Escape The One Man Show

Derek Cormier
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Most contractors built a business that runs them, not the other way around. Escape the One Man Show is for trades business owners and contractors who are done being the bottleneck in their own company. Every episode Derek Cormier, founder of Climate Experts, a multi-million dollar home services company in Florida, breaks down the real tactics, leadership lessons, and culture shifts that helped him build a business that runs profitably without him in the truck. No fluff. No gurus. Just raw honest conversation from someone who has held the tools, run the calls, and built the team.

  1. 2d ago

    He Scaled a Home Service Company From $12M to $50M in 5 Years. Then He Walked Away | Christian Rattin

    He took a home service company from around twelve million dollars to over fifty million in five years. Then he walked away from it.In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier sits down with Christian Rattin, founder of B4 Growth Partners, who spent five years as President and eventually CEO of Five Star Home Services, scaling the company from the mid teens into the fifty million dollar range before leaving to start his own firm helping owners prepare their businesses for exit.Christian is brutally honest about what that scale actually cost. The tug of war with the owner over control. The mistakes made moving too fast. The real math behind gamifying a team without breaking it. And why building a leadership team, real 1:1s, real accountability, real systems, is the only way past the ceiling most trades companies never get through.Derek and Christian get into the transition from owner to real leadership, why some employees should be let go instead of coached, how to compress a three year plan into one, and what Christian is doing now to help owners close the gap between what their business is worth and what it could be worth.WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW?If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek.EscapeTheOneManShow.comNo pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there.WHAT YOU WILL LEARNHow to navigate the transition from an owner who controls everything to a real leadership team underneath him. Why a coach or a formal operating system like EOS or Scaling Up can save relationships during that transition. Why growth costs cash flow, and how to budget for it honestly. How to compress decision making timelines instead of letting projects drag. Why only a handful of numbers actually matter day to day, and why chasing every number overwhelms your team. How to gamify performance without letting it get out of control. Why A players get demotivated by C players, and why keeping a C player can cost you more than losing them. How often to actually run 1:1s and performance evaluations, and why they should never happen on the same day as a raise conversation. What it actually takes to build a leadership bench instead of hoping the right person shows up. Why some businesses aren't ready to sell for what the owner thinks they're worth, and what actually closes that gap.ABOUT CHRISTIAN RATTINChristian Rattin is the founder of B4 Growth Partners. He spent five years with Five Star Home Services, eventually serving as CEO, and helped scale the company from the mid teens into the fifty million dollar range. He now works with home service business owners to build leadership, systems, and value ahead of an eventual exit.ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOWEscape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business.Ready to work on your own business?Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek:EscapeTheOneManShow.comCONTRACTOR HOTLINEHave a question you want answered on the show?Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail.Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show.

  2. Sep 30

    Will You Be the Next HVAC Millionaire? Or Go Broke Trying to Sell? | Gregg Schonhorn

    Every week somebody online is telling you they sold their contracting company for fifty million dollars. Most of what you're hearing is wrong, and some of it could cost you everything if you believe it.In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier sits down with Gregg Schonhorn of SF&P Advisors, a business broker who helps trades owners actually sell their companies, to separate what's real from what's guru marketing.Gregg breaks down how a business is actually valued, what EBITDA and addbacks really mean, why some owners walk away with far less than they expected, and what actually happens when you roll equity into a deal instead of taking the cash. Derek and Gregg go through the real mechanics of a business sale, from the letter of intent to non-competes to the biggest scams Gregg has seen owners fall for.This isn't about whether you want to sell someday. It's about understanding the game before somebody else plays it against you.WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW?If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek.EscapeTheOneManShow.comNo pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there.WHAT YOU WILL LEARNHow a contracting business actually gets valued. What EBITDA means and how addbacks work. What hurts your multiple, and the lowest multiple Gregg has seen on a business over ten million dollars. Whether a two year old company with great numbers sells for more than a ten year old company. How much you actually get paid upfront versus what's rolled into equity. Whether you can lose money in a business sale. What a Letter of Intent actually is. How long the sales process really takes. Whether private equity wants the owner to stay on after the deal. How non-competes work, including starting a different trade in the same area. Why a broker can get you a better outcome than going direct. What broker fees typically look like. The biggest scams Gregg has seen happen in business sales.TOPICS COVERED Selling a contracting business. Business valuation. EBITDA. Addbacks. Private equity. Business brokers. Letters of intent. Non-compete agreements. Mergers and acquisitions. Exit planning. HVAC business. Plumbing business. Electrical business. Home service business growth.WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians and other trades business owners who have ever thought about selling someday, who are tired of hearing unverified numbers from people online, or who want to understand what actually happens in a business sale before they're in the middle of one.You do NOT need to be close to selling to get value from this conversation. Understanding how the deal works now protects you later.ABOUT GREGG SCHONHORN Gregg Schonhorn is with SF&P Advisors, where he works as a business broker helping trades and home service business owners navigate the sale of their companies.ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOW Escape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business.Ready to work on your own business? Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek: EscapeTheOneManShow.com CONTRACTOR HOTLINE Have a question you want answered on the show?Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail.Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show.

