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Episode #189 From Lawn Care to Robotic Mowing with Jennifer Lemcke
Jennifer Lemcke is the CEO of Weedman, a lawn care franchise system that has franchisees across the USA and Canada. They are the second-largest lawn care company in North America with their sights on being #1. Jeffrey and Jennifer discuss Weedman's history, management...
Episode 188 – 7 Lessons from 2021, 7 Questions for 2022, with Jeffrey Scott
Jeffrey Scott shares with you 7 lessons he learned working with landscape professionals from around the US and Canada over the past year. He touched on these in his newsletter and elaborates here, giving extra insight. You will also hear 7 questions to ponder in 2022...
Episode 187 – Building a Team of Super Foremen, with Brandon Lair
Brandon Lair is managing partner of the Site Group in Dayton, OH, a 26 year old company doing $5M in revenue. Jeffrey and Brandon discuss balancing out his partnerships, and focus the majority of our time diving into the role of the Super Foremen who are able to act...
Episode 186 – Extreme Accountability Without Being Extreme with John Caramanico Jr.
Caramanico and Sons is a multi generational, 14M business based in Philadelphia, PA, that has figured out how to create extreme ownership and accountability without being extreme. In fact the owners of this firm are exceptionally nice, and have learned how to empower...
Episode 185 – Hiring an HR Manager, with Arnie Arsenault and Dustin Wolfe
Jeffrey Scott speaks with these two landscape entrepreneurs about their experiences hiring a Human Resource manager. Arnie Arsenault is managing partner of A. Arsenault and Sons, and Dustin Wolfe is owner of Artistic Grounds, both located in Massachusetts. Arnie and...
Episode 184 – The Peer Group Experience with Blair Walton
Blair Walton runs a large, fast-growing, technology-forward design-build maintain company in Wilmington, NC. He shares his experience as “the host" of a recent Leader’s Edge peer group run by Jeffrey Scott, where over a dozen landscape business owners descended on his...
Episode 183 – Becoming A Second In Command with Dale Drier
Dale Drier is the General Manager for Drost Landscape (MI), a multi decade, multi division company where he started as a laborer, and grew into this position of GM to help grow and transform the company. Jeff and Dale talk about many the facets of being a second in...
Episode 182 – Building a Front-Line First Company with Joshua Gámez
Joshua Gámez is the founder of East Coast Facilities, based in Allentown, PA. It is merely 5+ years old, already 20 million and growing super fast. Joshua is turning the industry on its head by creating a front-line focused company. The business is uniquely...
Episode 181 – Recruiting, Retaining and Making Money in a Tight Labor Market with 2 Special Guests
Jeffrey Scott invites two of his clients and excellent landscape entrepreneurs, Chris Vedrani (Planted Earth Landscaping, MD) and Ted Lucia (Lucia Landscaping, MI) to share their experiences in fully staffing and growing their businesses in such a tight labor market....
Episode 180 – A Leadership Run Business with Krisjan Berzins
Krisjan Berzins is CEO of Kingstowne Lawn & Landscape in Alexandria, VA. He runs an 8M fully residential business serving 3500 active clients. The business was started with another partner whom he bought out, and now is run by his leadership team fully. Jeffrey...
