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English
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165 episodes
since Oct. 4, 2023
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Send us Fan Mail One competitor post can make a great leader question everything and that’s exactly why we’re talking about competition, focus, and the decisions we make when our emotions spike. We’ve both felt it: you see a new truck, a new location, a wave of five-star reviews, and suddenly you s…
Send us Fan Mail We hit record live from the South Central Construction Expo in York, Pennsylvania, and the setting fits the message: growth happens when you show up. Between the expo floor, the people, and the energy, we get into what really moves a trades business forward, not just more work, but…
Send us Fan Mail If you run a business long enough, you eventually face a question that cuts through revenue, growth, and the daily grind: what do we owe the community that believed in us first? We take that head-on with a raw look at stewardship, responsibility, and what it means to use the platfo…
Send us Fan Mail “Bet on yourself” sounds bold, but most people hear it and think it only counts if you quit your job and start a company. We don’t buy that. Ty Cobb Backer breaks down what it looks like in real life for team members, technicians, salespeople, foremen, and managers: raising your ha…
Send us Fan Mail Your calendar is packed, your phone is buzzing, and somehow you still feel scattered. We’re asking a blunt question that hits leaders and high performers right in the chest: when did we become so afraid to be bored? Because if you can’t stand 15 quiet minutes without reaching for a…
Send us Fan Mail A golf tournament doesn’t fix addiction, but it can do something powerful: pull an industry into the open and put real money behind real help. I’m joined by my brother and friend Stephen Spence from Project Map It, the founder of Swing for Recovery, a golf outing that raises funds …
Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to break trust as a leader isn’t changing your mind. It’s watching something fail in plain sight and defending it anyway. Today we get brutally practical about the thin line between persistence and stubbornness, and why that line is usually drawn by ego, fear, and q…
Send us Fan Mail Nobody plans to build an echo chamber, but it happens fast. The more authority we carry as owners, managers, foremen, coaches, and parents, the more people start filtering what they say around us. They hear our opinions as decisions, our casual comments as direction, and they quiet…
Send us Fan Mail You can be the best roofer, tech, estimator, or salesperson in the building and still feel lost the first day you lead people. That’s not a character flaw. It’s a job change. We dig into one of the biggest leadership myths in small business and the trades: that skill at the work na…
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