Off the Tools
A show for contractor owners
Off the
Tools
Conversations with contractors about the business behind the trade: the numbers they don’t share, the jobs that nearly broke them, and what it actually takes to stop being the bottleneck.
Season 1 · recording now · USA
What you’ll hear
The hour the crew goes home.
The invoices are out, the numbers don’t add up, and there’s nobody to say it to. That is the hour this show is built around.
01Real owners naming what they actually pay themselves.
02The job that lost money, and the day they found out.
03What a lead really costs once the platform is finished with you.
04The hire that went wrong, and what it taught them.
05The moment they stopped being the bottleneck.
06What they would tell themselves ten years ago.
Episodes
Season 1, recording now.
New conversations published weekly. Here’s what’s coming.
Ep 01 · Coming soon
The $1.8M year that paid him $70K
Revenue is not profit. A roofer walks through the year his business looked great and felt terrible.
Ep 02 · Coming soon
He fired his biggest customer
What happened to the margin when the 20% who consumed 80% of the energy were gone.
Ep 03 · Coming soon
The second truck
The exact moment the business stopped being one person, and what broke first.
Who it’s for
Owners who are the bottleneck.
You run a contracting business doing somewhere between $500K and $5M a year. You’ve got a crew, maybe a truck or six. You’re still the estimator, the dispatcher, and the person who answers the phone at your kid’s baseball game.
You’ve tried the ads, the platforms, the agencies. You’re not looking for another tactic. You’re looking for someone who has actually been where you are.
Who it isn’t for
People shopping for a guru.
There’s no course to buy here. No funnel at the end of the episode. If you want a five step system delivered in 40 minutes, this will frustrate you.
This is a slow, honest conversation with people who build things with their hands and are learning to build a company with the rest of their life.
For guests
Come on the show.
60 to 90 minutes. No prep. No script. You keep the footage and can use it however you want: your site, your socials, your hiring page.
What we ask
An honest hour about how the business actually runs. You decide what to share and what stays off the record.
What we don't
We don’t pitch you. We don’t sell anything on air. We don’t publish anything you haven’t approved first.
Questions
Before you say yes.
No. No notes, no deck, no homework. We’ll talk for a few minutes before recording starts so you know exactly how it works.
Then we don’t talk about them. You set the boundaries before we record, and anything you flag gets cut.
Yes. You see the cut before publication and nothing goes out without your sign off.
About 90 minutes of your time on the day, plus a 15 minute check in before we record. That’s it.
Yes. Full clips, your segment, the whole episode. It’s yours to use wherever you like, no attribution required.
Fine. We record remotely and schedule around your time zone.
Host
Mo Abeds
I’m not a contractor. I build the systems contractors use to get and convert work: demand, follow-up, automation, the unglamorous plumbing behind the phone ringing.
I started this show because the conversations I kept having off camera were better than anything I had heard on it. Owners would tell me the real version once the recording stopped. So I stopped stopping the recording.
Based in the USA · Recording remotely · mo@moabedsemail.com
Got a story worth an hour?
Season 1 is booking now. If you’ve built something with your hands and you’re learning to build a company with the rest of your life, I want to hear it.
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