The Contractor's Playbook: Built2Win

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

Nick Sosa got fired the way most pro athletes do — not by choice. Released on the road because the Twins needed his roster spot for a pitcher, calling his mom for a ride home from the airport. That was the end of baseball.Today he's a VP at Kiewit Infrastructure, one of the largest contractors in North America. But he didn't parachute in. He started over as a rod man in the dirt, learned survey, ran a crew before he was ready, and built his way up to helping deliver Orlando's Terminal C.In this episode Nick gets honest about what most executives won't say: having the title before the mastery, why he keeps a photo of his worst job on the wall, how Kiewit's earn-it ownership culture actually works, and why he goes elk hunting every year to get sharper at work.If you've ever been fired, promoted before you were ready, or had to finish something that was eating your lunch — this one's for you.New episodes of Built 2 Win every two weeks. Follow the show so you don't miss the next one.

Subscribe to the channel https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisCogzFrom Shovel to CEO: Building a Construction Empire with Junior DavisWelcome to The Contractor’s Playbook: Built to Win, where we dive deep with the leaders who don’t just build infrastructure, they build culture, legacy, and lives. In today’s episode, host Chris Coghlan sits down with Junior Davis, founder of Junior Davis Construction, for an inspiring conversation about humble beginnings, gritty persistence, and what it takes to turn a single front-end loader into a billion-dollar backlog and a team of over 1700 in only 10 Counties.From white-knuckle years of going it alone, battling self-doubt while expecting his first child, to learning the power of culture, faith, and relentless effort, Junior Davis shares the inside story behind JDC’s remarkable rise. You’ll hear about early lessons swinging a shovel, the impact of mentors and family, weathering industry downturns with humility, building a thriving family business, and how JDC’s tradition of faith and gratitude has shaped its tight-knit performance culture.Whether you’re a veteran contractor, a young entrepreneur, or anyone seeking wisdom on leadership, legacy, and navigating risk, this episode is packed with gold. Join us as we unpack the difference between founder’s mentality and elite operator mindset, the value of hands-on leadership, and why, for Junior Davis, success is all about effort, not just results. Grab your coffee and get ready for a masterclass in business, faith, and the power of never settling for less than your full potential.This episode is proudly brought to you by Big League Construction Supplyhttps://bigleaguecs.comThank you to our SponsorsRingPower: https://www.ringpower.com/locations/orlandoJohnson & Co Insurance: https://johnsonandcompany.net===========================Connect with me Chris Coghlan! =============================IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/cogz08X: ➡︎ https://x.com/TheChrisCogsLinkedin: ➡︎ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-coghlan-08aa863b9/Facebook: ➡︎ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61589223128588TikTok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@thechriscogsThreads: ➡︎ https://www.threads.com/@cogz08