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Same Pool, Different Math: Rudy & Eric Knight, Part 2

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Know Your Numbers, Protect Your Business

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Hot Tubs, Germs & the Microbial Badass - Dr. Roy Vore

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Standalone Spas, Lost Accounts & Hiring the Right People

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Your Pool Business Has Procedures. Does Anyone Actually Follow Them?

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Fear of Facebook, Part 2: Less Bloodsport, More Pool Knowledge

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Stop Feeding the Skimmer: Wayne’s Pool Service Pet Peeves

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From Malibu Pools to Ocean Solutions: Terry Tamminen on Mentorship

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Stop Collecting Pools. Start Making Money. With Pineapple Pool Boyz

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Busy Doesn’t Mean Profitable: Put Down the Price Gun and Know Your Numbers

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Fear of Facebook, Part 1: 14 PSI Says Enough Is Enough. Lincoln Reflecting Pool Failure Analysis

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Popped Pools, Leaking Profits & the Commercial Account From Hell

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Stop Blaming the Pool Guy! Plaster Myths & Industry BS with Greg Beard — Part 2

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Tru in the Loop Premiere: Stop Eating Repair Costs, Charge Your Worth & Hire with Purpose

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Forgot the Hose? Water Damage, Floating Pools & the Chlorine Merry-Go-Round

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You never know what someone is carrying when they show up to work

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You Are the Storm - and You Are Allowed to Have Help: Mental Health in the Pool Industry

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Leslie’s Restructuring: What It Could Mean for the Pool Industry

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Answer the Damn Phone: Greg “Beard Man” Beard on Real Mentorship | Part 1

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“I Just Test the Water” Won’t Cut It: Entrapment, Bad Plumbing & Professional Responsibility

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Pool Pros Deserve Better: Industry Politics, Product Claims & Corporate Bullshit

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Pool Pros Need More Regulation - and Fewer Facebook Assholes

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A Floating Liner, a Family Business, and the Advice Chris Cavanaugh Wishes He Took Sooner

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“Chlorine-Free” With a Chlorinator? SPASA Takes on Pool Sanitizer Claims

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One-Star Tribunal: Pool Pros vs. People Who Shouldn’t Have Wi-Fi

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When Water Goes Where it Shouldn't

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Ancient Pool Warrior: John Poma on Mentorship, Machinery and Alum

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Workplace Safety: It’s Not a Problem Until It’s a Problem

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Cancel Me: Gen X, Cancel Culture and Knowing When to Shut the F*** Up

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Jeff Hampe: Mentorship, Mosaic Mastery and Pool-Tile Myths

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Can Your Pool Business Survive Without You?

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Reflecting Absence: The Engineering Behind the 9/11 Memorial Pools

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Chemicals in the Skimmer, Insurance Gaps & the Pool Guy Who “Feels” the Water

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Mentorship, AI, and Common Sense with Peter Wiedermann

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Training Today Builds a Stronger Pool Industry Tomorrow

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Pool Remodels: What Lies Beneath the Plaster

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Ten Things Wrong with the Pool Industry

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Selling Your Pool Business? Protect Yourself Before You Sign

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Calcium Nodules, Mentorship, and 50 Years of Pool Industry Wisdom with Jerry Wallace

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The Biggest Pool Technology from Down Under

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Rudy asks Education or Sales Pitch? Know Who’s Teaching You

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1099 or W-2? The Expensive Difference Pool Companies Cannot Ignore

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Is There Too Much Pool Industry Education?

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Is Your Pool Business Balanced—or Are You Just Putting Out Fires?

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If You’re the Local Expert, Stop Charging Like the Local Idiot

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Stop Guessing, Start Charging—and Learn When to Say No

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Cold Plunge Myths: Short Exposure Does Not Mean Low Risk — Part 2

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SPLASH

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Your Pool Guy Isn’t the Problem—You Are

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When Corporate Buyouts Kill Technical Support

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Eric Knight Joins Pool Brain

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Salt

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Confidence Isn’t Competence: Pool Industry Edition

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Miracle Pool Products

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Cold Plunge Myths: Dewey Case of the CMAHC Turns Up the Heat

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Commercial Salt Chlorination: Safer, Smarter, and Built to Scale

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Stop Selling the Bottle—Sell the Outcome

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Cold Plunges, Pool Inspections, and Where the Industry Is Headed

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Building a Better Pool Company: Leadership, Growth, and Company Culture with Leslie Elliott

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Mondays Down Under – LaMotte, Water Testing, and Why Professional Testing Matters (Part 2)

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Everybody Blamed the Hydrogen Peroxide... But What Did It Really Do to Trump's Reflecting Pool?

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Running a Smarter Pool Business

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Chemistry Myths That Cost Pool Pros Money – Part 2

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Pool Water Testing with LaMotte Down Under

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Why Pool Coatings Peel

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When a Pool Is a Lawsuit Waiting to Happen

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Open Water Swimming Myths Busted with Hilda Lopez

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Why Pool Pros Should Stop Ignoring Spas (and What Could Cost You Everything) with Adrian Lacey

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Si Solo Agregas Cloro, No Eres un Profesional

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Trump's Reflecting Pool. Minnesota's Supreme Court. The Pool Industry Just Got Interesting.

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Testing Water the Right Way, Hurricane Prep & Insurance Reality

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Chemistry Myths That Cost Pool Pros Money (Part 1) With Natalie Hood & Eric Wall

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Heat Pumps, Inverter Technology & Building a Smarter Equipment Pad with Madimack

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Freedom Isn't Free... Neither Is Running a Pool Business

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LaMotte Company Sets the Record Straight - Rudy talking with Jonathan Banish

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Your Biggest Liability Is Your Customer

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The Biggest Thing Polluting Your Pool Is You

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Stop Selling Yesterday's Pool Technology

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Si el Filtro Falla, Todo Falla

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The Problems No Pool Pro Wants to Admit Exist | Carrie Dibrell, Service Industry News

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When the Part Doesn't Exist: Supply Chains, Service, and Liability in the Pool Industry - Thursday

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That Chlorine Smell? That's You.

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Why the Best Pool Pros Never Enter Awards

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¿Burbujas de Aire en la Piscina? Cómo Encontrar una Fuga en el Lado de Succión

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The Pool Is Breathing (And Nobody Told You Why) - Friday

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Natural Pools, Cheap Customers, and Main Character Syndrome

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The Truth About Pool Furniture with Mike Collins of Tenjam - Wednesdays

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Mondays Down Under – Finding Pool Leaks: The Art, Science, and Frustration of Leak Detection

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Probablemente Estás Usando Mal la Tierra de Diatomeas

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Natural Swimming Pools, Biofilms, Cyanobacteria & The Science of Uncertainty

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Dead Things, Dirty Water & Doggy Daycares: Thursday Stories Pool Pros Never Forget

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Dealers, Distributors & Dirty Little Secrets - Wednesdays

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Andrea's Greatest It's

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Dogs, Crocodiles, Koi, and Pool Chemistry: When Animals Use the Pool Down Under

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Piensa Más Allá de la Piscina

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Natural Pools, AI, and the Quiet Revolution Nobody Saw Coming - Rudy

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Health Inspectors, Logbooks, Liability & Commercial Pools - Steve & Wayne

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PoolBrain Pulls Back the Curtain on the Future of Pool Service Operations

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5150: Pool Industry Insanity with Andrea

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The Ruthenium Problem: Why Salt Cells Are Getting More Expensive - Mondays