The Reality of Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Misconceptions with Cameron Herold

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this conversation, Tommy Mello and Cameron Herold discuss the importance of caring for employees, the challenges of entrepreneurship, and the significance of employee happiness in driving business success. They explore the differences between coaching and mentoring, the need for optimizing business operations, and the role of leadership in fostering a strong company culture. The discussion also touches on personal growth, the search for meaning beyond work, and the impact of influential books on leadership perspectives.

00:00 Caring for Employees: The Foundation of Success

04:49 The Reality of Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Misconceptions

09:55 The Importance of Employee Happiness

14:58 Coaching vs. Mentoring: Finding the Right Guidance

20:03 Optimizing Business Operations: Doing More with Less

24:45 Building a Strong Company Culture

29:49 The Role of Leadership in Employee Engagement

34:48 Personal Growth and Life Beyond Business

39:44 Books That Shape Leadership Perspectives

44:43 The Journey of Life: Finding Meaning Beyond Work

Transcript

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0:00.0	How do we care more about our employees' lives, their fears, their insecurities?
0:06.0	Because if we care about them more than anyone else, they'll go through brick walls for us to build the company.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week, Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields,
0:18.0	like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out what's really behind
0:22.9	their success in business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.
0:29.8	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.
0:43.2	Just text notes, N-O-T-E-S, to 888-526-1299.
0:50.6	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 for slash podcast to get your copy.
1:13.7	Now let's go back into the interview.
1:15.5	All right, guys, welcome back to the home service expert.
1:17.8	Today I got Cameron Herald, who actually is a great friend, and he's coaching us.
1:22.7	And he wrote the book, one of his best books.
1:25.2	I don't know.
1:25.6	He's got a lot of books, double, double, free PR. You wrote, Meeting Suck. What are some of the other books? I co-authored The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs, Vivid Vision, and then my most recent is the second in command. By the way, he's no fluff. He'll tell you exactly how it goes. He's an expert in sales business.
1:45.2	C.O. Advisory, because he realizes CEOs, don't do anything. They just delegate to their C.O.
1:51.4	He's the host of the Second in Command. He's known worldwide as the CEO Whisperer founded the C.O. Alliance and host of the second and command podcast,
2:03.5	the only podcast that's dedicated to COOs, or, you know, general managers. By the age of 35, Cameron
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