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The Heat Pump Podcast — 56 episodes

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#56 What Heat Pump Commissioning Actually Looks Like — and Where It Gets Hard, with Wes Davis and Brian Feenie

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#55 A Shot Across the Bow of the Entire HVAC Supply Chain — Stephen Lake of Jetson

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#54 Everyone Said It Would Fail — Lessons from Heat Pump Pioneer Sarah Moscatello

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#53 Top 10 Manual J Lessons from Hundreds of Contractor Onboardings, with Eric Fitz

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#52 Behind Enemy Lines: Why Chris Morin Trains Building Inspectors (and What It Means for Your Business)

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#51 You Be the Biggest. I'll Be the Best. Scott Libby's Blueprint for a Heat Pump Business Worth Building.

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#50 What Winning Contractors Do Differently – Stop Competing on Price and Build Real Trust

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#49 Hey Ed: 35 Years of HVAC Wisdom with Ed Janowiak

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#48 A blueprint for your website, with Peter Troast

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#47 3 Startup CEOs on the Future of the Heat Pump Business Model

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#46 What It Takes to Scale Heat Pumps: A Roundtable with Carrier, Daikin, and LG

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#45 How to Win on Trust: A Step-by-Step Heat Pump Sales Masterclass with Paul McHugh

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#44 Test, Don't Guess – How Mitch Bailey Built a Profitable HVAC Business Without Chasing Every Lead

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#43 Manual J vs. Utility Bills: A Sizing Debate with Nate Adams, Alex Meaney, and Eric Fitz

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#42 Make It Hard to Buy: How Larry Waters Broke the Standard HVAC Business Playbook

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#41 The "Uber of Heat Pumps" — DR Richardson on Building Elephant Energy

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#40 Rolls-Royce Work at Rolls-Royce Prices: Tim De Stasio's Blueprint for High-Performance HVAC

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#39 Low Overhead and Infinite Scalability: Mike Townsend's Blueprint for the Next Generation of Heat Pump Contractors

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#38 Flipping Heat Pump Economics with Zero Homes

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#37 What 10 Years of Monitoring Heat Pumps Taught Nate Adams About Proper HVAC Sizing

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#36 Design, Diligence, and Differentiation: Lessons from Shawn LeMons

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#35 The Heat Pump Concierge Model: Turning Utility Programs into Install-Ready Jobs

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#34 How Stephen Hong Is Building a Heat Pump Business by Saying No to Fast Growth and Bad Installs

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#33 What Separates Successful Heat Pump Contractors from the Rest, with Jonathan Pires

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The Heat Pump Business Blueprint: Mike Cappuccio's Guide to Building a Company Worth Buying

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The Future of Heat Pumps (Hint: It's Air-to-Water) - A Conversation with Ross Trethewey

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The Contrarian: How Robert Hamerly Built a Thriving Business by Embracing Complexity

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Where Heat Pump Design Gets Fun – Manual S and Beyond with Eric Fitz

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The Financial Risks of Manual Rebate Workflows (and How to Fix Them) – A Conversation with Samir Pendse

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The Conference for Contractors Who Want to Get Heat Pumps Right – with Brent Davidson

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Avoid the HVAC Race to the Bottom – With Building Science, Heat Pumps, and Brynn Cooksey

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Creating the First New Heat Pump OEM in 60 Years with Paul Lambert

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Corbett Lunsford on Arming Homeowners with the Knowledge they need to get the HVAC systems they deserve

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The bumps, bruises, and lessons learned of scaling a home performance business to $150M with Chris Nichols

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The Practice and Philosophy of Building Science – A Discussion with Alex Meaney and Nate Adams

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The Beauty of Dual Fuel Solutions with Mike Gundersen

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The Nuances of Heat Pump System Design with Eric Kaiser

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Using Performance Data to Maximize Efficiency and Electrify Homes with John Semmelhack

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Don’t confuse with jargon. Understand through questions. Design and sales advice with Silas Hoeppner

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Rapidly Scaling a Heat Pump Business from 0 to 27 Trucks in Four Years - with Mike Missimer

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Top 10 lessons from the Heat Pump Podcast in 2024

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Mark Kasdorf wants to build a $1B+ heat pump business

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Good COP, Bad COP and heat pumps with Adam Mufich

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The "Great Heat Pump Revolt of 2025" and how to avoid it, with Steve Rogers

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Jim Bergmann's religious conversion... to heat pumps

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David Daher prepares to launch a new heat pump-focused business

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Fortunat Mueller explains why solar & heat pumps are a magical combination

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Alex Meaney on the 'gotchas' in heat pump sizing and design

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Peter Troast on how to make your phone ring (aka marketing for heat pump contractors)

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Ilija Crnobrnja explains why BS+CF=HPS (building_science + customer_focus = heat_pump_success)

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Kevin Brenner - From podiatry to perfecting heat pump installs

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Aleisha Stenson follows her passion for ductless heat pumps

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Hal Smith of Halco on the key to building an enduring business

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Joe and Laura Wood on building two premier HVAC brands

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Dominating ductless heat pumps with Mike Cappuccio

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Discovering the secret of heat pumps in Maine with Matt Scott of Dave's World