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    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast

    Construction business owners doing $1M–$20M: fix your preconstruction and handoffs so you can stop firefighting and build a profitable business that runs without you.

    For custom home builders, remodelers, commercial GCs, and trade contractors, this podcast shows you how to design a real preconstruction process and nail the handoff from office to field. If your projects are slipping, profit is bleeding out through rework and giveaways, and everything lives in your head, you’ll get practical systems to tighten precon, cut chaos, and turn your construction business into a more profitable, controllable machine that runs without you.

    Over time, you’ll use what you hear on this show to:

    ✅ Buy back your time– spend less of your week in day‑to‑day fires and more of it leading, selling, and actually living your life.

    ✅ Maximize your profit from the work you already do instead of just grinding for more volume.

    ✅ Scale with confidence – grow the business without doubling your hours or losing control.

    ✅ Turn your company into a real asset, not just a job – one that can run without you, give you real vacations, and eventually support whatever exit or lifestyle you want.

    Host Todd Dawalt has spent nearly 30 years in construction and the last decade coaching hundreds of builders, remodelers, GCs, and trade contractors on these issues, managing over $300M of projects and helping companies uncover millions in hidden profit.

    Hit *Follow* so you don’t miss an episode and keep turning your construction business into a systematized, profitable machine that doesn’t depend on you for every decision. To go deeper, tools and resources are at constructionleadingedge.com.

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    Latest Episodes:
    What To Do When Your Construction Business Finally Runs Without You | Ep. 458 Aug 24, 2026
    Show notes

    You systematized your construction business and now it runs without you, so what do you actually do next? Todd Dawalt and CEO Alliance coach Monish Khadye break down the operator-to-owner shift and how to build a construction business that supports the life you want.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 Most construction business owners spend years chasing the same goal: a company that runs without them. But what happens once you actually get there? In this episode, Todd Dawalt sits down with Monish Khadye, a coach who leads the CEO Alliance member team, to talk through the problem that shows up when the systems finally work and the phone stops blowing up. You've made the shift from operator to owner, and now you're staring at your calendar asking who you are without the business.

    Todd and Monish dig into the head trash that keeps owners glued to the day-to-day. Fear that hides behind procrastination. The belief that nobody can do the work as well as you can. An identity that got wrapped up with the company over decades of building it. They also name a warning sign Todd calls the firefighter who becomes the arsonist, where owners who miss being needed start creating the problems they used to solve.

    Then the conversation gets practical. Monish lays out the pieces that let a construction business run without its owner, from the right people in clearly defined seats to documented processes and a financial dashboard that projects the next twelve months. Todd shares the federal prison thought experiment his members used to expose how dependent their businesses still are on them, and how the same answer solves business continuity if something ever happens to the owner. Real builders are already doing this, taking long trips while their companies keep turning a profit. Consider this your starting point.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 When the Business Runs and You Don't Know What to Do

    04:00 What Actually Keeps Owners Stuck

    06:50 The Hidden Fears Behind Procrastination

    11:24 Your Business Should Not Be Your Identity

    13:32 Real Client Stories: Travel, Racing, Missions Work

    16:46 The Firefighter Who Becomes the Arsonist

    22:36 The Federal Prison Thought Experiment

    25:04 What Happens If the Owner Is Gone

    30:06 The Power of a Peer Group

    38:40 Design the Life You Actually Want

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Register for The Construction Leadership Advance - October 22-23, 2026 in Nashville -HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: https://constructionleadingedge.com/

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!

    #ConstructionBusiness #ContractorMindset #GeneralContractor #BuilderCEO #ConstructionSales #ConstructionLeadingEdge #ContractorGrowth


    The Skywalk Collapse & The 5 Decision Questions Every Construction Leader Must Train Their Team On | Ep. 457 Aug 17, 2026
    Show notes

    The 1981 Kansas City Hyatt skywalk collapse came down to one unchecked decision, and it holds a hard lesson for every construction business owner. In this episode of the Construction Leading Edge podcast, Todd Dawalt shares a decision-making framework of five questions and four tips to train your team to make better calls in the field and in pre-construction.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉Your team makes dozens of decisions a day, and most were never trained on how. In this episode I break down the five questions and four tips that help construction leaders make sharper calls under pressure, before the pressure hits. Give it a listen, then share it with whoever on your team needs it most.

