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# Rising Tide U

We Put Potential To Work

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## Posts

- [008 - The Business Advantages of Autism Employment](https://risingtideu.com/008-the-business-advantages-of-autism-employment/) - 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
- [009 - Will It Work? How to Test Your Business Idea](https://risingtideu.com/009-will-it-work-how-to-test-your-business-idea/) - 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
- [010 - Creating a Culture of Empowerment](https://risingtideu.com/010-creating-a-culture-of-empowerment/) - 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
- [020 - Lessons From the Trenches - A Followup Conversation with Brewability Labs](https://risingtideu.com/020-lessons-from-the-trenches-a-followup-conversation-with-brewability-labs/) - 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
- [019 - Diversifying Impact - A Followup Conversation with The Chocolate Spectrum](https://risingtideu.com/019-diversifying-impact-a-followup-conversation-with-the-chocolate-spectrum/) - 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
- [018 - Growing Smart - A Followup Conversation with Katie's Snack Cart](https://risingtideu.com/018-growing-smart-a-followup-conversation-with-katies-snack-cart/) - 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
- [017 - Marketing, Marketing, Marketing](https://risingtideu.com/017-marketing-marketing-marketing/) - 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
- [016 - Typical Staffing Needs & Rounding Out the Team](https://risingtideu.com/016-typical-staffing-needs-recruiting-training-deploying/) - 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
- [015 - Stories From the Frontlines: 1st Week at Store #2](https://risingtideu.com/015-2nd-store-open-frontlines-from-1st-week/) - 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
- [014 - Hired! Integrating Candidates into Live Shifts](https://risingtideu.com/014-hired-integrating-candidates-into-live-shifts/) - 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
- [013 - Almost Employed: Passing Pre-training](https://risingtideu.com/013-almost-employed-passing-pre-training/) - 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
- [012 - Post Interview Results..](https://risingtideu.com/012-goal-80-employees-with-autism-post-interview-results/) - 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
- [011 - Doubling in Size: The Pre-Recruiting Plan](https://risingtideu.com/011-doubling-in-size-the-pre-recruiting-plan/) - 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.
- [001 - The Autism Advantage: Lessons from Building a Successful Autism Enterprise](https://risingtideu.com/the-autism-advantage-lessons-from-building-a-successful-autism-enterprise/) - Tom interviews John D’Eri, serial entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Rising Tide Car Wash, and Dr. Michael Alessandri, Executive Director of the Center for Autism & Related Disabilities at University of Miami. John shares his personal story on why he started a car wash business designed to employ people with autism, and Michael shares a wealth of knowledge on important issues and opportunities for supporting adults with autism through entrepreneurship.
- [002 - How a Mom Turned Biscotti into a Business that Employs Her Son with Autism](https://risingtideu.com/how-a-mom-turned-biscotti-into-a-business-that-employs-her-son-with-autism/) - 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
- [003 - Starting Small: What to Do If You’re Not an Entrepreneur](https://risingtideu.com/starting-small-what-to-do-if-youre-not-an-entrepreneur/) - 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
- [004 - The Poppin Joe’s Story: Building a Business on a Shoestring Budget](https://risingtideu.com/004-the-poppin-joes-story-building-a-business-on-a-shoestring-budget/) - 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
- [005 - The Reality of Starting a Business](https://risingtideu.com/005-the-reality-of-starting-a-business/) - 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
- [006 - How to Create Autism Jobs While Keeping Your Own](https://risingtideu.com/006-how-to-create-autism-jobs-while-keeping-your-own/) - 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
- [007 - Setting Up Shop & Crowdfunding](https://risingtideu.com/007-setting-up-shop-crowdfunding/) - 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