  3. Sep 23

    Your Budget Tells You When to Hire

    Most contractors never plan their year. They show up in January, get busy, and figure it out as they go. Then October hits, calls slow down, and they're staring at payroll wondering what happened. In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier breaks down why business planning season matters, and why the answer to almost every hard question you have about next year, when to hire, what to charge, when to raise prices, is already sitting in your budget. Derek walks through exactly what goes into a real budget, how to use it to know when to hire your next tech, how to plan pricing around gross profit and overhead before costs go up, and why a simple monthly check-in stops a bad year from becoming a payroll crisis.This isn't theory. It's the exact planning process running at Climate Experts today.WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW?If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek.EscapeTheOneManShow.comNo pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there.WHAT YOU WILL LEARNWhy most owners never plan their year, and what it costs them. What actually goes into a real business budget, calls, conversion rate, average sale, employees, turnover. How to break your year down month by month based on seasonality instead of guessing. How your budget tells you exactly when to hire your next technician. How to plan pricing around a gross profit and net profit goal before costs go up. Why you should raise your prices before the year starts, not after a bad one. How a simple monthly check-in catches a problem in month two instead of month eleven. Why waiting until you can't make payroll means you were already behind months earlier.TOPICS COVEREDBusiness planning. Annual budgeting. Contractor hiring strategy. Pricing strategy. Gross profit and overhead. P&L basics. Seasonality planning. HVAC business. Plumbing business. Electrical business. Home service business growth. Leadership.WHO THIS EPISODE IS FORThis episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians and other trades business owners who have never built a real budget, who make hiring decisions based on how busy they feel instead of real numbers, or who find out too late every year that pricing or staffing didn't keep up with costs.If you've ever gotten to the end of the year and had no idea why it went sideways, this conversation is for you.ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOWEscape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business.Ready to work on your own business?Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek:EscapeTheOneManShow.comCONTRACTOR HOTLINEHave a question you want answered on the show?Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail.Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show.KEYWORDSDerek Cormier, Escape the One Man Show, business planning, contractor budget, annual budgeting, HVAC hiring, contractor pricing strategy, gross profit, overhead, contractor P&L, HVAC business, plumbing business, electrical business, home service business, contractor coach, Climate Experts#HVAC #HVACBusiness #ContractorPodcast #EscapeTheOneManShow #ContractorLife #HomeServiceBusiness #HVACContractor #PlumbingBusiness #ElectricalContractor #TradesBusiness #BusinessGrowth #DerekCormier #HVACOwner #ContractorSuccess #SmallBusinessOwner #Leadership #HomeServices #BusinessPlanning

