The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – Suzanne Justice, Founder and CEO of Blake Rian Consulting
Episode Date: October 5, 2022Suzanne Justice, Founder and CEO of Blake Rian Consulting Blakerianconsulting.com...
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Today, an amazing CEO that we have on this show.
She is the CEO of BlakeRyanConsulting.com.
Suzanne has been in the staffing industry for over 16 years.
She has successfully led teams for some of the largest staffing agencies in Washington and Oregon,
including the second largest global staffing agency. She's placed tens of thousands of candidates in their and Oregon, including the second largest global staffing agency.
She's placed tens of thousands of candidates in their dream jobs
and in turn helped her clients find the right fit for their teams.
She is very passionate about the staffing industry
and enjoys building long-lasting relationships with clients and candidates,
and she has an amazing origin story. She began Blake Ryan Staffing in 2018 with a 15-month-old son at home and one on the way.
She conquered her fear and took the leap of faith by following her dreams of entrepreneurship.
She decided the name of her company soon after to be her daughter, Blake Ryan.
Blake Ryan Consulting was incorporated directly from her living room.
So this is a great story.
Immediately after the decision was made, welcome to the show, Suzanne.
How are you?
Thank you.
I'm doing well.
Thank you so much for having me.
Thank you for coming.
It's an honor to have you as well.
Give us the.com once again so we can get that plugged.
It's BlakeRyan.com, and Ryan is R-I-A-N. And then you can also follow
me on Instagram, which is suze underscore justice, and then LinkedIn. There you go. So what is
Blake Ryan Consulting? Tell us, give us a synopsis of who you guys are and how you do it.
Yeah. So we are a full service staffing and recruiting company.
I, like you said, I've been in the industry for about 16 years. And when I started in staffing,
it was very much around relationship building, making sure that you have a great relationship
with your clients, heavy based on building referrals and that network. And I just noticed
that in the industry that started to kind of change a little bit. And it was more about how many orders can we get in?
How many people can we place and move on to the next client?
So I decided to start my own company because that's not how I wanted to do business.
So we really focus on the partnership with the client.
And I built my business around how can I fit into a client's model of what they're looking for and
what they need versus telling them they have to fit into mine. I was very fortunate. You know,
I, when I started opened my doors in 2018, I had talked to a couple of clients that I had not done
business with in five or six years, but I've always kept that relationship. And they were
the first ones to sign contracts with me. And I still work with them to this day.
That's awesome sauce. That's also a spectacular, uh, spectacular, what's the word I'm looking for?
Uh, approval or referral or, or, uh, you know, uh, a mark that, uh, Hey, you know, we enjoy doing
business with you. When I built my first company, we had clients for 13 years that were, and our
core clients were the original ones that we had.
I mean, 10 or 20 really core clients that were our biggest clients that have been with us forever.
And we're like, hey, people stick with us for 13 years.
What does that say about us?
Maybe they really hated us.
I could be right.
But no, this is the real testament.
That was the word I was looking for, to the quality of your service.
What's the difference in, you know, just building relationships and partnerships as opposed to, you know, the run of the mill that you see in recruiting where and burn with, you know, your account managers with your recruiters, and they don't,
they're not really buying into the long term relationship piece. It's more of how quickly
am I going to get my next job order in? How quickly can I fill the next seat so that I can
keep everything moving and running? For us, it's really more about, you know, we take the approach of what,
how can we help you now, but how can we help you in the future? So how can I figure out how to
understand your pipeline of what's going to be coming down a month from now, six months from now,
a year from now, and how can we incorporate that? You know, we look at different things for
direct hire instead of always just doing a direct hire fee. There are clients who have so many
openings and we say, hey, why don't we come in as a managed service?
Let us be your internal recruiter.
You're not paying the expensive fees for every single hire.
And, you know, clients appreciate that because then they really understand that you are partnering with them and it's not about how much revenue you can make off of them.
Yeah, you're just throwing bodies at the company and going,
Hey,
prove these things.
You know,
you're,
you're,
you have a more integral relationship is the right word.
I guess an integral relationship where you're,
you're kind of working with the company or aligning with their values.
And you kind of have that,
that you kind of have that where you're,
Hey,
it's working good together.
