Plumbing & HVAC Hustle Podcast

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Real growth talk for trade operators.

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Plumbing & HVAC Hustle Podcast talks with contractors, operators, and service-business builders about growth in plumbing, HVAC, and home services. The conversations stay close to pricing, follow-up, leadership, software, and the messy jump from small operation to larger company.

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About Plumbing & HVAC Hustle Podcast

Plumbing & HVAC Hustle Podcast is a trade-business show with dirt under its fingernails. Its center of gravity is plumbing, HVAC, and home-service ownership, especially the stretch where a company is no longer tiny but not yet safely structured. The conversations are interview-driven and practical. They often start with a big headline, like being stuck at $5 million, pushing toward $10 million, or turning a plumbing apprenticeship into a major home-service business, then slow down into the decisions underneath. Pricing comes up a lot. So does fear around charging properly, and the show returns to the idea that customers respond to value, experience, and trust more than owners sometimes believe. Growth is treated as useful but dangerous. A company that reaches $10 million too quickly may have bigger problems than one that got there with systems already in place. That tension gives the show its edge. It is not selling scale as a clean victory lap. It asks what the volume does to managers, processes, sales follow-up, and the owner’s time. Technology is another regular thread, from Hatch, ServiceTitan, LMS tools, gross margin pricing tools, Claude, ChatGPT, AI voice, and follow-up automation to the question of how teams actually adopt new tools without freezing up. Marketing gets the same grounded treatment. Episodes talk about web chat, SEO, paid search, text-message tone, content creation, influencer attention, and the practical value of views in a local trade business. The guest stories widen the frame without leaving the category. There are apprenticeships, personal turns, private equity exits, best-practices groups, creator friendships, and the steady pressure of building people while building revenue. The show can be blunt and occasionally rowdy. Still, its useful pattern is simple: let an operator tell the story, pull out the lesson, and bring it back to trucks, calls, pricing, teams, and customer experience. It is best for owners who want specifics instead of inspiration dressed up as strategy.

Made for: Built for plumbing, HVAC, and home-service owners, leaders, marketers, and teams trying to grow without losing control of the operation. It especially suits operators dealing with pricing, booking, software, follow-up, and management pressure.

What sets it apart: The show separates itself by keeping business advice tied to trade-company realities: calls, margins, booked jobs, managers, and customer experience. It lets casual shop-floor stories breathe, then turns them into operating lessons.

In their own words

Guests on leadership, sales, and marketing. HVAC and Plumbing podcast for the growth-mode HVAC and Plumbing business owners, leaders and business development teams.

As heard by us

Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

It turns home-service growth into concrete conversations about leadership, marketing execution, operating systems, and ownership decisions.

Tim Brown keeps the conversation close to the operating decisions behind plumbing and HVAC companies. His guest interviews move from content creation and sales follow-up to branch expansion, internal promotion, software choices, and ownership transitions.

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Million-view plumbing videos meet the question you should ask: what do those views buy?

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to hear Tim Brown ask a plumbing creator what online attention does for his business
to make your follow-up texts sound like a person wrote them, with examples you can use

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HVAC and plumbing growthpricing and customer valuesales follow-up messagingAI tools for home servicesbooking rates and lead handlingServiceTitan and operations softwarecontent creation for contractorsprivate equity and exits

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Stuck at $5M? The Brutal Truth About Why You Won’t ScaleApr 15, 2026

A practical look at how growth gets messy when the next step is not standardized.

The episode stays on the shop floor where scale actually gets awkward: hiring, software, lead flow, training, margins, and the plumbing that has to connect all of it.

What Makes Sales Follow Up Successful? (Words + Tone)Mar 11, 2026

Good follow-up sounds conversational, human, and just a little playful.

Tim Brown and Ryan Finn stay on the practical side of messaging, and that keeps the episode moving. Their point is straightforward: text should sound conversational, email can carry a little more formality, and a lightly playful tone can make a message feel human instead of…

From Plumber Apprentice to $100/M a Yr Home Service BizMar 4, 2026

A trades exit story with real numbers and a plain look at how rollover deals work.

This episode tracks a plumbing apprentice's rise to a hundred million dollar a year home service business, then shifts into what ownership changes look like once the numbers get real.

What is The Value of Views? Plumbing Influencer SharesFeb 25, 2026

Views only matter here when they can be turned into leverage, access, or learning.

This plumbing-and-HVAC conversation lands on a plain business question: what is online attention worth? Leon Garrett of ENCO Plumbing and Drains talks through how he came into the trade by chance, how he began making content, and why he keeps measuring views against something…

Green-fielding a New Market as an HVAC + Plumbing CompanyFeb 18, 2026

A grounded growth story about greenfielding a market, hiring well, and making the hard calls that come with scaling.

