#Revisiting a Classic with Jeff Sweenor

Modern Craftsman

Education, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Revisiting episode #53 Jeff Sweenor talks team building. The last repost for a while BUT if your new to the podcast this is a must listen and for those that have heard it, we'll be back next week with a new episode. Thank you for understanding!

Jeff Sweenor President and CEO of Sweenor Builders in Narragansett, RI joins the guys and shares his 30 years of building experience and knowledge. Jeff talks about numbers, building his team, working with This Old House, and much more.

Where to find our guest:

https://www.instagram.com/sweenor_builders/

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Where to find our hosts:

Nick Schiffer

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Tyler Grace

https://www.instagram.com/trghomeconcepts/

Transcript

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0:00.0	So we're down in Narragansett, Rhode Island at Jeff Sweeney's shop.
0:03.8	We spent the day with a handful of his employees.
0:06.9	Half of his crew.
0:08.4	Half, dude, we saw like five out of 50 people.
0:12.1	Okay, okay, this is great.
0:14.1	This is going to be incredible.
0:15.3	This is going to be incredible.
0:16.5	Yeah, Jeff was super generous and open the doors to everything.
0:20.4	Yeah, we looked at everything from numbers to projects to marketing to design and it was,
0:25.8	um, we're literally closing his shop tonight.
0:28.0	We are, yeah, because we're doing another podcast and you guys stay tuned for that guest.
0:32.8	But we talk a lot about actually, I'm just going to lead right into the fact that he left
0:39.9	Rhode Island, moved to Florida for his kids and took a sabbatical from this and came back
0:45.7	guns blazing.
0:46.7	Yeah, like hard and went with went into back into this market with a totally different approach.
0:53.1	As you guys see, uh, just been doing this for 30 years.
0:56.8	Yeah, and it kind of talked about his evolution in this industry.
1:01.1	Oh, yeah, to put his kids first.
1:03.3	It's in how he's basically hired the tough jobs.
1:07.7	Yeah, and it's strengthened his company.
1:10.5	You guys are going to love this one.
1:11.6	It's a really good one.
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