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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Tom Howard - Fall in love with a budget!

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Tom went from HVAC apprentice to owner of six businesses and a VP at Service Titan. Today he talks about how and why to create a budget for yourself or your business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You ever carry a balance on a credit card?

0:06.0

Yes.

0:07.0

Okay, shut it down.

0:08.0

You are a debtaholic.

0:10.0

You are paying a bank 20% freaking interest on money.

0:14.0

You have a problem.

0:16.0

And the sooner you admit it to yourself and get off that crap.

0:20.0

Like I'm telling you, I don't know a single

0:22.2

successful person that carries credit card debt. Not one. Credit card debt is what very, very,

0:30.1

very rich corporations use to get you to pay them 20% interest.

0:39.0

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services

0:46.1

industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.

0:51.3

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset. It is a never-ending

0:57.8

discipline. It is a refuse to lose pursuit. It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no

1:04.3

debt. Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick.

1:22.2

Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast, your host, Nate and Brian,

1:25.0

hanging out with you again and looking forward to a great show today.

1:44.3

We have none other than Tom Howard joining us today. He's going to be talking about budgeting and a lot of other great financial tips and advice for you. This is going to be both personal and a business type episode. So whether you're a tech, whether you're a business owner or somewhere in between, there's going to be something for you. And we're looking to great content from Tom.

1:47.8

Right now, though, we're going to have a little bit of an introduction ourselves, and we're going to look to Brian to start us off with a great quote.

1:53.4

I never wanted to be a product of my environment. I wanted my environment to be a product of me.

2:01.1

Frank Costello made famous by the movie The Departed.

2:06.8

All right.

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