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This episode was sponsored by Cardiff & selfpublishing.com   LightSpeed VT: https://www.lightspeedvt.com/ Dropping Bombs Podcast: https://www.droppingbombs.com/ Today's Dropping Bombs episode delivers a no-BS masterclass on books as business assets with Chandler Bolt, the college dropout who ran a six-figure painting business before founding selfpublishing.com. The company has helped over 10,000 authors publish their books, hit $80 million in revenue, and landed on the INC 5000 four consecutive years running as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America — all while chasing a mission to help 100,000 people self-publish by 2035.   Chandler breaks down why a book is the best 200-page sales letter you'll ever write, the "dirty secret" of the publishing industry that keeps authors broke, and how HVAC guys, landscapers, and CEOs alike can reverse-engineer a book into six or seven figures in new customers.   If you've got a business and no book, you're leaving money on the table — this episode hands you the blueprint to fix that.   SOCIAL HANDLES Instagram: @selfpublishing.com | YouTube: @selfpublishing | TikTok: @selfpublishing | Facebook: @selfpublishing | Website: selfpublishing.com | Book: publishedbook.com | Podcast: 7 Figure Principles  

In this short podcast episode, Bryan and Roman talk about the ethics of IAQ, particularly in terms of microbial growth testing vs. remediation conflicts, based on Roman's recent experience hiring a mold assessor and then a remediation expert in his home. Remediation is governed by S520 of the IICRC. Microbial growth is tricky because it is often hidden and has real health effects, but there is a history of fraud in its assessment and remediation. To help combat that fraud, in Florida, assessment and remediation are two separate practices with two separate licenses. Roman got to see the differences in action by working with different assessment and remediation professionals and witnessing how the two practices depend on each other but differ. First, an assessor came to Roman's house with testing equipment and a means of collecting lab samples; this assessment started outdoors and continued indoors, and the assessor produced a thorough 87-page report with the tool findings, lab findings, and pictures. As with HVAC, the results are based on science and data, and reputable assessors are licensed, independent, and have the tools and training to carry out the job without using scare tactics on homeowners. After the assessment, remediation must be done separately. In Roman's home, all equipment was isolated, and the house was brought under negative pressure with HEPA filtration. There was also surface cleaning and HEPA vacuuming. Then, after remediation, there is a post-remediation verification (PRV). The PRV is carried out by a mold assessor, not a remediator, and determines whether the remediator did their job (and in some states, like Florida, there are criminal penalties for referral payments between assessors and remediators). A PRV consists of IAQ tests and lab measurements, and the results should reveal lower numbers than the original assessment and the outdoor air.   Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 8th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Business Edition Podcast, co-hosts Gary McCreadie and Furman Haynes from WorkHero speak with Daniel Quinonez, Chief Operating Officer of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors -National Association. They discuss HVAC licensing standards, technician training, safety risks, workforce education, and preparing contractors for industry change. Dan shares perspectives on building trade careers through continuous learning, business education, community, and technology adoption. The conversation also covers how AI, data centers, and evolving tools can create opportunities for contractors who stay ready to adapt.   Expect To Learn: Why EPA certification alone may not provide sufficient HVAC training. How licensing standards can support safer installations and consumer protection. Why training and mentorship remain essential throughout an HVAC career. How Pell Grants may expand access to qualifying workforce programs. When technicians often begin transitioning into HVAC business ownership. How business and leadership education can support career growth. Why contractors should treat AI and new technology as resources for efficiency.   Timestamps: 00:00 - Daniel Quinonez returns for part two 01:55 - Licensing standards for HVAC technicians 02:58 - How diluted licensing can affect quality 04:50 - A costly water heater installation example 05:44 - Carbon monoxide and combustion safety risks 07:20 - Pell Grants for workforce education 08:16 - Career opportunities in the trades 11:04 - Transitioning from technician to business owner 14:03 - Building a future-ready HVAC business 16:14 - Staying open to new tools and technology   Follow our Guest Daniel Quinonez: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-quinonez-690ba68/  Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phccnational/  Company Website: http://www.phccweb.org/    Follow Gary McCreadie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/  Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/    Follow Furman Haynes:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/furmanhaynes/  WorkHero: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workherohvac/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workhero__/  

It's rare to find a book on the UFO phenomenon that sheds new light on a subject that has been examined by researchers, scientists, and Hollywood since 1947. Author Will Blesch (williamblesch.com) joined us to discuss his new book, In the Shadow of Goliath, the interconnectedness of angels, Nephilim, UFOs, and biblical prophecy, shedding light on hidden histories and biblical perspectives that challenge mainstream narratives. Click here to buy In the Shadow of Goliath at Amazon: https://bit.ly/4gLaxvz Click here for a special offer on In the Shadow of Goliath at the SkyWatchTV store https://bit.ly/45XVXM5 Also: A health update and the reason for putting A View from the Bunker on hiatus. Derek's new book War of the Watchers Book One: From Baal to Balfour is now available at Amazon in paperback and as a Kindle e-book! It's also a part of a special offer at the SkyWatchTV store: Get War of the Watchers, Derek's previous book The Second Coming of Saturn, and a 13-part teaching DVD based on The Second Coming of Saturn for your donation of just $45! Here's the link to the trailer for the book. Follow us! X: @viewfrombunker | @sharonkgilbert | @derekgilbertTelegram: t.me/gilberthouseSubstack: gilberthouse.substack.com | sharonkgibert.substack.comYouTube: @GilbertHouse | @UnravelingRevelationFacebook.com/viewfromthebunker Thank you for making our Build Barn Better project a reality! The building has HVAC, a new floor, windows, insulation, ceiling fans, and an upgraded electrical system! We truly appreciate your support. If you are so led, you can help out at www.GilbertHouse.org/donate. Download our free app! This brings all of our content directly to your smartphone or tablet. Best of all, we'll never get canceled from our own app! Links to the app stores for iOS, iPadOS, Android, and Amazon Kindle Fire devices are at www.GilbertHouse.org/app. Please join us each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. JOIN US IN ISRAEL (NOTE NEW DATES)! We will tour the Holy Land October 24–November 3, 2027 with an optional three-day extension to Jordan. For more information, log on to GilbertHouse.org/travel. Special offers on our books and DVDs: www.gilberthouse.org/store. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great podcasters at the Fringe Radio Network (Spreaker.com/show/fringe-radio-network)!

Our annual trip to Milwaukee PIPELINE is always great fun. This year we talked all things Packout with product manager Nick Trawicki. Packout was first released in June of 2017. Since its launch, Packout has expanded to literally hundreds of products that are mostly intended to save us time on and off the job site. Text the guys your ideas & feedback! Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels!Eric Aune @mechanicalhub Andy Mickelson @mick_plumbNewsletter sign up: https://bit.ly/MH_email

Quotes from the episode:    "I don't need the house to breathe. I need the people to."    "You can't control a system that's open."    "I would just go make them comfortable. And let them know the added benefit is that they're going to spend less on energy."    What happens when an HVAC contractor fixes the equipment, but the customer still isn't comfortable?    In this episode of Building HVAC Science, Bill Spohn talks with Ken Allsion of Insulation Distributors (IDI) about why HVAC contractors are uniquely positioned to recognize—and potentially solve - problems with the building envelope. Ken argues that comfort complaints often blamed on heating and cooling equipment actually begin with uncontrolled air leakage, poorly installed insulation, and mechanical systems operating outside the thermal envelope.    Ken lays out a practical path for HVAC companies interested in adding envelope work without trying to turn every technician into a building scientist. It starts simply: train technicians to recognize obvious problems such as daylight, wind-washed insulation, unsealed attic hatches, and other signs of leakage. From there, contractors can progress to blower-door testing and infrared diagnostics, and eventually tackle more sophisticated envelope improvements.   A recurring theme is that insulation only performs as intended when air movement is controlled. Ken explains why nominal R-value can be misleading, how small areas of poorly performing insulation can dramatically reduce whole-assembly performance, and why he prioritizes air sealing at the top and bottom of the building before worrying about walls.   The conversation also explores an important business opportunity. Ken sees attic insulation removal, air sealing, and blow-back as relatively low-barrier services that complement HVAC work while allowing specialized crews - not highly trained HVAC technicians—to perform the labor.  Most importantly, Ken challenges contractors to rethink what they're really selling. Rather than leading with energy savings, start with what homeowners actually care about: comfort, healthier indoor conditions, and a house that works better. Reduced energy use becomes a valuable consequence of fixing the building—not necessarily the reason for doing it.    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-allison-74528a14/  Website link: https://www.idi-insulation.com/industries/hvac  IDI's podcast: https://www.idi-insulation.com/podcast/  IDI's Training Calendar: https://www.idi-insulation.com/training/  The Matt Risinger video Ken mentioned: https://youtu.be/1BcqeQJqp08?si=jVwKLJQcULbcbYbM  Nate Adma's Home Comfort book mentioned: https://trutechtools.com/The-Home-Comfort-Book  The Attic Queen! : https://www.atticqueen.com/      Join their email list using the form at the bottom of every page on their website.    This episode was recorded in August 2026. 

The Listing Bits Podcast is now available on your favorite podcast player! Overview Greg Robertson sits down with Dan Cooper, founder of Gitcha and the Buyer Listing Service (BLS), to talk about his path from spec-home builder to real estate broker to proptech founder. They dig into why Dan built a platform that flips traditional reverse prospecting on its head — letting buyers broadcast exactly what they want instead of waiting to be matched — and how that product is rolling out at the MLS level. Key Takeaways Dan Cooper grew up mostly in Eugene, Oregon, and got into home design and spec building in 2004 without formal architecture training He's designed over 200 homes and worked alongside his father, who joined the business after exiting the HVAC industry Dan opened a real estate brokerage in May 2020 to better serve clients he couldn't find homes for The idea for Gitcha originated in 2011 while trying to sell his own home during a market downturn Gitcha is the public-facing product where consumers can view buyer "wants" and reach out to agents BLS (Buyer Listing Service) is the MLS-level input product; agents submit detailed buyer requests, which can optionally syndicate to Gitcha The core pitch: reverse prospecting is static and seller-initiated, while BLS lets buyers steer the market by broadcasting specific, detailed wants Buyer requests can go far beyond standard MLS fields, including narrative detail on exactly what a buyer needs Dan sees the product addressing agent-to-agent communication that's fragmented across Facebook groups and other informal channels since NAR's Sitzer-Burnett settlement changed cooperation rules Current MLS/association partners include the Lubbock Association of Realtors, MyBor (BLC), and Momentum MLS in Western Arizona About 5% of MyBor's members signed up within three weeks of launch, with 120+ buyer listings already in the system Greg and Dan go back and forth on the elevator pitch, landing on "expand inventory" as a cleaner message than "increase supply" Dan credits Greg's Giant Steps consulting group with early guidance when he was starting the company Links Gitcha The Buyer Listing Service Sponsors Aligned Showings — MLS-owned showing software built to simplify scheduling, improve communication, and keep MLS data where it belongs. Giant Steps Job Board – Built for organized real estate and PropTech, not generic tech bros and recruiters who don't know what an MLS is. Production and editing services by: Sunbound Studios

Send us Fan MailOn this episode of he Less Stressed Life, I'm joined again by my associate registered dietitian, Jenna De Kok, to continue our conversation about CIRS and mold, this time focusing on the health of your home.After navigating multiple mold exposures herself, Jenna has learned firsthand how overwhelming the environmental side of healing can feel. We talk about what she wishes she had known earlier, including proper mold removal, small particle cleaning, HVAC maintenance, humidity, and when an Indoor Environmental Professional (IEP) may be helpful. We also discuss practical ways to support a healthier home without feeling like you have to figure everything out overnight.KEY TAKEAWAYS:

In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Business Edition Podcast, co-hosts Gary McCreadie and Furman Haynes from WorkHero speak with Daniel Quinonez, Chief Operating Officer of Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors -National Association. They discuss contractor communities, member education, apprenticeship programs, and the operational challenges facing small HVAC businesses. Dan explains how contractors can access peer support, business resources, and training opportunities through membership. He also shares his perspective on hiring green apprentices versus experienced technicians and the fragmented approach to trade training across the United States.   Expect To Learn: How contractor communities can provide peer support and business resources. Why business operations can be challenging for technicians who become owners. Ways AI can support administrative work without replacing technicians. The tradeoffs between hiring experienced technicians and training apprentices. How contractor-sponsored apprenticeship programs combine coursework and hands-on experience. Why training requirements and licensing vary across U.S. states. The case for a more coordinated national strategy for trade education. Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - PHCC's history, membership, and education programs 05:05 - Benefits of joining a contractor chapter 06:44 - Common needs of small contractors 09:25 - Operational and time-management challenges 11:53 - Hiring apprentices versus experienced technicians 13:24 - Online apprenticeship training and contractor sponsorship 17:30 - Training capacity at large and small companies 18:32 - The lack of a national training strategy 20:04 - China's unified trade-training standards   Follow our Guest Daniel Quinonez: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-quinonez-690ba68/  Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/phccnational/  Company Website: https://www.phccweb.org/    Follow Gary McCreadie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/  Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/    Follow Furman Haynes:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/furmanhaynes/  WorkHero: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workherohvac/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workhero__/  