  4. Sep 16

    Your Slow Season Is a Membership Problem

    Every year, same thing. Shoulder season hits, the board goes quiet, and contractors start panicking. Cutting hours. Laying guys off. Dumping money into marketing to buy calls they should already have. In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier breaks down why that panic is optional, and why the real fix isn't more marketing spend, it's a real maintenance membership program. Derek walks through exactly what his $19 a month Platinum membership includes, why the ten year labor warranty is the strongest retention tool in the entire program, why CSRs, not just technicians, should be selling memberships over the phone, why he refuses to lock customers into a contract, and how pre-scheduling maintenance visits fills the board months before the slow season even hits.This isn't theory. It's the exact program running at Climate Experts today.WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW?If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek.EscapeTheOneManShow.comNo pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there.WHAT YOU WILL LEARNWhy sixty percent of your revenue should come from existing customers, not new leads. What a real maintenance membership should include, and what it actually costs to run one. Why priority service is the highest value benefit on the plan, even though nobody talks about it. How pre-scheduling maintenance visits solves the shoulder season before it ever starts. How to track opportunities on every maintenance visit so your team stays busy in the off season. Why CSRs should be allowed to sell memberships over the phone. Why month to month with no contract builds more trust than locking customers in. How a ten year labor warranty tied to active membership keeps customers without trapping them. Whether you actually make money on the membership itself, and why that's the wrong question. Why giving the first year free with a new install can be the smarter play. How to hire technicians based on membership count instead of guessing.TOPICS COVEREDMaintenance memberships. Recurring revenue. Customer retention. HVAC membership plans. Shoulder season staffing. CSR sales training. Labor warranties. Home service business growth. Contractor pricing strategy. HVAC business. Plumbing business. Electrical business. Leadership.WHO THIS EPISODE IS FORThis episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians and other trades business owners who dread the shoulder season, who are constantly spending on marketing to fill the board, or who don't currently have a real membership program built into their business.If your team goes quiet every off season and you don't have a clear answer for why, this conversation is for you.ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOWEscape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business.Ready to work on your own business?Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek:EscapeTheOneManShow.comCONTRACTOR HOTLINEHave a question you want answered on the show?Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail.Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show.#HVAC #HVACBusiness #ContractorPodcast #EscapeTheOneManShow #ContractorLife #HomeServiceBusiness #HVACContractor #PlumbingBusiness #ElectricalContractor #TradesBusiness #BusinessGrowth #DerekCormier #HVACOwner #ContractorSuccess #SmallBusinessOwner #Leadership #HomeServices #CustomerRetention

  5. Sep 9

    You Don't Need More Leads. You Need to Book the Ones You Get. | Brigham Dickinson

    Most contractors think their problem is not enough leads. Here's a better question: What if half the calls you're already paying for never book an appointment?In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier sits down with Brigham Dickinson, founder and president of Power Selling Pros, to talk about why booking rate, not lead volume, is the real lever contractors are missing.Brigham has spent his career training CSRs and technicians across the US, Canada and Australia to convert more of the opportunities already coming through the phone, without relying on more ad spend.This episode isn't about marketing tactics. It's about the calls you're already generating and getting paid for, and how many of them are quietly slipping away.Derek and Brigham break down what the industry average booking rate actually is, why AI call handling has real limits, the exact script Brigham teaches CSRs to use in the first fifty seconds of a call, why technicians resist being trained to present options, and why letting your best people fail is one of the most important things an owner can do.WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW? If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek.EscapeTheOneManShow.com No pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there.WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Why the industry average booking rate is far lower than most owners assume. How to find your company's true booking rate versus what your software shows you. Why AI call handling books the expected but a trained human creates the unexpected. The exact four-step phone script that increases call conversion. Why customers need to feel understood, cared about and reassured before anything else. How to handle a caller who only wants a ballpark price without leading with the fee. The five things a technician should do inside a customer's home. Why the word "sales" kills technician buy-in and what to say instead. How to use your phone to build trust during an inspection without saying a word about selling. Why delegating means letting your best people fail and learn. How to get out of the truck by building people who don't need you for every decision. WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians and other trades business owners who feel like they need more leads to grow. You do NOT need to be running a call center to benefit from this conversation.If you've ever wondered why your board isn't full despite spending money on marketing, or you've got a technician who resists presenting options to customers, this conversation is for you. The goal isn't more leads. The goal is making sure the leads you already have turn into booked jobs. ABOUT BRIGHAM DICKINSON Brigham Dickinson is the founder and president of Power Selling Pros, a training and coaching company for home service call handlers and technicians. He has coached hundreds of CSRs and trained contractors across the US, Canada and Australia, and is the author of multiple books on customer service and leadership in the home service industry.ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOW Escape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business. Ready to work on your own business? Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek:EscapeTheOneManShow.com CONTRACTOR HOTLINE Have a question you want answered on the show? Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail.

