{"podcast":{"title":"Recruitment Mentors Podcast","slug":"recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772","podcast_index_feed_id":1064772,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/recruitmentmentorspodcast/","website_url":"https://recruitmentmentors.com/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/0ed6f71d-9885-4342-9d08-48514e035b86/podcast-cover2.jpg","author":"Hishem Azzouz","episode_count":500,"summary":"The #1 Most Practical Recruitment Podcast In the World","last_synced_at":"2026-07-20T10:18:04.200060+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772"},"episode":{"title":"More Revenue in 3 Months Than the First 15: Brad Lewington on Fixing His Biggest Founder Mistake","slug":"more-revenue-in-3-months-than-the-first-15-brad-lewington-on-fixing-his-biggest-founder-mistake","published_at":"2026-07-13T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772/more-revenue-in-3-months-than-the-first-15-brad-lewington-on-fixing-his-biggest-founder-mistake","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772","url":"https://recruitmentmentorspodcast.captivate.fm/episode/more-revenue-in-3-months-than-the-first-15-brad-lewington-on-fixing-his-biggest-founder-mistake","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/1b0840e2-e5e7-433f-80dd-a81200acce74.mp3","summary":"In this episode, I sit down with Brad Lewington, who spent seven years as CEO of Spencer Ogden, taking over the business when 80% of its revenue was tied to a collapsing oil & gas market and rebuilding it into a £121M-revenue business that sold to private equity 30 days before COVID hit. After stepping away in 2023, Brad started again from zero, launching Generative Group from Guildford with an offshore team in Cape Town built in from day one. We dig into the mistakes he made spreading his new business too thin across too many \"islands\" in year one, why he'd already given founders the exact advice he then ignored, and how refocusing on a single niche took Generative from £456K to £1.4M in net fee income. Connect with Brad here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradlewington/ ------------------------- Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rxPtMWtJGkg ------------------------- Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below: Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here Raise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here. ------------------------- Want more content like this? The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/ ------------------------- Get in touch with me: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/ -------------------------","meta_description":"In this episode, I sit down with Brad Lewington, who spent seven years as CEO of Spencer Ogden, taking over the business when 80% of its revenue was tied…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3558,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772/episodes/more-revenue-in-3-months-than-the-first-15-brad-lewington-on-fixing-his-biggest-founder-mistake/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/recruitment-mentors-podcast-1064772/more-revenue-in-3-months-than-the-first-15-brad-lewington-on-fixing-his-biggest-founder-mistake.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}