Welcome to The Builders Ladder, for residential builders and construction business owners who want to fast-track their results, scale their construction company, and create a systemized, profitable construction business. If you’re ready to free up your time, increase profit, and build a high-performing team, you’re in the right place. Your host, Marti Amos, has worked with over 5,000 building companies globally over the last 19+ years through builder coaching and proven business systems. His mission? To help you climb the builder’s ladder and run a predictable, high-margin construction business. Tune in to hear from industry experts and discover step-by-step strategies to become a strategic building business owner - and ultimately, achieve true wealth, time freedom, and financial freedom through your residential construction business.
Building a winning team isn't about finding perfect people - it's about creating the systems that turn good people into great performers. Ben from Twizel keeps half his staff for over five years and runs a $10 million company because he treats his business like a sports team, not a family.
Join Marti as he breaks down Chapter 3 of The Profitable Builder's Playbook: How to Build a Winning Team. Discover why the difference between a ...
Fix Yourself First: Why Personal Problems Become Business Problems. Working 12-hour days, constantly firefighting, and having your team dependent on every decision isn't a business issue, it's a leadership issue that starts with you.
Join Marti for part 2 of the Profitable Builders Playbook series as he reveals why the secret isn't working harder on your business, but working harder on yourself first. Discover how Adam from Seattle...
Last year Andrew was stressed, dealing with rollercoaster cash flow and bad apples on his team. His books weren't up to date, he had no financial visibility, and despite having work, the cash wasn't there. Today, he's landing $400-500K jobs at 23% gross profit margin with completely different stress levels.
Join Owen Chambers and Coach Cole as they break down Andrew's 9-month transformation story. Discover how getting the right peo...
Mark works 60 hours a week running his building company while his foreman works 40 hours - yet Mark only makes $2 more per hour despite carrying all the liability, stress, and responsibility. Sound familiar?
Join Marty Amos as he breaks down Chapter 1 of The Profitable Builders Playbook, revealing why the top 5% of building company owners work just 35 hours per week while the bottom 25% grind through 65+ hour weeks. Discover the Pr...
Has your Building Company become a prison? Do you focus on making more money but ignore the systems that give them time, ending up trapped in a "busy job with overheads" instead of a real business.
This week’s episode we are sharing a recent podcast that Marti was featured on with Michael Creer from Straight Talk Builder. Marti shares The Professional Builder Rate formula that shows exactly what tasks you should stop doin...
People don't leave jobs - they leave bosses and opportunities. As your building company grows, your biggest challenge isn't finding good people, it's keeping them aligned and pulling in the same direction instead of operating like individual contractors under one roof.
Join Owen Chambers for the final part of the Builder to Business Owner series as he reveals the Four Ds of CEO leadership: Dollars, Decibels, Discipline, and Directi...
After 10 months as a one-man bathroom renovation business, Rob was trapped. When you're responsible for everything, you can't take time away - and when you do, you're still on the phone handling emergencies.
Join Owen Chambers and coach Carla as they break down how Rob transformed his Texas renovation business using TPB's hiring framework. Discover why his previous helper didn't work out, how the right job ad attracted A-plus talen...
Sitting in the office wondering "what does working ON the business actually mean?" You know you should be doing sales, marketing, and numbers - but where do you start when everything feels urgent and important?
Join Owen Chambers for Part 3 of the Builder to Business Owner series as he reveals the A to Z of Operations framework - your business blueprint that maps exactly how leads flow through your company from first inquiry to fin...
Stop Being Employee of the Month in Your Own Business
Most builders get trapped being the best employee instead of the business owner. They roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and stay stuck doing $47/hour tasks when they should be building systems and leading people.
Join Owen Chambers as he breaks down Part 2 of the Builder to Business Owner series, revealing how to calculate your Professional Builder Rate (PBR) and cre...
When builders hit $1.5M, $5M, or $10M revenue marks, the same painful pattern emerges: what got them there becomes their biggest bottleneck. Most end up with a "busy job with overheads" instead of a real business.
Join Luke Kemeys on Keep the Change as he interviews our very owen Marti Amos (Founder of TPB) . Discover why 22% gross margin nearly destroyed Marti’'s cleaning business, the three critical areas every building com...
Ever wonder why successful construction company owners still struggle to make profit… even when their P&L “checks out”. Growth advisor John sees 10+ building company financials every week - and the patterns are shocking.
Join Owen Chambers as he interviews John, TPB growth advisor and former carpenter-turned-casino dealer-turned business coach, who reveals what happens behind the scenes of residential constru...
The bottleneck in your building business isn't your team, your subs, or your systems - it's you. When every decision runs through the owner, growth stalls and burnout becomes inevitable.
Join Owen Chambers as he breaks down the exact framework successful builders use to delegate effectively and buy back an entire day per week. Discover the three critical delegation questions that prevent miscommunication, the 10-80-10 rule for outc...
Paying top dollar is enough to keep good employees, right? Wrong! Competitive salary actually ranks LOW on the list of what workers really prioritise.
And without knowing these priorities, you’re at risk of losing top talent in your construction business
In this episode, performance coach Andy Ross and Owen Chambers discuss the systematic approach to building a high-performance team culture that attracts talent and keeps them...
Builders waste thousands on websites, ads, and "shiny object" marketing strategies that deliver zero results. But what if your entire marketing strategy could fit on one page?
Join Owen Chambers as he interviews Alan Dib, author of "The One Page Marketing Plan" (nearly 1 million copies sold worldwide). Discover why the most successful builders focus on just 2-3 marketing channels instead of trying everything, and learn the exact fr...
In a notoriously tight-lipped industry where builders company owners rarely share challenges or collaborate, isolation has become the norm. But what if there was a better way?
Join Owen Chambers as he interviews Coach Matt Banks about the transformative power of community in The Professional Builder. Discover stories of members sharing profitable contracts, filling schedule gaps with fellow builders' overflow work, and accessing HR...
Join Owen Chambers from The Professional Builder as he interviews Lachlan Stewart, who recently completed 58 marathons in 58 days across all 50 US states and 8 Australian states/territories - a world-first achievement.
Beyond the physical feat, Lachlan shares powerful mindset strategies directly applicable to builders struggling with tying their self-worth to business performance. After transitioning from professional sports to ent...
One of the biggest needle movers for construction companies and custom home builders that want to scale is mastering a proven sales process.
Tune in today to hear how successful residential builders are implementing sales systems into their businesses - with profit-boosting results.
You’ll hear the story of Ben, a custom home builder from Victoria, who installed a professional quoting and sales process into his construction b...
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Mastering your profit margins is what truly transforms a busy job with overheads into a thriving construction business.
Join Owen Chambers from The Professional Builder as he explains what your job as a construction business owner really is - and what it’s centred around…
Your gross profit margin.
In this episode, ...
Wendy and Paul, two former academics turned trades business owners, faced the growing pains most of us face in the construction industry - no reliable systems, constant overwhelm, and stalled growth.
Despite being four years into running their business, they lacked the right structure in sales, marketing, leadership, and pricing. Like many others, everything still funnelled back through them.
That’s when they joined The Profe...
We’ve trained an AI to hire better than humans. And if you’re struggling to hire good people in your construction business - you may already know the old ways of hiring aren't cutting it anymore.
Access this POWERFUL AI hiring tool by attending the upcoming builders summit: https://www.builderssummit.co.nz/
In this episode, Owen and Vinnie reveal an AI tool that creates compelling job ads in minutes - ads that attract A...
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