I can't come up with the words today, evidently.
It's Thursday or something, but it might be Friday.
We're not in class, right?
You have that simpatico.
That's the word.
See, the words eventually come to the old brain of Chris Voss,
and that's why people watch the show.
They're like, let's see if he's going to get it.
So tell us who your clients are.
Because this is going out live on LinkedIn.
Of course, we put on LinkedIn and everything in our big group.
What sort of clients that might be out there that are thinking,
would I need to use Blake Ryan Consulting?
What sort of clients do you work with?
And who is the prospective client for you?
So the majority of the clients that we work with are global corporations or are national corporations, and they have locations all over the world or all
over the United States. We also really target, I mean, the way that our business is built is it's
any company is going to have a department that we staff and we can fill positions for, whether it's
HR, customer service, finance roles.
You know, we staff for a really large global pharmaceutical company where we do scientists
and automation engineers. Down to, we have a hospitality division where we're working with
corporate catering companies who sit on large corporate campuses and we're filling anything from back of the house cooks up to GM and VP level type positions.
So really, you know, set a scale to fit into all businesses.
You know, one thing I hear a lot and we used to were trained as, you know, in large corporations is we're your subject matter experts.
Right. So we're we're your ITSE SMEs.
Well, my philosophy, honestly, on that is you can't
really be a subject matter expert unless you've been in that position. Sure, you know a lot about
it and you can speak to your experiences, but you're really not an expert in that. So I get
this question all the time, well, what do you specialize in? And I always say, you know, we
don't have one singular specialization. We want to go into your organization and say, hey, where are you hiring?
If it's in our wheelhouse, we'll tell you.
If it's something we don't think we're going to be successful at, we'll tell you that too.
Because it doesn't make any sense for us to take on business and fail.
Yeah, that's true.
We're very honest about it.
Yeah.
And it's good because it helps your relationship because if you're working with somebody and you have no idea what you're doing, that's not going to be a good thing.
And eventually everyone finds out.
But no, I like this approach.
What do you see going on in the hiring market right now, in recruiting market?
I think layoffs
especially in tech are still kind of escalating aren't they they are you know it's really an
interesting time right now because you kind of i feel like when you see what's going on in the
market some people jump to um oh my gosh we need to just start laying off a bunch of people and
usually they start with you know the sales teams the marketing teams, and kind of trickle down from there. But then you also see companies who are, you know,
trusting that everything's just going to kind of ramp back up and they're holding steady.
Right now is a great time for corporations to bring in companies like ours, because if they
don't want to carry the large overhead, or if they're not sure, you know, what the next six
months are going to look like, we can have contractors in there who are technically our W-2 employees. And then when
they do start to trickle down, then they can let those people go without having to worry about,
you know, unemployment or, you know, people getting upset about getting laid off because
then we can also transition those people into other areas.
That's pretty important.
You know, it's kind of a weird, yeah, you're right.
It's a weird job market where, you know, I just saw that some city approved a $20 minimum wage or something somewhere in America.
You know, and it's funny because I have all these pictures that I posted on Facebook of when everyone was having the arguments over, ah, should we pay $15 an hour?
Shouldn't we pay, you know,
and there was this big argument going on in like what, 2018, 2019.
And here we are now, you know, people are competing, you know,
the numbers are being pushed to $20 an hour. And, uh,
and then you've got these layoffs like, you know, over here,
but then everywhere I still go in my city, there's like, there's, you know, please, we need to hire you.
Like I went to one of my favorite restaurants the other night, and the list of employee job titles was just like, it was like this long.
It was like about eight or ten different job titles.
I'm like, I was surprised that he was working there when I went in. I'm like,
you guys have cooks in here
still?
At one point,
we had a restaurant in my
local town here where they
offered patrons
a $100 gift
certificate if you referred
somebody. I was like,
man, for $100, I'll go out and work the like, man, for a hundred bucks,
I'll go out and work the streets. Hey, do you need a job? Let's, let's go.
I got a place for you, man. I'm making like, you know,
$5,000 a month to fill in positions here. You know, it was crazy.
