September 4, 2025 • 33 mins
This week on At Home With Roby, Trent and Patrick sit down with Colin Sullivan of Renewal by Andersen. From installing windows in Charlotte to leading expanded operations across the Carolinas, Colin shares his family’s journey and what it’s like taking the reins after his dad “rewired.”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial and Services along with
Trent Hasten from the Roby family of companies. We are
your hosts podcasting we in style. Trent's got of sunglasses
off today, which is abnormal.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You you don't need to be that that's that star
and try to try to wear them when I'm indoors.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I just thought you had a lot of black eyes.
Maybe so I didn't know what you've been doing at home.
Maybe taking one up the side of the head. I've
done that a time or two. It doesn't feel good,
especially when you don't know what's coming.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I usually know, I usually know it's a possibility because
something got me into that predicament.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If I've limited experience with this, yes, me too. No, man,
it's good to be here. Been in a couple of
weeks it has. Yeah, we've got We've got a great
show teed up here. We're obviously getting into the corner
whole season. It's fall outside. It feels wonderful. I think
it might get a little hot towards the end of
the week this week, but right now, is that true?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean getting up in the morning when it's in
the mid fifties, had some good living there.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Let us supposed to warm up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, by the end of the week, I think it
might get back up to even like ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No way, one or two more days in Charlotte in August,
north September, North Carolin, early September. You got to.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Catch man's college football season. You gotta be careful in
those first couple of games. Man, it can get you
can get a little steamy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, put it this way. We're recording this on September
to third, So both of our teams are zero to one.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, let's hold on.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Let's clear to make fun of me all you want.
We had no expectations.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Forty one to seven was the fourteen. It was forty
eight to fourteen. But at one point it was forty
one to seven, and they.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Said, but then our new quarterback came in threw a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Mercy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He was our starting quarterback last year, first game, got
his legs snapped in half. Yeah, and now he's going
to be our starter again.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, do you know that they his leg was so
bad that they thought there was a chance that he
was gonna have to have that thing amputated.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I watched. I watched the game. You heard what
the commentators.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Watched the wold I heard it that. I heard it
the next morning, and I heard poor Bill Belichick. It's
a good thing. He's got thick skins.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, poor Bill Belichick. He's building a team. He build
a excuse for it to take a little bit, go
Tar Hills, and uh, he's gonna teach through this and
when they when they end up winning a couple of
big games later on, it's gonna be this was a
teaching moment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think you're right. I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But if he's gonna have to If I was him,
I don't think I put on local talk radio right now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I would.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They were calling him the Bella wreck.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh man, it's sensational as all right. Well, well today
this morning the Rugby family of companies had our town hall,
which we do quarterly, uh before work and the folks
get some coffee and some Chick fil A and some
(03:07):
other stuff. Uh. I thought it was very good, something
we historically used to never do until we embraced the
entrepreneur operating system e O s Uh, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I mean too.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It just to kind of mimic what you're talking about
with with the tar heels. You know, we were a
little shaky our first one several years ago and kind
of gotten a.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Little better and a little better and a little better.
But that's the way anything is.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Men he can started out being an expert immediately at anything.
I mean, you kind of have to get in the mud. No,
I think we got a little more efficient. We're we're
contractors and and and we're hastings at the foundation and
we're gritty. So I think we might have might have
came across a little negative early on, but just because.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Uh it didn't all rosy. But I think we've we've
increased the positivity. I think as a result of doing
this and our company culture, even in our seventy fifth year,
we have reason to be more positive, which is cool,
you know. And we got great folks and great family.
(04:14):
We gave a we changed our what was our award
called Ruby Rock Star, the Ruby Rock Star Award. We
do it quarterly, voted on by employee peers. We lost.
We did a moment of silence and talked about this
a while back, probably a month ago. David Fetter had
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been with our company. I thought he had been with
our company since ninety two. I thought I was fourteen
when he started, but apparently it was ninety four and
I was sixteen. So have been with our company thirty
one years. Great, great guy lost way too early, like
so many, but Hey got it while we could get it,
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and I think we did right by him. He did
right by us family, his daughter and her husband came
and we changed our Roaby Rockstar to the super Davi
Super Dave Service Award is super Dave on the side
of his He was a drywall expert finish man in
our world they call that level five. I don't know,
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but he's as good as it gets. And unfortunately his
first couple of weeks of work, I got to work
on the job site with him, just by happing chance.
It wasn't our only job site, and it was when
I was out of school, and I got to tell
that story. So so now our Ruby rock Star every quarter.
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The award has changed to the Super Dave Award, and
we got a little honor room. So that was good man.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, just the legacy that he has for for
our company in construction in general. I mean, he he
is what you epitomize. I remember when I first started
at Ruby in twenty ten eleven. We just had Ruby
Electric in our services umbrella. And you know, when a
Trician needs a draw agall person after them, usually that
means something has gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I e.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Felt through a ceiling through the attic, or you know,
cut a hole too big or cut a hole in
the wrong spot. And a lot of times, you know,
clientele don't like that, that's an inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And then the big who's paying for this?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And typically it was us that ate that bird And
I would call Dave and I would say, Man, I've
got you going into a hornet's nest. I'm sorry, I'm
really sorry, but I know you can fix it. And
he was so had such a good personality to him.
By the time he was done, the customer was usually
in a very good spot.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Now, one thing he could not my billfold Patrick.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, he had on. No one's won on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
He wasn't cheap and you weren't getting paid for.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It, but he was good.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
My favorite was when we did that to plaster, when
he had to take three trips.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, that was great that that was also at least
on drywall he could use some minute mud. There was
three coats with twenty minute mud. He was a true artisan.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Nobody really could mess with that these days. I don't
know what you do if you chip plaster, but if
you're a plaster repair person, raise your prices now because
it's it's tough. I mean, that's nice as the guy
who has to repair plaster occasionally in the heart of Charlotte,
because we mess up and pay for it. Everybody but
us give us the discount. We'll help you raise your
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prices for the others the discount.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Double check. But David was from Buffalo I told his
daughter that that he that was in the nineties. I mean,
he was like one of the very first people I
met from up north, truly in Charlotte, and he was
from Buffalo's. It was so odd and his accent was
so odd. But now now you know, you live and
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grow and Charlotte's become a conglomerate for folks, uh moving
here from all over the place in the United States
and and elsewhere. We're blessed for that. We're in the
business of business. So I like people moving here. I
like being a melting pot. And yeah, so so one
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of the very first people at Old School Charlotte and
then I went to Carolina Basketball School about the same time,
and I met a bunch of kids from Jersey. I
didn't know what they were saying. They didn't know what
I was saying. I think they they got scared. I
got scared, and we became buddies.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm glad you acknowledged that I was going to ask you. You
think that it was possible that Dave thought you talk funny?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But that was the joke. Man, You are so smart.
