Adam Beasley: Lazy Guy DIY

July 28, 2022

Adam Beasley: Lazy Guy DIY

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Adam Beasley, who goes by the name Lazy Guy DIY. Steve and Adam met up in person just before the start of the pandemic at WORKBENCHcon in 2019.

“First and foremost, my channel Lazy Guy DIY started in 2016 and focused on woodworking, DIY, and tool reviews, and that’s been going pretty strong. I also run social media for several companies, I have a consulting company where I consult with brands, and we set up Ambassador programs.

I work with a few makers here and there, and I do a maker show, which is online woodworking, competition, art, and furniture flipping. I’m a co-owner of that, and it’s one of the biggest online competitions out there right now. Lastly, I am a carpenter on a TV show getting ready to air this winter. We’re filming episodes, and I leave here in a few weeks for another location, which will be on the Outdoor Channel in December.”

Adam Beasley

Creating an Outlet

Adam didn’t necessarily know what he wanted to be when he grew up, but as of right now, he’s enjoying what he’s doing. When he grew up in rural Virginia, his dad owned a real estate company, and he and Adam would flip houses growing up throughout high and middle school.

“I learned a lot of stuff from that, including tools and everything else, and went to college to get a marketing degree, but then I took a detour into a studio art and industrial design path while I was there. I had to have an outlet for doing stuff, and that’s where a lot of this came from.

But I did all that, I learned how to design furniture a little bit there and then did nothing for five or six years while I was in the mortgage business, but I actually just left my day job there in March. I worked for a mortgage company and bank for the last decade, but I’m full-time content and everything else now.”

Adam Beasley

Steve’s Advice Corner

“I wouldn’t call myself a control freak, But I feel like I have to do everything. Knowing which things are the easiest to unload and what gives you the most lift. I do my own video editing for content or intake for emails and things. I’ve got to do emails all day long, so what are your thoughts? What things do you unload?”

Adam Beasley

Steve is a long-standing advocate of delegating tasks, and his recommendation for Adam is to follow suit. The more tasks you can remove from yourself, the easier it will be to focus your time and energy on the important things.

“I recommend you unload as much as you possibly can. Before I did Acres of Timber, I ran a nonprofit, and I’ve also had my own marketing businesses before. When I did my first marketing business, it was just my business partner and me, and we basically created jobs for ourselves. After that, I started learning to build teams around myself, and that’s when you move from button pusher to leader.

A lot of times, it’s easy to be like, ‘Oh, I can’t afford it.’ But your brain and time are best used on your highest payoff activities. Sometimes that’s not emails, and sometimes that’s not. I posted recently about somebody who built a website, and it took them like a month or three months to do it when they literally could have paid somebody else to do it. What else could you have been doing during that time to make money? You could have been forming better relationships and bringing in more customers.

I just said this not too long ago, but make a list of the tasks that you don’t want to do ever, and start small and start outsourcing some of those tasks. I like to use a software called Loom where you could do screen share software and just start creating standard operating procedures for some of your administrative tasks.”