Chris Rainey - HR Leaders

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's episode, our guest is Chris Rainey. He is the CEO and Co-Founder of HR Leaders, a cross-industry learning community powered by the world's most influential HR practitioners. He's also the host of the HR Leaders Podcast and HR Leaders Live. He will be sharing with us his experiences from bullying, being a dancer, entering into the Sales Industry. He talks about how he was earning double the amount of what a doctor is earning at just age of 18 and how learning more gets you to earn more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[12:08]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I would say because I'm a good listener. I have been a good leader, husband, and everything in life has been a good listener. A great conversation starts with more listening and talking hence, why I became a podcast host for that perspective.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[12:40]</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have a lot of good to give in terms of my heart. When you speak to people, there's always this hidden agenda. When I have a conversation, I always think about how I can add value. I've kind of learned over my career and even childhood of starting the conversation there. I think about how I can add value to this person's life. I feel like starting a conversation with that can lead to some incredible things.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[14:12]</span> <strong>Giving value back to others</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I get the most satisfaction out of actually improving other people's lives or giving value back to them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[15:18]</span> <strong>How did you get to that point of being the person you are?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I grew up in a single-parent household with four kids moving from hospitals and public housing around the UK, where there are five of us living in a room, basically, which is not easy.