952. Part 1: Why You're Afraid to Hire (And It's Costing You Everything)
Fullerton Unfiltered
Brian Fullerton
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Most lawn care businesses don't have a lead problem or a work problem… they have a hiring problem.
In today's episode, I'm breaking down the real reasons so many guys are afraid to bring on their first employee and how that fear is quietly capping their business at $100K–$300K. From payroll anxiety to control issues to not having systems in place, we're getting honest about what's actually holding you back.
If you're tired of doing everything yourself and ready to grow, this is the mindset shift and reality check you need to finally make the leap. (Part 1 of 2)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're now listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Straightforward. |
| 0:10.6 | No nonsense business advice. |
| 0:12.7 | Completely on. |
| 0:14.7 | Unfiltered. |
| 0:15.6 | Grow your business. |
| 0:16.8 | Grow your life. |
| 0:17.9 | Now, here's your host, Brian Fullerton. |
| 0:21.6 | Hey, what's going on, guys? Welcome to another episode of the Fullerton Unfiltered Podcast, |
| 0:25.6 | and it's your host, Brian Fullerton here, hanging with you guys. And good morning. |
| 0:29.9 | Well, welcome back to episode. Let's see right here, 800, 900, 800, 952. |
| 0:38.3 | Looking at the fully-senten unfiltered podcast on iTunes, |
| 0:42.0 | 952 episodes. |
| 0:43.3 | Holy freaking cow. |
| 0:44.2 | That's, that's a lot of shows. |
| 0:46.9 | That means we're going to be rounding out a thousand episodes in what? |
| 0:51.6 | About four, let's see, 12 episodes a month. Well, that's 48. So sometime around July, |
| 0:58.7 | August, sometime we'll be doing a thousand episodes of the podcast. If you guys are new here, |
| 1:03.6 | welcome. Just want to say welcome to the Floyd's on Filtered podcast. This whole thing started |
| 1:08.3 | like six years ago right at the dawn of COVID. I think COVID |
| 1:13.0 | and the world was getting shut down two weeks later after we announced the launch of the podcast |
| 1:17.3 | on February 28th, 29th. I think it might even been a leap year. And we dropped with seven |
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