Outta the Weeds: The Podcast
The Business Side of Contracting That Doesn’t Get Talked About.
Outta the Weeds is weekly conversations with contractors about how they actually run their companies. Tune in and see what they changed, what it cost them to learn, and what they’d tell someone three years behind them.
What We Talk About On The Show
Pricing and Estimating
How contractors figure out what to charge, when to raise prices, and how to stop leaving money on the table.
Operations and Systems
The structure that lets an owner step back from daily execution without the business falling apart.
Hiring and Crew Management
Finding people, keeping people, and building a team that runs without the owner in the middle of every decision.
Marketing and Lead Generation
Where jobs come from when referrals slow down, and how to build a pipeline that doesn’t depend on luck.
Growth and Business Strategy
What changes when a business crosses $500K, $1M, $2M. What breaks, what has to be rebuilt, and what most owners don’t see coming.
Money and Cash Flow
What healthy margins actually look like in the trades, how to stop funding growth out of your own pocket, and how to read the numbers that tell you whether the business is working.
Your Host: Ryan Deemer
Ryan Deemer has spent over a decade working with trades contractors on the operational side of their businesses. Pricing, systems, cash flow, hiring. The problems that are harder to learn than the trade itself.
The same patterns kept showing up in different businesses, different trades, different states. Contractors three time zones apart making the same mistakes and each one thinking their situation was unique. The podcast exists because those conversations were happening one at a time in private when they should have been happening in the open.
Ryan is also the author of Outta the Weeds: How to Build a Business That Doesn’t Run You.
This Show Covers the Business.
Throttled Up Covers the Marketing.
If the bigger problem is that qualified customers aren’t finding you, that’s a different conversation. We’re ready when you are.