# Chris Coghlan

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Lovable Reunion - NEVER HEARD 2016 Cubs stories, BIGGEST PLAY of Game 7 & HATING the Cardinals | Lovable Reunion Ep 8

Anthony Rizzo and David Ross are joined by former 2016 Chicago Cubs teammates Albert Almora, Matt Szczur, and Chris Coghlan to share never told stories of their World Series team. The guys reminisce about their hatred of the St. Louis Cardinals as the Cubs went from bottom feeder to World Series co…

The Lovable Reunion - NEVER HEARD 2016 Cubs stories, BIGGEST PLAY of Game 7 & HATING the Cardinals

Anthony Rizzo and David Ross are joined by former 2016 Chicago Cubs teammates Albert Almora, Matt Szczur, and Chris Coghlan to share never told stories of their World Series team. The guys reminisce about their hatred of the St. Louis Cardinals as the Cubs went from bottom feeder to World Series co…

Billionaire Founder: MASTERCLASS on Starting a Construction Company From Scratch!

His wife was six months pregnant with their first child when he quit a good job to start on his own. "I was scared of failing — but the fear of not trying was bigger." Chris Coghlan sits down with Junior Davis, founder of Junior Davis Construction, to discuss going from a worn-out 1973 loader and a…

28 Years, One company, 5,000 Owners: Nothing At Hensel Phelps Is Handed To You

He watched the Pentagon burn from a rooftop three miles away and saw a fighter jet come out of nowhere to turn back a news helicopter. Hensel Phelps would go on to renovate Wedges 2 through 5 of the Pentagon — a 4.5-million-square-foot project that took more than a decade to complete.  Chris Coghl…

Purple heart recipient: MASTERCLASS on Running a Construction Crew That Never Quits

Michael Waldrop starts this episode with a question most contractors can't answer: who cleans the port-o-lets on your jobsite? It sounds like a small thing. He'll tell you it's the whole thing - because the answer tells him how a company treats the people doing the work when nobody's watching. And…

80-Year Construction Company: MASTERCLASS on Selling a Product the Market Said NO To

The best job FINFROCK ever lost ended up being the one that gave the company time to rethink how parking garages should be built. What followed was a decades-long transition from precast concrete subcontractor to a fully integrated design-build firm. Chris Coghlan sits down with Bill Finfrock, pre…

NFL Hall of Famer/5X All Pro, Now A Construction CEO: "I Never Got Comfortable. Not One Season"

Five straight All-Pro seasons ended on one Monday night hit in December 1987. The nerve never regenerated. Four years later Dwight Stephenson started a construction company with his wife, and stocked the drywall himself. Chris Coghlan sits down with Pro Football Hall of Fame center Dwight Stephenso…

A $1 Million Dollar Bust, No Change Order, And the Builder Who Paid It Anyways

An estimator took the roads off on the wrong scale — a $1 million bust in asphalt and rock. Wal-Rose Site Development ate it, finished the job, and told the builder at the final walkthrough. Chris Coghlan sits down with Jeremy Griffin, VP and third-generation owner of Walrose Site Development, to d…

He Couldn't Afford a Hammer. Then He Built a $100M Construction Company.

There's a hammer hanging in the lobby with a piece of PVC and duct tape where the handle should be. "We could not afford a new hammer."   Chris Coghlan sits down with Ben Burgess, P.E., founder of Burgess Civil, who started in June 2014 with a tiny bit of working capital, five men hired off Craigsl…

From Mixing Mud to Harvard: Why He Says Orange County Is the Hardest Place in Florida to Build

At 16 he was sleeping on a friend's couch after climbing in through the basement window. At 22 he was mixing mud and carrying chimney liners on a masonry crew in Franklin Park, New Jersey, because a general contractor named Billy Hendricks put him on the crew and told him he'd start at the bottom. …