  6. Sep 2

    Would Anyone Buy Your Contracting Business? | Chuck Staszkiewicz

    A lot of contractors say they want to build a valuable business. But here's a better question: If somebody tried to buy your contracting company tomorrow, would there actually be a business to buy without you? In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier sits down with Chuck Staszkiewicz, former owner of All Hours Plumbing in Utah, to talk about what actually makes a contracting business valuable. Chuck built All Hours, grew the company and eventually sold the business. Today, he works with contractors through Opus Gold. But this episode isn't just for contractors thinking about selling their company. It's for the one-truck or small contractor who's still answering the phone, selling the jobs, solving employee problems, dealing with customers and making every important decision himself. Because you don't have to want to sell your company to benefit from building a company worth buying. Derek and Chuck break down what buyers actually look for in a contracting company, how dependent your business can be on you before it becomes a problem, why revenue alone doesn't determine what your company is worth, what can destroy the value of an otherwise successful business, and what Chuck learned from actually going through the process of building and selling his own company. They also get into private equity, profitability, systems, employees, financials, owner dependence and what Chuck would do differently if he were starting again with one truck today. WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW? If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help building a company that can grow without depending on you for every decision, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek. EscapeTheOneManShow.com No pressure. The call is an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there. WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians and other trades business owners who want to build something bigger than themselves. You do NOT need to be preparing to sell your company. If you're still running calls, selling jobs, answering customer questions, making every decision or wondering how to turn a one-truck operation into a real company, this conversation is for you. The goal isn't necessarily to sell. The goal is to build a business that could operate and have value without you. ABOUT CHUCK STASZKIEWICZ Chuck Staszkiewicz is the former owner of All Hours Plumbing in Utah. After building and selling his home service business, Chuck moved into coaching and helping other contractors through Opus Gold. In this episode, Derek focuses on Chuck's experience actually building, operating and exiting a contracting company and what smaller contractors can learn from that journey. ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOW Escape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business. Ready to work on your own business? Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek: EscapeTheOneManShow.com CONTRACTOR HOTLINE Have a question you want answered on the show? Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail. Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show. #HVAC #HVACBusiness #ContractorPodcast #EscapeTheOneManShow #ContractorLife #HomeServiceBusiness #HVACContractor #PlumbingBusiness #ElectricalContractor #TradesBusiness #BusinessGrowth #DerekCormier #HVACOwner #ContractorSuccess #SmallBusinessOwner #Leadership #HomeServices #BusinessValuation

  7. Aug 26

    Working Harder Won’t Get You Out of the Truck | Sean Michael Crane

    Most contractors don't have a problem working hard. They're working 60 or 70 hours a week, running calls, answering customers, selling jobs, ordering parts and doing paperwork after everyone else goes to bed. And that's exactly why some of them never get out of the truck. In this episode of Escape the One Man Show, Derek Cormier sits down with Sean Michael Crane to talk about the difference between working hard and actually having the discipline required to build a company. Sean works with business owners and contractors on discipline, fitness, performance and leadership, and Derek personally uses Sean as a coach. But Derek wasn't always sold on him. Coming from a law enforcement background, Derek was initially skeptical when he learned about Sean's history of incarceration. After following Sean for years and watching how intentionally he lives, how he treats his family and how consistently he helps others, Derek's perspective completely changed. This isn't a fitness podcast. It's a conversation for the contractor who's still in the truck wondering how he's supposed to find time to build a business when he's already working all day. Derek and Sean get into what working 60+ hours actually says about your discipline, why "I don't have time" can become an excuse, how contractors can realistically train and eat better while running calls, why answering customers 24/7 isn't necessarily great customer service, what happens when the business starts taking over your family life, and why doing another service call might be the exact opposite of what you need to do if you actually want to grow. WANT HELP ESCAPING THE ONE MAN SHOW? If you're a contractor who's tired of doing everything yourself and wants help growing the business, building a team and getting out of the truck, schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek. EscapeTheOneManShow.com No pressure. The call is simply an opportunity to talk about where your business is today, where you're trying to take it and whether Derek's coaching programs can help you get there. TOPICS COVERED Contractor growth. Getting out of the truck. One-truck contractor growth. Contractor discipline. Work ethic versus discipline. Contractor fitness. Health for trades business owners. Time management. Customer boundaries. Work life balance. Family and entrepreneurship. Owner dependence. Working on the business. Delegation. Hiring. Building a home service business. Personal responsibility. Leadership. WHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR This episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians, construction business owners and other tradespeople who are still heavily involved in the day-to-day work of their company. If you're running calls, answering the phone, doing estimates at night, working weekends and wondering how you're ever supposed to find enough time to hire, grow and eventually get yourself out of the truck, this episode is for you. ABOUT ESCAPE THE ONE MAN SHOW Escape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies and operational frameworks that helped him go from working in the field to building Climate Experts into a multi-million-dollar home service business. Ready to work on your own business? Schedule a FREE introductory coaching call with Derek: EscapeTheOneManShow.com Unstoppable365: https://unstoppable365.com/rx CONTRACTOR HOTLINE Have a question you want answered on the show? Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail. Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode of Escape the One Man Show. KEYWORDS Sean Michael Crane, Derek Cormier, Working Harder Won't Get You Out of the Truck, Escape the One Man Show, contractor podcast, HVAC business, plumbing business, electrical business, contractor discipline, contractor fitness, trades business, one truck contractor, getting out of the truck, home service business

