Pastor Bob Thibodeau

Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast with your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau

On 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 Thibodeau

But at all times, continue to rely on our faith to see us through to victory.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau

Now with today's guest, here is your host, Pastor Bob Thibodeau.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Hello, everyone, everywhere.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Pastor Robert Thibodeau here.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Welcome to the Faith Based Business podcast.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

We are so blessed that you are joining us today.

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You 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.

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And we had just began the process of coming out of COVID We were trying to get the economy back.

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Many people just wanted to get back to work.

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Then we have this wave of idiocy that says if you believe in godly principles, you're wrong.

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If you believe in traditional values, you're wrong.

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If you believe in anything except what we say, you're wrong.

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And that type of attitude still exists today.

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Although 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.

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Wouldn'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.

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Wouldn'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 Thibodeau

Andrew, I'm gonna try this my best.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, sure.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yes, crappy shots.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yes, crappy chats.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Okay.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

He thought so that that'd be a good idea too.

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But how to find companies like that?

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That was the problem.

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But it's not a problem anymore.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Andrew 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 Thibodeau

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Andrew'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.

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Help me.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Welcome to the program.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Andrew Crap out again.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Andrew, welcome.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, Andrew is great.

Andrew Crapuchettes

That'll do just fine.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I will tell you that that many a host has had to struggle with that last name.

Andrew Crapuchettes

In fact, my kids all play sports and so poor announcers who get up and like.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And Bennett, what is that?

Andrew Crapuchettes

So anyway, it's crap you shuts.

Andrew Crapuchettes

There's no way around it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's a French name.

Andrew Crapuchettes

When you're in Paris they say Capuc and it sounds really cool.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But here in America it's just crap you shats no way around it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And thank you for having me, Robert.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm very grateful to be on the show.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I'm.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I'm using last name like Thibodeau.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Mine gets butchered all the time as well.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm sure.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm sure.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Oh man, it is so good to talk to you.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

When, when we first connected, I was like, oh, this is going to be a really interesting interview.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I know it is.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

And the first question I always start with is this.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Other than that brief information I just shared, can you tell us in your own words who is Andrew Prepucettes?

Andrew Crapuchettes

There it is.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Nailed it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Thank and again, thank you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm very grateful to be here.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So I grew up in California.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I was kind of a dot com guy very early on.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Never 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 Crapuchettes

And so I was blessed to be able to work for some amazing companies.

Andrew Crapuchettes

By the time I was 19, I was traveling for work all over the world.

Andrew Crapuchettes

By 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 Crapuchettes

And so I thought this is a good moment to kind of get a change of scenery.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I had worked 20, you know, 80 to 100 hours a week for many years.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I was now 22 years old and I really just needed to have a little bit of a life.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Grew up as a Christian.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

So I thought, I'm going to go move to Idaho.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm going to see what it's like, go plug into this church and see if I like it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I did and really enjoyed the adventure up here.

Andrew Crapuchettes

About that time the business went under that I was part of down in California.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I kind of looked around Idaho and said, you know, there's not a lot of good jobs in our little community here.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's a college town, Moscow, Idaho.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And great people, great church community, great academic community, not a great business community.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so I thought, well, God has given me skills and abilities, I should use those to bless people as much as I can.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So I went on kind of this rampage of starting businesses.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I 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 Crapuchettes

So I was able to build these things up, sell them everything from $100,000 exit to a half a billion dollar exit.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So just really was blessed by God to do all this.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And as it was building these businesses, I was trying to be distinctly Christian in the way that I ran them.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I think that we have lost of the art of being a Christian CEO.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And that doesn't mean you have to be awkward or weird or hand out tracks at all the meetings.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And so one of the businesses that I, that I built at during that time was a labor market data company.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I know that sounds really boring.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Who in their right mind would buy labor market data?

Andrew Crapuchettes

But you think about, think about the biggest decisions in your life.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Who 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 Crapuchettes

And there's very little decision ready information for that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You 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 Crapuchettes

But 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 Crapuchettes

For me as an individual, there really wasn't good information on that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So 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 Crapuchettes

So we built this to about a $50 million business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We had an office in the UK, had employees all over the country.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Just loved my job.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It really was a great joy.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'd sold the business a number of times, so I had very little ownership left.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And it's fun to sell businesses because you get big checks.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's not fun because you lose control.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so my board in 2020 came to me and said, look, you are a little too conservative and Christian for our liking.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

But if you're not willing to do that, then this is just not the right organization for you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Now, for context, our company was growing 25% a year, 40% margin.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Like, we really were extremely successful.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So I was being removed not for performance, but for perception.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And I'm like, and I know the right answer.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So I found myself delightfully unemployed after about a six month battle with my board in early 2021.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I was going to spend some time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I've got a housing development I'm working on, I've got five kids.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'm on the board of a number of nonprofits and companies.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I thought, you know, I'm just going to take my time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I've got plenty to say grace over.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I 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 Crapuchettes

They'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 Crapuchettes

And many of them don't have the financial wherewithal to kind of shrug off losing their job.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And for a conservative or a Christian, if we get canceled off Facebook, it's like, well, it is what it is.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Not too stressed about it unless you're making a living doing that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But 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 Crapuchettes

And so I wanted to take this opportunity to use my skills to bless other people as I could.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And that's where red balloon dot work came from.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So there's a long answer to A short question, but that's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Well, why something like red Blue?

