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Head Heart & Boots

Hosted by: Floodlight Consulting Group, LLC

If you build it, fix it, or maintain it, the Head Heart & Boots podcast is for you. Restoration, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, landscaping, and every blue-collar trade in between. If you own a service business and you...

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Ep 220 - "Building Wolf, with Freddie Bosquez"

First live in-studio guest in the new space, and it had to be Freddie Bosquez. Freddie worked for me back in the ServPro days, starting around 2013, and watching who he's become since then is one of the privileges of...
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Ep 219 - "The Gateway Drug of Discipline"

Dude. No guest this week, and I came in hot on a topic that's been rearranging my brain all summer: discipline. Here's the setup. This is my fourth year chasing elk with my bow, and for the first time my son is in the...
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Ep 218 - "It Gets Better, Not Easier"

Dude. No guest this week. Just a conversation Chris and I probably should have recorded years ago. We spend our days coaching business owners: diagnosing problems, building frameworks, holding people accountable. This...
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Ep 217 - "Why More Revenue Won't Fix Your Cash Flow, With Jim Emerich"

We say it all the time on this show: sales first. But sales without financial controls is a mess waiting to happen, and that's exactly why we're launching our monthly money talk with Jim Emerich, founder of Backbone...
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Ep 216 - "Alignment Is Leverage"

 Dude. No guest this week. Just Chris and me going somewhere we've honestly been afraid to go on this show. Chris opens up about something deeply personal: his experience with a legal, facilitated psilocybin ceremony...
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Ep 215 - "Time As A Tool"

What if the biggest thing holding your business back isn't strategy, talent, or money... but the timeline you've accepted?  In this episode, Brandon and I unpack one of the most impactful business books we've read...
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Ep 214 - "Fast and Flat: Leadership Lessons from a Ranger"

Some guests just drop bombs for an hour straight, and Griffin Brand is one of them. Griffin is a former 75th Ranger Regiment special operator who, at 26, found himself as the lone military advisor to the U.S....
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Ep 213 - "Bring Your Own Pencil"

Every once in a while you record an episode and you know, before you even hit stop, that it's a top-tenner. This is that one. Chris and I sat down with Dan Casey and Griffin Brand - a football coach turned historian...
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Ep 212 - "The Family Business Playbook: Growth, Exit, and Legacy"

Family businesses come with incredible opportunities, but they also come with unique challenges. In this episode, I sit down with Keri Jones, whose family built Utah Disaster Kleanup into one of the most respected...
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Ep 211 - "You Can't Coach What You Can't See"

Mentorship gets talked about a lot in business, but what does it actually look like in practice? In this episode, Brandon and I unpack the difference between teaching, coaching, and true mentorship, and why most...
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Ep 210 - "The Gas Pedal, the Brakes, & the Transmission"

In this episode, I sit down with former NCAA champion and Olympian Les Gutches for one of the most fascinating conversations we’ve had on the show. What started as a conversation about wrestling quickly turned into a...
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Ep 209 - "The Intelligence We Miss"

In this episode of Head, Heart and Boots, Brandon and I sat down with J. Brad Britton for one of the most meaningful conversations we’ve had on the podcast. J. Brad spent decades leading inside the Cutco and Vector...
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