Derek Stone, Actionable Insights, and Tom McArdle, Airbotx, join the Restoration Today podcast to share how companies like Actionable Insights and Airbotx can work together to help ease some of the pain points for contractors and help contractors get paid in full for the work they're doing and the equipment they're using.

Welcome back to Chasing the Vision, a series all about sharing valuable insights, strategies, and hard-learned lessons accumulated over the many years of experience shared by restoration experts, JT Kraai of Exit Strategies 360 and Tim Hull of Violand Management Associates!

What is financial cleanliness? JT Kraai & Tim Hull help to define "financial cleanliness", red flags to look out for, what financial departments are needed as a company grows, qualities of a good CPA, and MORE!

As always, if you have questions for Tim & JT, please reach out and we’ll try to add those into a later episode!

Dive into the essential non-technical skills crucial for success in today’s dynamic world in season THREE of our Restoration Master Class series, in partnership with our sponsor AnswerForce! Two times each month, we will drop quick, new episodes on different topics related to Power Skills – with different industry guests!

Today, Michelle and Mandy talk with Jordan Donald, CEO & partner at Gerry Edtl Consulting, about the power skill of sales, the difference between sales and marketing, relationship building, how to successfully blend the roles of sales and marketing in smaller restoration businesses, and more!

Back in April, Alpine Investors announced the launch of Guardian Restoration Partners, a new platform focused on partnering with and building exceptional home restoration businesses. Today on the podcast, Michelle talks Robert Horne, co-founder of DryLux Restoration, Matthew Sharpe, founder of Dry Kings Restoration, and Coyne Borree, owner of Midwest Restoration, about:

Today, Michelle is joined by someone who has worn many hats within the restoration industry and just recently has started his own software company, Restoration OS. Mitch Byrom, president & founder of Restoration OS, is here to share his extensive background in the industry and:

Dive into the essential non-technical skills crucial for success in today’s dynamic world in season THREE of our Restoration Master Class series, in partnership with our sponsor Answerforce! Two times each month, we will drop quick, new episodes on different topics related to Power Skills – with different industry guests!

In today's episode, Michelle talks with Hayden Lee, Fulfillment Manager at Spot On Solutions, about leading and listening in conversations. As a fellow podcast host, Michelle & Hayden talk through tricks and tips on how you keep fruitful conversations going, especially with complete strangers, how to come up with good questions to ask, and making that conversation feel personal to your audience.

This series is all about sharing valuable insights, strategies, and hard-learned lessons accumulated over the many years of experience shared by restoration experts, JT Kraai of E⁠xit Strategies 360⁠ and Tim Hull of ⁠Violand Management Associates⁠!

Episode 5 is all about the customer base and Tim & JT share:

If you have questions for Tim & JT, please reach out and we'll try to add those into a later episode!

Aaron Brunko, President of Verisk Property Estimating Solutions, & David Obert, CPO of Verisk, sit down with Michelle at ACCESS this week to talk through the claims volume and what's happening. Some contractors are sharing that their volume is steady while other contractors are concerned that things are really slow. Aaron and David will help pick that apart and answer the question on everyone's mind: What's really going on with claims volume?

On this fresh new episode, Rusty Amarante, Director of Operations at BELFOR, joins Michelle to share the journey he has taken in the restoration industry- from part-time cleaning business to Director of Operations at a $3B company.

They talk through:

Dive into the essential non-technical skills crucial for success in today’s dynamic world in season THREE of our Restoration Master Class series, in partnership with our sponsor AnswerForce! Two times each month, we will drop quick, new episodes on different topics related to Power Skills – with different industry guests!

In episode 7, Kelley Dolan, Business Development Advisor at Violand Management Associates, joins Mandy to share all about her power skill - responsibility, and shares how that ties into building trust in the workplace.