The Rental Journal Podcast
By Mark Simonsen
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The Rental Journal’s podcast weekly interviews with equipment rental industry experts offers unparalleled insights into business successes and challenges, career progression, new technologies and industry-provoking topics from around the world. The Rental Journal Podcast aims to increase awareness of the hire and rental industry while also providing a platform for listeners to learn about the experiences from others in the industry.
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#160 - Tyler Carroll: HRIA Young Professional of the Year 2024
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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#159 - Anthony Durante: Building the fastest growing equipment rental business in New York City
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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#158 - Tony Tye & Erin Blair: Tony Tye & Erin Blair: How AI can help optimize route planning & reduce third party transport costs
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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#157 - Elliott Vigil: Coaching your sales team in the equipment rental industry
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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#156 - Tony Symons: Planning for the future after 31 years in the equipment hire industry
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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#155 - Tony Crane - Hire & Rental Industry Association Life Member
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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#154 - Tim Helfers - Having a net zero vision as generator & lighting tower manufacturer
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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#153 - Craig Palmer - Classic Hire, growing to an 8 location equipment hire business in Western Australia
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#152 - Gab Robinson - Harry the Hirer, Australia's premier event hire supplier
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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#151 - Steve Mau - Joining the equipment rental industry by acquiring a small business
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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#150 - John Bibbo - President Event Source
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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#149 - David Maxwell & Keith Clarke - United Forklift and Access Solutions & Haulotte Australia
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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#148 - Brendan Ross - Journey from service tech to owning a service business
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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#147 - Beth Hoff Blackmer - Aspen Rent-All & 58th ARA President
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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#146 - Greg Landa: Providing rental solutions to Coachella, NASCAR, Superbowl & Taylor Swift Concerts
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May 09, 2024 |
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#145 - Scott Irwin: President of Delux Rentals & ARA 60th President
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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#144 - John Jeanguenat: President of RentalMax - 10 locations across Chicago, North West Indiana & South Wisconsin
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#143 - Tom Wood: HRIA Young Professional of the Year 2023
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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#142 - Max Line: Transitioning from hiring equipment to the Director of LGC Equipment Hire
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#141 - Matthew Hoy: Kelm Hire, one of Australia's fastest growing equipment hire businesses
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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#140 - Emmanuel Georgoudis: The NSW President of the Hire & Rental Industry Association
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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#139 - Kevin Ennis: 35 years of sales experience in the equipment rental industry
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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#138 - Jeremy Shaw: HRIA National President & Master Hire 33 years in business
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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#137 - Michael Larsen: International Rental Business Leadership Exchange Program
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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#136 - Nathan Borg: Head of Digital and Customer Experience at Kennards Hire
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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#135 - Phil Mause: Equipment rental benchmark & utilization data with Rouse Services
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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#134 - Kenneth Kimura: Have you ever wondered what rental software United Rentals utilize?
