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- 🇦🇺AU · Careers#9730K to 100K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Careers#2510K to 30K
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20K to 65K🎙 ~2x weekly·129 episodes·Last published 1mo ago - Monthly Reach
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40K to 130K🇦🇺77%🇳🇿23% - Active Followers
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16K to 52K
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#129 How an Ex-Electrician Rewires Contractors' Businesses to Run Without Them With Adam Cooper
Apr 6, 2026
39m 23s
#128 The Man Behind Construction Genius: Why Most Contractors Were Trained to Build, Not Lead With Eric Anderton
Mar 17, 2026
33m 39s
#127 What Farming Taught One Architect About Accountability and Building Projects Start to Finish With Alastair McDonald
Feb 3, 2026
33m 51s
#126 Inside ConTech's Hype Cycle: What a Masonry Veteran Learned About Tools That Actually Work With Jeff Sample
Jan 20, 2026
34m 01s
#125 How a Craigslist Masonry Ad Turned Into a $25M Exterior Cladding Powerhouse With Tyler Vander Vegt
Jan 13, 2026
34m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/6/26 | #129 How an Ex-Electrician Rewires Contractors' Businesses to Run Without Them With Adam Cooper | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I’m joined by Adam Cooper, the President of Ascent Consulting. Adam started out in the industry as an electrician. He then worked his way up through project management and eventually stepped away from the job site to help contractors run better businesses behind the scenes. Over the past decade, he’s worked with hundreds of construction companies across the US, helping them put structure around things most businesses just “f... | 39m 23s | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | #128 The Man Behind Construction Genius: Why Most Contractors Were Trained to Build, Not Lead With Eric Anderton | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I sat down to have a chat with Eric Anderton. He is the man behind the Construction Genius Podcast and has spent the last two decades helping contractors figure out something most of them were never trained to do: lead people. Since 2004, he’s worked closely with construction leaders across the US, helping technically skilled builders make the shift from building projects to building teams. We talked about the difference between h... | 33m 39s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | #127 What Farming Taught One Architect About Accountability and Building Projects Start to Finish With Alastair McDonald | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, I’m joined by Alastair McDonald from EDG Projects: a building design, architecture, and project management firm based in Echuca. Growing up in a farming family in regional Australia, Alastair learned early what it means to take ownership of your work, especially when the risk is real and the consequences can land directly at your feet. Now, as CEO and Director of EDG, that same mindset continues to influence his leaders... | 33m 51s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | #126 Inside ConTech's Hype Cycle: What a Masonry Veteran Learned About Tools That Actually Work With Jeff Sample | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This episode is a bit of a crossover between construction and technology, and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to. I sat down with Jeff Sample, who works with Bluebeam and is also the host of the ConTechCrew podcast. Jeff has spent the last decade operating at the intersection of construction and technology, helping contractors make sense of tech without the hype. Jeff’s time working inside a masonry contractor gave him a clear view o... | 34m 01s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | #125 How a Craigslist Masonry Ad Turned Into a $25M Exterior Cladding Powerhouse With Tyler Vander Vegt | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, I’m joined by Tyler Vander Vegt from DM Construction. Tyler’s story is a good reminder that construction careers don’t always start with some grand plan. His dad wasn’t even in construction. He was in corporate operations and equities. Then the 2008 crash hit, everything shifted, and they ended up finding a masonry business for sale on Craigslist. Yeah, Craigslist. That business was Dutch’s Masonry. Tyler came in a couple of year... | 34m 21s | ||||||
| 12/23/25 | #124 The Former Marine Teaching Construction Companies How Leadership Actually Gets Built With Wally Adamchik | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, we’re sitting down with Wally Adamchik, a leadership speaker, coach, author, and consultant who works closely with construction and infrastructure companies on the people side of the business. He grew up around construction, spent ten years in the Marine Corps, and now helps leadership teams develop the skills they’re rarely taught but constantly expected to have when the pressure’s on. A big part of this conversation is about ho... | 34m 51s | ||||||
