Consolidation Nation

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay talk with Aaron Glaser, former owner of five-store MSO Glaser's Collision in Louisville, Ky., and Mark Wasmuth, former owner of a three-store CARSTAR shop in the Carolinas, on what life is like after selling their shops.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach Business Development Specialists Chad Smith and Russell Winston talk about the "unqualified cowboys" in the consolidation world who are short on experience yet are out looking for shops that may want to sell — and how to sniff them out.Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that is strictly a sell-side advisor that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach Business Development Specialists Chad Smith and Russell Winston provide an update on the auto body consolidation market, reading the current temperature in 2026 and the appetite for private equity to invest, buyers to buy and sellers to sell.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay chat with Traweek Dickson Sr., co-founder and former CEO of Joe Hudson's Collision Center, on his journey from a cotton farm to head of one of the largest national collision organizations in the country.

In episode 12 of Consolidation Nation, BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay review what kind of year it was for auto body consolidation in 2025 and what shops, consolidators and investors can expect in 2026. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that is strictly a sell-side advisor that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay on Consolidation Coach's new pilot program identifying regional consolidators and independent shops that may be looking to sell who they may be interested in acquiring. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that is strictly a sell-side advisor that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

In episode 10 of Consolidation Nation, BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay discuss business valuation, specifically: Where do collision repairers usually turn to get a business valuation?Why are these valuations mostly unreliable in the collision space?And more! Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that is strictly a sell-side advisor that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end. 

 BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Matt DiFrancesco, principal and managing advisor of High Lift Financial and Consulting, discuss how to build the value of your auto body shop in order to exit on your own terms.Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that is strictly a sell-side advisor that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach Analyst and Herm Stonitsch, CPA, discuss the importance of clean accounting and what it looks like: every profit and loss statement (which you should examine at least once a month) having a section for income, cost of goods sold and actual expenses — and what should go into those three categories.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach business development specialists Chad Smith and Russell Winston discuss how important it is for body shops looking to sell to ask the person, entity or company trying to help them sell, "Who do you work for?" Because some work for the buyer, and while they might pretend to be your friend, you may not get the best deal.  Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

n episode 6 of Consolidation Nation, BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach business development specialists Chad Smith Russell Winston talk about life for an auto body shop owner after selling their shop — the options available to them, embarking on "Career 2.0" and the understanding that life doesn't have to end. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach business development specialists Chad Smith Russell Winston get into the mind of the seller — the owner of a body shop who may be contemplating exiting the business. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay get into the minds of the buyers of auto body shops, what they're looking for and how they operate. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay crunch the numbers and get into how shop owners can understand the value of their business and getting the money they need to live the life post-sale that they want to. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl and Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay discuss what "wolves in sheep's clothing" means when it comes to the collision repair mergers & acquisitions world. Consolidation Nation is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.

"Consolidation Nation" is sponsored by Consolidation Coach, a consulting firm that coaches and guides body shops through the selling process from beginning to end.  On this episode, BodyShop Business Editor Jason Stahl, Consolidation Coach Owner Laura Gay and Consolidation Coach Operations Manager Tori Jolly discuss what the auto body consolidation landscape looks like in 2025.