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Boring Money

David Heacock

29 episodes

Boring Money is for the people quietly getting rich the unglamorous way. Hosted by David Heacock, founder and CEO of Filterbuy, this podcast covers boring businesses, acquisitions, cash flow, EBITDA, tax strategy, fixed income, and the real mechanics of compounding capital. Built for operators, investors, and business owners who care more about long-term wealth than hype, headlines, or status.

Episodes

  1. He Bought His College Laundry Business for $30K. Now He's Building the Zillow for Franchises.

    · 1 h 20 min

    Alex Smereczniak got his start at Wake Forest. A student laundry service that began as a class project was doing about $30,000 a school year, and when the founders graduated they wanted $30,000 for it. Alex had about…

  2. He Ran Trade Schools for Almost 20 Years. Then He Found a Way to Buy Them.

    · 1 h 02 min

    Jim Bologa is a CPA. He spent about ten years at Price Waterhouse and twelve more as a CFO, COO and CEO at public and private equity backed companies. In 2007 a private equity contact called him about a trade school…

  3. How He Built an Eight-Figure Business Selling Toilet Paper

    · 1 h 07 min · S1 E26

    Jake Berk is 31 and the president of Berk International, a second-and-third-generation family business in Boyertown, Pennsylvania that converts toilet paper, paper towels and dry wipes. His grandfather started it in…

  4. It’s Boring, But It’s How You Make Millions Investing

    · 49 min · S1 E27

    Jonathan Boyar runs Boyar Value Group, the firm his father Mark started in 1975 as a research service and grew into Boyar Asset Management in 1983. The idea has not changed in fifty years: ignore what Wall Street pays…

  5. He Built 1.5M Followers With Zero Ad Spend. I Hired Him to Do It for Air Filters.

    · 1 h 13 min · S1 E25

    Stanley Henry ran hotels for 12 years. Eleven jobs in twelve years, because he was the guy they sent in to fix the one that wasn't working. New Zealand, Australia, the UK, a stint in Japan. In his last year he was…

  6. He Does $6M a Year Bottling Water. One Robot Almost Broke Him.

    · 1 h 21 min · S1 E24

    Jay Peterson got out of Boston College in 1991 into no jobs, went home to Kankakee, Illinois, and sold industrial real estate for a broker who gave him the listing nobody wanted: a hundred acres next to a dynamite…

  7. This Veteran's Boring Business Makes $11,000/Day

    · 1 h 17 min · S1 E23

    Ian Dahlberg got out of the Coast Guard and was trying to figure out what he was doing next. He picked up a security guard license on a whim while going to college on the GI Bill, and it got him hired at the Waldorf…

  8. He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.

    · 1 h 14 min · S1 E21

    Ron Butler spent eight years at one residential electrical company and didn't want to leave. He asked them to match a $100K offer he'd gotten elsewhere. They couldn't. He pitched them on starting a service department…

  9. He Got Fired Twice and Slept in His Car. Now He Does $450K Cleaning Floors.

    · 1 h 11 min · S1 E22

    Justin Campbell got fired from a management job at TGI Fridays, moved back home into the room down the hall from his grandmother, and started taking $50-a-day temp shifts. The job site was far enough that he slept in…

  10. He Bought a Couple 3D Printers for Fun. Now He Has 105.

    · 1 h 18 min · S1 E20

    JT McCord spent eight years as a software engineer outside Columbus, Ohio, making $150K a year and stashing 30% of it. COVID sent him fully remote, and he bought a couple of 3D printers for the basement with no…

  11. He's 22 and Took the Family Business to $1M a Year. He Pays Himself $400 a Week.

    · 52 min · S1 E19

    Matt McCrink is 22. A year ago he graduated from Auburn and walked into his dad's business — a third-generation operation brokering custom plastic and rubber components for manufacturers. For two decades it had been…

  12. He Owns 36 Auto Repair Shops Doing $50M a Year. He’s Never Fixed a Car.

    · 56 min · Episode 18

    Brian Beers has never fixed a car. He owns 36 Midas locations across Philadelphia, New Jersey and Allentown doing more than $50 million a year—with a CEO running the day-to-day, mechanics earning $5,000 in a week, and…

  13. He Built an $11M Business in 5 Months. I Told Him to Stop Growing So Fast.

    · 1 h 09 min · Episode 17

    Gustavs has built one of the fastest-growing businesses I’ve seen. In the first five and a half months of the year, his greenhouse company generated $11 million in revenue. He believes it can reach $50 million—and…

