Profiles in Prosperity
Do you like stories about business? I do! I’m endlessly fascinated by the creative and innovative strategies business people employ to build their businesses. I love the stories of how businesses were started, bought, sold, grown, failed, and the stories of pitfalls and advances. They’re all interesting. As someone who runs a business and advises others who run businesses, I find the stories useful and informative as well as cautionary and inspirational.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 163
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
163 - Jason Brace & Wes Scott: Legal Insights for Residential Service Contractors
For the first time, a law firm has joined the Service Nation rewards program, and it’s a big one—Frost Brown Todd, a national firm with over 700 attorneys and a strong focus on home services. In this…
00:26:29 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
162 - Chris Michel - Understand Personality Profiles To Drive Success
We welcome back Chris Michel, Training Director at Service Nation and author of The Red Chair Experience. Chris dives deep into the DiSC personality assessment system — what it is, why it matters, an…
00:30:05 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
161 - Brian Stack - Growing for Others
Brian Stack is the president of Stack Heating, Cooling, Plumbing, and Electric in Avon Ohio, close to Cleveland. Stack is very much a family-owned business: Brian’s parents started the business. The …
00:15:00 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
160 - Tucker Yarbrough - Contractor of the Year
Tucker Yarbrough is one of the smartest people in our industry. I’m not the only person who thinks so; Tucker was named to our industry’s 40 Under 40, and Yarbrough and Sons was recognized with the C…
00:34:49 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
159 - Zak McMorrow - Amazing Growth
Zak McMorrow is the founder and owner of Osceola Air in Florida. As is the case with many business start ups providing Residential Service, Osceola Air enjoyed growth, but lacked the business tools a…
00:14:44 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
158 - Roy White - Contractor of the Year with a 7-7-7 Mission
Roy White is the founder and owner of Fixed Right and Guaranteed in Maryland. Fixed Right and Guaranteed was recently named “Contractor of the Year”. Roy and his team have built incredible growth wit…
00:18:56 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
157 - Crystal Williams - The Great American Brand Story
Would you like to receive a FREE Marketing package worth $150,000? Crystal Williams is a creative innovator. Working with Lemon Seed Marketing, Service Nation, and an amazing team of top vendor-partn…
00:20:34 |
Wed 14 May 2025
156 - Chris Saffer - Saffer Plumbing - Not Afraid To Make A Mistake
Saffer Plumbing is a 4th generation, 80 year old plumbing company in Baltimore. Chris Saffer is the president. He and his team have achieved amazing growth. In this episode you’ll hear:
• History of…
00:26:31 |
Tue 06 May 2025
155 - Joseph Garcia - LeadsNearby: Full Service Digital Marketing
Joseph Garcia, Chief Technology Officer of LeadsNearby, discusses his company’s role as a full-service digital marketing agency for service contractors, highlighting their focus on automation, AI int…
00:20:10 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
154 - Logan Marshall - Bluon
Would it be good if you could help your techs and service manager be more productive? If you could get 1 - 2 more service calls per week per tech, and reduce call backs... would that be good? Of cour…
00:22:35 |
Tue 08 Apr 2025
153 - Jim Hinshaw and Jazmine Colson - Reaching The Summit
What do you have to do to improve your business? Learn from others! Attend industry events like... The Boston Summit. It’s going to be a great event. Jim Hinshaw and Jazmine Colson tell us WHY succes…
00:14:11 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
152 - Lori Stickling - Continuing to Grow at Covenant Plumbing
Four years later I get another chance to interview the amazing Lori Stickling! Lori and her husband Delayne own Covenant Plumbing in Bloomington, Illinois. Four years ago I interviewed Lori shortly a…
00:31:02 |
Tue 11 Mar 2025
151 - Brian Carpenter - Build an Empire in a Small Market
Brian Carpenter is the Vice President of Mark Carpenter Plumbing, Heating, and Air in Clovis, New Mexico. The combined statistical area they serve is less than 70,000 - and yet they’re thriving and e…
00:22:48 |
Tue 25 Feb 2025
150 - Bailey McCormick - Build A Great Residential Service Career
Bailey McCormick is the General Manager of Air Bros in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Her career has been one of tremendous personal and professional growth. She’s taking her experience and knowledge to …
00:21:39 |
Tue 11 Feb 2025
149 - Dave Rothacker - The Best Business Books of 2024
The great Dave Rothacker makes his 10th appearance on our podcast to tell us about his picks for the top business books for 2024. Dave reads more business books in a year than anyone I know. He has …
00:28:09 |
Tue 28 Jan 2025
148 - Nathan Nelson - Empire Fence
Here’s something different. Normally we talk with HVAC and Plumbing companies and their supporting vendor-partners, but today we’re talking with Nathan Nelson of Empire Fence. Empire Fence is a large…
00:22:05 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
147 - Lou Hobaica - You'll lika Hobaica
Lou Hobaica more than just a successful contractor. He is an original thinker, a superb coach, a marketing genius, a master motivator, and a kind community philanthropist. If you’re in the industry, …
00:42:31 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
146 - Kevin LeSage - Searchlight
The old saying about advertising is that you know you’re overspending by 50%, you just don’t know which 50% to cut.
Measures of opens and clicks are interesting, but they only give you limited infor…
00:19:03 |
Tue 03 Dec 2024
145 - Doug Jackson - Solving Puzzles
Doug Jackson is the 31 year old General Manager of Jackson Services, a large, recently acquired residential services company. Doug was recently named to the elite 40 Under 40 group. He started in HVA…
00:17:58 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
144 - Brandon Jacob and Matt Michel - The Emotions of Exiting
David Heimer interviews Brandon Jacob and Matt Michel on stage at Service World Expo. Brandon and Matt are in the middle of a unique research project about the fears and emotions of selling your bus…
00:28:35 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
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