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...
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...
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 📩...
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...
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...
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...
Listen now on: YouTube Spotify Apple Podcasts Freelancers are most valuable when companies know what problem they need solved. Gaëtan’s view is clear: independent talent works best when tied to specific outcomes, transformation projects, and business-critical needs. But companies must improve how they define the work, assess fit, and choose...
Most companies think they need more people, but in reality, they need more clarity. In the latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Úna Herlihy shares why the biggest mistake in hiring freelancers isn’t process, it’s mindset. From defining the real problem to integrating freelancers as true team members, this...
What if your company’s biggest bottleneck isn’t a shortage of people, but a shortage of perspective? In the latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Total Rewards strategist Anna Orzechowska (20+ years of experience) makes a compelling case for rethinking how work actually gets done. Freelancers, she argues...
There’s a quiet shift happening in how companies build teams, and it’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. In our latest episode of The Independent Workforce Podcast, Jamie Read, founder of BriteBrich Collective, shares why some of the smartest companies are rethinking that model entirely. Freelancers are no longer...