Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast with your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Pastor Bob ThibodeauOn this podcast, we interview fellow entrepreneurs who are willing to share their stories, their trials, and their triumphs in business, all in an effort to help you avoid the same obstacles and to achieve success faster.
Pastor Bob ThibodeauBut at all times, continue to rely on our faith to see us through to victory.
Pastor Bob ThibodeauNow with today's guest, here is your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.
Andrew CrapuchettesHello, everyone, everywhere.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauPastor Robert Thibodeau here.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWelcome to the Faith Based Business podcast.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWe are so blessed that you are joining us today.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYou know, in 2020, 2021, in the midst of the cancel culture boom, many companies decided to wave the white flag of surrender and forsake the values, the biblical morality, and just accept the policies and mandates being forced upon them.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd we had just began the process of coming out of COVID We were trying to get the economy back.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauMany people just wanted to get back to work.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThen we have this wave of idiocy that says if you believe in godly principles, you're wrong.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf you believe in traditional values, you're wrong.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf you believe in anything except what we say, you're wrong.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd that type of attitude still exists today.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAlthough they have had to more or less calm down their rhetoric, the same corrupt mentality is still prevalent in many organizations as they push their woke agenda as far as they can.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWouldn't it be nice just to work for an organization that you know going in that you know, when you apply, you know, this company stands for what I believe in.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWouldn't that be a good place to start when looking for a company to make a career change in your Life back in 2021?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAndrew, I'm gonna try this my best.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, sure.
Andrew CrapuchettesYes, crappy shots.
Andrew CrapuchettesYes, crappy chats.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOkay.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHe thought so that that'd be a good idea too.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut how to find companies like that?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat was the problem.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut it's not a problem anymore.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAndrew founded Red Balloon, which has quickly become America's largest, largest connector between employers and employees looking to prioritize positive workplace culture that's free from the divisiveness and the cancel culture mandates.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAndrew's a frequent presenter at technology and business conferences, and he's been featured on Fox News, Fox Business, Newsweek, the New York Times, and a lot of others.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHelp me.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWelcome to the program.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAndrew Crap out again.
Andrew CrapuchettesAndrew, welcome.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, Andrew is great.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat'll do just fine.
Andrew CrapuchettesI will tell you that that many a host has had to struggle with that last name.
Andrew CrapuchettesIn fact, my kids all play sports and so poor announcers who get up and like.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd Bennett, what is that?
Andrew CrapuchettesSo anyway, it's crap you shuts.
Andrew CrapuchettesThere's no way around it.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's a French name.
Andrew CrapuchettesWhen you're in Paris they say Capuc and it sounds really cool.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut here in America it's just crap you shats no way around it.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd thank you for having me, Robert.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm very grateful to be on the show.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI'm.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI'm using last name like Thibodeau.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauMine gets butchered all the time as well.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm sure.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm sure.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOh man, it is so good to talk to you.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhen, when we first connected, I was like, oh, this is going to be a really interesting interview.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI know it is.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd the first question I always start with is this.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauOther than that brief information I just shared, can you tell us in your own words who is Andrew Prepucettes?
Andrew CrapuchettesThere it is.
Andrew CrapuchettesNailed it.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah.
Andrew CrapuchettesThank and again, thank you.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm very grateful to be here.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I grew up in California.
Andrew CrapuchettesI was kind of a dot com guy very early on.
Andrew CrapuchettesNever ended up going to college because when you can program as a 16 year old in the Bay Area in the late 90s, you could kind of write your own script on what you want to accomplish.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I was blessed to be able to work for some amazing companies.
Andrew CrapuchettesBy the time I was 19, I was traveling for work all over the world.
Andrew CrapuchettesBy the time I was 22, that was about, you know, around 20 the year 2000 and the dot com boom was busting and the business that I was working for had gone through $32 million of VC money and it was just about gone.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I thought this is a good moment to kind of get a change of scenery.
Andrew CrapuchettesI had worked 20, you know, 80 to 100 hours a week for many years.
Andrew CrapuchettesI was now 22 years old and I really just needed to have a little bit of a life.
