Summary: <br> <br> <br> Hey folks this is Frank and I’m back. That’s right I’m back on the pest geek podcast, And in case you’ve been wondering a lot of people been wondering where I’ve been. Well I’ve been right here. I just haven’t been there and I don’t have any of you remember this show for kids. It was called Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. Yeah. I mean where have I been. Well I’ve been building my company learning to recruit and hire people and it would have been a ride for the last three years four years since I started this new company, And I’ll do a little recap for those of you who don’t know who I am because a lot of you don’t listen way back. <br> <br> <br> I mean we’ve got over two hundred and twenty episodes now of<br><br> the pest geek podcast and a lot of you have no idea who I am or where I come<br><br> from but I’ve been silent for a year. The podcast has been going thank you to<br><br> Jeff McGovern and Stephen Vantassel and Adam Malanga for helping out and<br><br> contributing what they have. They’ve done a phenomenal job and they will<br><br> continue to do this. And I really do appreciate all of the work they’ve put<br><br> into this to make sure and they you know they they’ve captured the vision of<br><br> what I want to do where I want to go with this. They have embraced the vision<br><br> have supported me have consulted me have given me great advice. They’ve been<br><br> there for me so I am surrounded by excellent people who actually have been<br><br> doing this all of them probably longer than I have and have in their own right<br><br> their own expertise. And that’s why I appreciate that they’re totally different<br><br> from me. They’re not me. They’re a totally different people with different<br><br> backgrounds different skill sets different abilities and I think that’s what<br><br> makes a very very successful team. His not having people who are a copy of me<br><br> but experts in their own right. So I am so grateful for that. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> But yes I took a year off from the doing an actual producing<br><br> a podcast. I’ve been just behind the scenes doing the the distribution and<br><br> production work but not doing the actual content creation for the podcast<br><br> because my business blew up and I could not handle it anymore to the point<br><br> where I had my wife for a year doing preventive service while I was managing<br><br> the business doing sales marketing and doing initials and doing the lawn and<br><br> garden work that is very extensive.<br> <br> <br> And I went from working six hours a day in the field to<br><br> eight hours a day in the field to 10 hours a day in the field to 12 and 14<br><br> hours. I mean I would be out at 7 o’clock in the morning and I’d still be doing<br><br> a restaurant at 12:00 midnight. That’s how crazy it got and I had to build a<br><br> buffer in order for me to start hiring because it requires a lot of preparation<br><br> and knowing that the numbers are gonna be there so that you can make payroll<br><br> and for so I you know I took on everything else and put all the GHB preventive<br><br> maintenance which is our growing part of our business and handed that over to<br><br> her and had her in the field for about six hours a day doing that until I<br><br> building a business to start recruiting.The problem here I had was Listen guys.<br> <br> <br> <br> I didn’t know how to recruit and the way I had done it in<br><br> the past <br> <br> <br> In my previous part of this business which you know this is<br><br> this is a brand new rebrand of my old company where we were a landscape company<br>...
