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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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In this episode, we sit down with Charlie Gmeiner of Maple Valley Land Management, a teenager who’s already making big moves in the lawn and landscaping game across St. Clair and Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Charlie shares how he started his business, the challenges he’s faced as a young entrepreneur, and the strategies that helped him grow into a trusted name in his community. Whether you’re just starting out or looking for inspiration to scale your own lawn care company, Charlie’s story is packed with practical tips, grit, and a fresh perspective on what it takes to succeed.
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0:00.0 | You're now listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered podcast. |
0:09.7 | Straightforward, no-nonsense business advice. |
0:12.7 | Completely on. |
0:14.5 | Unfiltered. |
0:15.6 | Grow your business. |
0:16.8 | Grow your life. |
0:17.9 | Now, here's your host, Brian Fullerton. |
0:21.9 | We're excited to kick off the fourth annual lawn tourpreneur series, |
0:26.9 | spotlighting some of the best and brightest rising stars in the lawn care and landscaping industry. |
0:32.5 | This year, we're traveling the country to interview some incredible entrepreneurs |
0:35.9 | and showcase their inspiring journeys, |
0:38.7 | thriving businesses, and the hustle that sets them apart. A huge thank you to our 2025 tour |
0:45.1 | partners, yard book, stay bill, equip exposition, and LMN for making this series possible and supporting |
0:53.4 | the next generation of green industry leaders. |
0:56.5 | Don't forget to check out the behind the scenes equipment tour with each guest airing every Monday at 7 p.m. |
1:02.3 | Eastern on the Brian's Lawn Maintenance YouTube channel. |
1:06.3 | Now, here's your host, Brian Fullerton. |
1:10.0 | All right, guys, we're hopping on into it this morning. |
1:12.1 | Good morning to all of you guys listening in. |
1:14.8 | I'm all the way about an hour east of where I live now, |
1:19.8 | and we're over here in the Greater Gross Point slash Detroit area, part of town. |
1:26.3 | So are you actually from Detroit? Can you say, like, hey, we're from Detroit, or where are we at here, brother? Depends on who we're talking to. Okay, okay. Yeah. No, if we're talking from people out of state, we're from Detroit. Yep. You know, talking people in Michigan, we're gross point. Gross point. Okay, there you go. Fair enough. So we got Charlie Gminer. Yep. So started right the first time? Yep. All right. Cool. Everybody's got different pronunciations of all this stuff. So I got to make sure I get the names right. Excited about having you on the show this morning. We're actually kind of flipping the script. Usually we do a YouTube video showing off the setup and the equipment and all the eye candy. This morning we're getting morning showers. What's going on with the rain, brother? No, we say we need rain. We hope for rain. But then when it comes, we'll fuss. Yeah, we damn the rain. Come on, man. Why is it coming now? You got a cool lot here. So make sure you guys check out the YouTube video later tonight on the Bryansall Maintenance YouTube channel. There's actually a pretty cool little slice of earth that you got chiseled out here for you guys. Oh, yeah. About, yeah, I think it's 0.7 miles away from my house. Wow. And even closer for the guys that work for me. So people walk to work, get their morning exercise in before they go walk 17 miles on Mo Root. But yeah, no, it's a, |
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