| 12/16/25 | #123 Why This Contractor Built Fat-Finger Friendly Construction Software With James Baker | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Civil construction has communication and cost-control problems. Everyone knows it. Very few people actually try to fix it. That’s what led James Baker to build Varicon, a construction management software platform designed specifically for civil contractors. James didn’t come into tech chasing hype or investor buzz. He came into it frustrated. After years of working as a contractor for principals and administering contracts, he kept seei... | 32m 58s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | #122 From Code to Concrete: How an Ex-Computer Engineering Student Built SoCal's Fastest-Growing CM Firm With Vinay Reddy | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, I caught up with Vinay Reddy, a civil engineer who runs one of Southern California’s fastest-growing construction management and landscape architecture firms, RE Services. Vinay thought he had it figured out: computer engineering, then Silicon Valley. But after too many late nights in the lab and a humbling realisation that he just wasn’t cut out for code, he found himself standing in front of a drywall contractor at a Uni ca... | 32m 22s | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | #121 Building Fairer Payment Practices In The Construction Industry With Mark Ballinger | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I’m joined by Mark Ballinger from Payapps. Mark’s story isn’t what you’d expect. He came from finance and tech, landed in construction by accident, and found himself deep in one of the industry’s biggest headaches: getting paid on time. Now he leads strategy for Payapps, the Autodesk platform bringing builders and subbies on the same page when it comes to claims, variations, and cash flow. We talked about the tug-of-war over payme... | 35m 04s | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | #120 From CPA to Construction CEO With Joshua Smyser | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, we're sitting down with Josh Smyser, the owner of TNT Tuckpointing Building Restoration,LLC. Josh's journey is a powerful case study in how a completely different professional background can become your greatest business advantage. He was a certified public accountant (CPA) working for a major firm. But when a family tragedy struck, he was thrust back into the family trade business he never planned to run. So, how did he apply an... | 38m 26s | ||||||
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| 9/30/25 | #119 The $7,500 Framing Startup That Beat a Cult, Desperation, and the Grant Cardone Hype With Nate Carlisle | Joining us today is Nate Carlisle, the founder who turned a $7,500 bet into a multi-million dollar framing empire. But to understand how he built his business, you first need to understand what he had to leave behind. Nate grew up in a controlled, fundamentalist cult where entrepreneurship was discouraged and the outside world was off-limits. His story isn't just about business growth; it's a profound lesson in building personal and professional freedom from the ground up. He isn't afraid to ... | 30m 31s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 | #118 The Corporate Safety Net is a Myth: One Founder's Gamble on Real Stability With Anna Verghese | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Joining us to unpack this bold idea is Anna Verghese, Founding Director of client-side consultancy Cerulean. Anna has a radically different view on stability, and she's built her entire career on it: true security isn't given to you by a company, it's built by you through calculated risks, global experience, and betting on yourself. Sharing how her journey from massive projects in Dubai to landing in Australia with no job offer led to a... | 32m 03s | ||||||
| 9/9/25 | #117 The Accidental Founder Who Went From Credit Card Payroll to an 80-Person Team With Sean Rice | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, we're sitting down with Sean Rice from Proterra Group - an accidental founder who never set out to run an 80-person business. Starting with a single 6-month contract and a personal credit card used to cover his first payroll, Sean has navigated market crashes, painful downsizing, and the complexities of bringing in - and later buying out - business partners. Sharing how he built a business serving 45+ local councils witho... | 38m 34s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | #116 Construction Isn’t For Everyone – How One Contractor Defied Expectations and Took Over the Family Business With Nic Parish | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, Jordan sits down with Nic Parish - a man who went from designing chairs in college to co-owning and running his family's heavy civil, trucking, and dumpster businesses in Mississippi. But this isn't your typical "third-generation success story." Nic's grandfather famously sat him down and begged him: "Please don't do this. Go do anything but... | 33m 41s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | #115 500 Bids to 4X Profit: The Counterintuitive Strategy That Saved This 3rd-Gen Contracting Business With Kyra Nylor | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction podcast! After a chaotic few weeks of scheduling nightmares (thanks, end-of-financial-year madness), we’re finally back with a banger of an episode. I sat down with Kyra Naylor - CEO of Naylor Commercial Interiors and third-generation leader of her family’s Dallas-based architectural finishes biz. Kyra’s story isn’t your typical "grew up in the trades" tale. She was the kid in cowboy boots translating for supers on job sites, detoured throug... | 39m 03s | ||||||
