This is the Home Service Expert podcast with Tommy Mello.

Let's talk about bringing in some more money for your home service business.

Welcome to the Home Service Expert, where each week Tommy chats with world-class entrepreneurs

and experts in various fields, like marketing, sales, hiring, and leadership to find out

what's really behind their success in business.

Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

Hey there, folks, I'm Tommy Mello, the Home Service expert, and today we're going to be talking

with Ryan Meecham about lean and about systematizing your

business so that you really don't have a lot of waste. Ryan, how's your day going?

I'm great, Tommy. How are you doing? Great. I do want to tell everybody, I already have Ryan as a

consultant. He's coming in and he's transforming our whole business right now.

So at the end of the day, I can tell you, I trust this guy. We use him. He flies into town.

He lives in Salt Lake, right?

Yeah, that's correct.

So, Ryan, tell us a little bit about what you've done over the past 10 years and what you're doing today.

Yeah, so, you know, I describe it just simply as this.

It's a whole process or a whole way of thinking to eliminate things that get in your way.

The most important thing about lean is really to focus on the fact, really focus on what bugs you.

And if you learn the processes and learn the ways of thinking, then there's a lot of

opportunity to move those things out of your way. And most importantly, to prevent them from

reoccurring. So it's just a whole system of thinking. So I spent a number of years at a company

here in Salt Lake called Power Blanket. Power Blanket's a wonderful manufacturing company that makes items for heating items

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