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The Home Service Expert podcast, hosted by A1 Garage Door Service founder Tommy Mello — candid interviews with top operators and experts on hiring, marketing, and scaling home-service businesses.

Peter Thomas on Losing $70 Million and Why He Never Panicked

Century 21 Canada founder Peter Thomas joins Tommy Mello to explain why he never panicked when a partnership collapse took his net worth to minus $70 million — money was the only thing he lost, and it's the one thing you can always make again.

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Peter Thomas on Losing $70 Million and Why He Never Panicked

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The True Competitive Edge In The Home Service Industry with Terry Nicholson and Tommy Mello

Finding Your Highest Calling As A Leader with Larry Janesky and Tommy Mello

Delivering An Outstanding Customer Experience With HomeAdvisor with Craig Smith and Tommy Mello

Leading Your Home Service Business with Power with Mike Agugliaro and Tommy Mello

The Mindset Of A Successful Business Owner with Kenny Chapman and Tommy Mello

Building A $100M Legacy In Entrepreneurship And Life with Cameron Herold and Tommy Mello

Creating Huge Demand For Your Business Using Direct Marketing with Gary Mulloy and Tommy Mello

Creating a Customer-Driven Company Culture with Michel Falcon and Tommy Mello

Empowering Your Employees To Scale Your Business 10x with Ellen Rohr and Tommy Mello

Grow Your Business 100x Through The Franchising Model with Nick Friedman and Tommy Mello

Transforming From A One-Man Show To An Employee-Centric Business with Mark Stoner and Tommy Mello

Becoming #1 In Your Local Market With Google Local Services with SearchKings and Tommy Mello

Scaling The Right Systems That Your Team Say YES To with Keith Lee and Tommy Mello

Turn Your Business Into A Marketing Machine with John Jantsch and Tommy Mello

Capturing 25% More Customers With Smart Financing with Darius Lyvers and Tommy Mello

Saving Thousands of Dollars With Tax Planning with Craig Cody and Tommy Mello

Boosting Your Bottom Line With Outstanding Customer Service with Shawn Reynolds and Tommy Mello

Connecting With Your Customers At An Emotional Level with Brigham Dickinson and Tommy Mello

Getting Your Booking Rates To As High As 90% with Susy Boyter of Callcap and Tommy Mello

Earning Your Customers’ Attention With Consistent Branding with Michael Baldwin and Tommy Mello

Combining Digital with Direct Mail For 10x Marketing Results with Jason Tropf and Tommy Mello

Creating Maximum Efficiency by Going Lean with Ryan Mecham and Tommy Mello

Leading With Care And Code To Achieve Business Success with Howard Partridge and Tommy Mello

Delivering Top-Notch Customer Service No Matter What with Parker Davis and Tommy Mello

Setting Yourself Apart From The Rest In Your Market with Simone Bruni and Tommy Mello

Building A Multi-Million Dollar Business From The Ground Up with Jason Phillips and Tommy Mello

Generating $2M in Sales Through Thumbtack with Josh Downing and Tommy Mello

Writing Copy That Makes Customers Ready To Buy with Ben Settle and Tommy Mello

Growing Your Bottom Line Through Better Execution with Thor Conklin and Tommy Mello

Making Networking Your Most Powerful Business Tool with Zachary Hall and Tommy Mello

Connecting Marketing, Design and Technology To Better Serve Your Customers with Peter Sena

Building Your Online Presence The Right Way with Jody Underhill and Tommy Mello

Achieving Freedom By Taking Control of Your Financial Future with Damion Lupo and Tommy Mello

Building And Leading a High Performing Team with Troy Timmer and Tommy Mello

Delivering Better Customer Experience Through Analytics with Brian Courtney and Tommy Mello

Achieving Permanent Profitability by Taking Profit First with Mike Michalowicz and Tommy Mello

Taking Your Marketing To The Next Level with Josh Elizetxe and Tommy Mello

Mastering The Financial Side Of Your Business with Justin Krane and Tommy Mello

Generating Loads of Leads in a Cost Effective Way with Todd Bairstow and Tommy Mello

Getting Ready For The Home Service Gold Rush with Joshua Latimer and Tommy Mello

Dominating The World Using The Franchise System with Brian Scudamore and Tommy Mello

Building a Successful Service Agreement Program with Jaime DiDomenico and Tommy Mello

Using One System To Run Your Entire Business with Ara Mahdessian and Tommy Mello

Building a Successful Business Without Working 24/7 with Christian Devlin and Tommy Mello