I'm not that witty.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I can relate to those Jersey folks.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Coltsnack,
New Jersey, and we went up there for a wedding
for the first time, and those people were like, can
you just just come talk? And I didn't really think
I had a Southern accident, but they sure did.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well colt Snack. They need to check their country country
bumping nothing. Yeah, but but yeah. You know, Reagan spent
every year from from three to sixteen during the summer,
she spent on her grandparents farm. We go up there
to talk about that a lot on here h and
we go visit and I said, Mamath, Illinois, it's the Midwest.
(09:09):
It's not not the Northeast, but they used to. I mean,
she's so pretty anyway, you know, they say, just talk
to us. Yeah, so, uh, anyway, I got.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
One question before introduce our guests. Do you ever wonder
why there's an S at.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The end of Illinois Got you stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
There's a lot of words spelled that way, Patrick, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's like Clempson into silent.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I got other stuff in my life to question that
is definitely not where my I waste my brain cells
because they they ain't a many up there, and uh,
we use them on more valuable stuff. Yeah, we got
Colin Sullivan today. Renewal by Anderson. Really cool, really cool,
really cool. Been a ongoing, big, big sponsor of the
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Pitching for Wishes, our annual. We're talking about it leading up.
We're gonna do a wish story today. Thank y'all so
much for the support, family business and a new YPO. Guy. Man,
we're like shooting shooting an easy targets side of the
sky here. I can't wait to talk about all of it.
Get him excited about his new journey. When we return
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Speaker 2 (10:24):
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Speaker 1 (10:31):
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with Trent Hayson from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
For a second there, I thought Colin was thinking he
was going to have to do the intro.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
He got did too. He did kind of point it in.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
An operation Ready, I'm not gonna lie you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Look, you would have done great. You would have done great, Colin,
We have no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I think this is the first time Colin and
I have ever met. I've seen him on some YPO
emails and I've seen him on some renewaled by Anderson.
I got that right, right, and some sponsorship stuff, so
thank you. They sponsored as South End five k as well,
which we do for Ron scuff the Sheffle loss right,
the sheff Walk, a little bit of shuffling. But well,
(11:24):
I'm running this year. My last couple of years, my
kids have been running. I don't know what's happened to
me in the last six months, but my time's gone down.
I really just don't have the urge to press it
that much more. And my daughter, Tatum, my seventeen year
old oldest child, is whooping my button. The other day
she went from running said how do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
She said, I think I got something for you in
the South End shuffle And I was like, Uh, well, okay, wow,
you might wanna you might want to pick and choose
a better contest.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's how it goes, right, you need the competition to
fuel it. Well, my wife got on this kick that
we're getting old recently and uh and now we need
a walk. It's more valuable for your body to walk,
maybe speed walk, maybe jog a little. But but the
running at our age, I don't think is call cracked
is all? What is cracked up to be? That's fair.
(12:16):
I'm not commented on that when I'm not taking the bait.
But anyway, that's what she she's educating me on, and
I'm I'm running with it. Uh Colin Colin being a
new YPO guy and taking the helm of the business,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, So I just recently joined YPO. Trent and I
were talking kind of off camera here three months ago.
It's been fantastic really, the people that I've met already, Uh,
the experiences I've had. I did vistage for three years prior,
so some familiarity in this kind of professional development setting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And I loved vistage.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
In fact, I anytime it was a vistage day, I'd
come home so inspired, psyched up my wife, would you know,
It's say something to my wife like, you know, honey,
you know my drive for independence can sometimes.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You know, maybe be a catalyst for an arkment. She's like,
did you have a vistage today?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And of course, and so you know, I got talking
to a couple of people I know, and they introduced
me to YPO maybe six months to a year ago,
and took some time to research it and talk to
other members and it just seemed like a fantastic fit
for where I, you know, want to go in my
career in terms of development and really where we see
the business going renewed by Anderson and so I'm excited
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to kind of begin the journey.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah. So, as everybody knows, we have a I have
a big YPO following Southern seven following on here. That's
our chapter Southeastern US Young president's organization. You got to
be under forty five to even fit the age requirement.
To get in, you got to be the president or CEO,
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the financial final financial stop. The CFO has to report
to you, and you have to of a certain size
and revenue employee size and revenue. So we love it.
I've been in so I was asking you about your family.
You said you had a one and a three year old.
That's right, two girls. They are the joy of my life.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I mean literally, I look forward to waking them up
every single day. It's just you cannot beat the smile
that a three year old gives you when you wake
her up.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, amen, I'm gonna show you my third daughter. My
fourteen year old just got her braces off the day
and uh, I just got a bunch of receipts on
my phone.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And we can see Orthononyx coming down the line from
our figures too.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
We got some sucker. We're three for three. But this
is her with her smile. I got that, Oh yeah,
this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Scarlet got hers off a couple months ago. Yeah, and
then they find out about they find out about the retainer.
That's that's the only down downfall about that doesn't stop.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, well she's wearing a Tar Hill shirt and uh.
And my wife said, I, so what do you have
this afternoon when I was driving over here, and she said,
I got this and this, and I got to take
Piper back door to Donisa to get h I said, retainer.
I belt her out, and I felt very proud because
I'm usually the one Patrick, as you know, I need
to get belled out, so way to go, pipes. Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But but anyway, and you said you were thirty three thirty.
I also got to work in go Florida State. You
guys were talking college football before I came on. I'm
a Florida State seminar. We had talked about no expectations, true, yeah,
and then went out there and Laiter whooping on it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But yeah, I had a really good year of the
year before last. I had high expectations. Last year, you
had to two and nine, which was disappointing. Sure as
an acc guy, Sam Cassel and all those old basketball
you're talking about football basketball Still no excuse me? Uh,
(15:57):
what was the he played football and basket ball?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Charlie Ward Ward, No, I know him. Uh, I don't
Dion Sanders.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No, that's baseball. That's baseball and football. He's a flo
Florida State.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah yeah. And Lee Corso Florida State. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And really my era was Jameis Winston. You know, mister
crab legs himself.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So, man, I'll tell you you just brought up Lee Corse.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
So.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was one of the coolest game day shows I
think I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it, yess,
or go back and watch it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That poor guy.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They made that poor guy. He's wonderful. They made him
cry so many times.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It was awesome. It was so cool. They really did
it right. I thought too, the last one. It was.
It was a great tribute. I mean it was hard
not to enjoy it when you were watching it.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And I just love the first Saturday of college for
me too. It is yeah, I mean it is just
the best.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's a lot better.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When your team wins, but yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, I should say I'm looking through it with Alabama. Alabama. Wow,
that was that was tough. One thing I fared too
well on that one.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Colin, Uh, go ahead, go ahead. I was gonna say,
where'd you grow up?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I grew up in Fort Larda, Florida. So both my
parents are from the Northeast. They relocated to Florida, you know,
right when I was born. So even though I was
born in New Jersey, you guys were talking about Jersey.
I pretty much say, I'm a Floridian. Went to Florida
State after college at go sem and all. And after college, had,
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like many people, no idea what I wanted to do
with my life. So my dad, he's always been really
a mentor to me. And over the years, as as
I've gotten older, we've become friends.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I would say.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He kind of advised me to do a management trainee
program at some big company. It'll help get me some
get me on the right path. And so I did.
