The Builder Upper Show Ep. 36 feat. Chuck Goodrich from Gaylor Electric

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Hey everyone, I'm Lou Perez, your host of The Builder
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Upper Show, a podcast where we talk about everything in
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construction and trades. Now let's get into it. I'd like
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to welcome our guest, Chuck good Rich, CEO of Gala Electric.
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Thank you Chuck for being here. Really appreciate it. I
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just got down from Wisconsin. How are you doing today, Man.
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I'm telling you, I couldn't be any better. I really
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appreciate you coming here. You know, we really have a
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great story to tell, and it's honoring and humbling to
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me that you would come and so hopefully it's a
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great podcast for reviewers.
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Now.
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I really appreciate it. This is something I've been looking
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for to a long time. We I know, our people
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are talking to your people, just coordinated everything, and then
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we get here today and now, you know, we gotta
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let the fireworks go off. So I really want to
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just jump right into it and go deep into the
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history of you and Galer Electric and what you guys
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are all about. So you know, actually we'll keep it
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real simple. How did you get into construction?
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You know, it's a You're right, it is a fireworks story. No, no,
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not really, I was you know, I was a real
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home body at home in Walbash County, row In Indiana,
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about sixty five miles north of here. And you know,
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when you lived in Rowan, you had two options when
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you graduate high school. You go to work at the
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local factory, which my dad did for thirty years, or
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you go to college. That was the two things in
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nineteen eighty eight, that's what you did. And so I'm like, well,
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I already worked a summer at the factory. Don't want
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to do that, and I don't want to leave home.
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So my brother was actually a professor at Vincent's University,
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and so I traveled down went to school in architectural drafting,
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and you know, it was a great experience because my
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brother was there. I felt like it was home as
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a two year college was a junior college. And the
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best thing that really happened in Vincent's Indiana was I
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met my wife. So you know, we we hung out
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for a year together as we finished up Vincen's and
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I just, you know, just about like everybody else, man,
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I had this one person at that school, not of
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course my brother did too, but one person in the
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construction industry said, you know what, I know A guy
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at Purdue and you need to continue on your education.
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And his name is Art Hayes, and never forget him still,
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you know, I just still I've talked to him every
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now and then. I'm a video alumni. But he said,
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you know, you need to Purdue.
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I know, I know professor up there, and he sent
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me up there to civil Engineering and so, you know,
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I really didn't even know what civil engineers really was.
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But he was a great mentor, you know, like the
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rest of us. Right, we had these great people pour
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into your life and and just you know, that's what
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I want to do. I want to pour into people's lives.
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But any we poured it.
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I went up there and I made it about I
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don't know, three weeks.
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And then I'm like, oh, this is not going to
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go well. And so just that happened.
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As a friend walked by, I said, hey, y'all move
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in the construction management That's what I know. You'd love
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to do, build stuff with their hands, go to school,
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have an applied learning experience, travel across the state, look
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at construction projects.
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And I'm like, yeah, that's exactly what I do.
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So I transferred into that program called BCM and that
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got me started in the construction business.
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Wow, that is so cool. You got to follow the advice.
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I don't know if it's good or bad, but eventually
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you find out, Hey, it's good.
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I always say try saying yes, it's a lot more
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fun than no.
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I agree with that. I'm with you, man, that's great.
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So we're here at this beautiful building, Galor Electric. I
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gotta tell you, your office is like off the wall.
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Yeah, you know, it's just everything in this office has
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a story. And I love stories and they all have
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a meaning to me. And you know, it just represents
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thirty thirty plus years in the industry and a lot
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of great people come here, and a lot of great
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people have been here and said, you know, heard the
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Galer story, and so normally it represents something here.
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How do you fit into the Galer story?
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Yeah? I know that. So we'll go back to Purdue
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for a second.
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So you know, I'm in this construction management school and
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there is a great association up there called Associated Builders
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and Contractors, and they've got these contractors coming in speaking
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at night, you know, and I'm like, wow, this is cool.
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And so I joined Associated Builders and Contractors. Produced to
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in chapter and we would have we would go to
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events with contractors, we would learn about the industry. You know,
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they would have us over to their offices and and
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so we're going to go compete in this national construction
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management competition at Purdue, I mean at with ABC. And
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so I'm an officer in that student chapter and we
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have a fundraiser, and you know, I always, I always
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believe that there's always things that happen for the right thing.
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And you know, I believe that God puts me in
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the right place at the right time. Now sometimes I
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don't realize it. But so I'm setting at this golf
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outing and I'm setting in a golf cart, and down
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sets John Gaylor and I'm like, I'm Chuck Goodwrich, Hey,
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I'm John Gaylor.
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Don't know, I don't much about him. And by the
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ninth hole, he'd hired me as an intern.
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Wow.
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And so I you know, I always say raising money
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to go to a competition associated overs and contractors, John
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Gaylor donated to ABC sponsored my you know, green fees
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or whatever. And then I was hired on a ninth toll.
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So it was a tremendous day. But the Galor story
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is pretty interesting. Though, because I remember this, I remember
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how to get home because they have cell phones. I
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call my dad and I'm like, hey, Dad, I got
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a job. He's like, oh, thank god, you got a job.
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Every dad's he's like, what are you going to do?
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I'm like, I'm going to go work for electrical contractor.
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He's like, you know anything about electrical work. I'm like,
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I don't know anything, but I'm gonna learn everything there
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possibly is. And so that started my career in nineteen
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ninety one and it's been awesome ever since.
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It's amazing to find out what God has planned for
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you and then it just happens, the path is laid out.
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You kind of just go on that journey enjoy it.