I'm like, I'm like, wow,
I can get a few dinners for free over this joint. If I just,
I wish I had more like nephews and nieces that were like hiring age.
But yeah, it's crazy now.
It's, you know, you got some people laying off.
You got plenty of people hiring.
And I imagine Florida is going to be a big hiring market here coming up soon.
I know.
And it's, I've been watching, we have friends who live out there.
So it's been really scary and sad to hear about, you know,
what's going on and when it touched touched down seeing it on the news and it's just just kind
of a surreal thing to to see if you will it is surreal i have a lot of friends down there uh
there was someone on tiktok i was watching she was literally in her living room she's in an
inflatable boat with her dogs and cats and she's in her living room and her living room is about four feet to five feet on in water and everything is floating around her and and
thankfully she's kind of safe in this in this uh inflatable boat the fact that you live in a state
where you go we gotta have an inflatable boat for the living room tells you what you know what you
need to know but it's going to be a a huge explosion of workers and stuff that have to go down there.
And that should probably spur other industries, I think, around the nation they're going to
have to hire to kind of support rebuilding Florida and all the work they do.
So that's probably going to make things go crazy for a while too with hiring.
It's
really weird, you know. It's like you'll hear
about layoffs over here and then you're like,
$20 an hour over here. And you're just like,
it's like, what?
Well, it's funny because it's such
an argument
too now about like remote versus like going
back to work, right? How many people
want to go back to work,
but how many people are like, absolutely not.
I really like this remote job.
And then they're leaving jobs because the businesses are saying, no,
it's time to come back to work.
Everyone's coming back.
So it's,
I'm curious when it's going to kind of all just start to simmer a little bit
more.
I'm anticipating probably within the next year,
we should start seeing a lot more,
but I think we're going to get to a point where there are a lot of corporations that are going to have to just require people have to come back on campus.
I was going to, that was my next question for you, the whole remote issue.
You know, we've had a number of scholars on the show, authors, people at universities who have written books.
I think Remote Incorporated is one that comes off the top of my head.
We've had consultants on that they specialize in teaching corporations remote,
how to do remote right.
What do you see in that market where, I mean,
it seems like there's some companies that are just going to have to stick with it or have a hybrid of some type.
What sort of struggle are you seeing companies go through to try and navigate these waters?
You know, I think it depends on the industry, right?
So like tech, for example,
it's a lot easier for a lot of tech people,
project managers, program managers to work remotely
because they're really just on their computer
the whole time anyways.
But then you have other teams that support those people
for like events, for example,
where they have to be walking the site.
They have to be, you know, working with other vendors on the site.
So I think that I mean, personally, I don't love working remote.
I really like getting my coffee on the way to work, you know, going into my office.
So being remote is a struggle for me personally.
I honestly tend to find things to do that I shouldn't be doing. look, this was, you know, during a pandemic, this is what we had to do to transition to make sure
everybody stayed working. Now it's time, you know, you have to come back to the campus and work.
It'll be interesting to see because I think you're going to see the big guys are obviously
going to be the ones who kind of start leading that transition. You know, people are going to
look to Amazon and Microsoft and Facebook and Google and kind of start positioning from there.
Yeah.
Do you,
do you find when you talk to jobs prospects,
that's a high value for them in jobs they're finding?
You find that people are like,
Hey, I really would prefer a remote job as opposed to the other.
You know,
we do for the higher level roles.
Absolutely.
And that's one thing that people are,
well,
we've seen they're starting to
negotiate in their offers is, you know, can I have a hybrid? Can I work from home two days a week?
Can I pick the two days? Can it be flexible depending on the week? Um, and so we have seen
a lot of that. Now, when you're working with like, we work at a really amazing design company,
um, it's very niche and we place, um, like production painters and really high in architectural designs
or designers, excuse me. Um, they have to be on site. So there really isn't the option for that.
So it really just kind of is honestly position dependent.
Uh, yeah, it's, it's a lot of the people that we've had on, cause we've had a lot of people
on talking about remote for the last two years. And. And, you know, it's kind of interesting.
Is it true that many people's values have kind of changed?
