STOP WORKING BROKE PODCAST

AI or die for Blue Collar Businesses - Where to start

If you’re a service business owner and you keep hearing “use AI”… but you’re not sure how it actually helps your day-to-day—this episode is for you.

In this conversation, Chad sits down with Dan Gentry (Impact AI / Third Power Performance) to break down practical ways AI can help you in two big areas:

✅ 1) Your business: save time, speed up follow-up, organize your operations, and ...

In this episode of Stop Working Broke, Chad Murray breaks down the Million-Dollar Tasks you must master if you want to scale your service business, escape the technician trap, and finally build the freedom-focused company you dreamed of when you first started.

If you’re stuck, overwhelmed, or wondering how to grow beyond the rut you’re in… this is the roadmap.

Chad reveals the exact framework he used to grow a multi-million-dollar se...

Being the owner sounds glamorous—until you’re the one carrying payroll, problems, employees, customers, and big decisions with no peer bench.

In this episode of Stop Working Broke, host Chad Murray talks about the real kind of loneliness entrepreneurs face (not “I need friends” lonely), why it quietly wrecks your decision-making, and how isolation turns into overthinking, delay, and compounded problems.

You’ll learn:

• The most comm...

Welcome to Stop Working Broke—the rebranded podcast from Outside the Business Box—hosted by Chad Murray. If you’re running job-to-job, chasing checks, and the phone gets quiet the minute you stop pushing, this show is for you.

Each episode is packed with real-world tips and straight advice to help service business owners fix the stuff that keeps them stuck: cash flow, marketing that actually works, better offers, follow-up systems, ...

In this brutally honest episode of Operation Entrepreneur Freedom, Chad Murray pulls back the curtain on the toughest season of his business life. After nearly three decades in business and coaching hundreds of entrepreneurs, Chad shares how ignoring his own advice almost bankrupted him — again.

He talks openly about shutting down an 18-year market, hiring a COO to dismantle his company, and the emotional toll of making hard but ove...

Silence Is Where the Money Is – 4 Sales Stories That Prove It

Most salespeople are afraid of silence. They rush to fill the gap… and kill the deal. In this video, I’m sharing 4 real-life sales stories where silence either made the sale—or cost someone thousands.

You’ll learn:

• How silence creates buying pressure (without being pushy)
• The critical mistake sales reps make when they talk too much
• What to do after you drop your price or ...

Welcome to Operation Entrepreneur Freedom — the podcast that helps home service business owners design a business that runs (and grows) without them.

In this episode, host Chad Murray reveals why most service businesses stall at $1-2M and what you can do to break through fast. Spoiler: It starts with sales — but not in the way you're used to.

You’ll learn:

• Why your current salespeople are holding you back
• How separating sales ...

In this episode of Operation Entrepreneur Freedom, Chad sits down with sales legend Curt Tueffert, a seasoned pro who’s trained and managed sales teams pushing past $100 million in revenue. This no-fluff conversation is packed with real-world strategies for service business owners who are ready to build a true sales machine—and finally step out of the chaos.

From building trust-based sales processes, to turning techs into ...

In this episode, we dive into the brutal truth: your marketing stinks because you’re too cheap to play with the big boys. Stop whining about bad leads and start learning how to fix your ad strategy.

🔥 Here’s what we cover:

How to calculate your ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)

Why being burned by a crappy agency is NO excuse to stay stuck

The real reason you don’t scale—you don’t know your numbers
...

Pay or Get Sued: How I Learned Payroll Law the Hard Way 💸⚖️
You don’t know what you don’t know—until you’re in court. In this episode, Chad Murray shares the gut-wrenching story of how a single payroll mistake triggered a lawsuit that nearly wrecked his business. Learn the legal landmines of paying employees (hourly, salary, commission, and performance pay), the truth about overtime law, and how to avoid getting crushed by la...

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What happens to your business if you're gone tomorrow?

In this raw and brutally honest episode, Chad Murray shares two moments he nearly died—and the two wildly different outcomes for his business. In 2006, his appendix ruptured… and his business went bankrupt. In 2021, his lungs failed from COVID… but his business hit $100K weeks without him.

This is the tale of building a business ...

This might be the rawest, realest, and most action-packed sales episode we’ve done in a long time.

Chad Murray sits down with entrepreneur, speaker, and “Call The Damn Leads” founder Drewbie Wilson, who breaks down why most businesses are leaving millions on the table—because they simply don’t pick up the phone. From growing up hustling, traveling the country in an RV with his family, and building a brand that’s become a m...

🚀 In this episode of Outside the Business Box, Chad Murray sits down with Bryan Clayton — the founder of GreenPal (the “Uber for Lawn Care”) and former CEO of a $10M landscaping company he scaled and successfully exited.

Bryan shares real, in-the-trenches lessons about:

• How he scaled his landscaping company from a $20 lawn job to over $10 million in annual revenue
• The challenges of transitioning from running crews to running a bu...

The Top 20 Dumb Mistakes Business Owners Keep Making 🚨

Welcome to another brutally honest episode of Outside the Business Boxes, where Chad Murray pulls no punches. In this episode titled "The Dumb Episode," Chad breaks down the top 20 dumb things business owners do that sabotage growth, kill profit, and keep them stuck in the hamster wheel of hustle.

From keeping toxic employees to refusing to raise pr...

Welcome back to the Outside the Business Box Podcast with your host Chad Murray — business coach, speaker, and multi-million dollar service business owner. 🚀

In this episode, Chad dives deep into how he completely reinvented his sales process with a physical, flip-through sales presentation tool — and the results are already changing the game.

💥 From a typical slow April…
➡️ To $133K in sales in one week

Price Conditioning to Crush Sticker Shock in Sales | Outside the Business Podcast

In this episode of Outside the Business, I’m giving you a raw, real update on my world—what’s going on with my businesses, why I’m feeling like me again, and how we just had a record week in April that beat all of last year. 💪

We’re diving into the art of price conditioning—a powerful sales tactic that helps eliminate sticker shock and sets your custom...

🔥 Get Out of Your Comfort Zone & Scale Your Business | Outside the Business Boxes Podcast w/ Chad Murray

Welcome to Outside the Business Boxes, where we dig deep into what it really takes to grow a service business. In this episode, Chad Murray—7-figure entrepreneur and coach—dives into the raw truth about business growth:

-Why getting out of your comfort zone is non-negotiable
-How failure is actually pa...