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Yeah, and I've had great mentors in my life continue
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to feed that with me. And you know that not
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only me, but this company has been extremely blessed. It's
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amazing story.
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Oh so then you know you're a man of faith,
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and do you really you know, do you lean on
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that daily in your day to day operation?
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Yeah?
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No, that's a it's a great story because you know,
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for all of us, you know, there are folks that believe,
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there are folks that don't believe and and I think
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our responsibility as not only a business owner, but as
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a person of faith is is you communicate your faith
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by love and you know this genuine care for people,
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and so some people never recognize it, other people do
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in an instant. But I know that this organization is protected,
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blessed and gives us guide, guidance in intervention when needed
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because of my faith in Jesus Christ.
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Amazing, amazing, we have like this mission and that's you know,
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one of one of my missions I feel like that
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we're on right now is just I love to share
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the gospel. I love to share you know, everything about
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Jesus that whenever we get a chance, let's let's throw
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it out there, let's share it. Well, you're right the hope, Yes,
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it's the hope. It is, and lead with love. It's
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a way to do it.
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Man.
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I really appreciate you sharing that. It means a lot
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to me. And just going down the path of your
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journey to where you're at with Gaylor today, even starting
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as like an intern, you know, what does it feel
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like to be from intern to CEO? That's such a huge,
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huge transition.
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Yeah, it actually is a real big transition. I you know,
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I always felt like they're over my lifetime. I told
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you about the professor, But over my lifetime there's been
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so many folks that have meant toward me into my role.
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You know, I'm very blessed. My parents are still alive
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and so you know, Dad, Mom have been there, you know,
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since the beginning, and they always you know, the term proud,
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and you know, this kind of thing is, you know,
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no matter what. That's what kept my head up. And
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then of course then you meet John Gaylor and you're like,
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this guy still this company. I was garage with a
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thousand bucks and threw the organization and then you know
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he I was his intern and so he's he put
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me all over the place. But you know, it's funny
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because I was telling my dad. He's like, well, where
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are you actually going to live? And I'm like, well,
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that's a good question, because I did have ten cents.
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I mean, you know we matter of fact, my girlfriend
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at the time, my wife now lived with my parents.
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Why I lived in a campground just north of here,
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about ten miles and you know, as a boy scout,
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so it didn't really bother me that much. But that
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story really cementing me that when you find folks that
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will do what it takes to really make Gala better,
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those folks are tremendously valued. And you know, we talked
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about all the time. Just you know, our job as
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leaders of the companies, as leader as a team is
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to help create environments of opportunity and create opportunity for
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all folks that.
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Want an opportunity. You know, That's why I love That's amazing.
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I really am with you on the same page. When
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you feel like you're I mean, you almost don't realize
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when you're passionate about something, you're just doing it and
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it just feels natural and you're just loving it the
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entire time. You I feel like you just naturally will
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go back and just help and assist and serve others
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to get that to have everybody kind of get to
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where you're at and enjoy it just as much as
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you do. You might not even realize if they're gonna
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like it or not, but you're just so passionate about it.
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I can see that in you yourself, like you're just
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doing all this hard work and maybe not even realize.
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I bet you you had a lot of fun when
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you're out there At the same.
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Time, I still have a lot of fun. You know,
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I say, work hard, play hard. But yeah, you know,
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that's back to the yes to opportunities. You know, so
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people are some people are so busy they don't They.
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Are like, no, I can't do that.
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And I'm like, you gotta figure a way out to
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do that, because that's opportunity right from you knock and
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right at your door. And you know there's a you know,
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this organization has grown considerably since twenty fourteen, and you know,
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to go from an intern and work in all pretty
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much aspects of the organization and then to be able
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to purchase the company, you know, as I did in
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twenty fourteen, and then watch the organization as you lead
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and grow provide so many opportunities across the entire nation.
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Still corporate in Indianapolis and so have you know, seven
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offices in Indianapolis plus an innovation center and in a
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corporate office. But you know, I tell people all the time,
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this organization grows because we serve people.
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You know, it's people first.
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It's people first attitudes that change organizations.
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And I don't you know, that's meeting them.
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Where they're at.
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You know that there's you know, a lot of discussion
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about total human health and I understand that, and you
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got to meet people where they're at. But once you
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do meet someone where they're at, man, if you have,
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if you have an opportunity for them, it changes their
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life forever. That's what I mean by changing the world
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one person at a time.
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You have an innovation center. Yeah, and you talk about mentorship, like,
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are you do you have like some sort of built
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in process where you know, a new employee starts and
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you're helping grow their journey as an employee through galor Yeah.
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No, it's a it's a that's absolutely what I have
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to do. You have to be able to grow people.
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You know, I was, I was thinking about that question
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and how that works. And as an organization, it works
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many different ways for us because it depending on what
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position you start. But think about this, two hundred and
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fifteen interns at this company right now. Wow, that's high
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school kids that are sixteen years old build in America.
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It's college kids that are going to you know, graduate
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and go off to the industry just like the high
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school kids. And so you know, it's so it's so
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amazing to watch those kids turn a three month summer
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internship into success, whether it's at Gala or not. We
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provide a great industry for people to be successful. And
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so of course we have career paths and individual education plans,
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and we've got those things for people to follow. But really,
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what kind of when I think about that, You know,
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we have these kids back in our own high school.
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or don't do the public school system well, or they're
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not great book learners. But what they can do is build.
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our high school. They do STEM for hours day and
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then they work and build an American and applied application
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and when they graduate from high school to become electrician.
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is incredible a career path, you know, and we just
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continue on educating people from the start to the finish.
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The number of stories that you probably have are probably
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never ending. Especially with the younger generation coming in here.
