Toolbox for the Trades

Live Podcast Interviews with Top Industry Contractors

Operations • Business Tips • 27 minutes

How Small Businesses Can Create Big Impact Through Philanthropy

Business Tips • Industry Insights • Management • 40 minutes

Winning isn’t Everything, It’s the Only Thing at Gee Heating and Air

Brothers Jacob and Joseph Gee are third-generation tradesmen who took over Gee Heating and...

Management • Operations • Industry Insights • 40 minutes

Bite Off What You Can Chew: The Project Management Playbook

As CEO of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association, Aaron Hi...

Management • Operations • Business Tips • Industry Insights • 31 minutes

Getting Out of the Comfort Zone: A Second Gen Owner’s Succession

Pete Bradham, general manager of Bradham Brothers, is a second-generation boss who confron...

Industry Insights • Business Tips • Technician Tips • 31 minutes

The Day I Almost Quit the Trades with NexGen’s Ismael Valdez

Ismael Valdez, CEO at NexGen Air Conditioning Heating and Plumbing, talks candidly about t...

Productivity • Management • Operations • Business Tips • 40 minutes

Budgets, Numbers, and P&Ls: A Business Coach’s Perspective on the Trades

Jason Arthur, owner of Eighty-Seven Degrees Coaching, talks about budgeting, cash flow ver...

Management • Operations • Business Tips • 52 minutes

The Private Equity Safety Net

Travis Smith, president of Sky Heating, AC, Plumbing, and Electrical, has found that partn...

Business Tips • Management • Industry Insights • 38 minutes

You Can’t Script Authenticity

Dale Steele, vice president of sales at Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing, says the huge ...

Management • Business Tips • Industry Insights • 51 minutes

Building a $50 Million Mom N’ Pop Shop

Texas Medley is the CEO of Dallas-based Medley Heating & Air Conditioning, which he envisi...

Management • Business Tips • Operations • 39 minutes

Sharing a Vision With Your Spouse

Leslie Harpole, Owner of Champion Plumbing, talks with us about being a mom in the trades ...

Industry Insights • Business Tips • Management • 54 minutes

Pioneering Cost-Saving Sustainability

Dale Jackson strives to teach all of his employees that each person in the company has a r...

Management • Productivity • Business Tips • 39 minutes

The High Cost of Turnover: Retaining a Better Workforce

Phillip Mize, CFO of Happy Hiller, joins the podcast to talk about the high cost of turnov...

Management • Business Tips • Industry Insights • 73 minutes

Toolbox On Call: Training, Risk, and the Scarcity Mindset

Industry experts Tom Howard & Eddie McFarlane join for a special podcast episode, "Toolbox...

About the Show

Toolbox for the Trades is a podcast where top service professionals share the tips, tricks, and tactics they use to succeed in their industry. Hosted by Jackie Aubel, this podcast is brought to you by ServiceTitan—the leading home and commercial field service software.

Episodes will feature stories and strategies to help contractors grow and scale their service business.

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