Disaster Podcaster

Alena shared some really great time with us on the podcast today. Understanding and having a great education around Xactimate is imperative to being successful in being profitable and efficient in dealing with insurance claims. Alena is an amazing resource for education and information. Check out her website at https://xm8mastery.com/. Her YouTube is PACKED with awesome content as well. https://yo...

Our industry is full of really great people and today I want to introduce you to one of them. Andy Michels is a super IN DEMAND custom home builder north of St. Paul Minnesota. Today we discuss his business, some customer service tricks, COVID's effects, family and circuit snowmobile racing. Andy is a long time member of The Alliance of Independent Restorers because community and fellowship is the...

After a little over a month's hiatus to work on some business structure, we are back and in full swing. We have a few weeks or maybe a few months of content and guests lined up, so expect some incredible things in the coming weeks. On today's podcast, we really just had a brain dump on multiple topics. Staffing Shortages Sons Birthday Almost having a sponsor AIR Summit Insurance/ TPA involvement S...

We have a really great collection of Restoration Experts on this week's episode.  I was joined by 3 of California's FINEST.  Robert Hidajat with Blue Van Restoration @bluevanrestoration Adam Redhead. Owner of Restoration Hero's @restorationheroes Stewart Barrios-Project Manager with Allied Restoration @alliedrestoration We discussed things from the importance of Client On-Boarding, one's...

This week we finally had a long-overdue call with some very good friends and colleagues that I have watched create business-changing results for many restoration specialists. Stellar eMarketing is a digital marketing agency specializing in Restoration. Jon Grubb and I had a chance to have a chat with the always fun duo of Dan York and Shana Randall about digital marketing, especially during and PO...

Texas and some surrounding states have encountered a completely disastrous and unprecedented event. States that are not prepared or accustomed to sub-freezing temperatures for more than a day or two dipped into single digits and below for days during Winter Storm Uri. The disastrous thing is it impacted all major cities and caused plumbing failures from frozen and burst pipes. Loss of power and po...

We have a really good one this week. If you are in the contracting world, it's likely you have heard of Steve Patrick. Among his many teaching platforms, he is the co-founder of Level the Playing Field on Facebook. Over 13k members and growing.  Steve shared some time with me today (58 minutes-our longest podcast to date) to go over some topics on professionalism, the truth on business owners...

Today we share just a fraction of the stories from this incredible event. 100million + project and it had its share of incidents I’ll tell grandkids one day

Culture is that thing we ALL want to know exists....but it just doesn't seem to show up. We spend a little time with Nick Lambert with Faithful Disaster Restoration in Billings Montana. After being in business for 15+ years, watching your sales decline, and having to hit the RESET seems like the LAST thing you would have the stomach for. But this is exactly what Nick had to do.  Join us on th...

Here we have our newest episode and our FIRST guest. We do an industry talk with Rachel Adams-Beja on MOLD, COVID's damage to our frequent flier status, and some really interesting updates. And of course a few hilarious shenanigan stories. We hope you enjoy and share with your friends and colleagues.  www.restorationadvisers.com

That's right, you read that right. Listen to this bonus segment where we talk about the NEW successful and profitable way everyone should be operating. We do not have insurance jobs. We have client jobs and will treat them all the same way. We open with getting your ENERGY up to stack the WINS in this industry. We hope you enjoy it and please share it with your colleagues.  Reference link-Lt...

Say what you will, but from where I sit and see....we have a huge ocean of warm, caring, and professional specialists operating here! We  jostled around a ton of topics and stories to make up our FIRST podcast, but we simply decided the world needed to be reminded that all is not lost and that the "Sun is always shining, it just sometimes behind rain clouds" Cheers and we hope you stick aroun...