I joined Writer Logistics, a big fortune five hundred trunk
truncking company. Went to Albany, New York, which was where
my uncle was living at the time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So I'm a Fort Laudo, Florida guy. I barely have.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Ever lived in the cold. It my first winter there.
It was like a record winner with blizzards. I didn't
know what I got into, but I loved it. I
worked on the heavy duty truck lot, just renting trucks,
working with a piece of pen and paper out there
checking things in, working with blue collar guys, and I
just really enjoyed it. And so kind of how it
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works at these big companies is if you're single and
relocatable and performing well, you can really you know, pingboard
up the charts pretty quick. So I kind of spent
the next six to seven years moving throughout the Northeast
and Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, and a bunch of
different places moving in sales until my last stop was
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in Syracuse, New York. And if you're unfamiliar with the area,
I married a woman from Buffalo. Coincidentally, Syracuse is one
of the snowiest places in the US. Is it really
a fur real factual fur real?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You could be.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It gets the lake effects snow. It is no joke.
It could be a sunny day in the winter three
feet at a time. Oh yeah, and you just see
kind of thunderheads rolling in and next thing you know,
you're white knuckling in a blizzard. That's just an average day. Yeah,
And so kind of coincidentally at the time. My family
has always my extended family, uncles have always been a
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part of Renewal by Anderson. So Renewaled by Anderson at
a corporate level as a manufacturer and us as individual
owners own exclusive territories to sell their product and represent
their branding. And so my uncles have been serial entrepreneurs.
They've done sun rooms, they've owned some subways, a bunch
of different things. And about twenty five years ago they
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partnered with Renewal by Anderson as one of their first
affiliates out in New England. In Connecticut was the first
territory and kind of grew with them over the years,
and so at Thanksgivings and Christmases, we would always hear
how great Renewal by Anderson was and really how fulfilling
it was to work directly with homeowners. And so my
parents kind of at this time, I was in Syracuse.
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They were in a transitional phase. My two sisters had
went off to college, they were empty nesters, they were
looking for the next step. We got to talking that
they wanted to get in and you know, at the time,
things are going great at Ryder, I'm going to the top,
you know all that. Yeah, you know, yeah, I was
young and you know, loving life on my own. And
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so they ended up buying this Charlotte market and asked
if i'd come down with them. I said, absolutely not,
not working with my parents. And I remember this day vividly.
It was Mother's Day. I'm sitting in my condo up
there in Syracuse and it's a blizzard, shocking, and I
call it my mom and I say, hey, if you'll
still have me, I'll I'd love to come down, you know,
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I want to. I want to end things right here.
I really respected my boss, but i'd love to come
down and can be down by December. And she said great.
I know you think you're a hot shot, but you're
going to start by installing windows and doors for us.
And so I said, okay, deal. And I had nothing,
packed up, everything, my Ford Explorer with my dog, I
have a lap drove down and.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You bring your girlfriend? No girlfriend? I was single, you know,
still single now I'm married. You just attracted to the buffalo.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Something I can't. Moved to Charlotte and married a Buffalo. Yeah,
get away from this, that's even cooler, yep. And so yeah,
I came down. You know, in December of twenty eighteen,
about six months after they bought the business, started installing
windows and doors.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So I was on a crew.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I was a door guy, and you know, have been
really fortunate and grateful for the opportunity of worked my
way up to now. You know, I get to oversee
then just about.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Everything in the Charlotte market. What give us the geography
of that?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, So we have five territories, So we have Charlotte, Greenville,
South Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and then
we just recently expanded down to Charleston Hill.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Net as well. So it's grown out of Charlotte to
thrown out of Charlotte. Yep, so we've expanded. Yep, congratulations,
thank you. Yeah, so it's big.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
So we kind of touch up to kind of the
Boone area up there into the mountains. We actually go
all the way to the Tennessee line, but don't do
much sales up there. Ashville is great for us, and
and really Charleston Hilton Had where we just expanded to
down there, has been tremendous, you know, from from kind
of our businesses perspective. A lot of old homes and
you know, great media and household income. So it's been awesome.
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Not to mention it's a great place. To take a
business trip, right, you know, so I particularly like it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Do y'all do installation in house?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Ten ninety nine contractors we like to say, you know
that they really partner exclusively with us there they agree
to be branded trailers. Logoed up the whole nine certified
master installers and it's been you know, that was a
pivot we made maybe three four years ago. We used
to have all W two teammates that installed their product,
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and it was hard. My parents and I and even
some of our leadership were really not construction people.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
We could learn, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I I studied and got my sea license and could
talk to talk, but I really couldn't walk the walk,
you know. And one day a subcontractor knocked on our
door and asked if we partnered with subs, and he said, no,
but we want us talk. Yeah, And so we had
the first one who flipped the switch. And now we
kind of pivoted exclusively to ten any nine partners. I mean,
they just mirror our values, really professional. It's been a
(23:23):
great partnership with We now have forty two, you know
individuals that we partner with whom our product.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Cool, So so did your dad was the Charlotte Market
the opportunity or did your dad pick the middle of
the Eastern seaboorg or a bit of both. So, you
know what we call those guys for radio education half backs.
They are proud half backs, you know, they're proud. And
I've met your dad several times. He's really really wonderful man, very.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Very nice guy.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yep, so my dad wear he recently, as he says,
the effect of July first, rewired, not retired, but rewired.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, so what's that mean?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You know, he's effectively out of the business. He's letting
you take all the tough phone calls. Hey, lets me
get that. We were talking to emails, get the hard
emails these days.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But so now we talked about my children and gets
to spend time with my daughters and kind of just
do whatever he wants to do. You know, he's recently
gotten big into guarding, so he gardens a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Cool. That's great. How many grandchildren do your parents have?
Just mine too? Just sure too. Your sisters hadn't delivered yet.
I went, I say I was.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I was a third favorite, you know, child, and not
skyrocketed to one just because of having kids.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, man, that was such a good story. I was
gonna say, uh, you know, I was asking how your
children were. You said three and one. I didn't. I
didn't get that they were girls, my first three or girls.
I had my first Tatum, she's seventeen. I forty seven,
had her when I was thirty or my wife had her.
Let's let's be truthful about what's going on here. And
(24:59):
and I've been YPO fourteen years. So I joined. I
don't know if I was thirty two, thirty three, but
but fourteen years is the number. So uh so, yeah,
it's pretty pretty cool. You're you're a younger. You're a
younger person. I led membership for a good while, both
chapter level and state level. Uh usually folks are in
(25:22):
the in the upper thirties, lower forties when they joined.
Several I mean in their twenties, but not much. Yeah. Yeah.
