Hire Power Radio Show

Hire Power Radio Show

Hire Power Radio is created for entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders to provide experiential learning & the tools to win-win the strongest people. We share solutions from high performing leaders who have figured out. We challenge the conventional thinking of how you may be approaching hiring for your company ...And we challenge you to empower your team to deliver structured, unbiased, and evidence based interview practices that attract the high performers that will fuel your business growth. Entrepreneurship is a wild ride - Hire Power Radio is here to help you to conquer the hire, then the world! www.hirepowerradio.com

Episodes

Attract A-Players & Avoid the Dunning-Kruger Hiring Trap with Greg Cleary

March 5, 2026 • 31 mins
Greg Cleary is a business coaching expert with over 20 years of experience helping leadership teams achieve their goals. As the founder of Pinnacle Business Guides, a former Certified Scaling Up Coach, and a record-setting Certified EOS Implementer who has worked with over 500 companies. Greg knows exactly what it takes to build elite teams! His mission is simple: to help his clients summit their business mountain with PINNACLE....
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Stop Blaming “Ghost Jobs”: How to Create Your Own Referral & Get Interviews

February 19, 2026 • 18 mins
Ghost Jobs Aren’t the Problem: Beat Auto-Apply Bots by Creating Your Own Referral Rick Girard argues that the silence after hundreds of LinkedIn Easy Apply submissions isn’t mainly caused by “ghost jobs,” but by overwhelming hiring noise from auto-apply bots, keyword gaming, and fake candidates that clog ATS systems and bury real applicants. He challenges the “badge of honor” mindset around high application volume, warns that auto...
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Who’s Your Small but Effective Team with Justin Gray

February 13, 2026 • 34 mins
A CEO I work with called me in June and said, “Rick, we’ve hit $1M and we’re stuck.  “If I could just hire three more ‘me’s,’ we’d be fine.”  I had to tell him the hard truth: “You don’t need more of you. You need the people you’re missing—those who augment your weaknesses."  He was also in a mad hurry to delegate recruiting to someone else on his team. But he needed to take ownership  We focused on recruiting as 40% of his job...
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How to Define Accountability and Stop Micromanaging with Brian H. Ferguson

February 13, 2026 • 24 mins
I was having lunch with a fellow CEO recently, and he looked completely wiped out. He told me he was stuck in this exhausting cycle—constantly trying to empower his leaders to own their roles, only to have to step back in and make the decisions himself. He said, “Rick, I feel like I’m constantly telling my people to take the wheel, to be accountable, but the minute things get tough, they throw the keys back at me!  I want them to...
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Why More Process Does Not Solve People & Performance Issues with Zac Gregg

February 5, 2026 • 32 mins
In this episode of Higher Power Radio, Rick Girard sits down with Zac Gregg of Vital Design to tackle a problem that quietly drains momentum inside growing companies: hiring and placement misfires. When leaders feel stuck, burnt out, and buried under endless “fix-it” processes, the real culprit often isn’t culture, systems, or motivation—it’s the wrong people in the wrong seats (or the right people placed incorrectly). Zac shares ...
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How to Scale from 2 to 70 Without Killing Culture with Nick Ayala

January 29, 2026 • 27 mins
Revenue was up. Headcount doubled fast. But inside the business? People were quitting, managers were snapping, and the culture started sliding into this quiet resentment. The founder said, “I don’t get it… I’m paying them. What else do they want?” Huge red flag! When people don’t feel respected, seen, or safe to speak up, they don’t just disengage. They start protecting themselves. And that’s when your best people stop “rowing th...
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How to Spot Hidden Talent and Hire for Potential with James Swanson

January 15, 2026 • 21 mins
In this episode of the Hire Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard talks with James Swanson, business disruptor, lifelong punk rocker, and author of 'Super Stoked.' James shares his journey of building a multi-million dollar Las Vegas printing empire by ignoring industry labels and focusing on authentic relationships. From overcoming initial challenges to innovative hiring practices and effective team management strategies, James h...
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How to Eliminate AI Bots from Applying to Your Job Posts

January 13, 2026 • 20 mins
AI has turned the hiring funnel into a keyword carnival: unqualified applicants can “win” resume filters in seconds, while the high performers you actually want don’t bother applying. Rick Girard opens with a true story about a CRO who hired a bartender into a sales role—without a resume—because the job post spoke directly to her, and her outreach proved she was real (and driven). Four months later, she’s outperforming the team. T...
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How to Terminate and NOT Get Sued with Andrea Paris

January 8, 2026 • 30 mins
Two months before the holidays, Nadia—Integrator at a 120-person EOS-run logistics company—finally terminated a manager who was crushing morale and missing targets. The manager’s response (“I’ve spoken to an attorney about retaliation.”) exposed what leadership missed: a recent workers’ comp claim, intermittent leave, and overtime complaints—plus almost no documentation. The outcome was predictable: months of distraction, legal spe...
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Turning Compliance Chaos into Logistical Precision with Bill Drummer

