Toolbox for the Trades

Live Podcast Interviews with Top Industry Contractors

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Operations • Management • Residential • 24 minutes

Why Operational Organization Is Your Best Exit Strategy

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Operations • Management • Commercial • 29 minutes

Two Hats, One Platform: How a Commercial Contractor Runs Everything From $500 Service Calls to $1 Million Projects

David Helms runs ServiceTitan across two brands under one roof: here's how he filters new ...

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Business Tips • AI • Management • 48 minutes

Life After Live Events: How to Turn Post-Conference Energy into Real Profits

Ellen Rohr breaks down what to do with all those ideas from Pantheon, from delegating with...

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Residential • Business Tips • Industry Insights • 21 minutes

Capturing the 80%: How SmartAC’s Gen-2 Targets Non-Membership Homeowners

Eighty percent of homeowners say no to memberships. That's the number that just triggered ...

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Business Tips • Residential • Management • 25 minutes

Calling it Quits: The Real Cost of Family Business Ownership

When two mowers died the day the rain stopped, Brittany Burgess and her husband faced a qu...

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Industry Insights • Residential • Management • 40 minutes

Healing the Hustle: A Guide to Confronting Burnout in the Trades

Nate Agentis built a thriving plumbing business and nearly lost himself doing it. His 'bal...

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Industry Insights • Business Tips • Residential • Commercial • 33 minutes

All Within My Hands: Metallica’s Mission to Close the Skilled Labor Gap in the Trades

From $100K at 10 schools to $19M across 93 colleges — and the band pays every dollar of ov...

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Australia • AI • Industry Insights • Residential • Commercial • 35 minutes

Australian State of the Trades Report 2026: Operational Realities for Aussie Contractors

57% of Australian trade businesses named accounts receivable their biggest pain point in 2...

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Business Tips • Operations • Residential • Commercial • 30 minutes

Solving the Three Layers of Predictive Maintenance in Commercial Trades

Two contractors quote the same maintenance plan at the same price. The one who delivers th...

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Management • Operations • Business Tips • 25 minutes

Why Over-Engineered System Implementations Fail and Simple Data Scales

Ryan Nelson says tracking every micro-cost in your estimating kits is exactly what causes ...

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Industry Insights • Operations • Business Tips • 24 minutes

The Three Pillars of Roofing Growth: Organic, Greenfield, and Acquisition

Learn the three pillars of roofing growth—organic, greenfield, and acquisition.

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Management • Business Tips • Operations • 37 minutes

Say “Yes” and Figure It Out: How to Turn Customer Needs Into Recurring Revenue

Tony Lisa on scaling from $5M to $10M: why acquisitions require more than capital and how ...

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Industry Trends • Management • Operations • 33 minutes

Fuel, Fertilizer, Frustrations: How to Know Your Margins in June, Not December

Aspire's Jon Gohl and Travis Wills explain how landscapers can protect margins mid-season—...

About the Show

Toolbox for the Trades is a podcast where top service professionals share the tips, tricks, and tactics they use to succeed in their industry. Hosted by Jackie Aubel and Amanda Salvatore, this podcast is brought to you by ServiceTitan—the leading home and commercial field service software.

Episodes will feature stories and strategies to help contractors grow and scale their service business.

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