Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I’m joined by Adam Cooper, the President of Ascent Consulting. Adam started out in the industry as an electrician. He then worked his way up through project management and eventually stepped away from the job site to help contractors run better businesses behind the scenes. Over the past decade, he’s worked with hundreds of construction companies across the US, helping them put structure around things most businesses just “f...
Apr 6
39 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I sat down to have a chat with Eric Anderton. He is the man behind the Construction Genius Podcast and has spent the last two decades helping contractors figure out something most of them were never trained to do: lead people. Since 2004, he’s worked closely with construction leaders across the US, helping technically skilled builders make the shift from building projects to building teams. We talked about the difference between h...
Mar 17
33 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, I’m joined by Alastair McDonald from EDG Projects: a building design, architecture, and project management firm based in Echuca. Growing up in a farming family in regional Australia, Alastair learned early what it means to take ownership of your work, especially when the risk is real and the consequences can land directly at your feet. Now, as CEO and Director of EDG, that same mindset continues to influence his leaders...
Feb 3
33 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This episode is a bit of a crossover between construction and technology, and it’s one I’ve been looking forward to. I sat down with Jeff Sample, who works with Bluebeam and is also the host of the ConTechCrew podcast. Jeff has spent the last decade operating at the intersection of construction and technology, helping contractors make sense of tech without the hype. Jeff’s time working inside a masonry contractor gave him a clear view o...
Jan 20
34 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, I’m joined by Tyler Vander Vegt from DM Construction. Tyler’s story is a good reminder that construction careers don’t always start with some grand plan. His dad wasn’t even in construction. He was in corporate operations and equities. Then the 2008 crash hit, everything shifted, and they ended up finding a masonry business for sale on Craigslist. Yeah, Craigslist. That business was Dutch’s Masonry. Tyler came in a couple of year...
Jan 13
34 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, we’re sitting down with Wally Adamchik, a leadership speaker, coach, author, and consultant who works closely with construction and infrastructure companies on the people side of the business. He grew up around construction, spent ten years in the Marine Corps, and now helps leadership teams develop the skills they’re rarely taught but constantly expected to have when the pressure’s on. A big part of this conversation is about ho...
Dec 23, 2025
34 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Civil construction has communication and cost-control problems. Everyone knows it. Very few people actually try to fix it. That’s what led James Baker to build Varicon, a construction management software platform designed specifically for civil contractors. James didn’t come into tech chasing hype or investor buzz. He came into it frustrated. After years of working as a contractor for principals and administering contracts, he kept seei...
Dec 16, 2025
32 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! This week, I caught up with Vinay Reddy, a civil engineer who runs one of Southern California’s fastest-growing construction management and landscape architecture firms, RE Services. Vinay thought he had it figured out: computer engineering, then Silicon Valley. But after too many late nights in the lab and a humbling realisation that he just wasn’t cut out for code, he found himself standing in front of a drywall contractor at a Uni ca...
Dec 9, 2025
32 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today I’m joined by Mark Ballinger from Payapps. Mark’s story isn’t what you’d expect. He came from finance and tech, landed in construction by accident, and found himself deep in one of the industry’s biggest headaches: getting paid on time. Now he leads strategy for Payapps, the Autodesk platform bringing builders and subbies on the same page when it comes to claims, variations, and cash flow. We talked about the tug-of-war over payme...
Dec 2, 2025
35 min
Welcome back to the Crushing It In Construction Podcast! Today, we're sitting down with Josh Smyser, the owner of TNT Tuckpointing Building Restoration,LLC. Josh's journey is a powerful case study in how a completely different professional background can become your greatest business advantage. He was a certified public accountant (CPA) working for a major firm. But when a family tragedy struck, he was thrust back into the family trade business he never planned to run. So, how did he apply an...
Oct 7, 2025
38 min
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