September 9, 2025 • 22 mins
In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard dives into the complexities and challenges of logistics operations with Bill Drummer, CEO of GPA Logistics. Discover how Sarah's initial success with Walmart turned into a compliance nightmare and how leveraging technology, especially AI, and strong leadership can transform chaos into accuracy. Bill shares the importance of having the right people, simplifying workf...
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Why You Keep Hiring the Wrong Salespeople with Gary Braun

September 2, 2025 • 29 mins
You’ve been here before—hiring a “rockstar” salesperson who dazzles in the interview but fails to deliver. Flat revenue, missed targets, and excuse after excuse. Sound familiar? This week on the Hire Power Radio Show, Rick Girard digs into the root of this all-too-common issue with sales leadership expert Gary Braun. Together, they break down why small businesses consistently hire the wrong type of salesperson—and what to do about...
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Unlocking Leadership Potential: Hire the Right Talent with Charles Eide

August 26, 2025 • 25 mins
Join Rick Girard on Higher Power Radio as he discusses crucial strategies for empowering hiring techniques with Charles Eide, founder and CEO of EideCom, to land the most desirable talent. In this episode, Charles shares his journey of scaling his business and the pivotal hiring decisions that propelled his company towards massive success. Discover how to identify what your business really needs, delegate effectively, and invest in...
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Transform Your Company Culture: Behavioral Strategies for Success with Brett Hoogeveen

August 14, 2025 • 32 mins
Transform Your Company Culture: Behavioral Strategies for Success - Featuring Brett Hoogeveen Discover how to build a thriving workplace culture by focusing on behavior over theoretical values in this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show with Rick Gerard. Guest Brett Hoogeveen, an international leadership and culture expert, shares valuable insights on identifying and reinforcing positive employee behaviors, improving leadership...
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How AI Performance Metrics on Job Descriptions Attract A-Players to Your Business

June 19, 2025 • 27 mins
Crafting Job Descriptions for High-Performing Talent | Higher Power Radio Show with Rick Girard Join Rick Girard in this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show as he dives into empowering hiring techniques to attract top talent, essential for your company's success. Learn how to transform generic job postings into compelling role descriptions with actionable performance metrics. Discover the critical elements missing in most job d...
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Leveraging AI to Create Highly Effective Job Descriptions with Rick Girard

June 5, 2025 • 20 mins
In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard discusses the common pitfalls of modern job descriptions and provides actionable solutions to improve them. Drawing comparisons to a successful 1913 Antarctic expedition ad, Rick emphasizes the importance of clarity, candidate focus, and performance metrics in job descriptions. He shares five key steps to crafting effective job descriptions and how leveraging AI can e...
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Prioritizing Core Values for Team Success: Insights from Heide Olson

May 29, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Gerard explores the critical importance of hiring for alignment rather than just skills. Joined by Heidi Olson, founder and CEO of All-in-One Accounting, the discussion highlights how Olson's company transformed by prioritizing core values in their hiring, promoting, and reviewing processes. They delve into the concept of the People Analyzer tool from EOS (Entrepreneurial Op...
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Spotting and Stopping AI-Coached Candidates: Essential Hiring Techniques with Rick Girard

May 15, 2025 • 16 mins
In this episode of Higher Power Radio, host Rick Gerard delves into the current challenging hiring environment where AI-coached candidates are becoming increasingly common. He discusses how AI can deceive hiring managers by coaching candidates through interviews, resulting in more false positives and wasted interviews. Rick shares actionable strategies to identify and eliminate AI-coached candidates early in the screening process b...
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Overcoming Hiring Challenges: Insights from Top Entrepreneur Andy Duong

May 8, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of the Hire Power Radio Show, host Rick Girard sits down with seasoned entrepreneur Andy Duong to discuss the pitfalls and best practices of hiring. Andy shares his journey of building multiple successful companies, focusing on operational excellence and people-first leadership. They dive into the challenges of hiring familiar faces, the importance of defining roles and expectations, and the necessity of creating ro...
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Leveraging AI and Proper Positioning for Successful Hiring with Rick Girard

May 1, 2025 • 20 mins
In this episode of the Higher Power Radio Show, host Rick Gerard explores the disconnect between past success and future performance when hiring new team members. Highlighting the limitations of AI in identifying high performers who align with unique business needs, Rick delves into the importance of proper positioning in hiring. Learn about the different types of hires—builders, improvers, and maintainers—and how to identify the r...
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Leveraging AI Tools to Optimize Hiring with Forest Zhang

April 24, 2025 • 23 mins
Posting ads and screening applicants has become a major headache. With candidates now using ChatGPT and other AI tools to game the process, things are spiraling out of control. To make matters worse, there’s been a surge in “fake” candidates—especially in engineering—pretending to be local. At the heart of the issue is the resume itself, because we do not know what skills are true anymore. In fact, resumes can’t answer the two m...
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