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EPISODE · Jun 18, 2026 · 1H 42M

The Employee-Owned Giant That Builds America's Hardest Projects | Matt Krstolic, Hensel Phelps

from The Contractor's Playbook: Built2Win · host Chris Coghlan

Matt Krstolic has spent 28 years at ONE company — Hensel Phelps, the employee-owned builder behind the Pentagon renovation, Orlando International's Terminal C, and some of the most complex projects in America. He started with a lawn business at 14. He ended up rebuilding the Pentagon after 9/11. This is how. In this episode: turning down Ohio State, the interview that changed his life, how employee ownership (an ESOP) actually works — and the wild Joseph Phelps wine connection — watching 9/11 unfold three miles from the Pentagon and then spending five years rebuilding it, delivering Terminal C on swampland, the promotion that didn't come right away, and the woman he calls "the executive of everything that matters to me." If you've ever wondered whether a career in construction is worth it — this is the episode.Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss a builder's story. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Big League ▶ https://linktw.in/NIMVjEJohnson & Company | Commercial Insurance & Bonding (Orlando / Winter Park) ▶ https://linktw.in/HsgrStRing Power | Florida's Cat® Equipment Dealer ▶ https://linktw.in/pTVmkD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT THE GUEST━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Matt Krstolic is an Operations Manager at Hensel Phelps, an employee-owned construction company founded in 1937 with 5,000+ employees nationwide. Over 28 years he's helped deliver the Pentagon renovation, Orlando International Airport's Terminal C, and major projects across the country, and he serves with ABC Central Florida. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT BUILT2WIN━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━BUILT2WIN is where the ones who build the world come to think bigger, lead better, and win at a higher level — long-form conversations on leadership, construction, and building something that lasts. Hosted by Chris Coghlan. #Construction #Leadership #HenselPhelps #BuiltToWin #ConstructionManagement #ABCNATIONALYOUTUBE #ABCCFCF2597 #BUILT2WIN

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