    On any given day, the people on your construction team make dozens of calls that touch your money, your schedule, and your safety. Most of them have never been trained on how to make a decision well. Todd Dawalt opens this episode with the 1981 Kansas City Hyatt skywalk collapse, a disaster that traces back to a single design change nobody stopped to question, and uses it to show what happens when decisions get made on gut feel instead of a framework.

    From there, Todd lays out a practical decision-making framework any construction leader can teach: five questions to run before acting, and four tips for moving faster without moving recklessly. You'll hear where Colin Powell's 40/70 rule fits, why thinking three steps ahead saved one company from serious liability, and how the cost of indecision stacks up while you wait.

    The through-line is pre-construction. The more decisions your team locks in before a job starts, the fewer expensive fires they fight once it's running. If your project managers and superintendents keep winging it in the field, this is the episode to share with them, and a preview of the exact skills Todd is training at the Construction Leadership Advance in Nashville this October.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 The Collapse That Started With One Bad Decision

    03:54 How Many Decisions Your Team Makes Daily

    06:26 Construction Leadership Advance in Nashville

    07:34 Five Questions for Better Decisions

    08:42 Question 1: When Does the Risk Profile Change?

    10:02 Question 2: Do You Even Need to Decide?

    11:22 Question 3: Who Should Be Involved?

    13:28 Question 4: What Is the Desired End Result?

    14:44 Construction Leadership Advance: Second Mention

    16:36 Question 5: What Is the Cost of Indecision?

    19:44 Business Evaluation Call

    23:22 Tip 1: The Colin Powell 40/70 Rule

    24:50 Tip 2: The Lynyrd Skynyrd Three Step Rule

    28:02 Tip 3: Set a Decision Deadline

    30:18 Tip 4: Decisions Take Seconds

    34:24 Construction Leadership Advance: Final Mention

    35:04 Recap and Closing

    Additional Resources: ⚡Register for The Construction Leadership Advance - October 22-23, 2026 in Nashville - HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    How To Hold Employees Accountable: The Big 5 System | Ep. 456 Aug 10, 2026
    Show notes

    Todd Dawalt breaks down how to hold employees accountable in your construction business using the Big 5 Accountability System. It's a simple, repeatable way to build ownership across your team without micromanaging or hovering all day.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉If you're constantly repeating yourself and correcting the same mistakes, this episode hands you a five-step system to hold your team accountable without chasing everyone down. Hit play to build accountability into your business instead of carrying it on your shoulders.

    If you've ever felt like you hired adults but you're still babysitting them, this one's for you. Todd digs into the story of J.R., a construction business owner who brought on a new office hire and immediately felt buried. He was repeating himself, following up, fixing mistakes, and wondering why nobody would take ownership. J.R. said he didn't want to be corporate or micromanage his people. But here's the uncomfortable truth Todd unpacks: when you have no systems, micromanagement becomes your only management system.

    From there, Todd walks through the Big 5 Accountability System, a five-step approach that moves accountability off your plate and into a repeatable machine. It starts with fixing the structure instead of the person, then defining what winning looks like for each role in three to five clear outcomes. Since results like 'on schedule' and 'on budget' are lagging indicators, he shows you how to reverse-engineer them into leading indicators of success: the daily and weekly activities, like daily logs and two-week look-aheads, that actually drive the outcome.

