When perspective clients ask for references it’s easy to share a few email addresses or phone numbers from people who would say nice things. What’s more challenging is navigating the request of those potential clients for us to allow them access to our past clients homes.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

While all the smarties discuss permeance and adsorption most of our industry remains vexed by basic flashing details. Peter Yost pulls us out of the BS* Bubble and invites us to not just sample, but to enjoy complete meals from the buffet.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

The construction decisions Builders face are hard enough, but when you add the challenge of viewing them through the lens of cost accounting it can feel insurmountable. Pioneer Builders owner Bryan Uhler peels back a couple layers on the numbers onion for us.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

 Defining labor markups, lump sum, and modified cost, plus contracts with Jake Bruton.Find Travis & Brandon on the Web:

• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

We get the big boss man in to discuss what the best part of being the boss is and by comparison- what the worst parts are. The idea that we as business owners get to wake up and decide if we’ll take the week off or spend our day getting rich is pure fantasy. But how bad is it really - and just how great can it be? 

Thank you to episode sponsor Huber Engineered Wood.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

Trying to determine the dumbest things we still do in our industry and what we should be doing instead. From the dangerous things we do resultant from extreme commitment to schedule, with your profitability tied to speed and productivity to offering free bids and fixed pricing based on cost per square foot, this is a quick assessment of bad practices.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

Brandon and Travis discuss why their respective firms would choose to self-perform some work with their in-house team versus subcontracting the work to others. Certainly, there’s a place for both, but in a time when there's more work than any of us can handle, why slow down the schedule and limit profitability by self-performing?

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

After a short surprise unboxing to kick things off the guys try to sort what the moments of their careers were that marked the most notable changes in their path forward. The affordable thermal imagers, the ultra-lightweight hand tools, Robertson and Torx tips, and the technology from Blackberry’s and Nextel to tablets carrying today’s cutting edge software. It’s about dentifying the things that allowed us to get here in an effort to allow others to level up faster.

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

The way we share information from builder to architect, builder to tradesperson, and  builder to client can vary widely. What’s the best method, frequency, and application to communicate with your clients, your trade partners and your internal team to keep everyone on the same page?

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• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

From the time-honored safety squint to site-built ladders, pinning back the guard and all that, this is an honest discussion about the Personal Protective Equipment we choose to use on our projects as well what we see in the field. Where we have been lucky and where we need to dial down the on-site cowboy bravado to increase the probability of retaining digits and eyeballs.

Find Travis & Brandon on the Web

• Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt
• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
• Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/
• Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit