Execution talk for growth-minded contractors.
Big Stud Podcast is a blunt business coaching show built around contractors, business owners, and leaders trying to keep growing without losing control. Its episodes move between interviews on scaling, financing, culture, and data, and candid internal conversations about discipline, friendship, stress, and responsibility.
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Big Stud Podcast is a business coaching show with a narrow practical center and a wider emotional range than its title suggests. The interviews are aimed squarely at contractors, business owners, and people who want to grow without pretending growth is clean. It talks about winning, but usually through the mechanics underneath it. Culture. Accountability. Financing. Lead flow. Data. Sales process. Family-business control. The strongest conversations stay close to how companies actually scale: what leaders measure, where handoffs break, why plateaus happen, and how confidence can exist without entitlement. Michael Hoy’s episode frames growth as an execution problem supported by culture and a detailed view of the funnel. Justin Hatcher’s episode gets into contractor financing, website education, homeowner expectations, and keeping options simple enough to convert. Vince Nardo’s episode centers on the shift from small-business habits to enterprise structure inside a multi-generational family company. Alongside those interviews, the show runs recurring, less formal conversations with Mike Claudio and Sam Kaufman. Those episodes are more diary than seminar. They capture fatigue after travel, hotel-room recordings, shifting roles, revenue pressure, friendship, vulnerability, and the awkward work of talking about emotions before they distort leadership. Mike Claudio also uses solo episodes to examine being a CEO, father, and husband while trying to maintain health, consistency, and responsibility. The register is intense and impatient with easy answers. It is not a polished management lecture. It is closer to a field report from someone trying to operate, heal, build, sell, parent, and keep promises at the same time. For the right listener, that candor is the value: tactical business conversation tied to the human cost of staying in the arena.
Made for: Built for contractors, small-business owners, and leadership teams who want practical growth conversations with emotional honesty attached. It especially suits listeners who relate to sales pressure, scaling plateaus, and the loneliness of responsibility.
What sets it apart: The show mixes contractor-specific business mechanics with unsanded conversations about leadership fatigue, friendship, vulnerability, and family pressure. It feels less like a classroom and more like an operating room for real-time decisions.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike Claudia turns growth, accountability and contractor economics into practical questions grounded in how operators actually run their companies.
Big Stud Podcast keeps asking what changes when a growing business can no longer run on instinct. Mike Claudia interviews guests about scaling family companies, building accountability and reading operational data, while conversations with Sam Kaufman bring the same questions…
A hotel-room recording makes business discipline feel less like a keynote and more like your Tuesday.
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Michael Hoy traces accountability through the sales funnel, from a customer name to an installation.
Michael Hoy describes a home improvement business with nine brands and more than 300 locations, then gets into the numbers that help its people execute.
Mike Claudia and Sam Kaufman talk candidly about rejection, closeness and staying open with a friend.
Mike Claudia and Sam Kaufman talk about friendship in terms that feel personal to both of them. Sam remembers being shy as a child, even though he seemed outgoing later.
Justin Hatcher explains how contractors can introduce financing without overwhelming homeowners.
Justin Hatcher and the Big Stud Podcast host consider how much a contractor should explain about price and financing before meeting a homeowner. The host weighs whether budget ranges help customers and suggests that quoting a price by phone can devalue a consultation.
Vince Nardo describes how growth changed the work inside a family company.
Vince Nardo describes how work changed as a family company grew. When it was small, everyone did a bit of everything. Eventually, accounts receivable and accounts payable became separate functions.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
The host introduces a special interview episode where he is interviewed by his former coach about his personal journey and business lessons.
A CEO shares his journey of balancing business, family, and personal well-being, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability and consistency.
The host introduces part two of an interview with his former coach, discussing his personal journey and the impact of his wife on his life.
Two business coaches discuss the emotional impact of their Q1 kickoff event and the importance of starting the year with intentionality.
Host interviews Michael Hoy, vice chair of a conglomerate with 300+ home improvement locations, discussing his journey and lessons in building a massive business.
Big Stud Podcast co-hosts Mike Claudia and Sam Kaufman record an unscripted, highly personal episode about the emotional cost of running a business and sustaining a real business partnership.
Big Stud Podcast host Mike Claudia interviews Justin Hatcher, co-founder of One and Fun and recently merged with One Click Contractor, about the strategic use of financing in home improvement sales.
Mike Claudio and Sam record from Matt's hotel room while evaluating ads, sales performance, and a recent WinRate setback.
Host interviews Vince Nardo about growing a multi-generational family business from startup to scale.
The host vents about recent overwhelming stress and burnout while maintaining a motivational, no-excuses attitude.
The hosts discuss their busy travel schedule and commitment to showing up and doing the work, previewing a raw recap style of content.