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
143 - Katy Higgins - The Great Restart
Katy Higgins knows the pain of a failed partnership. After tremendous growth in a new HVAC company, she walked away from her partnership. She floundered for a while and then restarted powerfully, cre…
00:20:35 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
142 - David Heffner - Service Above Self
David Heffner is the Director of Community Outreach for Winsupply of Indianapolis. Prior to that, David was a successful one-man plumbing company that was acquired. And before that he served in the U…
00:32:29 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
141 - Bryan Baer - Merge and Grow
Bryan Baer grew up in our industry, drafted into it by his father and stepfather. He grew to love the industry, and eventually, with his wife, started a residential services company. They enjoyed mod…
00:34:58 |
Tue 17 Sep 2024
140 - Sarah Blackhall - A Peak Behind the Curtain
Sarah Blackhall is Vice President of Creative for Service Nation. She has many areas of responsibility at Service Nation, including Service Nation Events: Service World Expo and the International Rou…
00:16:51 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
139 - Jessica Young – If I Knew Then…
Jessica Young is the Operations Manager, and co-owner with her husband Doug, of Young Plumbing Services in South Carolina. Like many, Jessica entered the trades part-time to help her husband and then…
00:29:21 |
Tue 20 Aug 2024
138 - Where Are They Now? Jason Henderson, Liz Friesen, Richard Flournoy, Brandi Szeker
Isn't it fun to follow companies and people over time and find out what happened? I’ve been able to interview many interesting people since I started this podcast in 2016. In this episode we’re goi…
00:47:01 |
Tue 06 Aug 2024
137 - Bill Henzler - Think DIfferently
In this episode of Profiles in Prosperity, we sit down with Bill Henzler, President and Founder of Quality Degree, Inc., a leading multi-trade residential service company based in Royersford, Pennsyl…
00:21:23 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
136 - Steve Miles - Hall of Fame
How often do you get information and advice from a member of the Hall of Fame? Steve Miles joins us for a wide range of topics:
• Selling his company
• Is it a good idea to involve employees in a co…
00:18:29 |
Tue 09 Jul 2024
135 - Eric Dutton - Post Sale
We welcome Eric Dutton back to the podcast. Eric is the founder, ex-owner, and ex-president of Dutton Plumbing, a large, wildly successful plumbing company. Eric is well known for his humor, but als…
00:29:44 |
Tue 25 Jun 2024
134 - Jeremy Lowe - Experience and Insight
Jeremy Lowe has done just about everything in our industry: Service Technician, Sales, Installation, Management, General Manager, and for the last 20+ years has been on the Flat-Rate Pricing side of …
00:22:57 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
133 - Chuck Worley - Outwork Everybody, Part 2
Chuck Worley is the owner, founder, and leader of Worley’s Home Services in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Worley’s Home Services is a full, whole home services company – HVAC, Plumbing, Electrica…
00:26:33 |
Tue 14 May 2024
132 - Chuck Worley - Outwork Everybody, Part 1
Chuck Worley is the owner, founder, and leader of Worley’s Home Services in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area. Worley’s Home Services is a full, whole home services company – HVAC, Plumbing, Electrica…
00:31:43 |
Wed 01 May 2024
131 - Ryan StMichel - Excelling in Consultative Selling
Ryan StMichel is the owner of Grove Mechanical in Crookston Minnesota.
Grove Mechanical was founded in 1978 by Ryan’s Grandfather and Ryan purchased the company from his uncle.
Ryan created a uniqu…
00:17:27 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
130 - Stephanie Postell - Maybe This Is Like Kindergarten
Stephanie Postell is the Chief Operating Officer and owner (with her husband, David) of Anchor Heating and Air.
Stephanie has enjoyed a diverse career prior to joining the HVAC industry. She started…
00:38:48 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
129 - Mike Chastain - Absolute Plumbing
A blessed accident caused Mike Chastain to need a job at a very young age. So he went from 9th grade right into plumbing. After gaining valuable experience in new construction plumbing, the new housi…
00:20:30 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
128 - Allan Ferguson and David Heimer: Advice and Tools for Contractors
Look at this: it’s a two-for-one podcast episode! Allan Ferguson, host of the Pipeline to Profitability Podcast interviews David Heimer and David Heimer, host of Profiles in Prosperity, interviews Al…
00:33:18 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
127 - Gina and Philip Ferrara - Ron Smith Fired Me!
Gina and Philip Ferrara are the founders, owners, and hands-on leaders of LibertyAir providing HVAC services in Gainsville, Florida. They are married to each other, and have children together. Like m…
00:18:26 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
126 - Joe Strittmatter - Selling and Growing
Joe Strittmatter is the founder of Strittmatter Plumbing, Heating, and AC in Denton Texas. In episode 38 “Growing a Multi-Trade Powerhouse” we interviewed Joe and learned about his start in our indus…
00:19:51 |
Mon 29 Jan 2024
125 - Dave Rothacker - Top Business Books of 2023
Dave Rothacker joins us again to review his top business books from 2023. Of all the books Dave read in 2023, these are the ones you can’t afford to overlook. Dave reviews the books, explains why the…
00:23:06 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
124 - Renee Lucas - Woman of the Year
Renee and Travis Lucas are the owners of LCS Heating and Cooling in Indianapolis, Indiana. Renee was recently named Woman of the Year. Renee is not just a great owner with an incredible track record,…
00:20:38 |
Wed 27 Dec 2023
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