#315 Contractor Ethan Eckstrom
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Nick Schiffer and Tyler Grace interview 23-year-old contractor Ethan Eckstrom about his career in home design and construction. Ethan reveals his unique method for rapidly gaining expertise in building homes, combining hands-on experience, mentorship, and continuous education. Don’t miss his insights on getting a leg up in construction at a young age!
Ethan Eckstrom is a 23-year-old contractor and architectural designer from Massachusetts who has been designing homes since high school. He currently runs his own design and construction company. Ethan is passionate about both the design and construction aspects of residential projects. He is considering pursuing a formal architecture degree and license but struggles with balancing his creative design work with managing construction projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr Tyler, we got, we got, we got a doozy today. |
| 0:08.3 | A doozy? |
| 0:10.3 | Doozy. |
| 0:12.3 | Uh, this gentleman, this kid, this kid is... I feel like I've gotten in trouble for calling people kids before. |
| 0:21.0 | No, you got in trouble for calling your kids assholes. people kids |
| 0:23.5 | assholes. |
| 0:24.1 | I got in trouble for calling your kids assholes. |
| 0:26.0 | I got in trouble for that. I got in trouble for calling women girls and I got in trouble at one of our |
| 0:31.1 | presentations. |
| 0:33.0 | I think it was when we spoke at, |
| 0:35.2 | we spoke somewhere and we spoke to a classroom. |
| 0:38.1 | Might have been at like one of the Cape Cod events |
| 0:40.4 | and we said like kids to the high school kids and this guy came up to me afterwards |
| 0:44.1 | and was like these young men and women probably don't appreciate being called |
| 0:48.0 | kids and I was like damn man sorry. Well guess what time? This is our podcast and we can do whatever we want through that |
| 0:55.7 | screw that guy he is someone that has a lot of talent and started very young. He grew up here locally in |
| 1:07.5 | Massachusetts. I've gotten to know him. He's visited some of my job sites. |
| 1:13.0 | He actually came to the Contract The Coalition Summit in Scottsdale. |
| 1:17.0 | Ethan Ekstrom, and you know, he has an interesting start to, |
| 1:25.0 | what we'll learn in the podcast, |
| 1:26.6 | an interesting start to this industry, |
| 1:29.9 | but I know a lot of you guys are gonna relate to his start because I feel like the more and more people I talk to and you ask you know how did you get into this? You know you get the eye roll and it's like well man I've been doing this since I was a kid. Well, Ethan gives you an inside look at, did I say, yeah, I said Ethan. I thought I said for a second. |
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