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

What were, what were you seeing that motivated that?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, it's back to, you know, this labor market data concept that I was working on.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Like people, work is a good thing.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Work is an opportunity to bless others.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And your job is an important and defining feature of your life.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so I've always been kind of obsessed with prosperity and work and jobs for other people.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

Right.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you post a job ON Indeed or ZipRecruiter, you just don't know what you're going to get.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

So hiring used to be really fun, right?

Andrew Crapuchettes

I love hiring because you're giving someone an opportunity to do something great.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You're bringing talent into your business that's going to have a huge impact, both positive and potentially negative into your business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But you're, you're having an opportunity to work with someone that's going to revolutionize your business potentially.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So it was exciting to hire.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Loved giving people opportunities, love the opportunity to work with people.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, hiring went from being fun to being terrifying over the last, I'd say 10 years in America.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so I see these businesses that are just struggling to get good talent.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And the person's like, well, I'm going to sue you unless you give me a 50, $50,000 severance.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And the business often just settles or loses that, right?

Andrew Crapuchettes

So it's very expensive to get a bad hire within your four walls.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And so I thought, man, I know these people are out there, they just need to be able to find each Other.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And that's how we're going to have a more prosperous America and more joyful workers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So we should do that, man.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

And I like, because you put right up front on your website, you know, it says what we believe.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

And 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 Thibodeau

I mean, hey, man, praise God.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Share with us the core values of Red Balloon.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, 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 Crapuchettes

When 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 Crapuchettes

You're not going to innovate because you're going to be worried that you're going to be offending someone all the time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Innovation often comes.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Every good idea, they say in business, comes from nine bad ideas.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So it's usually the 10th good idea, you know, the 10th idea that, like, oh, wait a minute, that might have some merit.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But if you are in a work environment where you're not allowed to throw out bad ideas because it might offend someone or.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And then lo and behold, the bank goes out of business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And therefore, we were unwilling to be able to have that frank conversation.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So 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 Crapuchettes

So it's really straightforward and simple.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

You know, it's free country.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Go do what you want.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But we want to bring the best workers to our employers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so that's kind of been our core value or kind of driving principle at the.

Andrew Crapuchettes

At 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 Crapuchettes

And if Red Balloon can redeem the world of work, that would be amazing.

Andrew Crapuchettes

The way we're doing that, we have three things we talk about all the time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We want to bless our customers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

First, we want our customers to be better able to do their job whether they buy anything from us or not.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so that's what it means to bless our customers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Next, we want to bless our employees.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And there's been some people that have put some money into making this whole adventure go, including myself.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I want to be a blessing to them, but I want to do it in that order.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I want customers first, then employees, then shareholders.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And when you do that, God built the world in such a way that everyone's going to be blessed in the process.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Yeah.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

What.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

When you first developed Red Balloon, what was the first rendition of Red Balloon like as compared to what you have now?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, no, it's a great question.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You know, we started, honestly, it was a bit of a hobby job.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I was just going to kind of throw a job board out there and see if it was going to be.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It was going to stick.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So we, you know, my brother and I in our basement over in my basement over a weekend, knocked out a job board.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we called it Red Balloon, because if you've ever been on a hot air balloon, it's kind of this.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, clearly a floating sensation.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But it's very quiet up on a hot air balloon because you're kind of going with the wind.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so there's not a lot of noise up there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And so we thought, okay, red balloon, that makes sense.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And then dot work because, well.com was taken.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we believe that work is actually a good thing.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so it's red balloon, dot work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We just threw it out there as a job board.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

Because 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 Crapuchettes

But that's probably a conversation that you should have with your doctor, not your HR department.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so that was controversial enough that I ended up being on Fox News quite a bit, just talking about that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, all of a sudden we had a thousand businesses and hundreds of thousands job seekers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we're like, okay, we clearly have a business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I didn't have a customer service team.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I didn't really have a technology team.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so we, everything was held together with duct tape and bailing wire, to be honest.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But we were connecting people.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

So we started there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But 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 Crapuchettes

One of the things we do now is we do recruiting services.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So 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 Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

