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The Fab Lab — 103 episodes

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1

Never a Good Time to Leave

2

Top 10 Coaches in the World: Interview With Michael Bungay Stanier

3

Why Your Shop Is Busy But Not Profitable – Ed Young on The Goal

4

Toxic Employees - Remove Them Like a Sliver!

5

Why Delegating is so Hard - The Neuroscience of Delegation

6

Gap, Trap, Map

7

Who is Deming? And Why We Need To Know

8

Interview - Co-hosts of the Stone Chatter Podcast

9

Part 2 - Full Self-Driving Stone Shop

10

Full Self Driving - Stone Shop Mode

11

Keep Grinding

12

The Fab Lab Is Back!

13

A Bit More History

14

Banking Crisis Protection - Stone Shop Owner Edition

15

The Best Business Model in the World!

16

5 Reasons a Side-Hustle Makes Sense

17

A Bit of History

18

A Riff on an IDEA That Would Make the Stone Business Less Hard!

19

The Stone Business is HARD, Here’s What to Do About It

20

Why Is This Business So $#@! HARD?!?!?!?!?!?!

21

5 Best Gifts For Stonecutters (AKA Your Employees)

22

3 Tips to Getting Paid - Economic Storm Series - Collections and Receivables Strategy

23

Storm Tactics - 3 Part Plan for Preparing for an Economic Storm

24

3 Massive Mistakes I Made During the Great Recession - Economic Storm Stories - Pt 1

25

The Neuroscience of Gratitude (Happy Thanksgiving 2022!)

26

The 1000 Pound Problem – The Risk and Reality of Full Slab Islands

27

The MILLION Pound Problem & The Effects

28

Interview – NSI’s Mark Meriaux on OSHA and Silicosis

29

Near Misses and Close Calls – It’s a Dangerous Business

30

Friends in low places

31

Dream Small

32

The 6 Stages (AKA the 6 D’s)

33

Part 2 – Simple Path to Taking Time Off (Without Interruptions!!!)

34

The Simple Path To Taking Time Off (Freedom Today Instead of Later)

35

Freedom Now or “Maybe” Later – Blowing Up Conventional Wisdom

36

#1 Danger in Delegating – Giving Up (Not Letting Go)

37

Remind, Insist, Demand – Real World Implementation of the PROcess

38

Trust the People – Trust the Process

39

Turn Stress into Strength!

40

What’s the best solution? - Guest Host Ed Young

41

Guest Host Ed Young - Interview with Gina Gardner

42

What’s the Octane of Your Business? - Guest Host Ed Young

43

How to Close More Biz Doing Fewer Quotes

44

Beat Your Competition to the Punch – 3 Simple Steps to Turn Existing Quotes into MORE Sales!

45

How to double your profits without adding another job (or grinding your suppliers or buying more equipment)!

46

Interview – Pricing Your Work with Ed Young – Fabricator Coach

47

Redlined to Relaxed (Are you redlined? Pt 2)

48

Are you Redlined? – Pt 1

49

Your Business – Engine For Wealth Creation

50

Shrink and Grow Rich

51

Leading Indicators and Crystal Balls

52

Interview – Economist Eric Post of ITR Economics

53

Costly Mistakes - Reaction vs Response

54

Interview – All Slab Fabber Founder – Chris Hildebrand

55

A Tale of Two Owners

56

Interview – Slippery Rock Gazette Editor - Larry Hood

57

Mindset for Mistake Management

58

Reducing Costly Mistakes

59

The Psychology of Selling a Stone Shop

60

How I Sold My Stone Shop

61

I Sold My Stone Shop and Why

62

The Fab Lab is Back! Update and New Season Teaser

63

Sacred cows make the best burgers. - Guest Host Ed Young

64

Part 2 -Interview with Ed Young - FabricatorsCoach.com

65

Part 1 -Interview with Ed Young - FabricatorsCoach.com

66

How to Help Your Employees!

67

Defining YOUR Success

68

Big Risks If It's Not Written Down

69

My First Week in the Stone Business

70

How to Know What you Want and Get It!

71

Interview on Marketing with Lorenzo Marquez of the Marqet Group.

72

Can Should Must

73

Is your stone shop a means or the end?

74

Interview with Rick Stimac

75

Origin of Results

76

Interview with Michael Bungay Stanier

77

Episode 100! Interview with EMyth Coach Steve Edkins

78

Interview Update with financial analyst Taylor St. Germain of ITR Economics.

79

3 Challenges with Fixed Turn Around From Template to Install

80

The Rhythm of All Rhythms

81

Why Routines, Rhythms, and Patterns are Essential to Business Success

82

Interview with Aaron Crowley

83

Economic Forecast with Taylor St. Germain

84

Managing Fear - Turning Panic into Productivity

85

Leadership Teams - Secret Service or a Posse?

86

Time to Lead - Coronavirus Edition

87

Top 5 ways my mastermind group is transforming me and my future.

88

Chinese Quartz Tariffs - Interview with Emerson Schwartzkopf

89

3 Thoughts About Employee Promotions

90

Employee Roles, Potential, and Retention

91

Another death in the stone industry

92

When our role becomes our identity

93

The Role Beliefs Play In the Roles We Fill

94

What's your role as you grow?

95

Digital Stone Working Interview with Mark Lauzon and Bill Elliott

96

Questions equal closed sales

97

Judge and Jury

98

Christmas in the Trenches

99

Don't judge me

100

Falling down and then following up.

101

Gratitude Equals Success - Happy Thanksgiving!

102

Canary in the coal mine

103

Interview with Geoffrey Gran - The Countertop Factory