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Elevate Construction

Oct 29, 2021

Jason records a quick podcast on the side of the road while waiting for a Lyft and shares a powerful analogy that builds on his earlier conversation with Kevin Rice. He uses the simple goal of losing 10 pounds to show how a single clear target requires a system of supporting elements: eating healthy, exercise, sleep,...


Oct 29, 2021

Jason sits down with Kevin Rice, business owner and trained business professional, to dig deeper into the aggregation of marginal gains. They revisit the Dave Brailsford story of British cycling, then push past the surface to ask a harder question: is it better to improve one percent over and over in a single area, or...


Oct 27, 2021

Jason sits down with Ryan Schmidt, owner and president of Petticoid Civil Contractors in Florida, to talk about how to truly train and develop the next generation of construction workers. Ryan shares story after story of friends' college aged sons spending a summer on a pipe crew or punch out crew and coming back...


Oct 27, 2021

Jason continues recording from Jacksonville and shares the two driving rules he hammered into his daughter Effie when she was learning to drive: don't hit the car in front of you and stay in your lane. He maps those two rules onto construction leadership and makes the case that flow and team balance are the only...


Oct 27, 2021

Jason continues the personal coaching series with a candid episode on cleanliness as a reflection of the mind. Recording from Jacksonville on four hours of sleep, he walks through the awakening moments in his career when superintendents and general superintendents drilled cleanliness into him until it stuck. He makes...