Some of the the people I met.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You know, I saw a guest of your show was
Lee Cornwell, yeah, you know, so he lives right near
my parents. He was one of my sponsors. And Kyle
Miller and Wes Horn. Oh yeah, so great guys all
slightly older than me. But yeah, no, it's been.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Check their show out. You hear the names Wes Horn,
Kyle Miller, Lee Cornwell. I'll tell you this. Something I
learned in my forum fourteen years ago was when when
your wife knows you're doing something that day with YPO,
you should do this every day, but especially when she
knows this with YPO or Vistage or Patrick's INNEO is
(26:11):
when you get home, put your phone down in a
basket by the door for the first thirty minutes, and
don't ever mess with your phone at all, don't hold it,
don't look at it. And uh, it's crazy. What And
I don't look at my phone a tremendous amount most
of the time. Sometimes I'll be in the throes of
something or but then she likes when I'm not holding
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my phone. It's so true.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And you know where I noticed the two trent is
the young kids. It is amazing how fast they pick
up a technique from just watching you do it. And
so both Emma, Emma's my wife. We try to be
very conscious to put it away and just be fully focused.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But it's hard. You know. We held off on our
kids with without having a phone until they were fourteen.
That's earlier because she was older, and uh, and more mature.
But but you know, just trying to set that stage
because we didn't have a phone.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, I was the same way. And Emma and I
just read a book. I don't know if you guys
heard it. It's called The Anxious Generation. Talks all about
the impact of phones on kids and social media, and
it was recommended to us with young kids as we
try to navigate some of that. And I listened to it.
So I drive a lot going to and from markets,
(27:31):
and so it was a great audible listen. But fourteen
is like their recommended age, just mature enough to kind
of handle some of the freedom that the internet brings
you these days.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's kind of like the documentary The Social Experiment that
came out a while a few years back. I mean,
that was pretty scary and alarm and stuff. Colin, I
don't I don't want to get too far along without
mentioning how this connection happened. Was trying to mention it
all being such a great sponsor the corn hole tournament
and you had or you maybe it's your dad came
(28:00):
back and said, well, let me tell you how we
set this up within our company, And I was like,
that is so cool. Maybe others could do something similar,
talk about how you send your teams to our event.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
So today, you know, we're filming on September third. We
actually hold an inner company cornhole tournament really to qualify
cool for the Pitching for Wishes because there's so much interest,
so we that is also we have a March Madness
style bracket going on right now back at the office.
I just won my match, so you know I'm moving on.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, how many? How many team do you do this?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Like every market has a board setup and you could
play somebody in Charleston or.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Bill absolutely, and so it as we get to the end,
so there's probably thirty plus teams, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So over the.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Years, as we've grown, our own tournament has grown just
to fill your guys tournament and so it's by far
the you know, most appreciated thing we do. And it's
not even put on by us, it's putting on by
you guys.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, thank you, thank you for supporting us. And that
leads us to, uh Patrick, this Wish story time. Everybody
knows the last ten recordings, uh before the before the
Pitching for Wishes, which I think is Saturday November to first,
it's the day after Halloween, should tell me, well, I
(29:21):
was looking to help there, buddy, I got but uh,
but Patrick reads a wish story and uh, it's really
honestly one of my favorite seasons of the year. And
then we got to go back and hit on some
hit on some sponsors to Trent, but today we got
wish kids Zoe. Zoe had one magical wish to travel
to Walt Disney World to meet all of her favorite
(29:41):
princesses and characters. This dream became a reality when Zoe
and her family embarked on an unforgettable adventure filled with joy, wonder,
and the chance to connect with the beloved characters that
have filled Zoe's imagination. From the moment they arrived at Disney,
Zoe was surrounded by the magic of her favorite stories
that had come to life her mind. I'm shared that
by far, Zoe's favorite part of the trip was the
(30:03):
character dining experiences. The chance to dine with the princesses
was a highlight that brought endless smiles.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
To Zoe's face.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They were all so nice and sweet, her mom were called,
adding that these moments are truly the pinnacle the trip.
Another special part of Zoe's wish experience was the star
hanging tradition and give kids the world.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Village which you have been there right?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I have yes where Zoe had the chance to meet
another friend who, like her, has a heart condition. This
touching connection added even more meeting to an already incredible journey.
Reflecting on a trip, Joe's mom expressed deep gratitude, saying,
thank you all so much for the memories. We will
never forget this trip. It was so amazing for all
of us, for Zoe and her family, this wish created
(30:43):
lasting memories forever.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Be chairsh wow, thank you. This is why we do it. Yeah, man,
And I'll touch on the sponsors, thank you doing my job.
Platinum sponsors will throw a little out here, Dead Eye Renovations,
Barefoot and Company, renewal by Anderson, Bingo, Home Technology Solutions,
United health Care. And then we have a couple of
(31:08):
gold sponsors to talk about. Ferguson Enterprise. Uh it says Ferguson,
I don't know. We call them Ferguson enterprisess where Patrick
came from. We love those folks, Dry Pro Foundation and
Cross Space Specialists. Thank you guys. Thank you renewal by Anderson,
Thank you Colin. What you got to say? Man, what's
(31:29):
give me? Leave? Leave us with something? What do you
live by? HM?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
You know, So it's gonna be a little bit long,
but so we try to practice twenty five behaviors at
our company that we feel exemplified.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You're not going to go through a list to know.
I'm gonna talk about the week.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
We're practicing one this week and uh and it's worked
with urgency. That's our behavior this week. And so it
doesn't just necessarily mean go fast. It means be one
step ahead to you know, anticipate the curveball. And so
you know, that's where we're at right now. There's some
lack of things going on in the world. We're trying
to work with some urgency to ultimately, you know, be
a good place to work and drive some business growth.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, thank you and God bless you, and I look
forward to getting to know you and becoming better and
good dear friends together through our YPO and our business connection.
On his work with Urgency, one of their twenty five
tenants that their businesses ran by, we always said, you
can watch how somebody walks from their car into the
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office on an interview. Either they walk with urgency or
they walk without urgency, and that'll tell you a lot
about them. We also say, in our business, it's a
game of heels and toes. No matter who you're dealing with,
whether a customer, whether a supplier, whether a vendor, you
always want to be on your toes and have them
on their heels in a good way, not in a
(32:51):
combative way. But you never want to be caught flat
footed or goofy you know, goofy footed, I guess you
would say. And uh, Colin, you've listened to some shows.
If I'm doing my job, I always say, go do
the Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to
be treated. Carrie, A smile around on your face. You
(33:11):
never know who is gonna affect. Thank you for being here,
pleasure for having me. Thank you guys, and God bless
your young family and your two daughters, and God bless
your business. Good luck in your business. And thank you
Patrick for not giving me a black eye making me
have to wear glasses.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You're welcome, buddy.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
On The Doctor Dre The next episode at Home with
Ruby
Welcome to at Home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Patrick mcasac from Roby Commercial and Services along with
Trent Hasten from the Roby family of companies. We are
your hosts podcasting we in style. Trent's got of sunglasses
off today, which is abnormal.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
You you don't need to be that that's that star
and try to try to wear them when I'm indoors.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I just thought you had a lot of black eyes.
Maybe so I didn't know what you've been doing at home.
