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This week's Movified recap comes live from the Titan Mastermind Retreat in Phoenix. And while the estate was stunning and the breakout sessions were packed with value, the real growth came from something most business events never create: a room safe enough for successful owners to be vulnerable. Vulnerability is not weakness. It's the unlock. You cannot fix what you refuse to admit. You c...

Most moving companies track what they sold. Nobody tracks what they lost. David Meyskens has been in the moving industry for fifteen years. He is a US Marine veteran, the founder of Semper Fi Movers in Conway, Arkansas, and the man behind Marine Grade Automation and Optimization, an AI-powered system he built specifically to close the gap between leads that come in and jobs that actually get booke...

Damien Paul was 27 years old, broke, and sitting in a parking lot in Calgary waiting on a Facebook Marketplace furniture deal that was probably not worth it. He turned to his brother Jonas and said: "Why don't we just start a Moving Company?" Two seconds later he had a name. Manly Movers . Totally random. He has not changed it since. On this Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits d...

Most moving company owners are chasing more leads. Blake Fitzpatrick went a completely different direction. He gave free moves to nonprofits. He walked into rooms he felt he did not belong in. He refreshed his brand without spending a fortune. And he built one of the most community-connected moving companies in Florida by understanding that your brand is not the colors on your truck. It is every r...

Most moving companies still think they are competing against the company next door. They are not. They are competing against algorithms, AI-generated answers, and a Google search behavior that is shifting faster than most operators realize. The companies that understand this early are going to dominate the next five years. The ones that do not will wonder why their phone stopped ringing. Travis We...

Don't chase the money. Chase the act of taking care of people. The money will follow. That's the line Blake Fitzpatrick got from his first big client at Allegra Homes, and it became the foundation of everything he built after. Blake is the founder of Sunshine Movers in Sarasota, Florida. He started in 2020 with 30 days of moving experience, a $3,000 truck that blew its rear main seal on th...

On this Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits down with Derrick Potter for one of the most honest conversations about what it actually takes to scale past every ceiling. The staffing crisis at three trucks. The mindset shift at a million. The delegation problem at four locations. And the work nobody sees that gets done in DC to protect the industry the rest of us run. Derrick is the founder of...

David Harman was at a chemical warfare training with the Air Force when his buddy said: why don't you start a moving company? That was a 15 minute conversation in 2020. He flew to Denver, bought a truck he had never driven, and drove it home to Kentucky. He was still a firefighter, still in the Air Force National Guard, still doing EMS, and still running a landscaping business. Chris Sweet sta...

Aaron Steed was 17 years old with no truck and no money. His pitch to clients: rent the U-Haul yourself, drive us to the job, and pay us whatever you think we're worth. Twenty-nine years later, Meathead Movers has 8 locations across California, hundreds of employees, one of the most recognizable brands in the moving industry, and a story that includes a $15 million federal lawsuit Aaron refuse...

Your brand is built by the people wearing the shirt. Not the logo. Not the truck wrap. Not the website. The people. Karsten Desario knows this better than almost anyone in the moving industry. The owner of Kinetic Movers in York, Pennsylvania built a team so loyal they signed their employee handbooks in purple, tattooed the Kinetic logo on his hand, and show up on filming days just to be part of s...

People can smell commission breath. They know when you are desperate. They know when you just want to close. And the moment they feel it, you have already lost them. Heath Sharon has spent 25 years in the insurance industry and earned the nickname Mayor of Insurance Town because he knows everybody and everybody knows him. He hosts the Insurance Town Podcast , speaks on stages across the country, a...

This is the After-Hours Movified Wednesdays episode recorded live at the Moving Legends Retreat in Orlando and it might be the most unfiltered, real-talk panel conversation we've ever captured on this show. Three moving company owners. Three completely different markets. One room. Drinks in hand. Vincent Perez runs Muscle Movers in Las Vegas the highest-rated moving company in a city where get...

One flood job. Pack out. Storage. Move back. That's three billable events from a single call and the jobs are bigger, more urgent, and repeat all year long. Most movers have never touched the restoration channel. And the ones who understand it don't advertise it. On this Movified Mondays , host Mark Hirschi sits down with Brett Bannon , Director at Incredible Restorations one of Vancouver&...

