The Dream Builders Podcast

People see the finished homes and the marketing. They don't see the thirty-plus people behind them. Host Adrian Kizy asks Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes, what it actually costs to lead that team. Randy starts at the beginning — the first salaried hire, a project manager at $80,000, which was more than Randy was making at the time. He walks through the lunch with a mentor that...

Host Adrian Kizy sits down with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes, to talk about the hardest thing to do in custom home building — getting a client to see a house that doesn't exist yet. Most people can't read a blueprint. They can't judge scale from a 2D plan, they can't picture a tree from a colored landscape drawing, and they walk into a framed house convinced i...

Host Adrian Kizy sits down with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes, for a look back at the last ten years — and what Randy would tell his 25-year-old self if he could. Randy was already building homes and running Sapphire by 25, going 100 miles an hour and taking on nine projects at once. In this episode he unpacks the cost of that pace: why "more" isn't always better, w...

Host Adrian Kizy sits down with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes, to go back to the very beginning — the first house he ever built, the losses that nearly broke him, and the negotiation that landed his first million-dollar deal. Randy walks through how a neighbor's offer to partner 50/50 turned into his first project under the Sapphire name — a 3,300 sq. ft. home in Rochester Hi...

In episode three of the Dream Builders Podcast, host Adrian Kizy sits down again with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes & Landscaping, to unpack what custom home building actually means — and why the answer is more nuanced than most people expect. Randy walks through how Sapphire balances a curated portfolio of pre-designed plans with full custom, blank-sheet-of-paper builds, why...

Host Adrian Kizy goes deeper with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes, on what actually separates Sapphire from a traditional custom build — and why the "design-build, fixed-price" model exists in the first place. In the traditional path, a homeowner hires a separate architect, civil engineer, landscape architect, interior designer, general contractor, and landscape company —...

Welcome to the pilot episode of the Dream Builders Podcast — where host Adrian sits down with Randy Najjar, founder of Sapphire Luxury Homes & Landscaping, to unpack the real story behind one of Metro Detroit's most recognized custom home builders. From walking around at two years old with a tool belt strapped to his waist, to a sixth-grade aptitude test that pointed to architecture, to n...