EPISODE 250: Garrett Moore is a former Navy SEAL, and the founder of Agorus, a company tackling the housing shortage, the labor shortage and using software and robotics to build houses in days instead of months.

Here’s what you’ll hear about in this construction podcast with Garrett Moore:

• How would a team of Navy SEALS build 500 houses.
• Misconceptions about being a NAVY SEAL.
• The biggest killer of teamwork.
• Amateurs train until they get it right and how pros train.
• How the Pareto principle applies to skilled trades training.
• Commander’s Intent and how you can use it.
• The North Star principle.
• Being stubborn on vision flexible on details.
• Risk avoidance vs. ownership, and which one creates a low trust environment.
• Trust allows decentralized command.
• Who goes first with trust?
• Why mantras are effective, and a few good ones to remember.
• What’s better than carrots and sticks?
• How being lukewarm hurts culture.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Systematize Your Construction Business Results Program - Apply to work with us: www.constructionleadingedge.com/apply

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually use - https://www.rakenapp.com

How to connect with Garrett Moore, founder of Agorus:

Company website: https://agorus.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/-garrettmoore-/

EPISODE 249: Should you set company goals by yourself? What happens when a business acquisition goes wrong? How can a lack of SOPs kill a job instantly? How is Jeremy Flaten, owner of Jerco Construction, actually getting young people interested in the skilled trades?

What you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with Jeremy Flaten, owner of Jerco Construction:

• One of the greatest perks of being a business owner that might surprise you.
• How Jeremy uses hockey to get young people in the skilled trades.
• Why you should never set goals by yourself.
• How Jeremy is using Execution Plans to create a path to success with his team.
• How to use social media, even if you hate social media.
• How a business acquisition went wrong, and what Jeremy learned from it.
• The business case for a clean jobsite.
• What happened when Jeremy’s team started putting systems in place.
• Not having SOPs can kill a job instantly.
• If you’re not trying to better your business every day, you shouldn’t be in business.
• Running a business is like coaching in real life.
• How life is different after working in our coaching program.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Raken - Get the data you need to build better projects with an app your field crews will actually  use - https://www.rakenapp.com

How to connect with Jeremy Flaten:

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JerCoConstruction

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jerco2008/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP3T9cmOLxa9ylTcfVx97qw

EPISODE 248: Here’s what you’ll take away from this construction podcast episode with Brady Fry, owner of Fry Classic Construction in Nashville:

• What’s better than timely communication?
• How his experience in the music industry helped him deal with construction issues.
• How to pave a wide path to success for your team.
• Why Brady strategically stopped using the word “estimate.”
• Don’t negotiate against yourself during a project.
• There are no casual conversations with clients.
• Talent wants to be on a winning team.
• The first person guy to get mad usually loses.
• Figuring out the people is a lifetime endeavor.
• How important psychology is to being a business owner.
• Why a really talented person may not want to start their own business.   
• The virtuous cycle of hiring talented people.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

3 Questions To Get Paid for Estimates:  Don’t write up another free estimate until you watch this free training video - www.buildermasterclass.com/script

How to connect with Brady Fry:

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fryclassicconstruction/ 

Website - www.fryclassicconstruction.com

EPISODE 247: What you’ll learn about in this construction podcast episode with Todd Dawalt and our Director of Customer Success, Leyah Valgardson:

• Top 5 fears you’ll need to push through to grow your business.
• How business owners tend to get in their own way.
• Are you “shoulding” all over yourself?
• Harmony vs. Balance.
• Practical tips to stop screwing yourself over.
• What’s in it for you in the Systematize Your Construction Business program.

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout

Delegate to Elevate: Free ebook from Belay Solutions - https://resources.belaysolutions.com/edge

EPISODE 246: How do you feel about the amount of hard earned money you pay to the federal government in taxes?  If there was a federal program designed to reduce your tax liability, but you didn’t know about it, would you want to take advantage of it?

This episode is about overpayment recovery and will pull the curtains back on federal tax credits that could be available to you.  Credits that a lot of CPA’s don’t know about, or won’t dig into. Tax credits that a lot of small and medium sized construction businesses are taking advantage of.

In this construction podcast episode, you’ll hear my interview with Justin Rupple, a Tax Incentive Specialist answer a few questions, including:

• What are some of the little known tax credits that are available to construction business owners?
• How much money is being left on the table every year by the average construction business?
• Why is it that a lot of CPAs don’t know about, or go after these tax credits?
• Who are some of the construction businesses who have recovered their overpayments, and how much did they get back?
• How does the process of recovering your overpayment work, and what’s the first step?
• What is this tax credit program, and why does it exist?
• What is the biggest reason most small businesses miss out on these tax credits?

Resources mentioned in this construction podcast episode:

Take the first step to recover your tax overpayments - www.constructionleadingedge.com/recover

Get Out of Your Business: Make it Run Without You This Year: Free online training workshop - www.constructionleadingedge.com/getout