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The Playbook for Building Unmistakable Brands in the Built World. You can be the best in your market and still get passed over by a competitor who simply shows up better and more consistently where their customers are looking. The Grit Blueprint Podcast is where visibility, media, customer experience, and creative brand strategy turn trust into growth in the built world. Hosted by Stefanie Couch, a lifelong building industry expert born and raised in the business, this show explores how companies in building materials, construction, manufacturing, and distribution position themselves to win before the first conversation even starts. You’ll hear from executives, operators, and decision-makers who are rethinking how they show up in the market. You’ll also hear from Stefanie and the Grit Blueprint team as they share the systems, strategy, and content that make good brands impossible to ignore. Every epis
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The Grit Blueprint is hosted by Grit Blueprint. The show has published 140 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "High Margin, Easy Install Wall Panels That Contractors Love | Joel Koops, Co-Founder of Trusscore" (22 October 2026, 18 minutes), "How We Transformed Ben's Office with Trusscore Wall&CeilingBoard and SlatWall | Building Grit E03" (19 October 2026, 6 minutes), and "Sales Makes the Promise. Operations Keeps It. | Ron Herrin & Lee Allen, Tucker Door and Trim" (16 October 2026, 43 minutes).
The Grit Blueprint publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 18 minutes across 140 episodes.
Booking probability for The Grit Blueprint is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Grit Blueprint requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Grit Blueprint's contact route on record: verified email.
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Drywall has owned the garage for decades. Joel Koops says Trusscore installs three to four times faster, and the installed cost lands close to finished, painted drywall. In this episode of the Grit Blueprint Podcast...
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I found Trusscore on the show floor at IBS 2026. Now it's on the walls of Ben's office. This episode of Building Grit starts at the Trusscore booth at IBS 2026 with Joel Koops, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of...
The Grit Blueprint
Your sales team just made a promise. Now operations needs to deliver. In this episode of the Grit Blueprint Podcast, I’m in Clayton, Georgia, with Ron Herrin, VP of Sales, and Lee Allen, VP of Manufacturing &...
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Most contractors lose market share slowly enough that they don't notice. Greg Rowland noticed. When the suppliers in his market started installing siding themselves, the scope he had built a company around started...
The Grit Blueprint
A window that is off by a quarter of an inch does not tell you on install day. It tells you three winters later when water is leaking in. In this episode of Behind The Build, I'm in Monroe, Georgia with Tucker Door &...
The Grit Blueprint
Building industry companies don’t lose customers because their people stopped caring. They lose them because growth added more approvals between the person taking the order and the one installing it, and their people...
The Grit Blueprint
Most people never see the building where their doors get made. This one is 290,000 square feet, and they are adding another 100,000. In this episode of Behind The Build, I’m at Tucker Door & Trim in Monroe, Georgia...
The Grit Blueprint
Most businesses die in 5 years. Lummus Supply Co just turned 101. In this episode of Behind The Build, I'm in Acworth, Georgia with CEO Will Lummus and his team to see how a fifth-generation building materials and...
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Lew Oliver helped design Trilith, Serenbe, and Vickery, some of the most sought-after walkable communities in Georgia. His next act might surprise you: modular homes. In this episode of Behind The Build, I'm in...
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Watch us install a brand new Plastpro Nova 90 fiberglass double door at Grit Studios, our in-person podcast studio, start to finish. Michael Tull of Tull Sales walks through the full process of replacing an old steel...
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I'm Stefanie Couch, and this is Building Grit, the behind-the-scenes story of how we're building Grit Blueprint into a category of one business in the building industry. Follow us through the most hands-on chapters yet...
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When I first met Gina Schaefer, I knew she was one of the more interesting people in our industry, and this conversation proves exactly why. Gina is the founder of A Few Cool Hardware Stores, and she built a $55 million...
The Grit Blueprint
Sales is not about pressure. It is about people. In this Grit Blueprint Podcast conversation, recorded on the floor of the Do it Best True Value Spring Market in Denver, I sit down with Sarah Krey of Do it Best Corp to...
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Inside Luxury Real Estate in the Appalachian Mountains | Burton at Lake Burton I'm Stefanie Couch, Founder of Grit Blueprint, and in this episode of Behind the Build, I'm taking you deep into the Appalachian Mountains...
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What does it take to run a building materials company for 100 years and set it up to win for 100 more? That is the question at the heart of my conversation with Will Lummus, fifth-generation CEO of Lummus Supply...
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Technology is moving faster than our industry has ever seen, and on this episode of the Grit Blueprint Podcast I sat down on the floor of the National Hardware Show with Adam Gunnett, the VP of Business Intelligence and...
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<p>What does it really take to carry a legacy business into its fourth generation without losing what made it special? <br/><br/>In this Grit Blueprint Podcast conversation, I sit down with Brookelyn McClellan of...
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<p>What does it really take to grow a career inside one company for 25 years? In this episode of the Grit Blueprint Podcast, I talk with Sarah Lee, VP of Purchasing at Blish-Mize Co., who answered that question by...
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<p>This is where Building Grit begins. <br/><br/>In this first episode, I hand you the keys to Grit Studios on day one and let you see the messy, exciting reality of building industry entrepreneurship from the inside...
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<p>The best dealers in the building industry are not just stocking product. They are guiding people toward the home they actually want. In this conversation, I talk with Abeer Saeed, Merchandise Manager at Do it Best...
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Superintendent, Gates County Public Schools
psychologist, professor at University College Cork, University College Cork
founder of multiple hardware stores, author of Recovery Hardware, A Few Cool Hardware Stores
Agriculture and Business Recruitment and Outreach Coordinator, Agriculture and Business Recruitment and Outreach
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