A live breathwork session, flow state for recruiters, and why money has never once come up in 5,000 recruiters' core values.
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In Part 2, health and performance coach Michelle Flynn goes from tactics to the question most recruiting podcasts never touch. The top biller's morning and the pre call ritual before dialing a Fortune 500 C suite. Flow state for recruiters and how many real flow cycles a day is actually possible. A live breathwork session you can follow along with at your desk. Then the deep end: how to find your real driver, why money has never once surfaced as a core value across 5,000 plus recruiters in her values exercise, the Life Audit, the two fears that trap founders, the loneliness of leaving the big office, and her honest answer on whether AI is costing recruiters money right now. For agency recruiters, executive search professionals, staffing firm owners, and recruitment founders asking what all the placements are actually for.
Chapters:
00:00 Part 1 Recap and the Wendy Rhoades Intro
00:51 A Top Biller's Morning
03:48 Men vs Women at the Top
05:55 The Pre Call Ritual
06:54 Flow State for Recruiters
10:19 How Many Flow Cycles a Day
11:34 Breathwork 101
14:38 Live Breathwork Session
18:29 From Foundations to Purpose
21:26 How To Find Your Real Driver
25:04 5,000 Recruiters and Money Never Came Up
33:07 The Life Audit
36:14 The Most Dramatic Transformations
40:53 The Two Fears: Failing and Succeeding
43:40 The Loneliness of Leaving the Big Office
46:56 Fix One Thing in Recruitment
50:36 Is AI Costing Recruiters Money?
52:32 The Question Nobody Ever Asks Her
55:04 Final Thoughts
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