success. Get ready to be inspired and motivated as Parker shares valuable insights and strategies for recruiters. So, without further ado, let's jump into this episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast with Benjamin Mena and Parker Chaney!

Benjamin Mena: Welcome back to The Elite Recruiter Podcast, where we delve into the world of recruiting and share valuable insights to help you excel in your career. I'm your host, Benjamin Mena, and today we have a fantastic episode lined up for you. In this episode, There is NO Plan B, Thomas Alascio joins me as we discuss the nitty-gritty of phone calls in the recruiting industry. We all know that making calls can be tough and even painful at times, but Thomas emphasizes the importance of embracing this necessary activity. Thomas shares his journey from treating phone calls as a numbers game to developing the skills to turn it into a skilled game. He highlights the need for striking a balance between using those skills and making a sufficient number of calls every day. We also dive into Thomas's personal experiences, from dealing with disagreements over signed agreements to the challenges of working in an MRI office that was 100 miles away due to high long-distance calling ra…