Doing more does not scale your business. It stalls it. Diluted focus gets you diluted results, and the owners who grow fastest are usually the ones doing fewer things, not more. In this episode of Service Business Mastery, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch sit down with Josh Zolin, CEO of Windy City Equipment Service and author of Blue is the New White, on how one simple shift, a single company wide focus every 90 days, took the guesswork out of hitting his goals. Josh breaks down how he points his entire company, from himself to the parts runner, at one goal each quarter, why focusing on less feels scarier than it should, how your role as the owner keeps changing as you scale, and the leadership habit that quietly runs off your best technicians. If you run a home service business and you are busy all day but not moving the way you want, this conversation is the reset. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Upfrog, one of our show partners. Upfrog turns paid ad spend into booked, sold system replacements instead of wasted leads. Learn more at upfrog.com. CHAPTERS 0:00 – Why Diluted Focus Gets You Diluted Results 2:31 – Meet Josh Zolin: Blue is the New White and Windy City 8:15 – The Identity Shift Every Owner Faces as They Scale 11:49 – The Unteachable Lessons You Have to Learn Yourself 14:40 – Why More Information Is Making Us Learn Slower 17:23 – AI as the Trades' Best Recruiter 20:25 – Navigating Private Equity as a Small Operator 27:12 – The 90 Day Single Focus System That Hits Goals Every Time 29:10 – Focusing on One Thing Without Letting the Rest Fall Apart 32:19 – The In-N-Out Lesson: Do Fewer Things, Better 35:26 – Why Focusing on Less Feels Scary, and How to Lead Through It 38:25 – Four Big Things a Year: Segmenting Focus Across Profit Centers 40:32 – Parkinson's Law: Use Time as a Tool 44:00 – Why 80% Done by Someone Else Is 100% Awesome 46:00 – The Perfectionist Tech Trap and Unspoken Expectations 49:40 – Where to Find Josh: Book, Podcast, and Academy WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - The one shift that lets you hit your quarterly goals every time: a single company wide focus every 90 days - Why doing less feels scarier than doing more, and how to lead your team through it - How your job as the owner keeps changing as you scale, and how to stay valuable - Why more information can make you and your team learn slower, not faster - How small operators actually beat private equity, and why it comes down to culture - The leadership habit that quietly runs off your best technicians - Why 80% done by someone else is 100% awesome, and how perfectionism keeps you small THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY UPFROG System replacement leads from paid ads, nurtured and booked into sold jobs before your team arrives: upfrog.com MARKETSTORM An AI-powered advertising platform. Results vary by market, budget, and campaign configuration: https://marketstorm.ai/ CALLRAIL CallRail's Voice Assist is a 24/7 AI voice assistant that answers every call, handles customer questions, and books jobs directly onto your calendar, all without you ever having to step away from the current job. Try Voice Assist for free today at voiceassist.com BREEZY Capture 25-30% more clients with Breezy AI Agents. Use code 'SBM' to book a demo and get $500 on us: https://bit.ly/4ihjXkx PHONETAP Your calls hold the key to growing your business. PhoneTAP gives you instant AI analysis, real customer lifetime value, and tools to coach your team. Learn more: phonetap.ai/demo COMPANYCAM Capture work, track job progress, and stay connected from the field to the office with photo documentation and AI tools that keep work moving. Start a free trial at https://companycam.com/ CONNECT WITH OUR HOSTS AND GUEST Tersh Blissett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tershblissett/ Josh Crouch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-crouch/ Josh Zolin, Windy City Equipment Service: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshzolin/ https://joshzolin.com (his book, podcast, and academy are all there) ABOUT SERVICE BUSINESS MASTERY Service Business Mastery helps home service owners run better, more profitable companies. Every week, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch break down the operations, technology, and leadership behind growing an HVAC, plumbing, or electrical business, with the operators actually doing the work. More at https://servicebusinessmastery.com/ Want the frameworks from each episode in your inbox? Join the free Service Business Mastery newsletter: [ADD: SBM newsletter link] Subscribe on YouTube and follow us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode. If this one helped, share it with an owner who needs it. #ServiceBusinessMastery #HomeServices #Leadership #BusinessScaling #Trades

Most contractors think they need more leads, but Josh Crouch says many are already losing revenue inside the calls they have. Josh joins Scott to unpack missed calls, misleading booking-rate data, CSR training, dispatching for dollars, and where AI answering services help or hurt. They also explain why homeowners expect pricing information online and how ecommerce can move the buying process forward before a technician ever reaches the home.Change Your Filter is Powered by Contractor Commerce.Contractor Commerce helps contractors guide homeowners through pricing, options, and next steps directly from their website ... learn more.Follow us on social!LinkedInFacebookInstagramConnect with Josh!

When a senior expert walks out the door, years of judgment, pattern-recognition, and relationship capital often vanish with them. Dr. Bruce Dorey, founder of Jes-AI and author of Lift: Passing the Craft, and Digital Bell specializes in stopping that silent knowledge leak. Drawing on his decades in HVAC, sales engineering, and leadership, Bruce shows how AI can systematically capture “tribal knowledge” from conversations, documents, and deals so that future teams can still benefit from the hard-won lessons of today's top performers. Bruce also shares the idea of the Digital Bell, a modern, AI-powered way to snap out of autopilot and daily “drift.” Influenced by his years living in the Middle East and observing how the call to prayer regularly reset people's focus, he explains how leaders and professionals can build intentional, AI-assisted check-ins throughout the day. Instead of being yanked around by social media and email, you can design digital prompts that re-anchor you and your team to core values, long-term goals, and the key insights that matter most day after day, meeting after meeting. Bruce also pulls back the curtain on Jes-AI, a system built for sales organizations (especially in HVAC and technical fields) that turns messy, scattered data quotes, proposals, invoices, CRM notes into a strategic advantage. Jes-AI analyzes historical deals to reveal which clients actually buy, which ones never convert, who the true decision-makers are, and which internal experts you should involve on complex projects. This is AI as a coach and strategist, helping teams prioritize the right opportunities, build smarter playbooks, and stop wasting time on low-probability deals all while keeping sensitive data locked inside the company's own Microsoft environment. We go deep into succession planning, mentorship, and preserving institutional wisdom. Bruce explains why traditional corporate mentoring often fails and how the master–journeyman–apprentice model from old guilds (anchored in the Dunbar number of ~150 meaningful relationships) is still the most effective structure. Using AI to transcribe real mentoring conversations, extract the “nuggets” of hard-won expertise, and turn them into reusable playbooks, companies can ensure that when senior engineers, salespeople, or leaders retire, their knowledge doesn't retire with them. Bruce also shares a powerful personal story about recovering from a spinal injury and medication dependency, and how structured routines, human connection, and AI-assisted reflection helped him avoid drift and reconnect with what truly matters. https://youtu.be/J6sApODuMZo?si=0PT3edi5IA21wEus If you're worried about losing key people, watching your team operate on autopilot, or sitting on years of underused data in your CRM and documents, this conversation is your roadmap. You'll learn how to use AI not as a gimmick, but as a multiplier of human judgment, craftsmanship, and long-term thinking, so your organization can keep growing even as your experts move on. Quotes: “AI is kind of like the smartest guy in your office sitting with you and telling you what to do or what has worked in the past.” "Part of what we call tribal knowledge is just relationships; who do we know, and when we work with this person or this company, things get done."  "What I recommend is that you start capturing these insights, and then you remind yourself, and you remind your team, and the team reminds itself of what's important on a daily basis." Contact Details: Scale Smarter: Engineer Faster: Build With JES-AI Turn Insight Into Action: Start With BR Dorey Connect With Bruce Dorey On LinkedIn And Build What's Next Follow Bruce Dorey On Facebook For Insights That Move Ideas Forward Follow Bruce Dorey On Instagram For Ideas, Insights, And Inspiration Lift: Passing the Craft on Amazon

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Dan Jacobs is a chef and restaurant owner in Milwaukee, where he co-owns Dan Dan and EsterEv, and a familiar face on shows like Top Chef and Beat Bobby Flay. He's spent decades in professional kitchens, from short-order cook to hotel sous chef to independent restaurant owner, and is an outspoken advocate for independent restaurants and for awareness of Kennedy's disease, the neuromuscular condition he lives with. Susan and Dan talk about concepts, costs, and Kennedy's disease. What You'll Learn - What hotel kitchens taught him about trading freedom for structure - Why he pushes every 25-year-old on staff to start a 401(k) now - What Kennedy's disease does to the body, and how it's reshaped his kitchen life - Why Dan Dan and EsterEv worked when so many concepts flop - How restaurant margins slid from 20-30% in the '90s to barely double digits today - How rent, labor, and food costs outpaced the price of a burger - How a busted HVAC system and a pandemic doomed one restaurant and saved another - What to grill your landlord about before signing a lease - How Dan spots a cook with real potential in about five seconds Key takeaway: Independent restaurants survive on gut instinct, thin margins, and giving people what they really want, and Dan Jacobs keeps building his that way even as Kennedy's disease changes how he works. Thank you to Lodgify for sponsoring Top Floor! Access 20% off with code TOPFLOOR20 here. [https://www.lodgify.com/] Dan Jacobs  https://www.chefdanjacobs.com/ Join the Top Floor Mail Club https://www.topfloorpodcast.com/mail-club

Episode 4209 │ August 24, 2026 A delayed flight led to a rabbit hole. What he found wasn't corporate greed. It was 17,800 missing mechanics and a crisis nobody can fix fast. WHAT THIS EPISODE COVERS  Scott Kesterson traces a two-hour flight delay back to its actual root cause — not corporate profiteering as he initially assumed, but a 15.1-year average aircraft age, a 5,300-plane shortfall in fleet replacement, and a shortage of 17,800 certified mechanics that will not resolve until 2031 to 2034 — and uses it as the entry point into a labor crisis spanning every trade sector in America: 130,000 missing electricians by 2030, 320,500 welders needed with 25% of the current workforce over 55, 550,000 needed plumbers and pipe fitters, and a truck driver shortage projected at 1.2 million over the next decade. Scott dismantles the generational blame narrative on both sides — Gen Z isn't lazy and immigrants aren't stealing jobs — and lands on the actual arithmetic problem: a child born today will not be a working electrician until 2048, deaths are projected to exceed births in America by 2036, and no realistic birth rate recovery closes a 20-to-25-year gap in time to matter. The episode closes on the emerging pattern Scott names as a new form of corporate socialism — the military-industrial complex positioning itself as the sole controller of security clearances, labor certification, and critical infrastructure work, with the same conservative base that opposes nationalized economies rallying behind it because it wears the uniform of national defense. KEY QUESTIONS ADDRESSED  What did Scott's research into flight delays actually reveal about the aging US aircraft fleet, the 5,300-plane shortfall in deliveries, and the 17,800 missing certified mechanics — and why does that data undercut the assumption that corporate profiteering is the primary driver behind service breakdowns? Why does the trade labor shortage — spanning electricians, welders, plumbers, HVAC technicians, aviation mechanics, and truck drivers — represent a demographic problem with no short-term fix, and what does the 20-to-25-year gap between a child's birth and workforce readiness mean for any political promise to simply "get people back to work"? What is the emerging pattern of corporate socialism Scott identifies through military-industrial complex control of infrastructure, security clearances, and labor certification — and why does he argue that the same conservative base that would reject a nationalized economy is rallying behind this exact structure because it is framed as national defense? ABOUT BARDSFM BardsFM is a daily independent podcast covering faith, liberty, history, and information warfare. Hosted by Scott Kesterson — combat veteran, documentary filmmaker, and rancher. Over 4,100 episodes and 50 million lifetime downloads. New episodes every weekday. bards.fm This episode was researched and produced under the Spatial Terra Intelligence Methodology (STIM v5) — the analytical framework built by Scott Kesterson — with AI-assisted research synthesis at a 70/30 human/AI authorship ratio, fully disclosed. All analysis, conclusions, and editorial judgments are those of Scott Kesterson. BardsFM's archive includes hundreds of episodes on prayer, scripture, and walking the Way of Christ — available free in the full episode catalog. DOWNLOADS Citizen's Guide - Community Organizing Against Data Centers: click here Citizen's Guide - Auditing Automatic License Plate Readers: click here Citizen's Guide - Auditing Your State's Driver License Data: click here AFFILIATE LINKS Bards Nation Health Store: www.bardsnationhealth.com MYPillow promo code: BARDS >> Go to https://www.mypillow.com/bards and use the promo code BARDS or... Call 1-800-975-2939.  EMPShield protect your vehicles and home. Promo code BARDS: Click here Treadlite Broadforks...best garden tool EVER. Promo code BARDS26: TreadliteBroadforks.com EnviroKlenz Air Purification, promo code BARDS to save 10%: www.enviroklenz.com Morning Intro Music Provided by Brian Kahanek: www.briankahanek.com Founders Bible 20% discount code: BARDS >>> TheFoundersBible.com Windblown Media 20% Discount with promo code BARDS: windblownmedia.com White Oak Pastures Grassfed Meats, Get $20 off any order $150 or more. Promo Code BARDS: www.whiteoakpastures.com/BARDS Mission Darkness Faraday Bags and RF Shielding. Promo code BARDS: Click here DONATIONS: If you wish to support this podcast directly you can donate here... DONATE: Click here MAILING ADDRESS: Xpedition Cafe, LLC Attn. Scott Kesterson 591 E Central Ave, #740 Sutherlin, OR  97479

This was supposed to be the summer of disclosure. What happened? We were told that the new Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day would challenge our faith and causes to question the truth contained in the Bible. While Spielberg's film failed to accomplish that lofty goal, the evangelist of the “ancient aliens” gospel continue to promote their view of the creation of the world and the origins of humanity. Joining us to discuss how Christians can use Hollywood's portrayal of non-human intelligences to open serious discussions of the Bible is our regular Iron and Myth panel: Dr. Judd Burton (BurtonBeyond.net), author of Interview With the Giant; Doug Van Dorn (DouglasVanDorn.com), author of Battle for the Bible's Truth: Genesis, Jesus, and the Second Century Plot to Deny the Messiah; and Brian Godawa (Godawa.com), best-selling author of Daniel: Exile in Babylon, the first novel in a trilogy about the life of Daniel. Derek's new book War of the Watchers Book One: From Baal to Balfour is now available at Amazon in paperback and as a Kindle e-book! It's also a part of a special offer at the SkyWatchTV store: Get War of the Watchers, Derek's previous book The Second Coming of Saturn, and a 13-part teaching DVD based on The Second Coming of Saturn for your donation of just $45! Follow us! X: @viewfrombunker | @sharonkgilbert | @derekgilbertTelegram: t.me/gilberthouseSubstack: gilberthouse.substack.com | sharonkgibert.substack.comYouTube: @GilbertHouse | @UnravelingRevelationFacebook.com/viewfromthebunker Thank you for making our Build Barn Better project a reality! The building has HVAC, a new floor, windows, insulation, ceiling fans, and an upgraded electrical system! We truly appreciate your support. If you are so led, you can help out at www.GilbertHouse.org/donate. Download our free app! This brings all of our content directly to your smartphone or tablet. Best of all, we'll never get canceled from our own app! Links to the app stores for iOS, iPadOS, Android, and Amazon Kindle Fire devices are at www.GilbertHouse.org/app. Please join us each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. JOIN US IN ISRAEL (NOTE NEW DATES)! We will tour the Holy Land October 24–November 3, 2027 with an optional three-day extension to Jordan. For more information, log on to GilbertHouse.org/travel. Special offers on our books and DVDs: www.gilberthouse.org/store. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great podcasters at the Fringe Radio Network (Spreaker.com/show/fringe-radio-network)!

