Trade Legends | Construction Podcast
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Why Most Carpenters Go Broke Trying to Scale | Trade Legends Podcast
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About this podcast
Trade Legends is the UK's number one weekly construction podcast, hosted by Alex and Mark Tiff. Every week we sit down with tradespeople from across the industry, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, plasterers, builders, apprentices and more, for honest conversations about life on the tools. No filter, no fluff. Just real stories about skills, money, mental health, apprenticeships, business, and everything else that comes with working in the trades.
Episodes
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- Why Most Carpenters Go Broke Trying to Scale | Trade Legends Podcast · 60 min · Season 15 Episode 159Karl Malone, founder of TopBuild Carpentry, joins the Trade Legends Podcast to break down the reality of scaling a bespoke joinery business, from 8 years of making £0 net profit…
- Inside Britain’s Illegal Stolen Tool Market | Trade Legends Podcast · 20 min · Season 15 Episode 158On The Trade Legends Podcast this week, we sit down with Rob Jenrick MP for a direct conversation about the issues hitting Britain’s tradespeople hardest, from stolen tools being…
- My Own Worker Stole My Clients & Nearly Took My Business | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 5 min · Season 15 Episode 156On The Trade Legends Podcast this week, James from MKL sits down for an honest, unfiltered look at the chaotic graft of growing a trade business, surviving betrayals, and…
- FUEL PRICES are out of CONTROL for Tradesmen | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 7 min · Season 15 Episode 155On The Trade Legends Podcast this week, Joe Baker (Screed Papi), founder of Second City Screed & Resin, sits down for an honest, unfiltered look at the brutal realities of…
- This Plumber Put His Tools Down To Fight The Prime Minister | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 21 min · Season 15 Episode 155A former British Gas engineer turned self-employed plumber exposes what it's really like to take on the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, corporate heating giants, and rogue…
- The Moment I Realised The Business Was Breaking Me | Trade Legends · 56 min · Season 15 Episode 154On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we’re joined by Kieran from Kobo Crete, a Devon-based business making cast stone and polished concrete products. Kieran explains how…
- My Own Staff Were Stealing From Me | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 23 min · Season 15 Episode 152On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we’re joined by Ben Rudman, a driveway and landscaping contractor whose honest, no-filter videos have made him one of social media's…
- Why Social Media Followers WON'T Save Your Trade Business | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 15 min · Season 15 Episode 151On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we’re joined by Stick and Jack from Trademark Digital, the no-bullshit marketing agency helping tradespeople and construction brands…
- I Was Owed £10,000 — Why You Can’t Trust Anyone in Business | Trade Legends · 1 h 2 min · Season 15 Episode 150On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we're joined by Karl Sparky, an electrician who's become one of the most recognisable sparks on social media. Karl left school with…
- Most Tradesmen Shouldn't Own a Business - Here's Why | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 3 min · Season 15 Episode 149On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we're joined by Mike from Better Happy, an ex-Army Intelligence operative who's taken one of the more unusual routes into the world…
- Why Cheap Competitors Win Your Work (And How to Beat Them) | Trade Legends · 46 min · Season 15 Episode 148On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we're joined by our first-ever flooring guest, Dan from Wellington Flooring, who's spent 19 years in the trade and built one of the…
- The Booking Trap: Why Tradespeople Fail at Scaling | Trade Legends Podcast · 47 min · Season 15 Episode 148On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, we're joined by landscapers Nathan and Joe from Slade Landscapes, a Surrey-based duo who've turned a landscaping business into one…
- Why Most Tradesmen Go Broke Hiring Their First Employee | Trade Legends Podcast · 49 min · Season 15 Episode 146On this episode of the Trade Legends Podcast, carpenter Ben Bailey returns four years after his first appearance, and a lot has changed. When we first had Ben on the show, he'd…
- I Hit Rock Bottom Two Years Ago. This is What Saved Me | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 16 min · Season 15 Episode 145This week on the Trade Legends Podcast, landscaper and content creator Tom joins us for his long-awaited return, and he doesn't hold back. It's been nearly three years since Tom…
- HORROR customer never paid me and almost closed my business | Trade Legends Podcast · 51 min · Season 15 Episode 144This week on the Trade Legends Podcast, Toni from ALO Electrical has spent over 15 years building a fire and security business from the ground up, and in this episode, he holds…
- The Brutal Truth of Running a Luxury Construction Company | Trade Legends Podcast · 50 min · Season 15 Episode 4On this week's episode, Al sits down with Jermaine from Stately Home Developments, a luxury renovation and construction brand built from the ground up over the last five years…
- Britain's Hidden Electrical Crisis Is About to Explode | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 9 min · Season 15 Episode 3On this Episode of Trade Legends, we talk about how Britain needs 25,000 new electricians a year. We're producing maybe 5,000. Mark Allison has spent 20 years in the electrical…
- The CRAZY Side of the Electrical Industry | Trade Legends Podcast · 49 min · Season 15 Episode 142Luke Freeman joins the Trade Legends podcast to talk about life as a self-employed electrician for two years. We cover the apprenticeship journey, going self-employed with no…
- Apprentice Electrician EXPOSES the Electrical Industry | Trade Legends Podcast · 49 min · Season 15 Episode 141This week on Trade Legends, Sophie McGee is a third-year electrical apprentice, and she's had the full experience, good employers, bad ones, and everything in between. We talk…
- WHY your Trades Business is WORTH NOTHING | Trade Legends Podcast | Trade Legends Podcast · 1 h 31 minTwo Trade Legends return. Dom and Reiss are back on the podcast. Both businesses have grown, the jobs are bigger, the money's bigger, and so are the headaches. In this episode…
