Blue Collar Nation

We were honored to have Aaron Salow from XOi join us on the podcast to talk about making life better in the field for technicians. XOi is an amazing tool that can really help all techs, but especially the newer ones, excel in the field and not feel as if they are all alone to figure everything out by themselves.  Enjoy this lively conversation as Aaron explains his background in the blue collar sp...

Learn everything you need to know about Joe Crisara's upcoming True Grit .  Eric and Larry will be in Vegas going through all the training and the escape rooms to hone their skills and learn along with everyone else. Enjoy this episode as Uncle Joe breaks down what we can expect from this awesome event. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a s...

Eric and Larry will be doing a restoration seminar with Derek and Katie of Spot on Solutions in Houston, in conjunction with Howard Partridge's Inner Circle on February 21 in Houston. Click below for details: https://howardpartridge.isrefer.com/go/rich/lwilberton/ TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short daily video lessons, trai...

Joshua Gillow of Yes Express   and the host of the Outer Spaces Podcast thinks out of the box.  We had a great talk and you will enjoy the episode. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short daily video lessons, training your team in soft skills.  Your team can make you more profits by teaching them soft skills.  Your team will never le...

Victor Rancour is a top entrepreneur in the HVAC and Plumbing space. His Southern California based service company, Absolute Airflow , has scaled to more that $50 Million a year in just 4 short years. Listen as Victor talks about the mindset it takes to grow and scale your service company. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short dail...

The economy is on a bit of a roller coaster right now so we thought it would be good to have on Julie Viola, a commercial banker to fill us in on what to expect in 2023 and what we need to do to be prepared for it. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short daily video lessons, training your team in soft skills.  Your team can make you...

Eric Hansen of Inland Productivity Solutions has great insight on the computer systems needed in your business.  We had a great conversation that you will benefit from. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short daily video lessons, training your team in soft skills.  Your team can make you more profits by teaching them soft skills.  Yo...

Mike Pailliotet is an influencer in the floor cleaning and restoration industry.  He has an event every year called Mikey's Fest where he brings people from the industry and educates them to have a better business.  Mike has a forum that is super popular, helping professionally daily in their business called Mikey's Board .  Enjoy our wide ranging conversation. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech...

Eric, Larry and Chris and Brandon of Floodlight Consulting sit down for another installment of the BCN Book Club. This month the lads go over Seth Godin's All Marketers Are Liars. It was a super interesting book and a lively conversation about how to implement the concepts into your service business. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University ....

TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University .  Don't lose money in the field because your service techs are not great at sales, customer service, and communicating with clients.  Morning Tech Meeting has video lessons that can be sent directly to your tech's phones for training. See other great podcasts we enjoy on our Blue Collar Nation Po...

Michelle Blevins joined the Blue Collar Nation Podcast again today to talk about the new survey C&R Magazine conducted about the the state of the restoration industry. There is a ton of great info in this episode and, as always, Michelle had to play referee between Larry and Eric and pretty much start running the show. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University This episode it brought to you by Supe...

Everyone has a company culture; but us it a good one? Larry and Eric talk about how to build a great culture that will engage, attract, and retain team members. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University .  Don't lose money in the field because your service techs are not great at sales, customer service, and communicating with clients.  Super...

Join Eric and Larry twice weekly for their morning radio show on KCAA Radio in the Inland Empire of Southern California. Today's show is all about Larry and his van build out, Eric trying to get a date night going with his wife, Larry's return to California after 4 months of van life, and Eric and Larry talking about their personal and professional goals and how to reach them. TITLE SPON...

TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University .  Don't lose money in the field because your service techs are not great at sales, customer service, and communicating with clients.  Super Tech University has video lessons that can be sent directly to your tech's phones for training. Super Tech also offers training for CSR, Estimator, Service...

Super Tech University  Dramatically improve your teams performance with a system of short daily video lessons, training your team in soft skills.  Your team can make you more profits by teaching them soft skills.  Your team will never leave you for investing in them. Go to https://supertechu.com/ for more info. One to One Coaching: Eric has helped many home service business owners grow their compa...

Eric and Larry just started a radio show in Southern California. On Monday's and Thursday's each week the guys can be found on KCAA Radio 1050AM and 106.5FM from 5-6am. Enjoy this episode on how gratitude can help your business. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University .  Don't lose money in the field because your service techs are...

Here we go again. Jon Isaacson of the DYOJO podcast and Gerrett Stier of the GMS Podcast joined Larry and Eric to do their non-sensical yearly holiday show. Packed with useless information, this show never fails to neither educate and nor entertain. Join the lads for an hour of inside jokes, some business talk, and a little bit of serious life advice. Happy Holidays. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH ME...

We had Tom and Gerrett on the show to talk about technicians, skills, and the upcoming Large Loss Mastery Next Level Tech course. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University Dramatically improve your team's performance with a system of short daily video lessons training your team in soft skills. When you invest in your team and teach them soft skills, your team can make you more profit. Go to https:...

Know How's Leighton Healy joins the podcast for the third time to tell our listeners about what the data from the latest State of the Restoration Industry tells us about the current workforce situation.  Regardless of what trade you are in, this information is very valuable to help you make decisions about hiring, firing, managing, and building a culture that will attract and retain employees...

You spend so much of your life toiling to build your service business...but does it have any value in the marketplace? Gokul Padmanabhan has been selling service businesses for years and teaches us on this episode how to set yourself up for exiting successfully.  TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by Super Tech University .  Don't lose money in the field becaus...

Our friend Michelle returns to talk about the state of the restoration industry to talk about what the trends were last year and what we can expect to change in the upcoming year. Michelle also gets candid about what it has been like in year 1 since purchasing C&R Magazine and how her entrepreneurial journey has been. As always with Michelle, there were a lot of laughs and tons of great inform...

Annissa and Kevin Coy are longtime friends of the show. They are experts in the underserved field of fire and contents restoration. We sit down and go deep on how to do it, what kind of profits are available, and how to start and grow a successful fire and contents division. Go to: https://firehouseeducation.com/ to find out more. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you...

We started up the book club again with Brandon and Chris from Floodlight Consulting as our new partners. We were not sure we would ever start up the book club again after Bill Yeadon retired. However, we could not have chosen better partners to do this monthly show with. This month Eric picked a pretty tough book with some really deep thought required how to take the lessons from the book and scal...

Rico is a high energy, super smart marketer and salesman. Rico has become a good friend to Larry and Eric and the Blue Collar Nation podcast was blessed with his information about how to better market a service business.  Rico has a great podcast also, Restoration Domination you will like and we have been guests there too. TITLE SPONSOR: SUPER TECH UNIVERSITY This episode is brought to you by Supe...

Homee is different. Homee is a disruptor in the Restoration space. Is what Homee is doing going to spread through all verticals in the home services space? These are the questions we were thinking as we sat down with Brandon, Augie, Jeremy, and Alex of Homee. It was great to have all the guys on the show as we were able to drill down on each part of the process as each guest plays a different role...