Andrew CrapuchettesGrew up as a Christian.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe had a great church that we were plugged into in California, but also I was getting sermon tapes from a pastor up in Idaho.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I thought, you know, when you're 22, you can go move somewhere else and if you don't like it, you can move somewhere else again.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I thought, I'm going to go move to Idaho.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm going to see what it's like, go plug into this church and see if I like it.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I did and really enjoyed the adventure up here.
Andrew CrapuchettesAbout that time the business went under that I was part of down in California.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I kind of looked around Idaho and said, you know, there's not a lot of good jobs in our little community here.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's a college town, Moscow, Idaho.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd great people, great church community, great academic community, not a great business community.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I thought, well, God has given me skills and abilities, I should use those to bless people as much as I can.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I went on kind of this rampage of starting businesses.
Andrew CrapuchettesI started a variety of businesses every from everything from a 3D printing business to technology businesses and had six successful exits over the years.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I was able to build these things up, sell them everything from $100,000 exit to a half a billion dollar exit.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo just really was blessed by God to do all this.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd as it was building these businesses, I was trying to be distinctly Christian in the way that I ran them.
Andrew CrapuchettesI think that we have lost of the art of being a Christian CEO.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that doesn't mean you have to be awkward or weird or hand out tracks at all the meetings.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt just means you need to absolutely live your faith out in the way that you run your business and the way that you interact with your employees, your shareholders, with your customers.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I was really striving to do that, thinking through it a lot, got advice from various pastors and business leaders that I'd worked in with over the years and really use this as a chance to see how I can bless people.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so one of the businesses that I, that I built at during that time was a labor market data company.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I know that sounds really boring.
Andrew CrapuchettesWho in their right mind would buy labor market data?
Andrew CrapuchettesBut you think about, think about the biggest decisions in your life.
Andrew CrapuchettesWho you're going to marry, buying a house, well, going to college and what career you're going to pursue is one of the largest decisions in your life.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd there's very little decision ready information for that.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou can go on your, on your phone and bring up an app on where you're going to go on vacation or whether you can afford a house or dating or whatever.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut when it comes to what skills should I add to my skill portfolio as a talented Christian man or woman that is going to have the highest earnings impact and the highest joy impact.
Andrew CrapuchettesFor me as an individual, there really wasn't good information on that.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I thought if I can build labor market data at scale, then people can make better decisions on where they should go to college, what programs they should take, and whether they should change careers, ask for raises, all those things.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we built this to about a $50 million business.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe had an office in the UK, had employees all over the country.
Andrew CrapuchettesJust loved my job.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt really was a great joy.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'd sold the business a number of times, so I had very little ownership left.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd it's fun to sell businesses because you get big checks.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's not fun because you lose control.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so my board in 2020 came to me and said, look, you are a little too conservative and Christian for our liking.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so if you can dial down who you are, not pray at the Christmas party, not live your faith out loud, then you're welcome to keep your job.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut if you're not willing to do that, then this is just not the right organization for you.
Andrew CrapuchettesNow, for context, our company was growing 25% a year, 40% margin.
Andrew CrapuchettesLike, we really were extremely successful.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I was being removed not for performance, but for perception.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd when they kind of brought that to me, I thought, well, I think a lot of Christians over the years have been given this opportunity to deny Christ and then you can have some great thing.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I'm like, and I know the right answer.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I found myself delightfully unemployed after about a six month battle with my board in early 2021.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I was going to spend some time.
Andrew CrapuchettesI've got a housing development I'm working on, I've got five kids.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'm on the board of a number of nonprofits and companies.
Andrew CrapuchettesI thought, you know, I'm just going to take my time.
Andrew CrapuchettesI've got plenty to say grace over.
Andrew CrapuchettesI don't need to start another business or even take another job because I was offered a number of jobs as someone who'd run businesses before, and a friend kind of challenged me.
Andrew CrapuchettesThey're like, so you may be burying your talents in the ground right now because there's going to be a lot of Americans who are be going to be given a choice between their job and their values.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd many of them don't have the financial wherewithal to kind of shrug off losing their job.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd for a conservative or a Christian, if we get canceled off Facebook, it's like, well, it is what it is.
