Painter Growth Podcast

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contractors. Our clients range from guys doing $300K a year to teams pushing past...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/ If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contractors. Our clients range from guys doing $300K a year to teams pushing pas...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contract...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/ If you're new here, I'm Mike, founder of Painter Growth. We coach painting contractors on how to build a real business, not just run jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 contractors, from $300K solo guys to $5M teams, and our coaches are all painting business owners who built seven-figure companies themselv...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-... In this episode of the Painter Growth Podcast, Jesse sits down with Mark Anthony Lord, a spiritual coach, ordained minister, and the man Jesse credits with one of the most profound turning points in his life and business. Together, Jesse and Mark unpack how spirituality isn't separate from entrepreneurshi...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Download your free Painter Growth training here: https://learn.paintergrowth.com/grow-v1?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=grow-v1 If you're new here, my name is Mike Gore-Hickman. I'm the founder of Painter Growth, a coaching company that helps painting contractors build real businesses instead of just running jobs. We've worked with over 1,500 painting contrac...

Eric Winegardner started Winegardner Fine Finishes and Coatings in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 2023. People told him no one in his area would pay premium prices for high-end finishes. By 2024 he was at just under $700K in revenue. By mid-2025 he was consistently doing $100K+ months — with a project manager, a leadership team, and the freedom to shut his phone off for a week in Florida while the bus...

You're slammed all summer, crews are pumping, the phone won't stop — so why is there no money in the bank? In this episode, Coach Jesse and Coach Rich break down the real reason so many painting contractors stay busy but broke, then hand you the financial systems and busy-season tactics to fix it before the season slips away. In this episode: The #1 reason profit "disappears" eve...

Derrick did $680K in sales in 2025 and ended the year broke. Six months later, his company, Mountain Man Painting in Twin Lakes, Colorado, where most jobs are 8,000 ft and up, had $1 million booked for the year. It's the first time he'd ever hit that number, and he got there in five months. In this Painter Growth story, Derrick breaks down exactly what changed: why $680K in revenue still l...

Tanner Mullen (founder of DripJobs) returns to the Painter Growth Podcast for one of his most tactical conversations yet. Mike Workman and Tanner dig into why software is becoming commoditized, why education and service are the real moats, and how AI is reshaping what it means to run a painting business in 2025. Tanner breaks down his new product, Routimize, a route-optimization booking system tha...

Most painters don't get what they want because they never actually decide what they want. They live in the "gray zone" — surviving, reacting, putting out fires — and wonder why the business keeps hitting the same ceiling. In this live coaching episode, Coach Jesse sits down with Damon, owner of On a Roll Painting, fresh off a record month: nearly $100K in April after doing $325K all...

Most painting contractors pour everything into the business and quietly let their health fall apart — until one day they wake up as a shadow of the man they wanted to be. In this episode, Mike sits down with Sean Crane, founder of Unstoppable 365, to break down why getting your body, energy, and discipline right is the foundation everything else is built on. Sean shares the story most people never...

AI is coming for accountants, lawyers, and every desk job first — but if you run a painting business, you might be holding the biggest advantage of your career. Mike sits down with entrepreneur Jason Paris to break down what AI agents actually mean for painting contractors — and why the painters who adopt now will leave everyone else behind. Real, in-the-field use cases: a custom sales proposal bu...

She never touched a paintbrush in her life — now she runs a painting company across multiple cities in Colorado. So why does she say most business owners with money in the bank are still broke? In this episode of the Painter Growth Podcast, Mike sits down with Myrna, owner of CEO Painting Pro, for an honest conversation about what it actually takes to go from working IN your business to owning one...

Tired of paying thousands upfront for ads that don't convert, or fighting over shared leads on Angie's? In this episode, Mike sits down with Hisham, co-founder of Leads Pilot — a pay-per-lead agency built specifically for painting contractors. Hisham breaks down exactly how Leads Pilot works: exclusive leads delivered via text outreach (not ads), no monthly fees, no contracts, and no commi...

Coaches Jesse and Kit are back together for a raw, real conversation about one of the biggest silent killers in entrepreneurship — burnout. If you've ever felt like a zombie at the dinner table, dreaded picking up the phone, or wondered why growing your business feels like it's slowly breaking you, this episode is for you. Kit and Jesse dive deep into what burnout actually looks and feels...

Jason Thompson, Director of Mitsuoka & Company Recruiting, joins Mike Gore-Hickman to break down what separates great hires from costly mistakes. From in-home sales reps to project managers, Jason shares how his team takes a custom, headhunting approach to find people who are the right fit, not just for the business, but for their own life and schedule too. If you're a painting business ow...

Is your painting business AI-ready — or at risk of being left behind? In this episode of the Painter Growth Podcast, Jesse and Gavin break down exactly how painting contractors can start using AI right now to do more with less. From writing SOPs in minutes, to building a $100K+ partner outreach list, to automating your recruiting funnel, this episode is packed with real, actionable workflows you c...

In this raw and insightful episode of Brush Busters , coaches Jesse and Gavin dive deep into some of the most pressing (and personal) challenges painting business owners face today: 🎯 How to filter out ghost leads without killing conversions 🧠 The power of personal performance, fasting, biohacking, and recovery ⚒️ Turning production chaos into SOP clarity (using AI to build systems faster than e...