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The Daily Dose #367 | You Can Be Great on the Tools and Still Go…
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This week in home building news! Catch up with Az and a colourful array of guests, to hear about who's killing it, who's innovating, and who's getting into strife in the world of new home construction.
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- The Daily Dose #367 | You Can Be Great on the Tools and Still Go Broke | Noah Hodgson, Xact Accounting · 26 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 367You can be great on the tools, making a profit and have money in the bank, but still find yourself in serious financial trouble a few months down the track. In this episode of…
- The Daily Dose #366 | Good on the Tools. Better at Business. | Aba from A to Z Homes · 16 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 366You can build a great house. But how much time are you putting into becoming a better business owner? Recorded at The Professional Builder Summit, Az sits down with Abba from A…
- The Daily Dose #365 | Your Pipeline Looks Healthy. But Where's Your Next Job Coming From? · 10 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 365Builders can be flat out today and still have a problem brewing with their next lot of work. The RBA has lifted interest rates for the fifth time in 2026, the HIA says new home…
- The Daily Dose #364 | Why Evan La Motta Doesn't Want to Build a Bigger Building Business · 59 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 364Growing a building business is one thing. Knowing when you don't want it to get any bigger is another. In this episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Az sits down with Evan LaMotta…
- The Daily Dose #363 | Why a Good Builder Needs to Be Profitable First | Jack James · 23 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 363What does it take to build a profitable business without losing the parts of building you actually enjoy? In EP363 of The Good Builder Podcast, Az sits down with Jack James from…
- The Daily Dose #362 | The Good Builder Fishing Classic 2026: Big Barra, Bragging Rights and a Bird · 8 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 362No guest this week, it's just Az...On Friday 30 October we held the first ever Good Builder Fishing Classic at Bli Bli Barra Park, and the turnout was way bigger than we expected…
- The Daily Dose #361 | Beyond Colour: What Builders Should Know About Pre-Painted Steel | Jason Voglis from Selection Steel · 55 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 361All painted steel looks the same on the rack. According to Jason Voglis, it doesn't perform the same. "When you actually break it down and you look at the different substrates…
- The Daily Dose #360 | The Weight of Being a Builder | Jordan Rogers from J3 Built · 31 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 360What does it really take to be a good builder? And we're not just talking about building great homes. Every now and then, a conversation comes along that reminds us exactly why…
- The Daily Dose #359 | What We've Learnt From Meeting Builders Across Australia · 12 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 359We've spent the past few weeks travelling through Victoria, New South Wales and the Gold Coast, meeting builders, visiting businesses and hearing what's really happening across…
- The Daily Dose #358 | $6 Billion in Building Estimates: What AI Still Can't Replace | Haydn, Price A Plan | Live from TPB · 23 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 358AI can help builders produce estimates faster than ever. But when your margins, cash flow and reputation are on the line, who's checking the numbers? Recorded live from the TPB…
- The Daily Dose #357 | The Good Builder at TPB: How Baihn Construction Is Using AI to Win More Work · 20 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 357We're taking The Good Builder Podcast on the road. In this special series recorded at The Professional Builder Summit, Az sits down with builders from across Australia for…
- The Daily Dose #356 | Sydney Home Values Are Falling. So Why Are Approvals Speeding Up? · 8 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 356Sydney home values are falling, but the NSW Government is pushing ahead with faster housing approvals and new measures to get projects off the ground. In this Monday edition of…
- The Daily Dose #355 | Why More Staff Doesn't Always Mean More Profit | Cheyne Hall, Build Launch · 46 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 355Growing a building business should mean more opportunity, more profit and hopefully a little less pressure on the owner. But as many builders have discovered, more work and more…
- The Daily Dose #354 | Why Busy Builders Go Broke (And What the Best Builders Do Differently) | Mark Vasalo & Paul Hogan · 1 ώ. 8 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 354Being busy doesn't necessarily mean you're running a healthy building business. In fact, chasing more sales, taking on the wrong projects and carrying too much overhead can be…
- The Daily Dose #353 | Do You Really Know Who Your Building Business Is Designed For? · 9 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 353Most builders can tell you who their customer is. But there’s a big difference between knowing your customer and actually designing your business around them. In this short…
- The Daily Dose #352 | What Actually Makes a Good Builder? | Ben from Stroud Homes Brisbane North · 50 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 352What actually makes someone a good builder? For Ben from Stroud Homes Brisbane North, it isn’t simply knowing how to build a house. It’s knowing how to bring the right people…