Generating 1100% Business Growth By Adopting The Right Mindset with Amanda Holmes and Tommy Mello

Turning Delegation Into Your Most Powerful Leadership Tool with Steve Gadsby and Tommy Mello

Getting To Know The Man Behind The Book Home Service Millionaire with Tommy Mello

Building a Fence Around Your Clients with Brian Kaskavalciyan and Tommy Mello

Transforming Your Company Into A Highly Productive Work Environment with Liam Martin

Hiring Remote Workers to Scale Your Business Faster with Nathan Hirsch

Firing Clients That Are Not A Good Fit For Your Business with Keith Kalfas

Creating a High Performing and Happy Workplace with Kevin Wilson

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Building Your Digital Reputation In The Home Service Industry with Aaron Hockel and Tommy Mello

Scaling Your Plumbing Business The Right Way with Richard Behney and Tommy Mello

Getting Accounting Done the Fast & Easy Way with Randal DeHart

Taking Your Business Operations To The Next Level with Danny Kerr

Connecting Digital with Traditional Marketing For Maximum Results with Mike Davis

Creating More Value For Customers With Fewer Resources with Paul Akers

Nailing Your Pricing Strategy With The One Truck Breakdown Exercise with Allan Ferguson

Mastering Marketing for Home Service Business Success with Matt Jones and Tommy Mello

Creating Content On Social Media The Smart Way with Shaina Weisinger and Tommy Mello

Taking Control of Your Business Finances with Effective Tax Planning with Nellie Akalp

How To Use The Phone To Build Lasting Customer Relationships with Art Sobczak and Tommy Mello

Growing A Home Service Business That Can Run Without You with Michael Kaplan and Tommy Mello

Supercharging Your Processes With Operating Manuals with Al Levi and Tommy Mello

Creating Predictable Profitability with The Four P’s of Freedom with Farres Elsabbagh

How “Paying Yourself First” Can Drive Up Profit Margins with Diane Gardner and Tommy Mello

Playing the Penny Game to Guarantee Business Growth and Profitability with Patrick Long

Uncomplicating Accounting to Take Control of Your Business’ Future with Ellen Rohr

Building A Successful Sales Strategy to Get New and Repeat Customers with Ali Mirza

Getting Consistent Traffic by Making SEO Work for You with Ryan Cote and Tommy Mello

Using this Six Magic Words to Become a Master Salesman with Mark Matteson and Tommy Mello

How To Build a 7 Figure Business With The Whale Vomit Method with Kevin Dubrosky and Tommy Mello

How to Easily Generate More Business with Amazon Home Services with Tammy Duchow

Taking a Proactive Approach to SEO to Generate More Qualified Leads with Bradley Benner

How Getting Rid of Self Limiting Beliefs Can 3x Your Business in Five Years with Brandon Vaughn

How Communicating with Empathy Can Help Technicians Achieve a 70% Closing Ratio

How Looking Beyond Experience Can Help You Find the Best Employees with Jim Olsztynski

80 Getting Ahead of The Competition with Voice Search and Google Guarantee with Lorne Sederoff

How the Right Operational Procedures Can Make Employees Embrace Accountability with Greg Crabtree

How to Create a Thriving Company Environment to Attract A Players with Brad Weimert

Understanding the Principles of Sales to Build Better Customer Relationships with Kevin Knebl

The Mindset That Can Take You From Outright Failure To Overnight Success with Zachary Babcock

How to Stand Out and Succeed in Your Industry by Knowing Your ROE Return on Energy

Why Delegation is a Crucial Leadership Skill in Making More Money for Your Business

How To Consistently Get New Customers By Putting Relationships First with Kody Bateman

Creating Scarcity and Building Emotion to Acquire More Customers with Rylee Meek and Tommy Mello

Using The Five Ethical Principles Of Persuasion To Grow Your Business with Akbar Sheikh

How To Maintain Good Credit And Avoid Being In The Red with Bill Hillestad

The Man Behind the E-Myth: Michael Gerber Shares His Secrets

Special Episode: Meet the A-team Behind A1 Garage Door Service’s Success

How Accountability and Zero-Based Budgeting Saves a Ton of Money For Business with Sean McGraw

From Losing $250,000 A Month To Making $100M A Year with Ken Goodrich

How to Achieve Financial Freedom By Becoming A More Effective Leader with Kelly Schols

