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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Listener Favorites: Thomas D'Eri | How a Non-Traditional Workforce Can Make a Business Thrive

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This episode features an interview with Thomas D'Eri, the Co-Founder and COO of Rising Tide Car Wash, an organization which employs people with autism for over 80% of their staff. D'Eri shares his inspiring story of how a neurodiverse workforce helped his business solve common problems and achieve unexpected wins, resulting in a culture of excellence. Tune in to learn how a non-traditional workforce can make a business thrive.

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0:00.0

As you probably notice, this month, we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting

0:04.6

some of our most transformative episodes. Tune in to explore expert insights and practical

0:09.4

strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, all aimed at helping you achieve

0:14.4

personal and professional fulfillment. If you sign up for the newsletter, you'll not only get

0:18.5

recaps of the key ideas in each interview, but at the end of the series, you'll receive our free Life of Purpose ebook.

0:24.7

What you have to do is go to UnmistakableCreative.com slash LifePurpose.

0:28.1

Again, that's UnmistakableCreative.com slash Life Purpose.

0:32.3

There's so many of these types of community businesses that it's just a commodity.

0:37.3

Like, you go there because you have

0:38.5

to. And I think that's where there's a real opportunity for a lot of these organizations to

0:44.6

try to invest in a workforce. Maybe it's people with autism. Maybe it's a different barrier group.

0:51.2

But building a brand and a story around hearing about people and bringing in talent

0:57.9

that's different. I mean, we're not the only ones that have been successful with that. There's

1:02.3

this coffee shop that's now across a lot of these Southeast called Biddy and Bowes. They were founded

1:09.5

with a similar mission of employing people with disabilities in their,

1:13.8

for pretty much their entire workforce.

1:16.3

They've been really successful.

1:17.8

There's this company called John's Crazy Sox, which sells, they sell socks online.

1:23.3

Like, can you think of a less, like, a more commoditized thing than socks?

1:33.3

I'm Sreeny Rao, and this is the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements, built thriving businesses, written bestselling books,

1:45.0

and created insanely interesting art. For more, check out our 500 episode archive at UnmistakableCreative.com.

1:55.0

Thomas, welcome to The Unmistakable Creative. Thanks a much for taking the time to join us.

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