The Home Service Expert Podcast

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1. He Built A $20 Million Remodeling Company Knocking Doors In Blizzards | Lakota Tidd

   20 Oct 2026 · 59 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Lakota Tidd dropped out of college at 21, started Top Home Improvements in his mom's garage with two lawn chairs and no money, and built it to $20…

2. He Built A $300,000 Truck Brand With Zero Ad Spend And One Daily Habit | Chau Nguyen

   15 Oct 2026 · 1 h 21 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Chau Nguyen sold two tech companies, bought a 1974 Bronco that kept breaking down, and turned that headache into Vintage Modern, a $60 million luxury…

3. How Tommy Mello Spends $5 Million A Month On Marketing And Tracks Every Dollar | Sara Nay

   13 Oct 2026 · 1 h 16 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Sara Nay is the CEO of Duct Tape Marketing and the author of Unchained. In this episode, Sara and Tommy break down why most contractors rent their…

4. How To Turn $15,000 Into $1.6 Million Without Adding Another Dollar | David Bach

   8 Oct 2026 · 1 h 26 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com David Bach is a ten-time New York Times bestselling author and the man behind The Automatic Millionaire. In this episode, David and Tommy break down why…

5. How A Burned Out Owner Set Up His Company To Run 6 Months Without Him | Dan Kuschell

   7 Oct 2026 · 1 h 29 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Dan Kuschell grew up on welfare in Detroit, built a direct mail company to $1 million in its first year at 22, and now helps home service companies grow…

6. Charlie Munger Mailed This Author One Share And It Became $735,000

   1 Oct 2026 · 1 h 03 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Dr. Robert Cialdini wrote Influence, the book behind almost every sales training a home service tech has ever sat through. In his second visit with Tommy…

7. The Guy Behind Tommy Mello's Emails Only Sends 4 A Month For A Reason | Zac Garside

   30 Sep 2026 · 1 h 08 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Zac Garside spent eight years training CSRs before he noticed the most profitable channel in home service was the one nobody used: the customer list. Now…

8. The Best CSR, Dispatcher And Tech In The Company Was The Problem | Jim Leslie & Al Levi

   24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 04 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Revenue is everywhere in home service right now. Profit is not. Tommy sits down with his mentor Al Levi, author of The 7-Power Contractor, and Jim…

9. How a Home Service Owner's Cheapest Hire Is Now His Biggest Revenue Line

   23 Sep 2026 · 1 h 08 min

   🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Most home service owners hear virtual assistant and think someone to answer emails. Alyssa Shivers and Mia Juan of Ready Roles think bigger: five callers…

10. The First KPI Every Home Service Owner Should Track (Not Revenue) |

    17 Sep 2026 · 1 h 25 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Derek Cornish got laid off, answered a job ad, and became the top salesman at a window company. Then he and his partner Lakota Tidd built Top Home…

11. You Hit $5M, Then $10M. Why It Never Feels Like Enough (& What Actually Does)

    15 Sep 2026 · 1 h 11 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Tommy Mello does $410 million a year and admits he is still chasing the next thing. Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course in Harvard's history,…

12. The One Thing Nobody Can Take From Your Home Service Business | Jason Feifer

    11 Sep 2026 · 1 h 02 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Jason Feifer has run Entrepreneur Magazine for 10 years, and his message to owners is the opposite of what you'd expect: the title you hold is rented,…

13. The Man Who Took Tesla From $2B To $20B Shares The Exact Formula | Jon McNeill

    10 Sep 2026 · 1 h 08 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Jon McNeill ran Tesla as president while revenue went from $2 billion to $20 billion in 30 months. In this episode he hands Tommy Mello the exact…

14. Doing Whatever You Want, Is Keeping Your Business Small (Here's Why) | Mark C Winters

    3 Sep 2026 · 1 h 13 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Tommy sits down with Mark C. Winters, co-author of Rocket Fuel and author of the new book Visionary, to name the seat most founders never see: the…

15. Own 15% Of Your Market Before You Even Think About A New One | Aaron & Zac

    2 Sep 2026 · 1 h 21 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Tommy Mello sits down with two returning guests: Aaron Gaynor, founder of Eco Plumbers, Electricians, and HVAC Technicians, fresh off crossing $100…

16. The "Day In Thirds" Schedule Burned-Out Owners Need To Steal | Danny Morel

    27 Aug 2026 · 46 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Danny Morel built a Southern California real estate machine he describes as $1B a year in sales with 400 agents, then answered no to happy, in love, and…

17. America's Top Sales Trainer Breaks Down The Perfect Service Call | Jeremy Miner

    25 Aug 2026 · 1 h 15 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Can your techs close like a doctor prescribes? Jeremy Miner, founder of 7th Level and creator of NEPQ, the largest B2C sales training company in the…

18. She Predicted The AI Layoffs. Her Next Forecast Should Worry CEOs | Alexandra Levit

    20 Aug 2026 · 58 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Are the AI layoffs about to reverse? Workplace futurist Alexandra Levit joins Tommy Mello to break down blunt force automation: why CEOs who replaced…

19. She Watched A1 Go From One Bathroom To $200M | My Fiancé, Bre

    19 Aug 2026 · 50 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ For the first time in 700 episodes, Tommy hands the other mic to his fiancée, Bre. From interviewing to be his EA at A1 Garage to planning their…

20. Inside Pace Morby's $1.7 Million RV Park Deal (And Why Beginners Can't Copy It)

    13 Aug 2026 · 1 h 24 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Pace Morby went from bagging groceries and building 700 homes for hedge funds to controlling hundreds of properties without banks, credit, or his own…

21. He Beat Cancer And Says Most Owners Are Selling For The Wrong Reasons | Michael Werner

    11 Aug 2026 · 1 h 03 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Michael Werner has lived several business lifetimes: Goldman Sachs M&A, president of Werner Ladder at $500 million plus, the Gerber turnaround from $100…

22. Jason Wild | Every "No" He Heard Was Worth $12 Million

    6 Aug 2026 · 1 h 04 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Tommy sits down with Jason Wild, co-author of Genius at Scale (Harvard Business Review's lead title) and the innovation leader behind $6B+ in enterprise…

23. Lauren Kingsley | Meet the $5.1B Operator Home Service CEOs Keep Calling

    4 Aug 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Most home service companies think they have a lead problem. Lauren Kingsley says they have a friction problem, and she has the receipts: $5.1 billion in…

24. Kevin O'Leary | Why the Busiest Home Service Owners Get the Least Done

    30 Jul 2026 · 52 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://freedomevent.com Recorded live at the Freedom event — Kevin O'Leary sat down with Tommy minutes after walking off stage. Mr. Wonderful built and sold The Learning Company…

25. Why This 22-Year-Old Selling AI Just Warned Every Home Service Owner

    28 Jul 2026 · 1 h 03 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://mellomedia.s.gy/promo3-freedom2026 George Paladichuk built a million-dollar AI company at 22 — and he's the first person selling AI who will tell you NOT to hand it your…

26. He Walked Away From 2 Shark Tank Offers (Sales 40x'd After)

    23 Jul 2026 · 1 h 01 min

    🎟️ Join us at Freedom 2026 → https://mellomedia.s.gy/promo2-freedom2026 Kent Yoshimura walked away from two Shark Tank offers because they came in under the number he set before entering the tank — then became the…

27. Why 2 Employees Beat 6 (The $400K Hiring Math)

    22 Jul 2026 · 1 h 48 min

    🎟️ Join us at Freedom 2026 → https://mellomedia.s.gy/promo2-freedom2026 Cameron Herold is back for round two — the man who scaled 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2M to $106M in six years breaks down why two A-players beat six…

28. The Content Excuse Keeping Home Service Owners Invisible | Gary Vee

    17 Jul 2026 · 41 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://mellomedia.s.gy/promo-freedom2026 Tommy Mello sits down with Gary Vaynerchuk, founder of VaynerMedia and VaynerX, for a conversation every home service owner needs to…

29. He Built Five Companies Then Admitted He Should Have Built One Better (LIVE)

    15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Adam Shampaine went from Capitol Hill to CEO of HomeFix, a $68 million home improvement company, and then built his own supply company, finance…

30. Extraordinary People Waste Their Lives Waiting for Approval From People Who Never Notice Them

    15 Jul 2026 · 1 h 16 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Sahil Bloom spent seven years "winning" in private equity — while living 3,000 miles from his parents, drinking seven nights a week, and 50 lbs…

31. He Went From a Window Tint Shop to a $400M Company (His One Hiring Rule)

    7 Jul 2026 · 1 h 29 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Dustin Sims went from running a window tint shop to VP of Operations at A1 Garage Door Service — a $400 million company — in under five years,…

32. The Accountability System That Makes Poor Performance Impossible to Hide

    2 Jul 2026 · 1 h 08 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ More than half of private equity–backed CEOs don't make it through the hold period. Samantha Allison and Taavo Godtfersen studied the ones who…

