Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Elina is the founder of Ferovalo and Best Best Talent Platform, with two decades of experience in talent and resourcing and the last ten years focused specifically on interim management. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩 Download the full transcript 📩 Key...
Why Workforce Planning Needs Independent Talent – Episode 40 with Edward Vanhoutte
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Edward Vanhoutte is the Founder and Managing Partner of Beam®, where he helps companies strengthen their HR teams through experienced freelance leaders and interim experts. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩 Download the full transcript 📩 Key takeaways Start with...
From Hiring Job Titles To Accessing Capability – Episode 39 With Bryan Peña
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Bryan Peña is the Founder of Defiant and a workforce strategist with more than 25 years of experience helping companies rethink how they access, manage, and combine internal and external talent. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩 Download the full transcript 📩 Key...
Why External Experts Are Becoming a Business Superpower – Episode 38 with Alp Sezginsoy
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Alp Sezginsoy is the founder of Expertera, a platform helping companies access vetted independent experts and build smarter ways of working with external talent. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩 Download the full transcript 📩 Key takeaways The biggest barrier to...
Why You Must Work With Global Independent Talent – Episode 37 with Natalie Narh
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Natalie Narh is the founder and CEO of NewComma, a platform connecting global businesses with African creatives and helping companies discover, hire, and collaborate with independent talent they might never have found otherwise. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩...
Inside a Global Freelance Workforce of 900 Experts – Episode 36 with Laura Gil Alcalde
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Laura Gill is a Business Manager supporting Microsoft’s product group, where she helps lead a global freelance-based customer support delivery program involving around 900 independent professionals across more than 50 countries. Enjoyed this episode?Subscribe now on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcast 📩...
How To Build Your Bench Of Freelancers – Episode 35 With Maari Casey
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts The companies getting the most value from freelancers aren’t hiring faster – they’re planning better. In this conversation with Maari Casey, you’ll learn why building a freelance bench beats scrambling for talent, how freelancers actually protect your full-time team, why AI should...
Freelance Unlocked 2026: What 850 Freelancers Learned in Two Days in Berlin
Berlin, June 2026. Two days. One iconic venue. 850 freelancers, contractors, and independent professionals — all asking versions of the same questions: How do I grow in a market that keeps shifting? Where does AI fit in my work without erasing what makes me good at it? And when will the politics finally catch up to how people actually work...
What Companies Get Wrong About Hiring Freelancers – Episode 34 with Elina Jutelyte
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts For many companies, hiring freelancers still feels like opening a Pandora’s box. There is excitement in the idea of getting access to external expertise quickly. But there is also hesitation. Can we trust them? Will they deliver? Are they too expensive? Will they understand how we work? Will they...
Why Companies That Ignore Freelancers Fall Behind – Episode 33 with Viki Dowthwaite
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Viki Dowthwaite is the Group Commercial Director at Trinnovo Group, helping companies across the UK, Ireland, DACH, and beyond build modern workforce strategies through contract, consultancy, embedded hiring, and specialist talent solutions. With more than 15 years in recruitment and workforce...