Joel Lalgee

A Decent Recruiter To Follow. Recruiting Is No Joke Podcast Host

With a decade in recruiting, I now partner with companies worldwide to recruit top HR and talent leaders.

What I do:

I help companies find talent.
From CHROs to People & Culture trailblazers, I connect organizations with HR leaders who drive real transformation.

I help companies with social media.
With an audience of nearly 1 million and millions of views, I know how to tell your story and attract the right people.

I emcee and speak at events.
Podcast host, keynote speaker, and global stage regular, I love sharing fresh perspectives on recruitment, leadership, and the future of work.

Outside the office, I’m a proud dad of three, a devoted husband, and a big believer in the power of recruitment to change lives and businesses.

Want more?
Let’s connect. Whether you’re hiring, building your brand, I’m always up for a real conversation.

Joel@bentleylewis.com - Recruitment
Joel@therealestrecruiter.com - Brand deals PR

Founder

Contract recruiting
Marketing consulting/strategy
Podcast host

Thoughts LinkedIn???

Maybe give a discount on LI recruiter to so we can recruit people a little cheaper too 😉

GTM Recruiter - Content Creator - Podcast Host - Speaker @therealestrecruiter Joel@therealestrecruiter.com for Partnerships

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Oh how I’ve missed some late night sourcing…

You know:
Favorite tuned playing,
Searching and reviewing profiles
Going down rabbit holes
Kids sleeping
Playing around with a few AI agents… (it is 2025 after all…

And then around 10:33pm… boom.

You find that candidate you HAVE to talk to.

You know who you are.

😉

All the real recruiters get it.

Recruiting top leaders isn't optional if you want a great business,

Hire the wrong person - morale goes down, goals don't get hit, people leave.

Hire the right leaders - goals get smashed, people are inspired, and retention goes up.

That's why recruiting is crucial in business.

The ability to attract top talent is what separates the best from the rest.

The ROI of great recruiting is a successful business.

Never forget that.

We're not a cost center.

I ❤️TA.

Don't judge…

Always support and have empathy.

You never know what could happen.

Act accordingly

👏👏👏

Nick Raeburn

Story Scale

Helping people create, leverage and convert prospects with a powerful social media strategy and video content. 

We are the Yoda to your Luke, the Morpheus to your Neo, the Hoddle to your Sarah, the Falco to your Bastien (you get the idea) on your journey of social media and video self discovery. 

As a social selling and video consultant I help you to 

• Develop an omni channel approach to strategic social media and social selling

• Increase conversational sales opportunities by harnessing the power of strategic social media and social sales strategies to generate revenue 

• Help with your companies digital transformation journey by putting social media at the heart of your organisation

• Help you leverage video to increase your content mix to get a leg up on your competitors 

I work with sales leaders, sales teams, marketeers, HR, C suite teams and business owners to leverage social media to dominate their competition.

Once you know this stuff, your competitors won't be able to touch you.

Allowing you and your team to find and define their digital voice, through content and story so YOU become THE go to technical creators and influencers in your space.

This allows you to close the digital divide on your competitors and move past them at speed. Becoming the dominant players in your sector.

We help take your entire organisation from an analogue mindset...

To a DIGITAL future!

Social Selling Coach/ Video Consultant

The next era  of modern business through social. Taking you from an analogue mindset to a digital future and closing the digital divide on your competitors. Through story, social and team.

Founder and Head-Nerd

I'm available to travel globally for speaking opportunities on social selling, creativity, storytelling, video & the power of play  and how it impacts your people and customers. If you're interested in me speaking at your conference or event please drop me a DM. TEDx Speaker.

I'll create something tailored to your audience and objectives, whist bringing as much of my authentic energy as possible to your event.

Keynote Speaker

TruNorth Social

The Only Done-with-you Social Selling Solution for Enterprise Sales Teams

The truth is...
Sales is getting harder.

Buyers are slower to engage. Outbound's less effective. Everyone's chasing the same leads, using the same tools, saying the same things.

And the pressure to perform hasn't eased - it's intensified.
CROs, Commercial Directors, Head of Sales - you're being asked to create pipeline, reduce acquisition costs, and prove ROl with tighter teams, shorter runways, and more noise in-market than ever before.

So what's happened?

You've tried to adapt.
You've funded social selling. Rolled out Sales Navigator. Brought in Linkedin trainers. Invested in content, enablement, automation.

And yet, here you are - still chasing numbers with nothing to show for it.

No visibility. No consistency. No way to prove what's working - or if anything's working at all.

Here's what we've heard from leaders like you:
"We brought in a trainer - nothing stuck."
"The content's being posted - but it's not turning into meetings."
"We've got tools, but they aren't being used properly."
"We can't show attribution, so leadership doesn't back it."
"It's effort - but no outcome."