They're kind of looking for, after COVID, they're kind of looking for more work value or work, you know, they're looking to be appreciated more. I think some of the studies said that they didn't feel appreciated or they
weren't connected to the values of the office or they just felt like they were working for
something that didn't really bring their life value and maybe wasn't with their core attributes
or their core interests. And they're like, I want to do something that I kind of enjoy more.
Are you seeing that? Is that true with all the studies that I've seen on it?
You know, it's interesting. I started seeing that trend probably about three,
three and a half years ago before COVID, where people just started to really, I think the old
kind of, and I feel like I'm dating myself, but you know, the, the adages that we learned
in business in corporate America, even when I was younger was you have a boss, the boss,
you know, says, this is it, you fall in line and you don't ask questions, right?
Like that was it.
And now it's the, the platform has changed so much where people are, they're like, no,
we're not going to do that.
If I don't agree with you, I'm going to push back and push back and you have to acknowledge my feelings.
You have to make me feel like I'm special. And, and I see that a lot, um, especially now with
everything going on. And it's not, I don't want to say it's a sense of entitlement because I think
everybody should feel heard and feel valued. But I do think there, you know, there are some instances where, you know,
it's work, it's not personal, you have to separate the two. And you have a job to do. But I do,
I think that people, especially with like, work life balance, is a big thing for a lot of people,
they want to feel like you, you know, value their home life and they want to have
that balance between the two or they can shut off their phone at a certain time or their email.
You know, it's, it's interesting to me. I've worked at home since 2004. Uh, when I, when I
ejected, uh, my last partner, uh, I, you know, I was able to run our companies from home, uh,
and from other States, in fact.
And so I've always enjoyed it, but I don't have kids at home and I just have my dogs.
So I don't have to.
I remember when I was dating someone who had kids at home, I was like, I'm going in on Saturdays.
So the quality of my life, I've always kind of enjoyed the work at home quality of life. And so when everyone joined me in 2020, I was like, I don't see what the work-at-home quality of life.
And so when everyone joined me in 2020, I was like, I don't see what the big deal is.
I've been here for a while, guys.
And, you know, I've had a lot of friends post about how their lives are quantitatively better.
You know, my friends in California, you know, they'd spend four hours a day on a freeway.
You know, the 405, going back and forth to work, they recovered those four hours.
I think I do better work working from home, but I'm guilty, like you said, of getting distracted. But I tend to do all my work throughout the day and stuff. You know, when I wrote this about this in my book, you know,
one of my last CEOs who taught me the final training that I needed,
he would always come into wearing shorts every day and flip-flops
and a stream of food down the front of his shirt.
And I said to him one day, I go,
I go, how come you get away with dressing?
You run a multimillion-dollar company.
How come you dress this way?
And he said, have you seen my accountant who wears the stuffy suit all the time?
He's on his fifth triple heart bypass or quadruple or fifth bypass, whatever that is.
He's going in for that surgery.
He goes, when I come in relaxed, I can work 18 hours a day.
I can wear my shorts.
I think better.
I function better.
I just feel more relaxed.
I can create better.
And so I started wearing shorts and flip-flops.
And so I think people, when they work from home, they feel less stuffy.
There was a recent thing where someone wrote that when people started going
back in the office, when COVID started lifting a little bit,
they ended up just socializing.
They were using it for a socializing thing.
Just people standing around the water thing catching up.
All the kids and stuff.
So, yeah, it's an interesting conundrum of work.
And, you know, you're like, are those people working?
Some companies have come up with monitoring software.
Have you seen a lot of companies adopting monitoring software?
Yep, and they can see.
And, you know, a lot of agencies actually do this when they have,
I mean, this goes back
10 years where they would, you know, that's when they started using VPNs because then they could
see when their staff was logging in, when they were inactive, when they were logging off and
they can track it more. But I think that is like, that is a big, you know, question with some
corporations too, is what, what are my teams doing? You know, if we're not hitting numbers,
are they being productive? Are they out having mimosas at brunch? And then you have people who it works better for them, like you said,
because they're not commuting, but they're actually using that time and making the most out of it.
And then you have, you know, the people who do that, plus that they just never turn off. I mean,
for me, obviously I'm the owner, but still, I mean, I'm seven days a
week. I'm working in some capacity. So I mean, it doesn't really matter where I am.
