Why Networking and Learning from Peers Are Essential for Contractors w/ Will Reyes

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Contractor Freedom Podcast. I'm your host, Jason Phillips. This show exists to help small business owners like you escape the tyranny of Contractor Freedom and enter the bliss of Contractor Freedom so you can have the Time, Money, and Freedom to Live Your Life With Purpose Beyond Your Business.As a certified human behavior consultant in DISC personality styles and motivators, I'll be sharing with you skills for life, love, leadership, and business. I'll also be connecting you with experts that can help you scale your business and your life. So if you want to build the business and life of your dreams, then you are in the right place.Let's go. Jason Phillips: Hello Contractors, Jason Phillips here, and I have a special guest with us today, Mr. Will Reyes from Battle Born Painting in Reno, Nevada, and welcome Will. Will Reyes: Hey buddy, it's good to be here. Jason Phillips: I'm glad you're here. So I guess you're not currently in Reno, right? Looks [00:01:00] like you're remote. Will Reyes: I am. I'm actually in Guadalajara, Mexico, hanging out with some friends and having a good time and just taking a little R & R, if you will.Jason Phillips: Oh, so I see you're, you're, you're hanging out for a living these days, huh? Will Reyes: Well, I mean, I'm trying to be like Jason Phillips. You might know the guy. Jason Phillips: Oh, no, no, no. Well, well, hey, man, I'm, I'm so glad we're getting, we're getting to connect. This is a, this is long overdue, you and I, and, uh, I'm, I'm super excited to have you on today.And, and hey, by the way, you're going to be speaking at the upcoming Contractor Freedom Summit. And we can touch on that. Yeah. Excited for that. Hey Will, for those that don't know you, tell just a little bit about your company and give us, give us the high level, you know, the 30, 000 foot overview.Will Reyes: Yeah, my name is Will Reyes. Like Jason said, I am more in painting, but we don't just paint, you know, we do a narrative things, you know, a lot of things we learn the hard way, but we do interior, exterior painting, which a lot of you probably do. We do, we have a concrete coatings division where we coat concrete with things like rough floors, [00:02:00] polishes, epoxies, polyureas, things of that nature.We have a cabinet division that's separated from the painting division, so they just do cabinets all day long. And we have a gutter division that's going into year two that we really like, that's been doing well for us. And then we started, a nano coatings business last year that we had to put on hold, but this year we're actually taking off with it, and it's actually yielding some pretty good results.We're really happy with it. Jason Phillips: Wow, man. Congratulations. It sounds like you've got a lot of irons in the fire. Will Reyes: Three years ago, that would have been a mess. Fast forward to today, it's not as hard as, not as hard as I was making it to be, if you will. Jason Phillips: Not yet. I get it. You know, sometimes we've got to just jump in and figure it out.Take a leap of faith, right? Will Reyes: I am the absolute epitome of learning the hard way.Jason Phillips: I get it. Yeah, me too. You know, for so if you guys haven't met Will in person, I, gosh, I met Will a number of years ago and we've just really developed a, uh, a great friendship. And, uh, you know, at first glance, Will's this huge, ominous, bearded, tattooed, rough, curly [00:03:00] guy.But, you know, one of the things I've learned about Will, and I really appreciate about you, Will, is, man,...