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to interview one of them next time. They're gonna have
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to tell I mean, what a cool start to your
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life to be like sixteen years old, contributing to building America.
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There's a lot to still build. There's a lot to go,
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and you know, it's really incredible. So it's fun to
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hear that you really think about the workers themselves. Do
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you do anything special for the workers or anything like that?
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Like throughout the year, do you guys host any events
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or anything and get together and have a good time.
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that we also understand that everybody's connected. You know, you
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go home, you have kids, you have a wife, you
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have cousins, grandpa. You know, there's always something and so
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we literally have Wow, you know, we'll have sixteen picnics
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this summer. You know, it's hard for me to get
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to them all anymore, but I make most of them.
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that well, the picnics for the entire family, the Christmas
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parties for a significant other or how that works, but
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a couple, and we do that all over and I
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think those things allow the spouse or the girlfriend or
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the kids to be connected to Gaylor as a stakeholder.
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About that when when dad and the kids are supporting
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mom at Gaylor. Okay, that's a whole family affair. Oh yeah,
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and so we love that. We love that idea. I'll
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tell you there's many things. We have this relationship Dynamics
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team that's incredible and I'll tell you that story. So
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these Relationships Dynamics team, their job is to love on people,
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love on families, go to the tough things like funerals,
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go to the hospital. Their whole job is to travel
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the country and love on galer people.
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And you know what I.
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Say, Galer, But if there's someone that needs love on
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a job site, they're in charge of that too, because
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you know, at the end of the day, you know,
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you get love human beings. Maybe not necessarily what everybody does,
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but I love every human being and so you know,
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have a great relationship Dynamics team. We actually one of
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the big issues for all for you know, most folks
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is a financial literacy and financial understanding, and so we
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offer Dave Ramsey changed my life. So we offer that
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to every employee at Gala, every family, So keeping them
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financially sound and making sure that they're working through those
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things because nothing, you know, if you're not present. Well,
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I mean, if you're not present at your job, you're
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either not productive or going to get hurt. And we
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don't want either one of those. You know, we want
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people going home better than what they came the day
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of the morning of. So other programs and stuff that
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we do, I think, really, we have this Safety Week,
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which is unbelievably start the summer with this big safety
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work explosion where we go to every job, every place,
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we have lunches everyone, we've talked to all the folks,
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we go through an education session, and then of course
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we have Grit Day coming up.
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You know, I love grit, you know, John Wayne's my.
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Guy, And we have Grit Day where we celebrate the
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grit of galer Electric literally like we are tough, you
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know that. Don't mess with us. We're there and we're
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going to get the job finished, and we're going to
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get it done productively, safely, high quality, all those things.
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We celebrate that for a whole day at Gale Electric
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across sixteen offices across all kinds of states. I mean,
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it's incredible. So we do that, and then probably my
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favorite is I have a monthly meeting with all said
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our employees to bring them up to speed what's going
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on every thirty days. And then every quarter I bring
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all employees together. Now again not physically, you can understand
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that would be a lot. And we have a quarterly
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meeting so that every person sixteen year old old to
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eighty five year old understands exactly.
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You know, treat them.
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Treat your folks like their employees, and they'll treat the
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company like they own it. And that's what we're actually
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looking for. And then my favorite events the summit. I
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don't know if you've seen inter viators of the summit,
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but we literally every two years bring every employee to
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one place over here in Grant Park and Westfield, all
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forty I think four thousand some people there last time,
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have great speakers, do sixteen hours of education. And what
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we understand is is when you get better, galer gets better.
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And so we invest in heavily into our folks.
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This is so impressive that everything that you just said
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was incredible. I've never heard of contribution from leadership into
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the workers to that level of caring so much. Even
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the financial literacy is so important that Dave Ramsey shout out,
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I mean this is true. I mean people need that
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type of education so they can help them in their
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everyday lives. And then they're taking what they get from
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Gaylor back home and they're just having an overall better
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quality of life in general.
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So it's it's amazing. I really appreciate you sharing that.
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And you mentioned previously that you're a big part of
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Associated Builders and Contractors. So what do you guys do
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within that association? You know, do you are you part
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of it? Are they you know? Do you just are
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you a member?
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Like?
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How does that work with Gaylor?
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No, I appreciate that because you know, one of the
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things about Associated Billers and Contractors is with the twenty
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you know, I don't have the exact number, but twenty
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some thousand company members, you learn a lot. So, you know,
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we man, we are members of a lot of chapters
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across the country, but you know, we use them for
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our apprenticeship training. They're the best, I mean literally, NCCR
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team with ABC to build an apprentice the bar none,
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I mean the best and the best. And then we
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have our ABC Prep Academy, which is for our high schools.
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We have over a thousand kids here in Indiana. Then
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are our Prep academs. They come a kind of like
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the old model where you go, you leave high school,
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you go to a place you learn the construction industry,
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and then you go home. They do STEM at the
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school and then they do apply learning at ABC Prep Academy.
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So we're a huge part of that, you know.
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And then of course at the state level, you know,
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with chairs and secretary, you know, the treasure, I mean,
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whatever it takes to make our local chapter successful a
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part of.
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And then at the national level.
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I've been involved at the national level forever, and so
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I'm a member of the Forre Enterprise Alliance. I'm a
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member of the Construction Legal Rights Foundation. I'm a member
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of Tremor, which is the education arm of basically supporting
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chapters all across the nation when they need stuff built,
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need money, so we support that.
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And of course I'm on the national board. And so
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you know, I pretty much.
