To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP158 Do you ever feel misunderstood by employees, partners, vendors, and stakeholders when discussing the future—the vision, the strategy? That “mental image,” to you at least, feels unbelievably clear, precise, detailed, and exciting.  How could anyone NOT get this?  How could you NOT be fired up about this? Cameron Herold is back on the show to lay out the solution to your visionary woes. His 2018 book, Vivid...

Register for the May 8th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/LMN-GSR-CE To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP157 The labor shortage is not improving anytime soon. This is why smart contractors invest in their employer brands. Many businesses competing over a small supply of talent drives up its price and gives your would-be employee a sea of options. Ensure your business is the best choice for them by building a world-class employer...

Register for the May 8th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/LMN-GSR-CETo learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP156My guest on the show today is Luke Hansen - Founder and CEO of Company Cam, the industry-leading job site photo tool that allows you to manage work from anywhere. Today’s episode is a Tech CEO’s 4 Business Lessons for Contractors.  We talk about brand building, strategy, social media, and more.To get a deal on CompanyCam click...

Register for the May 8th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/LMN-GSR-CE To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP155 If you’ve ever wondered how an Open Book Management business operates and whether or not this model might work for you. You’re in luck! Open Book Management, or OBM for short, is a business philosophy and system that communicates the entire financial picture of the business all the way down to the laborer in the field.  The...

Register for the May 8th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/LMN-GSR-CE To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP154 My guest on the show today is Kyle Nitchen. I found Kyle through his substack and newsletter called “The Influential Project Manager” - which is worth a follow, btw. As a senior project manager for Layton Construction, Kyle has built over 350 million dollars worth of hospital wings, Surgery rooms, and urgent care centers all...

Register for the May 8th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/LMN-GSR-CE To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP153 Marcus Sheridan is back! As if writing one of the most celebrated marketing books (They Ask, You Answer) of the last 10 years wasn’t enough, he’s co-authored a new book all about how to CRUSH IT with video content. It’s called The Visual Sale. Kinda catchy 😉 Two out of every three adults already choose video as their primary...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP152 My guest on the show today is Cameron Herold, best-selling author of 6 books, many of which you’ll know and love: The Miracle Morning, Meetings Suck, and arguably his most popular Vivid Vision. But today’s conversation is about his latest book, The Second In Command: Unleash The Power Of Your COO, which I am immediately putting on the must-read list for all of you. Cameron was the COO of 1-800-Got Junk and...

Register for the Web Class with Tommy Mello here: https://trybta.com/b9l To get the resource bundle we talk about in the episode, click here: https://trybta.com/SOP No one sets out to run a dumpster fire of a business.  And yet… we can all admit that, at least occasionally, it feels that way.  Things tend towards chaos. Entropy is a real thing. This phenomenon is literally baked into the fabric of the universe. But that doesn’t mean through smart systems, we can’t overcome it and create...

Register for the April 10th Web Class spaces are limited: https://trybta.com/b9l To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP150 Do you shove off your social media strategy to already busy employees who half-ass it or just don’t have the time?  Because I certainly have. When you’re slammed running a business, making Instagram posts can feel a little beneath you. And so the default move is to pawn it off to a junior who inevitably does very little with...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP149 For many contractors, financial clarity can be elusive.  None of us got into business for ourselves to stare at QuickBooks, spreadsheets, or P&Ls.  That said, the dangers of ignoring this indispensable side of our business are no laughing matter.  Does laying good people off because you can’t afford them anymore sound fun to you?  Or funneling personal dollars into a business account to run payroll?  Or...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP148 Do you thrive on chaos? Or does it thrive on you? Is there something about the entrepreneurial journey that attracts the tormented soul?  Or is it the journey of small business itself that causes the discord inside us? I’m not sure I know the answer, but one thing that seems abundantly clear to me is that if we don’t tame the chaos within, it amplifies itself on the outside.  Our frantic and reactive energy...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP147 One part of the wealth-building story for contractors that doesn’t get a whole lot of coverage in our modern thought-o-sphere is risk mitigation.  The affluent business person you want to become doesn’t get there SIMPLY by always making successful bets.  The part you don’t see is the huge losses they avoided.  S*** happens. So protecting the downside is actually more important than the pursuit of...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP146 I’m a month late getting my predictions for the year together. But better late than never. Am I right? I’ve got 11 spicy takes on what’s going down in our North American blue-collar business universe this year, including: Private equity will _________. Early adopters of_____ will destroy ______ . The Canadian economy will _____ while the American will ____. Don't miss out on these valuable insights, and...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP145 Last time on the Wealth Builder series, Matt Wood talked about value investing in relatively low-cost stocks that pay dividends. Companies that cashflow, just like your own. The other approach, known as growth investing, while more alluring, is also way higher risk. Not better or worse. Just different. For every friend or acquaintance who struck it rich on Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, or even Bitcoin, there are 10...

