The fellas are joined by @kalithecontractor who sets aside her experience in academia to converse about where we can get our future tradespeople. From athletes to veterans, artists to ex-academics, there’s a wealth of wonderful people who would be better off with bags on. 

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Mentoring and training new team members is a vital aspect of education in the trades, but how long should you let someone "figure things out" before stepping in? There’s immense value in hands-on teaching and learning from mistakes, as long as you strike a balance between personal growth while keeping quality craftsmanship and jobsite safety at the forefront.

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• Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt
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Travis is tired of renting heavy equipment for frequent site work and paying outrageous costs for subs to excavate and haul on small additions. He seeks Brandon’s wise counsel as a long time skid steer and mini excavator owner / operator to determine if the time has come to purchase, own and operate equipment in-house.  

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Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt

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Brandon’s Instagram: @bbuildsit

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While we typically try to attack a problem from our two unique perspectives and offer some useful information on this podcast we continue to be human and therefore prone to moments of selfishness. Brandon and Travis take a moment to share their frustrations from the field as they close out projects and share a bit of “what not to do”.

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What are the criteria that determine wether a house has “great bones” and should be renovated? Conversely, how can you guide a client to see the misalignment of their expectations of that renovation and the realities of the smaller footprint and 8’ ceilings? Here we unpack what existing conditions and client expectations dictate a scrape versus a remodel.

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Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt

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In a world that’s faster than we are, how can we slow that down” was the question Brandon asked, so the fellas tried to answer with strategies to manage time better, limit redundancy and make things feel less urgent. Trying to slow the world, or at least slow down the madness on our projects, might be impossible but we can still try.

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It’s common for the scope of work to change during a project and for those changes to result in additional cost and extended duration. Somehow the contractor is always saddled with the blame for projects going beyond their initial schedule and budget and “nobody” remembers how we got there when it’s all over. As such we had to unpack what it is who’s really responsible for Scope Creep. 

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The residential building code is substantial but inspections are still an open-book test so we really ought to pass them every time. In this episode we share a few stories, some tips and even some strategies for successfully passing inspections and keeping your projects in compliance and on schedule. 

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Time and again we see problems that start smaller grow into disasters due to people avoiding the difficult thing. Sometimes it’s informing clients of an overage they weren’t expecting the moment you discover it, or getting the water and sewer connected early in job even though it means disrupting the neighbors spring plantings. The best time is almost always right now.

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The problem with needing help is that in order to get it you have to take time to interview, hire and train the helper - and that takes a lot of time. The reason we typically need help is that we don’t have enough time to give proper attention to all things we need to do, so in order to get some help with not having enough time we simply need to invest more time. Thus the paradox. 

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Travis’ Build Show Videos: https://buildshownetwork.com/go/travisbrungardt

Travis’ Instagram: @catalystbuilt

Travis’ Website: https://www.catalystbuilt.com/

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