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From Burnout to Balance: How the Franklin Brothers Beat Construction Chaos For Good | E386

Release Date: 04/24/2025

The Real Reason You Don’t Have Time & What to Do About It | E402

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🚀Join our Live Meetup this coming 16th of October. Register ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 402: Are you drowning in work and constantly feeling like there’s never enough time? If you’re a construction business owner overwhelmed by the day-to-day, I have a message for you: the lack of time is 100% within your control. In this week’s episode of the Construction Leading Edge Podcast, we’ll dive deep into why so many construction business owners feel like they’re always running out of time and why that’s not the real issue. Today,...

How to Make Faster, Better Decisions Like a CEO | E401

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EPISODE 401: Do all decisions in your construction business fall on your shoulders? If you’re a construction CEO, that’s often just the reality—every choice runs through you, and the questions keep coming, even long after the workday ends. But it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, we’ll dive into the underestimated problem plaguing construction businesses—decision bottlenecks. Together we’ll unpack… The serious consequences of slow, scattered, or centralized decision-making How to know if you have a decision-making problem The common myths and misconceptions about...

How to Free Up 40 Hours a Month in Your Construction Business | E400

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🚀Join our Live Meetup this coming 16th of October. Register ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 400: Are you constantly putting out fires in your construction business? Do you feel like you never have time to work on your business because you’re always reacting to problems? For many business owners, it’s easy to believe that freeing up time means hiring extra help. But I’m here to tell you—you can reclaim 40 hours a month of your time without bringing anyone new on board. In this episode, we’ll explore how adjusting your approach to time...

5 Ways Right-to-Left Thinking Can Work for You | E399

The Construction Leading Edge Podcast

🚀Join our Live Meetup this coming 16th of October. Register ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 399: Do you often find yourself reacting to problems instead of making progress? Many construction business owners feel like they’re stuck in a loop of chaos, constantly chasing the next urgent task. But what if you could get ahead of the game? What if you could plan for success rather than react to it? What if you could finally check off the goals that have been collecting dust on the shelf? In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge...

The Secret to Building Client Trust and Team Loyalty with Brady Fry | E398

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🚀Join our Live Meetup this coming 16th of October. Register ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 398: Still struggling with chaos in your construction business? You’re not alone. A lot of construction business owners assume that chaos comes from rapid business growth, but that’s a myth and that’s what keeps you stuck. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge Podcast, I sit down with Brady Fry, the owner of Fry Classic Construction, who shares valuable insights on managing a construction business with efficiency and clarity. Today,...

Build Your Business So You Can Sell It with John Warrillow | E397

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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 397: Have you ever thought about selling your construction business? Many construction business owners believe that all businesses are meant to be sellable. But here’s the truth: selling a business isn’t just about finding a buyer—it’s about building something that can thrive without you. In this episode of The Construction Leading Edge Podcast, I’m joined by John Warrillow, the expert in business value creation. Today, he...

Downsizing Could Be the Key to Explosive Growth in Your Construction Business with John Wojtas | E396

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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 396: Are you tired of dealing with constant delays, cost overruns, and frustrated clients on your construction projects? You’re not alone. Most construction problems can be prevented even before work begins. And this week’s guest has cracked the code. In this episode, we’re joined by John Wojtas, owner of PAXISgroup, a custom home building company based in Georgia. Today, John shares how his decision to downsize his business...

What Most Construction CEOs Get Wrong About Success | E395

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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 395: Most construction business owners believe that success is all about “getting it”. Getting that big contract. Hitting that revenue goal. But chasing milestones can feel exhausting and overwhelming. Around 70% of construction businesses shut down within five years. What’s even more alarming? Construction has the second-highest suicide rate of any industry. What if many of the deepest struggles owners face stem from one flawed...

Built to Fail: Why Most Construction Businesses aren’t Sellable | E394

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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 394: If you’ve ever felt trapped by your construction business, like everything will fall apart the moment you step away, you’re not alone. Meet Stan. After 35 years of building a thriving construction business, he was ready to retire. But there was a problem—his business couldn’t survive without him. All the systems, knowledge, and decisions lived in his head. Retirement? Impossible. The business wasn’t...

6 Months to Skilled Labor? This System Proves It’s Possible with Mike Brewer | E393

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🚀Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale? Take the free online assessment ☎️Schedule your free business evaluation call with our team – EPISODE 393: What if the answer to your labor shortage isn’t in job ads or recruiters—but your warehouse? Today’s guest was done fighting for tradespeople. Instead of poaching skilled plumbers, he built a training program from scratch. Brewer Craftsman Academy turns complete rookies into $60-$80K/year professionals in just six months—and it’s working. His company now builds 23% of homes with workers who had zero experience just...

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EPISODE 386: Do you feel like your construction business is running you instead of the other way around? Do you constantly bring your work home?

For many construction business owners, weekends also mean emails and phone calls. Often, family dinners turn into business meetings. But not anymore!

In this week’s episode of The Construction Leading Edge podcast, I sit down with two of my favorite Canadians—and students of our Systematized Your Construction Business (SYCB) program—Laughlin and Ross Franklin.

Originally overwhelmed by the volume of work, the brothers struggled with a lack of structure and constant reactive management. After joining our program, they implemented powerful tools that transformed their construction company (and also their lives).

Today, the Franklin brothers share:

➡What chaos actually looks like in construction

➡The exact blueprint that reduced chaos in their business

➡How systematizing their business improved their quality of life

➡Tips for getting your team on board with change

…and more!

Ready to escape the construction chaos and get your life back?

Let’s dive in!

Key Takeaways:

Introduction (00:00)

The Franklin brothers’ construction business (02:04)

What chaos looks like in construction (06:03)

From organized chaos to systematized operations (12:04)

Core systems and processes behind their business growth (20:28)

How systems transformed their construction business (21:55)

Does construction have to be chaotic? (27:24)

Life after systematizing operations (30:17)

How to implement systems that stick (33:34)

Getting your team aligned with change (36:13)

The CEO Alliance (42:38)

Final thoughts and advice (45:44)

Additional Resources:

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The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

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