And we do it for only 4,500 bucks.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We do it for a lot cheaper than a traditional recruiter.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we have filled everything from the CFO for national religious broadcasters to many positions at family Radio and many, many other positions.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We're recruiting for Tucker Carlson right now for Public Square.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So hundreds of positions we've been able to fill for our customers using this process.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so we kind of morphed from just a job board who was just focused on freedom, which is fantastic.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we still do that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We 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 Crapuchettes

And it's just been really fun.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Robert, when you are part of a story for an individual and for a business where you get to bring them together.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We 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 Crapuchettes

And I don't know what I would have done.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I wouldn't have found this business if you guys hadn't been out there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And being part of that story for thousands of people is just an incredible blessing.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Yeah.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

When 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 Crapuchettes

That's right.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Pre K teachers to insurance agents.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I mean, you have a very thorough and rounded out platform with literally thousands of different positions.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Correct?

Andrew Crapuchettes

That's correct.

Andrew Crapuchettes

That's correct.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

They're going to say, we want the best people for the job.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And it is very.

Andrew Crapuchettes

The way you build dignity in a person is to have them accomplish something hard, but accomplish it right.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

So 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 Crapuchettes

And then all the job seekers on Red Balloon, they have to sign a pledge.

Andrew Crapuchettes

They think that America is a good country.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And that they're not going to be a whiner.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Roughly so.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And, 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 Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Explain how your website works.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I mean, for example, if I was looking for a job, what would I have to do?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So if you're a job seeker, everything on Red Balloon work is free for you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You 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 Crapuchettes

It's a self sovereign profile, so you get to decide whether it's published or shared.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's not like LinkedIn where they're selling your information all the time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We're not going to sell any of your information.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You own your information, you can fill out your profile.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Additionally, 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 Crapuchettes

And if you apply, you're going to be first in line.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I had one employer down in Southern California.

Andrew Crapuchettes

He said, I posted jobs on ZipRecruiter and he said, and I got 300 applicants and only three were worth talking, talking to.

Andrew Crapuchettes

He 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 Crapuchettes

So you're going to not be in the noise of one of the massive job boards out there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

So you can go and you can search for jobs, you can apply to jobs, you can fill out your profile for free.

Andrew Crapuchettes

There's also a ton of free resources for job seekers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So we had our labor lawyer, Laura the labor lawyer, which is fun to say.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Laura 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 Crapuchettes

We also have a bunch of training videos from the Leadership Institute where you can learn how to interview, how to write a resume.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So we want to be a blessing to our job seekers as much as we can and everything's free for them.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Right?

Andrew Crapuchettes

So go on there, create a profile, apply to jobs, learn from the resources that are on there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We'd love to.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Bless you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you're a employer, everything's really straightforward.

Andrew Crapuchettes

For $195 a month, you can post jobs on red balloon dot work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you don't get an applicant that you are happy with in the first month, we'll actually give you a refund.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You will give you $195 back.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We are so confident that you're going to love the people that are there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And then if you want us to take over that hiring process Again, that's $4,500.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we have done this for hundreds of employers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You know, we had one business in Dallas.

Andrew Crapuchettes

He said, you know, you have saved me $30,000 or higher by using your recruiting process.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So, wow.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We simply want to come alongside and be helpful.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So 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 Crapuchettes

You can do it yourself or you can have us take over.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We want to bless you in any way we can.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I 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 Thibodeau

Is it really that bad?

Andrew Crapuchettes

It really is.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so we did it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We did a study and we've done a bunch of studies around bad hires.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Basically 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 Crapuchettes

They were leaking financial information.

Andrew Crapuchettes

They were giving customers intentionally a bad business because this was a pro freedom, pro God, pro America business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And they were very upfront about that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And this employee was actually trying to destroy their business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so when you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so we did a massive survey and obviously we have.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Not only do we have thousands of employees or employers and millions of job seekers, but we also have done research on other employers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And the reality is that 46% of job seekers or of new hires come into a business and just aren't a good fit.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I'll tell you why that happens.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And we've all been there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you're a small business owner, you know what's going on.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You're super duper busy.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Crapuchettes

Right?

Andrew Crapuchettes

You just are trying to like, okay, do you have a pulse?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Good, get in here and get to work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Because I've got a lot of work to do.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And unfortunately, that's a very bad decision because not only is that going to potentially produce a bad hire 46% of the time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But 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 Crapuchettes

So we encourage employers, if you do a good hiring process, it should take 20 hours of time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I know when that.

Andrew Crapuchettes

That feels overwhelming as a small business owner, like, I don't have 20 hours.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Right, but you also don't have the $50,000 it's going to cost if you hire the wrong person.

