Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri . Throughout the first seven episodes of season 2, we chronicled the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. If you tuned in, you heard all about how we planned this location, interviewed and trained our fantastic new employees, how the opening went, and much more. For the final three episodes of this season, we’re changing things up a bit! We want to revisit some of the i...
Jan 20, 2018•32 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri . Throughout the first seven episodes of season 2, we chronicled the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. If you tuned in, you heard all about how we planned this location, interviewed and trained our fantastic new employees, how the opening went, and much more. For the final three episodes of this season, we’re changing things up a bit! We want to revisit some of the i...
Jan 20, 2018•39 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri . Throughout the first seven episodes of season 2, we chronicled the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. If you tuned in, you heard all about how we planned this location, interviewed and trained our fantastic new employees, how the opening went, and much more. For the final three episodes of this season, we’re going to change things up a bit! We want to revisit some o...
Jan 20, 2018•24 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. We’ve been making great progress throughout this podcast. In the previous episodes this season, we’ve talked about planning our second location, the interview and training processes, our successful opening, and the role of our employees who d...
Jan 20, 2018•28 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. In the first half of this season, we’ve already covered a lot of ground! We’ve discussed planning the new location, interviewing dozens of people in one day, the pre-training process for our new employees, the live training process, and the s...
Jan 20, 2018•30 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. In the first four episodes of this season, we discussed our plans for our new location, the day of nearly a hundred interviews, our pre-training process, and how we proceeded with live training. With our amazing new employees trained and read...
Jan 20, 2018•25 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. So far this season, we’ve talked about some of our plans for the second location, our big day full of dozens of interviews, and our pre-training process. In that process, as we discussed in the last episode, candidates needed to successfully ...
Jan 20, 2018•20 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. If you’ve been tuning in this season, you know that we recently hosted our big day of interviews. We had close to a hundred candidates show up. Twenty of these didn’t have autism, and four were unsuccessful in the interview process for variou...
Jan 20, 2018•25 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . Throughout season 2, we’ll be chronicling the process of opening a second location of Rising Tide Car Wash , where we employ people with autism. If you listened to our last episode, you know that we were preparing for a big event: a day of hosting around a hundred candidates in the search for the perfect people to increase our staff and allow us to open our new location. In this episo...
Jan 20, 2018•29 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Welcome to season 2 of the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , and my co-host for this season is Tom Sena . In case you aren’t familiar with what we do, let me take a moment to catch you up! We run Rising Tide Car Wash , which employs several dozen fantastic people with autism. This isn’t a charity, though; we encourage independence and growth by expecting everyone who applies to be able to pull their weight, and we’ve seen great success already. In fact, things are going so wel...
Jan 20, 2018•33 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 31, 2016•29 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 30, 2016•23 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 23, 2016•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 16, 2016•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 12, 2016•27 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Dec 02, 2016•35 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Nov 25, 2016•23 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Denise Resnik has had a truly remarkable entrepreneurial background and has been in business as a marketing communications consultant for 30 years. Her projects include the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center (SARRC) , First Place AZ , DRA Collective , and, most importantly for today’s conversation, the remarkable SMILE Biscotti . Denise is also the proud mother of a young man with autism, Matt, who was diagnosed at age 2. She was told to love, accept, and eventually institutionalize h...
Nov 18, 2016•28 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Nov 18, 2016•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to the Autism Advantage podcast! I’m your host, Tom D’Eri , the COO and co-founder of Rising Tide Car Wash. In case you’re not familiar with what we do, we employ a fantastic team of individuals with autism, allowing us to empower our staff while offering a fantastic experience to customers. We believe that individuals with autism are an incredible untapped resource for many business, and this show is dedicated to proving that employing these people can create real competitive advantages...
Aug 12, 2016•53 min•Season 1Ep. 1
