In this Business Blast Podcast episode, host Tyler Wagner interviews Lewis Elliott, a recruitment consultant and former teacher. Lewis shares a formative travel story from when he was 18, highlighting how connecting with diverse people taught him to communicate across backgrounds. He explains his recruitment philosophy of treating candidates as future clients to build long‑lasting relationships. Lewis offers broad business advice emphasizing hard work, perseverance, and the role of luck, and tells his younger self to cultivate confidence and conviction. He outlines his view of happiness as a combination of giving, learning, and resilience. Lewis recommends the book Hot Faith by Nancy Gowdy, summarizing its core lesson to trust one’s gut instincts. His favorite quote is Winston Churchill’s “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it’s the courage that counts.” Finally, he directs listeners to find him on LinkedIn and at his employer’s site, Transition Partners. The episode includes sponsor mentions (Authors Unite) and production credits (Anchor).
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All right everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Business Blast podcast. I'm your host Tyler Wagner. Today I have Luis Elliott with us. He's a recruitment consultant, a former teacher, and is looking to build relationships with clients and candidates and grow his professional network within the IT, business, and technology sectors. So welcome to the show, man.
Hi Tyler, how you doing?
Doing awesome, man.
How are you? Good, good, good.
Grateful to have you on.
Oh, brilliant. Glad to be on.
So we'll jump in, man, to the first one. The first question I have for you, Lewis, is what is the best story from your life that has an underlying valuable message?
Right. So when I was 18 years old, I went traveling around Asia. Like, literally, I was going to beach parties, boat parties. I was a little bit naive thinking I was— old enough to go traveling when I was 18 by myself. But I went out there and did it anyway. Like, and then, like, after a few months, I broke— I dislocated my knee. I was probably in a bit of a mess. But the thing I learned from that trip and that kind of getting myself out there was that, like, the people I met and the people that I kind of associated with weren't people that I'd normally associate with in real— in normal life. So I just think the relationships I've built and After that, I think I take away from that that I can speak to people from all different walks of life, from all different backgrounds, and I've just got that, like, obviously I can speak to them on a kind of a peer level. Just that's what I learned from that trip and that traveling.
And what is the most valuable piece of information we should know that's within your expertise or industry?
So as you said, I'm in recruitment. I think relationship building For recruitment is key. I think for most industries is key. I personally, I treat my candidates as if they're clients because one day they will be, and that hopefully I build relationships that last that long. And it's not seen tomorrow or the day after, it's seen 2 years or 3 years down the line. I think that's what I want to pull from recruitment. I want to build them long-lasting relationships and treat people like, they deserve to be treated within the sectors that we're in.
And what's your best piece of overall business advice? So not necessarily industry-specific.
No, so I think working hard. I think some people get lucky. I think everyone gets lucky within their life at some point, but I think most successful people, if you ask them, would say that that luck hasn't got them to where they are. They've had maybe a lucky break, but the hard work is what gets you to where you're getting, and then not giving up. And just striving to succeed.
And if you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would that be?
I think confidence more than anything. Confidence and conviction and just having that conviction in your actions to kind of do and not let people who are older or older than you or kind of higher than you intimidate you and never let them like knock you down. Just kind of keep going at it and have more confidence.
And in your opinion, what's the key to happiness?
I think it's the Holy Spirit, the three. I think it's giving, learning, and resilience. I think if you've got all them three things together, you're going to be successful. I think you've got to give back. You've got to give out. You've got to give out as much as you get in, if not more. I think you have to give out twice as much as you get back in. You need to learn from what you've done. And resilience, like, if you're not resilient, you're never going to be successful.
And what is the best book that you've read and what was the number one thing you learned from that?
So it's a little bit of a weird one. It's called Hot Faith. It's by Nancy Gowdy. She built like an empire within England. She built like a performing arts center. And basically, she's done that all off the back of herself. She didn't come from money. She's kind of— the money's filtered in from other places, but she just went with the gut in everything. And all the way through that book, it's the underlying message is go with your gut and trust your gut, trust your instinct, and go with it.
And what is your favorite quote and why?
This is very British, but it's a Winston Churchill one. It's, "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it's the courage that counts." And I think that I live by that. I think it's amazing. It's an amazing quote.
Yes, man, I agree. Dude, thank you so much for coming on.
No worries. It's been a pleasure.
Yes, man, it has been. And I got one more question for you though, just before we let you go, and that is, where's the best place for people to find you online?
All right, so LinkedIn, like you said, Lewis Elliott, I'm on LinkedIn quite a lot. I love LinkedIn. I was on a date the other week and I said that LinkedIn was one of my key interests. Also, Transition Partners, the company that I work at, is www.transitionpartners.com. Yeah, perfect. That's the best I've given. Thank you again. All right, no worries, Tyler. It's been a pleasure.
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