A Return to What Matters - Special Guest: Dave Daffan of Daffan Cooling and Heating

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting Dave Daffan in your passenger seat to discuss how his journey of working 80 hours a week and going through life’s difficulties changed his outlook on business. Dave found his way into the HVAC trade through his uncle’s business and began his career as a service technician and installer. Through twenty plus years of hard work he progressed from technician, to install manager, to service manager, to GM, and finally to CEO. However, the years of work experience came at a cost of years of life experience. Dave took the lessons he learned along the way and set a path to make a difference in his company. Focusing on culture and work/life balance, Dave began the revitalization of his perspective on business to build an award-winning company today. Dave shares his journey and learned lessons on this week’s episode.

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0:00.0	And me and another gentleman were pretty much the only ones running the business and just working a lot.
0:07.8	And next thing you know, I have a kid, you know, I'm with my wife at the time.
0:10.9	They're still rocking and rolling and working and working and working and that's all I ever knew.
0:14.2	It wasn't taking vacations.
0:16.3	Just worked.
0:18.0	And next thing you know, I found myself staring at a divorce. And it was,
0:22.8	it was a, you know, tough time for me. Um, financially and mentally, um, we just kind of
0:28.6	neither one of us knew each other, um, because, you know, I'd given so much of this business.
0:37.2	Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.
0:48.9	More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.
0:54.5	It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.
0:56.6	It is a refuse to lose pursuit.
0:59.1	It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.
1:03.1	Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick. Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast.
1:17.7	Your host, Nate and Brian are hanging out with you here today.
1:20.5	And we're going to be talking with Dave Daffin.
1:22.6	And he's going to be sharing his story about what he has done and what he has made of himself and his organization,
1:29.5	moving from behind the wheel to behind the desk and everything in between.
1:34.8	We're excited to hear his story and talk to him, but before we do that, we want to break down this
1:39.3	idea for you, and for that, we're turning to Brian with our quote.
1:43.4	I just removed everything that was not the David, Michelangelo.
1:49.9	Yes, hearkening back to an earlier episode where you brought that quote up, but it was a great
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