  14. He Makes $10M/Year in a Business Everyone Ignores

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 16

    Daniel Morris started with no money, a borrowed £10,000, and a cleaning business that charged roughly £12 an hour. Today, CanDo Laundry Services generates more than $10 million a year, operates three factories,…

  15. He Built an $8M Manufacturing Business… But His Real Dream Is Something Much Bigger

    · 1 h 32 min · Episode 15

    Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a crossroads. Do you keep scaling the business you’ve already built, or do you use it as the foundation for something even bigger? In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down…

  16. How He Built a $5M Government-Backed Business in Just 3 Years (No Healthcare Degree Required)

    · 44 min · Episode 14

    What if one of the best business opportunities wasn’t selling to consumers at all—but providing essential services that the government is already paying for? In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Jake,…

  17. He Lost $500K Trying to Be a Mogul — Then Built an $850K Lawn Care Business

    · 53 min

    Ryan thought he had made it. He had a great medical sales job, lived in South Florida, and had built up real cash after a few successful real estate deals. But during COVID, he realized something uncomfortable:…

  18. Building Millions in Cash Flow, Hiring Better Talent, and Going All In with Connor Gross

    · 48 min · Episode 12

    Connor Gross has built and operated across multiple income streams: an early e-commerce exit, self-storage and real estate deals, an apparel e-commerce business, content sites, and now Constant Hire, a recruiting…

  19. The $10M Hat Business Built on Custom Software

    · 1 h 13 min · Episode 11

    Robert built Hat Launch from one embroidery machine in his garage into a $10 million custom hat business serving small businesses, blue-collar teams, and even pockets inside companies like SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Red…

  20. How a 28-Year-Old Built a $1M Apparel Manufacturing Business in 12 Months

    · 1 h 23 min

    Most people have no idea how licensed apparel actually gets made. In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Zarum, co-founder of Forge & Fabric, a Canadian apparel manufacturer that produced over 650,000…

  21. From Bankruptcy to $2.4M: Building a Cleaning Business From Scratch

    · 1 h 12 min

    John Torres went from professional baseball dreams, two layoffs in nine months, failed real estate deals, food stamps, and bankruptcy… to building Club Clean into a $2.4 million commercial cleaning business producing…

  22. I Roasted His Car Wash Startup — Then Gave Him a $4M Plan

    · 54 min · Episode 8

    Paulo is trying to bring Flipwash, a successful Brazilian car wash concept, to the United States. In Brazil, the company has grown to more than 140 locations and roughly $4 million per month in revenue. The model is…

  23. Tom Sosnoff on Risk, Trading, and Building Billion-Dollar Companies

    · 49 min · Episode 7

    Tom Sosnoff is the co-founder of thinkorswim and tastytrade, two of the most influential trading platforms in modern finance. Before building billion-dollar companies, Tom spent nearly 20 years as an options market…

  24. The $14M Pool Fence Business Replacing SaaS With AI

    · 29 min · Episode 6

    Eric Leppin took over Lifesaver Pool Fence at 21 and grew it from under $1M to over $14M a year. In this episode, we talk about franchising, dealer economics, building a custom CRM with AI, and why the old “best…

  25. How a Doctor Built an 8-Figure Healthcare Logistics Business With No Investors

    · 1 h 15 min · Episode 5

    Amit was a frontline physician working 80-hour weeks during COVID when he realized something most healthcare systems still hadn’t figured out: Getting medication to patients is a logistics problem. What started as a…

  26. He Inherited a 79-Year-Old Business… and Lost 70% of It

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 4

    Clark Dane inherited a 79-year-old American manufacturing company and immediately watched it lose 70% of its revenue. Most people would have folded. Instead, Clark kept the business alive, rebuilt the customer base,…

  27. I Spent $200K on His Playbook. You're Getting It for $0

    · 59 min · Episode 3

    Eric Villa helped grow some of the biggest YouTube channels in the world — including MKBHD’s behind-the-scenes channel, The Studio — and then helped take my channel from struggling for views to millions of views in a…

  28. How He Built a $8M BORING Business I’d Never Heard Of

    · 42 min · Episode 2

    David Heacock sits down with David Wu, founder of Joy Displays, to unpack how he went from $20,000 in savings to building an $8 million profitable business with just nine employees. This is a conversation about far…

  29. From $2K to $50M in 5 Years: The Exact Playbook

    · 50 min · Episode 1

    In the first episode of Boring Money, David Heacock sits down with John, co-founder of Ship Dudes, to break down how he and his partner turned just $2,000 into a business doing roughly $50 million in revenue in five…

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