Andrew CrapuchettesNot too stressed about it unless you're making a living doing that.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut if you get canceled from your ability to feed your kids and pay your mortgage, you're going to at least be tempted to compromise on something you hold dearly.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I wanted to take this opportunity to use my skills to bless other people as I could.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that's where red balloon dot work came from.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo there's a long answer to A short question, but that's my story and I'm sticking with it.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, why something like red Blue?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhat were, what were you seeing that motivated that?
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, it's back to, you know, this labor market data concept that I was working on.
Andrew CrapuchettesLike people, work is a good thing.
Andrew CrapuchettesWork is an opportunity to bless others.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd your job is an important and defining feature of your life.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I've always been kind of obsessed with prosperity and work and jobs for other people.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I thought, man, there are so many good companies out there that really would love to get a good culture fit within their four walls, but don't know where to find them.
Andrew CrapuchettesRight.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you post a job ON Indeed or ZipRecruiter, you just don't know what you're going to get.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd as I started doing research, I found that 75% of businesses in America over the last five years have had a labor based lawsuit.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo hiring used to be really fun, right?
Andrew CrapuchettesI love hiring because you're giving someone an opportunity to do something great.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou're bringing talent into your business that's going to have a huge impact, both positive and potentially negative into your business.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut you're, you're having an opportunity to work with someone that's going to revolutionize your business potentially.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo it was exciting to hire.
Andrew CrapuchettesLoved giving people opportunities, love the opportunity to work with people.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, hiring went from being fun to being terrifying over the last, I'd say 10 years in America.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I see these businesses that are just struggling to get good talent.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd a lot of research out there shows that if you hire the wrong person, if you have a bad hire in your company, you have a very good chance of having expenses that are in excess of that person's annual salary because you have to deal with legal consequences you have to deal with.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I'll tell you stories that I've heard from these employers.
Andrew Crapuchettes$15 an hour, employees who were, who weren't a great employee, they said, we need to let you go.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd the person's like, well, I'm going to sue you unless you give me a 50, $50,000 severance.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd the business often just settles or loses that, right?
Andrew CrapuchettesSo it's very expensive to get a bad hire within your four walls.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd for individuals, when you go to work and you're having a leftist worldview push down your throat every single day, it's going to have a huge impact on you.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so I thought, man, I know these people are out there, they just need to be able to find each Other.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so that's why Red Balloon, because we thought if we can just pull these two groups of people together, then both of them are going to have better lives.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that's how we're going to have a more prosperous America and more joyful workers.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we should do that, man.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd I like, because you put right up front on your website, you know, it says what we believe.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAnd the very first statement is America was founded on the core principles of individual freedom and the personal responsibility necessary to maintain that freedom.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean, hey, man, praise God.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauShare with us the core values of Red Balloon.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, so at Red Balloon, we believe that work is a good thing and that people should have the freedom to live their values out loud and actually innovate.
Andrew CrapuchettesWhen you have a, I'll just say a woke work environment where you are having to kowtow to the latest political correctness, then you're not going to have an opportunity to do your best work.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou're not going to innovate because you're going to be worried that you're going to be offending someone all the time.
Andrew CrapuchettesInnovation often comes.
Andrew CrapuchettesEvery good idea, they say in business, comes from nine bad ideas.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo it's usually the 10th good idea, you know, the 10th idea that, like, oh, wait a minute, that might have some merit.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut if you are in a work environment where you're not allowed to throw out bad ideas because it might offend someone or.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I have stories from this, right, you have Silicon Valley bank that went out of business and they were putting everyone through microaggression training all the time and DEI training and ESG training.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then lo and behold, the bank goes out of business.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I talked to someone who was there and they said, well, the problem is we knew that it was a credit risk where the bank was sitting, but if we brought that up to the credit department, it would be seen as a microaggression.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd therefore, we were unwilling to be able to have that frank conversation.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo for Red Balloon, our core values are we want to bring job seekers and businesses together that believe in merit, they believe in freedom, and they believe that those are the ways that we're going to succeed and prosper in this country.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo it's really straightforward and simple.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd it's amazing to me how many, you know, we've had a lot of job seekers bounce off and be like, yeah, I don't want to be any part of that because, you know, I want to be entitled or I want to be able to Be in a position where I can bring a lawsuit, and that's okay.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou know, it's free country.
Andrew CrapuchettesGo do what you want.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut we want to bring the best workers to our employers.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so that's kind of been our core value or kind of driving principle at the.
