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I am happy to be joined by the engineering mentor, Sol Rosenbaum. Sol brings home the bacon via his commercial real estate engineering firm. We get that towards the end of the episode, but the bulk of what we'll talk about is his passion project, mentoring young engineers.Entry level roles for up and coming professionals has come up repeatedly on this show and in this episode, we'l

Diana Meneses is the Marketing Director at Donnelly Energy. She joins our host, Jared Wall, on the show to shares insights into her area of expertise - brand development & marketing. It's a fun chat between these two long-time energy efficiency industry insiders. Follow Diana as well as Donnelly Energy at the links below:Diana Meneses on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/di

A great conversation with Adam Weltz, President and CEO of Criterion Labs. This is a fascinating story about the founding of a business, that business's passing from father to son, and the entrepreneurial realities & challenges that often go underappreciated.Our host, Jared Wall, learns a great deal about what goes into managing the ubiquitous presence of health & safety ha

Paul Chamberlain is a serial entrepreneur with a fascinating story. As founder, president & CEO of Linmore LED Labs, he shares the interesting path that led to his current role leading one of the premier LED manufacturing companies in the world. We delve into the engineering & design components that fuel Linmore’s “lowest cost-of-operation” luminaires, their experienc

Scott Fischbuch is an expert in identifying & understanding personality types, and provides consulting services to businesses and individuals to help them overcome personality-based conflicts. Because this is a topic that I didn’t know much about, I ended up just asking a whole bunch of questions and the conversation went in a bunch of very interesting directions - which is e

We're diving into the world of High-Volume Low-Speed industrial fans with Bill Carlson, founder of Go Fan Yourself.This is the fascinating story of a renegade entrepreneur - how he chose the name of his company as an "eff you" to his previous business partner, how he hired a (barely) high school graduate to design his fan blades, how those fan blades became the gold-standard &

It's always a fun conversation with Chris Polk! As the show's first two-time guest, Chris returns to expand on his first appearance in which he shared all about how to maximize your profits in the trucking industry.In this episode, Jared and Chris dive deeper into the tax and regulatory side of trucking, some things you may not know, and then have some fun talking about what they w

Driving along the road watching the power lines go by, we all probably too often take for granted the amazing electrical grid that makes our modern lives possible. Without the instant access and 24/7 reliability that it provides, our lives would be drastically different.Philip Wall is a former lineman and has a unique understanding of and first-hand experience with maintaining the

Charles Cayce is the Regional Vice President for Property Management at InvenTrust Properties - a premier retail property management firm. He shares his many years of experience & expertise, details the complicated nature of managing retail property, and demonstrates how the landlord/tenant relationship can one of the most beautiful examples of human and societal cooperation.In

There is WAY more to think about vis-a-vis roofing than you would ever think, and Jason Widener comes on the show to prove that. In an immensely interesting and wide-ranging conversation, host Jared Wall gets Jason to share his many years of expertise, detail the wide variety of roof types & materials, explain how to think about white/reflective roofs, and offer his advice to t