You've got 47 unread emails...

5 missed calls...

9 text messages...

Everybody wants something from you.

Your employees, suppliers, customers...

Your partner, your kids, your parents...

They’re all important.

So which one should you answer first?

What do you prioritize?

It's not the big decisions that wreck trades business owners.

It's the hundreds of tiny ones like this... all day, every day.

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM LISTENING TO TODAY’S PODCAST:

1. Why decision fatigue quietly bottlenecks your entire business (and how to spot it before it wrecks you)
2. The exact system millionaire-profit owners use to stop making every single decision themselves
3. The one mindset shift that turns "why is everyone asking me stuff" into "why am I not asking them"

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Claim a Free Planning Session to learn what coaching could do for your business
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Join the new book 'Built to Run' Waitlist

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What happens when a successful trades business owner pushes so hard that his own business nearly destroys his health? In this episode of the Profitable Tradie Podcast, Steve Vega shares how 63-hour work weeks, chronic underpricing, and poor systems left him burned out before transforming his plumbing business into a $1M+ company. If you're a plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, or home service business owner looking to increase profit, improve pricing, build better systems, and scale without sacrificing your life, this episode is packed with real-world lessons.

⏱ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 | Introduction

00:01:01 | 1. Stress & Burnout: Fighting severe physical stress and 63-hour shifts

00:07:38 | 2. Operations Shift: Moving from a chaotic operator to structured teams

00:15:47 | 3. Underpricing Traps: Overcoming guilt and mindset traps around money

00:24:22 | 4. Back-Costing: Using pricing targets and reviews to plug profit leaks

00:32:15 | 5. Culture & Time: Scaling with team 1-on-1s, time audits, and calendars

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better-run business, we work with plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs,

roofers, and similar contractors across Australia, New Zealand,

the US, and Canada.

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🎙 ABOUT THE PROFITABLE TRADIE PODCAST & CHANNEL

Profitable Tradie helps trade business owners build businesses

that make real money and don't depend on them to run.

Hosted by Tony Fraser-Jones & Phil Smith.

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Spot the difference:

Two trades business owners.

Same service.

Same team size.

Same number of hours worked.

But one makes $100K profit a year.

And the other makes $1 million.

How can that be?

WHAT YOU’LL GAIN FROM LISTENING TO TODAY’S PODCAST:

1. How to multiply yourself instead of maxing yourself out
2. Why hiring before you're desperate is cheaper than hiring when you're not
3. The secret to scaling past the "I do everything myself" ceiling

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Claim a Free Planning Session to learn what coaching could do for your business
• Subscribe to our YouTube Channel
• Join the new book 'Built to Run' Waitlist

Thanks for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to The Profitable Tradie Podcast? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us and leave us a review with a 5-star rating.