From $500 to a $1.7M Masonry Business
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How did Kenneth turn a $500 start into a $1.7 M masonry business?
Ultimately I had the business sold at one point for one point seven million. I got in a bad accident in twenty twenty four, totally ruined that sale. We're like about three weeks from closing and uh the guy backed out ten days after the accident.
Oh man. So then then you had to go back in there and build it back up.
The ultimate goal is to leave my family better off than we started.
Kenneth Moreau is a resilient, driven, and accomplished masonry entrepreneur who built a thriving business through grit, hard work, and an unwavering determination to succeed. From extreme poverty to building a million dollar company, Ken's story is one of perseverance and refusing to quit.
You're always trying to tell the truth, right? And that's a very important thing in in the industry, right? In construction industry or or any of that, uh is to be trustworthy.
Everything you do in life is all about connections. Obviously if you're not the best to deal with, people ain't gonna deal with you. I wouldn't have started my company without wrestling. Really? You know, yeah, seeing like how hard the kids work and how hard you gotta push yourself and just seeing how hard those kids push themselves and like I was kinda working in the union only getting three to six months a year and I'm like Man, if I just work half as hard as these kids, I'm gonna be a millionaire.
Mm.
So I decided to start my own business and, you know, one thing leads to another and then
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Hey, welcome back everyone to another episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast. And I'm your host, Jay Slangan. And yeah, we got the uh privilege to talk to some of the greatest entrepreneurs from around the country, the disruptors, the experts, and today for America's Best Builders Show, a brand new show that we have at Inside Success. We got a special guest here from Massachusetts, kind of New England mind town of the woods. And uh yeah, have you uh introduce yourself and what's your business? business. I'm Kenneth Morrow. Uh I own Morro Masonry. Uh we're out of Tigbe, Massachusetts. All right. And so masonry, yeah. Uh a lot of backyards I'm guessing. Uh uh driveways. What what are you doing?
Uh, that's pretty much how we started. Now we do mostly commercial, like ninety five percent, ninety percent.
Okay. And what's uh the commercial masonry entail?
So a lot of retail stores, uh schools, um uh, you know, like hangers, like anything built out of block that's bigger or you know, but mostly retail. Um We do a lot of like uh Branding, branding branded buildings.
Okay. So in my mind, uh, you know, I'm not I'm not the I'm not the America's best builders handyman guy, right? But masonry, I'm thinking bricks, right? What else what else is it?
Brick block, uh ethos, which is like that stucco look. Okay. Um down here you guys have a lot of and Miami, you guys have a lot of like uh concrete with stucco over it. All right. Up north we do like a uh insulation, like two to four inches of insulation. And then it has a thin layer of uh stucco over it. So we offer that. We offer brick, block, stone.
Okay. Yeah, the that stucco gets a lot of cracks also.
So uh when you do it direct apply to somebody, yeah. But when you do on the insulation, it it holds up pretty good.
Oh, okay, okay.
What role did wrestling and personal discipline play in his entrepreneurial mindset?
Um, and so yeah, how long have you been in business for? Uh I've been in
business since two thousand and fourteen, so roughly twelve years.
Okay, okay. And so how big's your team now?
So the team is roughly today. Uh we we vary. We usually go like between four and ten people.
All right. Uh and yeah, I mean having a business for twelve years, uh that's quite an accomplishment, right? Uh congrats on that. And yeah, how do how do you how did you build your team? Was it solo at first or you had a couple crew?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did Kenneth turn a $500 start into a $1.7 M masonry business?
0:00–3:36
2
What role did wrestling and personal discipline play in his entrepreneurial mindset?
3:36–7:56
3
How did a chance contractor relationship become a turning point for Morrow Masonry?
7:56–12:46
4
Why does Kenneth rely on word‑of‑mouth and trust rather than traditional marketing?
12:46–16:59
5
How did reinvesting profits fuel the company’s growth and equipment upgrades?
16:59–19:57
6
What happened to the $1.7 M sale after the 2024 accident and how did he rebuild?
19:57–20:00
Speakers
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