Pest Control Success Stories

Are you a pest control owner looking to grow? Join Our Facebook Group with 4,400+ Members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pestcontrolmillionaires In this episode, Dan sits down with Tateum O'Hanlon, owner of Summit Pest Control out of Guelph, Ontario. Tateum is 21 years old and started Summit in May 2025 after seeing his parents' neighbor get quoted nearly $1,000 for mosquito control. Jus...

On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with Steve Delaney, the founder and owner of Yard Boss out of Lincoln, Nebraska. Steve started mowing lawns in high school, turned it into a legit business in 2008 while he was still in college, and has since grown Yard Boss into a $1.4M+ lawn care and pest control company running multiple crews and serving around 2,400 mos...

Are you a pest control owner looking to grow? Join Our Facebook Group with 900+ Members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pestcontrolmillionaires On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with Jesse Beltran, founder of Drop Dead Pest Solutions out of Evansville, Wisconsin. Jesse is a third-generation pest pro who launched Drop Dead Pest Solutions in 2009 while worki...

On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with Walker Rose, founder and president of Turf Chief, a fast-growing Louisville-area lawn care brand now topping $2.5M/year. Walker shares how he left civil engineering, bootstrapped from weekend landscaping to full-time owner, kept things lean (paying himself ~$12K that first year), and brought his brother in as hire #1....

On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with Nick Russler, the founder and CEO of Honorable Pest Control. Nick went from “almost out of pest control” to launching Honorable and hitting a $70K month in under a year—while building a reputation for integrity, punctuality, and family-safe, environmentally responsible treatments across Ann Arbor and Lansing. He shares...

On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with John Stopka, the founder and owner of Liberty Pest Control. John got his start in pest control at just 19, sharpened his sales chops at Orkin, and launched Liberty only a year and a half ago—growing to 1,700+ accounts and on the cusp of $1M/year. He credits the surge to a simple formula: be obsessed, deliver real value...

Are you a pest control owner looking to grow? Join Our Facebook Group with 900+ Members: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pestcontrolmillionaires On this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt sits down with Aaron Huskey, the founder of Huskey Turf Solutions. Aaron shares how a side hustle mowing nights and weekends turned into a 13-year journey of building a thriving lawn care an...

In this episode of Pest Control Success Stories, Danny Leibrandt interviews Jorel Solis of Confidence Pest Control, a Marine Corps veteran turned entrepreneur who has built a thriving locally owned company in Temple and Belton, Texas. Jorel shares how his military background shaped his leadership and accountability, how he scaled his business past six figures, and the strategies he used to earn mo...

Pest Control Success Stories kicks off with Shawn Riley, co-founder of Tactical Pest Solutions in Oklahoma City. Host Danny Leibrandt digs into how Shawn went from zero customers to $1.5M ARR in 12 years (adding about $300K in the last year) by becoming a “customer service company that happens to do pest control.” Shawn shares the early grind of balancing a full-time job while building the busines...