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If you know me, you know I strongly believe that business systems = owner freedom.

That’s why it made sense to get today’s guest David Jenyns on the show.

David is the author of SYSTEMology: Create Time, Reduce Errors and Scale Your Profits with Proven Business Systems. It’s literally a system for building systems. 

I took this opportunity to ask David for his perspective on systemizing a blue-collar business in a predictable, repeatable way. We talk about the stages of business systemization (and how to know which one you’re in), how to prioritize which systems to build first and how to involve your team in the systemization of your business.

This conversation offers a great, high-level perspective on systemizing a contracting business. 

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You may be thinking:

Is this an episode of Contractor Evolution…

…on a FRIDAY?

Yup.

After over 200 episodes, we thought it was time to introduce a new face—our co-founder and visionary Danny Kerr.

And what better way to do that than by bringing you some BONUS content you can enjoy alongside our regular releases?

Starting with a bit of a throwback.

Today, we’re re-releasing an episode we made back in 2021, hosted by Danny and his fellow co-founders Igor and James, covering all things strategic planning.

Oddly enough, it has become one of our most popular episodes.

If you’ve never given it a listen, now’s your chance.

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Whether we realize it or not, we all play characters in our lives. The idea that we should unashamedly show up as the “best” version of ourselves in all settings sounds good, but in reality, it is a gross oversimplification of the truth.

Think about it….

There’s:

• You the CEO
• You the friend
• You the salesperson
• You the mum or you the dad
• There’s you the amateur train collector or video game enthusiast

We have different versions of ourselves. Does that make you disingenuous or inauthentic? Not at all. We’re all multifaceted beings, and if you can’t see that, you’re not paying attention.

Our guest today is Todd Herman. His book The Alter Ego Effect explains WHY understanding and investing in these different archetypes of the self is one of the most powerful performance cheat codes available to us. Today’s conversation is about how to harness it.

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Openness and transparency are values MANY of us espouse. But how open and honest are you really?

Does your crew understand budget hours vs. actual hours?

How about the projected gross profit on the project they just started?

How about last year's net profit?

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Creative Roots Landscaping founder Ryan Markewich along with three of his team members: Jacob Markewich, Rik Van Espen and Zac Neufeld.

They run their landscaping business, Creative Roots, completely open book. Every person on the team is taught and shown every metric the business tracks and knows how every dollar is made.

This conversation is all about the employee perspective on open book management. What it does for the culture they work in, their feelings about work and its effect on performance. 

Are you using Virtual Assistants and other forms of offshore talent yet?

Because you probably should be.

Many of the roles in your business can’t be done remotely, sure. 

But could your office manager effectively administrate from Mexico City?

Could you delegate all the lower-level stuff to an executive assistant based in Medellin?

The answer is: maybe.

Our guest on the show today is Rob Levin. He is the co-founder of Work Better Now and the author of the forthcoming book: The New Talent Playbook.

Today’s conversation is a pragmatic road map to how you might install super-talented offshore hires into your company. At the end of the day, what's right for your business is up to you, but we want you to fully understand the scale of talent options that are out there.

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If you’ve made it this far in business, I probably don’t need to tell you that need to budget, track your overhead, and do job costing.

The problem is: nobody ever shows you HOW.

A few weeks back, we co-hosted a webinar with our friend Bob Gauvreau from Gauvreau Accounting Tax Law Advisory to teach 7-figure contractors everything they need to know about managing their finances. We talked about budgeting, job costing, avoiding cash crunches and more.

And today, we’re replaying it here on the podcast so more contractors can benefit from the insights.

This is a must-listen for anyone whose New Year’s Resolution is to get better at financial management.