Andrew Crapuchettes

That's part of the reason we do the recruiting process.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you don't have the time, we can take it over.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But if you don't want us to do that, you really do need to invest the time and energy.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Because 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 Crapuchettes

And one of the things we do is we can.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you reach out to me, I'm happy to give you our entire hiring process, which I will give to you for free.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And you can actually find how you can screen for talent, but also how you can screen for culture within your business.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We will happily give you that resource for free.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You can just reach out to me.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I'll just tell you it's Andrewed balloon dot work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And if you reach out to me, I'll happily share that process with you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Because we want businesses to not be in those lawsuits, to not be struggling.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And 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 Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I 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 Thibodeau

What do you mean by that?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, so it's.

Andrew Crapuchettes

What we're talking about is.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So there's two things here.

Andrew Crapuchettes

There's a employment brand.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So you need to.

Andrew Crapuchettes

For 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 Crapuchettes

Comfortable with it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Right.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We talk about that marketing all the time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, when it comes to employment as well, we have a tight labor market for good talent.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And so if you want to get the best people, you need to be actively working on and thinking about Your employment brand.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And that's who you are as an organization.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Why would they want to work for you?

Andrew Crapuchettes

You need to be pitching yourself.

Andrew Crapuchettes

The labor market's not a vending machine where you can put in a quarter and get out a great employee.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You need to be actively building your employment brand.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And that can be done with videos, that can be done with talking about yourself.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And as you're building your employment brand, we encourage employers.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It is a huge legal benefit for you if you live your values out loud.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I know that sounds counterintuitive.

Andrew Crapuchettes

You 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 Crapuchettes

But think about it like this.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And if you talk to lawyers, you'll find out they'll agree.

Andrew Crapuchettes

If you come out and say, look, everyone is welcome to work here.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We have a merit based employment.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We're not going to discriminate based on religion.

Andrew Crapuchettes

But I as the CEO am a conservative Christian and I'm going to run this business like I mean it.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, 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 Crapuchettes

It's all over our website, it's all over job postings.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And I told you that in the interview process.

Andrew Crapuchettes

That gives them no legs to stand on if they want to try and bring some sort of legal action against you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So, so when you're in that employment, when you're in that recruiting process, we encourage the two things.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Build that employment brand, but also live your values out loud.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Don't be afraid because it actually will be a protection to you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It'll be a protection and also it will.

Andrew Crapuchettes

The type of employees that you don't want in your organization will probably not even apply.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Well, Andrew, this has been awesome.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I mean I believe you're tapping into something that, that needs to happen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I 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 Thibodeau

I mean that's, that's awesome.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

That's awesome.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

If someone wants more information, they would like to ask a question, etc, how can they do that?

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

How can someone get in touch with you?

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah, so there's a couple different ways.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So again, go to Red Balloon Dot work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

There'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 Crapuchettes

You can actually just reach out to me directly@AndrewedBallO.work.

Andrew Crapuchettes

that's actually my email address.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I will do my best to respond.

Andrew Crapuchettes

I get a lot of email but I would love to hear from you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

The best way to follow me is I'm on a variety of social media platforms, but I'm Most active on LinkedIn.

Andrew Crapuchettes

So if you want to go on LinkedIn and look for Andrew Crapuchettes, there's not a lot of crap you shuts out there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And follow me.

Andrew Crapuchettes

We 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 Crapuchettes

So yeah, go to LinkedIn, follow me there or reach out to me andrewdballoon.org Amen.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I'll put links all this in the show notes below, folks.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Are you looking for a place to work?

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

A place to establish roots?

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

A place where you can find others that hold the same values and morals that you do?

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

A 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 Thibodeau

If 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 Thibodeau

I encourage you.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Drop down the show notes right now.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Click the links right there.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Get 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 Thibodeau

Do it right now while you're thinking.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

But go to red balloon.org red balloon.org check out the platform that Andrew and his team put together.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

It could be the answer to your prayers and the prayers of an employer looking for someone just like you.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Andrew, I saw a section on your front page that says it's time to grow up and get back to work.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I think that pretty well sums up the feeling of most sane people right now.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Amen.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Amen.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Absolutely.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

I do appreciate your time.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Yeah.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Well, thank you for having me, Robert.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's a blessing to talk to you.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Blessing to talk to your.

Andrew Crapuchettes

To everyone who's listening to the show.

Andrew Crapuchettes

It's important.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Let's, let's act.

Andrew Crapuchettes

Let's praise the Lord and get out there.

Andrew Crapuchettes

And do stuff.

Amen Speaker

Amen.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

Amen, folks.

Pastor Robert Thibodeau

That's all the time we have for today for Andrew Krapichetz Marcellus Pastor Bob reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.

Pastor Bob Thibodeau

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