My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you. More profit, less pain. It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/bigdeal-adelman -cs You've been telling yourself the same story. That you need more money to start. That you need the perfect idea. That becoming a billionaire is either impossible or reserved for the lucky. Here's the truth: the only thing between you and the wealth you want is believing you need something you don't have. David Adelman is a billionaire co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and investor in more than 90 companies. He built his empire from scratch by turning student housing from a mom and pop industry into a billion dollar asset class. In this episode, he breaks down how to spot great opportunities, structure deals where both sides win, and build wealth from the ground up without a silver spoon or trust fund. In this episode, you'll learn: Why great deals are never great for one side and poor for the other, and how David's mentor taught him that terms matter infinitely more than price The first million dollars framework: why it's harder to make your first million than your first billion, and how small wins beget big wins when you prove you can execute Why you can't do a good deal with a bad person and keep them in the partnership, and how David learned this lesson the hard way when he let emotion kill a deal he should have closed The #1 investing habit that separates billionaires from everyone else: bad news doesn't get better with time, and why David demands his operators punch him in the face with problems first before celebrating wins How to become an entrepreneur in someone else's business, why service businesses like HVAC and plumbing are ripe for succession, and how David would get his first million if he had to start over at 25 with nothing ___________ (00:00:00) Introduction: You Can Be an Entrepreneur in Somebody Else's Business (00:00:52) The LeBron James Deal: How to Close a Billion-Dollar Partnership (00:01:51) It's Always About Terms, Never Just Price (00:04:04) The Building I Didn't Buy: When Ego Kills the Deal (00:05:48) Billionaires Come in All Shapes and Colors: The Ego Myth (00:06:41) The Gravedancer and the Asset Class: How I Turned Student Housing Into Billions (00:08:40) The $300 Million Raise: How Mom and Dad Paying Rent Became My Pitch (00:10:33) Operational Alpha Over Leverage: Why Execution Beats Financial Engineering (00:11:37) The $1,300 a Day Since Jesus Died Math: What It Actually Takes to Become a Billionaire (00:17:17) Bad News Doesn't Get Better With Time: The Number One Management Rule (00:19:09) The Owner Book Launch: How to Build a Business That Runs Without You (00:20:16) The First Million Is Harder Than the First Billion (00:21:14) Hiring Hundreds and Employing Tens of Thousands: The HR Reality (00:23:42) The Back of the House Test: How to Tell if Your Operator Is Great (00:23:51) Boring Businesses Are the Future: The Anti-AI Play (00:37:47) The 30x Return: How Beatbox Became a Monster Exit (00:40:20) Losing Millions to Fraud: What I Learned From Deals That Went to Zero (00:41:34) The SBA Loan Default Rate: Why Buying Businesses Is Less Risky Than You Think (00:44:04) Longevity and Peptides: The Next Frontier for Investment (00:46:15) The Work From Home Tragedy: Why Showing Up Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage (00:50:53) The Apple Tax Lesson: How to Teach Your Kids About Money (00:52:35) The Three to Four Year Rule: Why Family Can't Work for You Until They've Worked Somewhere Else (00:54:16) Ask Questions or Stay Stupid: Why Curiosity Beats Intelligence (00:59:13) The HVAC Succession Play: Where the Real Money Is Hiding (01:03:48) Final Advice: Don't Look for a Million Dollars, Look for Education ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL

Episode Overview In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Podcast, Host Gary McCreadie Director of Player Development and Head Coach at Shelburne Soccer Club and President of McCreadie HVAC & Refrigeration Services and HVAC Know It All Inc, talks about volunteer leadership, workplace burnout, and gratitude. Using experiences from coaching and leading a youth soccer club, He explains how HVAC business owners, service managers, and technicians can use encouragement, communication, and patient development to help people perform at their best. He draws on the pressure of managing complaints and limited positive feedback while serving as president of the Shelburne Soccer Club and coaching soccer. That experience informs a leadership perspective centered on recognizing effort, building confidence in small steps, and supporting people in every direction of an organization. Key Takeaways How consistent encouragement can help a struggling employee or player rebuild confidence and improve performance. Why gratitude matters in volunteer roles, field work, and leadership positions where positive feedback can be limited. The value of assigning manageable tasks and increasing responsibility as someone builds confidence. How transformational leadership differs from ridicule, angry emails, and focusing only on mistakes. Why leaders also need honest positive feedback when they are carrying responsibility without support above them. The connection between toxic work environments, burnout, and employees deciding to leave. Key Timestamps [00:00] – Episode Introduction [05:18] – The Mental Strain of Thankless Volunteer Work  [07:11] – Lack of Gratitude and What Employees Need From Leaders  [08:47] – Coaching a struggling player through confidence-building encouragement [11:07] – Why Leadership and Support Need to Go Both Ways  [14:17] – Why employees should share positive feedback with good leaders [16:37] – Sharing Gratitude and Building People Up Through Positive Reinforcement  This Episode is Kindly Sponsored by: Cintas: https://www.cintas.com/hvacknowitall Cool Air Products: https://www.coolairproducts.net/ Factory Direct Filters: https://www.factorydirectfilters.com/ SupplyHouse: https://www.supplyhouse.com/tm Use promo code HKIA5 to get 5% off your first order at SupplyHouse! Follow the Host & His Companies: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/ Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com LinkedIn - HVAC Know It All Inc.: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hvac-know-it-all-inc McCreadie HVAC & Refrigeration Services: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mccreadie-hvac-refrigeration-services/ Shelburne Soccer Club: https://shelburnesoccerclub.sportngin.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/  Follow the Podcast on: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HVACKnowItAll   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6LCBJGw0EHG03rdWHxUMce  Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hvac-know-it-all-podcast/id1359253455  

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with John Michaels, "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 8 O'clock hour is brought to you by Central Heating and Air, One of the few second generation locally owned HVAC companies in Atlanta. With Central, you're not just a number, you're a member of the family. SCANA Headlines Movin' The Chains See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode 285 explores how one woman's personal wake-up call transformed into a mission to improve the air we breathe

We talk a lot on this show about root causes...what you eat, what you're exposed to, what you're healing inside of. This episode is about the one almost nobody checks: the air in your own home. Ariana Thacker is a chemical engineer and venture capitalist who, by her own description, was a highly functional human — daily boot camp, dialed-in diet, running a VC firm solo. Within months of moving into a new apartment, she was rereading simple emails just to process them, losing clumps of hair, and getting winded on the stairs. She saw more than a dozen providers — immunologists, allergists, pulmonologists, neurologists, PCPs — and none of them ran the right test. Most didn't believe mold could cause a whole-body inflammatory response at all. It took a Shoemaker-certified physician to name it: CIRS, chronic inflammatory response syndrome. She had one of the "dreaded" HLA haplotypes — part of the roughly 24% of the U.S. population that can't clear biotoxins on its own. She got better. Then she built the road she'd just clawed her way down. Ariana is the founder and CEO of MoldCo, a virtual clinic that answers three questions: Am I being exposed? Is mold making me sick? How do I get better? — with a $199 home test and a lab panel that starts at $56, roughly a tenth the cost of what most people pay to guess. Jen shares her own story too: a mold inspection that came back clean, and the leak found years later behind the living room wall by the family who bought the house. In this episode Why "highly functional" doesn't protect you — and how fast the symptoms started The 24% with a genetic susceptibility to mold, and what HLA haplotypes actually mean What CIRS is, and why ~80% of cases trace back to a water-damaged building Why the urinary mycotoxin test may be sending people down the wrong path — and the inflammatory markers (MMP9, MSH, TGF beta-1, C4A) that matter more How to hire a mold inspector who's actually qualified — the certifications to ask for and the 70-page report you should expect Why mold grows within 24–48 hours of water intrusion, and why new builds can be worse, not better The "canary effect": why one person in a house gets sick and nobody else does Prescription binders vs. natural binders — and why the natural route can take ten times longer Do air purifiers actually help? Moldy coffee and protein powder: is ingested mold the real threat, or is it what you're breathing? The environmental red flags to walk your own house for this week If you take one action Look up Shoemaker biotoxin symptom clusters (S-H-O-E-M-A-K-E-R). If a lot of those boxes light up for you — you only need one symptom per box to count — that's a strong signal to investigate your environment. Then walk your home for: that earthy, musty odor (especially in a basement), visible mold, peeling or cracking paint, warped flooring, dust on your HVAC vents, and indoor humidity consistently above 60%. Connect with Ariana MoldCo — moldco.com Instagram — @themoldcompany LinkedIn — in/arianadthacker X — @m0ldilocks

Day Break | Free Speech, Free For All Friday --- 00:00 - Monologue 28:09 – Craig Rucker, co-founder and Executive Director of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT). Rucker discusses polling suggesting climate change is not a top priority for many voters, examining the gap between political attention devoted to climate policy and the issues Americans say matter most to them. 38:22 - Monologue Featuring Ivey Gruber 47:22 – Mayra Flores, former U.S. Representative for Texas's 34th Congressional District and the first Mexican-born woman to serve in Congress. Flores discusses the Florida governor's race, primary contests unfolding across the country, and the work of the American Dream PAC as Republicans prepare for the midterm elections. 57:40 – Rep. Tim Walberg, Representative for Michigan's Fifth Congressional District and member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Education and the Workforce Committee. Walberg discusses the Working Families Tax Cuts and argues that provisions including no federal income tax on qualifying tips and overtime, along with tax relief for seniors, are allowing working Americans to keep more of what they earn. 1:16:52 - Monologue 1:25:53 – Steve Dulan, professor and attorney. Dulan provides an update on recent Second Amendment developments, including a gun-law case left in legal limbo as the Justice Department holds off on an appeal. He examines what the government's decision could mean for gun owners and future firearms litigation. 1:36:04 – Ed Brady, CEO of the Home Builders Institute (HBI). Brady discusses growing competition for America's skilled-trades workforce as the data-center and AI construction boom recruits electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, and other tradespeople. He examines concerns that the labor shift could worsen existing housing shortages and make it more difficult and expensive to build new homes. 1:44:56 – Ivey Gruber, President of the Michigan Talk Network. Gruber joins Steve to close out the show with conversation and commentary on the day's news, politics, culture, and other stories making headlines. --- Check out our brand new podcast, 'Forgotten America'... Episode 24 is live NOW at Steve Gruber on YouTube! Link below: https://youtu.be/UrGZQdE62jA

Quotes from the episode:  "Net zero wasn't the goal—it was the outcome of making hundreds of good building science decisions."     "One tiny installation mistake destroyed an entire refrigerant system. Details matter."     "The biggest lesson isn't that net zero works. It's that building science works."    Bill Spohn turns the microphone on himself for a candid look at what he learned by designing, building, and living in his own all-electric, net-zero home. Rather than advocating for Passive House, electrification, or solar as ends in themselves, Bill explains how those decisions emerged from a much simpler goal: creating a comfortable, healthy, quiet home that would serve his family well for decades.     Drawing on years of experience in HVAC instrumentation and building science, Bill shares the real-world successes, surprises, and setbacks that came with the project. He discusses why modular construction became the right fit, how careful modeling justified a surprisingly small two-ton cold-climate heat pump for a 4,000-square-foot conditioned home, and why airtightness, continuous insulation, and thoughtful solar orientation mattered more than oversized equipment.     The episode also explores the challenges that don't appear in glossy case studies. Bill recounts a cracked flare fitting that destroyed an entire heat pump refrigerant circuit, elusive zoning control issues, leaky high-performance windows, unexpected ventilation quirks, radon mitigation, drilling multiple wells over abandoned coal mines, and adapting to unforeseen site conditions. Throughout each story, measurements—not assumptions—led to the solutions.     Bill explains how monitoring electrical consumption, indoor air quality, solar production, and system performance has allowed him to verify what is actually happening instead of relying on opinions. He also reflects on what he would absolutely repeat, what he would change if starting over, and why successful high-performance homes depend on hundreds of well-executed details rather than any single technology.     Whether you're an HVAC contractor, building performance professional, or homeowner considering a high-performance home, this episode is a practical reminder that building science isn't about chasing trends—it's about making informed decisions that deliver comfort, durability, efficiency, and measurable results.    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billspohn/  Website: www.SpohnHome.com   Videos of Spohn Home:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_vqJbscA-U&pp=ygUJc3B  https://youtu.be/tIou30sSodM?si=QjMIGlVmIWv1h34s  https://www.youtube.com/live/mct8V5esSGY?si=ArA3Iy1Z7JKRgKc1    This episode was recorded in August 2026. 