Andrew CrapuchettesAt the end of the day, Robert, we want to redeem the world of work, and we believe that work is something that should be redeemed.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd if Red Balloon can redeem the world of work, that would be amazing.
Andrew CrapuchettesThe way we're doing that, we have three things we talk about all the time.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe want to bless our customers.
Andrew CrapuchettesFirst, we want our customers to be better able to do their job whether they buy anything from us or not.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so that's what it means to bless our customers.
Andrew CrapuchettesNext, we want to bless our employees.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe want them to be better people because they work at Red Balloon, better able to do their job for their next employer, better able to interact with their community, with their family.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then the last thing is, we want to bless our shareholders because we understand that we're under authority and we want to make sure that they are blessed.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd there's been some people that have put some money into making this whole adventure go, including myself.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I want to be a blessing to them, but I want to do it in that order.
Andrew CrapuchettesI want customers first, then employees, then shareholders.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd when you do that, God built the world in such a way that everyone's going to be blessed in the process.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhat.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhen you first developed Red Balloon, what was the first rendition of Red Balloon like as compared to what you have now?
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, no, it's a great question.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou know, we started, honestly, it was a bit of a hobby job.
Andrew CrapuchettesI was just going to kind of throw a job board out there and see if it was going to be.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt was going to stick.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we, you know, my brother and I in our basement over in my basement over a weekend, knocked out a job board.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we called it Red Balloon, because if you've ever been on a hot air balloon, it's kind of this.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, clearly a floating sensation.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut it's very quiet up on a hot air balloon because you're kind of going with the wind.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so there's not a lot of noise up there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd it felt a lot like the job seeking process where you're not getting a lot of feedback, you're clearly going somewhere, but you don't feel like you have a lot of control.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so, uh, but we also saw job seekers going to Red Businesses or red states or red parts of blue states where they could be free.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so we thought, okay, red balloon, that makes sense.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then dot work because, well.com was taken.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we believe that work is actually a good thing.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so it's red balloon, dot work.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe just threw it out there as a job board.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then I got a call from Fox and Friends and they said, hey, is there a chance you could come on and talk about the nation's leading job board for companies that don't have a vaccine mandate?
Andrew CrapuchettesBecause our original stance was, look, if an employee wants to get a vaccine, they're an adult, they should be able to make their own decisions.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut that's probably a conversation that you should have with your doctor, not your HR department.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so that was controversial enough that I ended up being on Fox News quite a bit, just talking about that.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, all of a sudden we had a thousand businesses and hundreds of thousands job seekers.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we're like, okay, we clearly have a business.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I didn't have a customer service team.
Andrew CrapuchettesI didn't really have a technology team.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so we, everything was held together with duct tape and bailing wire, to be honest.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut we were connecting people.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I was starting to get thank you notes from perfect strangers saying, you know, you've changed the trajectory of my family or you've saved my marriage or I'm going to church again, like, all these really amazing things that came out of just, you know, creating this site that helped connect these people together.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we started there.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut as we've grown as an organization and we are now in a position where we're helping many thousands of employers, we have a larger team.
Andrew CrapuchettesOne of the things we do now is we do recruiting services.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo not only can you post jobs, but if you would like us to just take over the hiring process and avoid some of the both heartache and the pain and the legal risk of hiring, then we will go out and we will actually proactively find people that are a good fit for your open positions, will bring them to you, and you'll know that by the time they, you talk to them, they've gone through the red balloon gauntlet.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd you have the blessed assurance to know that they're not going to bring a lawsuit, they're not going to be a bad culture fit for our organization.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we do it for only 4,500 bucks.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe do it for a lot cheaper than a traditional recruiter.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we have filled everything from the CFO for national religious broadcasters to many positions at family Radio and many, many other positions.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe're recruiting for Tucker Carlson right now for Public Square.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo hundreds of positions we've been able to fill for our customers using this process.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so we kind of morphed from just a job board who was just focused on freedom, which is fantastic.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we still do that.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe still have over 150,000 unique visitors a month to something where we can actually just solve your hiring problems, whether that's through job postings, recruiting, or some of our ATS software.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd it's just been really fun.
Andrew CrapuchettesRobert, when you are part of a story for an individual and for a business where you get to bring them together.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe got a thank you note from someone we recently placed in a job and they're like, this has just changed the trajectory of my family.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I don't know what I would have done.
Andrew CrapuchettesI wouldn't have found this business if you guys hadn't been out there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd being part of that story for thousands of people is just an incredible blessing.
Andrew CrapuchettesI wouldn't trade it for anything.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhen I was going through your website, I mean, I've seen positions on there that range from, you know, accountants to truck drivers, and.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat's right.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauPre K teachers to insurance agents.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean, you have a very thorough and rounded out platform with literally thousands of different positions.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauCorrect?
Andrew CrapuchettesThat's correct.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat's correct.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd these are, you know, these are businesses that you can go in and know that when you apply and when you get the job, you're going to be evaluated based on the quality of your character, not the color of your skin or your Twitter following or your sexuality or any of those things.
Andrew CrapuchettesThey're going to say, we want the best people for the job.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd it is very.
Andrew CrapuchettesThe way you build dignity in a person is to have them accomplish something hard, but accomplish it right.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd when you're in a work environment where you're not judged based on how hard you work or how, how, how much value you bring to the business, but instead you're judged based on some DEI rule, or we just want people who have a certain worldview that's dangerous and, and you lose some of that dignity that is achieved through that.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo I will tell you, most of the businesses on Red Balloon, many of them are Christians, they're all conservatives because they've all signed a pledge that they're going to protect the freedom of their current and future employees.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then all the job seekers on Red Balloon, they have to sign a pledge.
Andrew CrapuchettesThey think that America is a good country.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that they're not going to be a whiner.
Andrew CrapuchettesRoughly so.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd, and when you do that, man, it is so much more fun to work with people who have an aligned worldview, who are there to get work done and not complain all the time.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauExplain how your website works.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean, for example, if I was looking for a job, what would I have to do?
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo if you're a job seeker, everything on Red Balloon work is free for you.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou can go in there, you can create a profile so that companies can find you, you can share that profile with others if you want.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's a self sovereign profile, so you get to decide whether it's published or shared.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's not like LinkedIn where they're selling your information all the time.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe're not going to sell any of your information.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou own your information, you can fill out your profile.
Andrew CrapuchettesAdditionally, you can look for jobs that are being posted by employers today and that gives you kind of a view of what's out there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd if you apply, you're going to be first in line.
Andrew CrapuchettesI had one employer down in Southern California.
Andrew CrapuchettesHe said, I posted jobs on ZipRecruiter and he said, and I got 300 applicants and only three were worth talking, talking to.
Andrew CrapuchettesHe said, I posted a job on Red Balloon and I got five applicants, but three of them were absolute rock stars that I wanted to hire.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo you're going to not be in the noise of one of the massive job boards out there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd if you're a job seeker who signed that pledge and is part of the community, you're going to have a much higher probability of getting in front of those job seekers.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo you can go and you can search for jobs, you can apply to jobs, you can fill out your profile for free.
Andrew CrapuchettesThere's also a ton of free resources for job seekers.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we had our labor lawyer, Laura the labor lawyer, which is fun to say.
Andrew CrapuchettesLaura the labor lawyer actually wrote a employee bill of rights and responsibilities and that's a free resource for our job seekers to let them know what are their rights in the workplace and also what are their responsibilities.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe also have a bunch of training videos from the Leadership Institute where you can learn how to interview, how to write a resume.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we want to be a blessing to our job seekers as much as we can and everything's free for them.
Andrew CrapuchettesRight?
Andrew CrapuchettesSo go on there, create a profile, apply to jobs, learn from the resources that are on there.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe'd love to.
Andrew CrapuchettesBless you.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you're a employer, everything's really straightforward.
Andrew CrapuchettesFor $195 a month, you can post jobs on red balloon dot work.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you don't get an applicant that you are happy with in the first month, we'll actually give you a refund.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou will give you $195 back.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe are so confident that you're going to love the people that are there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd then if you want us to take over that hiring process Again, that's $4,500.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we have done this for hundreds of employers.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou know, we had one business in Dallas.