The conversation stays anchored in the practical work of greenfielding a new HVAC and plumbing market. Blaine Clement of Preferred Home Services traces how the branch started in June 2021, after a deal to buy a local company fell apart at the closing table and the owners chose…

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Episodes

How Wealthy Business Owners Legally Pay Less in Taxes

The Next Billion-Dollar Home Service Trend?

How Military Leadership Creates Better HVAC Technicians

Claude for HVAC & Plumbing + Constraints of a Tight Market

I Almost Went Broke Being the Cheapest HVAC Company

Why Some Techs Produce 3x More and How to Build That Team

The Hard Shit You’re Avoiding is The Breakthrough

Plumbing Department Systems, Culture & Processes

Stuck at $5M? The Brutal Truth About Why You Won’t Scale

How Smart Contractors Can Raise Prices & Still Build Predictable Revenue

$10M HVAC CEO Back in the Trenches: What He Found

AI Voice & Followup for Home Services (w/ Sameday AI + 'Rusty Bricks')

From $5M to $12M Fast: Call The Whale’s Explosive Formula

What Makes Sales Follow Up Successful? (Words + Tone)

From Plumber Apprentice to $100/M a Yr Home Service Biz

What is The Value of Views? Plumbing Influencer Shares

Green-fielding a New Market as an HVAC + Plumbing Company

3 Top HVAC Sales Mistakes (& How to Fix Them) w/ Jason Walker

Why & How to Give Your Key Employees Phantom Equity (w/ Jenna Toon of Reins)

Why Consistency Will Make You Money & New Conference

The Perfect HVAC Marketing Budget for 2026

How to Build a Call Center for Plumbing, HVAC, & Home Services

When a Marketer Starts a Home Service Business

When & How to Step Out of Sales & Sales Leadership

The Blind Plumber on How He Grew to 42 Trucks

From Stalled at $3M to $10M From This One Shift

19 Year Old Sells $2M First Year in HVAC

Small vs. Big Markets: Benefits & Drawbacks for HVAC & Plumbing (Brandon Brown)

$8M Plumber on Handling Plumbing Sales Pricing Objections w/ Jeff Cronin

Succession Planning in a Plumbing Company (w/ Mike Prencavage, The Family Plumber)

Lessons Going from Plumber to Sales Manager (Mike Braun)

How to Start a Plumbing Company + Get it To $1M

Laura Kelly Shares 7 Keys to a Kickass Culture.

First 5 Priorities Doubling a Small Plumbing Biz w/ Nicholas Sambrick

Don't Scale Chaos: A Clear Path to $10M /w Chuck Staszkiewicz

Growing an HVAC Company on TikTok w/ Derek Cormier

Selling HVAC Online Vs. Selling in Person (Pro's + Con's)

How to Kill Your HVAC Company in 16 Weeks

Can’t Find Plumbers or Techs? (How to Fix It)

How to Scale a Plumbing Business Down to Get More Profitable

7 Mistakes Adding HVAC to a Plumbing Company

$8M Plumber Shares His Plumbing Sales Process

Thomas Pears on HVAC History, Badges + Trolling HVAC Facebook

HVAC Influencers vs. Industry Leaders + Scaling Habits

HVAC Influencers vs Industry Leaders + Scaling Habits

HVAC Employee Engagement + Executive Presence w/ Mary Beldon-McGrath

Grow Your HVAC Company by Getting Uncomfortable w/ Jason Walker

3 Signs of HVAC Lead Addiction w/ Weldon Long

Unfair Advantages of Working with a Google Specialized Team w/ Sydnee Olsen

The No-BS Blueprint Behind Tuck & Howell’s Massive Leap

10X Your Home Service Leads w/ Tommy Mello (Home Services Lead Generation)

Referring Your Competitors to Grow (Pro's + Con's) w/ Eric Thomas

Confessions of a Coach: How Smart Contractors Get Stuck (and How to Escape)

Branding 101 for Home Service Businesses w/ Dan Antonelli

How to Get Leads From Youtube for Home Services

Why You Should Join a Mastermind or Peer Group

Leveraging Influencers & Community Leaders in Home Services

Community Marketing for HVAC: Creating The Go-To Local Brand

Best Marketing KPI's for HVAC + Plumbing Businesses

Social Media HACKS That Actually Work

How to Respond to Negative Reviews & Customer Feedback

HVAC Sales: Words That Work / Joe Crisara

Gene Slade: HVAC Villain Or Genius? (Uncensored Conversation)

Marcus Sheridan on Price Transparency in Home Services

How to Do Community Marketing for Home Services w/ Stephanie Allen

What to Do After a 9 Figure Exit (Chris Lee Sold a $340M Biz)

HVAC E-Commerce (You vs. The Giants)

Why + How to Show HVAC Pricing Online- w/EDEN

RUNNING Your HVAC Company Like a PRO in 2025 w/ Trent Lowenstein

Innovate Your Estimates, Invoices, and Payments Processes

Tommy Mello On How To Prioritize Growth Versus Profitability