That's the fun of, that's the fun of being an entrepreneur is you dream business. You just,
oh yeah. You eat, sleep, dream business. Sometimes it's a little bit much. I, I,
I remember years ago we had a,
we had a bunch of people that were, uh, some Chinese investors that hired me to build a
mortgage company for them. And it was so nice to leave at five o'clock and go, this is your problem
and not mine. Um, I was like, so this is what it's like to work for other people. This is
I'll go back and do my stuff so uh you know it's uh leaving at
five o'clock is nice but you know i think like i say i mean people i think from some of the
interviews that we've done of the people who've done remote studies that a lot of universities
and stuff professors did studies on this and they found that people will do their work throughout
the day um you know sometimes they may take a break to go, you know, change diapers or
something like that, whatever they do, feed the kids. But it seems to give them more value. So
it's kind of extraordinary. What are some other things you're seeing in the business that you
want to talk about that people should be aware of or companies should be aware of that are looking
to work with you guys? You know, I think a lot of the stuff we're seeing, you know, it is very industry specific.
I think it's interesting right now that as much as things are reopening, the hospitality
industry is struggling so much finding people.
And I mean, we're, you know, kind of what we're seeing in that industry is a lot of
it does go back to the wages. And, you know, we had
an example is, you know, we had a job posted for a dishwasher for a corporate catering company.
And I think it paid like 21 or $22 an hour full time, you know, six to three Monday through
Friday. And someone responded to the ad and said they would take it if we paid them $35 an hour.
Holy crap.
Pay me $35 an hour. I'm quitting my job and going dishwashing, man.
So I think that that's, you know, that's where all of that kind of comes into play and it
becomes a real struggle, not only for big corporations, but the mom and pop shops.
I mean, you look at these restaurants like the one you send your hometown, if it's not
a chain, that puts them out of business.
They can't afford the overhead of it.
So we're really trying to, you know, as we're getting candidates in now, educate them not only on, yes, 100 percent.
You deserve a livable wage.
You should be able to pay your bills and take care of your family.
But you also have to have a little bit of realistic expectations around the industry
and the type of position that you're going into. That's crazy, man. You said $35 an hour?
$35 an hour. To wash dishes.
Right? It's not like a restaurant. It's a corporate kitchen. So you're just like rinsing
and putting them in a dishwasher. Yeah. There you go. mean wow man that's crazy i might you know i might start looking at janitor listings
or something uh i'll give me a night job working as a janitor right 35 bucks an hour i mean that's
uh that'll that'll help with the taxes every year i pay uh uh damn that's crazy, man. I mean, it'd probably have to be a while before I would hit
that mark, but, uh, well, maybe I should go work for someone else, but it sounds like it's getting
there. That's crazy. Uh, what are, what are, uh, what are some other things that you feel are
unique about your company that, uh, that other companies don't provide, uh, that, that really
make up the difference in,
in your relationship with clients?
Well,
one of the things I always like to point out is that we are a certified WBENC
woman owned business.
Then we have been listed as a preferred diversity supplier three years in a
row by staffing analysts.
And then we are also a SBA certified woman owned small business.
So any corporation right now, as you know,
they're really hitting that diversity and wanting to have those,
that percentage of diversity suppliers.
We hit two out of three of the top ones.
It's, it's, you know, for lack of a better term, you get a nice tax break if you work at
this. There you go. There you go. Tax breaks are good. But really honestly, I mean the most,
I always feel like I sound like a broken record because it really, for me, you know,
it is about partnering and finding that right fit. And I, you'll see on my website, you'll see
on my signature, I always say, and I tell my clients as new clients, I talk to them for me, it's not about
putting someone in the seat. It's about finding the right fit. So I really take a lot of, um,
care and invest not only business and into my clients, but because of that relationship piece, I also invest personally.
And so I do, I take, I get excited. I always reach out to my clients if I see that they're
doing something amazing with their business, if they're growing, if there's acquisitions,
if I think it's something they might be interested in, I'm sending them emails about stuff.
