Evaluation Season is here — where coffee-stained notes meet fake smiles and real talk. 🎙️ Join the Renegade Retailer for a brutally honest take on feedback, leadership, and the circus we call Retail. For more 🔥 Raw 🔥 Real 🔥 and Relevant content, check out my podcasts, YouTube, and LinkedIn all in one spot: https://linktr.ee/carybrandes Support the show

An article titled "Unlocking Employee Potential and Ideas" by the RenegadeRetailer, focuses on the importance of listening to Employees' ideas to foster success and personal growth. Brandes argues that many Employees withhold their best ideas because they feel their input will be ignored, suggesting that not all valuable concepts originate from Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) developed by lazy executives. To unlock this potential, Leaders must actively listen, record the ideas...

🎧 Welcome to “Retail Realities: The Story of Cary” – where passion, purpose, and personal challenges meet in the dynamic world of retail. 📚 Meet Cary – a vibrant young man whose love for all things retail shaped his journey. In a bustling city of bright lights and busy stores, Cary mastered the art of leadership, coaching, and management, bringing a smile and a positive spirit to everyone he met. ✨ But Cary also carries a unique story – he lives with the gift of being bipolar. Despite the u...

Looking for real, relatable ways to keep your Mental Health in check while juggling life and work? 🎧 Tune into my podcast above where I break down my Top 10 Sanity Savin tipm from the power of breathing and blasting feel good music to talking to yourself (yes, really) and knowing when to shut it all down. It’s honest, a little unfiltered, and packed with small things that make a big difference. Plus, I’ll remind you: asking for help is Strength, not a Weakness. Hit play, have a laugh, and ...

All alone in the moonlight I can smile happy your days (I can dream of the old days) Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again ⭐Barbara Streisand I have never seen the play or listened to the lyrics of "Memories" but I am living the above on a Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly basis to bring back some normalcy to my life and try to course correct the wrongs I have done in the past. Not knowing why I was expressing these certain "memory" behav...

We all played this game when we were younger. The goal was to get up the ladder and not hit the head of a Snake that would bring us back down to a new starting point. So what does this have to do with #Retail? Well simple enough, alot of us start at the base of the ladder in Retail and unfortunately there are those out there who do not appreciate seeing individual progress (climbing the ladder) that were faster than their’s. Let’s call these types “Snakes”. These Snakes will at all costs try ...

The OCD DEMON has returned WITHOUT permission. He has created HAVOC in my life by making want to check to see if the door is locked 10X. He has created HAVOC in my life by making me drive around the block several times to convince me that I closed my door. He has created HAVOC in my life by highlighting minor defects on electronic products and making them GLARE in my eyes like the brightest moments of the Sun to which destroys me as I fixate on them, unable to fix them. He has created HAVOC i...

It was back in the late 1990’s on a bus going to a Manager Retreat when the thought came to me, Retail is just another form of ☆ Acting. Who better to appear on a Reality Show than a Retail Manager who is able to STRETCH the truth on almost any opportunity thrown at them. After many years in Retail, I finally realized my one and only weapon, guide, potion is our Job Description. Hold on to that and know it if your life depended on it as it is basically the script of your role. If you: G...

I refuse to be a statistic and this is why I am thankful today. Everyday. Every Hour. Every Minute. We take life for granted and live under a dome of our own perceived stress. This is how I was living my life until I was asked the following during an interview. “Where do I see myself in 5 years? And as always, Stay Phenomenal 🤩. ________________________________________________________________ For more 🔥 Raw 🔥 Real 🔥 and Relevant stuff: Follow me here: https://linktr.ee/carybrandes 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆...

👉Are you ready for the Annual Employee Evaluations? Before you start writing it please ask yourself: 1. Are the notes I took throughout the year of the individuals wins and opportunities are clear, concise and have input from fellow Managers? 2. Did the mid year Evaluation review have an impact on the prior year identified Behaviour? 3. Is the date and time of the Evaluation set during a time that is convenient and in an private area so we won’t be disturbed. If you answered *No to any of the...

The highs felt a Superhuman. The lows felt paralyzing. Living with Bipolar isn’t a movie, it’s a Marathon through chaos, clarity, and comeback. 🎧 Tune in to hear how I turned my storm into strength. And as always, Stay Phenomenal 🤩. ________________________________________________________________ For more 🔥 Raw 🔥 Real 🔥 and Relevant stuff: Follow me here: www.linktr.ee/carybrandes 👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆

30+ years in #Retail…. how things have changed. Back then: You called an Employee to come in on their day off, they would be there even if there taxi ride made them lose money…and no Uber wasn’t available.A handshake was the commitment towards getting things done and not having to write a plan.Letting the #Employee know that their performance is below par, you didn’t have to sugar coat it and got straight to the point.If something had to be said it was said in the moment and not 2 days ...

iAnyone who has followed me knows that my life has been a #Retail Journey mixed in with some Madness of being #Bipolar....but I have yet to expose the innerworkings of my mind and what has kept me in this tempest of internal conflict. I hid these symptoms as far back in my daily life and in my career as far I can remember and the struggle was overwhelming on a daily basis trying to push them down just like the Whack a Mole game. Some days were good where the gift of having Manic Episodes (t...

Making a Career in Retail is usually frowned upon as nobody understands the intricacies of what Retail can bring to one’s overall education. 🙏🙏🏼🙏🏽 If you like what you heard, please feel free to Buy Me a ☕️ Coffee at: www.BuyMeaCoffee.com/CaryBrandes. Thank you 😀. My Renegade Blog: www.RenegadeRetailer.blog Have a PHENOMENAL 🤩 Day. #thatisall

165,200 days ago this is the furthest I remember asking myself before falling asleep; is it really worth going on another day. Yes, there were influences and indications that there was something wrong that brought me towards this question in my early years and teens, but I have always been a fighter so therefore I am still here to tell the tale. During the 1980’s I was to young to know better or realize that these were not normal thoughts or my behaviours and actions when I look back ties int...

Hello and Welcome. This is the start of a whole ⭐ New Era ⭐ for the RenegadeRetailer. This is the first Podcast of many to come. I will be producing Weekly Podcasts dealing with everything about Retail and Mental Wellness in a 🔥 Raw, 🔥 Uncut and 🔥 Real manner. So let me set your expectations now...don't have any as there will be technical issues, swearing, stepping over the threshold of being politically correct and just being me. I am always looking for Guests and if you would like to...