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$34M ➡️ $100M+ IN A SINGLE YEAR?! | How Kathryn Howard Hyper-Scaled Lee’s Air

📅 March 19, 2025 ⏱️ 45:03 🎤 Kathryn Howard

Chapters

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  • 0:00
    Intro: from federal prison to CEO of Lee's Air
  • 2:23
    $34M to $110M: the growth story
  • 8:32
    Taking over as CEO: full-team transparency
  • 10:46
    Align their goals with your goals
  • 12:34
    Raising prices and wages to build company value
  • 16:31
    Identifying and developing hidden talent
  • 18:44
    Sunny's story: promoting from within
  • 22:34
    Justin, Orlando and pathways to prosperity
  • 26:02
    Professional posture and high-performance sales
  • 41:36
    Closing: the prosperous mindset and abundance

Speakers

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Kathryn Howard
CEO, Lee's Air, Plumbing & Heating

Key Takeaways

Kathryn Howard went from federal prison to CEO of Lee's Air, helping grow the company from about $34M to roughly $110M in revenue.

Making money is a good thing — sales matters because it touches lives and creates careers and pathways to prosperity across the trades.

Employees will only work toward your goals if you align their personal goals with the company's, so leadership starts with knowing what each person actually wants.

Raising prices and wages together raises the value of both the company and its people; premium positioning is what funds better pay and real career paths.

Great companies find and develop hidden talent — people from unlikely backgrounds who just need a purpose greater than themselves to become leaders.

Promoting from within, like Sunny who mastered the CRM, rewards loyalty and turns frontline operators into the company's next generation of leaders.

High performance is a lifestyle: professional posture and belief matter as much as sales technique when it comes to closing consistently in any environment.

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