Steve Larosiliere: A Coaching Session with Wood Businesses
Steve Larosiliere: A Coaching Session with Wood Businesses “Just tighten it up. Create a policy. Go to ChatGPT and just say, “Hey, ChatGPT.” I need a payment policy to include on my website. Can you write one up?” – Steve Larosiliere Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today’s episode […]
Paul Mencel: Philadelphia Table Company
Paul Mencel: Philadelphia Table Company “It started kind of like everybody else does, kind of starts as a hobby or a side hustle. I graduated with a degree in chemistry and physics. And I was like, kind of like substitute teaching, but also, at the same time, I was in a rock band that […]
Steve Larosiliere: Best Business Models For Woodpreneurs
Steve Larosiliere: Best Business Models For Woodpreneurs “You need to have the ability to focus on one to two things. You can’t focus on five different things, right? Focus on five different things. It’s going to be really, really hard. It’s learning new processes, doing things over and over again, like starting from scratch.” […]
Will Phillips: Sandtown Furniture Co.
Will Phillips: Sandtown Furniture Co. “My background, I sort of learned everything that I know, through a career at Under Armor. So, I spent a long time working there. And I started Sand Town in 2010. I continued to work at Under Armor. It was my side hustle for eight years until I made […]
Matt Lucero: Lucero & Co.
Matt Lucero: Lucero & Co. “Well, we make tung oil wood finishes and we press our own tung oil here in Vietnam. So, I’m located in Vietnam and we manufacture our products here. And we sell to the market here for furniture production also retail. And we export. We just started selling retail in […]
Nathan Porter: Goodview Woodworks
Nathan Porter: Goodview Woodworks “Why is it called “GoodView”? It’s super simple. I live on Buena Vista Road, so that’s the English translation of, Buena Vista’s. “GoodView”. Not as cool as you might think, but business, as to woodworking business. It actually started out as a YouTube channel. Wasn’t really a full-on business.” […]
Clinton & Kerry: CK Wall Designs LLC
Clinton & Kerry: CK Wall Designs LLC “One of our favorite past times was going to the model homes and looking at model homes. And look at the core and the accent walls that they have there. And we would, sometimes ask, where could we find someone to do something like this in our […]
Rocky Levy: Icon Modern
Rocky Levy: Icon Modern “Icon Modern is the culmination of a concept I had in the early 2000s. So, I was a multi-line sales rep in the commercial industry, so I sold desks and chairs and laid everything for commercial clients. I called on designers, and, at the time, sustainability in the industry was […]
Brad Huebner: Hammer & Grind
Brad Huebner: Hammer & Grind “The people that are going to be good employees, they’re not sitting at home unemployed on a couch searching the Indeed job boards, and this happens to find, they’re working for someone else. And you have to steal them away. I mean, dude, you really have to steal them […]
Brad McDonald: McDonald Cabinet & Furniture
Brad McDonald: McDonald Cabinet & Furniture “I’ve been in construction since 2006. And then I started working in a couple of local cabinet shops and got the bug to build kitchens, furniture, and stuff. And just wound up having enough side work that it would kind of make sense to go out on my […]