• #246 - A Healthier Home with Jen and Rusty Stout
    Sep 28 2023

    Husband and wife duo, Jen and Rusty Stout are co-founders of JS2 Partners Healthy Home Builders in Central Texas.

    In this episode they share what makes a healthy home, how to avoid mold problems, what chemicals to avoid and more.

    1:54 Introduction 

    6:11 What is a Healthy Home 

    10:30 How to Improve your Home 

    22:35 Air and Vapour Barriers 

    27:50 Building Healther Homes 

     

    Connect with Jen and Rusty:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthierhomesbyjs2/ 

    Facebook: 
    https://www.facebook.com/HealthierHomes 

    Facebook Group & Hashtag: #healthierhomesnation

    HEALTHIER HOMES Link tree:
    https://www.healthierhomes.com/links 

    JS2 Partners Website:
    https://www.js2partners.com/

     

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    41 mins
  • #245 - Eliminating Toxins from your Home with Lisa Beres
    Sep 14 2023

    Lisa Beres is a renowned healthy home expert, Baubiologist, accomplished author, professional speaker, and Telly award-winning media personality. She specializes in helping busy individuals eliminate toxins from their homes through simple, practical solutions that improve health. Together with her husband, Ron, she co-founded The Healthy Home Dream Team and an online membership, The Healthy Babes Academy. Lisa is the author of "My Body, My House," a children's book, and co-author of "Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet & Your Health."

    Lisa has made notable appearances on national television shows like "Dr. Oz," "The Rachael Ray Show," "TODAY," and others. As an experienced Baubiologist, she focuses on how the built environment affects human and ecological health.

    In this podcast episode, Lisa discusses common factors that may contribute to health issues in your home. She provides practical solutions, including tips on identifying and addressing mold problems and suggesting indoor plants that can help improve air quality.

    2:30 Introduction 

    5:19 Baubiologist 

    12:00 Putting your health first 

    20:46 Fragrances 

    24:00 Mold 

    34:11 Portable Air Purifiers 

     

    2 Exclusive Gifts for our listeners from THE HEALTHY HOME DREAM TEAM:
    Free Gift #1
    Free Gift #2 


    Connect with Lisa Beres:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronandlisa/
    Website:https://ronandlisa.com/?fbclid=IwAR0HxVvNR6MOqu4TiWzIoIimcJqbx10dOeIFSPSxHEVOkntQ0ySu-hB8kwY
    Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ronandlisa

     

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    46 mins
  • #244 - Passive House & Certification - Interview With Mike Anderson
    Sep 6 2023

    Mike Anderson is the CEO and Design Leader of Passive Design Solutions. Drawing on his combined background in architecture and physics, Mike leads a design production team and has worked on over 300 Net Zero Ready projects (100 of them passive house) throughout North America over 10 years, establishing him as one of the nation’s foremost passive house experts.


    In this episode, Mike talks about solar hot water versus solar panel with heat pumps, where Passive House certification makes sense, and how larger scale projects are benefitting from Passive House.

    1:27 Intro into passive house 

    6:45 Passive House Certification 

    20:00 Hybrid Heating Systems 

    25:24 Larger Scale Apartment Projects 

    Check out Plans from PDS HERE

    For more from Mike and PDS:

    • https://www.passivedesign.ca/

    • https://www.instagram.com/passive_design/

    • https://www.facebook.com/passivedesignsolutions

     

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    44 mins
  • #243 - Breaking Through with Contractor Evolution Host Benji Carlson
    Aug 28 2023

    Benji Carlson is the host of Contractor Evolution and head of content at Breakthrough Academy a business providing contractors with the management systems and processes to build sustainable profits while getting the spare time you deserve. 

    Benji shares how blinders can be extremely important as a business owner, what the real problems are that contractors are dealing with and how there are way more opportunities in the blue collar world than people think.

    ​​Get Breakthrough Academy's Annual Strategic Planning Template, FREE for Conscious Builder Listeners HERE

     

    3:00 Intro

    9:18 Break Through Academy 

    13:25 Common Problems for Trades 

    17:54  The Real Problems 

    25:43 What to look forward to 

     

    Connect with Benji Carlson:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benji-carlson-b0b654218/?originalSubdomain=ca  

    Breakthrough Academy:
    Website: https://www.btacademy.com/  
    Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/btacademy/ 
    YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@BreakthroughAcademy 
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughacademy/  
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthroughacademy/?originalSubdomain=ca  

     

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    40 mins
  • #242 - Interview with Mentor and Leader Elinor Moshe
    Aug 22 2023

    Elinor Moshe is an ambitious and driven thought-leader, mentor, best-selling author, award-winning podcast host and businesswoman. She’s the founder of The Construction Coach, with the purpose of enabling people to focus on themselves and defy the status quo by providing mentoring, training and coaching. 