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with John Michaels, "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 8 O'clock hour is brought to you by Central Heating and Air, One of the few second generation locally owned HVAC companies in Atlanta. With Central, you're not just a number, you're a member of the family. SCANA Headlines Movin' The Chains Bulldog Beat presented by Georgia's Own Credit Union & Attorney Ken Nugent See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Bryan Orr sits down with Ty Branaman for a wide-ranging conversation about what it really takes to be a good on-call technician. They open by reminiscing about how dispatch technology has evolved over their careers — from pagers, radio codes, and outdated paper map books to MapQuest, early GPS units, and today's 24-hour dispatch systems. That trip down memory lane sets up the episode's central theme: while the tools have changed, the mindset needed to succeed on call has not. Both hosts agree that being on call can be genuinely enjoyable when a technician learns to embrace the autonomy, the bigger paychecks, and the quieter, less stressful roads that come with nights and weekends. A major thread running through the discussion is self-discipline and long-term thinking. Bryan and Ty encourage younger techs to treat on-call money as an opportunity rather than spending cash — saving and investing overtime pay instead of financing trucks, boats, or other lifestyle upgrades. They share stories about the financial traps of seasonal trade work, the value of staying in a consistent routine even at 2 a.m., and how cutting corners under fatigue is often what leads to injuries or callbacks. Ty compares a disciplined on-call tech to a pilot running through a pre-flight checklist: the process matters just as much in the middle of the night as it does at noon. The conversation also digs into customer relationships and judgment calls in the field. They talk candidly about the difference between genuine emergencies and entitled or overblown complaints, and how companies that over-market "24/7 service" can create unrealistic customer expectations. Bryan shares a story about temporarily misting a struggling condenser to get an elderly client through a brutal heat wave, using it to illustrate the kind of judgment-based, get-them-by fix that defines old-school on-call work — as opposed to always pushing for a full sale. Safety boundaries, cutting corners responsibly, and the excitement of solving unpredictable problems on the fly are all discussed as part of what makes the work rewarding despite its challenges. Finally, Bryan and Ty turn to advice for company owners and service managers. They emphasize building fair, well-communicated on-call rotations, respecting technicians' personal time, and charging appropriately for after-hours work so that both customers and technicians value it. Ty argues that the industry needs to reframe HVAC work as a skilled trade rather than commodity labor, and that companies should be careful not to chase more emergency calls than their technician pool can sustainably handle. The episode closes with reflections on career growth, mentorship, and the kindness that comes from helping teammates cover on-call shifts for one another. Topics Covered The evolution of dispatch: pagers, radio 10-codes, paper map books, and early GPS Why on-call work can be enjoyable: autonomy, higher pay, and quieter roads The hardest part of on-call: getting called back out after coming home Customer expectations, entitlement, and the impact of "24/7 service" marketing Saving and investing on-call earnings instead of overspending on trucks and boats Staying in routine and following checklists even late at night to avoid callbacks Sleep, hydration, and avoiding excess caffeine while working on-call shifts Judgment calls and temporary fixes to get customers through emergencies safely Knowing your personal safety and ethical limits when cutting corners Career paths with less on-call demand: maintenance roles, installation, stationary engineering Reframing HVAC service as a skilled trade rather than commodity labor Building fair, well-communicated on-call rotations to prevent technician burnout Mentorship, teamwork, and covering shifts for coworkers with families   Subscribe to Ty's YouTube channel, @love2hvac. Learn more about the work we're doing with Ty at the GRIT Foundation at https://www.thegritfoundation.com/.  Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 8th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

Book a free strategy call to see how we can help you hit your goals and beyond: https://bit.ly/4b0wLaZ or call us at: (214)-453-1591 Get Predictable Calls From Proven Direct Mail Campaigns. Learn more about CertainPath's Lead Generation Direct Mail programs — for members AND non-members. Click here for a FREE Market Analysis: https://mycertainpath.com/lead-generation-request/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=tsc226  He was a corporate consultant. She had an MBA. Neither had roofed a day in their lives — then they bought a roofing company and doubled it. Tim Wilde and his wife Sasha bought Sexton Roofing & Siding in Western Massachusetts in 2023 — a 40-year-old brand the previous owner ran solo at about $2 million a year, working 16-hour days, seven days a week. Neither of them had ever roofed: Tim came out of corporate pharmaceutical-construction consulting, and Sasha has an MBA and always wanted to run a business. When a corporate takeover pushed Tim out, and a friend showed them you could simply buy a business, they did. The first year nearly broke them. They priced with “a finger in the air,” had no idea what a good margin was, and kept winning on low bids. Then they found CertainPath — Tim signed up at a Profit Day on the spot — and the turnaround began: fixing their pricing first, then rebuilding sales around an in-home, one-call-close process. Two years in, they've doubled the business past $4 million, they're targeting $6.5 million, and Tim personally sold $2 million to become a CertainPath roofing crown champion. And it's 100% woman-owned — Sasha owns it outright, and Tim jokes he's “just cheap labor.” In this conversation, you'll discover: How two people with zero trade experience bought a 40-year-old roofing company off a broker Why the acquisition was tougher than they expected — and what they'd do differently The “finger in the air” pricing mistake CertainPath fixed first How moving to an in-home presentation unlocked one-call closes Why being the most thorough person at the door — the one who actually goes in the attic — wins the job The CertainPath training moment that took Tim from “doing sales completely wrong” to a crown champion How they think about growth: taking “a smaller piece of a larger pie” Whether you run a roofing, HVAC, plumbing, or electrical company, Tim and Sasha's story shows how to buy a business, raise your prices, and build a sales process that actually closes. Watch on YouTube or listen on your favorite podcast platform. And don't forget to subscribe to The Successful Contractor for more interviews that move the needle. About the Show The Successful Contractor is a podcast for residential HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing contractors. Hosted by Bob Houchin, each episode features real contractor growth stories, hard-won business insights, and practical takeaways for building a profitable home services company. Meet the Host Bob Houchin has spent 20+ years immersed in the home services industry — listening to, learning from, and serving the people who run it. As host of The Successful Contractor, he's interviewed hundreds of the brightest minds in the trades. Beyond the mic, Bob is a Senior Strategist at CertainPath, building the training, onboarding programs, keynotes, and playbooks used by 1,200+ residential service companies. His motto: smart contractors learn from their mistakes; wise contractors learn from the mistakes of others. About CertainPath CertainPath is a business coaching and training organization that has built successful home service businesses for more than 25 years. We serve 1,200+ member companies across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and roofing with professional coaching, training for every role, software solutions, and a vendor partner network that delivers millions in member rebates every year. Doubling your sales with a 20% net profit and an inspiring company culture is ALL possible. With CertainPath, Success is Made Certain. Connect CertainPath: https://www.mycertainpath.com FOLLOW CERTAINPATH Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CertainPath LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/certainpath Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/certainpath/ 

Home service businesses are getting more attention than ever. But are they really as good as they look?In this episode of Owned and Operated, John Wilson and Jack Carr talk about why HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other home service businesses have become so popular; and why they're still incredibly hard to operate.They break down what makes home services attractive, the mistakes people make when buying into the trades, and where there's still opportunity as more buyers enter the space.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In This Episode━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Why more people are getting into the trades• What makes home services such an attractive business model• Why fragmentation creates so much opportunity• The reality of staffing, seasonality, and competition• Why running a home service business takes more than being smart• The biggest mistake people make when buying a home service company• The difference between buying a business and buying a job━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect━━━━━━━━━━━━━━John Wilsonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbwilson1/Jack Carrhttps://x.com/thehvacjackCatalyst https://www.ownedandoperated.com/catalyst━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Sponsors━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Quick StaffersHire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers: https://www.quickstaffers.com/ Profit & GritRunning a $3M–$15M home service business? Profit & Grit helps contractors improve cash flow, pricing, forecasting, and profitability with guidance from an operator who's built and sold a $25M service business. Book your free 20-minute strategy call: https://www.profitandgrit.comFieldPulseReady to ditch the whiteboard and spreadsheets? See how FieldPulse helps home service companies simplify scheduling, dispatching, invoicing, and more. Book a free demo: https://landing.fieldpulse.com/owned_and_operatedSend Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&OJohn's Podcast YouTube ChannelOwned and Operated Newsletter Bonus Videos From JohnLeave a ReviewJohn Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC

Welcome to "The Locker Room" with John Michaels, "Hometeam" Brandon Leak, and former Atlanta Falcon Brian Finneran. The guys talk all the top stories from the Braves, Falcons, Hawks, Bulldogs, Tech as well as across the nation. The 8 O'clock hour is brought to you by Central Heating and Air, One of the few second generation locally owned HVAC companies in Atlanta. With Central, you're not just a number, you're a member of the family. SCANA Headlines See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Business Edition Podcast, co-hosts Gary McCreadie and Furman Haynes from WorkHero sit down with Samir Pendse, Co-founder & CEO at Coral exploring the future of HVAC financing, heat pump adoption, rebate programs, and innovative business models like HVAC-as-a-Service. They discuss why affordability remains the biggest barrier to energy-efficient equipment, how contractors can simplify financing for homeowners, and why marketing should focus on comfort and savings rather than politics. The conversation also covers the challenges small contractors face, the evolution of financing options, and what the future of home comfort solutions looks like. Coral is a company helping HVAC contractors simplify rebates, incentives, and financing for homeowners. Coral enables contractors to offer affordable energy-efficient systems without navigating complex incentive programs, making high-efficiency HVAC upgrades more accessible across the United States. Expect To Learn: Why affordability is the biggest challenge for heat pump adoption. How financing can increase sales of high-efficiency HVAC systems. Why comfort and energy savings should be the primary marketing message for heat pumps. The unique challenges small HVAC contractors face with rebate programs. How contractor coordination impacts energy-efficiency projects. The rise of HVAC-as-a-Service and subscription-based home comfort. Coral's vision for simplifying financing, incentives, and rebates for contractors.   Timestamps : 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - Are Heat Pumps Becoming the New Standard? 02:01 - The Politics of Heat Pump Marketing 04:25 - Keeping Politics Out of HVAC Sales 05:54 - Why Economics Will Drive Heat Pump Growth 07:21 - Can Small Contractors Keep Up With Incentive Programs? 09:25 - Coordinating HVAC, Electrical & Weatherization Projects 10:56 - The Future of HVAC Financing 13:37 - HVAC as a Service: Subscription-Based Heating & Cooling 14:56 - Why HVAC Subscriptions Are Growing 16:25 - Partnerships Between Manufacturers, Distributors & Financing 17:41 - Why HVAC as a Service Makes Sense for Homeowners 20:12 - Coral's Expansion Plans & Final Advice for Contractors 21:06 - Closing Remarks   Follow our Guest Samir Pendse: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samirpendse/  Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startcoral/ Company Website: https://www.startcoral.com/    Follow Gary McCreadie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/  Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/    Follow Furman Haynes:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/furmanhaynes/  WorkHero: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workherohvac/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workhero__/

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Service Scout (14 day free trial): https://getservicescout.com/demo.html This is the toughest year to close a sale in home services since 2008. Equipment costs more than ever, credit is tighter, and the customers calling for a replacement are the hardest ones to sell. The problem usually is not your leads. It is what happens when your technician walks in the door. In this episode of Service Business Mastery, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch sit down with Justin Riley, CEO and founder of UpFrog, for a straight read on the 2026 home services market and how the best companies are still closing jobs hand over fist. Justin breaks down why likability now beats price, why repair and maintenance calls are the easier win this year, how to lead with the right financing so a customer with tough credit still says yes, and the new tool he built, Service Scout, that briefs your tech on the home, the buyer, and the strategy in 90 seconds before every call. If close rate is where your money leaks this year, this one is the fix. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Upfrog, one of our show partners. Fitting, since today's guest is Upfrog's founder. Upfrog turns paid ad spend into booked, sold system replacements instead of wasted leads. Learn more at upfrog.com. CHAPTERS 0:00 – Raise Your Close Rate by Listening for 90 Seconds 3:01 – From HVAC Apprentice to Founding UpFrog 7:11 – The State of the 2026 Market: Toughest Since 2008 9:04 – Why Close Rate Is the Number One Problem This Year 11:45 – Why Customers Shop for Who They Like, Not Price 13:00 – Why Repair and Maintenance Calls Are the Easier Win 14:03 – The Average Ticket Meat Zone and the Credit Ceiling 17:01 – How Service Scout Was Born 19:12 – Inside a Service Scout Pre Appointment Intelligence Brief 23:30 – The Results: A 5 to 14% Close Rate Lift 24:12 – Leading With the Right Financing to Win Tough Credit 28:02 – Handling the Data Responsibly 31:27 – The Reporting Most Contractors Have Never Seen 33:11 – The Pricing and the ROI Math 36:53 – AI Should Make Your People Super, Not Replace Them 49:30 – The Number One Reason Close Rates Are Down WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - Why 2026 is the hardest year to close a home services sale since 2008, and where the money is actually leaking - Why likability now beats price, and why the replacement estimate is the hardest call to win - How a 90 second pre appointment brief can lift your close rate 5 to 14% - How to lead with the right financing so a customer with tough credit still says yes - What you can learn about a home before the visit, and how to use it without crossing a line - Why the real IP of a home service business is your people, not your AI stack THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY UPFROG System replacement leads from paid ads, nurtured and booked into sold jobs before your team arrives: upfrog.com MARKETSTORM An AI-powered advertising platform. Results vary by market, budget, and campaign configuration: https://marketstorm.ai/ CALLRAIL CallRail's Voice Assist is a 24/7 AI voice assistant that answers every call, handles customer questions, and books jobs directly onto your calendar, all without you ever having to step away from the current job. Try Voice Assist for free today at voiceassist.com BREEZY Capture 25-30% more clients with Breezy AI Agents. Use code 'SBM' to book a demo and get $500 on us: https://bit.ly/4ihjXkx PHONETAP Your calls hold the key to growing your business. PhoneTAP gives you instant AI analysis, real customer lifetime value, and tools to coach your team. Learn more: phonetap.ai/demo COMPANYCAM Capture work, track job progress, and stay connected from the field to the office with photo documentation and AI tools that keep work moving. Start a free trial at https://companycam.com/ CONNECT WITH OUR HOSTS AND GUEST Tersh Blissett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tershblissett/ Josh Crouch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-crouch/ Justin Riley, CEO and Founder of UpFrog: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justintriley/ UpFrog: https://upfrog.com Service Scout (14 day free trial): https://getservicescout.com/demo.html ABOUT SERVICE BUSINESS MASTERY Service Business Mastery helps home service owners run better, more profitable companies. Every week, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch break down the operations, technology, and leadership behind growing an HVAC, plumbing, or electrical business, with the operators actually doing the work. More at https://servicebusinessmastery.com/ Subscribe on YouTube and follow us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode. If this one helped, share it with an owner who needs it. #ServiceBusinessMastery #HomeServices #HVAC #HVACSales #CloseRate  