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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#133 - Justin Walters: Benefits of GPS asset tracking for equipment rental providers
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May 17, 2023 |
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#132 - Jason Morey: The 40th anniversary of Bandit Industries
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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#131 - Matt Harris: Texada Software CEO
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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#130 - Tom Trbojevic: Planning a career after a professional sporting career
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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#129 - Nathan Hogan: Navigating your asset finance in 2023 with iFin Capital
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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#128 - Dan Cook: JCB unveiling their hydrogen powered combustion engine
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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#127 - Kylie Quinn & Damien Smith: Navigating insurance in the equipment rental industry
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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#126 - Gil Milton: The journey with Vortex Hire, Pumps United, Vortex Group of Companies & NPE
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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#125 - Nathan Mitschuinig: Select Plant Australia & Laing O’Rourke Group
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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#124 - Gill Dvir: The evolution of Alfasi Group
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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#123 - Send in your questions & topics for industry leaders to answer
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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#122 - Tim Nuttall: Learnings from a lifetime in the equipment rental industry
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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#121 - Dan Clifton: Finding a healthy work-life balance
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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#120 - Five Ways for a leader to win people's trust
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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#119 - Chatting with Andrew Satterley: Strategist, author & mentor in the equipment rental industry
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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#118 - Customer Focused KPI's for your equipment rental business
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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#117 - Chatting with Alexander Greschner: Bauma 2022 in Munich
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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#116 - How to measure customer experience in the equipment rental industry
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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#115 - Chatting With Michael Larsen: HRIA Young Professional of the Year
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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#114 - Understanding your customers decision making process
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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#113 - Chatting With Justin Pitts: Hydrogen Powered Generators
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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#112 - Chatting With Ash Brown: Leaving the equipment rental industry to start Empiraa
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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#111 - Chatting With John Stewart: Makinex Group CEO
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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#110 - Chatting With Josh Mosko: Digitizing your equipment rental business
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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#109 - R U OK? Day - A conversation could change a life
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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#108 - Chatting With Adam Lawrence: Take the guess work out of buying used equipment
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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#107 - Chatting With Dan Cook: Baseline Energy Services - Specializing in natural gas generators
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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#106 - Chatting With Alma Duran: What it is like to work for United Rentals
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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#105 - Chatting With Alexander Schuessler: The history of SmartEquip
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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#104 - Chatting With Jamie Haitas: Growing through acquisitions
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#103 - Chatting With Cody Stewart: Sunbelt Rentals Product Analytics Manager
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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#102 - Chatting With Nathan Venables: Kennards Hire Head of Fleet & Procurement
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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#101 - Chatting With Scott Daly: Taking on the role of JLG General Manager Australia & New Zealand
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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#100 - Chatting With Pete Maginnis: Makinex Construction Products Episode 1 & 100!
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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#99 - Chatting With Todd Cane: Starting my own forklift service, hire and sales business
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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#98 - Chatting With Chris Bradley: Becoming a Volvo Construction Equipment Dealer
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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#97 - Chatting With Ian Coleman: Conplant - 2022 HRIA Hire Company of the Year
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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#96 - Chatting With Tom Wood: Learning from the youth in the equipment rental industry
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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#95 - Chatting With Mark Simonsen: Gary Radford interviewing the host of The Rental Journal Podcast
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May 31, 2022 |
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#94 - Chatting With Glenn Martin: The journey from a Coates Hire mechanic to Ahern Australia Managing Director
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May 23, 2022 |
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#93 - Chatting With Ben Blood: Our customers can now rent equipment & schedule deliveries via our website
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May 17, 2022 |
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#92.5 - Weekly Equipment Rental News: Orange Hire, Hire22, United Rentals Mobile App, Oil-free MEWP
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May 12, 2022 |
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#92 - Chatting With Federica Gargiuli: Finding the right recruiter for your business
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May 09, 2022 |
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#91 - Chatting With Curtis Fort: Improving debt collection in the construction industry
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May 02, 2022 |
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#90 - Chatting With Gary Radford: Surround yourself with good people & believe in your business
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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#89 - Chatting With Ryan Condon: Finding ways to improve your customer experience
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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#88 - Chatting With Jim Lee: The Fleet Office
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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#87 - Chatting With Greg Pugh: Figure out your strengths & weaknesses and focus on improving them
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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#86 - Chatting With Greg Parfitt: Becoming the Orange Hire CEO
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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#85 - Chatting With Tom Kimber: Kennards Hire have added a level of professionalism to the New Zealand market
