Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich
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Mar 30, 2026 • 1h 14min

Jonithan Phillips - Stop Performing for Clients and Start Winning More Jobs

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Jonathan Phillips works in the home services industry as a sales trainer, speaker, and leadership developer. He serves as a senior instructor at A1 Garage Door Academy, where he trains and develops technicians and sales professionals for one of the largest residential garage door companies in the United States. In this episode, we talked about sales, mindset, relationships, trust, fear...
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Mar 23, 2026 • 1h 18min

Jack Johnston - The Mindset Shift That Turned a Sales Skeptic Into a Top Performer

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Jack Johnston is a fourth-generation plumber from Phoenix. Known in his shop for constantly working to improve and helping lift up the people around him, Jack recently hit $1.6 million in revenue in a year.  In this episode, we talked about sales, relationships, fear, communication, trust...
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Mar 16, 2026 • 1h 32min

Zack Reynolds - From Self-Sabotage to $4 Million in Sales

Attend BOOT CAMP 👇👇 https://wastenoday.pro/BootCamp5 Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Zach Reynolds is an HVAC sales professional who started in the trade as an install helper, learning the work from the ground up before moving into full-time HVAC sales in July 2024. Originally from Tennessee and now based in Las Vegas, Zach has quickly built momentum in his sales career, reaching $4.1 million in sales in 2025 with a $16,000 average ticket and surpassing $6 million in total career sales. His background in the field and focus on serving homeowners well have played a big role in his early success. In this episode, we talked about discipline, mastery, mentorship, sales, sobriety...
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Mar 9, 2026 • 1h

How Your Emotional State Is Costing You Sales

Attend BOOT CAMP 👇👇 https://wastenoday.pro/BootCamp5 Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about emotions, attitude, negotiation, leadership...
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Mar 2, 2026 • 1h 28min

Ryan Fenn - How One Sentence Took Me From 10% to 90% Close Rate

Attend BOOT CAMP 👇👇 https://wastenoday.pro/BootCamp5 Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Ryan Fenn is the founder of CHIIRP, a revenue optimization and follow-up platform built specifically for home service businesses. He grew up in the trades, dropped out of high school, washed windows, and spent years learning firsthand how missed calls, weak systems, and poor follow-up cost contractors real money. Today, his work is rooted in lived experience, using data, language, and AI-driven insights to help service companies tighten communication, improve follow-up, and close more work without relying on pressure or discounts.   In this episode, we talked about certainty, trust, follow-up, AI...
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Feb 23, 2026 • 1h 5min

Why Customers Remember Some Techs - and Forget Others

Attend BOOT CAMP 👇👇 https://wastenoday.pro/BootCamp5 Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community, join today https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about hospitality, service, scripting
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Feb 16, 2026 • 1h 22min

Coral Whale - Turning Maintenance Calls Into Long-Term Customers

BOOT CAMP https://wastenoday.pro/BootCamp5 Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community — join today before the next live Q&A drops: https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Coral Whale is a returning guest on the podcast and specializes in maximizing HVAC maintenance calls. She focuses on turning traditionally low-profit maintenance visits into consistent, profitable opportunities by simplifying communication, building trust with homeowners, and presenting clear solutions. Coral shares real-world experience from the field, emphasizing consistency, respect in customers’ homes, and strong communication as the foundation for long-term client relationships and repeat business.   In this episode, we talked about maintenance calls, conversion, discipline, consistency...
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Feb 9, 2026 • 57min

One Bucket at a Time

Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community — join today before the next live Q&A drops: https://wastenoday.pro/BCC Join the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup In this episode, we talked about discipline, consistency, goals, persistence, mindset...
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Feb 2, 2026 • 49min

The Secret Sauce of Winning Teams

They explore why culture often beats strategy and how core values guide hiring and behavior. Conversations cover empathy in customer care and leadership as actions, not titles. They highlight gratitude, focus, drive, and fun as pillars that shape team performance. Practical tips for making values memorable and actionable are shared.
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Jan 26, 2026 • 1h 6min

The Silent Killers of Success No One Warns You About

They unpack seven 'silent killers' that quietly block success, including indifference, doubt, worry, over-caution, pessimism, and complaining. Conversation touches on alcohol and risk, decision paralysis versus bold commitment, and how gratitude and contrarian thinking can shift momentum. Practical stories and hiring choices illustrate protecting your future and taking calculated risks.

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