    He rounds it out with the pieces most owners skip: a checklist for what 'done right' actually looks like, training built on real examples, then a trust-but-verify rhythm to inspect and reinforce the work. The big reframe? Most people problems in construction are really systems deficiencies. Fix the system and you stop playing whack-a-mole with your team. If your business still runs through your head, this episode is where you start getting your time back.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Why you're still babysitting your team

    03:28 No systems means constant micromanaging

    06:02 Accountability starts with clarity

    06:56 Step 1: Define roles and responsibilities

    09:04 Step 2: Define what winning looks like

    10:38 Step 3: Create leading indicators of success

    15:28 Step 4: Build a checklist and train your team

    19:34 Step 5: Inspect and reinforce (trust but verify)

    22:00 How to delegate accountability

    26:38 Most people problems are systems problems

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡The Construction Leadership Advance - October 22-23, 2026 in Nashville - HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: https://constructionleadingedge.com/

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    How Builder CEOs Get Sh*t Done (Without More Willpower or Fixing Your ADHD Brain) | Ep. 455 Aug 03, 2026
    Show notes

    If you stay busy all day but the work that actually grows your construction business keeps getting pushed to tomorrow, the problem probably isn't your willpower or your ADHD brain. In this episode, Todd Dawalt breaks down the deep work system builder CEOs use to cut interruptions, protect their time, and get the important work done.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 You start the week knowing exactly what you need to work on, then somehow reach Friday having answered every email and put out every fire while the work that actually moves your business never got touched. Todd Dawalt calls the hidden culprit the Owner Interruption Count: the running total of calls, texts, job site notifications, and questions that land on you in a single day. Once that number climbs past 75 or 100, the issue isn't your personal discipline. Your business has been designed so every decision flows back to you.

    The answer Todd lays out is the deep work session: one or two protected blocks each week, each pointed at a single concrete outcome. He reframes what your time is actually worth, shows why scattered five-minute pockets never add up to real progress, and explains how attention residue drains your focus every time you switch tasks.

    From there he shares ten field-tested tips, from getting out of your usual office and putting your phone on airplane mode, to using a virtual assistant to protect the block, leaning on accountability, and treating AI as a thinking partner. The point of every session is to solve a recurring problem at the root so it stops returning, and to free up more hours for the high-value work only you can do.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Why Good Intentions Don't Get Things Done 00:56 Download the Builder CEO Weekly Operating System 06:16 The Owner Interruption Count and What It Reveals 08:28 Business Evaluation Call 11:28 Why Your Time Is Worth $1,000 an Hour 17:36 Scattered Time Does Not Create Meaningful Progress 19:12 Tip 1: Schedule Deep Work Like a Client Appointment 22:22 Tip 2: Define a Specific Outcome Before You Start 24:08 Tip 3: Put the Phone Down and Protect the Block 26:00 Tip 4: Change Your Location to Change How You Think 28:12 Tip 5: Create a Protected Focus Block With a Timer 30:02 Tip 6: Use Your Virtual Assistant to Make It Happen 32:08 Tip 7: Add External Accountability 35:12 Tip 8: Use AI as a Deep Work Thinking Partner 36:28 Tip 9: Solve Problems Systematically, Not Just Once 37:54 Tip 10: Consistency Matters More Than a Perfect Routine 41:18 Five Questions to Identify What to Work On

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Builder CEO Weekly Operating System: HERE

    ⚡The Remote Assistant Playbook: HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    How Cody Scaled His Custom Home Business to Increase Profit and Win Back His Life | Ep. 454 Jul 27, 2026
    Show notes

    Custom home builder Cody Reimer went from a burned-out two-man crew to running a 12-person company that operates without him in the day-to-day. Todd Dawalt breaks down the construction business systems and the paid pre-construction process that moved Cody out of the field and into a real CEO role.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉When Cody Reimer reached out to Todd Dawalt, he was close to hanging up the belt. He had a two-man operation and a crew that had left one guy at a time. Worse, he was starting to see that he was the bottleneck. As long as every decision ran through Cody, the business had no room to grow.

    The turnaround started with systems. The first real one was a paid pre-construction process, which became Oaken Builders' biggest sales and marketing tool. Instead of giving away free estimates, Cody learned to sell on value. He asks clients about their past building experiences and what they're really afraid of, then shows how planning the house on paper protects both their budget and their peace of mind. Clients say yes. He also built an accountability chart and a CEO calendar so his hours stay on the work that moves the business forward.

    The results show up in the numbers and at home. Top-line revenue and margins are both up, and the team has grown to twelve people in defined seats. Cody now works under forty hours a week, and he recently took a full week off on short notice without anything falling apart. A lot of that traces back to a who-not-how shift: stop asking how you'll get it all done and start asking who's built to do it.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 From Two Man Operation to 12 Person Team: Cody Reimer's Story

    01:06 Free Assessment: Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale?

