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Overcoming Hard Lessons on Insurance, Arson, and Bad Partnership Agreements with Jason Lee
Jason Lee runs Skyfrog Landscape, a $3M full-service design/build/maintenance company out of Gainesville, Florida, and sits down with host Jeffrey Scott to unpack a wild few years in business — including overcoming a building fire, being a FNGLA state chapter head,...
HR Leadership and People Solutions with Katie Magoon and Mitch Katz
As your landscape company grows, your people challenges evolve. In this episode, Mitch Katz sits down with Katie Magoon, owner of People Solutions Center, to discuss how HR can become a strategic advantage instead of just a compliance function. Katie and Mitch discuss...
LM150 Exposed: Why the Biggest Landscaping Companies Are Growing Fastest (And Some Are Shrinking) with Scott Hollister
Scott Hollister, Editor-in-Chief of Landscape Management Magazine (published by North Coast Media, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio), joins Jeffrey Scott to break down the 2026 LM150 — the industry's ranking of the 150 largest landscaping companies. This year's list...
Stop Chasing Competitors and Start Building a Category of One — Jeff Korhan’s Blueprint for Landscape Companies
Jeff Korhan, founder of Treemendous Landscape Company® (suburban Chicago) and now marketing strategist at TrueNature.com, brings over 20 years of hard-won experience running a residential design-build landscape company — and another decade helping green industry...
How AI Is Cutting Landscape Estimating Time by 70% — Inside Bobyard with Founder Michael Ding
If your estimators are buried in takeoffs, passing on bids because there just isn't enough time, or manually counting plants for hours on end — this episode is going to hit close to home. Jeffrey Scott sits down with Michael Ding, founder of Bobyard, a San...
Storytelling: A Leadership Superpower with Jeffrey Scott. Learn to Teach, Lead, and Inspire Through Stories
If you've ever fumbled through a presentation, relied too heavily on data slides, or watched your team's eyes glaze over mid-meeting — this episode is your fix. Jeffrey Scott breaks down why storytelling is the most underrated leadership skill in the landscape...
From Door Knocking to $20M+: Troy Clogg’s Blueprint for Building a Landscape Empire The Right Way
Troy Clogg, Founder of Troy K. Clogg Landscape Associates, based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, sits down with Jeffrey Scott to share the unfiltered story behind building a $20 million landscape and snow business from the ground up. Troy started the way most of us do...
Building a Growth Machine: A Landscape Founder’s Raw Take on Leadership with Ivan Katz
In this episode, Jeffrey Scott sits down with Ivan Katz, founder of Great Lakes Landscape Design just outside Detroit, Michigan. Ivan’s been in the game for 37 years, but he’s moving like he’s just getting started. They dive into four surprise questions—from what he...
Inside the Dual Leadership Structure at Great Lakes Landscape Design, with Desiree Bouchard & Ellen Moore
In this episode, Jeffrey Scott sits down with Desiree Bouchard, Integrator and General Manager, and Ellen Moore, Director of Continuous Improvement — both from Great Lakes Landscape Design in the Detroit, Michigan area. These two have built one of the most intentional...
Beyond the Backyard: A Successful Pivot Into Home Building & Renovation – With Doug Taylor
In this episode, host Jeffrey Scott sits down with Doug Taylor, CEO of Frontiers Design Build in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Doug shares the fascinating 18-year journey of evolving his business from a landscape design-build firm into a high-performance construction...
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