## Pages

- [Home](https://risingtideu.com/) - RISING TIDE U We help entrepreneurs, business leaders and changemakers unlock the transformative power of inclusivity and autism employment. Start Here Or Pre-Order Our Book Free Resources Download one of our free resources to find out how to start building a sustainable autism-focused business. THE POWER OF POTENTIALClick to find out
- [Resouces](https://risingtideu.com/resources-2023/) - Resources The Autism Advantage podcast proves the possibilities of building sustainable autism focused businesses. Interviews, Articles & Videos HealSquad with Maria MenounosHealSquad with Maria MenounosFranklinCovey: On Leadership with Scott MillerFranklinCovey: On Leadership with Scott MillerAww Shift Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’EriAww Shift Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’EriThe
- [Speaking](https://risingtideu.com/speaking/) - SPEAKING Tom helps companies understand the transformative potential that designing organizational systems around the needs of extreme users like people with autism can have. Tom’s keynotes are filled with inspiring stories as well as practical and actionable ideas that can help any organization be more inclusive, scalable and effective. Unreasonable LaunchPad
- [Contact](https://risingtideu.com/contact/) - GET IN TOUCH Fill the form below, We will try to be with you as soon as we can. OUR OFFICE 7201 N. State Rd 7 Parkland, FL 33067 Email: info@risingtidecarwash.com Phone: +1 (954) 482-0732 CONTACT US Name* First Last Email* Phone*Message* Δ
- [About](https://risingtideu.com/about/) - Get to know us ABOUT RISING TIDE U When our team founded Rising Tide Car Wash, we often wished for a road map on how to build a social enterprise that employs individuals with autism sustainably. With Rising Tide U we’re doing just that! With the help of UM-NSU CARD, we’re sharing that step by
- [Proving The Autism Advantage](https://risingtideu.com/proving-the-autism-advantage/) - Proving the Autism Advantage Rising Tide Labs seeks to identify, prototype and scale new business ventures that have potential to sustainably employ thousands of individuals with autism. We believe that the most effective way to close the unemployment gap for people with autism is to build businesses that thrive because they utilize the full range
- [Free Resources](https://risingtideu.com/free-resources/) - FREE RESOURCES We leverage our experience and learnings garnered from building Rising Tide Car Wash to inspire others to take action and equip them with the tools they need to make an impact Cheatsheets 7 Autism AdvantagesClick to find out the 7 autism advantages that make business better. Download Cheatsheet The Blueprintclick to find
- [Podcasts](https://risingtideu.com/podcasts-player/) - PODCASTS Subscribe below for upcoming podcasts Subscribe on Itunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe through RSS
- [Press](https://risingtideu.com/press/) - PRESS Check out some of the latest articles and interviews Rising Tide has been featured in! Creating a thriving, sustainable family business that lasts.viewTurning Autism into a Strategic Advantag​eviewEntrepreneurship is the Key to Solving the Autism Employment CrisisviewTom D. Interview with Dr. Hackie ReitmanviewTom S. Interview with JR Jackson Kiss 99.9viewThe Impact Driven Leader Podcast:
- [Test](https://risingtideu.com/test/) - 30Mar020 – Lessons From the Trenches – A Followup Conversation with Brewability Labs23Mar019 – Diversifying Impact – A Followup Conversation with The Chocolate Spectrum16Mar018 – Growing Smart – A Followup Conversation with Katie’s Snack Cart
- [Picklerandben](https://risingtideu.com/picklerandben/)
- [Home - Test](https://risingtideu.com/home-test/) - Download One of Our Cheatsheets to Find Out How To Start Building a Sustainable Autism-Focused Business 7 Autism Advantages Cheat Sheet Click To Find Out The 7 Autism Advantages That Make Business Better I WANT THE LIST! 'The Blueprint' Cheat Sheet Click to Find Out The Step by Step Process To
- [Awakening The Autism Entrepreneur](https://risingtideu.com/awakening-the-autism-entrepreneur/) - Do You Believe… That as a person with autism, You can contribute meaningfully to the world through your workYour loved one with autism can lead the full and independent life they deserveYou can prove how capable people with autism really areYou can build a financially viable social enterprise on the strengths of individuals with autism
- [Webinars](https://risingtideu.com/webinars/) - WEBINARS We frequently give webinars online for all to join! Learn to be an Autism Entrepreneur
- [Rising Tide Immersion Workshop](https://risingtideu.com/rising-tide-immersion-workshop/) - Rising Tide Immersion Experience What if you could have… 5x Lower Turnover Turnover and increased retantionHigher profitability through reduced training costs and increased productivityImproved employee engagementA story that reasonates deeply with many of your customersAn opportunity to change someones life We’ve done exactly this with Rising Tide Car Wash Are you ready to put potential
- [Workshops](https://risingtideu.com/workshops/) - Workshops Learn first hand how we’ve built one of the only operationally proven and financially viable businesses that employ individuals with autism and how you can too. Rising Tide Immersion Workshop Experience first hand how we’ve build a culture of autism empowerment and made autism our business’ competitive advantage. Learn More Currently available in Parkland,
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## Portfolio

- [Aww Shift Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’Eri](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/aww-shift-podcast/) - Aww Shift Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’Eri
- [The Impact Driven Leader Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’Eri](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/the-impact-driven-leader-podcast-the-power-of-potential-with-tom-deri/) - The Impact Driven Leader Podcast: The Power Of Potential with Tom D’Eri
- [FranklinCovey: On Leadership with Scott Miller](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/ranklincovey-on-leadership-with-scott-miller/) - FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller: The Power of Potential: Tom D’Eri
- [HealSquad with Maria Menounos](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/healsquad-with-maria-menounos/) - HealSquad with Maria Menounos
- [Tom S. Interview with JR Jackson Kiss 99.9](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/tom-s-interview-with-jr-jackson-kiss-99-9/) - Tom S. Interview with JR Jackson Kiss 99.9 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Cras eleifend arcu maximus, bibendum tortor vel, maximus sem. Read More http://rtu.101management.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/TS-Radio-Interview-071016.m4a
- [Entrepreneurship is the Key to Solving the Autism Employment Crisis](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/entrepreneurship-is-the-key-to-solving-the-autism-employment-crisis/) - Rising Tide was featured in Huffington Post in February 2016.
- [Tom D. Interview with Dr. Hackie Reitman](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/tom-d-interview-with-dr-hackie-reitman/) - Tom D. Interview with Dr. Hackie Reitman
- [Creating a thriving, sustainable family business that lasts.](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/creating-a-thriving-sustainable-family-business-that-lasts/) - Rising Tide was featured in Entrepreneur's Startups Magazine Spring 2016 issue. Take a look at the full cover page and 6-page spread that featured Rising Tide Car Wash!
- [Turning Autism into a Strategic Advantag​e](https://risingtideu.com/portfolio_page/turning-autism-into-a-strategic-advantag​e/) - Rising Tide was featured in Conscious Company Magazines March/April 2016 issue.

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- [Awakening the Autism Entrepreneur Workshop](https://risingtideu.com/events/webinar-5/)
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