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Owe my career to Associated Belgian Contractors. I mean, look,
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I don't meet John Gaylor if I'm not a member
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of Associated Buildis and Contractors. And I can tell you
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a bar none across the United States. Our relationships with
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other Associated Builders and Contractor members are the reason I
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mean not only but what was a big reason of
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why Galer Electric has continued to grow, continue to build
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these tremendous I mean, these jobs are so hard now
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and big that without those relationships, I don't think we
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get it done. So we're heavily involved all across the nation.
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ABC is such an impressive organization even organized on how
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they are organized throughout America and for all their members,
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they put on amazing events, especially all the chapters taking
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care of all the local contractors.
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Fun fact. I don't know if you know this.
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So, uh, we we acquired a company lumber, acquired a
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company called builder Facts, uh, and then we made a
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deal with n c c R. Actually every field worker
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apprentice through n c CR actually uses our app called
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builder Facts, just so you know, like we are obsessed
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with the craftsman where the craft worker, so the any
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licensed certification training they go through, they're actually using our app.
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It's really neat.
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So that is that a digital app?
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Yeah, it is, that's really so so I love Yeah,
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I gotta tell you I think this digital app. So
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you know this, this uh that's a great I mean
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this this data center, uh, document documents, you know, AI power,
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all those things man, this this digital.
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This digital wallet that allows you to carry your.
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Certifications, your you know, your apprenticeship card, your license, all
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those things is absolutely critical for our craft professionals as
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I travel across the nation.
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I appreciate that so much because if you go on
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nccr's website says NCCR powered by Builder Facts.
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That's us right here.
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And I'm on the board of in CCR.
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And now that you say that, I remember that because
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you guys did a presentation or did a presentation at
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the board. Yes, So it's good.
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To all in it together.
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The obsession with the craft worker and just empowering everybody
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on their journey within construction and just in the industry
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itself is really the overall goal. If we can give
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them kind of like that guidance that they can can
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just basically just take it and run with it. So
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I really appreciate you sharing the apprentice how I mean,
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they really stand out.
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And that's really cool.
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I graduate apprenticeship school in two thousand and three, love it,
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and so today all of our folks that come out
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of college that come to Gaylor go through the apprenticeship
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program because I just really you know, we we install
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and again, this is light. But we install conduit for living.
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We don't do accounting, we don't do HR, we don't
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our owners were actually the best at it. Oh no,
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that's the fun. I don't know if you could see
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my furniture, but if you look at a furniture that's conduit.
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I'm gonna have to get some I'll get some video
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shots on the way out.
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But you know, there's no better craft professionals in at
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Gale or Electric. I mean there, it's just unbelievable. You
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should see some of the stuff we built. It's incredible.
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I'm amazed at it.
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The obsession is like, it's so exciting. It is exciting
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and the I wanted to ask you. You know, you've
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had such a long journey to where you're at. Did
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you you know where you're at today? Have you ever
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thought back and was like, Wow, if I would have
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known that then what I know now? You know, have
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you ever came across any of the those moments that
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you just really thought like if I knew that back then,
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I just you know, that would have been really nice.
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Man.
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WHOA there might be a lot I mean even as
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a leader, right, because you're you're you're in a leadership role.
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Like who do you get your mentorship from? Who do
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you look back on? And you're like, you know, I
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want to be like that guy.
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there's so many people in my life. I mean, my
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uh my chief values officer actually sitting behind the camera there.
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You know, he's mentored me for like fifteen twenty years
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and so he you know, he's a past he's a
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pastor and and he literally has taught me how to
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do the business, how to I mean we've been I
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have four kids and they're all awesome. Now I'm well,
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one of i'ms in a general contracting business, but they're
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all over the country. A beautiful wife of thirty three years,
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you know, and people, you know, people talk about that,
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how do you how do you run a two billion
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dollar business with four kids and a beautiful wife and
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a family and mom and dad all that stuff, And
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you know, at the end of the day, it's all
498
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about compartmentalizing the activity in front of you. I mean,
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being present. You know, we talk all the time about
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the why, you know, the purpose and you know, That's
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why I love craft professionals because they get the purpose.
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And so when you whatever, wherever you're at, being one
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hundred percent present at the time, let you be the
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highest performing. And so when you think about Galea Electric,
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the highest performing national contractor of excellence. So when I
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sat in that chair, I'm in this office. That's what
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I believe in and that's what I do. And so
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I'm present here. When I get home, I'm present with
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my wife, when I talk to my you know, and
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so I just I just always encourage folks that, look,
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you got it. You just have to be present. You
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have to make your you have to switch your mind
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to being present. I truly believe that's a faith issue.
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I mean to be honestly, I mean, it's a hope issue.
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It's understanding that when I come back here tomorrow, this
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place is going to be rocking and rolling, right, and
517
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if you leave and you're just constantly worried about where
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you're at before, you know, I love this idea. Living
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in the future causes anxiety, living in the past cause
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the depression. Living in the presence where it's happy, you know,
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And that's exactly right. I mean, you know, you hear
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that message biblically all the time. Right, you're present, so.
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Live in the present. It becomes a present.
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That's right, or part of it. I wrote it.
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Yeah, you're absolutely right. I love that, you know, you
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bring faith into this. I mean it's a really big
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part of my life. And I like that you mentioned that,
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like when you get home, the focus could switch or
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it should switch. Like one of the first things that
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me and my wife do is take that walk around
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the block. Yeah, it kind of resets your day and
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just kind of eliminates any of the stresses or anything
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that you kind of went through. But it's really nice
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you can lean on your spouse to really get through
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the hard times or even just even if share the
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good times too, Like it's always great to share that
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good news, and you know, put that time into the kids.
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I feel like the kids are such a great distraction everything.