You're not alone.
This is what happens when you ask an enterprise sales team to adopt new behaviours without structure, accountability, or shared goals across departments.

The problem isn't social selling.
It's that no one's made it operational.

That's what TruNorth Social fixes.
With a system that aligns teams, tracks stats, and delivers commercial outcomes.

If you're still battling with fragmented efforts, internal cynicism, or boardroom pressure to justify the investment - our pilot programme is for you.

We're opening limited access to a small number of enterprise sales teams looking to embed LinkedIn into their sales operation.

Visit trunorth.social to learn more.

Here's to your success!

Co-Founder & CEO

The Hall of Heroes

Digital Dungeon Master. Dragon Slayer. Chief nerd & head honcho of the NERDIEST collection of HEROES this side of the 7 realms of social & sorcery!

An epic community of like minded nerds and brave adventurers who want to grow their businesses through social.

Built by nerds for nerds.

We focus on 3 areas.

⚔️ Creating revenue on social.
🔥 Help with content.
❤️ & The art of self discovery.

Slay your revenue dragon by being your nerdy self.

A place where we can grow, be brave and bold and embark on epic quests.

Collaborate, brainstorm, and learn from one another as you navigate the ever-changing landscape of social…

Gain access to a treasure trove of expert guidance, industry insights, and practical resources that will transform your social media presence.

With everything from training and coaching sessions, to community workshops run by you guys (to really let YOUR hero shine) to specialist skills sessions, networking and IRL meet ups.

We're here with you.
By your side.
Through every step of your adventure.

Enter...

If you dare!

Join us here - https://www.thehallofheroes.co.uk

Digital Dungeon Master

LinkedIn

Selected to participate in LinkedIn’s new Creator Management Program.

Working closely with the UK creator management team to bring new features to the LinkedIn platform.

LinkedIn Creator Manager Program

Part of the first cohort in the UK to be selected for the LinkedIn creator accelerator program. Working closely with the LinkedIn Creator community team to help share our unique voices across a range of industries to help highlight the diversity of creation on the platform.

LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Program Alumni

TED Conferences

My TEDx talk on the power of play focuses on how play can impact our identity, our work and our mental wellbeing. 

I'm available to travel globally for speaking opportunities on social selling, creativity, storytelling, video & the power of play and how it impacts your people and customers. If you're interested in me speaking at your conference or event please drop me a DM. TEDx Speaker.

I'll create something tailored to your audience and objectives, whist bringing as much of my authentic energy as possible to your event.

TEDX Speaker

Crux

I met (through this platform) another remarkable human being called Eric.

We had similar interests and a very similar sense of humour.

He knew lots about social selling, I knew lots about video.

So we decided to partner up, a match made in heaven!

Specialities:
- Video Content Strategy
- Video Coaching
- Social Selling Coaching 
- Social Media Strategy

As well as being a social selling associate and coach I also specialise in the video coaching component of our training. To maximise peoples entry into video and getting them to make the kinds of content they would want to see on their feed.

Next stop, the moon!

Social Selling Coach/ Video Coach

Vireal Media

Decided to setup this bad boy providing video production to large agencies as well as our own clients.

My video journey has been epic so far since starting.

I have worked with Sir Elton John (he was our first client starting the business, not too shabby eh)

My video content has also been retweeted by Elon Musk (yes THE Elon Musk)

 My work appears on Netflix (that film streaming platform thingy)

Specialities:
- Video Content Strategy
- Specialist Filming
- Video Content Creation
- Project Management
- Screen Direction 
- Video Production

But we have evolved into something else entirely and the next chapter of that will be unleashed soon...

Managing Director

West End

A life of events and agency beckoned.

I worked my way up the ranks from lowly video editor, to camera operator, then director.

To a producer role. 

Eventually becoming head of my department in organising crews and shoots as well as managing all video content for our events.

Responsible for implementing the server and distribution network for our post production video strategy.

As well as helping implement many of the structures and frameworks for our video pipeline.

Spearheaded a world first in producing a social media campaign for a large pharmaceutical company. This taught me an awful lot about large corporates understanding of what social media is. Nothing like diving into the pool head first I always say.

Specialities:
- Video Strategy
- Video Production
- Exploration of new technologies
- Systems Implementation
- Internal team alignment

My daughter came along, so I decided a life of running my own company to spend more time with her would be the way to go.

Let's see how that turned out...

Head of Video

fast forward productions ltd

I finally managed to break into my industry of choice (I'm a stubborn git)

And joined the team at Fast Forward productions (there were 2 of us)

Where I managed to hone the craft of video editing and video camera operation. 

