I've been a headhunter for 24 years. I started when I was 18 right after I moved to New York City from San Diego just a couple of weeks after graduating high school.

Other than bagging groceries and driving a bike cab for a summer... it was my first "big boy" job.

For the first several years my billings were a roller coaster ride. I would go from being the biggest biller in the office back to back years to blanking for as many as 4 months straight.

I realized that for the most part I really didn't like recruiting but I was unwilling to start over and learn something else because I didn't want to risk losing the lifestyle I had gotten used to.

In 2008, during the peak of the financial crisis, I learned a strategy that not only made the time surrounding the crisis my most successful up to that point... but more importantly gave me a way to work that I took more pride in because I became a trusted advisor and not just a middleman and frankly... I just had a lot more fun with.

I eventually started my own company, Tidestreet, where using that strategy allowed me to bill $16 million over a 12 year stretch with zero employees.

I sold Tidestreet in 2023 to a large multi-national recruiting company after I landed on their radar beating them out of two large retained projects.

For the time being... I'm playing more golf, coaching my sons' sports teams and putting the finishing touches on a book that teaches my unique strategy. I'm cherry picking a few recruiting firm owners to work with who are looking for something that will give them massive edge over their competitors.