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Now I’m in Deep South France somewhere (probably pissing off the French with my driving) in this episode, I chat to a legend, a true legend. Im not a believer in legend being banded about to easy like it is. For me a “Legend” is someone that shows up day after day, year after year consistently turning out quality work. And this guy is it, I’ve wanted him on a Bobcast from the start. And I’ve finally coaxed him on. Besides being of the same generation, I’m honoured to call this guy a friend, as we’ve chatted via various messaging for years. Sometimes it’s scary as we both think along the same lines. He’s clearly a proud family man and one of the nicest blokes out there in the trade that i know has been there to help and guide others along the way. That “legend” is Neil Johnstone based up in Ayr on the south west coast of Scotland. It’s an interesting conversation (bear with us as the internet was sketchy affecting the audio at times) as we’ve both been in the trade for years and share some laughs and dark subjects along the way. We chat such things such as:

• Being a Cobbler
• Playing the Long game
• Earning your stripes
• Council work
• Loosing it all and bouncing back
• Having a clear conscience
• Gaining clients confidence is the greatest compliment
• Working for clients that appreciate your value
• Panning for gold amongst the bullshit on socials
• Saying no to customers is a hard lesson to learn
• Family trades & Loosing a child to suicide
• Growing up in a macho male industry
• Service (or lack of) from merchants and manufacturers

And as always show us (Brothers of the Brush insta & Neil ) some love and give us a shout-out on social media to show your support!

Links:

Web: https://www.njdecorators.co.uk/

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/njspray_finishes?igsh=YTM2eG0wczlvb3A=

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Now then we’re back!

We'd highly appreciate it if you would share this with like-minded individuals. And also if you could pop over to iTunes and leave a review it helps us get out there to more listeners. Hitting subscribe means you’ll never miss a future episode when they are released as we are hoping to bring you some bonus content

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Now in this episode, I chat to Josh Millburn of The Mills Decorating. Based out of Colchester, Josh has been in the game for a while after finding his initially chosen path wasn't for him. To say he's only been trading with his partner a while they seem to have a solid vision of where they want to be. They both seem to show how modern business should be done right by implementing some proven tactics along the way. A sort of business 101 lesson to others in the way they are improving, educating, and nurturing both themselves and their employees as they grow. These guys are in my opinion carrying the torch and showing they way for upcoming tradespeople. Join us to discover what their goal and methods are as we chat:

• Systems process
• Integrity
• Do what you say you’ll do
• Hedonistic adaptation
• Franklin arena
• Feeling Out of depth in business
• Panning for gold to find quality staff
• Recruitment done right ✅ appraisals and constructive feedback
• Root cause of arguments being the choice of words (poor communication)
• Putting your game face on no matter what
• Taking deposits
• Talking money with customers
• Enquires and customers budgets
• Knowing your mvp's
• Being authentic
• Benefits of employing a pa & outsourcing your tasks

And as always give us (Brothers of the Brush insta, Josh ) a shout-out on social media to show your support!

Links:

The Mills Decorating
Web: https://themilsdecorating.co.uk

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/the_mils_decorating?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Books

E-Myth: https://amzn.eu/d/06qccDkn

The Pumpkin Plan: https://amzn.eu/d/0192G0km

Teddy Roosevelt (Not Franklin) man in the arena speech: https://youtu.be/A311CnTjfos?si=eRG5L8MNh7qFlINy

So you know the score by now get a brew grab your headphones put your feet up as Brothers of the Brush podcast is back and coming in your Ears!!

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Now then we’re back!

For those of you who aren’t aware and listening through the usual platforms like Apple Podcasts, these episodes are now also going out on our YouTube channel. So you can see us in all our glory….. well not that way but you know what I mean

So we'd appreciate it if you would share this with like-minded individuals. And also if you could pop over to iTunes and leave a review it helps us get out there to more listeners. Hitting subscribe means you’ll never miss a future episode when they are released as we are hoping to bring you some bonus content

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Back to this episode. in this episode, I chat with Josh Kubler. Originally from down under in Australia, Josh and his wife Amy have taken the leap and moved to the UK. Apparently, the weather being one of the enticing things (god help us). Anyway, along with being decorators they also supply their own brand of quality tape, brushes 4" roller sleeves, disrupting the UK market with no-nonsense marketing & pricing. Join us to discover what led them to this venture along with other topics such as:

• £10 pomme father in law
• Working with wife/spouse
• Talking of properties on sqm
• The business of, tapes & brush manufacturing
• Upsetting the market
• Paps
• Licensing the trade
• Overpaying for materials and tools
• Selling on quality over influencing
• Masking tape demand like drugs
• Uk v's Aussie painters and materials
• Getting your business head on
• Gifting customers and creating raving fans

And as always give us (Brothers of the Brush insta, Josh & Xel tape) a shout-out on social media to show your support!

Links:

JRK Painting
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/jrkpainting?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Web: https://www.jrkpainting.com

XELTape
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/xelpaint?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Web: https://www.xelpaint.com/

So you know the score by now get a brew grab your headphones put your feet up as Brothers of the Brush podcast is back and coming in your Ears!!

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Email: info@brothersofthebrushpodcast.co.uk

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