In this episode of Lennox ON AIR, Dave and Doug sit down with Tripp Jordan of Sales Builder Pro, Jeff Bowab of RYNO Strategic Solutions, and Lennox Category Sales Sr. Manager Scott Dohn to explore how dealers can turn growing interest in zoning and mini-splits into profitable business growth. As homeowners search for whole-home comfort solutions, the group explains why selling the equipment alone is not enough—and why education, marketing, and a confident sales process must work together.The conversation covers how dealers can market the problems homeowners are trying to solve, create educational content that builds trust, and use financing to make comfort solutions more accessible. You'll also hear how tools, training, and vendor partnerships can help teams quote ductless systems with confidence, reduce hesitation at the kitchen table, and prepare for the category's continued growth. If you're ready to move beyond one-size-fits-all selling and capture more of the ductless opportunity, this episode offers practical strategies to help you take action.Calling all HVAC techs! Got a hilarious story, eye-opening tip, or hot opinion to share? Fill out our quick questionnaire for a chance to be featured on Lennox ON CALL!Lennox ON AIR is a Lennox Learning Solutions Production.

I'll do some binoculing and tree-spotting as I take in the view of a bucket list balcony. But mostly, I'll be here to keep you company as we find the path to dreamland.This episode was recorded on location and contains ambient noise (distant music, HVAC sounds, other voices, etc.). Feel free to skip this episode if that's not your cup of tea.The show really needs your help right now. Keep Sleep With Me going and get hours of bonus content by joining Sleep With Me Plus! sleepwithmepodcast.com/plusGet your Sleep With Me SleepPhones. Use "sleepwithme" for $5 off!!Are you looking for Story Only versions or two more nights of Sleep With Me a week? Then check out Bedtime Stories from Sleep With MeThis episode is produced by Rusty Biscuit aka Russell Sperberg.Show Artwork by Emily TatGoing through a hard time? You can find support at the Crisis Textline and see more global helplines here.HELIX SLEEP - Take the 2-minute sleep quiz and they'll match you to a customized mattress that'll give you the best sleep of your life. Visit helixsleep.com/sleep and get a special deal exclusive for SWM listeners!ZOCDOC - With Zocdoc, you can search for local doctors who take your insurance, read verified patient reviews and book an appointment, in-person or video chat. Download the Zocdoc app to sign-up for FREE at zocdoc.com/sleepAQUATRU - AquaTru is a countertop water purifier tested & certified to remove 84 contaminants, including chlorine, lead, forever chemicals, and microplastics! Get 20% off your water purifier by going to AquaTru.com and using promo code SLEEPTALKIATRY - Talkiatry gives you access to real psychiatric care with licensed clinicians who can diagnose and prescribe medication if it's right for you. It's a simple way to get effective treatment right from home. Head to Talkiatry.com/SLEEP to complete the short assessment and get matched with an in‑network psychiatrist in just a few minutes.QUINCE - Quince Superfood Greens cuts through all the nutrition noise with one simple, daily scoop that helps fill in your nutrient gaps and support your overall health. Head to quince.com/sleepwithme for free shipping and 365-day returns.DRIPDROP - DripDrop is doctor-developed, proven fast hydration that helps your body and mind work better. To get 20% off your first order, go to dripdrop.com and use promo code "sleep".COZY EARTH - Cozy Earth's bamboo sheets are guaranteed to give you a good night's sleep. The wick away heat and moisture to keep you cool in the summer nights. Head to cozyearth.com and use code SLEEP for 20% off! Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In this short podcast episode, Bryan and Roman talk about Florida law and how it relates to the "M-word" (mold) and the legal boundaries our techs must respect when they communicate with customers. HVAC School and Kalos are NOT mold experts, but we have experience as HVAC professionals who encounter suspicious microbial growth in our market (and cannot diagnose or remediate mold). We cannot use the word "mold" because "mold" MUST be diagnosed by a certified mold assessor via laboratory testing according to Florida law. A guess based on sight does NOT qualify as a diagnosis; it is the equivalent of diagnosing a compressor failure as acid contamination without a test that proves the presence of acid. Residential property owners, however, are allowed to identify, remediate, and speak freely about mold in their own homes (which Roman can do because he hired mold assessors and remediators in his home). Florida limits HVAC contractors from diagnosing mold (or removing more than 10 contiguous square feet while removing, maintaining, or installing equipment) to prevent scare tactics in sales, such as by diagnosing "toxic mold" in a drain, or to sweep larger problems under the rug. There are also many different mold types that have specific characteristics that can only be identified by an assessor; HVAC contractors are not trained to recognize those. However, mold is part of our work whenever we clean coils, HVAC units distribute air (which contains mold spores from outside), and we manage moisture (which contributes to fungal growth). Mold assessors also have specific diagnostic tools and send lab samples. HVAC contractors don't have those resources, training, or certification. As HVAC contractors, need to be educated on mold, but we also need to understand our limitations; we can't diagnose it or make decisions for customers.   Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 8th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

Calling all apprentices (and those training them)! One of our most listened to episodes went live back in April 2024 and still tallies downloads today so we decided it was time for a followup! We changed it up a little from our first list of 5 Things Apprentices Should Do Every Day Thanks for listening, have a great day! Text the guys your ideas & feedback! Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels!Eric Aune @mechanicalhub Andy Mickelson @mick_plumbNewsletter sign up: https://bit.ly/MH_email

Dr. Lauren Kim speaks with first author Dr. Andrew Hernandez about his study which comprehensively quantified energy consumption in MRI, CT, and PET/CT imaging suites by measuring the energy utilization of main power, HVAC, and chilled water subsystems. The study showed that HVAC and chilled water subsystems contribute substantially to total energy consumption, that energy efficiency increases with increasing daily scanning volume, and that a substantial portion of energy consumption occurs during non-operating hours.   Quantification of Imaging Suite–Level Energy Patterns in MRI, CT, and PET/CT to Guide Energy Efficiency. Hernandez et al. Radiology 2026; 319(1):e253128.

Send us Fan MailHow much money are you spending trying to make an unmemorable brand memorable?If your truck could belong to five other HVAC companies, your social content could carry another contractor's logo, and your brand relies on “everybody already knows us,” you may have a bigger problem than advertising.Want Lemon Seed to take a look at how your brand is showing up in the market?Book a call: https://www.lemonseedmarketing.com/contact/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=ftyc_ep234&utm_content=show_notesIn Episode 234 of From the Yellow Chair, Crystal Williams and Emily Fleniken are joined by Jen McKee of Kee Hart Marketing to explore what makes a business truly recognizable.Using Lemon Seed's signature yellow and Jen's purple and sequins as examples, they explain how color, consistency, personality and intentional branding create something customers can remember before they ever need to make a service call.You'll hear:• Why a brand needs more than a recognizable logo • How color creates top of mind awareness • Why contractors often overestimate how recognizable their businesses are • How poor branding can make other marketing investments work harder • What contractors should know before changing their brand • How to launch a rebrand without confusing the market • Why your brand should communicate the quality of the experience customers can expectAbout JenJen McKee of Kee Hart Marketing works with businesses in the home service industry and has become known throughout the industry for her unmistakable purple and sequins. In this conversation, she shares how those recognizable elements became part of her brand and why memorable businesses give people something specific to associate with them.Listen and followApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/from-the-yellow-chair/id1598195561Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1goGP66YLPIxzpX1TxFGvTWatch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wYkvv99zfSEMore from From the Yellow Chair: https://www.lemonseedmarketing.com/contractor-marketing-podcast/From the Yellow Chair is powered by Lemon Seed Marketing, a full service marketing and branding agency serving home service contractors.If you enjoyed this chat From the Yellow Chair, consider joining our newsletter, "Let's Sip Some Lemonade," where you can receive exclusive interviews, our bank of helpful downloadables, and updates on upcoming content.Please consider following and drop a review below if you enjoyed this episode. Be sure to check out our social media pages on Facebook and Instagram.From the Yellow Chair is powered by Lemon Seed, a marketing strategy and branding company for the trades. Lemon Seed specializes in rebrands, creating unique, comprehensive, organized marketing plans, social media, and graphic design. Learn more at www.LemonSeedMarketing.comInterested in being a guest on our show? Fill out this form!We'll see you next time, Lemon Heads!

You can be profitable and still run out of cash.In this supercut episode of Owned and Operated, featuring insights from several episodes, John Wilson breaks down the cash flow, sales, and KPI systems that helped him scale a home service business from $1M to roughly $40M in revenue.Learn why profit doesn't equal cash, how to improve average ticket by solving higher-value problems, and the five numbers every home service owner should track to find problems faster and scale with more control.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━In This Episode━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• Why profitable home service businesses still run out of cash• How to improve cash flow and get paid faster• The systems John would implement at $1M in revenue• How to increase average ticket with a value ladder• Why training and ride-alongs drive better sales performance• The 5 KPIs every home service owner should track• How to diagnose lead, booking, closing, and average ticket problems• Why “number of options” is a critical sales metric• How scorecards and daily KPIs create accountability━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect━━━━━━━━━━━━━━John Wilsonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/johnbwilson1/Jack Carrhttps://x.com/thehvacjackOwned and Operatedhttps://www.ownedandoperated.com/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Sponsors━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Service ScalersGet more high quality leads with marketing built for home service companies. Book a free strategy call with Service Scalers and see what's driving real jobs: https://os.servicescalers.com/go/oao_podcast/referral/podcastQuick StaffersHire trained HVAC and plumbing CSRs without the overhead of traditional hiring. Save $500 on your first placement with Quick Staffers: https://www.quickstaffers.com/Send Us Mail!More Ways To Connect with O&OJohn's Podcast YouTube ChannelOwned and Operated Newsletter Bonus Videos From JohnLeave a ReviewJohn Wilson, CEO of Wilson CompaniesJack Carr, CEO of Rapid HVAC

Every lost service call, missed job, and failed dispatch isn't a sign of defeat—it is essential data that refines your entire operation. This episode breaks down why home service professionals need to reframe how they handle setbacks, drawing a direct parallel between the relentless trial-and-error of classic NES video games like Super Mario and building a resilient home service business. Instead of viewing mistakes as a dead end, owners and technicians across plumbing, HVAC, electrical, and contracting can use these moments to tighten their processes. You will learn why slowing down during client interactions matters, how to let the silence breathe when asking the right customer questions, how to view failure as objective feedback rather than personal failure, why mastering timing and execution requires repeating the hard parts, and how a relentless mindset turns everyday losses into long-term industry success. Listen to discover how shifting your perspective on failure can completely rewire your approach to daily dispatches, customer service, and business growth without getting bogged down by the setbacks. Presented by Trainual Build a better-trained home service team with Trainual.