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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#84 - Chatting With SiteSmart: Incorporating QR Codes into your fleet
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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#83 - Chatting With Grant Voysey: I worked at Coates Hire for 25 years and took on anything they asked me to do
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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#82 - Chatting With Steven Taylor: The journey from a Wreckair Rental Coordinator to the CEO of Adaptalift Group
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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#81 - Chatting With Josh Nickell: Joining the American Rental Association as the Vice President, Equipment Segment
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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#80 - Chatting With Andrew Donald: A sustainable business is about patience, process efficiency and building a sound reputation
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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#79 - Chatting With David Schurman: The journey from The Home Depot to a Kennards Hire General Manager
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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#78 - Chatting With Joshua Inskip: Every no gets me closer to a yes
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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#77 - Chatting With Steven Whitehead: The quality of your success is directly correlated to the quality of your goal setting
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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#76 - Chatting With Emily Donney: When I first joined the equipment rental industry I hated everything about it
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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#75 - Chatting With Joe Valen: Fiber Optic Equipment is used to reduce the time it takes to install cabling
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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#74 - Chatting With Alex Kraft: Heave notifies sales reps when customers are seeking heavy equipment in their area
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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#73 - Reflecting on The Top 10 Podcast Moments from 2021
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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#72 - Chatting With Rebecca Waters: In 1996 our first piece of rail equipment was a telehandler with a basket chained to the forks
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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#71 - Chatting With Clint White: The 2021 Hire and Rental Industry Association Young Professional of the Year
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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#70 - Chatting With Maureen Mousdell: Women need to promote working in the equipment rental industry
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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#69 - Chatting With Charles Anderson: If you truly believe in your product, it's not selling, it's helping your clients succeed
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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#68 - Chatting With George Whyte: The journey from Sales Manager to Aggreko Australia Managing Director
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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#67 - Chatting With Van Cuong Lo: A day in the life of a Material Handling Sales Manager
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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#66 - Chatting With Rosemary Tilley: Every dollar you spend on wellbeing it is estimated to have a $14 return
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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#65 - Chatting With Erin Johnston: We are rebuilding our event rental business for the 3rd time in 18 months
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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#64 - Chatting With Charlie Pidcock: Pick up the phone, don't hide behind emails or text messages
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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#63 - Chatting With James MacPherson: Most equipment rental businesses are not utilizing the data they collect
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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#62 - Chatting With Patrick Tunnicliffe: I competed in world cup snowboard racing while working at a rental store
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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#61 - Chatting With Aileen Hiskins: HRIA Women in Hire & Access Mentoring Program & Young Professional Network
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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#59 - Chatting With Colleen Cohen: I joined the rental industry with Coates Hire in 1973
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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#58 - Chatting With Charles Anderson: It's unreasonable that everything in your life is digital, but when you go to work, it operates in the year 2000
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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#57 - Chatting With Kyle Clements: There was a decade of e-commerce growth in just 2 months
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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#56 - Chatting With Gary Kerr: Taking on an opportunity in Hire 53 years ago changed my whole life
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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#55 - Chatting With Ash Woodcock: Understanding your strategy for me has been also understanding what you're not going to do
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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#54 - Chatting With Cliff Chadwick: When Chadwick Forklifts won Rental Company of the Year, I nearly fell off my chair
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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#53 - Chatting With Matt Whalen: Being a service tech is like putting a cape on everyday
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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#52 - Chatting With Jesse Buckingham: Don't live your life based on what somebody else wants
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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#51 - Chatting With Matt Lambert: How I started an equipment rental business when I was 19 years old
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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#50 - Chatting With Aaron Witt: Every equipment rental company in the U.S is experiencing record growth right now
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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#49 - Chatting With Luke Habza: It's all about putting your hand up and saying yes to opportunities
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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#48 - Chatting With El Ioannou : For others to believe in you, you first need to believe in yourself
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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#47 - Chatting With Sheldon Fingler: Our business revenue crashed to zero overnight
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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#46 - Chatting With Stefan Ottl: Customers sharing construction equipment on job sites will become mainstream
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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#45 - Chatting With Ali Hajj: What I learnt Implementing Rental Software into a 1000+ employee Caterpillar Dealership
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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#44 - Chatting With Tony Colon: The journey from the U.S Military to Herc Rentals
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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#43 - Chatting With Stephen Donnelley: The equipment rental industry has been such a big part of my life
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May 31, 2021 |
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#42 - Chatting With Andy Martin: Martin Plant Hire acquired the rights to the easyToolhire Scotland brand
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May 24, 2021 |
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Episode Highlight: Why am I here? What can I control? What can I Influence?
