A sale-ready planning session for owners who keep chasing the next shiny thing.
Caleb Allman and Tanya Dalton keep this conversation centered on a practical problem for contractor owners: how to work backward from a hoped-for sale in five years.

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Real business talk for working contractors.
Kid Contractor Podcast with Caleb Auman talks to green industry, construction, and business people about the working parts of a contracting company. The useful bits come through real owner problems: messy seasons, weak systems, pricing fear, marriage pressure, hiring complaints, and the discipline needed to grow.
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Kid Contractor Podcast with Caleb Auman is built for the owner-operator side of the trades. It talks about contracting as a real business, with crews, equipment, pricing, stress, customers, spouses, and seasons that can overwhelm even a company that looks successful from the outside. The show’s center of gravity is the green industry and hardscape world, but the lessons often land more broadly for small business owners. It moves quickly. A sponsor mention may sit beside a sharp point about leadership, and a guest story may turn into a practical question about what changed, what broke, and what the owner should do next. Recent episodes spend a lot of time on systems. Growth is treated less like a motivational problem and more like an operating problem: sales systems, production planning, financial targets, accountability, and roles that can survive a busy spring. Pricing is another recurring pressure point. The show pushes contractors to understand their numbers, hold their rates, and use data instead of guessing their way through fear. It also looks at people problems without much softness. Hiring complaints, weak leadership, and team frustration are framed as issues an owner may need to own before blaming the labor market. The conversations are not only about the shop. Episodes on marriage and business stress bring the personal cost of success into view, especially for couples trying to run a company together. Marketing gets a grounded treatment too, with discussion of brand, trust, and standing out when landscapers claim to be the best. Productivity shows up as choice management, quarterly focus, and working backward from a larger goal rather than chasing every shiny idea. There is also room for recession talk and preparing for tougher economic weather. The show is informal, sometimes messy, and often sponsor-heavy. That looseness is part of the point. It sounds close to the contractor community it serves, and its best moments come when business advice feels tied to actual field problems rather than generic entrepreneurship language.
Made for: For green industry, hardscape, landscaping, and construction business owners who want practical help with growth, pricing, crews, leadership, and family pressure. It especially fits operators who are already busy but need better systems.
What sets it apart: The show keeps contractor business advice close to the field: rates, books, job sites, spouses, equipment, and owner accountability all stay in the same conversation. Its informal interview style makes the lessons feel lived-in rather than seminar-polished.
A show focusing on a wide range of contractors from the Green Industry to General Contractors and beyond. Your host Caleb, runs a successful 7 figure business with his wife Brittany, and has over 20 years in the industry. "The Kid" has learned some valuable lessons he wants to share with you. The principles discussed will energize and empower you to crush your goals.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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A sale-ready planning session for owners who keep chasing the next shiny thing.
Caleb Allman and Tanya Dalton keep this conversation centered on a practical problem for contractor owners: how to work backward from a hoped-for sale in five years.
A practical look at how software and payroll start carrying more of the load for the owner.
Caleb Allman and Brian Brown spend the conversation on the unglamorous mechanics that keep a contractor business moving: Lake Tahoe geography, a two-state operation, and the software choices that keep office work from piling up.
A grounded look at the family pressure behind a seven-figure business.
Caleb Allman and Brittany frame a seven-figure business as something built in the same hours as homeschooling, marriage, and the ordinary work of keeping a household steady.
A live ConExpo discussion turns seasonal sales pressure into a grounded test of what a growing contractor is willing to take on.
Rapid growth is weighed in the uneasy stretch between a thin early-season pipeline and the urge to keep every slot filled. Recorded live from ConExpo and Con Ag in Las Vegas, the conversation follows Caleb Allman and Brittany as they return to a sales choice that can shape the…
A candid contractor-business conversation about the decisions owners postpone and the moment they finally act.
Putting off a decision can become its own kind of drag, and this episode centers on the point where a business owner finally chooses to move. From the mobile Company Cam Studios at Las Vegas's Aria Hotel during ConExpo 2026, Caleb and Brittany tie that pressure to hiring…
A familiar question about doing things right becomes a practical cue for choosing powerfully and finding joy.
The episode takes a small everyday question, "Am I doing this right?", and turns it into a clear study of judgment, stress, and change. Its strongest material comes from the guest tracing that phrase back to childhood chores: washing the car, cutting the grass, vacuuming, and…
A thoughtful look at how success can raise the paycheck while quietly changing the feel of home.
Business success lands here as something a marriage feels at home, not just something a company measures. Brad and Tammy Miller look at how work pressure can reshape a relationship, especially when a job starts offering more appreciation than home does.

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Host Caleb Auman interviews serial entrepreneur Dwayne Kerrigan at the Leanscaper Operations Intensive in Cape Coral, Florida.
Host Caleb Allman interviews Brad and Tammy Miller, his personal marriage coaches from Tandem Marriage, about how business success can strain relationships.
Tommy Cole of LeanScaper tells Caleb Auman about a roughly $2 million Dallas estate project from about 2009 where a creek flood left a skid steer "completely underwater." A crew member later drove a Bobcat through a protected native prairie meadow the client had said never to touch, and Cole responded by apologizing without excuses.
This episode features an interview with Sam Gembel discussing how to build a leadership culture beyond just financial incentives in the green industry and construction business.
The host shares a personal story of realizing that business growth requires scalable systems and leadership, not just hard work, and introduces a new program called Built for Contractors to help others implement effective frameworks.
This episode features marriage coaches Brad and Tammy Miller discussing how business stress affects relationships and offers practical advice for improving marriage while running a successful business.
This episode features an interview with contractor expert Andy Mulder, focusing on professional pricing strategies and business lessons in the construction industry.
This episode focuses on using data to justify and hold firm on pricing rates in the green industry and construction business.
This episode features Diego discussing how landscapers can transform from selling basic services to becoming the trusted brand in their market through a system of beliefs and expressions rather than traditional marketing.
Caleb tries to sound professional and knows it is slipping.
This episode discusses how to prepare for an economic recession and turn it into a business opportunity, featuring insights from industry professionals in construction and green industries.
Brian Brown brings the Tahoe shop talk first.
Kid Contractor Podcast Ep 687, "Successful but Broke?
Caleb Allman and Brittany are recording live from Con Expo, Con Ag, 2026 in Las Vegas.
From ConExpo 2026 in Las Vegas, Caleb Allman says business forced him to become outgoing and exposed how low self-respect kept him charging $16 instead of $20.
This episode features an interview with Nick Bartolo, founder of Essential Partners, discussing business growth strategies, sustainability practices, and exit planning for entrepreneurs in the construction and green industries.
This episode features an interview with Marty Grunder, a landscaping business expert, discussing the distinction between coaching and controlling in leadership to help entrepreneurs break the 'control freak' habit.
This episode features an interview with George Urvari from Knowledge Tree Consulting, discussing whether a team is an asset or liability in business, with insights from the green industry and construction sectors.