Andrew CrapuchettesHe said, you know, you have saved me $30,000 or higher by using your recruiting process.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo, wow.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe simply want to come alongside and be helpful.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo as a job seeker, go on there, create a profile, check out jobs as an employer, go in there, sign up, post your jobs.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou can do it yourself or you can have us take over.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe want to bless you in any way we can.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI think I see one statistic on your website that said as an employer, something like, I think it was 46% of all new hires are bad hires.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIs it really that bad?
Andrew CrapuchettesIt really is.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so we did it.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe did a study and we've done a bunch of studies around bad hires.
Andrew CrapuchettesBasically the number of people that are coming into companies and we've had customers call us and say, look, we hired someone from a different job platform who was actively trying to destroy our business.
Andrew CrapuchettesThey were leaking financial information.
Andrew CrapuchettesThey were giving customers intentionally a bad business because this was a pro freedom, pro God, pro America business.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd they were very upfront about that.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd this employee was actually trying to destroy their business.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so when you.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so we did a massive survey and obviously we have.
Andrew CrapuchettesNot only do we have thousands of employees or employers and millions of job seekers, but we also have done research on other employers.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd the reality is that 46% of job seekers or of new hires come into a business and just aren't a good fit.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I'll tell you why that happens.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd we've all been there.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you're a small business owner, you know what's going on.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou're super duper busy.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd the reason you're hiring is because you're super busy and you don't have time to put 20 hours into an interview process.
Andrew CrapuchettesRight?
Andrew CrapuchettesYou just are trying to like, okay, do you have a pulse?
Andrew CrapuchettesGood, get in here and get to work.
Andrew CrapuchettesBecause I've got a lot of work to do.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd unfortunately, that's a very bad decision because not only is that going to potentially produce a bad hire 46% of the time.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut it also, like this is person, someone who you're bringing onto your team, who is a going to earn a lot of money, but also is going to be maybe your point person with customers, with everybody else.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo we encourage employers, if you do a good hiring process, it should take 20 hours of time.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I know when that.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat feels overwhelming as a small business owner, like, I don't have 20 hours.
Andrew CrapuchettesRight, but you also don't have the $50,000 it's going to cost if you hire the wrong person.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat's part of the reason we do the recruiting process.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you don't have the time, we can take it over.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut if you don't want us to do that, you really do need to invest the time and energy.
Andrew CrapuchettesBecause getting a bad hire within your four walls, particularly in today's society and culture with the litigiousness that's out there, it is worth the time and effort to make sure you get the right person.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd one of the things we do is we can.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you reach out to me, I'm happy to give you our entire hiring process, which I will give to you for free.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd you can actually find how you can screen for talent, but also how you can screen for culture within your business.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe will happily give you that resource for free.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou can just reach out to me.
Andrew CrapuchettesI'll just tell you it's Andrewed balloon dot work.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd if you reach out to me, I'll happily share that process with you.
Andrew CrapuchettesBecause we want businesses to not be in those lawsuits, to not be struggling.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so either if you want us to take it over, we'd love to, but if you don't, I'd love to just tell you how we do it so that you can help protect yourself in that hiring process.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI also seen a chart on your website says something like companies that actively engage have a clear advantage versus companies that have low engagement.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWhat do you mean by that?
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, so it's.
Andrew CrapuchettesWhat we're talking about is.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo there's two things here.
Andrew CrapuchettesThere's a employment brand.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo you need to.
Andrew CrapuchettesFor employers, we all understand that if we want to get a new customer, it's the, what, seventh or tenth time they see your brand that they start to feel comfortable.
Andrew CrapuchettesComfortable with it.
Andrew CrapuchettesRight.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe talk about that marketing all the time.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, when it comes to employment as well, we have a tight labor market for good talent.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd so if you want to get the best people, you need to be actively working on and thinking about Your employment brand.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that's who you are as an organization.
Andrew CrapuchettesWhy would they want to work for you?
Andrew CrapuchettesYou need to be pitching yourself.
Andrew CrapuchettesThe labor market's not a vending machine where you can put in a quarter and get out a great employee.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou need to be actively building your employment brand.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd that can be done with videos, that can be done with talking about yourself.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd as you're building your employment brand, we encourage employers.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt is a huge legal benefit for you if you live your values out loud.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I know that sounds counterintuitive.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou think, well, if I come out as a Christian or conservative employer, is that going to put me in a spot where I'm going to be open to lawsuits or tax or anything else?
