Picture two people pushing strollers on opposite sides of a street, knocking on doors, asking neighbors if they need any yard work. Three young children. A minivan and a trailer. Dinner most nights was rice and beans. “People were so kind,” Denise Steidinger recalled on…

There are a lot of real estate wholesaling coaches on the internet. Most of them sell the same thing: a course, a method, a system, and the promise that you can do a deal in 30 days. Nathan Payne built Payneless Flipping on a different…

Chris Cline has spent the better part of his career helping other people’s companies grow. He took Power Home Remodeling from around $45 million a year to $600 million. He scaled PJ Fitzpatrick from $24 million to $120 million in just three years. At 43,…

When Kevin Runyon borrowed his brother’s push mower in the year 2000, he figured landscaping would be a stopgap. Something to get him through college. Twenty-six years later, he runs Custom Creations Landscaping and Lawn out of Southwest Missouri’s Ozarks with a crew that consistently…

Paul Fuller started mowing lawns at 12 years old, pushing a mower down the street to neighbors’ houses with a weed eater and blower stacked on top. Seventeen years into running Paul’s Lawn and Landscape in the Austin, Texas area, he has never paid for…

Pete Van Cleave did not plan to spend his career in water. He spent 17 years climbing through corporate sales at Lever Brothers, managed the foods division for the entire South, and left convinced he could run something better himself. He looked at a pickle…

Brad Brown was getting leads. That was not the problem. The problem was that every single one of them was falling apart on the discovery call. Nobody had a realistic budget. Nobody had a genuine project in mind. The leads were coming in from paid…

Eric Soles told his wife he was thinking about starting a landscaping business. She said that was great. The next morning he went to work and quit his job. When he got home and told her, she was not expecting that. That impulsive, freedom-chasing decision…

Shane Baldwin built SilverSage ZeroScape InDesign over 10 years in Salt Lake City. His company specializes in drought-tolerant, low-water landscaping and has grown from a one-person home-based operation to a team of 10 with its own standalone facility. By most measures, his business is a…

Dan Hanson runs a landscape design company in the Kansas City area. He does not manage a crew, supervise installs, or juggle material orders. His entire operation is built around design only. A few months ago, a new client called and told him they had…