Blue Collar Nation

Larry and Eric discuss the things they learned over the years to make their service business run.  Coaching was one of the best decisions they made to grow their business and themselves.  Most of the successful people in the world have a coach to give them direction and keep them on that path of success.  Please contact Eric by setting an appointment HERE .  He would love to guide you along the pr...

Our good friend and business partner, Jorge Villalobos hijacked the microphone today to interview Eric and Larry. Jorge decided that it was time for the guys to be on the other side of the interviewing process. Jorge digs deep and finds out about Eric and Larry's origins, their college experience, how they ran Shamrock, and what is coming next. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode...

Have you ever wondered why it seems many of the team is disengaged? Does it seem like they are "just mailing it in" a lot of the time. Burning the clock and wondering when they can get out and go have a beer. Many owners have this problem and one of the best ways to overcome it is to "gamify" your business to make it more of a challenge to the team. This week have on Brandon La...

Are you busy or are you productive? Have you ever tracked your time during the day to see how productive you really are? Do lose unaccounted for time on Facebook, Instagram, Tik- Tok, Youtube or the myriad of apps and sites designed to capture our time and attention? If you are like the rest of us, this is likely somewhat of an issue in your life. Business owners often feel overwhelmed and it is e...

Ever worry about how to grow your business using loans to buy equipment and trucks? Does just the thought of dealing with financing scare the daylights out of you? Well, if this whole financial thing confuses or worries you; fear no more we have Mary Griser of Aztec Financial to help sort us out. Mary takes the fear away, and educates us all on how to properly start or grow our home services busin...

Ellen Rohr is the best. Period, no questions about it. Smart, funny, and intelligent, Ellen has a way with connecting with Blue Collar business owners in a way that just works for all of us. Ellen joins Larry and Eric to talk about finance, team building, pricing, and what it takes to make it in the home services industry. Ellen is the Franchise Operations Manager at Zoom Drain and also a noted pu...

Larry Cooper is a man with a mission. Larry, a very successful cleaning and restoration professional, is the owner of The Experience Trade Show   and The Experience University . Always looking to make knowledge more accessible and increase the level of professionalism in the cleaning and restoration industry, Larry has been running trade shows for the last 20 years. However, what do you do when yo...

Often it is the owner of a business who is at the center of most of the business's problems. Owners are often "know-it-alls" and "do-it-alls" who stand in the way of scaling a business and implementing effective systems to take it to the next level. Eric and Larry sit down with long time friend and frequent show contributor Bruce DeLoatch of CC Newsletters and Cleaners Coa...

Do you suck at hiring new team members? You are super busy so you just hire the first guy that can fog a mirror? Yup, it's that way for a lot of us. We just don't know how to attract and hire good staff and that causes us so many problems in our business. Well, we now have found an expert who can steer us in the right direction. Ryan Englin of Core Matters shows us we can have a  SYSTEM...

Ryan Lucia of Aaron Garage Door is a start-up specialist. He, admittedly, likes to start a business and get out of the way and let his team do their thing. This is a great lesson for many home service business owners. Learn how Ryan does it. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by www.morningtechmeeting.com . Don't lose money in the field because your service tec...

Wood Boyles and Dan Baker are good friends of the show.  They have been on a few times before and did very well. The other day we saw a Facebook post where they noted they survived year 1 in business in the time of Covid. We wanted to hear how they did it and also have a chance to give them well deserved kudos. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by www.morningtechme...

Jason Earle is one amazing guy. Growing up with a poor student and not loving school, Jason got the chance to break into Wall St. and make a name for himself as the youngest ever broker. After that career, Jason pivoted to all things mold related. Remembering a childhood of unexplained sickness that disappeared as soon as he moved to a new house, Jason immersed himself in helping others not have t...

We all  know that reading books makes us smarter. For this reason, we will be having a monthly book club to review books that can make us better entrepreneurs, better husbands, wives, parents, and citizens. This month we are kicking off the book club with our dear friend Bill Yeadon, of Jon Don , to discuss James Clear's Atomic Habits . This book has such a practical and simple to implement m...

We got a little salty today talking about masculinity. It was a wild ride and never ended up where any of us thought it would. Give it a listen, we all can use our preconceived notions to be shaken up from time to time.  Bruce DeLoatch was amazing! ***NOTE: There is some salty language, so if that offends you I apologize and also you may not to play this around the kids or those with sensitive ear...

Well, we turned the microphone over to John "The Hitman" Braun this week as he interviews us about our process to set and reach goals. We hope you everyone can take away an idea or strategy to implement to reach their goals in 2021. TITLE SPONSOR: MORNING TECH MEETING This episode it brought to you by www.morningtechmeeting.com . Don't lose money in the field because your service te...

Bart James, President and CEO of ACCA (Air Conditioning Contractors of America) joined the show to talk about the importance of having an organization work of behalf of the trades in Washington D.C. We often take for granted all the hard work that is being done to make our businesses and lives better on the political side. Get educated and get involved in your industry. This podcast was sponsored ...

Larry and Eric sat down with great friends Bruce DeLoatch, Bill Yeadon, and Dan Udy to talk about how we think and feel affects our performance as business owners and managers. This was a great panel discussion with a lot of varying viewpoints and different experiences.  These guys all had some great insight into life that we expect everyone will enjoy.  Bill Yeadon from JonDon has a wealth of kno...

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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://supertechu.com/ for more info. Click here for a discount: https://supertechu.com/register/podcastoffer/ . Here is an entrepreneu...

We train our guys and gals how to do the technical work, but are we training them to be awesome in the home? Most issues in the service experience are created by poor in home technician behavior.  Learn the systems we created to build up confidence in our techs to help them create amazing service experiences. If you feel you need help with this in your business, visit our website to learn how to g...

Chuck Violand has been the leading trainer in the Restoration industry for decades. In his vast experience of working with contractors, Chuck has learned that the problem with most closely held businesses is the owner. Entrepreneurs are a funny bunch. Our skills of being a "cowboy" during the start up phase often hurt us as we try to scale our business. Chuck has dedicated his life to he...

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://supertechu.com/ for more info. Click here for a discount: https://supertechu.com/register/podcastoffer/ . Here is an entrepreneu...

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://supertechu.com/ for more info. Click here for a discount: https://supertechu.com/register/podcastoffer/ . Here is an entrepreneu...

Have you ever promoted a top performing technician to a management/leadership role and it all went terribly wrong? We have (multiple times). Learn the system of how to figure out who can make that leap from tech to manager and how to train them BEFORE they get promoted. TITLE SPONSOR: Super Tech University Dramatically improve your team's performance with a system of short daily video lessons...

Fred Kreusch of RectorSeal is a total surge protection pro. Larry and Eric are not. Therefore, Fred gives the guys a master class on all things surge protection as it relates to HVAC systems. Protect your home and your family, learn what surge protection can do for you to save your house. To find RectorSeal's amazing array of products for the HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Suppression i...