The Profitable Tradie Podcast

Remember when you were an apprentice...

Trying to learn how to do something.

You sat there staring at the workbook for an hour and a half.

And after that you still felt like you had no idea how to do it.

Then you’d go to site and the boss would have you shadow one of the older guys.

They’d talk you through how they did that job as they carried it out in front of you.

After 30 minutes you felt so much more confident that you could do that job.

Seeing how someone else does it, is a far easier way to learn for most trades people...

That’s why we’ve been interviewing some of our most successful members.

So you can hear from them how they’ve done it.

This chat is with Tim and Dylan.

What is it you’ll be learning from them...

• Building a 7 figure business
• Tripling monthly revenue
• Hiring to offload tasks
• Structuring a successful partnership
• Using culture to create a team that is engaged and accountable
• Using systems to control and weaponize your numbers

There’s something in here for everyone.

Let's get into it...

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAY’S PODCAST:

• The tools used to 3x revenue and improve profitability
• How to hire and develop staff so they can take on more responsibility
• How to structure a successful partnership
• Using culture to drive team engaged and accountability improve retention
• Using systems to control and weaponize your numbers

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Book a FREE 15-minute call to learn what coaching could do for you business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating. If you think that’s too high, tell us why that is, we’d love to hear from you! Just shoot me an email with the word ‘PODCAST’ in the subject line to [email protected]

What are you built for? The human body is a very complicated machine, with lots of moving parts, and pretty much everything serves a purpose, even stress. Stress is part of the ‘fight or flight’ response, basically your heart races, your breath quickens and muscles get ready for action. So in prehistoric times stress is what would get you away from a sabretooth tiger, but it was short term, either you escaped the savage animal, or you became its breakfast.

You’re not built to be stressed for hours, days, weeks or months. Being stressed long term can cause headaches, depression, heartburn, insomnia, weak immunity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, stomachache, heart palpitations, heart attacks, the list goes on. You need to be able to get on top of stress whenever it should arise... because eliminating it isn’t really an option, unfortunately its just part of being a business owner.

In this episode you’ll learn about dealing with the stresses of being a business owner, along with some coping mechanisms that will help you keep a lid on it. You’ll learn how to catch yourself in a stress cycle and break out of it. There is even a book recommendation for one of the best things you can read (or listen to) for teaching yourself to deal with stress. It’s important to take care of your body, you only get one... mental health is serious, stop pushing it to the side.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAYS PODCAST:

• An understanding of how stress effects the way you work
• A great book recommendation for dealing with stress
• Improved physical and mental health

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book
• Ready to take your business to the next level? Fill in this form to see if what we do will work for you and your business

You don’t get to choose whether or not you are a leader. The day you start your business you become a leader, and you’ve probably been one for a long time before that. While leadership can be pretty hard work, it’s something that can be easily worked on.

It’s definitely worth doing because the results that come with good leadership are absolutely killer. Leadership is a tricky topic because it can be quite easy to get it wrong and the ripples of how that effects the team, results and behaviors can run far and wide. With that being said, there are a heap of techniques that can be used to empower your team to be able to do a good job and make your life easier as a boss. Some of those techniques are covered in this episode, they can be put in place straight away and the results will follow swiftly after.

Leadership can be used to get a level of performance out of your team that you want to see, and by the end of the episode you’ll be able to do exactly that. Using the tips from this episode including one from the manager of the All Blacks, New Zealand’s world renown rugby team, will lift the standard of your business, make your staff more accountable, and will save you from having to be a superhero putting out fires whenever they should arise.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM IMPLEMENTING TODAYS PODCAST:

• Understand the difference between values and standards
• A culture that encourages taking initiative and accountability
• A new idea of why your staff behave the way they do

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book
• Ready to take your business to the next level? Fill in this form to see if what we do will work for you and your business

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating. If you think that’s too high, tell us why that is, we’d love to hear from you! Just shoot me an email with the word ‘PODCAST’ in the subject line to [email protected]

You and your team have knocked off for the week.

They’re off to the pub to have a few hard-earned ice-cold beers.

Whereas you trudge home to slug away at piles of paperwork and get a head-start on next week already.

That work spills over into Saturday and you feel you don’t have the time to watch your kids play sport.

And once in a while you’re putting in a shift in the office on a Sunday.

The alarm goes off on Monday morning and you’re shattered.

Last week (and just about every week before that) you spent between 60-70 hours working.

But you honestly ask yourself, where does my time go?

And to that question you somehow don’t have an answer.

Not having time is one of the biggest issues facing trades business owners.

It makes the businesses they run hopelessly inefficient.

So what do you do to win back time and do the things that matter?

Phil and I sat down to talk about how you can achieve exactly that.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM LISTENING TO TODAY’S PODCAST:

1. Learn to spend your time where it is most valuable
2. Trust the team you’ve hired to do your job for you
3. Win back your personal life

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Book a FREE 15-minute call to learn what coaching could do for your business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM LISTENING TO TODAY’S PODCAST:

1. The #1 cash flow mistake trades businesses make - and how to fix it
2. The bulletproof process that’ll get you paid on time, every time
3. The easiest thing you can do to always have cash when you need it

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Claim a Free Planning Session to learn what coaching could do for your business
• Join our FREE private community of trades business owners in our Facebook group
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Get a copy of the Profitable Tradie book

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating.