The Riderflex Podcast: Inspiring & Hiring

Send Us Your Career Questions To Be Answered On The Podcast | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing Do you have questions around job interviewing and career advice? ✔Is now the right time to change jobs? ✔Are they offering you the right amount of money? ✔Should you submit a counter offer? ✔Should you change industries? CEO, Steve Urban, has spent 30+ years as an executive leader and has interviewed...

Be Clear On Your Vision & Keep Moving Forward - Manna Dabholkar; CEO, GIFT Global Initiative | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Manna is the CEO at GIFT Global Initiative - a Humanitarian Organization advocating for and empowering the most disadvantaged and vulnerable families, in some of the poorest areas of the planet. Today under her vision and leadership, GIFT empowers over 10000 chil...

Doing The Right Thing When Nobody Is Watching | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing https://youtu.be/jeiKWhwvbFQ It can be pretty easy to work hard and do the right thing when you have an audience. Showing off your talents, skills, or efforts is a natural reaction for most people wanting to impress peers or supervisors.  The real test of someone's character and work ethic is how much effort...

Building Trust On Social Media - Allison Owen, CEO & Co-Founder; Sweet Logic | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Allison Owen is an entrepreneur based in Denver, Colorado. She started Sweet Logic, a keto baking-mix company, with her husband Matt.  Alli is a proud Mexican-American woman and strives to make every business decision, from hiring to manufacturing, equitable and ethical.&nb...

Tips For Getting Comfortable On Camera | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing We are quickly entering a time when you will be on camera more frequently than not. It's important that people continue to practice and become more comfortable with it.  https://youtu.be/ajoIvXDTb64 CEO, Steve Urban, shares 5 tips on how to be ready for being on camera everyday.  Hear more great advice: https:...

Companies Standing On Principles, Not Positions - Brady Harris; CEO, Dwolla | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Brady is a Senior Executive with a 20 year history of leadership in FinTech, Payments and SaaS industries, to include multiple successful PE transactions. He has a strong track record of unlocking enterprise value through implementing growth strategies, instituting operational contro...

Can You Name Any Band's Bass Player? | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing https://youtu.be/5wMCcpkhQ_U Most skills sets for managing people can transfer from industry to industry. However, to be a top manager not only for your employees, but for your clients, product knowledge is key.  Taking an appropriate amount of time to learn the finer points of your product or service positions you w...

Important Soft Skills For A Founder - David Mendez, Good Growth Capital | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing David Mendez is a venture capitalist with experience investing in startups globally, including Unicorns Skyhawk Therapeutics, Small Giant Games, Republic and a few pending Soonicorns! David's VC experience includes his current role as Managing Partner at Good Growth Capital. His VC exper...

Travel As An Excuse For Missing Meetings | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Needing to miss a meeting or reschedule is understandable. Situations come up where spur of the moment travel is key to support a client and their needs.  However, flights are typically known as least two+ hours in advance of the actual flight. So cancelling a meeting 5 minutes before it starts, or just not showi...

Current Cannabis Views On A Federal Level - Bob Hoban; Global Cannabis Industry Expert | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing https://youtu.be/QuRibwdC3Vs Bob Hoban sits at the center of the world's largest commercial cannabis industry network; a cannabis industry ecosystem that he has cultivated since 2008. Mr. Hoban is an attorney, an entrepreneur, and an executive. Bob has earned a reputation...

Where Are All The Great Salespeople | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Sales and generating business relationships is about the people. Too many people have fallen into the trap of using technology to send non authentic messages on LinkedIn and emails. Stop wasting your money...everybody can tell when it's generated by a bot or cut and pasted into the message.  When sending sales message...

That Feeling From Saving Someone's Life - Michael Julian, ALIVE Active Shooter Survival Training | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Michael Julian began working in security and investigations for his father at the age of 16. He is the Creator of the A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival Training Program, and President/CEO of National Business Investigations, Inc. (NBI) and MPS Security & Pro...

