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The Trade Den — 102 episodes
115. Productivity Burners & The Simple Steps to Improve Focus Now
114. Expensive Hiring Mistakes Business Owners Keep Making
113. Could Your Business Run Without You for a Month?
112. When Growth Nearly Cost Kade Everything
111. The Phases of Business Ownership - Part 1: Your Journey to Profit & Freedom
110. Mindset Matters: How to Break the Working Addiction
109. You Want Improvement? You Need to Measure It
108. The Hidden Cost of Being a YES Man
107. From Backyard Business to Nationwide Industry Leader
106. Money Matters: The Weekly and Monthly Habits That Drive Profit – Part 2
105. Money Matters: You’re In Business for Money, So Know Your Numbers – Part 1
104. Urgent vs Important: The Mindset Shift Every Trade Business Must Make
103. Building Systems That Free You From the Day-to-Day Operations
102. What it takes to run a successful business
101. Mindset Matters: Being a Great Tradesman Doesn't Mean You'll Run a Great Trades Business
100. How 15 Minutes on Monday Saves You Hours During the Week
99. You want the results? It’s up to YOU!
98. How to Roadmap Your Next 12 Month Growth Plan - Part 2
97. Goal Setting & Planning: It's time to step up and play a bigger game - Part 1
Happy New Year – This Is Your Year | Returning 8th January 2026
Merry Christmas | Returning 8th January 2026
96. Stop & Reflect: Turning This Year’s Wins & Lessons into Next Year’s Growth
95. From Confusion to Clarity - Jerry’s Epic 12 Month Business & Life Transformation
94. The 6 Essential Steps to a Stress-Free Christmas Shutdown
93. Stop Being the Bottleneck: How to Trust your Team and Let Go
92. Time Matters: Take Back Control with a Simple “Stop, Start, Continue” Framework
91. Grant’s mirror moment: What happens when you refuse to be average
90. How to Manage Stress in a Stress-Driven World
89. Leadership Matters: Calling all Control Freaks – Stop Strangling Your Business
88. Why saying “no” to more work may be the smartest move
87. From Chaos to Growth: How Phil Embraced Systems to Build His Bug Empire
86 . Family Matters: Parenting for Growth - The Impact Your Words Have on Your Kids
85. Stop Doing It All Yourself – Build Your “Power Team”
84. Mindset Matters: Fixed vs Growth, the Mindset that Makes or Breaks your Business
83. Shaun’s transformation from burnout to $3m+ trade business
82. Lifestyle Mastermind & Awards 2025 - Celebrating the year that has been
81. Money Matters: Don’t compete on price – the true cost of discounting
80. A Confused Crew Costs You…Set Your Team Up for Success on Site
79. Leadership Matters: Setting the Standard that Builds Success
78. Burnout and broken – how Dane rebuilt from rock bottom
77. The 3 keys to delegating without losing control
76. Family Matters: The Provider Trap – when good intentions go wrong
75. Habits – not hacks – shape the way you lead and live
74. Time Matters: Stop wasting time on stuff you suck at
73. How Matt Broke the $1M Barrier and Built without Burnout
72. The uncomfortable shift from doing the work to leading the team
71. Money Matters: Know these 4 numbers …or risk going broke
70. It’s decision time! Stay on the tools …or commit to growth?
69. How saying no & finding clarity helped Andrew rebuild his business
68. Leadership Matters: Would you work for you?
67. Difficult Conversations PART 2: Delivering hard messages with confidence
66. Difficult Conversations PART 1: Why avoiding them costs you more
65. How Mitch has built a business that runs without him
64. Mindset Matters: The truth about grit and what separates winners from quitters
63. Overwhelmed with decisions? ‘Wins, Flags & Roadblocks’ playbook is a must!
62. Family Matters: How to keep Business from Hijacking Your Home Life
61. Decision-making: seizing an opportunity …or sinking your ship?
60. Mindset Matters: Confidence manifests when you take action
59. The busyness trap and why it’s holding your business back
58. Money Matters: Is sloppy spending killing your profits?
57. He Was a Jack of All Trades, Now He’s a Master of Business
56. Leadership Matters: There are no bad teams, only bad leaders
55. Freedom comes from structure not just systems
54. Family Matters: Quality time beats clocked time…every time!
53. Corey’s journey: from leaving the tools to leading the business
52. Money Matters: You’re in business to make money
51. Working Longer and Harder is NOT the Answer
50. Mindset Matters: Momentum is a must for business growth
49. How Adrian’s discipline and powerful support network prevented him from giving up
48. Mindset Matters: Motivational myths busted & the truth to getting things done
47. How to hit the ground running in 2025
46. Making your New Year’s Resolutions actually stick
45. Highlights from the Trade Den in 2024
44. Reflecting on YOUR 2024
43. From 80+ hour weeks to Operational Freedom & a 6 week holiday with Frank Virtu from RFV Property Services
42. How to Finish 2024 Strong & Get the Most Out of the Christmas Break
41. From burning out to breaking through with Andy Clyde from Inline Cabinetry
40. How to Retain Great People in Hard Times (Part 3)
39. How to Recruit even in a Tough Labour Market (Part 2)
38. How to Design a Productive Ground Crew (Part 1)
37. How To Become a Dad Your Kids Will Remember
36. Scaling From 12 to 80+ Employees, $14Mill in Revenue & Named Great Place to Work with Simon Parker from Parker Precision
35. Win The Morning, Win The Day
34. Struggling to Leave Work At The Door? Our Guide to Separate Work & Home Life
33. Finishing Strong: How to Avoid Christmas Chaos and Set Yourself Up for Success in 2025
32. Behind The Scenes of Our 2024 Lifestyle Mastermind & Awards Night
31. The Blueprint for Building a Successful Business Partnership, with Chris & Andrew from Kinetic Electrical & Data
30. How to Transition From Being A Mate to A Manager
29. How to Drive Productivity Without Getting Dragged Back to Site
28. The 3 Questions You Can Ask to Learn and GROW From Every Challenging Situation
27. Face the Facts: How is Alcohol Affecting Your Personal and Business Success?
26. Overcoming Adversity: How Zach Hansen Went from Leaving High School at 15 to Leading a Team of 13 & a Turnover of $3 Million
25. What You Need to be Charging in Your Trades Business (Pricing Part 3)
24. How to Adjust Your Prices as Your Business Grows… Without Losing Customers (Pricing Part 2)
23. The Most Costly Pricing Mistakes You Can Make in a Trades Business
22. The Strategic Hires EVERY Trades Business Needs When They Hit $80k a Month
21. The SECRET To Having Work/Life Balance
20. Overcoming Fear to Break Through the $1mil Mark and Build the Life of your Dreams with Phil Dawes
19. This Follow Up Process Made Our Client $250k in 2 weeks
18. How to Get New Customers & Increase Sales WITHOUT Feeling Pushy
17. The Fastest way to Fill your Sales Pipeline
16. How Ben Wolff went from $250k In Debt to be On Track to Turnover $5Mil this Year Whilst Only Working 40 hour weeks