In this episode, Reuben Saltzman and Tessa Murry are joined by Andrew Harshman of AJF Inspections in Arizona to discuss builder workmanship inspections and the growing demand for detailed inspections of new construction homes. They explore Arizona's workmanship standards for licensed contractors, how these inspections differ from traditional home inspections, and why homeowners are requesting a closer look at cosmetic and construction defects. Andrew explains how his company structures these inspections, the importance of documenting defects within warranty periods, specialized inspection tools, pricing considerations, builder restrictions, and how inspection companies can create a specialized service around new construction standards.Here's the link to Inspector Empire Builder:https://www.iebcoaching.com/eventsTakeawaysBuilder workmanship inspections are more detailed than traditional home inspections and focus heavily on cosmetic defects and construction standards.Arizona has workmanship standards for licensed contractors covering areas such as HVAC, electrical, cabinets, concrete, landscaping, and more.Some defects must be documented within specific periods, including a 10-day window for certain issues, a one-year window for others, and broader two-year warranty coverage.A separate workmanship report helps distinguish standards-based findings from recommendations typically included in a regular home inspection report.These inspections can take two to three times longer than traditional inspections because inspectors document many additional details and cosmetic issues.Common findings include damaged surfaces, stucco issues, landscaping concerns, improperly positioned light switches, tile problems, shower surround gaps, and electrical equipment that is not level, plumb, or true.Inspectors may use specialized tools such as gap gauges, tile-tapping tools, and levels to identify workmanship issues that might otherwise be overlooked.Homeowners should understand that builder workmanship inspections are an additional level of service and are not necessarily included in a standard new construction inspection.Training a dedicated team and using a separate report template can help inspection companies maintain consistency and efficiency.Builder restrictions may limit what inspectors can inspect before the homeowner takes ownership, so these limitations should be clearly communicated and documented.The key takeaway: Builder workmanship inspections can provide significant value for new construction homeowners, but inspectors need clear standards, proper training, specialized tools, and a well-defined scope of service.Chapters00:00 Introduction and Welcome to the Show01:42 Introducing Andrew Harshman of AJF Inspections02:04 Andrew's Background and How He Became a Home Inspector03:47 What Is Launchpad?05:28 Finding Andrew Harshman Online05:51 Why Arizona Is Driving the Builder Workmanship Discussion06:51 Arizona's Workmanship Standards for Licensed Contractors08:19 Warranty Periods and Why Documentation Matters09:23 Blue Tape Inspections vs. Regular Home Inspections10:31 Creating a Separate Builder Workmanship Inspection Report11:38 Comparing Arizona's Standards to Minnesota12:08 The Role of the Registrar of Contractors13:27 Types of New Construction and Warranty Inspections14:53 Pricing Builder Workmanship Inspections15:24 What Is a Builder Workmanship Inspection?16:22 Educating Clients About the Additional Service17:44 Combining New Construction and Warranty Inspections18:37 Why Homeowners Are Requesting Workmanship Inspections19:17 Detailed Standards and Nitpicky Inspection Findings20:43 Do Inspectors Enjoy Doing Builder Workmanship Inspections?21:04 The Challenges and Benefits of Detailed Inspections23:07 Building a Specialized Workmanship Inspection Team24:37 Separate Report Templates for Workmanship Standards25:36 Why Keeping the Workmanship Report Separate Matters26:14 Should a Home Inspector Perform the Workmanship Inspection?27:14 Applying Broad Workmanship Standards to Additional Defects28:40 Using Specialized Tools to Measure Construction Defects29:19 How Builders Respond to Detailed Workmanship Inspections30:10 Electrical Equipment, Levelness, and Acceptable Tolerances31:20 Why New Construction Homes Aren't Always Perfect32:07 Managing Two Inspection Templates During an Inspection32:37 Training Inspectors to Know the Workmanship Standards33:26 Documenting Issues That Fall Outside Specific Standards34:14 How Many Clients Choose the Workmanship Inspection?35:13 The Value of Clearly Defining Inspection Services36:20 The Growing Market for Cosmetic Inspection Services37:06 Creating Workmanship Standards for Different Builders37:37 Builder Restrictions and Communicating Inspection Limitations38:56 Specialized Tools and Techniques for Detailed Inspections40:01 Closing Thoughts and Where to Find Andrew Harshman41:02 Final Thoughts and Listener Feedback

Data center construction is moving fast, and the equipment supporting these facilities has to keep pace.In this episode of the Empowering Industry Podcast, Charli Matthews Carruth sits down with Ric Turmel, Senior Vice President for Engineered Building Solutions at Taco, to discuss how custom-engineered skid packages are helping meet the speed, scale, and efficiency demands of today's data center projects.Ric shares how Taco's Lubbock, Texas facility has grown to support increasing demand for custom skid packages and why prefabrication can help reduce installation time and the need for specialized labor in the field. They also explore workforce challenges, long-term procurement and planning, and how data centers are pushing HVAC systems toward greater energy efficiency.From coordinated system design to preparing for what comes next, Ric offers a look at how the rapid growth of data centers could influence the entire industry.Watch Building at the Speed of Data: How Custom Skids Are Transforming Data Center Construction With Ric Turmel and hear what's driving this rapidly evolving market.#DataCenters #HVAC #Engineering #Manufacturing #Infrastructure #EmpoweringIndustryEmpowering Pumps & Equipment:Empowering Pumps and Equipment is the Information & Connection hub for the Industry. We specialize in digital media marketing, and we help companies just like yours reach their desired audience across a variety of platforms. We connect, inform, and educate the pump & related equipment industries by creating valuable partnerships between manufacturers and their customers. We connect you with our community using digital advertising, social media, and custom digital publications that amplify your message as a thought leader in industry. As a digital media company, we also create and/or host webinars and virtual lunch and learns, offer technical writing, and host a podcast called the Empowering Industry Podcast.Empowering Pumps & Equipment shares useful information for industries such as water/wastewater; oil/gas; utilities; and more. Our audience includes engineers, consultants, operations and maintenance staff, OEMs, and suppliers.Empowering Pumps & Industry Conference (EPIC):The Empowering Pumps & Industry Conference is where the industry can come to connect with manufacturers, distributors, end users, associations, and students in one place. The two-day event will feature presentations from subject matter experts, roundtable discussions, exhibits, and tours. About Empowering Brands:Empowering Brands located in Tuscaloosa, AL is a versatile, digital marketing services company that works with industrial companies and specializes in social media management and marketing; strategic planning; marketing consulting; content development, and digital advertising.Working as a strategic partner and extension of our clients' marketing team; we bring fresh thinking and experience with flexible and responsive service to empower our clients and maximize their brands.In addition to our marketing services work, Empowering Brands owns the leading online community for the global pump industry, EmpoweringPumps.com.  A digital-first publisher focused on thought leadership, community building, and social media advocacy for our industry partners.  We help clients reach and engage with a diverse industrial audience.In addition to our marketing services work, Empowering Brands owns the leading online community for the global pump industry, EmpoweringPumps.com.  A digital-first publisher focused on thought leadership, community building, and social media advocacy for our industry partners.  We help clients reach and engage with a diverse industrial audience.The Empowering Brands company is leading the way to connect, inform, and educate the next generation of industry leaders.CONNECT | INFORM | EDUCATEConnect with Us:Website https://empoweringpump...Facebook   / empoweringpumps  Twitter   / empoweringpumps  LinkedIn   / empo.  .Empowering Women in Industry https://empoweringwome...Empowering Women in Industry Youtube 

Quotes from the episode:  "This is no longer a push-pull industry. This is a thinking person's game now."   "The better context you give AI, the better partner it becomes."  "Ask AI to teach you how to use AI in your particular situation."     Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the most practical tools available to HVAC professionals—but only if it's used as a thinking partner rather than a shortcut. In this episode, Bill Spohn is joined by Tyler Nelson, a nationally recognized HVAC educator and combustion expert, and Billy Spohn, who leads AI initiatives at TruTech Tools, for an honest discussion about where AI is already delivering real value.    Tyler explains how his background in combustion analysis naturally led him to AI, with both disciplines relying on measurements, analytics, and informed decision-making. He shares real-world examples of technicians using AI to troubleshoot equipment, communicate more effectively with customers, create personalized learning programs, and even build their own "AI universities" that accelerate technical growth. The result isn't replacing skilled technicians—it's helping them become better diagnosticians and better communicators.    Billy offers the business perspective, describing how AI is transforming workflows by connecting systems that have traditionally operated independently. From generating better reports to automating repetitive tasks and acting as an always-available business advisor, he explains why providing AI with proper context is far more important than simply asking questions. The conversation also covers practical topics such as subscription costs, privacy settings, memory features, and the importance of verifying important information rather than accepting every answer at face value.    Perhaps the biggest takeaway is that AI isn't eliminating the need for experience, craftsmanship, or human judgment. Instead, it frees professionals to spend more time solving problems, serving customers, and continuously improving their skills. Whether you're an HVAC technician, contractor, educator, or business owner, this episode offers practical ideas you can start applying immediately.    And if you're wondering where to begin, the hosts leave listeners with one simple recommendation: ask AI to teach you how to use AI for your own work.      LinkedIn: Tyler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-nelson-master-hvacr-9a8a981b/   Billy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billy-spohn-jr-a06201a3/   Link to buy the book: https://tyty5.gumroad.com/l/ai-hvac-technician    This episode was recorded in August 2026. 

In this episode, Bryan sits down with Leilani for an introduction to GRIT Camps — the hands-on program that brings skilled trades exposure to youth ages 12–17 through community events led by working tradespeople. Leilani explains that a GRIT Camp pairs recruited mentors with students for a day of modules covering safety, carpentry, electrical, brazing, and plumbing, including torch work, PVC and copper fitting, and disassembling HVAC components. Students also learn to read a jobsite-style blueprint and receive a six-in-one screwdriver to take apart and explore. Bryan and Leilani emphasize that while GRIT supplies the curriculum, guides, and structure, the host — typically a contracting business or trade organization — owns the event: recruiting students and mentors, securing a venue, and building real community connections around the day. A large portion of the conversation walks through who does what. Hosts provide the facility, materials (plywood, 2x4s, copper, PVC, and more, all detailed in GRIT's guide), and lunch for up to around 30 people, plus a local host facilitator to coordinate logistics and serve as GRIT's point of contact. Mentors must be certified skilled tradespeople who complete GRIT's required video course and pass a background check before working with students; volunteers who don't interact directly with kids are not required to undergo a background check. GRIT, in turn, supplies the camp curriculum, host and mentor guides, registration and marketing materials, badges, student blueprints and PPE, background check coordination, and on-site program leadership from staff like Ty, GRIT's head of training, who typically arrives the day before to walk the facility with the host. Bryan and Leilani also dig into planning specifics: camps run from about 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., cap out at 16 students with a two-students-per-mentor ratio (so eight to nine mentors for a full camp), and generally need 10 to 12 weeks of lead time to hit deadlines for mentor certification, materials gathering, and student registration. They cover the realities of choosing a torch and joining system — MAPP gas and propane versus oxyacetylene for brazing, and why oxyacetylene can't be used for the popular aluminum-repair activity — along with commonly overlooked items like correctly sized Forstner bits, spare drill batteries, extension cords, and pre-cut lumber. They close with guidance on budgeting (camps typically run $1,500 to $5,000), sourcing a sponsored lunch, handling allergies, inviting community press, and what makes a camp genuinely successful: preparedness paired with passion from both mentors and hosts. Topics Covered What a GRIT Camp is and which skilled trades are covered (safety, carpentry, electrical, brazing, plumbing) Camp roles: host, host facilitator, mentor, students, and volunteers What hosts are responsible for providing: facility, materials, and lunch What GRIT provides: curriculum, guides, registration, marketing, background checks, and on-site leadership Required mentor certification course and background checks Ideal space setup, table stations, and indoor/outdoor considerations Student and mentor ratios (16 students max, two students per mentor) Planning timeline: 10–12 weeks of lead time and key deadlines Confirming a camp date and the host interest assessment process Recruiting students and mentors, including waitlists and communication Choosing a torch and joining system: MAPP gas/propane vs. oxyacetylene brazing Commonly overlooked or underestimated materials and tools Safety planning, PPE, and emergency preparedness Estimated costs and ways to offset them through sponsorships Lunch planning and handling food allergies Community and marketing value for hosts Policies on parents and visitors attending What makes a GRIT Camp successful   Learn more about the GRIT Foundation or contact us at https://www.thegritfoundation.com/.  Have a question that you want us to answer on the podcast? Submit your questions at https://www.speakpipe.com/hvacschool Purchase your tickets or learn more about the 8th Annual HVACR Training Symposium at https://hvacrschool.com/symposium. Subscribe to our podcast on your iPhone or Android. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. Check out our handy calculators here or on the HVAC School Mobile App for Apple and Android.

On this episode of The Immigration Lawyer's Toolbox® Podcast, host John Khosravi sits down with returning guest Roman Zelichenko, J.D. to unpack what's really happening in the growing wave of immigration law firm M&A: how firms are actually valued, why some attorneys inflate their revenue numbers with filing fees, the difference between a true acquisition and a "merger" that's really more of a hire, why clean books can make or break a deal, and what private equity's track record in dentistry, HVAC, and plumbing suggests about where legal consolidation is headed. Whether you're thinking about selling, buying, merging, or just want to run your firm like it's sellable, this episode is full of practical insight on the business side of immigration law. Sponsor: Get a free website (first 10 sign-ups) and special pricing on marketing for your firm from Constellation at http://immigrationlawyerstoolbox.com/Constellation. Timestamps: 00:00 – Opening 00:33 – Intro 04:24 – How hard is it for practitioners to value and sell their firm? 04:53 – B2B/corporate vs. B2C firms: why recurring revenue is valued higher 05:30 – The filing-fees-in-revenue trick that inflates valuations 06:36 – What sellers actually want: fair price vs. emotional attachment 07:54 – How clean (or messy) books affect due diligence 09:43 – Bookkeepers, GMI Rocket, and staying on top of your numbers 11:29 – Mergers vs. acquisitions: when a "merger" is really a hire 13:12 – Larger firm mergers and fade-out deal structures 13:52 – New fee memos, attorney burnout, and the push toward litigation 16:13 – Consolidation, specialists, and the rise of AI-native law firms 19:00 – Lessons from private equity roll-ups in dentistry, HVAC, and plumbing 20:17 – Community page & Constellation SEO/marketing sponsor break 21:20 – Back to the show: will the free market self-correct? 21:33 – Envoy Global: an example of PE-backed immigration firms done right 24:19 – Scaling without sacrificing service quality 26:15 – The M&A trend among solo and small firm owners who want out 29:01 – Creative deal structures, equity, and the "Built to Sell" mindset 33:13 – Why QuickBooks and clean numbers drive better marketing and growth decisions 36:26 – Outro Spotify | iTunes | YouTube Music | YouTube Follow eimmigration by Cerenade: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn Start your Business Immigration Practice! (US LAWYERS ONLY - SCREENING REQUIRED): E-2 Course EB-1A Course Get the Toolbox Magazine!  Join our community (Lawyers Only) Get Started in Immigration Law! The Marriage/Family-Based Green Card course is for you Our Website: ImmigrationLawyersToolbox.com Not legal advice. Consult with an Attorney. Attorney Advertisement. #podcaster #Lawyer #ImmigrationLawyer #Interview #Immigration #ImmigrationAttorney #USImmigration #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationLawyersToolbox

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It's Wayback Wednesday! This week, we present a discussion with Dr. Joseph Farrell who made the case that the 1947 Roswell crash wasn't a UFO, it was tech developed by Nazi engineers brought to the US after WWII. First released July 28, 2010 THERE WAS a coverup of what really happened at Roswell, New Mexico in July of 1947.  But the conspiracy wasn't the coverup of a UFO crash; the UFO was the coverup. Dr. Joseph Farrell, author of Reich of the Black Sun, The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: NASA's Nazis, JFK, And Majic-12, Nazi International, and Roswell and the Reich: The Nazi Connection, makes a case for the crash at Roswell of an advanced craft of Nazi origin.  Further, he suggests that the Third Reich was so far ahead of the Allies technologically that with a little more time Hitler could very well have won World War II. Even more disturbing is the evidence that Dr. Farrell says shows that the Nazis never really surrendered, they simply went underground and continued to develop beyond-cutting-edge technology, like the mysterious Nazi Bell, in a single-minded drive to dominate the world. Follow us! X: @viewfrombunker | @sharonkgilbert | @derekgilbertTelegram: t.me/gilberthouseSubstack: gilberthouse.substack.com | sharonkgibert.substack.comYouTube: @GilbertHouse | @UnravelingRevelationFacebook.com/viewfromthebunker Derek's new book War of the Watchers Book One: From Baal to Balfour is now available at Amazon in paperback and as a Kindle e-book! Thank you for making our Build Barn Better project a reality! The building has HVAC, a new floor, windows, insulation, ceiling fans, and an upgraded electrical system! We truly appreciate your support. If you are so led, you can help out at www.GilbertHouse.org/donate. Download our free app! This brings all of our content directly to your smartphone or tablet. Best of all, we'll never get canceled from our own app! Links to the app stores for iOS, iPadOS, Android, and Amazon Kindle Fire devices are at www.GilbertHouse.org/app. Please join us each Sunday for the Gilbert House Fellowship, our weekly Bible study podcast. Log on to www.GilbertHouse.org for more details. JOIN US IN ISRAEL! We will tour the Holy Land October 24–November 3, 2027 (NOTE NEW DATES) with an optional three-day extension to Jordan. For more information, log on to GilbertHouse.org/travel. Special offers on our books and DVDs: www.gilberthouse.org/store. Discuss these topics at the VFTB Facebook page (facebook.com/viewfromthebunker) and check out the great podcasters at the Fringe Radio Network (Spreaker.com/show/fringe-radio-network)!

In this episode of the HVAC Know It All Business Edition Podcast, co-hosts Gary McCreadie and Furman Haynes from WorkHero sit down with Samir Pendse, Co-founder & CEO at Coral. He shares how Coral simplifies that process by guaranteeing rebates upfront, connecting homeowners with the best financing options, and helping contractors close more deals without adding administrative burden. The conversation also explores financing for repairs, contractor operations, working capital challenges, and how evolving government rebate programs are shaping the future of the HVAC industry. Coral is a platform that helps HVAC contractors simplify rebate management and financing for energy-efficient home upgrades. By combining guaranteed upfront rebates with low-cost financing options, Coral enables contractors to improve close rates, streamline operations, and make high-efficiency systems more affordable for homeowners.   Expect To Learn: How upfront rebates improve homeowner affordability and contractor sales. Why financing has become essential for modern HVAC replacements. The operational challenges contractors face when managing rebate programs. How rebate complexity impacts sales, marketing, and back-office workflows. The importance of working capital when contractors float rebate payments. Why repair financing represents a major untapped opportunity. What upcoming government rebate programs mean for HVAC contractors.   Timestamps: 00:00 – Introduction 01:12 – The Affordability Challenge Behind Heat Pumps and Energy Upgrades 01:54 – Can Financing Help Homeowners Cover Costly HVAC Repairs? 03:37 – Why Repair Financing Matters Just as Much as System Replacement 06:34 – How Contractors Can Use Rebates as a Competitive Advantage 08:11 – Creating More Confidence at the Kitchen Table with Guaranteed Rebates 09:34 – Understanding How HVAC Rebate Programs Work 12:03 – Should Contractors Lead Every Sales Conversation with Financing? 13:59 – Building Contractor Operations Around Rebate Programs 16:21 – The Working Capital Challenge of Waiting for Rebate Payments 17:09 – What the Latest Federal Rebate Guidance Means for HVAC Contractors   Follow our Guest Samir Pendse: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samirpendse/  Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startcoral/ Company Website: https://www.startcoral.com/    Follow Gary McCreadie: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-mccreadie-38217a77/  Website: https://www.hvacknowitall.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/HVAC-Know-It-All-2/61569643061429/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hvacknowitall1/    Follow Furman Haynes:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/furmanhaynes/  WorkHero: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workherohvac/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workhero__/  

This episode aired in August '24 and had been one of our most downloaded ever, give it a listen, we hope you enjoy it. We will be back with new episodes soon! Ever think "If only I knew then what I know now" ?We are so pumped to bring you this and the next episode with special Guests Heather Aune & Sheryl Mickelson, the obvious better halves of the MTGA team. Sheryl runs the office and a good part of the business for Mickelson Plumbing & Heating. Heather has done the books for both MH & Aune Plumbing & Heating for over a decade on top of her (former) day job. It was so cool to hear their perspectives as we consider looking back to the early days of starting our business. Text the guys your ideas & feedback! Send us your feedback or topic ideas over on our social channels!Eric Aune @mechanicalhub Andy Mickelson @mick_plumbNewsletter sign up: https://bit.ly/MH_email

