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Speed to Lead Is Everything! Daria Parreto on Why the First Three Seconds Win or Lose the Job

EPISODE SUMMARY What happens when a fashion designer from Kazakhstan organizes a festival for 70,000 people in St. Petersburg, moves to Brazil, lands in Miami, learns four languages, and eventually asks ChatGPT where she should focus her AI company? She ends up building voice agents for moving companies, and it turns out that was exactly right. Sabrina sits down with Daria Parreto, co-founder of Boosted Movers, for one of the most forward-looking and genuinely surprising conversations the show has ever had. Daria isn't just selling AI tools to moving companies. She's building an entire AI infrastructure, speed-to-lead voice agents, CRM integrations, agentic follow-up flows, and custom quote forms, for an industry where being the first to answer the phone is the difference between winning and losing the job. She's also the person who walks around a lake every morning without headphones, projects her future self into existence, and runs her family with the same energy she brings to everything else. This one will change how you think about your phone.

Three Diagnostic Tests That Tell You If You're the Bottleneck (Run Them This Afternoon)

EPISODE SUMMARY If every decision in your business goes through you, your business isn't a business. It's a job. In this solo episode, Sabrina delivers that hard truth with warmth and humor — and then gives you three diagnostic tests you can run in a single afternoon to find out whether you're the bottleneck and which one to clear first. She opens with a story about a roofer who had to cancel their podcast call ten minutes before to go grab materials — and how that moment perfectly illustrated what it looks like when a business still needs its owner for everything. Then she takes it personal: the windows she cleaned wrong as a kid, the lawn she mowed in the wrong pattern, and the lesson her mom never quite taught her — that something being done imperfectly by someone else is almost always better than it not being done at all. Featuring the story of Michael Cheney of No Drip Painting, who started with a brush at 40 and now employs 30 people.

The Mother's Day That Made Olga de la Cruz Walk Away From Corporate for Good

EPISODE SUMMARY What do you do when you're three years into a demanding international travel role, working on Mother's Day with no response from your boss, and your husband has been running a painting company that could really use your marketing brain? You quit without a plan, pick up a laser measuring tool, and figure it out as you go. Sabrina sits down with Olga de la Cruz, co-owner of HQ Painting in Salt Lake City, for a warm, candid conversation about building a business alongside your spouse, learning an industry from scratch, and the quiet power of relationships over everything else. Olga came from marketing, fund development, and international consulting. She married a painter with nearly 30 years of experience, stepped into estimating with zero technical knowledge, and built the sales and business development arm of a thriving residential and commercial painting company. She's also raising rental properties on the side and building something in Mexico. Olga is just getting started — and she knows it.

"I Didn't Know I Could." The Five Words Holding Women Business Owners Back

EPISODE SUMMARY The five words Sabrina hears most often from women in home services: "I didn't know I could." In this solo episode, she breaks down five permissions every woman business owner already has — and isn't using. Raise a price. Fire a client who costs you your peace. Take a Friday off without telling anyone why. Say no to a referral that doesn't fit your ideal customer. Charge for an estimate you've been giving away. Sabrina opens with a real text thread from a local business owner paralyzed by fear over firing an employee she knew had to go. Then she shares her own story of giving herself permission to leave a 19-year marriage — and introduces Alina Ledoux, a former litigation attorney who immigrated from Uzbekistan and built the number one cleaning company in Nevada. The takeaway: even Alina still has imposter syndrome. So you're not behind. You just need to give yourself permission to move.

The Revenue Ceiling, the Culture Code, and the Forge Program: How Plumbing Outfitters Is Building a Legacy Company with Ashley Stroud

Episode Summary What does it look like to build a nearly $5M plumbing company with your high school sweetheart, raise five kids including twins, get your master plumber license at eight months pregnant, and still show up to deliver hot Thanksgiving meals to families in need — six years in a row? Sabrina sits down with Ashley Stroud, co-owner of Plumbing Outfitters in Central Texas, for a conversation that is equal parts business playbook and genuine love story. Ashley is a former ER nurse turned master plumber turned co-founder of a 30-person, 11-van residential plumbing operation approaching $6M. She and her husband Warren are complete opposites on every personality test they've ever taken, and that's exactly why it works. From their CHAMPS core values framework to their in-house Forge apprenticeship program to a culture code that ships with every job offer, Plumbing Outfitters is proof that when you build something with intention and pour into people, the company becomes something worth staying for.