#86 Laborer to owner Michael Walsh joins
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Michael Walsh at 33 years old bought Wolcott Builders based in Rhinebeck, NY. He started as a laborer for Wolcott when he was a teenager and now in addition to owning the company he is also a project manager. Tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys? It is Modern Craftsman Monday. We have Michael Walsh from Wilcox builders on the podcast today. |
| 0:16.8 | He is actually, well first off, he doesn't have an Instagram, which we find out at the end. |
| 0:21.5 | What? And we still had him on the podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | What? |
| 0:25.0 | But this, 33 years old, young dude, bought a company. |
| 0:29.4 | Bought a company that was started in 1961. |
| 0:32.4 | That was a family owned and operated company. |
| 0:35.0 | He started as a laborer there. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, a laborer, he was less than that. |
| 0:40.0 | Definitely less than that. |
| 0:43.0 | Shorts, t-shirt, fiberglass insulation, |
| 0:46.0 | worked his way up, and I mean, he is a PM and an owner of a 25 person company. |
| 0:54.4 | You guys have to listen to this one. |
| 0:55.7 | Very interesting. |
| 1:00.5 | So my wife's family has a lake house in like the Cooksaki off Athens border so I actually |
| 1:09.5 | our rehearsal dinner was in Hudson. Oh really? When we got married, yeah. Yeah, it's I mean it's a |
| 1:15.8 | gorgeous area. Yeah, it's crazy it's just like people who have a lot of money |
| 1:22.0 | who can update homes correctly and then it'll be like a dump or a |
| 1:27.8 | literal trailer next to it. It's crazy like how polarized it is up there. |
| 1:36.3 | That's in Hudson, you said? |
| 1:37.9 | Yeah, well, I mean, Hudson I feel like is a, |
| 1:40.2 | well, no, Hudson, I feel like it's still, |
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