Maybe taking one up the side of the head. I've
done that a time or two. It doesn't feel good,
especially when you don't know what's coming.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I usually know, I usually know it's a possibility because
something got me into that predicament.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If I've limited experience with this, yes, me too. No, man,
it's good to be here. Been in a couple of
weeks it has. Yeah, we've got We've got a great
show teed up here. We're obviously getting into the corner
whole season. It's fall outside. It feels wonderful. I think
it might get a little hot towards the end of
the week this week, but right now, is that true?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean getting up in the morning when it's in
the mid fifties, had some good living there.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Let us supposed to warm up.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, by the end of the week, I think it
might get back up to even like ninety.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No way, one or two more days in Charlotte in August,
north September, North Carolin, early September. You got to.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Catch man's college football season. You gotta be careful in
those first couple of games. Man, it can get you
can get a little steamy.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, put it this way. We're recording this on September
to third, So both of our teams are zero to one.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Well, let's hold on.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Let's clear to make fun of me all you want.
We had no expectations.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Forty one to seven was the fourteen. It was forty
eight to fourteen. But at one point it was forty
one to seven, and they.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Said, but then our new quarterback came in threw a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Mercy.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
He was our starting quarterback last year, first game, got
his legs snapped in half. Yeah, and now he's going
to be our starter again.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well, do you know that they his leg was so
bad that they thought there was a chance that he
was gonna have to have that thing amputated.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, I watched. I watched the game. You heard what
the commentators.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Watched the wold I heard it that. I heard it
the next morning, and I heard poor Bill Belichick. It's
a good thing. He's got thick skins.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
No, poor Bill Belichick. He's building a team. He build
a excuse for it to take a little bit, go
Tar Hills, and uh, he's gonna teach through this and
when they when they end up winning a couple of
big games later on, it's gonna be this was a
teaching moment.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I think you're right. I think he'll be fine.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But if he's gonna have to If I was him,
I don't think I put on local talk radio right now.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I would.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
They were calling him the Bella wreck.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Oh man, it's sensational as all right. Well, well today
this morning the Rugby family of companies had our town hall,
which we do quarterly, uh before work and the folks
get some coffee and some Chick fil A and some
(03:07):
other stuff. Uh. I thought it was very good, something
we historically used to never do until we embraced the
entrepreneur operating system e O s Uh, well, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I mean too.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It just to kind of mimic what you're talking about
with with the tar heels. You know, we were a
little shaky our first one several years ago and kind
of gotten a.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Little better and a little better and a little better.
But that's the way anything is.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Men he can started out being an expert immediately at anything.
I mean, you kind of have to get in the mud. No,
I think we got a little more efficient. We're we're
contractors and and and we're hastings at the foundation and
we're gritty. So I think we might have might have
came across a little negative early on, but just because.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Uh it didn't all rosy. But I think we've we've
increased the positivity. I think as a result of doing
this and our company culture, even in our seventy fifth year,
we have reason to be more positive, which is cool,
you know. And we got great folks and great family.
(04:14):
We gave a we changed our what was our award
called Ruby Rock Star, the Ruby Rock Star Award. We
do it quarterly, voted on by employee peers. We lost.
We did a moment of silence and talked about this
a while back, probably a month ago. David Fetter had
(04:35):
been with our company. I thought he had been with
our company since ninety two. I thought I was fourteen
when he started, but apparently it was ninety four and
I was sixteen. So have been with our company thirty
one years. Great, great guy lost way too early, like
so many, but Hey got it while we could get it,
(04:56):
and I think we did right by him. He did
right by us family, his daughter and her husband came
and we changed our Roaby Rockstar to the super Davi
Super Dave Service Award is super Dave on the side
of his He was a drywall expert finish man in
our world they call that level five. I don't know,
(05:17):
but he's as good as it gets. And unfortunately his
first couple of weeks of work, I got to work
on the job site with him, just by happing chance.
It wasn't our only job site, and it was when
I was out of school, and I got to tell
that story. So so now our Ruby rock Star every quarter.
(05:37):
The award has changed to the Super Dave Award, and
we got a little honor room. So that was good man.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I mean, just the legacy that he has for for
our company in construction in general. I mean, he he
is what you epitomize. I remember when I first started
at Ruby in twenty ten eleven. We just had Ruby
Electric in our services umbrella. And you know, when a
Trician needs a draw agall person after them, usually that
means something has gone wrong.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I e.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Felt through a ceiling through the attic, or you know,
cut a hole too big or cut a hole in
the wrong spot. And a lot of times, you know,
clientele don't like that, that's an inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And then the big who's paying for this?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And typically it was us that ate that bird And
I would call Dave and I would say, Man, I've
got you going into a hornet's nest. I'm sorry, I'm
really sorry, but I know you can fix it. And
he was so had such a good personality to him.
By the time he was done, the customer was usually
in a very good spot.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Now, one thing he could not my billfold Patrick.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah, he had on. No one's won on that one.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
He wasn't cheap and you weren't getting paid for.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It, but he was good.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
My favorite was when we did that to plaster, when
he had to take three trips.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Yeah, that was great that that was also at least
on drywall he could use some minute mud. There was
three coats with twenty minute mud. He was a true artisan.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Nobody really could mess with that these days. I don't
know what you do if you chip plaster, but if
you're a plaster repair person, raise your prices now because
it's it's tough. I mean, that's nice as the guy
who has to repair plaster occasionally in the heart of Charlotte,
because we mess up and pay for it. Everybody but
us give us the discount. We'll help you raise your
(07:23):
prices for the others the discount.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Double check. But David was from Buffalo I told his
daughter that that he that was in the nineties. I mean,
he was like one of the very first people I
met from up north, truly in Charlotte, and he was
from Buffalo's. It was so odd and his accent was
so odd. But now now you know, you live and
(07:49):
grow and Charlotte's become a conglomerate for folks, uh moving
here from all over the place in the United States
and and elsewhere. We're blessed for that. We're in the
business of business. So I like people moving here. I
like being a melting pot. And yeah, so so one
(08:09):
of the very first people at Old School Charlotte and
then I went to Carolina Basketball School about the same time,
and I met a bunch of kids from Jersey. I
didn't know what they were saying. They didn't know what
I was saying. I think they they got scared. I
got scared, and we became buddies.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm glad you acknowledged that I was going to ask you. You
think that it was possible that Dave thought you talk funny?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But that was the joke. Man, You are so smart.
I'm not that witty.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I can relate to those Jersey folks.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Man.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I had an aunt and uncle who lived in Coltsnack,
New Jersey, and we went up there for a wedding
for the first time, and those people were like, can
you just just come talk? And I didn't really think
I had a Southern accident, but they sure did.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Well colt Snack. They need to check their country country
bumping nothing. Yeah, but but yeah. You know, Reagan spent
every year from from three to sixteen during the summer,
she spent on her grandparents farm. We go up there
to talk about that a lot on here h and
we go visit and I said, Mamath, Illinois, it's the Midwest.
