Nick Cavuoto on Leadership, Mindset, and Building Something Bigger Than Yourself

Welcome back to Clean for Profit.

Guys, we got a bit of a different one today, and I'm really, really excited for it.

So we have, in this episode, an interview with, uh, Dave Scribani, myself, and Dave and I's mutual coach, Nick Cavuoto.

Um, I took a trip out to Tennessee this February 2026 to visit, uh, Dave, and we recorded a bunch of in-person podcasts while we were there.

It was awesome, and we got to know each other.

Uh, for those who don't know, we met on Facebook.

We just met on the internet.

Uh, so, um, Dave was generous enough to have me over for the better part of a week and, uh, on the second to last day, we drove down to Nashville and we met up with our mutual coach, Nick Cavuoto, and filmed a podcast.

It was incredible.

Uh, the insight that I get every time I talk to Nick is invaluable and, um, I can truly say that, like, there's a lot of things that I've learned and done to grow the business over the last six months or so.

Uh, but Nick is the reason why I've taken those steps and actions.

Like my why is my family, my wife, my kids, et cetera.

Um, but the, the why for me in terms of like why I actually got up and started doing the things that I needed to do to grow my business is because Nick told me to.

[laughs] So, uh, I c- I would've been perfectly comfortable this time six months ago still being a solo operator and honestly I probably would've continued to do that.

Um, but because of Nick, um, you know, we're growing at a pace that is extremely rapid.

We're hiring our fourth employee soon.

Um, so I just, I wanted to say before anything, we say thank you in this podcast as well, but thank you to Nick and Dave for being such an invaluable support network.

Um, and, uh, yeah, these guys are, these guys are there for me and, and I hope I'm there for them in some capacity as well.

Um, one thing, one final note I just wanted to make before hopping into the podcast is that I am not the most technically savvy and prior to this I had never done an in-person, uh, podcast before.

Because of that, we had some technical, uh, difficulties.

I, uh, I-- We finished recording the podcast and I realized that, um, I had the wrong input for one of the microphones, uh, which it was very much so embarrassing.

Total amateur mistake.

Um, you can see me at the beginning of the podcast if you're watching the video podcast of just like-- And throughout the entire podcast.

It's like I'm my own producer, so doing an in-person podcast is really stressful and intensive.

Um, I need to dial that in way more before I do that again.

But anyways, um, Nick's audio was almost completely botched.

Luckily, both of us were recording on our iPhones and, uh, we were able to run the recording through kind of an AI audio polisher and it came out really, really good, like way better than I was expecting.

Um, so I'm really happy that that got saved.

But just as a heads up, there will be some kind of artifacts in the audio here and there, especially near the front end.

The introduction is a little bit, uh, botched where like it sounds like we're slurring words.

Um, that for the most part goes away after the first three minutes or so.

So my apologies for that Nick, Dave.

I suck.

I promise to suck less, uh, every single time we do this.

But, um, just a h- and one last shout out to Dave and Nick, man.

Thank you so much you guys for being such great friends.

I got so much value out of this conversation and I get value out of every conversation that I have with Nick and Dave so I am so happy that I'm able to share this podcast with you.

So without further ado, welcome Nick Cavuoto and Dave Scribani.

Welcome back to Clean for Profit.

Guys, we got a bit of a different one today, and I'm really, really excited for it.

So we have, in this episode, an interview with, uh, Dave Scribani, myself, and Dave and I's mutual coach, Nick Cavuoto.

Um, I took a trip out to Tennessee this February 2026 to visit, uh, Dave, and we recorded a bunch of in-person podcasts while we were there.

It was awesome, and we got to know each other.

Uh, for those who don't know, we met on Facebook.

We just met on the internet.

Uh, so, um, Dave was generous enough to have me over for the better part of a week and, uh, on the second to last day, we drove down to Nashville and we met up with our mutual coach, Nick Cavuoto, and filmed a podcast.

It was incredible.

Uh, the insight that I get every time I talk to Nick is invaluable and, um, I can truly say that, like, there's a lot of things that I've learned and done to grow the business over the last six months or so.

Uh, but Nick is the reason why I've taken those steps and actions.

Like my why is my family, my wife, my kids, et cetera.

Um, but the, the why for me in terms of like why I actually got up and started doing the things that I needed to do to grow my business is because Nick told me to.

[laughs] So, uh, I c- I would've been perfectly comfortable this time six months ago still being a solo operator and honestly I probably would've continued to do that.

Um, but because of Nick, um, you know, we're growing at a pace that is extremely rapid.

We're hiring our fourth employee soon.

Um, so I just, I wanted to say before anything, we say thank you in this podcast as well, but thank you to Nick and Dave for being such an invaluable support network.

Um, and, uh, yeah, these guys are, these guys are there for me and, and I hope I'm there for them in some capacity as well.

Um, one thing, one final note I just wanted to make before hopping into the podcast is that I am not the most technically savvy and prior to this I had never done an in-person, uh, podcast before.

Because of that, we had some technical, uh, difficulties.

I, uh, I-- We finished recording the podcast and I realized that, um, I had the wrong input for one of the microphones, uh, which it was very much so embarrassing.

Total amateur mistake.

Um, you can see me at the beginning of the podcast if you're watching the video podcast of just like-- And throughout the entire podcast.

It's like I'm my own producer, so doing an in-person podcast is really stressful and intensive.

Um, I need to dial that in way more before I do that again.

But anyways, um, Nick's audio was almost completely botched.

Luckily, both of us were recording on our iPhones and, uh, we were able to run the recording through kind of an AI audio polisher and it came out really, really good, like way better than I was expecting.

Um, so I'm really happy that that got saved.

But just as a heads up, there will be some kind of artifacts in the audio here and there, especially near the front end.

The introduction is a little bit, uh, botched where like it sounds like we're slurring words.

Um, that for the most part goes away after the first three minutes or so.

So my apologies for that Nick, Dave.

I suck.

I promise to suck less, uh, every single time we do this.

But, um, just a h- and one last shout out to Dave and Nick, man.

Thank you so much you guys for being such great friends.

I got so much value out of this conversation and I get value out of every conversation that I have with Nick and Dave so I am so happy that I'm able to share this podcast with you.

So without further ado, welcome Nick Cavuoto and Dave Scribani.