Very explicit conversations in this show and a few jabs at DeWalt and Milwaukee.

Let’s open the show with some Shabba and some reggae from Carlos and this is how as all construction podcasts should open. LOVE IT!! We have a special Co Host to join Manny, John from Craft And Clerk proposed the idea of joining the show and here we are. Manny is interested in doing more Co-Hosting, so anyone interested in filling in the seat, please reach out to Manny.

Carlos a little nervous to be on the show opens up as the bottles of wine go down. We get off to a slow start but boy does the conversation ramp up fast.

Right out of high school Carlos got into landscaping, choose a hard career path and loved it. A decade and half of working for others Carlos made the move to go out on his own and he chose early 2020 to make the move, right smack at the start of the pandemic. Talk about a challenge? Most of his friends, family and coworkers told him to wait, not to take the risk, Carlos listened but he still moved forward, and he had a great start to his new business.

We get talking costs to run a business and what to expect with the crews and even going as far as discussing Uber Eats and all of those fees vs losing a guy to go get coffee and lunch. Things get heated and not from the microwave. Carlos was very lucky out the gate, his first job was in a higher end neighborhood of Toronto and we joke about that area.

John takes the show to a side tangent by asking Manny all the behind-the-scenes work involved with The Construction Life podcast and what Manny goes through on a daily basis, on the job site, running the business, producing the podcast and more.

We discuss ways to optimize your mind, your brain functions, how to be more mentally aleart and Manny discusses Brain Fog, eating coconut oil, mixing in MCT oil and Ghee Butter into his morning coffee and making his Bulletproof coffee, look it up guys, it will help you mentally and physically.

Back to landscaping.

We discuss the many ways your new business can and should be profitable, it’s important to have those goals but they need to always be attached to profit. We discuss tools, all kinds of tools, we even get a chance to upset every tool brand in the process and then the conversation turns to electric pick-up trucks and can of worms explodes. We end the show on quite the porta potty story and a brand new iPhone.

What a great show and thank you Carlos for sharing your ups and downs and all the best to you and your new business.

Give Carlos a follow, contact him for your next landscape project, @cavemen_landscapes and follow John @stonesthrowconstruction doing more tham just landscaping www.stonesthrowconstruction.com and please contact him to organize your business with @craftandclerk and www.craftandclerk.com Thanks John for being my cohost on The Construction life.

Thanks for all the support, the kind words, the emails and messages about our little podcast. The word is spreading, tell your friends, family, subtrades, suppliers, tell everyone and anyone about The Construction Life.

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