The Ty Brady Way

He Took a Second Mortgage and Built a $1M Cleaning Empire. Here’s the Model with Tom Richter

On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Tom Richter, regional developer for Jan Pro of Utah, a commercial cleaning franchise that has grown under his leadership from a second mortgage and a two-person operation into a 125-franchisee network with a multi-million dollar economic footprint across the state. Tom’s story is one that will resonate with anyone who has ever looked at a corporate career and wondered if there was something more, and then actually did something about it. Tom grew up in Nebraska as a farmer, which he describes as the original entrepreneurial proving ground. Risk, reward, and no guaranteed outcome were baked into his upbringing. He carried that mindset into a 21-year corporate career, but after surviving three mergers, acquisitions, and hostile takeovers, the writing was on the wall. Rather than find another company to work for, Tom started looking at what it would mean to finally bet on himself. A former boss had bought into Jan Pro down in Tampa, Tom flew out to meet the founders, and something clicked. Their core values lined up. By the time the flight home landed, his mind was made up. Seven of his eight siblings were entrepreneurs, and he realized he was not supposed to be working for anyone else either. Tom and his wife Carol took a second mortgage out on their home and purchased the rights to develop Jan Pro across the state of Utah, becoming only the 12th city to come on board with the brand and one of the first two locations in the entire Western United States. The first three to five years were exactly what you would expect from any startup. Tom was making sales calls, training new franchise owners, handling operations, and doing whatever needed doing while Carol managed the office while still working remotely for Intermountain Healthcare. Just the two of them for the first six months before bringing on their first hire. Today that team has grown to 12 support staff serving 125 franchise owners across Utah. The Jan Pro model is something Tom explains with a lot of clarity and obvious pride. Rather than sending franchise owners out to fend for themselves, Jan Pro handles the sales, the client contracts, the audits and inspections, the invoicing, and the collections. Franchise owners come to Tom knowing how much business they want to build, they get trained, and then the regional development team goes out and gets their clients for them. Tom compares it to being the general contractor while the franchise owner supplies the labor. It removes most of the barriers that cause small cleaning operations to fail, and it is why the people who follow the model consistently succeed. The success stories are hard to ignore. One franchise owner came in from Logan with just $950, the entry level at the time, starting with $500 a month in cleaning revenue. Twenty years later he is generating $40,000 a month and employs around 20 people, all while keeping his full-time job. Another owner arrived from Venezuela on refugee asylum status after losing three auto mechanic shops in Caracas to the political environment there. He is now Jan Pro Utah’s largest franchise owner, on track to hit a million dollars in revenue in just his fifth year with around 35 employees. These are not outliers. They are what the model produces when people commit to it. Tom is candid about what gets people into trouble. The biggest issue is not the cleaning itself, it is management. A husband and wife team or a two-person operation can generally get to $75,000 or $100,000 in revenue on their own, but something shifts when they bring on employees. The expectation that an employee will care about the work the same way they do is where things start to fall apart. Without proper training, supervision, and ongoing engagement, it can unravel fast. His advice is direct: if you do not have strong business acumen, go get it before you need it, whether through SCORE or another resource that can fill in the gaps. Tom also touches on what it takes mentally to make the leap into franchising or any kind of business ownership. He believes roughly 90% of people want to start something of their own, but half of them talk themselves out of it when they honestly assess their risk tolerance and their ability to push through the hard early years. That self-awareness is not weakness, it is honesty, and Tom respects it. But for those who do have that fortitude, the Jan Pro model is structured to give them as much runway as possible to succeed. Looking ahead, Tom expects 20 to 30 percent year-over-year growth for the next five or more years and is on track to earn Gold Circle recognition among Jan Pro’s top 20 offices worldwide. His son has been part of the business for 12 years and is moving into ownership, setting up a transition that will carry the business well beyond Tom and Carol’s chapter. After 27 years of building, refining, and proving the model, the legacy looks like it is in good hands.   Connect with Tom Richter: * Website: janpro.com/utah * LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tomrichterutah   Connect with The Ty Brady Way: * Email: thetybradyway@gmail.com * Instagram: @thetybradyway   As always, share, like, and subscribe. We’ll catch you on the next one.

