Cary Brandes 🔥 Raw 🔥 Real 🔥 Relevant
I’m Cary Brandes, and welcome to my world, the Podcast Playground of Madness where Real Life and Mental Health gets 🔥Raw and 🔥Real.
No filters.
No polish.
Just straight up stories, lessons, and laughs from the frontlines Madness and Survival.
If you’re ready for truth bombs, chaos, and a few “did they really just say that?” moments, you’re in the right place.
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And as always,
Stay Phenomenal 🤩
Episodes
16 episodes
Podcast #23 Those Damn Evaluation
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 c...
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Episode 23
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11:44
Episode #16: Just Fricken Unlock It
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...
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8:20
Episode #14: It's Just Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate
🎧 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 bustlin...
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Episode #15: How do I Manage my Big Brain
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 t...
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9:12
Episode #12: Going Backwards to Save my Future.
All alone in the moonlightI can smile happy your days (I can dream of the old days)Life was beautiful thenI remember the time I knew what happiness wasLet the memory live again⭐Barbara StreisandI have never seen the p...
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Episode 12
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5:20
Episode #11: Snakes, Ladders and Retail.
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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3:06
Episode #10: The Demon has Returned.
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 m...
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2:54
Episode #9: Acting for Managers.
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 almo...
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4:56
Episode #8: I Refuse to be a Statistic.
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 as...
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4:19
Episode #7: It's Evaluation Time!
👉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 Manag...
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Episode 7
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6:01
Episode #6: BiPolar Cycling.
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 Phenome...
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Episode 6
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4:25
Episode #5: We have become Retail Pussy...Cats
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 h...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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6:17
Episode #4: The BiPolar Madness Part
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 ...
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Episode 4
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7:32
Episode #1: ⭐ Introduction ⭐ To my Podcasts.
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
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Episode 1
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Episode #3: 165 200 days and Counting if I should continue on.
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 towar...
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Episode 3
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