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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

The Excellent AC Tune-Up - Part 2 - Special Guest: Steve Alwine

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we interview special guest Steve Alwine. Steve is an HVAC service technician with One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning in Lancaster, PA. Not growing up in the trades, Steve made the transition to HVAC well into his working career. Opening struggling through the beginning, he persevered to become a well-loved and frequently requested technician. Steve lends his expertise to the topic of AC tune-ups by sharing his own approach and how it has proven successful for him.

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0:00.0

It's all about the experience for them. We want to create a great experience for them.

0:07.0

We want to create a Disneyland experience for our client. That's what I'm there to do. I'm there to take care of them.

0:14.0

I want to focus on them when I'm there. I want to get everything else out of my mind. I'm there for that client. I'm there to take care of them. We are going to find problems. I mean, that's part of our job.

0:25.6

And if I do find any issues or concerns that are, if I bring it up to you and present you with

0:30.9

some opportunities to get it corrected.

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.

1:18.6

Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast. I'm your host, Nate.

1:29.6

I'm Brian. And we are kicking off this part two of our week with a special interview. We have our guests today, Steve Allwine. He's a service technician with one hour heating and air conditioning in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. And we're excited to have him

1:35.5

on around our topic, the excellent air conditioner maintenance. So really looking to dig in today

1:40.7

with some of his expertise, not only in kind of what he does as far as the process,

1:46.8

but also some of the conversation and the customer interaction that he has as well. So

1:52.2

really excited to have him on and we'll look forward to introducing him now. Welcome, Steve.

1:57.2

Yeah, thank you. Look forward to it. Awesome. Hey, well to we want to kind of get to know you a little

2:03.2

bit here and so let's start off with some basic stuff steve how did you get into the trades

2:08.3

and how did you find yourself here with us um well can i go back a little further sure man i mean

2:16.8

you want to start the birth came out with a pair Sure, man. I mean, you want to start at the birth? Came out with a pair of gauges in your hand or what? If you want to talk about dinosaurs, go for it, bro. It's your hand. No, it's just growing up. I was raised in a Christian home, and my dad always taught us to work hard, provide for our family, put food on the table. I mean, that's just the way

2:36.4

I was raised, work with our hands. Like some of the other ones I heard here, we had a workshop at home,

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