Your Body Already Has the Key to Beating Addiction. Here’s How to Use It with Doctor Nathan Eliason

On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Dr. Nathan Eliason, a board-certified physician in both family medicine and pathology with a passion for regenerative medicine and addiction treatment. Dr. Eliason shares his journey into medicine, growing up with a doctor for a dad, watching his older brother follow the same path, and spending 11 years between college, medical school, and residency before finding his calling at the intersection of healing and innovation. What starts as a conversation about sore knees and stem cells turns into one of the most eye-opening discussions about addiction recovery you’ll ever hear. Dr. Eliason breaks down regenerative medicine in plain language, covering everything from simple dextrose injections that help tighten loose ligaments and kick off the body’s natural healing response, to platelet-rich plasma therapy using the patient’s own blood, to exosomes derived from stem cells that signal the body to heal the way it did when it was young. The message is straightforward: you don’t have to wait until your knee is bone-on-bone to do something about it. There are real, effective options that can help people avoid surgery and get back to living without pain. The heart of this episode though is NAD, Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, a molecule found in every cell in your body that plays a critical role in energy production. Dr. Eliason explains how NAD levels decline as we age and how replenishing them through IV infusion has produced remarkable results in patients struggling with addiction. He traces the history of NAD therapy all the way back to a bold 1961 paper by Dr. O’Hara, through an addiction clinic in apartheid-era South Africa that treated 20,000 to 30,000 patients, to a secret “amino acid blend” at a Tijuana clinic that turned out to be NAD all along. It is a story that sounds like it belongs in a documentary, and it is completely real. Dr. Eliason shares firsthand accounts of patients who came to him as functioning alcoholics, people who had to wake up at 3 AM for a shot of liquor just to avoid a seizure, and walked away from a 10-day IV treatment completely free of cravings. He explains how NAD does not just address physical withdrawal, it helps the brain heal and restore its energy, which is why so many people who quit alcohol through willpower alone still feel anxious and depressed long after they stop drinking. He even references Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, who found that high-dose niacin, NAD’s precursor, finally lifted the anxiety and depression that had stuck around for years after he got sober. Ty and Dr. Eliason also cover the broader uses of NAD therapy including Parkinson’s disease, early Alzheimer’s, seizure disorders, and general energy and mental clarity, making this conversation relevant well beyond addiction. Dr. Eliason is open about the process, the safety, the cost, and what he is ultimately working toward: getting enough clinical data to bring NAD therapy into the mainstream so more people fighting addiction can actually access it. If you or someone you love has been touched by addiction, this one is worth your time.   Connect with Dr. Nathan Eliason: * American Wellness Clinic * Consultations can be billed to insurance or worked into the treatment process. Dr. Eliason does not want cost to keep anyone from at least looking into their options.   Connect with The Ty Brady Way: * Email: thetybradyway@gmail.com * Instagram: @thetybradyway   As always, share, like, and subscribe. We’ll catch you on the next one.

The Cost of Not Going For It: Tim Harrison on Faith, Leap-of-Faith Decisions, and Building a Business That Actually Matters

