842. Teenage Powerhouse: Danny Raffner’s 100-Account Lawn Empire
Fullerton Unfiltered
Brian Fullerton
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🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Danny Raffner started out as just a teenager with a mower and a dream — now he’s running nearly 100 lawn care accounts and dominating Medina, Ohio. Working six days a week, Danny has turned his small side hustle into a serious business, proving that age is just a number when you’re willing to grind. In this episode, we dig into how he got started, the challenges he’s overcome, and what it takes to build a lawn care empire before you’re even 20 years old.
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| 1:35.7 | And so you pretty much work six or seven days a week just to keep it going, right? |
| 1:39.5 | Yeah, during the main, like, usually we work six, seven days a week from like late March to probably end of June, but this year with the weather, it's been time until, we're probably working six, seven days until about September, honestly. That's cool. That's cool. I was telling my wife, I'm like, I'm like, yeah, that's awesome. I was telling my wife, |
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