Order Dan’s book here: https://trybta.com/BBYT To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP144 My guest on the show today is Dan Martell.  Award-winning Entrepreneur. Investor. Author. Since his new book Buy Back Your Time was released last year, I’ve had at least 10 Breakthrough Academy members ask me to have him on. And when I read it, I understood why.  Buy Back Your Time is an antidote to the time-sucking and stress-inducing nature of...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP143 Welcome back to Contractor Evolution and episode 4 of our Wealth Builder series! So far in this series, we’ve talked about: The investor's mindset  Diversification Staying “lendable”  And real estate investment strategies It’s time now to turn our attention to the stock market investment and look specifically at a style generally called “Value Investing.” Owning shares in companies that methodically turn a...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP141 It's funny we’ve done almost 150 episodes of contractor evolution, and this is the first conversation we’ve had about the CONTRACT part. Better late than never I guess. Today’s conversation is with Cian Brennan, Founder and CEO of Quantum Contract Solutions, and it’s all about how to DRAMATICALLY reduce your risk by learning the game of contracts.  We talk about: How to use the termination clause to set some...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP141 Welcome back to Contractor Evolution!  This is episode 3 of the Wealth Builder series.  Justin Bontkes is the founder and principal of Caliber Projects, a construction management and general contracting firm working on some of the most exciting real estate developments in BC.  In many ways, Justin is the perfect case study for how contractors can build wealth through real estate investment alongside their...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP140 Today's guest on the show is Pierre Cleroux, Chief Economist of the BDC, Canada’s bank for entrepreneurs. He’s been an economist for 30 years and has led the research team at the BDC for the last 12. On top of lending to entrepreneurs for their various business needs, the BDC also conducts and publishes a vast amount of research and literature on the ever-changing landscape of small to medium-sized...

Register for this free LIVE web class for 7-Figure Contractors. Space is limited: https://trybta.com/PCEP142 For a free copy of Kyle’s book, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP139 It’s time for episode 2 of our Wealth-Builder Series! For the growth-minded contractor investing in real estate is an obvious, lucrative, and fun place to put their hard-earned profits. Making money in trades and construction and investing said money into real estate of some shape or form seem to go together...

Register for this free LIVE web class for 7-Figure Contractors. Space is limited: https://trybta.com/PCEP142 To download Sarah’s Succession Planner and Personal Records Organizer click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP138 What would actually happen to your business if, tragically, you died tomorrow?   “Hit by a bus” as they say. Would it unravel rather quickly without you at the helm?   What financial condition would your family be left in? Morbid questions… For sure… But ones worth...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP137 To learn more about Darcie Crowe visit: https://croweprivatewealth.com/ Today’s episode is the first of a multi-part Wealth Builder Series Here is why we’re making it.  We are blessed to get to work with over 600 contracting companies all over North America helping them systemize for growth. Having been at this for 8 years, we are getting to a point where many of our members are asking us an interesting...

To learn more about Breakthrough Academy, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP136 The number of contractors who speak aspirationally about franchising their business one day compared to the number who actually do is astounding. People talk the talk but rarely walk the walk.  And I’ve always wondered why that is. Are people smoking hope dope?  Is franchising way more complicated than people realize?  Some combination of the two? Our guest on the show today is Blair Rebane. He is a...

To download the Supervisor and Employee Performance Review Documents, click here: https://trybta.com/PCEP135 Performance Reviews are a misunderstood facet of a company’s performance management cycle.  You may have already implemented them and love how they help grow and develop the talent on your team.   You might think they’re an unnecessary formality from the corporate HR world.   Or (and I suspect this is a lot of you) you might be somewhere in the middle, doing a quasi-formal year-end...