    Elinor discusses the importance of defining success for ourselves and touches on the power of mentorship, understanding the rules of the game and making sure you’re playing to win the game.

     

    1:54 Introduction  

    5:49 What is a Successful Career 

    7:20 Challenges Starting a Business 

    14:00 Coaches/mentorship

    22:00 Current Labour Shortage

    30:00 What's coming up in the Future

     

    Connect with Elinor Moshe

    Instagram: https://instagram.com/theelinormoshe?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg== 

    LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/elinormoshe_ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elinor-moshe/ 

    Website: https://www.elinormoshe.com/ 

    Twitter: https://x.com/the_elinormoshe?s=21&t=by94AfQLiDr28NfOUEzeBw 

    The Construction Coach Website: https://www.theconstructioncoach.com.au/ 

     

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    34 mins
  • #241 - Interview with Author and Marketing Expert David Meerman Scott
    Aug 14 2023

    David Meerman Scott is an author, speaker and marketing expert. His latest book Fanocracy is a Wall Street Journal Best Seller focusing on creating an organization that puts the needs and wishes of fans ahead of every other priority. 

    David covers a lot of topics including writing a book and how it can help you, what strategy works if you’re only focused on a local demographic, where you should start if you’re at ground zero and why websites are still extremely important in today’s market.

    3:00 Introduction 

    6:30 Write your own Book 

    14:00 Self Publishing?

    21:30 Youtube

    31:00 Paid Adds 

    38:00 What is David most excited about

     

    Connect with David Meerman Scott:
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dmscott/
    Twitter: https://x.com/dmscott?s=21&t=by94AfQLiDr28NfOUEzeBw@dmscott   Blog: https://www.davidmeermanscott.com/blog
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmeermanscott/
    Home renovation: https://www.techbuiltrenovation.com/ 

     

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    The Conscious Builder Website: www.theconsciousbuilder.com The Conscious Builder Academy: www.consciousbuilderacademy.com Podcast: www.theconsciousbuilder.com/podcast YouTube: www.YouTube.com/theconsciousbuilder Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_conscious_builder/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-conscious-builder Facebook: www.facebook.com/theconsciousbuilder

     

     

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    46 mins
  • #240 - Strategic Website Design for Builders and General Contractors with Katlyn Slocum
    Aug 9 2023

    Katlyn is the owner and creative director of Katlyn Slocum Design a boutique web design agency. Her agency specializes in building high-converting websites for builders and contractors to help them meet their business and financial goals.

    We chat about what every website needs, what to look out for if you’re designing your own website and how to create a strategy to get you the clients you want and deserve. It’s a noisy world out there but websites are still very relevant and important to the success of your business.

     

    1:11 Intro

    5:52 Search Engine Optimization 

    13:28 How to get started with a Website 

    22:50 How often should you be updating your Website 

    27:15 Web hosting

    28:50 Marketing Metrics  

    32:00 Giveaway: 10 things you need to do on your website 

     

    Connect with Katlyn Slocum:
    Instagram: www.instagram.com/katlynslocumdesign
    Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/katlynslocum
    Facebook: www.facebook.com/katlynslocumdesign

     

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    36 mins
  • #239 - Commercial to Residential with Business Owner and Founder Jeff Sawyer
    Aug 1 2023

    Jeff Sawyer is the owner and founder of TruNORTH Inc, a Remodeling and commercial development company based in Connecticut. Jeff shares his unwavering focus on building meaningful connections. 

    1:37 Intro 

    5:00 Commercial to Residential 

    9:07 Pricing of Residential 

    14:35 Biggest Challenges to Overcome 

    18:27 How to find Skilled Labour 

    22:11 What's Exciting for the Future 

     

    Connect with TruNORTH:

    Website: https://trunorthconstruction.com/?fbclid=IwAR3WW-o1wRUg-OHy9LWow5Wn5cguBNhjyeQ-CppfBovdKN3anvY9hITJR5c 

    Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/trunorthconstruction/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trunorthconstructioninc

     

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    31 mins