539
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You got nothing else to do but be distracted when
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the kids coming to I have four kids myself.
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I think it's key four kids. Yeah, I think everybody
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should have four kids.
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Yeah, I agree, so much fun. So when you think
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you're done, no you're not done.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know it's interesting you say that
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because I would say, and you could. I'm a little
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bit older than new there's awesome having kids and you know,
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watching them grow as adults, and you know, you're kind
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of like, Okay, I did.
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What I could. You guys got a roll.
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But man, I have my first grandkid and I gotta
552
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tell you now, that's fun. Hung out with me on
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the Sunday after church at the pool and him and
554
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I just swam for about an hour and a half, man,
555
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and I was exhausted, I bet, and he's still fired
556
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up ready to go. So anyway, so you know, I
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always think that companies that have the like my wife
558
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loves Galer Electric, my kids love Galer Electric. My grandson
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four already loves Galer Electric. And so I think when
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you think about those things, when you get the whole
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entire family love and galor man, it helps us as
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a whole to grow and to provide more opportunities and
563
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invest in the organization and there are do amazing things.
564
00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:29.960
So talking about Galer Electric, you know you have an
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innovation center. Where do you see the future of construction?
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Man?
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That that you know you asked the question earlier about
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what would you have done earlier if you'd known what
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it was going to be or something that's something. Yeah,
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innovations it I mean, you know, we in the electrical industry,
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we got behind the mechanical industry pretty quick. I mean
572
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they they back when I was a project manager and
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project engineer on jobs, walking jobs, running jobs that there
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were the the mechanical contractors are already setting and using
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innovation production and so I you know, we really came
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about with the software we you know, when we first
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started bimming work, they would just give us a foot
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by three foot hole and that's where everything had to go.
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Nothing was really drawn out.
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But today there's the tolerances are so close that we
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can actually build it in our shop. And so what's
582
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really cool about this is is, you know, we can
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get ahead of the schedule. We can push the curve
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to the left, get ahead of the schedule, and so
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when when the building finally gets dried in, we can
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just put it together. And that's what's happening with these
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really complex projects right now. The schedule is so short
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and you got to be on it. And you know,
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we talk about in the industry this hyper scaling. You
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know you've heard that term, right, We're hyperscaling. We now
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we're hyper scaling galeer electric because there's no choice. We're
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going to hyperscale gale electric like the hyperscaler is doing
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to the buildings. And so this innovation, man, we spend
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so much time and effort and investment trying to figure
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out better ways to build. And I truly believe that
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here's what I believe. I believe that if you can
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create a great industry, which we have, but we got
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to continue to make it safer. We got to make
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you know, we gotta make parents. Parents need to love it,
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and they just got to see the opportunity. But when
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you do that, then it's galor's responsibility to build a
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great company that can compete in it. If we can't,
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that's the free market. So just keep the market for
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and open competition. Let companies build their company to compete
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in a great market. And all of a sudden, you
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got an unbelievable state in a country, ah.
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So strong, so strong, and having that mentality to I'll
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actually tell I'll share with you so on the on
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the innovation side, and we all have to be future thinking,
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like we have to know like things are gonna innovate,
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it's it's going to happen no matter what. How can
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you be a part of that change or even help
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00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:05.480
people become part of that change and guide other people?
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So what's really exciting?
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You know, God has really blessed us in our growth
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and what we're doing for construction. I feel like a
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lot of the stuff that we've given back has really
618
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even came back to us like it.
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We weren't expecting it.
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And we were recently invited back out to Nasdaq to
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celebrate our growth. So what we wanted to do was
622
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we're like, Hey, we asked Nasdaq, can we invite a
623
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whole lot of contractors out here, Like this party isn't
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for us, This parties for them, and we want them
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to be around each other to talk about what they
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would like to see in the future. And the overall
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response was like, yes, the builders of America need to
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come together and talk about what everybody should expect and
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where what direction we should go, even with technology and
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all everything. I like that you with technology too, that's
631
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really exciting because we don't know how much technology will
632
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help I guess hyper scale our companies until you actually
633
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try it right and you have the right partners involved,
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So like we're giving a lot back just to kind
635
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of give it like kind of feel out what's out
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there as far as you know, what people would like
637
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to see and just see how much we can contribute
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contribute ourselves to that change. But the interest is there,
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and it's really exciting to know that people like you
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want that innovation to happen, want the technology to advance
641
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because then you could use it to your benefit and
642
00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:43.559
hyper scale the company in itself. We still are obsessed
643
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with the human touch to the technology. I like, for me,
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when I see somebody using technology that empowers their own
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position so that it can make their own job, like
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day to day job that much better and stronger, Like
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that's my end goal. It's not to ever replace a job,
648
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but to make a job that much better. You can
649
00:34:06.200 --> 00:34:10.440
almost like duplicate yourself with the technology that's available, So
650
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.679
why not use that to grow faster versus actually replace somebody.
651
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:20.119
No, you're exactly right, it's actually opportunity exists, and so
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you know, we don't use matter of fact, we don't
653
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use technology replace people. We use technology to make them
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a whole lot better. Yes, And you know, at the
655
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end of the day productive. And so you know, we
656
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actually are in existence to build electrical work and we
657
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got to build it with the highest quality, the highest safety,
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the highest production of anybody else. That's what the frame
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open competition market means. And so technology investment is that's
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what we do. And so a matter of fact, I
661
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don't know if you've even seen the office, but atually
662
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.519
around a little bit when we're done. But you know,
663
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we are building stuff right now that wasn't even thought
664
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about being builded, you know, built three years ago.
665
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Riding our shop.
