Not a coach who read a book about business. Twenty years a carpenter, over ten of them running my own, and teams of more than a hundred blokes at the peak. I run a fencing crew on the Gold Coast right now, this year, with the same payroll and the same tax bill and the same Monday mornings you have got. When I tell you what I would do, it is because I am doing it.
I have also been the employee climbing inside someone else's business, and the bloke on an ABN chasing his own rate. Whichever of those you are right now, I have been there, and not that long ago.
Some blokes come to me about the business. Plenty end up talking about the other stuff, because for someone running a trade the two are the same thing. Both are fine. Start with twenty minutes and see if I am any use to you.
You do not have to arrive with it tidied up. Most people start with one of these.
You are quoting at 9pm, invoicing on Sunday, and the only person who can do anything is you. This is the most common one and it is fixable.
Full books, empty account. Usually it is your margin, your quoting, or one customer you are far too dependent on. I found out I had one worth 51 percent of my wins.
Hiring, firing, the bloke who is good but poison, the one you cannot afford to lose. How to pay people so they stay and how to know when to let go.
Everyone says do it, nobody says how. Which jobs to hand over first, what breaks when you do, and what it actually costs you to step back.
The tax bill that keeps you awake. Missing your kids' stuff. Whether to keep going at all. I have sat in every one of those and I will not pretend I have not.
Not the hype. Which parts of your week a machine can genuinely take off you, and which parts it cannot. That is what I built my own systems for.
I have got no letters after my name. What I have got is twenty years on the tools, a crew who rely on me, a business that has been up and been very much down, and a fair idea of what it feels like when the whole thing is sitting on your chest at 3am.
If you want someone to talk straight with you about your work and your head, that I can do. If what you need is proper mental health care, I will tell you that plainly and I will not take your money. That is not me being modest, it is me knowing what I am for.
Do not book a coaching call. Ring one of these instead. They are free, they are open all night, and there is no shame in any of it.
I would rather you spent $99 and found out I am useful than spent a lot more and found out I am not. Nearly everybody should start at the first one.
The cheap way to find out if I am any use to you. Twenty minutes, you tell me where you are stuck, I tell you what I would actually do. Most people get one thing out of it they can go and use that week.
A proper hour. Where the money is leaking, what to systemise first, how to get off the tools without the wheels falling off, or whatever is actually keeping you up. We go through your real numbers, not theory.
Me in your corner all month. Text or ring me through the week when something comes up, plus a weekly one-on-one to keep things actually moving. This is for people who are done talking about it.
All prices AUD. If you are an employee rather than an owner, mentoring starts at $120 for 30 minutes on the employees page.
These are public comments off my Instagram, from people who took something I put out and used it. Every one links to the actual post.
"Definitely helped me mate, I am officially out on my own Landscaping now after taking some of your advice."
"I'll be the first to say I really appreciate your support. You've been like a big brother in the industry, always showing us the way. Thanks heaps mate."
"I turned 60 this year and I love the content u put out. I've certainly taken on board and applied to my business quite a bit of the great advice u give."
Twenty years a carpenter. Over ten of those running my own business. The three doors on this site are the three I have walked through myself, in that order.
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