Brandon Wise spent 20 years in the moving industry doing manual labor. He had no tech background. No software experience. No investors. Then he watched AI transform the construction industry — and asked one question: Why can't we do this for moving estimates? That question became Qube Sheets — an AI-powered virtual survey tool that builds a complete, accurate inventory report in real time, int...

Most operators try to win by going wider. More territory. More services. More locations. Brian Tustin tried the opposite — and it's working. In 2022, Brian walked away from a successful career in hospitality management and bought a two-truck moving company in one of the smallest markets in America: a coastal peninsula in Delaware doing $700K on a good year. No CRM. No website worth having. No...

In December 2019, Carolina gave birth to their second child. Six months later — in the middle of a global pandemic — Devin Clayton started a moving company. Carolina Clayton was at home with a newborn and a four-year-old. Devin was on the truck. Nobody knew what they were doing. And for the first couple of years, they were competing over who worked harder instead of building something together. Fa...

Most operators think scaling means more locations. More trucks. More everything . On this Movified Mondays , host Mark Hirschi sits down with Tim Wicker for one of the deepest operational conversations in Movified history — covering what actually breaks when companies scale too fast, why culture matters more than any SOP, and the one mindset shift that separates operators who build something lasti...

What does it actually take to build a moving company that does $66 million a year across 26 locations — and still has the same culture it started with? For Larry O'Toole , founder of Gentle Giant Moving Company , the answer has never changed: hire the right person first, never lower the bar, and build a culture so strong that Harvard graduates show up wanting to move furniture just to be part...

On this Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits down with Karel Smid — president and owner of Commander Moving and Storage out of Hayward, California — for one of the most honest conversations about what it actually takes to build, lose, and rebuild a moving company when the market shifts underneath you. Karel didn't just grow fast. He grew the way most movers do — on instinct, hustle, and the ph...

Insurance might be one of the least exciting topics in the moving industry… Until it starts crushing your margins. On this episode of Movified Wednesdays, host Mark Hirschi and co-host Steven Reed sit down live in Nashville at the ATA MSC Conference with three insurance specialists who know the moving industry inside and out: Steven Pilchard – Aegis Insurance Trey Scallion – BHC Insurance Tony Hop...

Most moving company owners are building a job. Not a business. And they won't know the difference until it's too late. In this Movified Mondays conversation, Mark Hirschi sits down with J ason Bergenske — founder of MoveIt Pro and host of Shift Happens Beyond the Boxes — for a real, unfiltered discussion recorded live at the Moving Legends Retreat. No fluff. No performance. Just two operat...

Most moving companies do not have a lead problem. They have a  follow-up problem . In this episode of  Movified Wednesdays , host  Mark Hirschi  and co-host  Steven Reed  sit down with  Hunter Monroe of USA Home Listings  to unpack one of the biggest growth opportunities in the moving industry right now: listing data that actually gets worked. This is not just a conversation about postcards. It is...

At the ATA Moving & Storage Conference in Nashville, Mark Hirschi sits down with the founders behind Responders Moving—a company that went from startup to six trucks on the road in under a year. What sounds like overnight success quickly reveals itself as something far more intense. This episode dives deep into the real cost of rapid growth in the moving industry—from sleepless nights and oper...

In this episode of Movified Mondays , hosts Mark Hirschi and Steven Reed sit down with Chad Olsen , founder of Camelback Moving in Phoenix, to unpack a journey defined by resilience, discipline, and a commitment to doing business differently. Chad’s story doesn’t start with success. It starts with recovery. From rebuilding his life to building one of the most trusted moving companies in his market...

Scaling a moving company isn’t about adding more trucks — it’s about building the right foundation. In this episode of Movified Mondays, host Mark Hirschi sits down with Tom O'Neill from A&M Friendly Movers to break down what it really takes to grow a moving business the right way. Recorded following insights from the Moving Legends Retreat in Orlando, this conversation dives into the gap...