33. The Operating System Behind America's Biggest Garage Door Company

    30 Jun 2026 · 40 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ A1 Garage Door is about to cross $410 million — and Garage Door Freedom exists to hand other owners the exact systems that got it there. GDF coach…

34. The Belief That Separates the People Who Win From Everyone Else | Evan Carmichael

    30 Jun 2026 · 1 h 19 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Evan Carmichael started with $300 a month, dead-ass broke, too afraid to tell anyone. He sold his company at 22, built a YouTube channel from…

35. Your Hiring Strategy Is Setting You Up to Fail Before Day One | Mike Matalone

    24 Jun 2026 · 1 h 12 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Window Nation had 80% employee turnover. Within 6 months, Mike Matalone brought it down to 23% — without changing their sales process, marketing,…

36. He Grew A Company To $220M | His Warning To Every Home Service Owner

    19 Jun 2026 · 1 h 09 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Chuck Thokey built sales teams that generated $220 million in revenue — and his first coaching client went from under $1 million to a $6 million…

37. What Every Contractor Brags About, That's Actually Proving Their Brand's Working Against Them

    19 Jun 2026 · 49 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Your brand is either quietly growing your business or quietly killing it. In this episode, KickCharge Creative President Terri Briggs reveals why…

38. The Smartest Home Service Owners in the Country Are All Doing This One Thing

    11 Jun 2026 · 53 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Jim Leslie is the CEO of Home Service Freedom and former CMO/CTO at A1 Garage Door — where he helped build the company to over $400 million. Today…

39. Why Home Service Owners Lose Customers Before They Ever Pick Up the Phone

    10 Jun 2026 · 1 h 19 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Senja Spellman is a fractional CMO who has spent over a decade inside the marketing departments of companies like Tundra Land ($100M), Leaf Home,…

40. Why Most Remodelers Keep Paying for Demand They Could Be Creating for Free

    5 Jun 2026 · 50 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Tony Hoty filed bankruptcy at 29. Spent 10 years on the road training companies across the country because he had no choice. Then rebuilt to $10M+…

41. He Lost His Company as a Minority Partner. Then Built It Back From Zero.

    3 Jun 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Justin Feichter started Providence Roofing just over a year ago — after getting pushed out of his last company as a minority partner. In his first…

42. Peter H Thomas (Century 21 Canada Founder) Losing $70 Million and Why He Never Panicked

    29 May 2026 · 14 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Peter Thomas built $8 billion in real estate — then lost $70 million when his silent partner went bankrupt. At 87 years old, he's sharp, happy,…

43. The Sales Reframe That Changes How Every Technician Thinks About Their Job

    26 May 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Joe Crisara has trained thousands of home service technicians — and the number one thing he hears is that they don't want to be called salespeople.…

44. The One Mindset Shift That Separates Good Operators From Great Ones

    22 May 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ John Block didn't build Unity Partners by being the smartest guy in the room. He built it by making sure he never was. As the founder of one of the…

45. The Real Reason Most People Never Start (It's Not Discipline)

    18 May 2026 · 1 h 34 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Dr. Benjamin Hardy is one of the world's leading organizational psychologists — PhD, bestselling author of 10X Is Easier Than 2X, and Dan…

46. The Leadership Skill That Gets More Valuable as AI Takes Over

    16 May 2026 · 1 h 31 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ The biggest myth in home service technology? That software solves problems. It doesn't. People do. Tommy sits down with Richard Kohberger — the…

47. The #1 Reason Home Service Companies Get Stuck Between $1M and $10M

    11 May 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ Most home service companies don't fail from a lack of opportunity — they fail because they lose focus. Tommy sits down with Yarin Gaon, a growth…

48. Why the Wealthiest Investors, Nobody Talks About, Are All in This Industry

    8 May 2026 · 1 h 34 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ 💎 Top 5 Takes for this Episode! 1. People overestimate what they can do in one or two years — and massively underestimate what they can do in five…

49. From Sales Rep to $28M: What Jordan White Learned Building Seek One Roofing

    4 May 2026 · 1 h 04 min

    🚀 FREEDOM 2026 Get your Tickets Today! https://homeservicefreedom.com/ 💎 Top 5 Takes for this Episode! There are two types of business owners — those who build for cash flow, and those who build enterprise value to…

50. AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

    1 May 2026 · 52 min

    Learn more about Lace.ai here: https://lace.ai Boris Valkov is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with a track record of building and scaling products at some of the world's most influential tech companies.…