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Activism, Education and High-Performance Building with John Deans

This episode features John Deans of 475 High Performance Building Supply, discussing activism, building science, and sustainable construction. He shares his journey from environmental activism to high-performance building, emphasizing the importance of education, airtightness, and strategic planning in construction.

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Activism, Education and High-Performance Building with John Deans 1:42:48

Activism, Education and High-Performance Building with John Deans

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All About the Wetlands Approval Process

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What It Really Takes to Grow a Construction Business

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Escaping the Hustle Trap: Finding Balance and Profitability in Small Business 27:31

Escaping the Hustle Trap: Finding Balance and Profitability in Small Business

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How Small Businesses Can Grow Without Bigger Projects

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Building Smarter, Not Harder with Tim McNamara

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Is An Excavator Actually Worth It?

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360 More Work, Less Money: The Hidden Costs of Growth

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Time Is Money: Why Tracking Every Hour Matters 25:31

Time Is Money: Why Tracking Every Hour Matters

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What It Really Takes to Keep Going as a Founder

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Designing a Business That Leaves Room to Grow with Matt Arnold

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How To Handle a Slow Season 29:31

How To Handle a Slow Season

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Why Cash Offers Can Hurt Your Business 32:25

Why Cash Offers Can Hurt Your Business

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One of the quickest ways to lose money 37:04

One of the quickest ways to lose money

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Choose Smart Growth, Not Fast Growth 1:09:05

Choose Smart Growth, Not Fast Growth

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Make Money Managing Subcontractors 25:18

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What it means to lead a business with Jamie Gasparovic

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Bigger Projects Don’t Always Mean More Profit 26:31

Bigger Projects Don’t Always Mean More Profit

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My $200,000 Mistake: Understand Your TRUE Labor Costs

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What Not to Do When Using Subcontractors

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You’re Not Just a Carpenter—Stop Charging Like One 33:04

You’re Not Just a Carpenter—Stop Charging Like One

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The Hedonic Treadmill in the Trades 34:56

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The 10 Rules We Stole From Bezos

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Stop Texting Clients 1:48:15

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Positivity Without the BS 1:15:59

Positivity Without the BS

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Fixed Bids Burned Me — T&M Turned It Around

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Do You Need to Make More or Need Less? 32:22

Do You Need to Make More or Need Less?

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Not Every Day is a Win 37:15

Not Every Day is a Win

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Do You Need to Make More or Need Less? – PART 2

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Stop Overbuilding What You Can’t Maintain 1:03:35

Stop Overbuilding What You Can’t Maintain

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You Should Be Saying “No” 29:01

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How we actually price a job

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I Tried to Scale Up and Hated It 23:52

I Tried to Scale Up and Hated It

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Do Niches ACTUALLY Get Riches?

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What I’ve Learned Since Buying the Excavator 39:44

What I’ve Learned Since Buying the Excavator

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Stop Pricing by Square Foot 28:56

Stop Pricing by Square Foot

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What I’d Do Differently If I Started My Business Today

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Money, Anxiety, and Mental Health in the Trades 57:31

Money, Anxiety, and Mental Health in the Trades

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Precon That Wakes Up Even The Checked Out Builder 1:23:24

Precon That Wakes Up Even The Checked Out Builder

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Why Two Owners Need More Than 1.5x Work

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Stop Letting “Cool Details” Kill Your Margin

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Stop Multitasking Your Business 1:08:00

Stop Multitasking Your Business

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How to Track a Job Budget in Real Time 33:25

How to Track a Job Budget in Real Time

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Where “Free” Turns Into Burnout

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When the Business Owns You 35:31

When the Business Owns You

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The Wrong Jobs Are Killing Your Margins 33:33

The Wrong Jobs Are Killing Your Margins

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Why Builders Need to Rethink How We Build

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5 Systems Most Builders Wait Too Long to Fix

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