(09:09):
It's not not the Northeast, but they used to. I mean,
she's so pretty anyway, you know, they say, just talk
to us. Yeah, so, uh, anyway, I got.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
One question before introduce our guests. Do you ever wonder
why there's an S at.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
The end of Illinois Got you stuff?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
There's a lot of words spelled that way, Patrick, I don't.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
It's like Clempson into silent.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I got other stuff in my life to question that
is definitely not where my I waste my brain cells
because they they ain't a many up there, and uh,
we use them on more valuable stuff. Yeah, we got
Colin Sullivan today. Renewal by Anderson. Really cool, really cool,
really cool. Been a ongoing, big, big sponsor of the
(09:59):
Pitching for Wishes, our annual. We're talking about it leading up.
We're gonna do a wish story today. Thank y'all so
much for the support, family business and a new YPO. Guy. Man,
we're like shooting shooting an easy targets side of the
sky here. I can't wait to talk about all of it.
Get him excited about his new journey. When we return
(10:23):
at home with Roby.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Don't forget Roby Services is your one stop source for
all your electrical heating, cooling, plumbing and handyman needs.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Keep it easy and.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Get it all done by one. Roby servicesnow dot com.
That's Roby Services now dot com. Welcome back that home
with Roby. I'm patrickmcasac from Roby Commercial and Services along
with Trent Hayson from the Roby Family of Companies.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We are your hosts.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
For a second there, I thought Colin was thinking he
was going to have to do the intro.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
He got did too. He did kind of point it in.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
An operation Ready, I'm not gonna lie you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Look, you would have done great. You would have done great, Colin,
We have no doubt.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Well, I think this is the first time Colin and
I have ever met. I've seen him on some YPO
emails and I've seen him on some renewaled by Anderson.
I got that right, right, and some sponsorship stuff, so
thank you. They sponsored as South End five k as well,
which we do for Ron scuff the Sheffle loss right,
the sheff Walk, a little bit of shuffling. But well,
(11:24):
I'm running this year. My last couple of years, my
kids have been running. I don't know what's happened to
me in the last six months, but my time's gone down.
I really just don't have the urge to press it
that much more. And my daughter, Tatum, my seventeen year
old oldest child, is whooping my button. The other day
she went from running said how do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
She said, I think I got something for you in
the South End shuffle And I was like, Uh, well, okay, wow,
you might wanna you might want to pick and choose
a better contest.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
That's how it goes, right, you need the competition to
fuel it. Well, my wife got on this kick that
we're getting old recently and uh and now we need
a walk. It's more valuable for your body to walk,
maybe speed walk, maybe jog a little. But but the
running at our age, I don't think is call cracked
is all? What is cracked up to be? That's fair.
(12:16):
I'm not commented on that when I'm not taking the bait.
But anyway, that's what she she's educating me on, and
I'm I'm running with it. Uh Colin Colin being a
new YPO guy and taking the helm of the business,
that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Yeah, So I just recently joined YPO. Trent and I
were talking kind of off camera here three months ago.
It's been fantastic really, the people that I've met already, Uh,
the experiences I've had. I did vistage for three years prior,
so some familiarity in this kind of professional development setting.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And I loved vistage.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
In fact, I anytime it was a vistage day, I'd
come home so inspired, psyched up my wife, would you know,
It's say something to my wife like, you know, honey,
you know my drive for independence can sometimes.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
You know, maybe be a catalyst for an arkment. She's like,
did you have a vistage today?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
And of course, and so you know, I got talking
to a couple of people I know, and they introduced
me to YPO maybe six months to a year ago,
and took some time to research it and talk to
other members and it just seemed like a fantastic fit
for where I, you know, want to go in my
career in terms of development and really where we see
the business going renewed by Anderson and so I'm excited
(13:30):
to kind of begin the journey.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah. So, as everybody knows, we have a I have
a big YPO following Southern seven following on here. That's
our chapter Southeastern US Young president's organization. You got to
be under forty five to even fit the age requirement.
To get in, you got to be the president or CEO,
(13:52):
the financial final financial stop. The CFO has to report
to you, and you have to of a certain size
and revenue employee size and revenue. So we love it.
I've been in so I was asking you about your family.
You said you had a one and a three year old.
That's right, two girls. They are the joy of my life.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
I mean literally, I look forward to waking them up
every single day. It's just you cannot beat the smile
that a three year old gives you when you wake
her up.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, amen, I'm gonna show you my third daughter. My
fourteen year old just got her braces off the day
and uh, I just got a bunch of receipts on
my phone.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
And we can see Orthononyx coming down the line from
our figures too.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
We got some sucker. We're three for three. But this
is her with her smile. I got that, Oh yeah,
this morning.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
That's a big moment.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Scarlet got hers off a couple months ago. Yeah, and
then they find out about they find out about the retainer.
That's that's the only down downfall about that doesn't stop.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, well she's wearing a Tar Hill shirt and uh.
And my wife said, I, so what do you have
this afternoon when I was driving over here, and she said,
I got this and this, and I got to take
Piper back door to Donisa to get h I said, retainer.
I belt her out, and I felt very proud because
I'm usually the one Patrick, as you know, I need
to get belled out, so way to go, pipes. Uh.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
But but anyway, and you said you were thirty three thirty.
I also got to work in go Florida State. You
guys were talking college football before I came on. I'm
a Florida State seminar. We had talked about no expectations, true, yeah,
and then went out there and Laiter whooping on it.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
But yeah, I had a really good year of the
year before last. I had high expectations. Last year, you
had to two and nine, which was disappointing. Sure as
an acc guy, Sam Cassel and all those old basketball
you're talking about football basketball Still no excuse me? Uh,
(15:57):
what was the he played football and basket ball?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Charlie Ward Ward, No, I know him. Uh, I don't
Dion Sanders.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No, that's baseball. That's baseball and football. He's a flo
Florida State.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah yeah. And Lee Corso Florida State. Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
And really my era was Jameis Winston. You know, mister
crab legs himself.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
So, man, I'll tell you you just brought up Lee Corse.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
So.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
That was one of the coolest game day shows I
think I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it, yess,
or go back and watch it.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
That poor guy.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
They made that poor guy. He's wonderful. They made him
cry so many times.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
It was awesome. It was so cool. They really did
it right. I thought too, the last one. It was.
It was a great tribute. I mean it was hard
not to enjoy it when you were watching it.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
And I just love the first Saturday of college for
me too. It is yeah, I mean it is just
the best.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
It's a lot better.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
When your team wins, but yeah, it is nice.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, I should say I'm looking through it with Alabama. Alabama. Wow,
that was that was tough. One thing I fared too
well on that one.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Colin, Uh, go ahead, go ahead. I was gonna say,
where'd you grow up?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I grew up in Fort Larda, Florida. So both my
parents are from the Northeast. They relocated to Florida, you know,
right when I was born. So even though I was
born in New Jersey, you guys were talking about Jersey.
