The Quit Getting Screwed Construction Podcast
Episode 117: The Secret to Hiring and Keeping Happy Employees
How are you inspiring loyalty into your company’s culture? CEO of The Contractor Consultants and DiBara Masonry, Matt DiBara shares the key success factors of his business’ hiring process. From working at his family’s company to helping construction firms achieve the...
Episode 116: Level Up The Power Of Your Business Brain
It’s not too late to set your goals for 2024! In this goal-inspiring episode, best-selling author and award-winning keynote speaker Holly Green guides you to achieving greater success by teaching you to leverage your brain and the brains of others. Her leadership as...
Episode 115: The Importance of Tracking Job Costing
Want to increase your profitability? You’re in luck because Eric Fortenberry joins this valuable episode. He's a passionate entrepreneur who founded JobTread, a construction estimating and project management software company, in 2019. After successfully implementing...
Episode 114: Hiring The Right Team To Grow Your Business
The interview process can be brutal, but it doesn’t have to be. In this quick episode, attorney Karalynn shares exactly what you can do to scale a successful team. She’s been in your exact position navigating the construction industry; listen and get a leg up on your...
Episode 113: Reflect and Project: Small Business Goals for 2024
Where have you been? Where are you heading? In this episode, construction attorney Karalyn Cromeens discusses gross revenue and other small business goals to inspire your own professional growth. Time to set your intentions! The Quit Getting Screwed Construction...
Episode 112: How to Manage the Process, not People
This shift will make your management life so much easier! Fellow business owner, Karalynn Cromeens gets straight to the point in this quick episode. She shares actionable tips to help support your team without the common headaches managers experience. The Quit Getting...
Episode 111: Four Critical Financial Metrics To Unlock Growth
Every small business should know these key metrics to facilitate financial growth and stability. The numbers are everything, but you shouldn’t have to be a CPA to leverage them. In this episode, accountant and Unconventional CFO Lauren Furtado gets tactical about what...
Episode 110: How to Improve Cash Flow as a Commercial Subcontractor
Money is the oxygen to your construction team. In this episode, I discuss the helpful article I recently wrote for the American Subcontractors Association national newsletter. Find out what resources can breathe life into your budget and shift the financial tides to...
Episode 109: How to Prioritize Good Health and Good Business
Are you spreading yourself thin? Get clarity! Commercial construction owner, mom, and podcast host Sheley Brien chats with attorney Karalynn about all things health as it affects your business. This is the advice you’ve been looking for if you’re switching careers and...
Episode 108: Tips To Tackle The Never Ending Punch List
Get paid and move on. Karalynn is asked about this all the time as a construction attorney: How can I quickly close out our punch list and get final payment? If you’re a contractor, listen up and prevent holding up your business’ hard earned cash flow. The Quit...
Episode 107: Getting Kids Into The Skilled Trades
Getting new people into the trades has reached a critical level. It’s the driving force inspiring our guest Tyler Campbell’s mission. He’s spreading fresh ideas to elevate the commercial construction industry on this fun and insightful episode. The Quit Getting...
Episode 106: Think and Grow Rich Part 3 and 4
In a value-packed episode of this series, Karalynn chats about the power of auto-suggestion and specialized knowledge from the amazing book, Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill. From Henry Ford to Thomas Edison, listen and learn from the founders of industry that...
Episode 38: First Comes Finances
Growing up in the construction industry, Dana Jensen understood the importance of collecting and managing money from completed jobs which drove him to hang up his tool belt and focus on his financing business. This podcast recap includes advice he gives to construction business owners.
Episode 37: Learn Your Liens, Wyoming!
Construction Attorney Jason Robinson joins Karalynn to discuss Wyoming construction law, with a focus on Wyoming construction liens. If you’re a Wyoming contractor who likes getting paid what you are owed, Jason has some insight for you!
Episode 36: Perfecting Your Pricing
In this podcast episode, Karalynn speaks with an estimate innovator, Danielle Putnam, about the growing popularity of menu pricing in the construction industry and its many advantages. Danielle’s mission is to make moving to menu pricing as simple and accessible as possible for business owners.
Episode 35: Learn Your Liens, New York!
Karalynn tackles the lien laws of one of the trickiest states in the country with New York construction lawyer, Lia Fierro. In this episode of the Quit Getting Screwed Podcast, they discuss intricate steps and requisites one must take to not only ensure the lien they file is valid, but also avoid penalties for invalid ones.
Episode 34: Ladies in Leadership
Nicole Sanchez and Karalynn Cromeens have a lot of wisdom to share after well over three decades of combined industry history between them, and they lay it all out in this episode.
Episode 33: Are You Built to Build?
In this podcast episode, Karalynn is joined by Shawn Van Dyke. An expert in mindset, Shawn discusses how a construction contractor can simplify cash flow management to make sure the business remains permanently profitable.
Episode 32: Learn Your Liens, Utah
In this episode, Karalynn is joined by Utah construction lawyer and industry Jason Robinson, who explains just what it takes to ensure construction liens are valid in Utah.
Episode 31: Turn Networking into Growth
According to guest Chris Livingston, once contractors have a clear understanding of their ideal client, they can start honing the skills to attract and close deals with ideal clients.
Episode 30: Learn Your Liens, Arkansas!
In this podcast recap, Suzanne Clark helps Karalynn and the audience clearly understand Arkansas’s lien regulations and the rules for filing a valid lien in Arkansas.