Firepreneurs

This week on the Firepreneurs podcast, we bring on Industry Leader and Plantenance CEO Glenn Curtis. As owner of Plantenance Landscaping Group, and hailing from Montreal, Glenn walks us through what it takes to say in business for 4 decades! Glenn covers many topics in his interview with Bennett to include resiliency, attention to detail, the original word of mouth marketing and the importance of pursuing growth.

If you have plans of building a business and holding it for years to come then tune into the wisdom from our friend up north. 

You can reach Glenn at Plantenance Landscapes:  

By phone at: 1-888-9PLANTE, or (514) 684-8235 (open 24 hours).

By email at: [email protected] or [email protected]

On the web at: http://www.plantenance.com/

On Instagram at: Plantenance_landscapes

Enjoy!

Josh Judge with Judge Services is an Exterior Cleaning Specialist in Carbondale, Illinois with 4 service trucks. Josh walks us through some of the challenges he faced as a 1 person operation, and what started as a side hustle, to what is now a 4 truck operation and growing. He talks about overcoming owner's guilt when he finally got off the truck, how hard it was to let go of "doing the thing" and some of the challenges he faces in his new role of mainly working "on" the business as an Owner.

This is an incredibly insightful and helpful episode for all Firepreneurs and Entrepreneurs that will be able to relate to the obstacles Josh faced while growing his business. Perhaps even more helpful is the self-limiting belief that Josh dominated, which is an excuse many Entrepreneurs have, which is "my market isn't big enough." His abundancy mindset allowed for him to succeed in what would by many be considered a market "not big enough."

Enjoy this episode with Josh Judge!

On this episode of the Firepreneurs podcast, we bring on Championship Pit Crew Coach Matt Clark to answer the question, “What is DISC?”

Matt breaks down how understanding people helped him build Championship teams and as an Entrepreneur himself he helps us as business owners learn how to use DISC as we run our businesses and build our championship teams.

In addition to being a Championship Pit Crew Coach, Matt is also a champion to small business owners having coached hundreds of small business owners through his mentorship with AGS Conquer.

It’s a fun episode with some eye opening perspective, enjoy!

Feel free to reach Matt at:

Facebook: @ Matt Clark

Twitter:  @mattclarkmc

Email: [email protected]

Alonzo Adams is the CEO of Busy Bee Cleaning and has been for 28 years which means that he has persevered through the dot com crash, 9/11, the housing crisis and most recently the pandemic. That is amazing in and of itself, but when you hear his story about how he started his company, at 19 with a newborn baby on the way, his resiliency and toughness takes on another layer. 

 

Alonzo’s energy, determination and ability to make us laugh while reminding us that we have a giant inside of us that is waiting to big things. After listening to this episodes, be ready to go out there and become what Alonzo calls an OGG - “Original Go Getter” 

Episode Description: On this episode of the Firepreneurs Podcast, we bring on the CEO of Service Moxie, Daniel Dixon. We originally shot this episode for the March Marketing Madness series, but as many of you Firepreneurs and Entrepreneurs out there can relate to, we screwed up and weren’t able to produce the episode. So, we were fortunate enough that Daniel granted us some Grace and agreed to come back on. 

 

As the CEO of a software company specializing in marketing, as well as still owning a home service business himself, we ask Daniel a multitude of marketing questions that could help our listeners as they grow their business. However, Daniel’s story goes back further than his experience in home services so we also unpack his story and his service as a U.S. Air Force Officer. Veteran, owner of a carpet cleaning company, floor coatings and CEO of Service Moxie, we were grateful to have Daniel’s experience on the Podcast. 

 

Enjoy!

Ray Burke is already known to many in the Exterior Cleaning world as the leader of Spray Wash Academy and the Spray Wash Academy Facebook Group. However, many don’t know Ray’s story and how he got to where he is today. His story has grit, humility, character and perseverance. To top it off, he still manages to make us laugh in this episode, just as he does regularly on his YouTube channel and in his group. 

 

A seven figure services company, a thriving training and education business and a story about resilience makes this one a must listen. 

On this episode of the Firepreneurs Podcast we bring on home services leader, Brandon Vaughn. His entrepreneurial journey includes many roads to include scaling an Exterior Cleaning company to doing $500k/mo in revenue! After selling his exterior cleaning company, Brandon joined Josh Latimer and helped transform Automate Grow Sell into AGS Conquer, an industry leading coaching and consulting company to hundreds of home services business owners. 

 

His latest project is Map to a Million, which is a YouTube series chronicling his journey building Wise Coatings into a 7 figure business in one year without ever going out in the field. This episode has a bit of it all. Brandon shares his ups and downs, his self doubt and opens up about all the pain he endured along the way while becoming the success that he is today. 

 

Enjoy!

On this episode of the Firepreneurs Podcast, we are sharing with our audience and interview that Bennett did on The FireDawg Podcast discussing his experience as a firefighter in the Air Force and how that prepared him for running a business.  

The FireDawg Podcast fosters learning and growth within all ranks of the Air Force Fire Service, focusing on leadership, development, tactics and strategy, history and culture, selfless services and firefighter safety. Their Vision is to connect every Air Force firefighter to valuable information while inspiring them to develop themselves and their teams. 

The Podcast is hosted by Matt Wilson and Ben Perry. Matt is a Master Sergeant in the US Air Force, currently stationed at Joint-Base Langely-Eustis. He serves as an Assistant Chief of Operations, with more than 13 years on the job.

Ben is a Master Sergeant in the US Air Force, currently stationed at Randolph Air Force Base. He currently serves as the Assistant Chief of Operations, with more than 12 years on the job.

“Traveling the World and United States, Chris Penn left college with a passion to travel. He sold his Mustang, bought a Van and set off! He worked a number of odd jobs along the way to fund his lifestyle and along the way start vlogging his journey. While this may sound like a page from Peter Jenkins’ “A Walk Across America” don’t judge this book by its cover!

 

Chris was a football player in college and maintained his disciplined workout routine while traveling, which was a challenge when living off a few dollars a day at times. Soon, the routines and hobbies led to school bus conversions, sponsorships and much more. That work ethic explains why his vlog grew to amass over 750k subscribers on YouTube! Follow Chris at Tinyhometours, Zeppelin Travels, and theoffgridskoolie!

 

There’s a lot of adventure, conversation and entrepreneurship in this episode, enjoy!”

Join us in this fun podcast with fellow Firepreneur, Cade Swallows. 

Cade is a firefighter in Arizona. Like so many firefighters, he wanted to work on his off days. Cade knew he wanted to be his own boss, and knew he wanted to work with his hands. More importantly, he found inspiration and changed his goals from working "in" a business on his off days, to working "on" a business in his off days. Listen in as we talk about Cade's journey into his "why" to own a business, and sharing some fun business and firehouse stories!

In a short time, Cade and his wife Angie have grown Code 3 Junk Removal into a formidable business in the Phoenix metro area.

We hope you find some gold nuggets and inspiration in this one like we did! Get after it!