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I mean, we're building skids that as big as semi
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trailers to let them on a site, bolting them down.
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Done.
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Wow.
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And you know that's how come we're being able to
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cut these schedules in time. I mean I remember building
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computing centers, you know what eight years ago the first
673
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one we built, I think, and it took three years.
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Now we're building these things in like thirteen fourteen months,
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depend on the size, of course. And so that's all
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technology based. And I a lot of people, especially the
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younger generation, man, they are so intelligent. I mean I
678
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.440
get so excited when the young folks come in here
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because they are so intelligent.
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All we got to do is to give them application.
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And so you know, when I was a kid, my
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dad made sure I had plenty of application. I mean
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we worked from the time I got home from school
684
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till it's time to go to bed. I was I
685
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:53.719
never had to worry about going to bed late because
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I was exhausted. Yeah, so all Dad had to just
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keep me in school. Today, these kids are so intelligent
688
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and so I mean, they're just unbelievably smart. All we
689
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.480
got to do is, companies is you know, get off
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the couch and provide them opportunity to apply it.
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You know, applied knowledge comes wisdom.
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You know that that kind of that kind of approach,
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And so that's why we spend so much time in
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these internships and these programs with high schools and just
695
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giving kids this opportunity because I tell you, when I
696
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was younger, I did some landscaping and stuff with my dad,
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and I remember driving down the road and him saying, hey,
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we did that. This is you know, plant in the
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front of the house, trimmed at whatever it was, and
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he and it made him. I mean he pointed that
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out to me every time. And I can tell you
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today these kids there when you give them the opportunity
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to do something. They are telling people, Look, I was
704
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part of building that hospital, you know, and that's the
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per But that's the why.
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You know, think about it.
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What industry changes the world more than construction. You would
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be able to drive anywhere, no healthcare, none of that stuff.
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And that's why I always tell younger generation, I said,
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you want the why, we are the why. Yes, you
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00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:18.519
know what I mean. What awesome opportunities for kids and
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00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:21.519
young folks and you know, even retraining you know, some
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of these jobs folks like you know what, I want
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to go on a different career path.
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We help that too.
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The stories of sharing it with the kids and like
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00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:35.519
so I used to be a self performing GC out
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of Illinois and then specialized in carpentry and still like
719
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to this day, if we're driving by a building that
720
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we worked on, I'm like, oh, Dad was on that roof,
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nailing down that trust, catching the catching the crane coming down.
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So like sharing those stories and just being proud of, like,
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you know, the work that you've put in. You know,
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do you have similar stories with your kids of like, hey,
725
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you know that's that's a galer job right there that
726
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we worked on or anything like that.
727
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:04.840
Yeah, I think the we do a lot of projects,
728
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.440
and most of time you can tell project for Galor
729
00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:10.079
because it's got big blue semi troilers, says Gale electric On.
730
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:12.119
We got a bunch of those trailers.
731
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I love them.
732
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:15.840
Oh yeah, there's all kinds of projects that I was
733
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built when I was younger, and I mean it goes
734
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:21.440
all the way back to riding in a service van
735
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:23.960
with another mentor of mine. When I came as intern,
736
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:26.199
I worked in a service fan and so I know
737
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.760
exactly where that job is. I go by there when
738
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.559
i'm around there just to check it out, make sure
739
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:33.639
it's still going, and uh, pretty cool stuff. So yeah,
740
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:37.840
there's unbelievable stories about what we've built. I think the
741
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.239
the interesting thing is is how the young person responds
742
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:45.920
to that, because they literally their eyes open up. They're like, wow,
743
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:48.880
that's right, I could be part I could be part
744
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:51.000
of that. I can I can do that. And so
745
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.280
that's what we're really looking for in that opportunity. And
746
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:57.239
really it's changing the world one person at time. I mean,
747
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:02.000
you know it's right in our organization has your intentional purpose,
748
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:05.079
your intentional purpose to make the communities live in better
749
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:07.360
and change world one person at a time. And so
750
00:39:07.639 --> 00:39:09.559
we see that all across galer Electric.
751
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:12.559
Galer Electric sounds like a really cool place to work for.
752
00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:17.400
I'm hired, you're hiring. You gotta tell yeah, I'll tell it.
753
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:19.559
We'll get to that part. We'll get to that part.
754
00:39:19.639 --> 00:39:23.639
So then, you know, thinking about those young workers, would
755
00:39:23.719 --> 00:39:28.199
do you have any advice for a young kid in
756
00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:32.840
high school thinking about getting into construction? You know, you know,
757
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:35.800
what advice would you give somebody that's actually just thinking
758
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:36.239
about it?
759
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:40.960
Yeah, No, it's a I think about that often. I
760
00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:44.960
think the number one thing is listening. You know, the
761
00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:48.079
industry is wide open for a person. It doesn't matter
762
00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:51.679
if you're sixteen or you're sixty. You know, it's wide open.
763
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:55.599
But you have to hook You have to hook up
764
00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:59.719
with a mentor. You have to understand that the way
765
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:03.559
you learn is the people that have come before you.
766
00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:06.239
And you know that that that seems to be a
767
00:40:06.239 --> 00:40:11.840
little bit difficult for our generation, especially my kids about me,
768
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:16.760
But no, you know, I just say, it's a great industry.
769
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:20.280
Come on, we're going to change the world together. But
770
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:24.079
you have to listen and you have to engage with
771
00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:29.000
your mentors. That has been the proven record success at
772
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.480
Gala is mentor you know, having mentors for myself personally
773
00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:36.599
and really just you know, pulling everything you can out
774
00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:40.000
of a mentor, leaving what's not good, pulling everything out,
775
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:42.199
and the next one pull everything out and pretty soon
776
00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:48.039
you've accumulated this knowledge and wisdom and application that no
777
00:40:48.199 --> 00:40:49.559
person could get that fast.
778
00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:56.639
So you've had, you know, that opportunity of having the
779
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:01.000
mentor through internship. Do you ever think back or maybe
780
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.280
you are doing it now. I'd be curious to know
781
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:08.599
are you offering to mentor any of your own interns
782
00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:11.519
or have that opportunity. So if somebody were to apply,
783
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.760
so you know, possibly get that job or internship, you know,
784
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.519
would they have a possibility of being mentored directly from you?
785
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:20.679
Now?
786
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:22.320
I think it's a it's a great story.
787
00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:27.440
I would say the answer is probably not okay, And
788
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:29.480
I'll tell you exactly why, because I love I mean,
789
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:31.039
I do speak to it and I tell them I
790
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:31.599
was an intern.
791
00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:32.840
It's glad to have you on board.
792
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:36.199
Yeah, but you know, I got a you know, fifteen
793
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:38.519
people my executive committee that I spend most of my
794
00:41:38.599 --> 00:41:41.199
time with it mentor so that they can mentor all
795
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:45.760
their operations. So it is a approach that really looks
796
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from an idea of how do you build the organization
797
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:53.000
and teach others to mentor. I mean that that's the
798
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:57.920
See when you're six thousand people, you know, thinking about, okay,
799
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this one person trying to mentor. No, You've have to
800
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:03.559
have that heart of service. You have to have that
801
00:42:03.719 --> 00:42:07.639
idea in your brain to give back to the people
802
00:42:07.719 --> 00:42:10.000
that want to receive it from you. And I think
803
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:15.519
that's my that's my advice to everyone that you try
804
00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:20.360
to build a culture that provides service, a servant heart
805
00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:22.960
that want to give back to people, and there's nothing
806
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:23.559
stopping you.
807
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:25.480
I agree with that. Now. I like that.
808
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.960
I mean, you haven't figured out right, so you've you
809
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.320
figured out how to serve the ones right under you
810
00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:34.320
so that they're in a position to serve everybody else
811
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and you can grow from there. And I still feel
812
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like that offers up a lot of opportunity for those
813
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:43.079
young apprentices to come in and be mentored by the
814
00:42:43.079 --> 00:42:45.480
ones that were mentored by you, right right, So I
815
00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:47.840
mean they're gonna have that same mentality because they were
816
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:50.360
already mentored by you. So it's I think it's a
817
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.280
good offering that you still have for those new new
818
00:42:54.639 --> 00:42:56.119
generation coming into Gaylor.
819
00:42:56.440 --> 00:43:00.480
Yeah, you know, it's the idea of really building you know,
820
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:04.320
it's a lifelong learning. You know, we expect that you
821
00:43:04.320 --> 00:43:07.599
would get four certifications. If you're at Galer, we're looking
822
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:10.679
for you to get four certifications a year, whether that's
823
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:16.119
in safety, production, project management, you know, apprenticeship, you know,
824
00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:21.280
name name it. Everybody gets a journeyman training, supervisor training,
825
00:43:21.320 --> 00:43:27.079
all those you get certifications because wen't understand it. Upscaling, folks,
826
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:31.000
if you upskill, that's how you increase the value of
827
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:34.559
the company and increase the value of the individual you have.
828
00:43:34.760 --> 00:43:37.880
Like, all the answers that you give are really strong.
829
00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.320
How did you I mean as far as like being
830
00:43:41.360 --> 00:43:45.679
a leader? You know, is there one particular person when
831
00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:47.719
you were growing up that you looked at was like,
832
00:43:48.400 --> 00:43:51.159
you know, that's the leader that you wanted to follow?
833
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:52.599
Uh?
834
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:56.960
Well, of course, but first there are three three people
835
00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:00.920
that really kind of steered me in the career i'm in.
836
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:04.519
So of course, I told you my dad was a
837
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.719
huge influence on me through all the way through college.
838
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:12.760
And then of course they're a couple the successful people
839
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that I.
840
00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:14.480
Got to be around.
841
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.719
The very first was a guy named John Gaylor, which
842
00:44:16.760 --> 00:44:18.400
I've told you about, and a guy named Ed Roger.
843
00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.559
Those folks were literally people.
844
00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:27.199
That I watched, and that's where I learned the people
845
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:33.199
first attitude. You know, as I said, people talk about, hey,
846
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:37.159
let everybody have your information. So anybody that works at
847
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:40.960
Galer can have my dashboards. They have every piece of
848
00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:43.199
information that I have to run the company, and they
849
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:46.280
treat it like they're the owner, which is what you want.
850
00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:50.039
And then of course Ed really taught me the idea
851
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:54.239
of how you actually build customer relationships. The guy's unbelievable
852
00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:58.519
loyalty in our industry is a big and so when
853
00:44:58.559 --> 00:45:03.079
you have customers that you build loyalty with, they continue
854
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:04.800
to give you work and help you grow. And so
855
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.960
you know, those three, you know, really started and of
856
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:14.719
course all three tremendously faithful individuals, and so they tied
857
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:15.480
all that together.
858
00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:17.119
For me, I'm like, yeah, see, I can do that.
859
00:45:17.519 --> 00:45:20.480
This is a word of mouth industry. I mean, the
860
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:23.760
work that you put in it really gets around. Yeah,
861
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:26.239
I mean everybody shares it, so it's I mean, we
862
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:30.199
can all appreciate that too. You know, if somebody wants
863
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:34.199
to get work from galor or even apply for a
864
00:45:34.320 --> 00:45:36.639
job at Galer, you know, how do they find you?