- The Daily Dose #351 | The Blueprint for a Good Builder | Alex Palazzolo, ATLI Building Co. · 50 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 351What actually makes a good builder? For Alex Palazzolo, founder of ATLI Building Co. in Melbourne, the finished home is only part of the answer. A quality build should be the…
- The Daily Dose #350 | Protect Your Energy. And Give Off the Right One. · 5 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 350Does the energy feel a bit off at the moment? There’s a lot weighing on people. Cost of living, government decisions, what’s happening in our communities, pressure in business…
- The Daily Dose #349 | Before the Contract: How Canibuild and Stylemaster Are Rethinking Preconstruction · 48 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 349What happens before a client signs a building contract could be one of the biggest opportunities for builders to improve their business. Site feasibility, zoning, overlays…
- The Daily Dose #348 | What Actually Makes a Good Builder? Mitch Thompson on People, Standards and Building a Business That Lasts · 48 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 348What does being a good builder actually look like when you strip away the systems, processes and business jargon? In this episode of The Good Builder Podcast, Az sits down with…
- The Daily Dose #347 | Construction Insolvencies, Rising Concrete Costs & Queensland’s $174B Pipeline · 9 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 347540 construction companies entered voluntary administration on a single day in August. It sounds catastrophic. But there’s an important detail buried underneath that number. In…
- The Daily Dose #346 | Why Australia Is Losing Bricklayers And Why More Apprentices Won’t Fix It | Andy Shaw · 1 ώ. 31 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 346Australia needs more bricklayers. But according to Andy Shaw, simply putting more apprentices into the system won’t solve the problem. Andy is the founder of Brickies Network and…
- The Daily Dose #345 | Sacked Before the Ambulance Arrived: Carrick from HazardCo on What Site Safety Really Costs · 41 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 345At 23, Carrick was installing aerials when the ladder slipped out from under him. He fell two storeys onto a concrete driveway, broke vertebrae in his back and his wrist, and…
- The Daily Dose #344 | The Pulse Trial Results Are In: Faster Fixes, Team Visibility and an Industry Benchmark · 10 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 344Most builders only find out a customer is unhappy once it has already cost them. At the end of the build, in a Google review, or in the dreaded Facebook groups. And the referral…
- The Daily Dose #343 | James Drever: How QA Build Became the Fastest Growing Builder in Queensland · 47 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 343James Drever started as a chippy on the coast. Today he is CEO of QA Build, the fastest growing builder in Queensland, running more than 15 live projects across Australia with…
- The Daily Dose #342 | Why Has the Building Market Gone Quiet? Plus Bathla, Tiny Homes & Ausbuild · 19 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 342Why does the building market suddenly feel quieter? Builders across Australia are reporting slower enquiries, longer decision times and clients holding off on signing contracts…
- The Daily Dose #341 | The Bathla Collapse: What Subbies and Suppliers Need to Know Now With Insolvency Expert Chris Baskerville · 1 ώ. 1 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 341This episode belongs to you. When the $3.4 billion Bathla Group collapse hit, we emailed every builder and tradie in our community and asked one thing: what do you actually want…
- The Daily Dose #340 | AI and Marketing for Builders with Vinnie Vecchio (The Professional Builder): Fill Your Pipeline 12 Months Ahead · 49 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 340Every builder is being told AI will change their business. Vinnie Vecchio is one of the few actually showing them how. Vinnie leads the coaching team at The Professional Builder…
- The Daily Dose #339 | Johno The Plumber: Saying What The Industry Won't · 58 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 339He's one of the fastest growing construction profiles on Instagram, because he's saying what most of the industry won't. Johno The Plumber (real name Robert Cragg) has spent 24…
- The Daily Dose #338 | Where Did All the Prompt Engineers Go? 4 AI Features Builders Are Already Paying For · 10 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 338Two years ago, prompt engineering was going to be the six-figure job of the future and blokes were buying Mac Minis to run AI agents next to the drop saw. Both gone — not because…
- The Daily Dose #337 | Leigh Storr on Building Australia's Most Trusted Solar Company and What Every Builder Can Learn From It · 1 ώ. 18 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 337What does it take to become the most awarded and highest rated solar company in Australia? Not a secret. Just turning up for customers after installation. This week Az sits down…
- The Daily Dose #336 | Everyone Loves Floor Heating. Almost Nobody Quotes It With Rick Florence · 1 ώ. 20 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 336Floor heating might be the most loved feature in a home that almost nobody asks for — and once the floors are down, it's too late. This week Az sits down with Rick Florence…
- The Daily Dose #335 | Who's Actually Advising You? The 5-Minute Check Every Builder Should Run · 8 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 335Builders are being approached from outside the industry more than ever. Coaches, planners, consultants, software reps. All of them want the same thing: access to your trust. In…
