The One Decision That Changes a Home Improvement Business with Brian Kaskavalciyan

Hi, everybody.

Brian Gottlieb here with True Coach, and we have a really, really fun guest today, one of my dear friends and a mentor to so many people in this industry, Brian Kaskavalci.

And Brian, thanks so much for joining us.

Appreciate it.

Thanks for having me, Brian.

I think about all the things that you have your fingers in, and it's a lot.

You make such an impact in this industry.

You've got The Wealthy Contractor, and I, I hope I didn't miss any of these.

You've got The Wealthy Contractor.

You've got, really, a, a really cool industry event called Accelerate Live.

You have your Success Society.

That's, that's a lot of impact.

I, I would like to know, you know, why do you do what you do? What motivates you?

You know, um, Brian, you know my story.

I was, you know, I worked my ass off for 16 years.

I built five companies, and it all came crashing down.

And, uh, w- my first motivation was, "I gotta figure this thing out,"

[laughs]

"this business thing out, and I've gotta do it right." And so at 40 years old, uh, uh, you know, we had to rebuild.

Um, if it wasn't for my partner in crime and, and, uh, and wife, Addie, uh, I'm not sure where we would be, but, you know, she was like, "Okay, you know, let's go do this." And so, you know, we started a business in the industry, and I got to get behind the scenes of, I mean, literally hundreds of companies.

I mean, I had the good fortune of coming out to Tundra Land, God, 10 years ago, when you were still, uh, you know, I mean, a relatively smaller company, not what-

Yeah, yeah

... you grew into.

So I got to get behind the scenes of a lot of companies, and I, and I saw what worked and what didn't work.

And, uh, and so, you know, at first, it, it was just all about h- how do, how do we build a business for ourselves, um, that's going to take us where we want, wanted to go? And then after we kind of accomplished that to, to, to a big degree, I...