    04:02 Introducing Cody Reimer of Oaken Builders

    06:00 The Low Point: Close to Quitting and Considering a Career Change

    09:16 The Big Realization: You Are the Problem in Your Business

    12:36 Why Entrepreneurs Chase New Ideas Instead of Building One Thing

    14:48 The E-Myth Light Bulb Moment

    15:38 The First Monday the Phone Was Quiet

    17:40 The Three Systems That Changed Everything

    20:00 Business Evaluation Call

    22:28 How Cody Sells Pre-Construction as a Paid Service

    25:40 Pre-Construction Happens Whether You Plan It or Not

    29:10 How the Business Runs Without Him Now

    31:24 Who Not How: Hiring the Right People for the Right Seats

    35:00 The Mental Malware That Keeps Owners Stuck

    37:10 Keys to Actually Implementing Change in Your Business

    40:06 CEO Alliance: What It Is and What It Did for Cody

    42:26 From Sanding Nail Holes to Strategic Planning Sessions

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Is Your Construction Business Ready to Scale [Free Assessment]: HERE ⚡Oaken Builders: HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    Why Waffle House Is More Systematized Than Your Construction Business | Ep. 453 Jul 20, 2026
    Show notes

    If you're a contractor working 60 to 80-hour weeks and still putting out fires, here's an uncomfortable truth: Waffle House is probably more systematized than your construction business. Todd Dawalt sat at the counter during a lunch rush and walked out with four systems lessons that show exactly where your company is bleeding time and profit.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 It started with a cook's shirt that read "$2 Million Club." That sent Todd down a rabbit hole into how Waffle House runs its line with no iPads, no kitchen displays, and no software, just a grill and a process most contractors can't match. He breaks down the "pull, drop, mark" order handoff and why a real-time, face-to-face handoff kills the ambiguity that buries your project details in Dropbox folders and email threads.

    From there Todd unpacks the "magic marker" plate code that lets any cook run the line at any location, and what it teaches you about building a "this is how we do it" playbook so your project managers and supers stop running five different versions of your company. He also makes the case for radical transparency, moving from a black box to a glass box, and why letting clients see how the sausage gets made earns you trust and far fewer fights over price.

    The last lesson is the one Todd says might be the most valuable, and it comes back to that $2 Million Club shirt. Status and recognition move people harder than a small raise ever will. He shares how his own Extra Mile Club changed behavior across a 50-person company, and how to build your version so your best people feel seen before they go looking elsewhere.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 What a Waffle House Shirt Taught Me About Construction

    01:38 Free Training: Get Out of Your Construction Business

    02:22 Lesson 1: The Pull Drop Mark Method

    05:50 Why Most Handoffs Break Down

    08:04 Lesson 2: The Magic Marker System

    13:30 Business Evaluation Call

    16:02 Lesson 3: Radical Transparency

    20:30 How Clients Fill Silence With Their Worst Fears

    21:58 Lesson 4: The Two Million Dollar Club

    24:00 The Extra Mile Club and the Poker Chip Story

    27:00 Four Waffle House Lessons Recap

    Additional Resources: ⚡Get Out of Your Construction Business: How to Make it Run Without You: HERE

    ⚡How to Use the Moneyball Strategy to Run Your Construction Business Like a Machine: HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    The 5-Step Hire Right System: How Construction Business Owners Can Hire Better with Justin Landry | Ep. 452 Jul 13, 2026
    Show notes

    Hiring for your construction business shouldn't feel like an emergency every time you do it. In this episode, Todd Dawalt sits down with JL Talent Solutions founder Justin Landry to break down a five-step system for hiring better construction employees without leaning on gut feel.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 Most construction owners only start hiring when someone quits or the team is already stretched past its limit. Justin Landry calls this the reactive hiring trap, and it's why so many builders end up hiring for skills when the thing they were really missing was fit.

