Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLosing Money on Every Job, Back on the Tools, and the Employee You Can't Fire
Episode 75
You can have every crew working, every truck rolling, and invoices going out the door, and still watch money leave the account for five months straig…
12 hours ago
Busy Season, Thin Margins, and Knowing When to Say No
Episode 74
Your calendar is packed through August and your revenue looks great. Then the quarter closes, you sit down with your accountant, and the profit isn't…
1 week ago
Contractors: 45% of Homeowners Are Finding You Through AI, Not Google
Episode 73
Homeowners are quietly changing how they find a contractor, and most companies haven't caught up. AI-first searches are converting at more than doubl…
1 month, 1 week ago
Warranty Callbacks Are Costing You $70K a Year (And Nobody's Tracking It)
Episode 72
Most contractors treat warranty callbacks as a cost of doing business and never run the numbers. On a mid-sized HVAC shop doing $1-2M a year, a 5% ca…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Processes, Hiring, and Sales: How Contractors Break the $1M Revenue Mark
Episode 71
Only about 5% of businesses in the US and Canada ever hit a million dollars in revenue. For contractors, the gap between "doing good work" and actual…
2 months ago
Gen Z Is Choosing Trades, Raising Prices, and Knowing Your Worth
Episode 70
Something is shifting in who's showing up to job sites. Gen Z is entering the trades faster than anyone expected, and the reasons go deeper than just…
2 months ago
Wall Street Backing Trades, The Renovation Wave, and Why Contractors Don't Sell
Episode 69
Wall Street isn't investing hundreds of millions in trades training because they care about blue collar workers. BlackRock and Lowe's are doing it be…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Red and True: Why Canada's Construction Workforce Needs Its Own Voice w/ Manny, Construction Life
Episode 68
Most people with a microphone in construction are giving you answers. Nobody's asking questions. That gap, between what gets said publicly about the …
3 months ago
From Electrician to Business Owner: Almost Quit at 6 Months w/ Elber, Made Electric
Episode 67
Most electricians who start their own company know how to wire a house. What they don't know is how to run payroll, fill a pipeline, hire the right p…
3 months, 1 week ago
If We Started Our Trades Company Today, Here's What We'd Do Differently
Episode 66
Most contractors are slow right now. Input prices are up nearly 20%, new construction starts are down, and the guys who are still busy aren't doing a…
3 months, 3 weeks ago