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Hosted by Faiez Rana · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 41 episodes
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Blue Collar Ballers is the podcast about real entrepreneurs building 7- and 8-figure businesses with their hands—from roofers and plumbers to painters, pest pros, and landscapers. We go beyond Silicon Valley hype to share tactical growth strategies, operational playbooks, and leadership lessons from those turning grit into generational wealth. Whether you're in the trades or just respect the grind, these are the stories behind America’s most essential businesses.
Faiez Rana hosts Blue Collar Ballers, a business show with 41 episodes published.
Matthew Rathgeb is the founder of Groovy Hues Painting, the national franchise brand that just awarded its 100th territory — and the flagship location is his own shop in Philadelphia, PA. But it didn't start anywhere nea
Sheryl Knight is the co-owner of Aire Serv of the Woodlands Heating and Aire Conditioning, a family-run HVAC company in Conroe, Texas — about 40 miles north of Houston — that she and her husband Mike have built into a ne
Tyler Taunton is the co-owner of Texas Roof Repair, an Austin-based roofing company that has spent the last decade deliberately transforming from an 80% residential business into a 75% commercial operation. He runs sales
Matthew Mahoney is the owner of Limestone Moving in Austin, Texas — a company he's on track to grow to roughly $5 million in revenue this year. But the path here wasn't a straight line. Matthew started Limestone moving p
Patrick Murphy is the owner of Cascade Home Cleaning, a residential cleaning business in Bellingham, Washington that he's built to $1M in annual recurring revenue — entirely remote. He's never met a cleaner. He's never m
Trey McWilliams is a third-generation HVAC operator from East Texas and the founder of Blue Cardinal Home Services, a platform group now operating in over 20 locations across the home service trades. Trey grew up riding
Robert Wolf is the owner of Wolf HVAC, a $1M+ HVAC operation based in Kotati, California, serving Sonoma, Marin, and Napa counties — right in the heart of wine country. Robert started his career doing odd jobs as a teena
In this episode, I sit down with Philip Crutchfield, co-owner and founder of Camber Brands in Sarasota, Florida — a portfolio of three home service franchises doing $11.5M in 2025, with a target of $17–18M in 2026. Cambe
In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Nate Austin, founder of Austin Brothers Fence Company in Austin, Texas, shares how he and his brother started a fence company with $2,500, a financed truck, and zero experience ins
Will Sarver spent 10 years building a moving company in Austin, Texas. One phone call changed everything — a past customer told him she'd just moved again, but couldn't remember who she'd used last time. That was his com
Tony Batista is the founder of Floors 2 Luv, a multi-million dollar flooring company in Houston, Texas running 10 crews and completing over 300 jobs a year. After nearly two decades in business, Tony is now in year three
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Jillian Pittman is a master plumber and the owner of JMP Plumbing Services in North Texas — a $2.7 million residential and commercial plumbing company with five trucks on the road, ten technicians, and a goal to cross $3
In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Todd Wolf, Founder of Total Cleaning, shares how he went from answering his mom's phone call at 23 to building a $15M janitorial company with 500 employees across 6 states — over 3
Adriana Salazar moved to Austin in 2020 knowing almost no one, burned money on junk leads early on, and still built a multi‑crew residential painting company mostly on relationships, reputation, and reviews. If you’re a
If you’re still driving to every single estimate, you’re donating hours and jobs to your competition. In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Faiez Rana sits down with James Hatfield, former painting and power washing ow
In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Faiez Rana sits down with Jared Chapple, a multi-territory owner of Pink’s Windows in North Atlanta. Jared went from zero franchise experience to buying six territories in one of t
In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Jordan White, Co-Owner of SeekOne Roofing, shares how he went from sleeping on a couch to building a $20M roofing business in just four years — all by age 26. Based in Nashville, S
In this episode of Blue Collar Ballers, Faiez Rana sits down with James Dougherty, owner of Magnify Electric outside Austin, Texas. James shares the real story behind growing from a small commercial operation into a $3M
Mary Guarino is one of the best operator-turned-advisors in the franchise world — a former Division I athlete who built two thriving businesses in pest control and wellness, scaled them across multiple territories, and e
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