865
00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:36.960
Guys?
866
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:40.960
Yeah, no, it's a you know, I think the number
867
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:45.840
is somewhere between five and six thousand people now. And literally,
868
00:45:46.320 --> 00:45:49.039
you know the idea of the bigger you are, the
869
00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:51.519
smaller you have to be. We spend all our time
870
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:53.679
in that making sure that people are. You know, if
871
00:45:53.679 --> 00:45:55.760
you're seventeen years old out on a job and you're
872
00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:58.199
running apprentice, you know, and you're running work, I mean
873
00:45:58.199 --> 00:46:00.679
you're doing work. We once you know you're part of
874
00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:03.679
something right there. Right, We want to make sure that
875
00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:08.079
you know that we understand that individuals, accumulation of individuals
876
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.840
build a company. It's not the company, it's accumulation of
877
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:13.400
individuals at build a company. And so, uh, you know,
878
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:21.119
we have a wide, wide variety of positions available, but
879
00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:24.320
we want people that really just want to change the
880
00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:28.320
world and be awesome and so, uh are you just
881
00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.079
go to www Dot Galer dot com. There's an application
882
00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:33.039
process right there.
883
00:46:33.079 --> 00:46:33.639
You've hired up.
884
00:46:33.679 --> 00:46:36.079
We got a bunch of recruiters. They'll call you, but
885
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:39.360
I would say this, make sure you follow up. Yes,
886
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:41.880
you know, it's not that we don't get a tremendous amount.
887
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:44.760
It's nothing negative. It's just we get a tremendous amount
888
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:48.039
of documentation through the company. And so Galer dot com
889
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:51.239
website goes right there to my computer and you're like, hey,
890
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:53.440
I'm following up on my application. I send it to
891
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:55.760
the you know, to our recruiting groups, and that's how
892
00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.199
you end up at Galer. And so I just say
893
00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:01.400
that everybody in the organization and then the industry is
894
00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:04.480
a recruiter. You remember I said build a great industry.
895
00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:08.400
So let's bring people into the industry because you know,
896
00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:10.719
when you come to the industry, you can work at
897
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:14.920
great companies like Galer Electric and so, you know, it's
898
00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:18.920
just tremendous right now, for the next five to ten years,
899
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.000
get in the construction industry, be electrical, coming into electrical
900
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:24.400
contract it's gonna be unbelievable.
901
00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:26.079
Go to Galer, go to Gala.
902
00:47:26.559 --> 00:47:29.000
Well, and again, here here's the thing about that. You know,
903
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:34.639
there are some folks that you know, I promote the industry. Now,
904
00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:36.199
don't get me wrong, I have a Galer hat on
905
00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:36.639
all the time.
906
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:37.320
Yeah, but I.
907
00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:40.320
Promote the industry because again, as you know, it's not
908
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:43.519
been the best for certain groups of folks. I mean
909
00:47:43.519 --> 00:47:45.119
the high school kids are like why would I go
910
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:48.079
to construction? Teachers like why do you go to construction?
911
00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:52.639
Even women, you know, we have a tremendous women based
912
00:47:53.559 --> 00:47:58.159
workforce that you know open, it's wide open, it doesn't matter,
913
00:47:58.320 --> 00:47:59.039
and so.
914
00:47:59.440 --> 00:47:59.960
You know, it's exact.
915
00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:02.320
I need to see the changes in the industry and
916
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.199
where things can happen and how things work, and so yeah,
917
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:11.320
it's going to be absolutely this next ten year is gonna.
918
00:48:11.119 --> 00:48:14.920
Be unbelievable, amazing. Well, everybody knows where to go, yep.
919
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.280
And you know, I really appreciate you being a guest
920
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:22.320
on the show. Is there anything else that you would
921
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:24.360
like to share with the crowd before we end it
922
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:24.960
here today?
923
00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.079
Do you have a saying or a quote or anything
924
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:29.440
that you want to leave at the table?
925
00:48:29.639 --> 00:48:32.119
You know, the closings are always a tough ones.
926
00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:34.159
First of all, I'm very honored that you would come
927
00:48:34.199 --> 00:48:36.679
and we could get together and talk about our industry
928
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:39.519
and talk about Gale Electric. And you know, I always
929
00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:43.280
talk about how humbling it is even to be the
930
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:46.280
CEO of Galer and have you know so many folks
931
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.559
that work and you know, give their time, and you know,
932
00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:53.199
they just are tremendous folks at Galer Electric and so
933
00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:56.719
you know, I just always suggest to folks find a
934
00:48:56.760 --> 00:49:00.599
passion and go after it. And you know, we have
935
00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:03.199
a one page business planet talks about our purpose. It
936
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:07.119
talks about our measurements, talks about our values. But you know,
937
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:09.360
at the end of the days, you know, it's all
938
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:13.559
about being present and being at a continued education. So no,
939
00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.079
I think it's uh, you know, come on, let's go,
940
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:18.960
and uh, you know, I look forward to talk to
941
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:19.679
you again sometime.
942
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.960
Thank you so much. I really appreciate Chuck Man. I
943
00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.039
feel like we just became friends here on the show.
944
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:28.039
That's right, Thank you so much. Well at everybody, please
945
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:32.199
like subscribe and share the builder up our show with
946
00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:35.039
everybody and we will see you next time.
947
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:36.880
Thank you, Thank you very much.
948
00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.039
If you're a construction contractor and would like to appear
949
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.320
as a guest on our podcast, write us an email.
950
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:54.960
It's Lou at lumberfine dot com.