Category: Podcast

John T. Hewitt has completed 57 consecutive tax seasons. He built one of the largest franchise systems in U.S. history, sold it, built a second one in Canada from scratch, brought it back to the United States to compete against his own name and software,…

When Mike Harvey told his first roofing prospects in 2021 that he could deliver a fully transparent proposal for a new roof in 30 minutes at up to 50 percent less than what traditional companies charge, roughly 100 of them said no. Not because his…

Matt Lowery didn’t plan to own a fence company. He spent nearly a decade managing maintenance for apartment complexes, handling air conditioner compressors on 115-degree rooftops and water heater leaks at 3 a.m., before a chance conversation with a friend put him on his first…

Eric Weishaar started Breckenridge Landscape in 2009. Not in a boom year, not with a clear runway, and not with the economy behind him. He launched a landscape construction company in southeast Wisconsin during the Great Recession, when most businesses were contracting rather than building…

Bob Logan never planned to run a plumbing company. When the concrete construction business he worked for collapsed during the 2008 recession, he joined Plum Line Services in February 2009, thinking it was temporary. Seventeen years later, he owns the largest residential home service company…

Chris Tiller called a customer back five minutes after they reached out. Five minutes. They had already hired someone else. “I called them back five minutes later and they’re like, sorry, I already found somebody else.” That single moment captures one of the hardest realities…

John Petersen wanted to fly the space shuttle. When that door closed, he spent 26 years building systems for an insurance company, rising from their first IT hire to CIO and helping the business grow from $20 million in annual revenue to over $200 million….

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,…