{"podcast":{"title":"The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness!","slug":"the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900","podcast_index_feed_id":6610900,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/feed.xml","website_url":"https://retailrazor.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/20250526_010501_77e0055cf9122a02c2d98b880241e025.png","author":"Ricardo Belmar | Top Retail Expert","episode_count":19,"summary":"The Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness explores the essential skills & qualities that every retail executive needs in the AI era to lead their teams and their business to success. In each episode our hosts, RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert & NRF 2025 Retail Voice, Ricardo Belmar , and RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert, Casey Golden , hear from a seasoned retail industry leader who shares their greatest insights and wisdom on retail career growth and operational excellence . Whether we’re talking about the corporate office or store teams, together we’ll uncover valuable tips and advice that you can apply to your own retail career journey . Stay Sharp . Lead Boldly . Stay Human . Subscribe Part of the Retail Razor Podcast Network. https://retailrazor.com/ Subscribe to our Newsletter : https://retailrazor.substack.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://go.retailrazor.com/utube Follow The Retail Razor Show LinkedIn : https://go.retailrazor.com/INnews BlueSky : https://go.retailrazor.com/Bluesky Instagram : https://go.retailrazor.com/insta Threads : https://go.retailrazor.com/threads Facebook : https://go.retailrazor.com/Facebook About your hosts Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900"},"episode":{"title":"Revolutionizing Retail Hiring - Insights from Ron Thurston","slug":"revolutionizing-retail-hiring-insights-from-ron-thurston","published_at":"2024-11-18T10:10:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/revolutionizing-retail-hiring-insights-from-ron-thurston","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/1539931","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/275756/1539931/retail-razor-blade-to-greatness/2025_05_28_22_17_44_a39cf461-8241-45b5-8940-23e21273e331.mp3","summary":"S1:E4 How to Hire the Right Person in Retail with Ron Thurston Join hosts Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden on the fourth episode of the Retail Razor: Blade to Greatness . This episode features a discussion with retail industry expert Ron Thurston , co-founder of Ossy and author of 'Retail Pride .' Ron shares his insights on transforming retail hiring processes to better connect highly qualified and engaged candidates with retail brands. He discusses the need for a human-centric approach in hiring frontline retail workers, emphasizing the importance of emotional empathy, curiosity, and culture fit. Tune in to learn how to reframe your job search strategies and improve recruitment outcomes in the retail industry! Subscribe to our Newsletter : https://retailrazor.substack.com Subscribe on YouTube : https://bit.ly/RRShowYouTube Meet your hosts :: Ricardo Belmar is an NRF Top Retail Voices for 2025 and a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert from 2021 – 2024. Thinkers 360 named him a Top 10 Retail Thought Leader, Top 50 Management Thought Leader, & Top 100 Digital Transformation Thought Leader, plus a Top Digital Voice for 2024. He is an advisory council member at George Mason University’s Center for Retail Transformation , and is the director partner marketing for retail & consumer goods at Microsoft. Casey Golden , is CEO of Luxlock , a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for 2024 & 2023, & Retail Cloud Alliance advisory council member. Obsessed with the customer relationship between the brand & the consumer. After a career on the fashion & supply chain technology side of the business, now slaying franken-stacks & building retail tech! Music provided by imunobeats.com , featuring Swag, Tag and Brag from the album Beat Hype , written by Heston Mimms, pub…","meta_description":"S1:E4 How to Hire the Right Person in Retail with Ron Thurston Join hosts Ricardo Belmar and Casey Golden on the fourth episode of the Retail Razor: Blade…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":600,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/episodes/revolutionizing-retail-hiring-insights-from-ron-thurston/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-retail-razor-blade-to-greatness-6610900/revolutionizing-retail-hiring-insights-from-ron-thurston.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}