Episode 74 - Funding Your Staffing Firm: Smart Capital Strategies with Hunter Reid

Episode 74 - Funding Your Staffing Firm: Smart Capital Strategies with Hunter Reid

In this episode, I'm excited to talk money and funding with Hunter Reid, founder of Payroll Funding Canada.  We go over the smartest — and riskiest — funding options available to staffing firms in 2025. From banks and credit cards to factoring and equity partnerships, this episode is a basically a workshop in cash flow strategy, risk management, and scaling your firm with confidence.

Whether you're just launching or expanding, our conversation will help you understand when to go to the bank, when to lean on invoice financing, how to de-risk your business, and why the ultra-wealthy don’t always own their own assets. With so many actionable tips, Hunter also demystifies personal guarantees, client payment optics, and how to grow without giving up control.  No matter what stage you're at in your business, there's so much value here not to be missed!

Key Moments:

• -Traditional bank loans vs. non-debt funding options.

• -Pro-tip: When to lease instead of buy.

•  How to finance growth without relying on personal assets.

• -Risk management and what exactly is de-risking?

• -It's all about the optics in client-facing collections.

Favorite Quote: 

"Cash flow doesn’t kill dreams — poor planning does."

• Hunter

 

Connect with Hunter:

A serial entrepreneur, Hunter is the founder of Faithshire Corporation, Payroll Funding Canada, WorkForce Capital and a founding member of TheMCLS.com (Multiple Career Listing Service).  

 

Hunter’s businesses operate in full support of the Staffing Industry, providing staffing firms with human resources and recruitment support, payroll funding and growth capital as well as full service back-office support.

 

As an honours graduate of Sheridan College with additional studies in business and psychology at the University of Toronto, Hunter is community focused and was one of the founders and directors of the Milton Christian School and the non-profit Milton Christian Education Association, he has held Trustee roles in both Churchill Meadows Christian Church, where he was active as Vice Chairman, and past trustee of Westcoast Christian Church in Surrey, British Columbia.  He has served on several boards and advisory boards for not-for profits and has participated at the board level for both public and private companies believing in the philosophy that we all have opportunity to give back to our communities through our time, talent and treasure.  

 

With a passion for coaching and teaching, and a love for assisting growth-oriented companies including start-ups, he is an articulate and active speaker.  Hunter is an avid marksman, stand-in bartender, and is known to travel for good music.  Hunter is married to “His Person” and lives in the Niagara region.  He has eight beautiful children and four grandchildren.

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterreid/

 

Connect with Suky:

I’m Suky an adrenaline junkie who celebrates every single win. I believe we must celebrate and collect all our wins along the way