I pretty much say, I'm a Floridian. Went to Florida
State after college at go sem and all. And after college, had,
(17:24):
like many people, no idea what I wanted to do
with my life. So my dad, he's always been really
a mentor to me. And over the years, as as
I've gotten older, we've become friends.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I would say.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
He kind of advised me to do a management trainee
program at some big company. It'll help get me some
get me on the right path. And so I did.
I joined Writer Logistics, a big fortune five hundred trunk
truncking company. Went to Albany, New York, which was where
my uncle was living at the time.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
So I'm a Fort Laudo, Florida guy. I barely have.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Ever lived in the cold. It my first winter there.
It was like a record winner with blizzards. I didn't
know what I got into, but I loved it. I
worked on the heavy duty truck lot, just renting trucks,
working with a piece of pen and paper out there
checking things in, working with blue collar guys, and I
just really enjoyed it. And so kind of how it
(18:18):
works at these big companies is if you're single and
relocatable and performing well, you can really you know, pingboard
up the charts pretty quick. So I kind of spent
the next six to seven years moving throughout the Northeast
and Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, and a bunch of
different places moving in sales until my last stop was
(18:39):
in Syracuse, New York. And if you're unfamiliar with the area,
I married a woman from Buffalo. Coincidentally, Syracuse is one
of the snowiest places in the US. Is it really
a fur real factual fur real?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You could be.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It gets the lake effects snow. It is no joke.
It could be a sunny day in the winter three
feet at a time. Oh yeah, and you just see
kind of thunderheads rolling in and next thing you know,
you're white knuckling in a blizzard. That's just an average day. Yeah,
And so kind of coincidentally at the time. My family
has always my extended family, uncles have always been a
(19:16):
part of Renewal by Anderson. So Renewaled by Anderson at
a corporate level as a manufacturer and us as individual
owners own exclusive territories to sell their product and represent
their branding. And so my uncles have been serial entrepreneurs.
They've done sun rooms, they've owned some subways, a bunch
of different things. And about twenty five years ago they
(19:39):
partnered with Renewal by Anderson as one of their first
affiliates out in New England. In Connecticut was the first
territory and kind of grew with them over the years,
and so at Thanksgivings and Christmases, we would always hear
how great Renewal by Anderson was and really how fulfilling
it was to work directly with homeowners. And so my
parents kind of at this time, I was in Syracuse.
(20:00):
They were in a transitional phase. My two sisters had
went off to college, they were empty nesters, they were
looking for the next step. We got to talking that
they wanted to get in and you know, at the time,
things are going great at Ryder, I'm going to the top,
you know all that. Yeah, you know, yeah, I was
young and you know, loving life on my own. And
(20:21):
so they ended up buying this Charlotte market and asked
if i'd come down with them. I said, absolutely not,
not working with my parents. And I remember this day vividly.
It was Mother's Day. I'm sitting in my condo up
there in Syracuse and it's a blizzard, shocking, and I
call it my mom and I say, hey, if you'll
still have me, I'll I'd love to come down, you know,
(20:44):
I want to. I want to end things right here.
I really respected my boss, but i'd love to come
down and can be down by December. And she said great.
I know you think you're a hot shot, but you're
going to start by installing windows and doors for us.
And so I said, okay, deal. And I had nothing,
packed up, everything, my Ford Explorer with my dog, I
have a lap drove down and.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
You bring your girlfriend? No girlfriend? I was single, you know,
still single now I'm married. You just attracted to the buffalo.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Something I can't. Moved to Charlotte and married a Buffalo. Yeah,
get away from this, that's even cooler, yep. And so yeah,
I came down. You know, in December of twenty eighteen,
about six months after they bought the business, started installing
windows and doors.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
So I was on a crew.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I was a door guy, and you know, have been
really fortunate and grateful for the opportunity of worked my
way up to now. You know, I get to oversee
then just about.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Everything in the Charlotte market. What give us the geography
of that?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Yeah, So we have five territories, So we have Charlotte, Greenville,
South Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and then
we just recently expanded down to Charleston Hill.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Net as well. So it's grown out of Charlotte to
thrown out of Charlotte. Yep, so we've expanded. Yep, congratulations,
thank you. Yeah, so it's big.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
So we kind of touch up to kind of the
Boone area up there into the mountains. We actually go
all the way to the Tennessee line, but don't do
much sales up there. Ashville is great for us, and
and really Charleston Hilton Had where we just expanded to
down there, has been tremendous, you know, from from kind
of our businesses perspective. A lot of old homes and
you know, great media and household income. So it's been awesome.
(22:22):
Not to mention it's a great place. To take a
business trip, right, you know, so I particularly like it.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Do y'all do installation in house?
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Ten ninety nine contractors we like to say, you know
that they really partner exclusively with us there they agree
to be branded trailers. Logoed up the whole nine certified
master installers and it's been you know, that was a
pivot we made maybe three four years ago. We used
to have all W two teammates that installed their product,
(22:51):
and it was hard. My parents and I and even
some of our leadership were really not construction people.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
We could learn, you know.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I I studied and got my sea license and could
talk to talk, but I really couldn't walk the walk,
you know. And one day a subcontractor knocked on our
door and asked if we partnered with subs, and he said, no,
but we want us talk. Yeah, And so we had
the first one who flipped the switch. And now we
kind of pivoted exclusively to ten any nine partners. I mean,
they just mirror our values, really professional. It's been a
(23:23):
great partnership with We now have forty two, you know
individuals that we partner with whom our product.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Cool, So so did your dad was the Charlotte Market
the opportunity or did your dad pick the middle of
the Eastern seaboorg or a bit of both. So, you
know what we call those guys for radio education half backs.
They are proud half backs, you know, they're proud. And
I've met your dad several times. He's really really wonderful man, very.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Very nice guy.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yep, so my dad wear he recently, as he says,
the effect of July first, rewired, not retired, but rewired.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, so what's that mean?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
You know, he's effectively out of the business. He's letting
you take all the tough phone calls. Hey, lets me
get that. We were talking to emails, get the hard
emails these days.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
But so now we talked about my children and gets
to spend time with my daughters and kind of just
do whatever he wants to do. You know, he's recently
gotten big into guarding, so he gardens a lot.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Cool. That's great. How many grandchildren do your parents have?
Just mine too? Just sure too. Your sisters hadn't delivered yet.
I went, I say I was.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
I was a third favorite, you know, child, and not
skyrocketed to one just because of having kids.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Well, man, that was such a good story. I was
gonna say, uh, you know, I was asking how your
children were. You said three and one. I didn't. I
didn't get that they were girls, my first three or girls.
I had my first Tatum, she's seventeen. I forty seven,
had her when I was thirty or my wife had her.
Let's let's be truthful about what's going on here. And
(24:59):
and I've been YPO fourteen years. So I joined. I
don't know if I was thirty two, thirty three, but
but fourteen years is the number. So uh so, yeah,
it's pretty pretty cool. You're you're a younger. You're a
younger person. I led membership for a good while, both
chapter level and state level. Uh usually folks are in
(25:22):
the in the upper thirties, lower forties when they joined.
Several I mean in their twenties, but not much. Yeah. Yeah.