Andrew CrapuchettesBut think about it like this.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd if you talk to lawyers, you'll find out they'll agree.
Andrew CrapuchettesIf you come out and say, look, everyone is welcome to work here.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe have a merit based employment.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe're not going to discriminate based on religion.
Andrew CrapuchettesBut I as the CEO am a conservative Christian and I'm going to run this business like I mean it.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, when you do that, if someone comes into your organization and three months later they're like, hey, I'm going to sue you because you're acting like a Christian CEO, you can say so.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's all over our website, it's all over job postings.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd I told you that in the interview process.
Andrew CrapuchettesThat gives them no legs to stand on if they want to try and bring some sort of legal action against you.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo, so when you're in that employment, when you're in that recruiting process, we encourage the two things.
Andrew CrapuchettesBuild that employment brand, but also live your values out loud.
Andrew CrapuchettesDon't be afraid because it actually will be a protection to you.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt'll be a protection and also it will.
Andrew CrapuchettesThe type of employees that you don't want in your organization will probably not even apply.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauWell, Andrew, this has been awesome.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean I believe you're tapping into something that, that needs to happen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean I believe the services that, that you provide as a connector between like minded believers that want to work for like minded companies that need them.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI mean that's, that's awesome.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauThat's awesome.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf someone wants more information, they would like to ask a question, etc, how can they do that?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauHow can someone get in touch with you?
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah, so there's a couple different ways.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo again, go to Red Balloon Dot work.
Andrew CrapuchettesThere's a ton of resources on there and we'd love to have you be part of the community, part of the movement that we're producing.
Andrew CrapuchettesYou can actually just reach out to me directly@AndrewedBallO.work.
Andrew Crapuchettesthat's actually my email address.
Andrew CrapuchettesI will do my best to respond.
Andrew CrapuchettesI get a lot of email but I would love to hear from you.
Andrew CrapuchettesThe best way to follow me is I'm on a variety of social media platforms, but I'm Most active on LinkedIn.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo if you want to go on LinkedIn and look for Andrew Crapuchettes, there's not a lot of crap you shuts out there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd follow me.
Andrew CrapuchettesWe are putting out content every single day on how to build company culture, how to manage employees, how to hire without getting into legal trouble, and we might even put a couple funny ads on there poking fun at some of the entitlement that we have in today's economy.
Andrew CrapuchettesSo yeah, go to LinkedIn, follow me there or reach out to me andrewdballoon.org Amen.
Andrew CrapuchettesAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI'll put links all this in the show notes below, folks.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAre you looking for a place to work?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauA place to establish roots?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauA place where you can find others that hold the same values and morals that you do?
Pastor Robert ThibodeauA place where you don't have to walk around on eggshells worried you're gonna offend someone if you say Amen or whatever.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIf you're an employer and you want to find people who believe in the value systems you've established in your business, you're looking for like minded folks who believe like you do.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI encourage you.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauDrop down the show notes right now.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauClick the links right there.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauGet in touch with Andrew Krapuschetz right now while you're thinking about it, don't wait because you know the devil's going to try and make you forget about it.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauDo it right now while you're thinking.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauBut go to red balloon.org red balloon.org check out the platform that Andrew and his team put together.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauIt could be the answer to your prayers and the prayers of an employer looking for someone just like you.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAndrew, I saw a section on your front page that says it's time to grow up and get back to work.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI think that pretty well sums up the feeling of most sane people right now.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen.
Andrew CrapuchettesAmen.
Andrew CrapuchettesAbsolutely.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauI do appreciate your time.
Andrew CrapuchettesYeah.
Andrew CrapuchettesWell, thank you for having me, Robert.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's a blessing to talk to you.
Andrew CrapuchettesBlessing to talk to your.
Andrew CrapuchettesTo everyone who's listening to the show.
Andrew CrapuchettesIt's important.
Andrew CrapuchettesLet's, let's act.
Andrew CrapuchettesLet's praise the Lord and get out there.
Andrew CrapuchettesAnd do stuff.
Amen SpeakerAmen.
Pastor Robert ThibodeauAmen, folks.
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