| 7/8/25 | #114 From Liverpool FC Trainee to 30-Year Construction Boss With Kazan Hadden | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! At 14, Kazan Hadden was training with Liverpool FC's youth squad. By 18? Injured, broke, and living in a caravan. Today, he's the founder of Nickaz Australia - a construction business that's thrived for three decades without ever chasing tenders. We're digging into how getting cut from football taught him more than any business degree, why he keeps 15 full-time trades when everyone else subcontracts, how childhood trauma became his un... | 37m 01s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 | #113 How Live-Site Builders Are Surviving the Trade & Quality Crisis With Todd Bacon | This week we're sitting down with Todd Bacon, Managing Director of Central Coast-based Collaborative Construction Solutions. Todd's got some strong opinions about our industry, and he's not holding back: from tradespeople who've never seen standard installation guides to clients accepting mediocre work, we're facing a quality crisis that starts with training and ends with expectations. Sharing how CCS operates differently, this episode takes us inside the challenging world of live-site cons... | 34m 40s | ||||||
| 6/19/25 | #112 How Buying a Civil Earthworks Business Became This Builder's Secret to Scaling to 8 Figures With Kane Keefe | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! For Episode 112, we’re sitting down with Kane Keefe, the visionary Managing Director behind Alliance Building Construction. Based in Toowoomba but operating across Queensland, Kane took the unconventional path - launching during COVID’s toughest months, then systematically purchasing complementary businesses like a 30-year-old earthworks company rather than chasing traditional tenders. He reflects on this bold journey, sharing how buyin... | 29m 49s | ||||||
| 6/10/25 | #111 How One Bootstrapped Founder Built a $10M Screw Piling Business and Outplayed Big Contractors With Brodie Haughton | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, we’re sitting down with Brodie Haughton, Managing Director of Solidity, a company that’s redefining foundation engineering with screw piling. Now, screw piling might sound like a niche dark art (because it is), but Brodie’s taken this overlooked corner of construction and turned it into a multi-million-dollar business. And he did it by creating demand, not just fighting for scraps in an existing market. This is a master... | 30m 33s | ||||||
| 5/21/25 | #110 From Army Vet to Multi-Million Dollar Family Business in High-Stakes Ground Stabilization With James Rutledge | Welcome Back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week, we chatted with James Rutledge, the gritty founder of Rutledge Drilling - a family owned and operated geotechnical drilling and stabilisation company. From dodging cyclones to rebuilding after floods, James knows what it takes to stabilize both crumbling hillsides and a growing business. He shares his unorthodox journey from Army vet to underground miner to high-risk license trainer and why he finally decided to stop ma... | 31m 42s | ||||||
| 5/14/25 | #109 From Chippy to 8-Figure Builder Beating 2025’s Worst Odds With James Elliot | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week, we’re sitting down with James Elliott, owner of Red Dog Group and a UK-born builder who traded drizzle for Queensland downpours (and somehow still came out on top). James has strong opinions about our industry, and he’s not sugar coating them: Builders are tired of being the scapegoat for every delay and price hike, overregulation is choking growth, and if we don’t start making trades appealing again, we’re in serious tro... | 33m 33s | ||||||
| 5/6/25 | #108 Degree vs. Experience: What It Takes to Succeed in Construction Business With Brendan Nielsen | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. This week’s guest is Brendan Nielsen, the founder of JC Engineers. Brendan’s not your typical engineer. He’s spent years getting his boots dirty on site and knows firsthand that there’s a big difference between what’s drawn on paper and what actually works in the real world. In this episode, he shares how he went from working in the industry to backing himself and starting JC Engineers, a business built on solving real problems with the... | 33m 25s | ||||||
| 4/29/25 | #107 Tendering Nightmares, Cold Calls, and Building a Cladding Business from Scratch With Joseph Wainwright | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Joining us today is Joseph Wainwright, the founder of Wainwright Facades, a successful cladding company based in Canberra. Joseph’s journey is one of hustle, persistence, and overcoming challenges that many in the industry can relate to. From leaving school at 16 and working odd jobs in the UK, to navigating the ups and downs of starting a business from scratch, Joseph opens up about the reality of building a company in today’s market. ... | 39m 49s | ||||||
| 4/22/25 | #106 More Than Just Demolition: What Purpose Looks Like After Success With Anthony Braile | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. You know that moment in business where everything’s ticking along nicely, and instead of finally relaxing, your brain goes, Cool cool cool… But what now? In this episode, Jordan catches up with Anthony Braile, the Managing Director of Combined Demolition, and they get real about his wild ride from being a chippy on the tools to running a successful demolition company. They chat about how he spotted a gap in the industry, built something... | 32m 50s | ||||||
| 4/15/25 | #105 No Regrets Starting Early - From Rookie at 21 to Construction Business Owner With Ethan Chittick | Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast. Starting a construction business at just 21 is no small feat especially in an industry known for its challenges and curveballs. In this episode, I sit down with Ethan Chittick, Founder of B&E Built and Commercial Carpentry. We chat about what it was really like getting his business off the ground at such a young age and the lessons he's learned along the way. We dive into the highs and lows of running a construction company, includi... | 29m 30s | ||||||
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2 placements across 2 markets.