Some of the the people I met.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
You know, I saw a guest of your show was
Lee Cornwell, yeah, you know, so he lives right near
my parents. He was one of my sponsors. And Kyle
Miller and Wes Horn. Oh yeah, so great guys all
slightly older than me. But yeah, no, it's been.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Check their show out. You hear the names Wes Horn,
Kyle Miller, Lee Cornwell. I'll tell you this. Something I
learned in my forum fourteen years ago was when when
your wife knows you're doing something that day with YPO,
you should do this every day, but especially when she
knows this with YPO or Vistage or Patrick's INNEO is
(26:11):
when you get home, put your phone down in a
basket by the door for the first thirty minutes, and
don't ever mess with your phone at all, don't hold it,
don't look at it. And uh, it's crazy. What And
I don't look at my phone a tremendous amount most
of the time. Sometimes I'll be in the throes of
something or but then she likes when I'm not holding
(26:33):
my phone. It's so true.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
And you know where I noticed the two trent is
the young kids. It is amazing how fast they pick
up a technique from just watching you do it. And
so both Emma, Emma's my wife. We try to be
very conscious to put it away and just be fully focused.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
But it's hard. You know. We held off on our
kids with without having a phone until they were fourteen.
That's earlier because she was older, and uh, and more mature.
But but you know, just trying to set that stage
because we didn't have a phone.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yeah, I was the same way. And Emma and I
just read a book. I don't know if you guys
heard it. It's called The Anxious Generation. Talks all about
the impact of phones on kids and social media, and
it was recommended to us with young kids as we
try to navigate some of that. And I listened to it.
So I drive a lot going to and from markets,
(27:31):
and so it was a great audible listen. But fourteen
is like their recommended age, just mature enough to kind
of handle some of the freedom that the internet brings
you these days.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
It's kind of like the documentary The Social Experiment that
came out a while a few years back. I mean,
that was pretty scary and alarm and stuff. Colin, I
don't I don't want to get too far along without
mentioning how this connection happened. Was trying to mention it
all being such a great sponsor the corn hole tournament
and you had or you maybe it's your dad came
(28:00):
back and said, well, let me tell you how we
set this up within our company, And I was like,
that is so cool. Maybe others could do something similar,
talk about how you send your teams to our event.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
So today, you know, we're filming on September third. We
actually hold an inner company cornhole tournament really to qualify
cool for the Pitching for Wishes because there's so much interest,
so we that is also we have a March Madness
style bracket going on right now back at the office.
I just won my match, so you know I'm moving on.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
That is cool.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, how many? How many team do you do this?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Like every market has a board setup and you could
play somebody in Charleston or.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Bill absolutely, and so it as we get to the end,
so there's probably thirty plus teams, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
So over the.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Years, as we've grown, our own tournament has grown just
to fill your guys tournament and so it's by far
the you know, most appreciated thing we do. And it's
not even put on by us, it's putting on by
you guys.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Well, thank you, thank you for supporting us. And that
leads us to, uh Patrick, this Wish story time. Everybody
knows the last ten recordings, uh before the before the
Pitching for Wishes, which I think is Saturday November to first,
it's the day after Halloween, should tell me, well, I
(29:21):
was looking to help there, buddy, I got but uh,
but Patrick reads a wish story and uh, it's really
honestly one of my favorite seasons of the year. And
then we got to go back and hit on some
hit on some sponsors to Trent, but today we got
wish kids Zoe. Zoe had one magical wish to travel
to Walt Disney World to meet all of her favorite
(29:41):
princesses and characters. This dream became a reality when Zoe
and her family embarked on an unforgettable adventure filled with joy, wonder,
and the chance to connect with the beloved characters that
have filled Zoe's imagination. From the moment they arrived at Disney,
Zoe was surrounded by the magic of her favorite stories
that had come to life her mind. I'm shared that
by far, Zoe's favorite part of the trip was the
(30:03):
character dining experiences. The chance to dine with the princesses
was a highlight that brought endless smiles.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
To Zoe's face.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
They were all so nice and sweet, her mom were called,
adding that these moments are truly the pinnacle the trip.
Another special part of Zoe's wish experience was the star
hanging tradition and give kids the world.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Village which you have been there right?
Speaker 2 (30:22):
I have yes where Zoe had the chance to meet
another friend who, like her, has a heart condition. This
touching connection added even more meeting to an already incredible journey.
Reflecting on a trip, Joe's mom expressed deep gratitude, saying,
thank you all so much for the memories. We will
never forget this trip. It was so amazing for all
of us, for Zoe and her family, this wish created
(30:43):
lasting memories forever.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Be chairsh wow, thank you. This is why we do it. Yeah, man,
And I'll touch on the sponsors, thank you doing my job.
Platinum sponsors will throw a little out here, Dead Eye Renovations,
Barefoot and Company, renewal by Anderson, Bingo, Home Technology Solutions,
United health Care. And then we have a couple of
(31:08):
gold sponsors to talk about. Ferguson Enterprise. Uh it says Ferguson,
I don't know. We call them Ferguson enterprisess where Patrick
came from. We love those folks, Dry Pro Foundation and
Cross Space Specialists. Thank you guys. Thank you renewal by Anderson,
Thank you Colin. What you got to say? Man, what's
(31:29):
give me? Leave? Leave us with something? What do you
live by? HM?
Speaker 4 (31:36):
You know, So it's gonna be a little bit long,
but so we try to practice twenty five behaviors at
our company that we feel exemplified.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You're not going to go through a list to know.
I'm gonna talk about the week.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
We're practicing one this week and uh and it's worked
with urgency. That's our behavior this week. And so it
doesn't just necessarily mean go fast. It means be one
step ahead to you know, anticipate the curveball. And so
you know, that's where we're at right now. There's some
lack of things going on in the world. We're trying
to work with some urgency to ultimately, you know, be
a good place to work and drive some business growth.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Well, thank you and God bless you, and I look
forward to getting to know you and becoming better and
good dear friends together through our YPO and our business connection.
On his work with Urgency, one of their twenty five
tenants that their businesses ran by, we always said, you
can watch how somebody walks from their car into the
(32:30):
office on an interview. Either they walk with urgency or
they walk without urgency, and that'll tell you a lot
about them. We also say, in our business, it's a
game of heels and toes. No matter who you're dealing with,
whether a customer, whether a supplier, whether a vendor, you
always want to be on your toes and have them
on their heels in a good way, not in a
(32:51):
combative way. But you never want to be caught flat
footed or goofy you know, goofy footed, I guess you
would say. And uh, Colin, you've listened to some shows.
If I'm doing my job, I always say, go do
the Golden rule. Treat others the way you want to
be treated. Carrie, A smile around on your face. You
(33:11):
never know who is gonna affect. Thank you for being here,
pleasure for having me. Thank you guys, and God bless
your young family and your two daughters, and God bless
your business. Good luck in your business. And thank you
Patrick for not giving me a black eye making me
have to wear glasses.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You're welcome, buddy.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
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