    Justin has spent ten years helping high-end construction companies across North America make data-driven hires instead of gut-feel gambles. In this conversation, he and Todd dig into why the "all the good people are gone" story is usually fear doing the talking, and why your strongest candidates are almost never the ones actively scrolling job boards. Todd also makes the case for what an owner's time is actually worth, and why "I'll just do it myself" tends to cost far more than it looks.

    From there, Justin walks through his Hire Right System, moving from how you build a candidate pipeline before you ever have an opening all the way to the structured, scorecard-based interview that takes the guesswork out of who you bring on. He also gets into why a fat paycheck alone won't land great people, and how a smaller company can put together an offer that beats what the big firms are waving around.

    If hiring has felt like a fire drill every single time, Justin and Todd lay out a calmer, repeatable way to get it right.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Why Hiring Feels Like an Emergency Every Time

    01:54 Free Masterclass: How to Escape Day to Day Operations

    03:14 Introducing Justin Landry of JL Talent Solutions

    04:50 The Reactive Hiring Trap and Why It Keeps You Stuck

    06:00 Gut Fit vs. Right Fit: How to Hire for Culture

    09:00 Why You Should Be Recruiting Even When You Have No Vacancies

    13:10 Your Time Is Worth $1,000 an Hour

    18:12 Business Evaluation Call

    20:44 Scarcity Brain: The Real Reason Owners Avoid Hiring

    22:16 Step 1: The Magnet: Build a Pipeline Before You Need It

    25:44 Step 2: The Filter: Screen Smarter With Assessment Data

    27:22 Step 3: The Blueprint: Match the Person to the Role

    31:56 Step 4: The Walkthrough: Structured Scorecard Interview

    39:20 Step 5: The Close: Make an Offer Built Around the Whole Person

    43:44 Client Results: Andrew at GDG and Jeremy the Estimator

    48:08 Three Options When You Know You Need to Hire

    50:36 Free Hire Right System Scorecard and How to Reach Justin

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Escape from Day to Day Operations So You Can Focus on Being a Visionary CEO [Free Masterclass] - HERE

    ⚡Hiring System Scorecard & Checklist: HERE

    ⚡Learn more about JL Talent Solutions: HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!

    #ConstructionBusiness #ContractorMindset #GeneralContractor #BuilderCEO #ConstructionSales #ConstructionLeadingEdge #ContractorGrowth


    Crossing the Rubicon & the Desperate Ground Principle for Builders | Ep. 451 Jul 06, 2026
    Show notes

    The year is half over. Are you halfway to your goals, or halfway to another year of almosts? In this episode, Todd DeWalt breaks down why so many construction business owners stay stuck overthinking the decision they already know they need to make, still camped on the wrong side of their own Rubicon, waiting on a little more research and a little more certainty before they move.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 Todd pulls from three places to make the point: Caesar crossing the Rubicon with no plan B, Sun Tzu putting his own troops on desperate ground so they'd fight with everything they had, and Colin Powell's 40/70 rule for when to stop gathering information and decide. The through-line is simple: most construction business owners don't have an information problem, they have a decision problem.

    He breaks down why you save your sharpest problem-solving for emergencies you didn't choose, the angry client, the payroll you have to make, while you let the decisions that would actually change your life sit and gather dust. The fix isn't trying harder or reading one more book. It's flipping the order. Successful entrepreneurs commit first, then calculate the rest as they go.

    You'll walk away knowing how to name the one decision you've been circling, how to run the 40/70 check on it, and how to take one visible action with real consequences before the episode is over.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Halfway to Your Goals or Another Year of Almosts?

    01:32 Download the Free Strategic Planning Guide

    02:36 Why Caesar Crossed the Rubicon

    06:22 Sun Tzu's Desperate Ground: No Plan B Changes Everything

    08:34 The 40/70 Rule: When to Pull the Trigger

    11:00 The Commit Then Calculate Strategy

    13:28 The Extra Gear That Only Shows Up With No Plan B

    18:42 Why You Save Your Best for Emergencies You Didn't Choose

    21:36 Name Your Rubicon: The Decision You Have Been Avoiding

    27:08 Your Business Is Designed to Fail Without You

    29:46 Cross Your Rubicon and Take Action

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Create your Strategic Plan for the Next 12 Months: HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel.

