The Riderflex Podcast: Inspiring & Hiring

𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 𝐄𝐝𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫 - "𝐂𝐲𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐞"  | Riderflex - Recruiting and Sourcing The escalation of ransomware and cyber attacks is influencing actions that are a matter of life and death.  Greg is a CEO that's driven to build a superior, global cybersecurity firm to defend businesses from the cybercriminals lurking in the shadows of the Internet. At CryptoStoppe...

"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠" | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing Almost every person has something in their life that they're battling. Whether it's related to health, work, money, personal choices or other; there is something behind the curtain that's driving specific behavior. As a manager, you may have to deal with employees who are dealing with issues. How you handle these situations wil...

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐂𝐄𝐎'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐎𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬? - Amanda Moriuchi, CEO at Appit Ventures | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Amanda is the results driven CEO of AppIt Ventures, an award-winning, international custom tech company. Amanda has nearly 2 decades of experience working with premier startups, Fortune 500, government and non-profits. She is widely regarded by leaders in ops, finance and tec...

𝐎𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞…𝐈𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Many young and newer entrepreneurs tend to build their companies with many people who are early in their careers and young as well. The challenge with not adding older employees to your team is that it creates a lack of actual experiences.  Most older employees has experienced nearl...

Kerry Nagle, COO at CyberGRX - "Advice For Entering C Level Positions"  | Riderflex - Recruiting and Sourcing It's ok to not have all the answers. Failing and admitting to that failure is how we grow. Own your mistakes and then learn from it.  Kerry is a successful startup to high growth executive. She is experienced at translating corporate strategy into operational and financial succes...

𝐁𝐚𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐰, 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing All habits, good or bad, are hard to break. Consistency in a habit will continue to reinforce the way you act on a day to day basis.  Most people are used to restating the phrase, "Tomorrow I'll fix that", or "Tomorrow I'll change this". The problem with that thinking is that tomorrow eventually moves further and fur...

𝐊𝐢𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐜𝐤, 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 & 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - "Wild Stories From The  Cannabis Industry" | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing  Kim Stuck is the founder and CEO of Allay Consulting, a compliance strategy and services provider serving the hemp and cannabis industries nationwide. She held a pioneering role as the nation’s first cannabis and hemp specialist for a major metropolita...

Greg Coticchia, CEO at Sopheon - "Board Member Relations"  | Riderflex - Recruiting and Sourcing Greg is an award-winning business strategist, product manager, sales leader, and marketing expert. Decades of experience founding, leading and driving revenue growth in technology and software companies in highly competitive markets. A master of creating and communicating strategy for companies ra...

Kerry Bennett, President at Canna Organix - "The Move From Banking To Cannabis" | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing  Kerry has 20 years of organizational leadership experience across privately and publicly held companies with assets up to $2.3B. Following the financial crisis of the late 2000’s, Kerry was recruited into the banking industry by Bank of America to develop and lead Retail Bank...

𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲? | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing There are many hot topics and issues that people are passionate about in life. Politics and social issues generally drive most of that passion. However, social media can cause those feelings to escalate and become increasingly aggressive.  Most people can have productive and cordial conversations when discussing these is...

Donuts VS Cashflow | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Goals for employees when searching for a new job can be have a wide range when it comes to the benefits of working with specific companies. Most are focused on standard desires. Competitive pay, benefits, vacation time, 401K's, and different levels of PTO.  However, portion of candidates get sidetracked by the non traditional extras t...

Jason Cormier, Co-Founder of Room 214, Digital Marketing - "Getting That First Customer" | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing  Getting your first customer can be exciting and a learning experience all in the same moment. Jason Cormier shares his story about landing his first customer, Kinko's.  Jason is the Co-Founder of Room 214 which helps businesses become leaders in their category....

𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠…𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐒 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞 | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing How you feel about a candidate when you interview them is the best indicator as to whether they're going to work out. Chemistry and connection should be considered when hiring employees. The hours spent with them on the job can add up, so making sure you like them is important.  Resumes and qualifications obviously are importa...

𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐠, 𝐂𝐨-𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 - Overview of his new book 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒑 𝑪𝑿𝑶 | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company's Critical Functions and Teams - Unlike other business books, Startup CXO is designed to help each functional leader understand how their function scales, what to anticipate as they scale, and what things to avoid. Beyond pr...

Tom Regan, CEO | President | COO;  Cannabis Consulting - 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing  Remaining humble and constantly learning is critical. Learning how a cannabis operation works is key to success while also continuing to apply the Physics and Rules of Business. The cannabis industry continues to grow and take shape as more...

Avis Bulbulyan, CEO at Siva - Advice For Executives Wanting To Enter the Cannabis Industry | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing Most everyone needs to pick their right opportunity. Forget about what you see on paper about the company. Nearly every single one of the cannabis companies out there are in startup positions. The industry is very new and even those larger companies are still operating i...

Liziana Carter, CEO at GR0W AI,  talks about the importance of chasing your vision. | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing  Most people can't see your vision. They aren't living in your shoes and they don't understand what or why you are making the decisions you do. You need to believe in yourself and your vision before you deserve it.  GR0W AI is a full service conversational A.I. a...

Ryan Born, Co-Founder & CEO of Cloud Campaign offers his advice for first time CEO's | Riderflex Recruiting & Sourcing Enter every situation with a learner's mindset. There is no way a CEO can know everything. Talking to your team and getting information is critical. Hire people with heavy experience in their specialty and let them do their thing. Cloud Campaign makes social media scalable...

Arthur Nobel, Principal at Knight Capital, highlights his passion around helping startups impact the world.  Arthur is an entrepreneur turned investor. Arthur specializes in scaling a company and has expertise in Growth, Go-to-Market, and Strategy. He is the author of the best-selling book Leaders of Growth and host of the Leaders of Growth Podcast. He is passionate about enabling entrepreneu...

Charles Cipriani,  Co-Founder at Quality Bancorp, talks about the huge swing in the perceptions of cannabis, Now vs. Then.  Co-Founding Quality Bancorp (QBC) was a natural progression after founding 3 companies, all of which focused on supporting the maturation of emerging socially and environmentally responsible industries.  Charles dedicates much of his free time to outreach, on a...

Marcus Cooksey, CEO at Duke AI, gives advice to aspiring entrepreneurs.  Take the hard projects at your current job and learn as much as you can. Test yourself and be ready for when you take that leap. Start that business as soon as you can.  Marcus has 25 years of software development experience, along with a broad range of expertise related to embedded systems design and software devel...

"Supervisors Should Do Unannounced Visits" | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing The test of how an organization is working is to see it in real time. Giving employees and teams advanced notice of visits can cause them to not provide the whole picture during those visits.  Information may get hidden, numbers can be skewed and the true performance can be sheltered if it's poor. The CEO or le...

Ronak Shah, CEO & Co-Founder at Obvi, talks about scaling business exponentially in one year.  Obvi's founders were dedicated to bringing re-generative ingredients in delicious drinks to the market.  The variety of products offers tastes for everybody - making it the obvious choice for our customers that want to do something beneficial for their hair, nails, skin, bones and gut healt...

Mark Lake, VP of Technology at Roccor, highlights how it's almost assured that life exists on other planets. Mark is a consummate senior executive, change agent and entrepreneur for high-technology research and product-development organizations. He has a proven record for driving large-scale cultural and corporate change that builds organizational effectiveness and maximizes innovation in research...

"𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐀 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐎𝐫 𝐀 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫" | Riderflex - Recruiting & Sourcing Do you find yourself giving more when not asked, or taking more than you give?  So many great things in life, both personal and in business, come from strong relationships. Giving without being asked shows a lot of character and people enjoy returning the favor when the time presents itself.  If you don't know what sid...