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#3 Stan Romanek talks about transitioning from employee to owner

Modern Craftsman

Modern Craftsman

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

As day one of the JLC Live comes to a close, the boys sit down at the FastenMaster booth and chat with Stan Romanek from Level Home Improvements. Stan talks about his early start in the industry and how he transitioned from working for someone, to owning his own business. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Modern Crafts and Podcasts and

0:07.6

Welcome to the Modern Crafts and Podcast with Nick Schiffer from N.S.

0:10.9

Builders.

0:11.6

Tyler Grace and TRG Home Concepts.

0:15.0

John Horan, here.

0:17.0

And I'm going to step in here and Stan Romanic

0:21.0

from the level of home improvements.

0:22.6

Nailed it.

0:24.8

Got it.

0:25.8

Thanks, Nick. We're good.

0:27.2

All right, so we are here at the JLC live 2017, and we are at the Fast and Master booth right now.

0:35.0

They were gracious enough to allow us to set up our podcast

0:40.0

in one of their displays and if you guys can hear they may be running a couple drills behind us but let's get right into it Stan

0:48.5

What drove you to get into business for yourself. Well that's actually let's step

0:53.9

let's step further back. Go on the time machine go way back. Yeah when like when did

0:59.1

carpentry become a thing for you? The way back story is I was probably four years old, contractor working

1:07.5

at my parents house, just couldn't stop watching them, loving the building

1:12.4

process, put an out of level on gave me all the

1:15.7

scraps nailed them all together said one day you're getting a job and came to me I

1:21.0

guess I was about 12 years old and said you want to work this summer and I started then

1:26.9

Summers all the way up through college work through college with him and the rest is history.

1:33.7

Started my company in 2009, level home improvements.

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