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May 23, 2021 |
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#41 - Chatting With Bruce Fouracre: The history of 1300TempFence
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May 17, 2021 |
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#40 - Chatting With Doug Levings: I was told I would never make in the equipment rental industry
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May 10, 2021 |
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#39 - Chatting With Jason Stanczyk: I told the doctor that panic attacks don't happen to me
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May 03, 2021 |
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#38 - Chatting With Steven Brooks: I was travelling for work 250 nights of the year
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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#37 - Chatting With Blake Menning: Equipment prices are going up and rental rates are going down
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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#36 - Chatting With Freddie Blanton: Hey Hey Hey It's Freddie at Bobcat!
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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#35 - Chatting With Bryan Peters: Don’t wait, the time will never be just right
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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#34 - Chatting With Mike Rooney: How we significantly increased our equipment damage recovery
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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#33 - Chatting With Caleb Yell: Taking your equipment rental business online
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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#32 - Chatting With Matthew Nemes: Get out of the way of yourself
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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#31 - Chatting With Rod Lentino: We can now see all of our OEM machine data in a single screen
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Mar 15, 2021 |
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#30 - Chatting With Kate Everitt: For to long I let other people dictate my path
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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#29 - Chatting With Sarah Kuhne: I was included in the Top 100 Women in Construction in 2020
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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#28 - Chatting With Chania Rodwell: I do believe unconscious bias is a real thing
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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#27 - Chatting With Angela McLachlan: Customers would call and request to be put through to a man
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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#26 - Chatting With Manelle Merhi: Don't let seeds of insecurity make you doubt what you are actually capable of
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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#25 - Chatting With Heidi Sundin & Manal Thomas: We need to elevate the stories of women
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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#24 - Chatting With Scott Cannon: Our equipment rental network now has over 10,000 locations
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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#23 - Chatting With Michael McDaniel: I started my rental business on credit cards
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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#22 - Chatting With Adrian Manning: The journey from yardman to Coates Hire Chief Operating Officer
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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#21 - Chatting With Jake White: The path to become a Kennards Hire Branch Manager
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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#20 - Chatting With Louise Azzopardi: The 1st female to win the National World Skills Competition in Heavy Vehicle Mechanics
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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#19 - Chatting With Jamie Haitas: I said I got nothing, I'm not going to work, I can't do it
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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#18 - Chatting With Federica Gargiuli: Overcoming the challenges of employee recruitment
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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#17 - Chatting With Donald Charbonnet: Tips on buying or selling an equipment rental business
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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#16 - Chatting With Peter Lancken: It is the people within a company that make it a success
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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#15 - Chatting With Ken Baker: I wish I started my own business when I was much younger
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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#14 - Chatting With Doug Dougherty: Canada’s fastest growing independent equipment rental company
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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#13 - Chatting With Miles Beamish: Tips on managing your equipment finance
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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#12 - Chatting With Braden Murrin: Knowing when it's time for a new challenge
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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#11 - Chatting With Bruce Peatman: The journey from technician to Hubtex Australia Managing Director
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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#10 - Chatting With Viv Kennelly: The keys to success in Key Account Management & Sales
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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#9 - Chatting With Michael Bell: Certain things happen in your life that shift your focus and direction
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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#8 - Chatting With Martin Costello: If it doesn't positively affect the customer, we won't do it
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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#7 - Chatting With Allen Besseling: Tips on starting your own hire business
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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#6 - Chatting With Mark Snook: How I almost fell out of love with the hire industry
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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#5 - Chatting With Daniel Haskins: Implementing rental software into 150+ locations
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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#4 - Chatting With Jason White: Building a Career after Serving in the U.S Airforce
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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#3 - Chatting With Andy Kennard: Growing a Family Owned Business
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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#2 - Chatting With Tony Lockwood: Importance of Mentoring and Perspective on Life
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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#1 - Chatting With Paul Weaver: Personal Growth and International Business
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Aug 31, 2020 |