Josh Young
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97 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Have fun. Right. Yeah. So so I think I don't know that I would change anything other than shape to shape to you are in the decisions you make today. So I agree with that. Right. So, you know, other than that, I just think, you know, learning faster how to become a leader and being more humble and not being so stuck on, you know, the dollars. Right.
Um, and me like what's in it for me, what, you know, once I got over to that part, if I could have relieved that part of it, like long, long ago, I guess that would be the one thing is like being more humble and not doing it for me, doing it for the cause and for the people underneath me, I think would, you know, I would be in a lot better place today if I had learned that faster.
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Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love, I love, love business. I don't know that I love commercial construction as much. Yeah. Right. But I do love business. I love the financial part of it. I love going through, you know, an income statement or a balance sheet and picking out things. You know, how do we do this better?
Like I said, we were talking about, you know, well, how did you get, you know, get so good with the cashflow and making sure that you don't get behind on payments with these people, just, just figuring out those issues. I really enjoy and building the business, right. Building people up, pushing them to do things that they never thought they could do. Right.
I get a lot of enjoyment out of pushing people that said, I can't do this. There's no way. And then all of a sudden, you know, a year later, they're doing double what they thought they could. You know, I have an estimator that came in. He sold like $2 million, right? And now he's selling $15 million a year. You know, he said, there's no way I'm going to ever get there, right?
And I just kept pushing and pushing and pushing. And finally, you know, last year, he went above what he had set for a goal. So that's the kind of stuff that I love. And one of the things that I finally learned is I do need a leadership team. And I didn't know what that meant. And I can tell you, Vistage has helped me quite a bit.
Yeah, Vistage has helped me quite a bit in that sense. I should have joined a group a long time ago. Because you only know what you know, right? And if you're not meeting like you are with people every single day or in your industry or different industries, you just don't know. You don't know what's out there. You don't know the people you can go to. So Vicious kind of opened my eyes up to that.
And I was able to ask more questions to different people. And so I learned really fast the type of leaders that I wanted and then started going after them. And wasn't afraid to pay, like you said earlier, right? Pay what they're worth.
So I'll tell you a story. My father-in-law just had your guys out to fix his garage door, right? Oh, that was a good story. So no, it was great. So I'm over there during Christmas, right? And he's telling me, yeah, I got these guys to come over and do. I said, who was it? He's like, A1 Garage Door. I'm like, oh, Tommy Mello. And anyways, we're getting talked about.
He's like, yeah, all I wanted was a new garage door, right? So the guy comes over and he said, this guy was super knowledgeable. So he starts talking to him about the springs and about the rails and about the different things, right? Not necessarily trying to upsell him, just talking through things. Yeah, educating him, right? And he was like, by the end of it,
I had not only garage door, but my rails were changed. The springs were changed. The head was changed. He said he hooked me all up, got my iPhone working, you know, with the garage door. He was super stoked about it. And he paid like 15 grand, you know. He was looking to spend like five, you know. And he was excited that he spent more money because, you know, he had a story to tell.
And I was just like, I'm like, wow. And that was, I mean, kudos to you, man. Like that's huge, right?
I agree. We do the same in our business, right? Even though we're given a set of plans and specifications and told, hey, this is what we want.
Yeah, change orders.
that's after you get the job though you get the job yeah we give what we call ve options right so value engineering options so it's like hey if we do this a little bit different we can save you a bunch of money and sometimes they're like yeah we'll do it that way and sometimes they're like now we want it exactly how it is on the plan so we call it value engineering or be i love that so
So, you know, don't be afraid to, you know, talk about things that are going on. I feel like some people, you know, they want to be the biggest and the baddest company out there and they don't want to show, you know, you know, their dirty underwear. Right. And that's what the nice thing is going to Vistage. It exposes that. Right. So it's like, hey, this person's having an H.R. issue.
Well, so am I. And so is this person. So is that person. Right. So it's nice to be like, I'm not the only one out there with these issues. And then you learn like, holy crap, everybody's going through this. You know, so I think, you know, that was one of the big things in friendship. You know, you're. you're in these meetings, they get kind of deep. I've made a bunch of friends through it.
And, and when I say friends, they're just, they get it right. They're a business owner. They go through this stuff every day. You can talk to them on a different level than your neighbor, right. Or your friend from high school that, you know, works a regular job. So I think some of that is also important. And it gives you contacts, right?
It gets you in front of people, again, business owners, contacts, you know, helps you, you know, kind of get a network of people around you that you can trust that will help you, you know, hopefully grow your business.
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