  8. Aug 20

    When to Fire: Why Keeping the Wrong Person Costs More Than the Empty Seat

    Most contractors don't have a workforce shortage, they have the wrong people in the wrong seats. In this episode Derek Cormier breaks down how to actually tell the difference between someone worth coaching up and someone you need to coach out, and why bragging about high retention can be hiding a company that's stagnant and losing culture behind the scenes. Derek walks through the hardest fire there is, the great culture fit who just isn't good at the job, how to run a round table to find out what's really happening inside your company, why one-on-ones and monthly evals catch problems before they become terminations, the real difference between a coaching plan and a write up, and the non negotiable lines every company needs around side work, theft, and attendance. He also breaks down how to read a raise request and why performance pay beats guaranteed hourly for building a team you don't have to babysit. What You Will Learn: Why the best culture fits are often the hardest people to fire, and what to do instead. Why a high retention rate can actually be a warning sign. How to run a round table to surface what's really happening in your culture. Why one-on-ones should never be about performance. Why performance evals should happen monthly, not yearly. The real difference between a coaching plan and a write up, and why confusing them destroys trust. Which behaviors should skip coaching entirely and go straight to termination. How to tell a raise request that's a red flag from one that's a growth opportunity. Why always recruiting, even when you don't need anyone, is what gives you control over your own company. Topics Covered: Employee retention. Coaching up versus coaching out. Company culture audits. Round table meetings. One on ones. Performance evaluations. Coaching plans versus write ups. Employee termination. Side work policy. Employee theft. Attendance policy. Raise requests. Performance pay. Always be recruiting. Who This Episode Is For: This episode is for HVAC contractors, plumbers, electricians, and home service business owners who suspect they're keeping the wrong people too long, anyone confused about when to coach someone up versus let them go, and owners trying to build a real system for performance management instead of managing on gut feeling. About Escape the One Man Show: Escape the One Man Show is a podcast for contractors and trades business owners who are tired of being the bottleneck in their company. Host Derek Cormier shares the leadership lessons, systems, marketing strategies, and operational frameworks that helped build Climate Experts into a multi million dollar home service business. Have a question you want answered on the show? Call 321-495-7788 and leave a voicemail. Your question may be featured in an upcoming episode. Keywords: employee retention, coaching up coaching out, company culture, round table meetings, one on ones, performance evaluations, coaching plan versus write up, employee termination, attendance policy, performance pay, Derek Cormier, Escape the One Man Show, Climate Experts, HVAC owner podcast, contractor coach.

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Most contractors built a business that runs them, not the other way around. Escape the One Man Show is for trades business owners and contractors who are done being the bottleneck in their own company. Every episode Derek Cormier, founder of Climate Experts, a multi-million dollar home services company in Florida, breaks down the real tactics, leadership lessons, and culture shifts that helped him build a business that runs profitably without him in the truck. No fluff. No gurus. Just raw honest conversation from someone who has held the tools, run the calls, and built the team.

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  • Creator
    Derek Cormier
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Derek Cormier
  • Show Website
    Escape The One Man Show

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