They Broke Into My House | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Typically people have two major buckets in life. Personal and Professional. Personal challenges are something that everyone faces daily. Every person will always have adversity and difficult situations as they move through life. If the challenge is on the personal side, it's important to make sure you are not having that carry over i...

Evaluating And Deciding On Co-Founder Compatibility - Phil Nadel, Co-Founder & Managing Director; Forefront Venture Partners | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Phil has been a serial entrepreneur for many years, having founded and exited several startups. He is now the Managing Director of Forefront Venture Partners, one of the largest and most active AngelList syndicates. Phil is also a...

When Everyone Quit...What I Learned | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Terminating toxic and poor performing employees is part of management. Letting them stay on staff too long can cause the entire team to start underperforming.  When terminating employees, it's always important to make sure you have a back up plan and understand what actions might come from those remaining team members...

Most Important Trait For An Entrepreneur - Nick Traggis, CEO at LightDeck Diagnostics | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Nick is an experienced operational, business development, and engineering leader. He is has lead companies within industrial manufacturing and technology. Before his CEO role, Nick was the EVP of Corporate Development. He has scaled LightDeck Diagnostics’ footprint, leading...

Stop Making Employees Return To The Office | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing The pandemic has changed the face of how we work. More importantly, it's changed where we work. As life personally and professionally begins to reshape itself, many articles calling for a push back to the office couldn't be further from the current desires of employees. The vast majority or workers are not wanting t...

Coming To Clarity And Making Big Decisions - Stefany Nieto; Founder at Gwella | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Stefany is an operations enthusiast based in Toronto, Canada. She is a co-founder of Gwella. As COO, Stefany, architects the execution of strategic goals while fostering a collaborative team culture and building customer-centric partnerships. Stefany also leads the entrepreneurship...

Employee Had A Fake Wedding (a story on mental health) | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing People who suffer from mental health can sometimes let it creep into their professional life as well. It can show in many different ways. As a manger, it's an opportunity to listen and provide the best support possible.  CEO, Steve Urban, shares a personal story of an employee that struggled with me...

Networking With Investors - Caleb Avery, CEO & Founder  | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Caleb has worked in the Payments industry for over a decade. During the earlier years, he often was asked to help software companies who were looking to monetize their payments. Unable to find a solution that didn’t require his clients to compromise on technology, user experience, and economics...

Retail and Restaurant Workers Transition Well | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing People who have worked successfully in retail and restaurants transition well to other jobs. The daily demands of the work, long hours, and stressful situations prepare them for most anything other jobs can throw at them. Many of the skill sets that they develop are stronger than other candidates.  CEO, Stev...

Advice For Entering The Cannabis Industry - Yvette Pagano; CCO at GenTech Scientific | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Yvette is an dynamic C-suite executive with CEO, President, Board Member, and Business Ownership experience. As Chief Commercial Officer, Yvette focuses on leading GenTech’s key growth initiatives including, talent development, marketing outreach, optimizing service offering...

Contests and Rankings Can Be Bad | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Some companies frequently use contests and rankings to motivate employees. This can generate lots of praise and recognition for those that participate. However, it's not always the best solutions for the overall performance and culture of the company.  CEO, Steve Urban, shares his own personal experiences on how contests...

Avoiding High Employee Turnover - Shawn Hansson, Founder & CEO; Logic Integration  | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Shawn Hansson has been in the Automation Industry for 23 years. In 2003, he founded Logic Integration, a multi-million dollar automation company based in Colorado. With more than 25 years of audiovisual industry experience Hansson is recognized as a young leader with...

Monitoring Remote Employee Activity | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Much of the world has moved to remote work and will continue to maintain remote work for the foreseeable future.  Companies have found tremendous improvement with productivity and reduced expenses with allowing employees to work remotely. The key to making this work is to ensure you have the right team in place. ...