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Mindful Builder — 132 episodes

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Title
1

The Day I Almost Quit Building for Good

2

The Tradie Who Lost It All and Came Back

3

The Estimating Mistake That Costs You Thousands

4

The Hidden Danger in Every Old House

5

The Builders Standing Up to a Broken Industry

6

Stop with the foil faced blanket

7

Chatting with Australias most dialled in builder

8

What is the end game of building ?

9

Politics vs building

10

More good and less bad

11

Ask us anything with Buildingsciology

12

How to stop working in your business

13

This is a big can of worms

14

Getting romantic with your craft

15

Weekly Building Gossip - More Homes, Rising build costs and Silica Issues

16

What is a normal house?

17

Weekly Building Gossip - 16th April 2026

18

The future of the mindful builder

19

Weekly Building Gossip - 9th April 2026

20

The future of onsite building technology

21

Weekly Building Gossip - NCC Changes

22

What is sustainable design and construction?

23

Sustainability consulting and pushing boundries

24

From commercial to residential construction

25

Bridging the construction and Real Estate gap

26

Learning from previous developments and designing sustainably

27

Carpenters and being proud about being a tradie

28

Ask the builders anything - open discussion on our thoughts about the industry

29

The leader of my energy efficient electric homes

30

Building Your Clear Marketing Message

31

Australia's most friendly builder?

32

What's wrong with Australian windows?

33

Australia's building lag: The big WHY

34

Is Natural building only for hippies

35

2026 Building Trends?

36

How to Unite Architects & Builders

37

Warm vs Cold Roof - Beer and Building Science Australia

38

Why isn't passive house growing?

39

From a soccer world cup to carpenter

40

Do buildings need to be certified?

41

Systems makes business run better

42

The builder everyone should strive to be

43

The Queen of Passive House

44

Treated Pine vs Standard Pine - Beer and Building Science

45

The tradie that makes you laugh

46

Construction and Building Trends

47

Australias most known architect

48

The art of accurate estimates

49

Australias Top Construction Lawyer

50

Construction loans and money chats

51

The future of concrete

52

Breaking the Stigma: Mental Health & Safety in Construction | RUOK Day Special

53

Building code and building surveyor chats

54

The future of training and education in the building industry

55

My body just failed on me

56

The crazy old guy pushing building boundaries

57

Proving the three little pigs wrong

58

From consultant to interior designer

59

Are SIPS the answer to building better homes

60

Budget vs Brief: What It Really Costs to Build

61

The Godfather of Passive House

62

Building Answers: Ask Us Anything

63

Navigating the winter blues as a builder

64

Perfecting window installation details

65

Build Science Expert - Windows and Insulation Part 2

66

Build Science Expert - Windows and Insulation Part 1

67

Why doing push ups helps you build mental fitness

68

Trade chats - solving the apprenticeship problem

69

The science of building better homes

70

Eternally curious and staying hungry with Chin Chin's executive chef

71

A personal story about loss

72

Not all developers are bad people

73

Scratching the surface of culture in construction

74

The HRV Guy - Why air quality matters

75

Owner Builders: Yes or No?

76

Mini Series - First-Time Dad & Building with Ned (NW Build)

77

Tender vs Negotiated Tender

78

Girls Only Chat

79

Learning How To Give Feedback

80

Passive House Secrets Part 2

81

Passive House Secrets Part 1

82

What is the goal of building?

83

My Super Power is Passion

84

Building Better: Passive Houses and Sustainable Construction with Josh Atkins

85

Prefabrication in construction

86

Architecture is a design weapon for good

87

Guess whos back, Brad Again

88

Building, drying and venting your cavities

89

Looking back on the year and what's ahead

90

Holiday break but Christmas isn't for everyone!

91

Men talking about periods

92

Turning a volume built house into a passive house (Part 2)

93

Is the building industry broken?

94

Making safety sexy, or trying to

95

Building for a better future part 2

96

Building for a better future part 1

97

The art of saying no in building

98

Is the building industry bubble about to burst!

99

The real world of landscape design

100

Goodbye Gas - Its time to electrify

101

Building the Perfect Wall

102

Turning a volume built house into a passive house

103

Building bigger is not better

104

People Care About You

105

RUOK - Emergency Episode

106

Why aren't the Australian Standards Free?

107

Taking the WOO WOO out of mental health

108

A crash course into Passive House

109

Making real change in the building industry

110

Interior Designers are valuable

111

Our friend Julie - It's ok to sometimes feel sad

112

Some People Care More Part 2

113

Some People Care More Part 1

114

All homes need mechanical ventilation

115

What is a high Performing Home

116

Why we need to inspect our homes more

117

Our friend Julie - anxiety in construction

118

Hummus and Dip

119

Water is killing our homes and buildings

120

The power of the pre-construction process

121

Mental health in building - kicking it in the butt

122

The Green Karen electrifying our homes

123

How to build 180k new homes a year

124

Losing and regaining a passion for building

125

Searching for the ideal building client

126

A daughter and father building combo!

127

Creating anxiety awareness on the building site

128

Chatting with a Sustainable Magazine Editor

129

Validated performance and being held accountable

130

How to manage mistakes with your team and tradies

131

Who are we? Why are we doing this?

132

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