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Growing a business is NOT easy, but follow-up can be. In this episode, Stephen has a conversation with Tanner Mullen about hiring, culture, and Tanner's cutting-edge CRM built for service business, Drip Jobs.    Episode 88: How Do I Hire When No One Wants To Work? Tactics For Hiring  In 2024 Start Drip Jobs for free https://dripjobs.com?ref=pullupandthrive Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

You will never get anything by sitting back and waiting for it to happen. Being passive will NOT move you forward! On today's show, finding good help in 2024, in this episode Stephen lays out his new aggressive hiring tactics for 2024. Episode 6: 3 Myths Business Owners Believe About Hiring Episode 22: How Do I Hire My First Employee? 1.0 11 Ways To Crush It When Making Your First Hire! Episode 24: How Do I Hire My First Employee? 2.0 6 Strategies To Hire Like A BOSS Episode 6 3 Myths Business Owners Believe About Hiring Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

Business is NOT for the faint of heart; there are so many things that you have to figure out. In this episode, Stephen lays out 8 ways NOT to lose your butt in business.  1- not everyone is your customer 2- put it in writing 3- get a deposit 4- get a starting signature and a completion signature 5- Take pictures 6- Be specific in your estimate 7 Communicate 8- Underpromise and over-deliver Episode 36 No Excuses! 6 Ways To Avoid Excuses In Your Life And Business!Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

How do you grow your network, and why is it important? In this episode, Stephen has special guest Jerry Iverson, a networking expert with 20 years in the trenches. Jerry lays out the importance of a network, how to build it, and how to grow your business.   Center of influence  1-Cultivating that connection  Aligning myself with them 2-Communication Identifying their pain point3-Collaboration  Here’s a simple solution to your problemGet The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

If we could go back in time, what would we tell our younger selves?  In this episode, Stephen lays out the 10 things he wishes he would have known when he started. 7 million able-bodied men out of the workforce Episode 6 3 Myths Business Owners Believe About Hiring 1 Everyone is trying to figure it out 2 Don’t get stuck in your own head 3 You need 3 people in your life to keep you out of trouble 4 It’s way harder and takes longer than you think 5 Staying the course is the hardest part. 6 You have to surround yourself with smart people 7 Not everyone is your customer 8 Hire for culture fit first 9 Hire people that can produce an outcome 10 Cash is king Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

Are you asking the question how do I grow my business? In this episode, Stephen lays out just that in 4 simple steps.  1 You have to make a commitment to personal growth Matthew 25:14: “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one, he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. 2 What is the outcome that you are driving towards?  Episode 73: The Power Of Creating A Vision To Run Towards! With Mike Howerton 3 What are the habits that will drive me towards my vision? Book- “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Scott Adams Episode 9: Don't Set Goals! Do This Instead 4 Accountability Join The Blue Collar Business Academy  Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

Do you hate heartburn? Me too, but worse than that, I hate not knowing what’s causing it. Honestly, sometimes it’s really hard to put your finger on the source of the pain. In this episode, Stephen is going to tackle the 7 mistakes business owners make that are guaranteed ways to give you heartburn, revisited from episode 1 of Pull Up ANd Thrive. Episode 1: 7 Mistakes business owners make that are guaranteed to give you heartburn. Episode 82: 10 Old School Work Habits Guaranteed To Make You Money! Episode 45: How Do I Set My Price? Helping You Make Money That's Out Of This World! Episode 3: Where do I Start? Start Here Episode 6 3 Myths Business Owners Believe About Hiring Episode7: 3 Steps To Crushing It At Delegation 1- They don't know their numbers. 2- Don't have systems. 3- Hiring the wrong people. 4- Don't delegate. 5- They don't drive the business. 6- Lack of self-awareness. 7- Debt. Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University  Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

They say, “There’s no school like the old school.” On this episode, Stephen shares old-school work habits guaranteed to make you money!  1- show up 2- give the customer a price  Episode 48: Stop Doing Bids For A Living! And Start Making Money!! 3- do what you say you would do Episode 38 No Excuses! 6 Ways To Avoid Excuses In Your Life And Business! 4- if it's not right. Make it right Episode 41 4 Tactics To Keep Customers Coming Back For More! How Do I Get Customers For Life? 5- Don’t count your chickens before the hatch. Pay your bills first Episode 42: Managing Cash Flow 101. Managing The Flow So You Can Avoid The Crash And Burn 6- Live on less than you make 7- tell the truth 8- treat people how you would want to be treated  9- go the extra mile 10- out work everyone else Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

We give ourselves too many outs, too many escapes. If this doesn't work, I’ll go back to my job. If living on my own doesn’t work, I’ll move back home with my parents. If this marriage doesn’t work, we’ll get a divorce. Too many easy ways out. If comfort is your priority, then the road to success may not be for you. To be successful, you have to grow, and growth is NOT comfortable, and comfortable is NOT growth. In this episode, Stephen lays out 3 things you can do that will drive your life and business forward. 1- there is no going back. 2- there is no plan B. Episode 53: Stop Fighting Fires! Find The Friction And Stop The Fires. 3- pivoting is NOT quitting! The path of the just shines brighter and brighter as the noonday sun Proverbs 4:18 Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

Everyone will face challenging times in life or business in the form of hardship, difficulty, loss,  slowed economic times, or another struggle sooner or later. The question is, are you ready? No one can be prepared 100% but in this episode, Stephen lays out 6 things you can do to navigate the struggle and thrive in uncertain times.  "Everyone who hears his words and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. Then he went on to say everyone who hears his words and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." Matthew 7:24-26  "It rains on the just and the unjust." Matthew 5:45 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. James 1:2-4 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”Surely, He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings, you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.  Psalms 91:1-6 1- It could always be worse   2- Lean in 3- Don’t build a monument 4- Support system 5- Cash 6- You need a place of refuge Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

How do I win at business without losing my family?  This is NOT something that you can do alone. It requires working together as a family.  In this episode, Stephen lays out 7 hacks for raising a family and getting things done! 1- You must have a work ethic! 2- You have to manage your time. 3- You must communicate. Episode 52: You Don't Need Work Life Balance; You Need Work, Life Focus! Episode 40: What Is The Key To Success? Communication Is The Key. 4- Work together. 5- Be intentional. 6- You have to run the business. Episode 11: Who’s Driving The Business Anyways? 7- Take purposeful breaks. Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com

Everyone makes mistakes, yes, even Stephen...lol After 20 years in business, he has made his fair share of failures and mistakes. In this episode, Stephen lays out his top 10 failures and mistakes all to make you feel better about yourself. So stop letting your failures hold you back! 10- Putting a 5-ton forklift on a 1-ton truck 9-  Not having a plan 8- Shuffling vendors 7-  Not having a cash reserve 6- Sheilding sparks with a piece of cardboard 5- Saying, "When I say jump, you say how high." 4- Not understanding hiring  Episode 6 3 myths business owners believe about hiring 3- Not paying payroll taxes for 2 years 2- Not getting coaching sooner 1- Debt Dave Ramsey's Finical Peace University Episode 49 5 Hacks To Supercharge Failure Into Success. Get The Successful Entrepreneurs Blueprint! Join The Blue Collar Business Academy Join our Facebook group, The Blue Collar Business Academy Stephen's email [email protected] Work with Stephen 1 on 1 Stephen's website: https://www.stephencapps.com/ Pull Up And Thrive store Servant Warrior T-Shirt Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_stephencapps/ Stephen's Youtube channel Stephen's Linkedin Stephen on TikTok TX Gates' website www.tgates.com Handyman website www.calltxgates.com