How to Strategically Acquire Businesses to Grow Faster with Austin Clark

How to Generate Qualified Leads With The Right Approach To Digital Marketing

How To Transform A 28-Man Operation Into An 8-Figure Business with Adam Cronenberg

How Treating Relationships as the New Business Currency Can Make You More Profitable – Chris Hunter

Applying The Football Season Strategy to Get A-Players on Your Team with Danny Kerr

Applying D2D Tactics to Break Through Customer Objections and Win In Sales with Lenny Gray

Growing from $2M to $15M in 20 months with the Right Systems and Mindset

Overcoming The Three Major Business Gaps to Unlock Your Business Potential with Benji Carlson

Streamlining Your Booking Process to Close More Customers with Austin Haller

How To Use Data to Maximize Your Marketing Results with David Carroll

Boosting Your Team Efficiency with the Power of Operating Manuals with Al Levi

The 8 Profit Activators You Can Trigger in Your Business Right Now with Dean Jackson

Can AI Create The Systems And Processes You Need For Your Business? with Al Levi

Leveraging AI to Supercharge Your Company’s Marketing with Jason Shandy and Johnny Wenzel

Ensuring Your Company’s Longevity and Success with the Right Leadership Mindset with Darius Lyvers

Increasing Key Relationship Value by Mastering the Power of Gratitude

How Amazon’s Customer Obsession Inspired a Home Service Revolution with Zac Dearing

Harnessing AI for Financial Insights with Mike Barnhart

Mastering Client Mindsets for Better Engagement with Dr Chris Phelps The Home Service Expert Podcast

The Man Who Went From 0 to 24 MILLION in 3 Years with HVAC (ft. Ismael Valdez)

Why the Wealthiest Investors, Nobody Talks About, Are All in This Industry

He Built an 8-Figure Roofing Company at 26. Here’s How He Did It.

Why Direct Mail Still Dominates Home Service Marketing (Dan Harlacher)

How ServiceTitan Took Over the Trades Industry (Ara Mahdessian)

The Art of Differentiation in Marketing with Brian Sooy

The One Mindset Shift That Separates Good Operators From Great Ones

The Framework That Changes How Every Operator Thinks About Growth

The AI Tool Home Service Owners Are Already Losing To

The #1 Reason Home Service Companies Get Stuck Between $1M and $10M

AI Will Run Your Business Sooner Than You Think (Boris Valkov)

The Future of Blue-Collar is Tech, AI, Roofing, and Power (Josey Parks)

How Top Entrepreneurs Rewire Their Thinking To Become Successful (Shawn & Kaitlin Feurer)

The Highest ROI Marketing Tool for Home Service Businesses (Tim Hilcove)

The Sales Reframe That Changes How Every Technician Thinks About Their Job

How to Optimize Your SEO Strategy and Start Converting – Nate Fischer

Inside LJW: 40+ Years of Advertising That Actually Works – Sam John

How to Scale and Exit Your Business (Brian Franco)

The Sales System That Took Him to $300M+ Revenue (David Peterson)

The Art of Customer Service: Building a Culture-First Business with Rob Anderson

Understand Your Company’s Performance Metrics with These Tips (Brigham Dickinson)

Psychology Tricks That Got My Business to $500M (David Royce)

How AI Is Closing Deals for Home Service Businesses with Chiirp (Ryan Fenn)

From Turf to Triumph: A Leader’s Journey with Dillion Georgian

Sales Success: Unlocking Potential Through Financing with Justin Hatcher

Breaking Limiting Beliefs: on Leadership, Sales, and Mindset Mastery with Grant Winstead

Breaking Barriers in Home Services

Marketing, Sales, Capacity Planning, and Scaling Home Services with Ismael Valdez

HSE: Why Most Deals Fail with Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary (Extended Cut)

Insights from a Marketing Veteran with Megan Beattie

Building Wealth Through Private Equity in Home Services with Richard Lewis and Adam Hanover

Unlocking the Secrets of Private Equity with Johnny Conklin

Unlocking Buyer Psychology: The Key to Sales Success with Joe Cunningham

The Art of Leadership: Build Trust Overnight with Jeff Hancher

The 4 Pillars of Leadership with Paul Kelly

Keeping the Blue Collar Spirit Alive with RJ Magee

How To Earn Trust and Influence According to Renowned Psychologist Robert Cialdini

AI and the Transformation of Business with Leo Pajera

E435 The Reality of Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Misconceptions with Cameron Herold