It really just is that one-on-one. And I think, you know, the age that we're in and the more we
get around social media and technology, you really see a lack of that. Like you start seeing it's
really more, you know, you have apps now where you can order contractors through your phone and
someone just shows up versus, you know, you don't have that one-on-one with somebody saying,
I really understand what you need. I get that, you know, going on your phone is, is easy and quick, but you know, if somebody doesn't show
up, who's there to help you? If somebody isn't doing well, who's there to help you? If they're
not the right fit, who's there to help you find that person? So it really is the foundation of
my business. There you go. There you go. Makes all the difference. Anything more you want to
touch on or tease out before we go about who you guys are and what you do? So we are very excited
that we are growing. So we have an office in Washington. We have one in Newport Beach,
California, and then we have one in Austin. So we are starting to spread into the Austin market.
So all of you companies out there that I see who keep moving
out to Austin, reach out to us. We'd love to work with you. I'm really excited. My business is
growing. I am acquiring a lot of amazing clients. That's my goal is to keep my teams growing and
spread more nationally. It's funny. You were talking about wearing shorts.
I was listening to one of your podcasts this morning, and I was like, because I've done
a couple of books, but I said, maybe I should start a new book, and it could be leading
in leggings.
There you go.
Leading in leggings.
Do I need to wear leggings, or is that...
Do I need to wear leggings?
Leggings. to wear leggings or is that do i need to wear late leggings evidently our our fan base loves the uh
loves the concept there so there it looks like that's approved there you go perfect i'm on it
guys leaving in leggings the new book on how to lead with leggings i should probably wear leggings
don't leggings make you thinner is that the thing that makes you thinner?
No, they're just comfortable. I mean, honestly, I live in leggings.
Oh, see, I don't know what leggings are.
But they're just, they're like cotton pants that are like the most comfortable thing in the world.
Okay. Sounds like, I should probably wear those during winter. When I hit winter, I have to wear socks.
That's the difference from winter for me. hit winter, I have to wear socks.
That's the difference from winter for me.
I'm still wearing shorts around my house.
And then when I go out, people look at me funny and they go, what are you doing?
And I'm like, I just really don't care.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, Vuori is one of my favorite brands.
And I actually got my husband into it.
Funny backstory, we actually went to high school with the founder. But they're like the most amazing leggings.
And then he wears like all the running shorts and stuff.
And they're just like, they're so comfortable.
It's insane.
And I really do live in that and my reef flip-flops most of the time.
I'm wearing flip-flops right now.
There you go.
It's comfortable.
You know, honestly, I'm more creative.
I can work longer.
You know, you put me in a stiff, starchy, you know, suit and dress shirt and tie,
and I'm all, you know, proper and stuff.
For some reason, I stress out more dressed like that.
I don't know why.
My old CEO that taught me, Forrest Baker, you know, he was right.
And I even have the dribble down the shirt sometimes.
I went out last night to the store, and I looked down, and I went, my God.
But, you know, I mean, when you have a face like this that's Brad Pittish,
that George Clooney calls me, you know, for beauty tips, you know,
it's, you know, girls just throw, you know, underwear at me whenever I go out.
It's a rough life.
So, you know, a little thing down the...
I've got to kind of... That's kind of the reason I wear
the, you know, put the food down the
front is to kind of offset
my 10 hotness. We all know that.
But keep them at bay a little bit, right? So you can
handle it. Yeah. Right now, half my audience
is like, what is he... Is he on drugs?
Anyway, guys, I'm just on coffee.
Well, it's been wonderful to have you on the show.
Thank you for coming on very much.
We really appreciate it.
It's been very insightful.
I'm learning more about what's going on
in the job market.
It's really interesting.
It's a really interesting time these days.
I know.
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there you go there you go and thanks to my honest for tuning in. We certainly appreciate you guys being here. Watch for her forthcoming book,
uh, leggings, leading with leggings or something.
And flip-flops. I think you should add flip-flops to that.
You have to include me.
I want to make tribute to you, Chris.
I don't know. Maybe I need to,
maybe you need to send me some Amazon affiliate links to the leggings.
Maybe this is some demand where leggings? Is that a man thing?
I'm telling you, Viewer has these amazing men's version of it.
Oh, okay. Maybe I'll check it out for this winter so I can make sure everything stays warm.
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