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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Tommy Mello with A1 Garage Doors on Crushing Our Comfort Zones

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting Tommy Mello in your passenger seat to discuss getting out of your comfort zone and expanding what is possible. Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and the founder of A1 Garage Doors, a $50 million-plus home service business with over 200 employees in 9 states. Through HomeServiceMillionaire.com and the Home Service Expert podcast, Tommy shares his experience and insights to help fellow entrepreneurs scale their businesses. On the episode today, Tommy shares the innovations and processes he has developed in the garage door industry and we see if we can extract some ideas into the home services trades. From training to sales to systems, Tommy is a forerunner in the home services business and shares what has made him successful and how to keep pushing for the next level.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I played all these sports, soccer, baseball, football, and we do these things called two

0:06.4

a days.

0:07.4

So we practice twice a day, five days a week to play once.

0:11.1

So we practice ten times more than we played.

0:13.8

Well in business for some reason we say, we're going to practice a little bit in the beginning

0:17.7

and then you're going to play the game every day.

0:19.6

And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. And I try to hire athletes or somebody that was in a band or somebody that made a

0:24.0

commitment and learned to excel at something. I love those because they're used to that. They grew

0:28.6

up with that. That every day they'd have to practice or play, I think we're missing that these days.

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 and Brian are hanging out with you again on this new week. And we are excited to have a new guest with us. Of course, we are bringing on the one and only Tommy Mello onto the show, and he's going to be

1:28.6

talking about some high-level stuff. So buckle up those bootstraps and make sure you're hanging on

1:33.7

because it's going to be a good ride. High-level stuff? High-level stuff. He made me and Nate feel like

1:39.8

toddlers. I didn't want to put that out there. Probably, probably 15 minutes of the interview.

1:47.3

We, uh, in this case, we are, uh, recording the intro, uh, five days after we recorded the

1:54.7

interview with Mr. Mello. And we couldn't do it the same day because we just walked out of this room like

2:01.8

yeah i had to i had to go clear my mind and reevaluate my life after this podcast

2:07.3

yeah i'm not making a big enough contribution is what i came away with like whoa and then he's he's

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