In this episode of the Huge Transformations Podcast, host Sheila welcomes entrepreneur Jared Skinner, whose journey from concrete laborer to investor in multiple successful businesses provides valuable insights for service-based business professionals. Jared's experiences, from door-to-door sales to financial management, underscore essential strategies for sustainable growth and stress the value of surrounding oneself with knowledgeable mentors and industry leaders. This conversation offers actionable advice on how home-service business owners can achieve profitability, leadership effectiveness, and lasting success. Guest: Jared Skinner Owner/Investor in 6+ businesses Entrepreneurial experience spanning finance, door-to-door sales, and home services Key Topics: Importance of financial literacy and knowing your numbers Leadership strategies for effective employee engagement and autonomy The transition from labor-intensive roles to strategic business management Benefits of mentorship, masterminds, and industry networking Strategies for rapid scaling and sustainable growth in home-service businesses Resources: The Huge Insider Newsletter Signup The Huge Insider Podcast Downloadable Action Guide The Foundations Platform Trial Offer The Huge Mastermind Info Page Facebook Group PCF Marketing Transcript: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the huge transformations podcast. I'm Sid Graf out of Montana. I'm Gabe Torres here in Nashville, Tennessee. And I'm Sheila Smeltzer from North Carolina. We're your hosts and guides through the landscape of growing a successful home service business. We do this by interviewing the best home service business builders in the industry. Folks that have already built seven and eight figure businesses, and they want to help you succeed. Yep. No fake gurus on this show. Just real life owners that have been in the trenches and can help show you the way to grow profitably. We get insights and truths from successful business builders and every episode is 100 experience. 0 percent theory. We're going to dig deep and reveal the good, the bad and the ugly. Our guests will share with you the pitfalls to avoid and the keys to winning. In short, our guests will show you how to transform your home service business into a masterpiece. Thanks for joining us on the wild Journey of entrepreneurship. Let's dive in. Hi, this is Sheila Smeltzer with the Huge Transformations Podcast. Today's guest is Jared Skinner. Jared has a great story that outlines the skills he's learned throughout his entrepreneurial journey and how actually caring about people and about numbers has been a huge key to his success. Jared is owner and, or investor of more than six. businesses, and he shares the important lessons. On finance and leadership in today's show. Let's dive in. Hi, Jared. How's it going Sheila? How are you today? Doing excellent. Thanks for asking. How about you? Good. Yeah. No, I'm great. Great here in North Carolina. So Jared Skinner, we have you on the huge transformations podcast and i'm super super excited to interview you today Um, and uh, yeah, I just I want to know more about you. I've I've been involved with you through the huge for a number of years, and I get to take a deep dive into Jared Skinner's life and see what's going on. I'm pretty sure it's great after everything that I already know about you. So, um, so Jared, tell, tell our guests who you are and what you're all about. Yeah. Uh, so Jared Skinner, obviously, um, currently in Denver, Colorado is where we're based out of right now. Um, So I can give you a little bit of background if that's what we're going for. So I Yeah, please. Grew up in Idaho. Yeah. I grew up in Idaho, a small town called Rigby. Uh, about 4,500 people. Um, my dad had a concrete construction company, so I grew up doing concrete work my whole life, which was a good start to learning how to work hard. Right. Yeah. Labor definitely hard work. Mm-hmm . Wanted me to take over the business. Wasn't interested in doing that. Mostly 'cause. It's like super labor intensive and I, you know, my dad was on the job site every day and I was like, I don't want to do that because he just wore himself out. Right. Right. So anyway, um, you know, I started to see your mission for my church and then I went to, uh, college at BYU and got a degree, a bachelor's degree in business with an emphasis like in marketing. So, but marketing, So, you know, marketing back in the day, there was no internet, so it was a different type of marketing back then than it is today. So anyway, I feel you there, by the way, I feel you there. Our first advertisement was in the Yellow Pages. So right. Yeah. It was a phone books. And the Internet was just starting to come online when I was graduating college, so not going on there as far as learning that. So, um, anyway, married and, uh, met my wife at school in a statistics class. Our punchline is what are the odds...