Mowing in the Dark LAWN CARE Podcast
Welcome to the Mowing in the Dark podcast. This podcast is all about business, family, & life. I am your host Aaron Sutter and I own and operate a lawn care business in Michigan. I also run a youtube channel called Lansing Lawn Service LLC. With this podcast I will focus on conversations with lawn care business owners and others who can bring insight and value to your life.
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The Equip Expo is only 2 weeks away and there is one event that is a can't miss. You don't want to miss the completely FREE 6th annual Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday October 22. This year the prayer breakfast will be held off site at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The Crowne Plaza that is right there by the expo center. The doors open at 6:30 am and they start serving breakfast at 6...
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There are a lot of service that we can offer as lawn care professionals, but few are more profitable than fall clean up if you price it right and do the service properly. While fall clean ups only last for a few weeks here in Michigan we can still make a huge amount of money in those few weeks. Let's talk about it.
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This week as I think about how far my business has come this year I am so greatful for the growth. I thank God every single time I get an estimate request. I thank God every single time I pick up a new lawn. I thank God everyday for the blessing of the lawns I have now and in the future. I believe that thankfulness can and does help your business to grow.
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There are many christian lawn care business owners out here, but are there many who live like they are christians while they are conduction business. We can't just sector off our lives and say this is me at home, this is me at work, and this is me at church. Life doesn't work that way. We get one life, one body, and one soul and it doesn't matter where your at, if your a bel...
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In today's bonfire sessions episode I talk about the faith of Charlie Kirk and the revival that is happening because of his death.
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Today is my 20th Wedding Anniversary so I thought I would do an episode on 4 easy ways a lawn care pro can destroy their marriage. All four of these things are things that I have done in my marriage and it doing them put my marriage through a lot of greif that my wife and I didn't need to go through.
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Today I have a question rolling around in my head and that question is... Am I truly free in my business? Let's talk about it.
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Many, many, business owners love the biblical book of Proverbs and for good reason. It isn't called the book of wisdom for nothing. But, if you read the reast of the bible, especially Jesus life in the Gospels, you will see that Jesus basically goes against everything our human nature would do in business. Proverbs leaves room for taking someone to court or even revenge, but...
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I have been thinking allot lately about who my mentors have been over the years. I have had physical mentors and I have had author and podcast mentors, people who don't even know they were my mentors. That is what I want to talk about today.
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Technology has consumed our culture in America and it is only getting worse. Recently I found myself down the social media rabbit hole and it consumed my life. So in order to combat social media addiction I have started completely turning off my phone for 12 hours a day from 6 pm - 8 am. IT is amazing how freeing it feels to be doom scrolling on facebook for hours at a time....
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Today I was listening to the Fullerton Unfiltered podcast and something Brian said got me to look back on my first year of business as Sutter Brothers Lawn Care. If you didn't know I had a business in Lansing, MI for the last 10 years and shut it down when we purchased my childhood home that was located 50 miles away from Lansing. I started this lawn care season with just tw...
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Recently I did a driveway project and I had bid plans for how this thing was going to go. I had it all planned out. I had the time of everything perfect in my mind and everything was going to run on schedule includng the delivery of 27 yards of crushed limestone. The only problem was that nothing went to plan. It was 104 degrees out side. My geo textile fabric got wrapped ar...
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I have been doing driveway repair for three years now and I have never done a new install. Well today that is going to change. Today I have a driveway repair job, but I also have a new install as apart of that driveway repair. Its a small install which is great for learning how its done.
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After moving my business from Lansing, MI to rural Michigan I thought route density wouldn't be possible. The lawns are just too far apart and too big for it. But I realized that route density is possible in rural areas it just look a little different, at least for my business.
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There are allot of things you can do with content, but the most important thing to remember is to tell a story with your content. You don't even need to say a single word to tell a story. Just look at black and white silent films. They are some of the most popular fims ever made because they tell a story without using words.
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One day Aaron found a wet spot in the yard and started wondering where this spot could have come from. After some searching Aaron realized the water was coming from the septic tank at his house. Aaron instantly went into a downward spiral about having to get the whole system replaced. Instead of jumping the gun and calling in a company to dig it all up, Aaron and his wife Re...
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In today's episode Aaron talks about the Psycology of Customers asking their lawn care provider to cut the lawn shorter. Is it just because they want the lawn shorter or is it something more?
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In today's bonfire sessions episode Aaron sits down with his son Levi and his wife Renee around the fire to talk. Aaron and Renee talk about going through some very hard times in their lives and going through another hard time recently.
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In today's episode Aaron talks a bit about his health and he also gets into the health of his new business and where his businesses are going.
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In today's Bonefire Sessions episode Aaron talks about the second annual SMS (Social Media Secrets) Meet up at the Equip Expo in Louisville, Kentucky Oct. 21, 2025 at 7 pm. More details to come on the location.
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