Breaking Limiting Beliefs: on Leadership, Sales, and Mindset Mastery with Grant Winstead
The Home Service Expert Podcast
Tommy Mello
4.7 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Grant Winstead is an expert in home service, renovations, leadership, coaching, and sales based in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. He is the CEO of Renovation Experts and operates as a transformational coach. With over 40 years of experience, Grant has built his multi-million dollar company from the ground up, starting as a door-to-door canvasser. Throughout the interview, Grant shares his personal journey from a challenging upbringing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to becoming a successful home service operator. He emphasizes the importance of mindset over tactics in achieving growth and success. Grant discusses overcoming obstacles, the impact of mentorship, and the critical role of self-belief. He also touches on his current focus on coaching and mindset development, detailing his 12-week coaching program designed to help individuals and entrepreneurs break limiting beliefs and achieve their highest potential.
00:00 Introduction to Grant Winstead
02:35 Grant's Early Life and Career Beginnings
08:59 Transition to Leadership and Mentorship
17:47 The Importance of Mindset in Success
25:42 Sales Strategies and Overcoming Obstacles
28:51 The Role of Mindset in Achieving High Performance
35:00 The Importance of Self-Belief in Interviews
35:57 Challenges in Finding Driven Individuals
38:00 The Role of Family Support
40:47 The Power of Repetition and Curriculum
45:45 The Will to Win and Discipline
59:22 The Role of Books and Mentors
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How do you go from a hammer and now up to $10 million, $20 million company? |
| 0:05.9 | You've got to have the wheel to win. |
| 0:07.7 | That is the first step towards success. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind |
| 0:23.1 | their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello. |
| 0:29.9 | Before we get started, I wanted to share two important things with you. First, I want you to |
| 0:34.1 | implement what you learned today. To do that, you'll have to take a lot of notes, but I also want you to fully concentrate on the interview. |
| 0:41.7 | So I ask the team to take notes for you. |
| 0:43.3 | Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299. |
| 0:50.7 | That's 888-526-1299, and you'll receive a link to download the notes from today's episode. |
| 0:58.4 | Also, if you haven't got your copy of my newest book, Elevate, please go check it out. |
| 1:03.2 | I'll share with you how I attracted and developed a winning team that helped me build a $200 million company in 22 states. |
| 1:09.3 | Just go to elevate and win.com forward slash podcast to get your copy. |
| 1:13.7 | Now let's go back into the interview. |
| 1:15.3 | All right, guys, welcome back to the home service expert. |
| 1:18.2 | Today I've got Grant Winstead. |
| 1:20.9 | He's an expert at home service renovations leadership coaching and sales. |
| 1:24.8 | He's based in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore area, and he's the CEO of |
| 1:29.1 | Renovation Experts Limitless Potential Coach. Grant is a home service operator, CEO, and |
| 1:35.2 | transformational coach with over 40 years of experience. He built and scaled renovation experts |
| 1:40.2 | into a multimillion-dollar home service company. Serving Washington, D.C., Baltimore Market. |
| 1:46.0 | Starting as a door-to-door canvasser, Grant knocked on over 30,000 doors, sold tens of |
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