If you run a countertop, flooring, tile, or material supply business, hiring can feel like a gamble. You need help. You bring someone on. And instead of relief, you get more frustration.

After working with 50+ stone, tile, and flooring companies, we’ve found something important:

Most hiring problems aren’t talent problems.
They’re systems problems.

In this episode, I break down:

• The 3 hiring mistakes that sabotage you before you even start
• Why hiring out of desperation almost guarantees failure
• How to proactively attract stronger candidates
• How to filter, vet, test, and validate candidates properly

If you’re tired of being the bottleneck…

If you feel like good people are impossible to find…

Or if you’re done wasting time and money on the wrong hires…

This episode will give you a clear framework to build and develop top talent — instead of hoping you find it.

Want help installing your hiring system? You can book a call with us here:

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Logan Sharbono from 2nd Gen Hardwood is back, because he felt the first episode didn’t tell the full story.

In this update, Logan goes deeper into the part most people skip: the failures, the blind spots, the leadership mistakes, and the personal rock-bottom moments that forced real change.

You’ll hear how he went from “whip-cracking task master” leadership to servant leadership… and how that internal shift translated into external results: a massive revenue jump (from the $500K range to roughly $1.8M), a team that can run without him, and the ability to take a full week off with no fires to put out.

This episode is about what it actually takes to turn your business into a tool for freedom, not an obligation that owns you.

In this conversation, we cover:

• Toxic leadership habits Logan had to confront
• The mindset + systems shift that created momentum without “more chaos”
• How Logan thinks about growth, delegation, and building a career path for his team

If you’re a business owner who wants growth and freedom… this one will hit.

If you want to see if our 90-Day Growth Engine Program™ is the right fit for you, you can book a call with us here:
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If you run a countertop fabrication shop and you’re busier than ever… but you’re still wondering where the money went at the end of the month, this episode is for you.

In today’s episode of the Driven for Growth Podcast, I sit down with Jason Laskey, our Strategic Growth Advisor for the stone and flooring divisions. Jason has spent years inside high-output stone operations, including helping scale a shop from one saw, one router, and nine guys producing ~600 sq ft/week to 50 employees, multiple saws/routers, an inline, and ~$20M/year in revenue.

Together, we break down the three “hidden” profit leaks that quietly drain margin in most countertop shops:

• Payroll & overhead (and how shops misjudge true labor cost vs. output)

• Inventory management (the “death by a thousand cuts” that destroys cash and margins)

• Production rate & throughput (why not knowing your real output wrecks pricing and scheduling)

We also get into the real reason these issues don’t get fixed: most owners and managers are so focused on getting jobs out the door that they don’t have a clean, simple way to measure what matters—and that creates expensive blind spots.

If you’re ready to stop leaking profit and start running a tighter, more predictable shop, this one will hit home.

Want to see if our 90-Day Growth Engine Program™ is the right fit for you, you can book a call with us here:

https://calendly.com/wesfields/game-plan

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