#53 Jeff Sweenor talks team building and always striving to be the best builder
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🗓️ 27 January 2019
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Sweenor President and CEO of Sweenor Builders in Narragansett, RI joins the guys and shares his 30 years of building experience and knowledge. Jeff talks about numbers, building his team, working with This Old House, and much more.
Where to find our guest:
Jeff Sweenor @sweenor_builders on Instagram
Where to find our Hosts:
Nick Schiffer @nsbuilders on Instagram and YouTube
Tyler Grace @TRGHomeconcepts on Instagram
John Hourihan @heresjohnnyh & @vintagebuilders on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | So we're down in Nara Ganser, Rhode Island at Jeff Sweeney's Shop. |
| 0:03.8 | We spent the day with a handful of his employees. Half of his crew. |
| 0:08.4 | Half. Dude, we saw like five out of 50 people. |
| 0:14.0 | Hands full. Okay, this is great. This is the intro. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the intro. |
| 0:16.0 | Yeah, I think I said half. |
| 0:18.0 | Jeff was super generous. |
| 0:19.0 | And open the doors to everything. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, we looked at everything from numbers to projects to marketing to design and it was we're |
| 0:26.6 | literally closing his shop tonight we are yeah because we're doing another |
| 0:29.7 | podcast and you guys stay tuned for that guest but we talk a lot about actually I'm just going to lead right into the fact that he left |
| 0:39.7 | Rhode Island and moved to Florida for his kids and took a sabbatical from this and came back, |
| 0:45.8 | guns blazing. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.8 | Like hard. |
| 0:49.2 | And went with, went into, back into this market with a totally different approach as you guys see |
| 0:54.3 | just been doing this for 30 years yeah and it it kind of talked about his |
| 0:59.5 | evolution in this industry how we got to put his kids first, it's, and how he's basically hired the tough jobs, |
| 1:07.6 | yeah, and it's strengthened his company. |
| 1:10.7 | You guys are going to love this one. |
| 1:11.8 | It's a really good one. |
| 1:13.0 | We're live. We are live. We are. |
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