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    AI Is Lying, Customers Aren't: Radical Transparency and Culture-Building with Eric Fortenberry | Ep. 450 Jun 29, 2026
    Show notes

    Why are you still stuck in the middle of everything, even with the best tools, a solid team, and steady projects coming in? In this episode, Todd DeWalt sits down with Eric Fortenberry, founder and CEO of JobTread, to dig into the real reasons contractors stay under-profitable and overworked, and what it takes to finally get off the hamster wheel.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 Eric has worked with over 12,000 construction businesses, and he sees the same pattern over and over: owners who don't know their numbers, won't delegate, and treat AI like an easy button. In this conversation, he and Todd break down the job costing most contractors skip, how to delegate so your team actually takes ownership, and why "don't trust and verify" is the rule for using AI on your projects.

    Eric also gets candid about JobTread's culture and why he only hires people who've lived through the chaos of construction, how he built radical transparency into the company, and why he keeps turning down the private equity offers piling up in his inbox. If you're a CoConstruct user staring down the sunset, he explains why moving on your own timeline beats getting forced over at the last minute.

    You'll walk away with a clearer view of where you're the bottleneck, where AI helps and where it quietly costs you, and what the next three to five years look like for an industry full of more informed, more demanding homeowners.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Why You Are Still the Bottleneck Even With Good Tools

    03:14 Free Buyout Playbook

    04:10 Introducing Eric Fortenberry Founder and CEO of JobTread

    05:46 The Single Biggest Reason Contractors Stay Stuck

    09:14 Why Delegation Fails Without Clear Outcomes

    13:20 How JobTread Practically Teaches Delegation

    17:30 AI in Construction: The Real Benefits and the Hidden Risks

    27:14 The AI Bubble: Is It About to Burst?

    36:36 How the Construction Industry Will Change in the Next 3 to 5 Years

    41:14 JobTread Culture and the Power of Radical Transparency

    47:26 How JobTread Decides Which Features to Build Next

    50:54 CoConstruct Is Shutting Down: What Users Should Do Now

    57:34 Why Eric Will Never Sell JobTread

    01:01:46 Radical Transparency as a Business Philosophy

    01:05:18 Closing and Where to Find Eric

    Additional Resources:

    ⚡Download the How to Buyout a Construction Project Playbook - HERE

    ⚡Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn.

    ⚡Subscribe to our YouTube channel

    ⚡Visit The Construction Leading Edge for more information: HERE

    The Construction Leading Edge Podcast helps construction business owners maximize their revenue, eliminate chaos, systematize their work, and win back their time.

    Follow us on your favorite podcasting platform so you never miss an episode!


    The Hidden Design Shift That Unlocks Growth, Profit, and Free Time in Your Construction Business | Ep. 449 Jun 22, 2026
    Show notes

    Can you grow your construction business, pay yourself real profit, and still work a normal 40 to 50 hour week? Most construction business owners are working harder than ever and going backwards.

    ⚡Schedule a Business Evaluation Call with The Construction Leading Edge Team: HERE

    👉 If you're grinding 60-hour weeks and every decision still runs through you, the problem isn't what you think.

    If you own a construction business, this is the question that keeps you up at night: how do you grow, pay yourself real profit, and get back to a normal week? Todd Dawalt has helped hundreds of contractors work through exactly that, and in this episode he reframes the whole thing. The long hours and the constant firefighting aren't the real problem. They're symptoms of something underneath.

    Todd uses a story every contractor will recognize to show why working harder, hiring more, or buying another piece of software won't move the needle. There's a reason your best people don't step up and every decision still lands on your desk, and it has nothing to do with effort.

    Whether you're a custom home builder, remodeler, general contractor, or trade business doing $3 to $10 million a year, this episode will change how you see what's holding you back. Listen in, then take the five-minute action item Todd lays out at the end.

    Key Takeaways:

    00:00 Can You Actually Grow and Still Work 40 Hours a Week?

    01:22 What Business Owners Tell Todd Every Week

    03:36 Your Business Is Producing Exactly What It Was Designed To Produce

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