#92 Happiness with Peter Jonak owner of Spire Builders
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🗓️ 11 November 2019
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
Peter Jonak joins the guys to share his story and dives into responsibility, mental health, lifestyle, culture, and happiness for his employees. He had a lot of relatable information to share. Enjoy!
We also have an additional guest Joe Cresta. He is the Regional Coordinator - New England for Project Healing Waters. Joe joined the guys to share what they're all about.
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. is dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and disabled veterans through fly fishing and associated activities including education and outings.
projecthealingwaters.org
Where to find our Guest:
@spirebuilders on Instagram
spirebuilders.com
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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Music:
"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys that is Monin Craftsman Monday and if you guys know John Marley you know he works for Spire Builders well this week we have Pete the owner of |
| 0:17.0 | Spire Builders |
| 0:17.7 | Don't call him the owner though he doesn't like to be called the owner not boss |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah not a big fan of being called the owner. Not boss. Not a big fan of being a boss owner. But he he |
| 0:26.8 | John talked him into being on the podcast and of course we talk about his |
| 0:31.6 | past and how he got or how he started Spire Builders, but was interesting because he went through a pretty significant lull and work where he had nothing, everything dried up. |
| 0:43.2 | They ramped back up and then we went down a rabbit hole |
| 0:46.0 | of some really important topics including mental help. |
| 0:49.6 | And responsibility. |
| 0:50.8 | He takes a huge amount of burden and responsibility for everybody in his company. |
| 0:55.0 | Very much so. It was, it's evident that employees and culture and lifestyle and happiness is actually a word he uses a lot. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | Was at the top of his priority. |
| 1:07.0 | He was a great guest guys. |
| 1:08.0 | We didn't at the same much. |
| 1:09.0 | He just kind of opened up and just ran with it. |
| 1:11.0 | It was awesome. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, it was nice. He had a lot to share, which I think is going to be good because there will be a lot in there for everyone to relate to, especially, you know, that it's not quite as pretty as it always seems. |
| 1:25.0 | All right, Pete, we'll appreciate you coming on to the podcast this evening. |
| 1:32.0 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:33.0 | I feel like he's a veteran. |
| 1:35.0 | Like he's founder, yeah. |
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