Ep 606 Grow and Scale Your Business Using AI IMPLEMENTATION with - Brent Garrett

Health, Wealth & Godly Wisdom

Chantel Ray

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.0 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Chantel and Ryan Finch interviewed Brent Garrett, author of "30 Days to a Better Business," about scaling businesses and AI implementation. Brent shared his background in plumbing and air conditioning, growing his business to 15 employees before selling it to ServiceMaster, and currently running a coaching business for small business owners. The discussion focused on Brent's approach to AI implementation in his plumbing company, including using tools like Gemini and Claude to streamline operations, automate processes, and create proprietary apps for gross margin control. Brent emphasized the importance of thinking about AI as a tool to rebuild businesses from scratch rather than simply adding it to existing operations, and highlighted that successful scaling requires strong leadership, proper pricing, and effective recruiting. The conversation also covered Brent's five key strategies for moving from the 80% of contractors doing less than $1.5M annually to the 15-20% controlling 60% of the $125 billion industry revenue.

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0:00.0	She's a business mogul, number one author, and wellness expert. How can I help? And now Shantel
0:07.0	Ray Fitch and her amazing guests are here to guide you on your journey to health, wealth, and
0:12.0	godly wisdom. Welcome to the Health, Wealth, and Godly Wisdom podcast. Hello, everyone. We are so excited you're with us. And today we have my amazing
0:25.5	co-host, my husband, Ryan Finch, and our amazing guest, Brent Garrett. And he has just written a
0:32.5	book called 30 Days to a Better Business, How to Transform Your business in 30 days. So we are so excited.
0:39.6	We are talking all about AI. We're talking all about scaling our favorite topics. So,
0:45.7	Ryan, welcome. Brent, welcome. Thank you very much, Hotel. And good to see you guys. Good see you too,
0:52.7	Ryan. Let's dive right in. Give us a little bit of
0:56.0	background of kind of what led you to write this book and a little bit about your business and
1:01.4	things that you've done to scale your own business. Sure. Well, I'm the son of a plumber.
1:06.8	I started in the plumbing and air conditioning business at the age of 12 on the end of a shovel.
1:12.0	And that was there as the motivation to teach me to go to school.
1:14.6	I'm a first generation graduate.
1:16.0	My background is in marketing and accounting.
1:20.3	And so I started my first plumbing company, license in both trades, plumbing and air machine company when I was 26 in Richardson,
1:29.3	Texas. And grew that over five years, scaled that business to about 15 employees, sold it to
1:35.5	Service Master, and joined their group, did join their executive team and did mergers and
1:40.8	acquisitions and was involved in operations with them for two years.
1:45.6	I learned a lot of got my corporate experience there, good and bad, I think. The good, bad and
1:50.2	ugly, maybe I should say. And then I got hired away to be a CEO of a real estate management
1:55.1	company in Memphis Tech, Tennessee. And we were in 14 states, did that for three years.
2:02.4	Kids were about ready to get in school. We got back to Texas, closer to family. And we've been in residential plumbing and
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