The best thing I can say anybody should do is always we educate themselves.

Go get the knowledge you need.

Like if you work on you, if you work on your leadership skills, if you work on reading, being around the right people,

it'll advance you so much further than putting your head down and just working hard.

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.

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

It is a never-ending discipline. It is a refuse to lose pursuit. It is a never-ending discipline.

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

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

Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast, your host, Nate and Brian hanging out and see you again, looking forward to a great show today. We are bringing back

on fan favorite and one of our personal friends, Mr. Tommy Mello. This is going to be a two-parter,

and we are looking forward to part one today as we get into the conversation about how to build a home service empire. Tommy's no stranger to the home services, and he's no stranger to building empires because that is what he is doing in A1 garage right now, and we are honored that he would take some time to spend with us today and share with our listeners exactly how things are going there. It's going to be a great conversation.

We are looking forward to it. Tommy's always entertaining and I'm sure we'll get in some great

stuff today. But before, as always, we're going to kick it off with a quote from Brian.

If you're comfortable, you're not growing. And if you're not growing, you are already losing.

Tommy Mello from one of his books, Elevate.

I like how you did that.

Bring in the guest for the quote, solid moves, and a great quote to start off the show.

Yeah, he's got a lot of them.

And for the most part,

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