It's really hard to be small, but it's really a lot harder to be small with two owners of a business.

And that's probably why you don't see this a lot.

Welcome back to Midweek Modern Craftsman, where today I am diving into a listener question from Ryan, a residential builder out in San Diego.

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So Ryan says that he is a residential builder out in San Diego, and he has a topic

that he finds interesting or potentially interesting for myself and the listeners.

And he goes into how he recently started another business with a younger G.C.

out in San Diego. They're doing custom remodels, ground up builds, medium to high end.

They come from a finished carpentry background. They both enjoy self-performing, but they're

struggling or they were struggling independently while self-performing, but they're struggling or they were struggling independently

while self-performing to handle the scheduling project management, business management, etc.

So here's his email.

I feel like with all the books and podcasts out there, the coaching folks are saying basically

stay small or go big, nothing in the middle.

Take off the toolbell.

If you want to raise your ceiling, you'll be trapped in business, self-performing.

So he understands this dynamic.

He's also worked with many other successful contractors, plumbers, carpenters, electricians who made great money, but were always stressing over time and management.

He says that he's also worked in other small businesses and started other small business is physically building and running coffee shops, coffee roasting

business here in Southern California.

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