Our area of expertise was video construction toolbox talk safety videos.

Glamerous to say the least.

But I am forever grateful for this start and to Guy (my boss) for giving me a chance.

And thus my first step on the video ladder began!

Video Editor and Camera operator

The Eastbourne Clinic

My mother in law encouraged me to take up this part time (turning to full time) position when I left uni.

Amazing isn't it the side tracks that life takes you on sometimes.

Never in a million years would I think that being a nursing assistant would be one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever done.

You get to see the absolute best in people and some of the situations I was placed in made me mature pretty quickly.

There is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone you have nursed get better and return to their life.

And it taught me a lot about the stigma that's often still associated what mental health.

My responsibilities included observation, note writing and working as part of a core team.

Mental Health Nursing Assistant

Beneath social skies, where destinies entwine ❤️ Love 🧙‍♂️ Magic & Bravery merge ⚔️ A tale divine 📖 With a guide as their compass 🧭 Wise, true and bold🦉 A social hero arises 🦅 Their tale soon to be told 🔥

Have you ever wondered if you're the hero your younger self needed?

I am now...

But it wasn’t always this way. 

See I didn't have what you would call a conventional childhood…

I was sexually abused from the age of 5 till about 10, by a close family member. Yep I know.

Probably not what you were expecting to read on someones Linkedin Bio.

This destroys your trust in people and relationships, and my abuser would often try to commit suicide. Whilst I was left in the house with them.

So I escaped into stories, to try and understand what had happened to me.

Trauma strips you of your voice and it snatches away childhood. 
I want to teach adults how to play and be creative again (like they were once) empowering them through that to find their digital voice.

As that’s what was missing in so much of my childhood. 

Becoming who they are destined to be on social!

Stories let you escape to a place of safety. 
And when you're confronted with that as a kid, that’s exactly what you do. 

You dive into your imagination… 
Helping others to recognise the stories locked away in themselves is as natural to me as breathing. 
It’s my gift and it makes me unique.
Don’t worry this particular story does have a happy ending.

I would have never have met my incredible wife and had two amazing children if it wasn’t for what happened to me as a boy. So for that I’m thankful.

And with time I have forgiven that little boy and myself, and it’s shaped me, my business and my life.

Inside each and every one of us is a story waiting to be told, one that defines who you are.

It’s your digital voice waiting to become it, it’s that tiny sound inside you that you wish you could silence. It’s your story waiting to get out, it’s this that makes you unique and one of a kind.

I have already traveled this path.

Changing the stories we tell about ourselves allows us to change the world around us for good. 
If I can tell my story, you can too.

It’s this story which will allow you to cross the barrier to a new you. 
One that can create more revenue in your business by being your whole nerdy self. 
Through the power of play.

Just a guy, changing the world, 1 person, 1 team and 1 company at a time. 
Through social storytelling and the power of play.

As a kid I was also -

Hit by a swing, run over by a car  and electrocuted. 
Which explains a lot! 😂

Everyone can be a HERO, yes even you!

You’re one story away from changing the world

🤝 DM Me 

A Digital Renaissance Man
& your creative spirit animal 🦊

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https://thehallofheroescountdown.carrd.co

I'm available to travel globally for speaking opportunities on social selling, creativity, storytelling, video & how it impacts your people and customers. If you're interested in me speaking at your conference or event please drop me a DM. 

I'll create something tailored to your audience and objectives, whist bringing as much of my authentic energy as possible to your event. 

I've sadly known too many men that have taken their own lives. 
My brother being one.

I wouldn't be here if not for these men.

It's international mens day today. 

74% of all suicides registered in the UK are male. Let that sink in for a moment.

This is why spaces like we provide at ABandOfBrothers are so important.

Spaces where men can be genuinely heard. 
I'm not talking about the kind of BS banter you get down the pub.

(Don't even get me started on how useful combining mental health for men and alcohol is).

Being able to do this work in my spare time is a gift. If I can help just 1 man see the value in his own life. To see the spark in him and reignite a part of him that's missing.

Maybe. Just maybe, he can reclaim his life and go on to help other men who have been where he is. 

Male spaces, where men can share openly, with empathy. And laugh and cry together are needed now more than ever.

Shaming men isn't the answer.
Not listening to them isn't the answer.
Because we know where that road ends. 

Masculinity can be beautiful, healthy and (from I've seen with my own two eyes) needed.

Helping nerds show up and sell on LinkedIn ⚡️ Social Selling Nerd ⚡️ £3 mill in revenue created for clients ⚡️ Building a community of 1000 nerds at The Hall of Heroes

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