Season 9 | Ep22 Lucy Robinson: Fired from her job, now running a £650k global search firm

The RAG Podcast · 2026-03-17 · 1h 3m

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Lucy Robinson: Fired from her job, now running a £650k global search firm Lucy Robinson runs LCR International, a global executive search firm specialising in fresh produce across six continents. Today, the business is doing around £650k in revenue, but the story really started in December 2019 when Lucy was fired from her job for not hitting targets. At the time, she had no savings, a three-year-old at home, and had just spent months trying to build a new desk for an agency she’d previously worked for. Two weeks before she got fired, her husband had said something half-jokingly: "The only way you’ll ever start your own agency is if you get sacked." Two weeks later, that’s exactly what happened. Starting a business at that point didn’t exactly look like the sensible move. Lucy had a young family, no financial buffer, and was launching into a market she already knew was competitive. But she did it anyway. She launched LCR International, working three days a week, just as the world walked into COVID. The first year, she billed £100k and was mostly filling contingent work. She wanted to move into retained search, but it wasn’t really working.

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