Jan 30, 2022
Jason sits down with his daughter Effie Lee Schroeder for an honest and personal episode about the truth nobody admits out loud: nobody really knows what they're doing. He opens up about the fear of running Elevate Construction with 11 kids, the constant scariness of growing a business, hiring people, watching the...
Jan 28, 2022
Jason walks listeners through a virtual tour of a high profile $240 million DPR Construction project in Phoenix, Arizona, that hosts the Elevate Construction superintendent boot camps. From the immaculate entrances and morning huddle pavilion with music playing for the workers, to the BIM 360 Glue kiosks, room...
Jan 27, 2022
Jason records from the road heading to a boot camp simulation, fresh off a week with Petticoat Smith, and takes on a topic the industry quietly dismisses: checklists. He uses three powerful comparisons (pilots, doctors, and his own CFO who has never missed a payroll in ten years) to make the case that a simple, well...
Jan 27, 2022
Jason records from the car in Jacksonville, Florida, on the way to a job site to talk about something most teams overlook: the construction entrance. He opens with the story of a Starbucks bollard in Springfield, Illinois that ended up covered in over 300 stickers, all because the first sticker was never removed. Then...
Jan 25, 2022
Jason records from a Marriott bathroom in Jacksonville, Florida (totally clothed, fully legit) and takes on the things that are always late in construction: exterior skin, elevators, switch gear, air handlers, and long lead items like Italian tile. He shares the story of Ryan Young pushing to start exterior and elevator...