- The Daily Dose #334 | Solar and Batteries in New Builds: The Margin Builders Are Missing, with Gary Higgins of Halcol · 56 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 334Solar and batteries are on nearly every new-home wish list, and hardly any builders are putting them in as standard. Az sits down with Gary Higgins, owner of Sunshine Coast solar…
- The Daily Dose #333 | Goop Guys GM Mark Sutton on Protecting the Investment, Franchise Growth & Australian Manufacturing · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 333Mark Sutton has just stepped into the GM role at Goop Guys, the surface protection business builders rely on at handover. He's spent his career in hardware, paint and…
- The Daily Dose #332 | 3 (or maybe 5) things builders can implement overnight to grow their business · 12 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 332Az runs solo through the small, low-cost moves he's watched actually shift leads for builders — no bigger ad spend required. First, 3D walkthroughs and rendered tours of your own…
- The Daily Dose #331 | Matt Hope on Wattle Court, Thirteen Weeks And The Builder You Choose · 54 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 331Az sits down with Matt Hope, founder of Wattle Court, on building a franchise brand that is bigger than the person who started it. Hope has run building companies and led one of…
- The Daily Dose #330 | The Right Person For The Job | Alex Harris (Wattyl) and Bec (Adapt Modular) · 59 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 330Alex Harris from Wattyl on the couch for the first time, and Bec from Adapt Modular back for a second run. They join Az to talk about what the construction industry keeps…
- The Daily Dose #329 | The Love Bomb, The Fluff And Three More Red Flags · 9 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 329Az unpacks five red flags to watch for before entering a business partnership. As The Good Builder has grown, the partnership approaches have grown with it. Some are worth…
- The Daily Dose #328 | Josh Tyrrell: Ten Years, 250 Homes. The Journey From Builder To Businessman · 1 ώ. 1 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 328Josh Tyrrell signed with GJ Gardner Homes at twenty nine, opened in October 2016, and has since built around 250 homes across Warragul, Drouin, Morwell and Traralgon. Today he…
- The Daily Dose #327 | Xero Economist Louise Southall on Productivity, Cash Flow and Why Construction Is Holding Up · 45 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 327Construction is one of the strongest performing sectors in the Australian economy right now. Louise Southall has the data to prove it. Louise is the Xero Economist. She joined…
- The Daily Dose #326 | Marketing for Builders: Where to Actually Start | Paul Viva Digital · 58 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 326Most builders were never taught marketing. For most of the last decade they did not need to be. Orders came in, the phone rang, and whatever budget existed went to whichever…
- The Daily Dose #325 | You Can Teach Anyone to Build a House with Rod Gibbs from Bold Living · 57 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 325Rod Gibbs has had three jobs in construction. He has done almost everything inside them. He started out tiling, switched to carpentry, and served his apprenticeship at Glover…
- The Daily Dose #324 | Care Factor is the Whole Job With Phil from WD Constructions · 40 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 324Phil runs WD Constructions in Melbourne. He started in 2018 with one week of work at a mate's house and a first child on the way. Six years on he has never spent a dollar on…
- The Daily Dose #323 | Your AI doesn't know your business. The 10-minute solution for you. · 12 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 323Most builders open an AI tab, type into it like it's Google, close it, and get back the same generic content everyone else is posting. Hard hat emojis. Crane emojis. Transforming…
- The Daily Dose #322 | Zoning, Pathways And Pipelines: Reading The State Housing Targets · 10 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 322Az runs through the week that was. Every state is quoting a big housing number. Queensland says 100,000 homes. New South Wales says 150,000. Victoria says 300,000 unlocked. South…
- The Daily Dose #321 | State of the Land: Queensland Doubled, Victoria Didn't · 9 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 321Two states. Same data. Same method. Queensland doubled and Victoria did not. That is the headline from the first State of the Land reports, and it is close to the least useful…
- The Daily Dose #320 | The biggest problem with communication is thinking it happened · 43 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 320Most builders treat a communication breakdown as a people problem. Dan Okart says it is a clarity problem, and it starts at the top. Dan from A Thousand Feet Deep is back with Az…
- The Daily Dose #319 | Aaron Applefield: Mindset, Stoicism and What Actually Makes a Good Builder · 52 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 319Aaron Applefield has worn nineteen different hats in twenty years at Brett's. Ask him what he does and he reframes the question. His core, he says, is simpler than any job title…
- The Daily Dose #318 | Winter Sucks giveaway, Pulse goes live, and Dreamworld's master plan gets the nod · 11 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 318A big week at The Good Builder. Az runs through three announcements and three headlines moving the residential building industry right now. The announcements first. The Milwaukee…
