Family, Failure, and the Rebuild That Changed Everything With Travis & Kaidden Larsen | Episode 332
Real Business Owners
Trevor Cowley
5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
When business, family, and legacy collide — most people fail to balance them. Travis and Kaidden Larsen didn’t. This father–son duo built Legacy Contracting from the ground up, bounced back from economic collapse, and created a business model that runs on discipline, structure, and trust.This episode dives into what it really takes to rebuild after failure, teach the next generation how to earn—not inherit—and how to build systems that make your business unbreakable.
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| 0:00.0 | Being an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult. |
| 0:07.0 | Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't want to do. |
| 0:11.6 | What you're capable of is on the other side I don't feel like it. |
| 0:15.5 | And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to another episode of Real Business Owners with myself, Trevor Cowley. |
| 0:28.2 | Today, we have double guests. I haven't done a double guest in a while. So you guys are |
| 0:36.5 | helping me go back to my roots roots back in the day you said |
| 0:40.6 | you listen to all the podcasts sometimes we would have partners or whatever husband wife uh i don't know |
| 0:46.4 | if we've ever had a father and a son but we've got Travis larsson and Caden Larson on the show today |
| 0:51.7 | they are is he an owner or are you the owner at this point of Travis Larson on the show today. They are, is he an owner? Or are you, you the owner at this point |
| 0:56.6 | of Travis Larson construction? He does have his own license and his own business and everything. |
| 1:01.1 | Yeah. Yeah. Separately. Yeah. I'm the owner. I'm the owner of the business and he, I pay him |
| 1:07.7 | through his business. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like I pay. So you pay his entity and then you roll deductions through your entity to help reduce your income. 100%? Yeah. No, that makes sense. The way to get the way for tax purposes. Yeah. No. And he does his own jobs, you know, some side stuff or whatever. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.4 | How long have you guys been working with each other? |
| 1:32.9 | Like, I mean, obviously, you probably been hanging out with cops. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, I was going to say going to different sites for many, many years. |
| 1:40.4 | But like, when was, like, was there like a point in time where there was like a real conversation |
| 1:46.1 | that was had that's like yo i i want to work side by side with you or you going to him saying hey |
| 1:52.3 | i want you to come in and and help me with my company how did that so really kind of inspired about |
| 1:57.4 | 2014 is how i remember it we were building a cabin and Brian had um life was pretty |
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