Keith explains why achieving scale rather than simply earning more is the key to long-term financial freedom and how income property uniquely delivers multiple forms of leverage.  He breaks down 25 years of inflation data to reveal which everyday costs have most outpaced wages and what that means for the real purchasing power of the dollar.  Keith also explains why markets like Memphis—combining strong cash flow fundamentals with a massive new AI infrastructure build-out—are positioned as compelling targets for long-term real estate investors. Episode Page: GetRichEducation.com/618 For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREinvestmentcoach.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE  or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments.  For predictable 10-12% quarterly returns, visit FreedomFamilyInvestments.com/GRE or text  FAMILY to 66866  Join Mid South Home Buyers' one-time, free live webinar featuring Keith Weinhold on September 30 at GetRichEducation.com/MidSouth to learn how Memphis' economic expansion could create new real estate investment opportunities, and have your questions answered in real time. Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search "how to leave an Apple Podcasts review"  For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— GREletter.com  Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Complete episode transcript: Keith Weinhold  0:01   Welcome to GRE. I'm your host Keith Weinhold. When I talk to a 25-year-old, it's an epiphany. When I tell them that they need this one thing that they're lacking, then some fascinating takeaways about the 93% inflation we've experienced in the past 25 years, and what you can do about it today on Get Rich Education. What if I told you that one of America's strongest cash flow real estate markets is also becoming the new brains and brawn behind AI? That city is Memphis, believe it or not. In September 30th, we're going to show you why the smart money is paying attention now, along with an investing opportunity you won't want to miss. Join me, Terry Kerr and Matthew Van Horn of Mid South Homebuyers, the largest turnkey company in Memphis with more than 6000 homes under management, for a free live webinar the likes of which I've never done before. We're going to look at what billions in new investment could mean for jobs, housing demand, neighborhood appreciation, and your portfolio. Everyone who attends live will also get exclusive access to the best deal terms Mid South has ever offered. Reserve your free seat at getricheducation.com/midsouth again, that's September 30th. Don't say we didn't tell you. Save your spot at getricheducation.com/midsouth.   Speaker 1  1:33   You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is Get Rich Education.   Keith Weinhold  1:49   Welcome to GRE from Livonia, Michigan, to Laconia, New Hampshire, and across 188 nations worldwide. You are listening to Get Rich Education. I'm your host, Keith Weinhold, heading up this slackjaw operation for another wealth-building week. But at least I'm just a slackjaw. If this slackjaw gets lockjaw, it would probably end the show. Now I've got to tell you, when I meet a 25-year-old, I soon tend to learn about their job because it takes a lot of their time, even if I don't ask them about it, and I find out that a 25-year-old is usually an employee of some sort. They're working for somebody else, depending on our conversational flow. I ask that person this question: Have you considered adding scale to your life? And they usually don't know what I mean. I ask that question because, sadly, today it's less common to live an economically vibrant life if you have a quote normal job like a teacher, engineer, retail manager, app developer, or other normal jobs like a firefighter, truck driver, physical therapist, or social media manager, that is not going to lead to an economically vibrant life with options and freedom. I mean, you used to be able to raise a family of four in New York City. That opportunity is just gone for anyone under a certain age. Well, what about say doctors, corporate executives, and attorneys, including some people that might be older than 25. I mean, professions like this can still pay exceptionally well. But even white-collar careers now have AI breathing down their necks. AI is drafting briefs, reading scans, and virtually attending meetings without pretending to enjoy them. Okay, well, what about the outcome for a 25-year-old that's gone along with the somewhat more nascent trend of rising AI sheltered trades like plumbing, electrical, HVAC, welding, carpentry, equipment repair, and these other types of jobs where ChatGPT can't crawl beneath your sink. Look, here's the thing: it doesn't matter whether you wear scrubs, a suit, or a tool belt. Employment has one stubborn limitation: even if you grind hard, even if your body holds up, even if promotions help you climb to the top of the corporate ladder, when you stop working, the income stops. That's the big problem, and yet people keep designing their life this way, employees lack scale. Now, what is scale? Scale is your ability to increase your wealth or income without increasing your personal time and effort at the same rate. Now, employees can find just a little scale. 401k contributions can compound for decades, sometimes with an employer match. Some employees receive stock compensation or bonuses, but employees generally sell one unit at a time. That unit is an hour. They're selling their hours for dollars, and here scale is limited, if not impossible. Real estate investors can stack several forms of scale simultaneously, and remarkably, doing it takes zero certification, zero qualification, no license, and no permission slip from the dean.   Keith Weinhold  6:05   The first way real estate investors have scale is through something that you already know so well: real estate pays five ways, leverage appreciation, 10 funded income, loan amortization, tax benefits on the entire asset, and inflation profiting on the bank's loan. Secondly, as a real estate investor, you have scale through operational leverage. Property managers, leasing agents, contractors, lenders, insurers, and software all allow just one investor, you, to control multiple properties. You don't personally collect every rent payment or replace every water heater. I mean, sheesh, that could be a plumbing career with less sleep. And this is all tenant funded. Thirdly, real estate investors have geographic leverage. An individual investor living in Los Angeles can own property in Atlanta, Tulsa, Cleveland, and Belize. Physical location does not limit where your capital works. Your body can only work in one city. Your capital can work the night shift in five. The fourth way real estate investors have scale is with replication. Once you learn how to buy and own one suitable rental, the process can be repeated. You buy, stabilize, finance, rent, and repeat. See, the first property is the hardest, and then your second property does not require learning an entirely new profession. It can be replicated. To review what you've learned so far, those are four dimensions where real estate investors achieve scale through real estate pays five ways: operational leverage, geographic leverage, and replication. Here's the important distinction: employees often mistake earning more with achieving scale.   Keith Weinhold  8:16   A surgeon making $900,000 a year earns a nice income, but see that surgeon has limited scale if the income stops when the surgeon stops working. But an investor earning just $150,000 from a portfolio possesses more scale because dozens of tenants, properties, loans, and operating systems continue functioning without your one-for-one labor. That's the distinction. That's why the $150K investor might or might not be living a better life than the 900K surgeon now, but they are set up to live a better life than the surgeon in the future. Now, your employer, the person who hires you, has scale with their many employees. But if you're an employee, you probably don't have scale. You cannot save your way to scale either. That's just stored labor. Savings become scalable only when you convert them into productive assets. Income is how much money comes in. Scale is how little your personal time needs to increase for more money to come in. You can work 20% more hours, but you cannot sustainably work 10 times more hours. Capital can be deployed across 10 assets without requiring 10 times more personal effort. And you know, once I realized this, at a certain point in my life, I was motivated to obtain loans for rental. This helped me scale and own more, replacing my active income with mostly passive income sooner. All right, so what should you do when you have this epiphany? It doesn't mean you should flip over the stupid copier machine as you storm out of work today and announce that you are now a real estate magnet. Not right away, at least employment that can be your launchpad, just like it was for me when I was a humble construction materials inspector for the state DOT. A job does provide you with some benefits like short-term advantages, seed capital, mortgage qualification.   Keith Weinhold  10:45   I'm talking about health insurance and some steady cash flow, and even some skills. But the mistake, whether you are aged 25 or 55, is allowing employment to remain the only economic engine for your entire life. Your job can fund your future, but having just one single linear income source that should not be your entire future. But you know, some people just stay on lazy cruise control at a slow speed and let their life unfurl that way. Others, you know, they merely haven't been exposed to thinking this way, and fortunately, now you have been. Really, the bottom line here is that labor won't scale; capital does scale; it compounds, and few, if any, investments offer more dimensions of scale than real estate. And you also get all kinds of other ancillary benefits by gradually tilting away from active income and toward passive income. Because increasingly, when it comes to taxes, you're going to pay lower capital gains tax rates instead of the higher ordinary income rates. The sooner you optimize this and get into as many properties as you can, you're also going to gain the ability to borrow against your assets tax-free, and so much more. Scale or fail-that's the lesson here, and most people fear change. It's why they stay stuck in relationships longer than they should, and why they stay stuck in jobs longer than they should. They keep settling for a B plus life. Don't settle for a B plus life. This is something that NYU professor Susie Welsh talks about: If you have a D life, oh, everything is lousy. You don't live where you want to live. You don't have reliable transportation. You don't have friends, and you're so very motivated to change that. If you have an A plus life, you've got it all. You get to do what you want to do, who you want to do it with, and you're tremendously incentivized to keep that. But having a B plus life like so many do, and being stuck in it, that is the most dangerous place to be. You could tread water for years and stay stuck in a life that you know you're not fully satisfied with, but it isn't so terrible that you feel compelled to change it. So the people that grow wealth know it means that sometimes you have to give up the good to have the great, and the K-shaped economic divergence that we've had in the past five years. This is really bringing things to a head, so get scale.   Keith Weinhold  13:43   Scale is the difference between grasping the financial abundance that's available to move you toward that A plus life, or staying on the treadmill, stuck and struggling. Two different people living a B plus life, you know, they have the same starting point, and making a plan is your difference maker. We help you with that here. If you're ready to add real estate scale to your financial life, drop a quick email to GRE Investment Coach Naresh for a complimentary strategy session at Naresh at getricheducation.com. You don't need any qualifications. It can take as little as a 20% down payment on a 200k to 400k rental property, and we have access so that you can buy directly from the builders and get a mortgage rate in the fives. And we are chasing the next hot thing here. Last week we discussed co-living on the show. We waited until that strategy was proven. I like strategies that have had some contact with reality. AI can compose a song, or summarize a meeting, or fabricate a photo of some. Wacky like Abraham Lincoln riding a dolphin, but it still cannot download an affordable bedroom, affordable housing. You're scaling into something sustainable that has a future and can't be easily disrupted by AI. Scale or fail. Stop settling for the B plus life. We can help right now at this moment. Drop a quick email to naresh@getricheducation.com. I should spell that out for you. It's n a r e s h@getricheducation.com.   Keith Weinhold  15:36   More straight ahead. I'm Keith Weinhold. You're listening to Get Rich education. What if you got your mortgage loans the same place I get mine? You sure can at Ridge Lending Group NMLS 42056. They provided GRE listeners with more loans than anyone because Ridge specializes in investment property. They'll help you build a long-term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. Start your prequal and even chat directly with President Caeli Ridge. While it's on your mind, start at ridgelendinggroup.com. That's ridgelendinggroup.com.   Keith Weinhold  16:13   Let me ask you something: If you've worked hard to build wealth, is your money positioned to actually support your goals? A lot of accredited investors leave capital sitting in cash because it feels safe, but inflation and missed income opportunities can quietly erode its value. Freedom Family Investments offers freedom notes for investors seeking structured income backed by real estate. It's a straightforward approach built on real assets, not speculation. In full disclosure: I'm an investor myself. What I like is that their team walks you through how it all works, so you can decide if it aligns with your portfolio and income goals. Every investment carries risk, and nothing is guaranteed. But with a track record of consistent, on-time investor payouts, they built real credibility. Go to freedomfamilyinvestments.com to book a clarity call, or text family to 66866. That's family to 66866.   Chris Martenson  17:17   This is Peak Prosperity's Chris Martenson. Listen to Get rich education with Keith Weinhold, and don't quit your daydream.   Keith Weinhold  17:33   Welcome back to Get Rich Education. I'm your host Keith Weinhold. Having residual income from real estate, it can make you more comfortable for sure, but for me, I like to primarily use it to buy back my time. I'll tell you how I just did this. It's a small thing, a small win. It is time for my car's annual routine maintenance. Boring. I really don't want to lose my time dropping it off at the dealership in the morning and then picking it up again. Those two boring round trips don't add anything to my life. But the dealership had the option of, for just 100 bucks, picking it up for me and dropping it off for me at the end of the day. Oh well, that is an opportunity for me to buy some time, so that's why I did that. Now, when it comes to flying, sometimes I fly coach and sometimes first class. I just booked a flight and I refused to pay six times as much for first class. It just wasn't really worth it this time because the experience isn't that much better, and it sure doesn't save me any time. I tend to do that if the price is just 3x more, so I'll pay to save time, but not always to borrow a wider seat for five hours. And you and I both make hundreds of time versus money decisions every day, most of them small.   Keith Weinhold  19:04   With the more residual income you have, you're gonna make better decisions where you can choose the time over the money. One thing's for sure: whatever we're doing with our money, and that is that our dollar does not go as far as it used to. Let's look at inflation during the first 25 years of this century. This is really interesting. We're going to see how the cost of goods and services has changed from 2000 to the end of 2025 on some select categories that you spend on, and then I've got some mind-bending takeaways for you once I describe this chart, and this is the same chart that I sent to you last Thursday. If you are one of my newsletter readers, but I can open up and talk about it more here than I can in the newsletter because I keep that short. Overall inflation is about. 93% during this time period. 93% over these 25 years. Now, here are the items that rose less than that much, meaning that they became then more affordable over this span. What fell the most is the price of televisions down more than 90% in the first 25 years of this century? Toys down 74% Computer software down 73% Cell phones down 44% By the way, this all uses the government's CPI inflation rate, clothing up just one and a half percent, and even though it's up, that's still more affordable because it's up less than the overall 93% CPI inflation rate over this span. Household furnishings up 21% and finally new cars up 26% So all those items became more affordable because they rose less than the general rate of inflation. All right, moving on up. Now we're going to go above the line. Items above the 93% overall inflation rate, food and beverages were up 106% housing up 111% average hourly wages up 131% All right, let's pause. Yes, wages then outpacing 93% inflation. but of course, since that 93% uses the government CPI, well, that's pretty understated. Probably, you know, the true dispersing power of the dollar is probably more than 93% So it's debatable about whether there are real wage gains from 2000 to the end of 2025, medical care services up 147% Next in the category that has become less affordable is childcare, up 159% And as I'm naming these, there are some common threads here where I think you're going to have a few epiphanies when I point them out. College textbooks up 177%. Sheesh, what a scam! College tuition and fees up 197%, and finally the major category that became less affordable here at the top is the worst of all: hospital services. They have soared the most, up over 281% All right, there they are.   Keith Weinhold  22:57   And what takeaways do we have here? The items that became less affordable tend to be where the government either provides subsidies or they heavily regulate and mandate the product or service, like education, child care, and medical care. The categories that have become more affordable-that's where there is little or minimal government intervention, like clothing and technology. The lesson is that free market competition kept prices low, and some of these categories that became more affordable-you know-they would have become even more affordable than that if it weren't for profligate dollar printing, sadly, the items that have become less affordable-and this could really upset you-the items whose price increases exceed the overall rate of inflation, like medical care and housing, these are life's necessities. They are not once the stuff you need most got harder to obtain, healthcare is the ultimate example of this. It's sad to say, but you'll either pay the fee or you'll die, and the price reflects this. With hospital services up 281% outpacing the overall rate of inflation by about 3x. Also, items that have become more affordable, they are then generally the more discretionary purchases like furnishings, toys, and televisions. You can live without that stuff. Items that have become less affordable. They also tend to be more in-sourced activity, while those more affordable are outsourced, like to China. If you've noticed the trend, then anything involving people in the United States will be expensive, like child. Care and medical care. It involves people in the United States, and then it just gets more and more expensive. And this is also why service prices increase more and goods prices increase less. People are expensive.   Keith Weinhold  25:18   Microchips don't ask for dental insurance, and microchips don't file sexual harassment lawsuits. Overall, inflation was just 2.66% per year during this time period. But when it's compounded for this long, that's how it got to 93% cumulatively. But of course, inflation is higher than this 2.66 rate here in the late 2020s, and inflation is poised to rise even more than the level that it's at now. The war in Iran has pushed up energy prices 24% and these costs seep into almost everything, all right. But you're probably aware of this already, so I'm not going to discuss it much more because I discussed that before, like on episode 606, nearly two months ago when I called it our most important message in years, all right. But few seem to understand that this is just one part of a new inflation triple whammy. First, you've got spiking energy prices, like I mentioned. Second, more U.S. tariffs, and third, you've got mushrooming AI spending, and as a result of all this, this new inflation triple whammy that most people aren't aware of, this has pushed up bond yields to their highest point since 2007, and pressure is mounting for the Fed to jack up rates. Mortgage rates are soaring right along with them, and they are now near 7% Could mortgage rates reach 8% This is a real question now. The bottom line here is that inflation made the dollar lose nearly half its purchasing power in the first quarter century. Real asset owners will win, especially leveraged income property owners. This raises the property's replacement costs, spikes rents, and erodes your mortgage's real burden. Nearly everyone else is going to lose, and I don't want to lose a learning moment for you here. Bond yields-they are closely tied to what future mortgage rates are going to be. It's not about what the Fed does, and this is not as esoteric as some people think. This correlation between inflation, bond yields, and mortgage rates. Bonds pay a fixed interest rate long term.   Keith Weinhold  28:01   For example, the 10-year Treasury bond right now pays about 4.7% each year for the next 10 years. That's what that means. Now, would you lock in your investment for 10 years in order to get a 4.7% return? Well, if you were a conservative investor, maybe you would if you knew that inflation was only going to be 2% because then you'd be making about a 2.7% real return on your investment each year risk free. But if you expect inflation was going to be 5% over the next 10 years, oh well, then locking in a return of 4.7% means that you would lose real purchasing power every year. Investors don't want to lose money, so if investors expect that inflation is going to be higher, they will only buy bonds if they're paying higher amounts. And the bond market is telling us that as of today, investors expect at least 4.7% inflation over the next 10 years. If things change and they expect inflation to be higher than that, well, then bond yields will go up. If they expect inflation to decrease, for example, from a recession, bond yields will go down. So therefore, Treasury bonds are a true representation of investor inflation expectations and the movement of that bond yield-that is the number one factor that moves mortgage rates in that same direction. There's your explanation. That wasn't so hard. The market does not believe we're going to escape the Middle East war without substantial inflation or energy supply chain issues. That's what that means. Now, what else is going on in this era is the continuation of a reduction in the volume. Of housing transactions, fewer deals are happening. It had its recent peak of 6 million existing homes changing hands back in 2021. In 2022, it was 5 million, and it's been about 4 million transactions every year since. Now, as far as investor activity, just looking at that, for big investors, activity that's been sideways to a little down these past few years. But let's look at ourselves for smaller investors, mom and pop types, defined as those doing 10 or fewer deals per year, which probably includes you. You know, each of the past three years, activity has been up for smaller investors like you. You have gradually been purchasing more property, and this is as reported by realtor.com. Okay, what are the reasons for this?   Keith Weinhold  30:55   Well, back during the pandemic, you had to compete with owner-occupied buyers, that's when open house lines stretch down the block, and today there are fewer bidders in the room, and small investors are buying because builders are buying down your mortgage rate for you. That's another reason, and the source analysis it found that investors are sticking to affordable Midwest and Sun Belt markets that have strong rental demand. In fact, they're buying at least one out of every five homes in Memphis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Birmingham, and Oklahoma City. Real estate providers know that some prospective owner-occupant homeowners and even some investors-they won't buy anything at today's market mortgage rates, even though you and I know that these rates are historically normal. But providers-they need to stay in business. They need to keep turning things over. They need to sell property. They need to keep their people busy. They're not running museums here, so they're making sure that mortgage rate buydowns happen. And one of the most lucrative sources that I know about for investors is Mid South Homebuyers because they have investment property where the numbers work in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas with mortgage rates in the fives and a conventional loan with 25% down. A lot of their income properties cost under 200k, and these are quality homes in decent neighborhoods. I've physically walked inside many of them myself, not by drone, not with a virtual tour, not by AI, and not through some glossy brochure with suspiciously perfect lighting. The reason I'm telling you about this now is that this mortgage rate is one part of their limited triple five program. Here's what else we get as investors: a mortgage rate near 5% like I mentioned, and a 5% property management fee for five years. Though leverage has its benefits, if you decide to pay all cash instead, they provide you with the 5% property management for life, even if you finance later. I think they call that their forever five. Frankly, it's just amazing how many investors rave about the quality of their rehabs and say that their property management never seems to mess up in this industry. I mean, that is about as common as a calm political debate, or perhaps an airline actually improving legroom, and I have helped recommend Mid Health Homebuyers to our listeners for over 11 years. I know some followers that have looked at their available properties and scooped up three properties on one phone call. In fact, where they're based and have a lot of their available properties, Memphis. You know, Memphis has a story where I don't know if any other market in America can tell it right now. Do you know what's happening? Memphis is developing into having both the new brains and the brawn behind AI, and you got more smart money moving there now. Memphis is now home to the world's largest AI supercomputer. It's XAI's Colossus. It's now part of SpaceX. It's the biggest single-site AI facility on the entire planet. Anthropic is paying over a billion dollars a month to run Claude on it. Google just signed a deal worth up to 30 billion starting october 1, and I look forward to announcing that I have got a live event that I am co-hosting for you the day before this happens on september 30.   Keith Weinhold  34:56   So yes, that's the night before Google's money starts flowing. Into Memphis in one year, XAI became the second largest taxpayer in Memphis after FedEx, and the city has committed 25% of the property tax revenue from those sites to infrastructure in the surrounding neighborhoods. And when you add in FedEx, because Memphis already moves more physical goods than anywhere else in the country, you can see how Memphis is increasingly becoming the brains of the digital economy, while it's already been the brawn of the physical one. In every other market, you know they showcase things like their population growth and the rent-to-price ratios, and those attributes certainly matter, but now the fact that perhaps the biggest infrastructure story in America is happening in the most affordable major cash flow market—I mean, this is something that almost nobody has connected the dots on. So join me and my two co-hosts that lead Mid South Home Buyers.   Keith Weinhold  36:01   We're going to discuss market fundamentals, the AI build out, what it means for jobs, rent in neighborhoods over the next decade, and then a heavy live Q and A on Mid South. You're invited to join me. This is happening again on Wednesday, September 30th. It's at 8p.m. Eastern. Yes, you will have me live. Sign up at getricheducation.com/midsouth. It's a special event as Memphis is positioning to become both the brawn and brains of AI and a property provider that already makes a lot of sense for investors. Save your spot at getricheducation.com/midsouth. Until next week, I'm your host Keith Weinhold. Don't quit your daydream.   Speaker 2  36:54   Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal, or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial, or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. The host is operating on behalf of Get Rich Education LLC exclusively.    Keith Weinhold  37:22   The pre- program was brought to you by your home for wealth building, getricheducation.com

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