From Prison to Purpose: Peter Meyerhoff’s Journey of Redemption

Wealth Hacks and Motivation for Entrepreneurs with Tom Howard

The Truth About Success: Scott Clary on Building Brands and Taking Ownership

Home Service Niche Growth Strategies with Tim Brown

The Power of Mindset in Entrepreneurship with Ryan Lee

Unlocking the Blue Collar Economy with Benji Carlson

The Intersection of Technology and Marketing in Business with Jim Leslie

Marketing Like a Billionaire: Inside the Mind of Russell Brunson

E427 Home Service Expert: Journey of an Automotive Expert with Aaron Stokes

Maximizing Fleet Efficiency: Insights from Industry Expert Renee Millum | E428 Home Service Expert

97 Year Old Business Expert Shares 60+ Years Of Business Secrets

Unlocking Financial Success in Business with Ellen Rohr

Unlocking Organizational Success Through Management with Brian Gottlieb

Mastering Business Budgets & Insights with Lawrence Castillo

Unlocking Success: The Entrepreneurial Mindset with Austin Zaback

Mastering Sales Strategy in 2025 with Sam Wakefield

Become a Real Estate Expert with Brandon Turner

Navigating the Balance of AI and Human Interaction in Business with Brigham Dickinson

The Power of Networking: Who’s in Your Life? with Ivan Misner

From Humble Beginnings to Business Success with Ismael Valdez

Building Trust in a Digital Age with Marcus Sheridan

Special Family Q&A with Tommy Mello’s Niece and Nephews!

Secrets to Real Estate Success with Patrick Francey

Navigating the Digital Marketing Landscape with KickCharge Creative

Inside The Franchise Playbook: From Startups to Scalable Empires

Unlocking Millionaire Success Habits with Dean Graziosi

Understanding the Complexities of the Commercial Landscape with Josh Young

Mastering the Art of Franchising with Jeff Dudan

The AI Marketing Software That Could Make YOU MILLIONS.

78 Minutes of Sales Techniques That Could Change Your LIFE (Ft. Jeremy Miner)

How To Increase Your Conversion Rates- with Joe Crisara

How YOUR Mental Health is Affecting Your Business!

How to Scale a Business from $10M to $1 BILLION (ft. Adam Coffey)

Garage Door CEO Answers Questions ON How To Scale Your Business.

How To NEVER Lose An EMPLOYEE or CUSTOMER (Ft. Joey Coleman)

Why Entrepreneurs Aren’t MAXIMIZING Productivity. (ft. Gino Wickman)

How He Built a $100 MILLION Roofing Company (ft. Josh Jerge)

How He REVOLUTIONIZED the Subscription Model for Hair Cuts?! (ft. Jacob Meltzer)

The CEO Behind a 233 MILLION SOLAR COMPANY (and How He Exited) ft. Chris Lee.

Asking A Home Service MILLIONAIRE Business Advice

Daymond John Shares Shark Tank SECRETS and The Art Of Negotiation

How These Habits Can Help You Buy Back Your Time (ft. Dan Martell)

From TRAILER PARK to MULTI-MILLIONAIRE with SaaS – A Conversation With Josh Latimer

The 3 Secrets To Becoming a Better Speaker

Kobe Bryant’s Mentality Coach Teaches YOU How to CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

These SIMPLE Techniques, Could Make YOU MILLIONS in Door To Door Sales

The Unbreakable Rules Of Multi-Million Dollar Entrepreneurs

How He Built a Multi-Million $ Marketing Company.

How You Can Generate MORE Leads With Digital Marketing (Ft. Chris Yano)

How To Be DISCIPLINED with Diamond Dallas Page

How Tommy Mello Became the Home Service Millionaire

How To Maintain Good Credit And Avoid Being In The Red with Bill Hillestad

Using The Why Story Formula to Get Your Customers to Know, Like, and Trust You with Dennis Yu

Special Episode: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Book Home Service Millionaire

The Smartest Home Service Owners in the Country Are All Doing This One Thing

The Marketing System That Took Bath Works From $12M to $52M in One Year

Why Most Remodelers Keep Paying for Demand They Could Be Creating for Free

The #1 Pricing Mistake New Contractors Make — And How to Correct It

The Talent System That Transformed Window Nation’s Entire Workforce | Mike Matalone

He Grew A Company To $220M | His Warning To Every Home Service Owner

Why Most Garage Door Companies Lose Half Their Calls

The Belief That Separates the People Who Win From Everyone Else | Evan Carmichael