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The Cost of Doing Business — 100 episodes
Ep 100. The Cost of Starting My Business Too Early | Kory Jones
Ep 99. 30 Years in Business and Thinking About the End Game | Mark Arsenault
Ep 98. I Almost Quit Landscaping After Years of Losing Money | Jason Nolt
Ep 97. When Is Enough Enough in Business? | James Doyle
Ep 96. Pressure Is the Price of Running a Business | Wes Roberts
Ep 95. The Hard Part of Scaling Nobody Warns You About | Jordan Daneker
Ep 94. I Was Winning Jobs and Still Losing Money (Here's Why) | Cody Adkins
Ep 93. Why Charging More Didn't Hurt My Business | Thomas Vanamerongen
Ep 92. Growing Too Fast Almost Broke My Landscaping Business | Dan Wanders
Ep 91. Working Hard Only Works for So Long | More 2025 Highlights
Ep 90. I Thought I Was Profitable Until I Looked at the Numbers | 2025 Highlights Part 1.
Ep 89. How Tussey Landscaping Built a Crew That Stays for 10–20 Years | With Matt Martin
Ep 88. How to Stand Out in a Landscaping Company | Ben Zimmerman
Ep 87. Letting Go to Grow: How Trust Built NVS Landscapes | Sean Hotaling & Wes Trumpler
Ep 86. Choose Your Hard: Building a Thriving Business Without Burning Out | Nate Butler
Ep 85. Time Kills Deals: How to Actually Close More Jobs w/ Kalei Duke
Ep 84. Building Resilience: Lessons from the Journey of Conklin Landscape Solutions
Ep 83. Building Success from the Ground Up: Chris Huser's Lessons in Landscaping and Leadership
Ep 82. Investing in Success: Elliot's Journey from Playing It Safe to Scaling Up
Ep 81. Scaling a Profitable Landscaping Business: Marketing, Niching Down, and Project Management with Jesse Weidner
Ep 80. From the Ground Up: Building a Thriving Landscaping Business with Clayton Canby
Ep 79. From Mowing Lawns to Margin Mastery: Randall's Journey Into Hardscaping
Ep 78. He Built a Profitable Business Without a Crew | Kevin Robinson
Ep 77. Real Leaders Build People, Not Just Patios | Aaron Emerson
Ep 76. He's Not at $1M Yet - But He's Building Like He Is | Ken Brown
Ep 75. How Letting Go Built a Better Business w/ Nick Pandolfi
Ep 74. I'm Losing Money on Every Job - and Didn't Even Know It w/ Robert Green
Ep 73. I Almost Quit After This Job - and I Was the Problem
Ep 72. How Knowing Your Numbers Changes Everything w/ AJ Wanders
Ep 71. Lessons from an Aquascape Artist of the Year - Joe Genovese.
Ep 70. Building a Business That Runs Without You w/ Greg Wittstock
Ep 69. Growing a Family-Owned Landscaping Business w/ Joel De La Paz
Ep 68. Scaling Contracting Business: Lessons from Alex Fransen's Journey
Ep 67. The Power of Believing in Yourself with Leonardo Diez
Ep 66. Taking Responsibility for Your Teams Success w/ Kyle from Pacific Pine Landscape
Ep 65. What's the right work/life balance?
Ep 64. Faith, Family, and the Bottom Line: How Joel Lattimer Blends Business and Belief
Ep 63. From Hustling in High School to Building Luxury Pools: Christopher Castano's Story
Ep 62. Learning How to Deliver Real Value to Your Clients w/ Justin Laughter
Ep 61. From Humble Beginnings to Industry Titans: The Morales Outdoor Living Story
Ep 60. Go on your own or stay an employee?
Ep 59. The hardest part of growing your business: letting go of control
Ep 58. From Solopreneur to Scalable Success: Overcoming Bottlenecks and Cultivating a Growth Mindset
Ep 57. I bought the business I worked for.
Ep 56. From landscaping to hardscaping to land clearing
Ep 55. A father-son team in business
Ep 54. Going from 80 hrs to 40 hrs a week as an owner.
Ep 53. Closing 10 out of 10 proposals... HOW!?
Ep 52. Transitioning a business from father to son.
Ep 51. Moving from solopreneur model to hiring first employees
Ep 50. From Surviving to Thriving with a 2 Man Landscape Company
Ep 49. What's the most efficient crew model?
Ep 48. Thriving as a 50/50 partnership
Ep 47. Commonalities Amongst All Contractors
Ep 46. Use Subcontractors or Build Your Own Team
Ep 45. The man behind How To Hardscape
Ep 44. Production vs Quality - Can You Have Both?
Ep 43. Talking to One of SynkedUP's First Customers
Ep 42. High School Friends to Business Partners
Ep 41. What WINNING Looks Like 3 Years into Business
Ep 40. How to win as an owner operator with Dan Preston
Ep 39. Moving from owner operator to business owner
Ep 38. Recovering from a Garage Fire
Ep 37. From Account Manager to Business Owner
Ep 36. Cutting all hardscape and only doing pools!?
Ep 35. 3 phases of marketing for landscape companies
Ep 34. Building a business vs owning a job
Ep 33. Taking Over a Design Build & Maintain Company During the Shutdown
Ep 32. From 12 crew & $1.3m to 4 crew & $1.4m in revenue
Ep 31. Hiring, Estimating, Business Systems for a 2 Man Show
Ep 30. The difference between a master craftsman and master business owner
Ep 29. Thinking ahead & planning the next 5 years
Ep 28. Keegan's Story - Going From Surviving to Thriving
Ep 27. How Water Features Compliment Your Hardscapes w Luke Neathery
Ep 26. Do's and Don't's of the Sales Process with Evan Newcombe and Nick Conley
Ep 25. Leveraging Profit from Knowing Your Numbers AND Being Efficient
Ep 24. Systems and Processes vs Being the Bottleneck in your Business
Ep 23. How a mentor and personal development affects your journey.
Ep 22. Moving From "Owner/Operator" to Leader
Ep 21. It Takes Humility to Work Smarter not Harder
Ep 20. How do you get the jobs you REALLY want?
Ep 19. "What I Would Do Differently" with Lee from Inlite
Ep 18. The 5 stages of business (which stage are you?)
Ep 17. Double the revenue, AND double the net profit % in 1 year
Ep 16. How Bayside Outdoor Living Achieved $1.3m in 2 Seasons
Ep 15. How Richard Carroll went out on his own, Leveraging Instagram
Ep 14. Successfully Navigating Change From Maintenance Work To Project Based Work
Ep 13. Going from $1m to $5m - What It Looks Like, What To Watch Out For
Ep 12. The Difference Between Breaking Even and Making a Profit - w/ Jeremy Swihart
Ep 11. How Did We Work All Year And Lose $30k?
Ep 10. The Pitfalls, Realities, and Results of Using SynkedUP
Ep 09. How Does Building a Shop Make You More Profit? With Caleb Auman
Ep 08. Running a Pool Installation Business w 3 Guys
Ep 07. Hiring in a Tough Labor Market
Ep 06. Not Being a "Yes" Man
Ep 05. Growing from Owner/Operator to a Standardized Business
Ep 04. Caleb's Story on Leveraging Technology for Productivity and Profits
Ep 03. What is the Best Size of Business to Be?
Ep 02. From Surviving to Thriving - with Josh Sutton
Ep 01. This is How You Grow a Business from Maintenance to Outdoor Living Profitably