On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Tim Harrison, founder of the Coaching Innovation Lab and a man who works at the intersection of human development and technology. Tim is six foot eight, a former Division I basketball player at Rice University, a certified executive coach, and someone who has spent his career figuring out how to help people realize their potential, first through coaching, then through a nonprofit, and now through AI-powered systems that make that work scale in ways that weren't possible even a few years ago. The story starts with a season-ending injury two years into his college basketball career. Tim was an Under Armour All-American, an Adidas All-American, and had every reason to believe the game would take him somewhere. When that door closed, he got access to an executive coach through a university program, and that single experience changed the direction of his life. He started studying psychology, reading personal development books, and saw a clear thread connecting all of it. He knew that kind of transformation was going to matter more to him than anything else he was learning in school. What happened next is one of the more unusual origin stories you'll hear. At 21, Tim got certified as an executive coach through a program run in partnership with MD Anderson Cancer Center, the number one cancer research center in the world. The program was designed for hospital department heads. Tim was in the cohort with them. He was bold enough to ask several of them if he could coach them after the program ended. Most said yes. At 22, he was coaching senior leaders at a major medical institution, building a practice through referrals while simultaneously launching a nonprofit to bring that same kind of coaching to young people in underserved communities. He landed his dream job at a big four consulting firm coming out of college, signed the contract, and then walked away from it. The pandemic, the social justice crisis after George Floyd, and a deep personal conviction that he was meant to contribute more than a corporate ladder could offer pushed him to take a leap with no clear financial path forward. He started the nonprofit anyway. He says the cost of not doing it felt heavier than the risk of doing it, and that calculation has guided most of his major decisions since. Ty and Tim get into AI in a way that actually makes sense for people who are skeptical or intimidated. Tim's framing is simple: AI is not a new subject to study. It's a new tool to reach for while doing the things you're already doing. He breaks down the four zones everyone operates in, from incompetence to genius, and makes the case that AI should be filling the gaps in the lower zones so you can spend more time in the zone where only you can do the work. His line is worth writing down: do what you do best, let AI do the rest. The story that really lands in this conversation happened in 2025 when a political shift in federal funding wiped out the vast majority of revenue from Tim's biggest contract, a multimillion dollar coaching study for biomedical PhD students. He couldn't control what happened. What he could control was how he responded. He used AI to build a custom chatbot trained on all the program's research and operational data, which handled over 500 coach support requests that his team would have otherwise had to address manually. He built an automation that analyzed every coaching session report in real time and populated a live dashboard, eliminating a month-long data analysis process and saving thousands of dollars. He took those savings and launched a new program training entrepreneurs on AI. That program recouped its investment within months. Then a judge blocked the funding cuts and the original program was reinstated. He ended up with two growing revenue streams instead of one, and a leaner, more efficient operation than he started with. He's clear that AI wasn't the hero of that story. The person who knew how to use it was. His advice for anyone who feels stuck is practical and specific. Define where you want to go. Get honest about where you actually are right now, not the catastrophized version, the specific version. Then find the smallest tangible step you would actually take and do it immediately. Don't wait until tomorrow. The momentum that comes from taking even a small action is real, and it compounds. His closing message is the one that ties everything together: who you are is how you prompt. AI multiplies everything, the good and the bad. The only thing you can control is who you are when you're multiplied. So invest in yourself first, then pick up the tools.   🔗 Connect with Tim: CoachinginnovationLab.com 🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/CoachTimHarrison 🎙️ Follow along: @thetybradyway   As always, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at thetybradyway@gmail.com Or DM us on Instagram @thetybradyway

The One Habit Beau Turner Says Kept Him Sane While Building a Multi-Million Dollar Bitcoin Mining Company

On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Beau Turner, a former real estate investor who sold everything to go all in on Bitcoin mining. Five years later, he's built Abundant Mines into an eight-figure business and is widely considered one of the leading Bitcoin mining co-location hosts in the world, serving hundreds of clients across multiple facilities in Oregon. Beau's path here was anything but smooth. He and his wife lost half a million dollars in their very first mining venture after getting burned by a bad partnership. Most people would have walked away. Beau did the opposite. He looked around, saw thousands of other people who had been scammed or were too scared to try, and decided that was exactly the problem worth solving. That loss didn't just fuel the business. It became the mission. Ty and Beau break down what Bitcoin mining actually is, in plain language, and why so many people get it wrong. Beau explains it simply: miners are the security force and the transaction system for the Bitcoin network, all at once. Think of it as the military and Visa combined, running on energy instead of bureaucracy. He also makes a clear distinction between Bitcoin and crypto, and why he believes conflating the two is one of the most common and costly mistakes people make when they start learning about this space. They get into the business model too. Clients purchase their own servers, those machines live in Abundant Mines' data centers, and for a flat $225 a month per unit, Beau's team handles everything: power, internet, maintenance, and consulting. All the Bitcoin the machine produces goes straight to the client. It's a straightforward setup, and Beau walks through what kind of returns are realistic depending on where Bitcoin's price sits at any given time. One of the most interesting parts of the conversation is Beau's take on energy. He used to study sustainability engineering and believed the goal was to use less. He's completely flipped on that. His view now is that generating more energy is what actually drives prosperity, and that Bitcoin miners are one of the best tools grids have for staying flexible and reliable. He explains how miners in Texas can literally turn off during a heat wave and give power back to the grid, which is something a traditional data center can never do. Beau also talks about the habit that's kept him grounded through all of it: a daily meditation practice he and his wife started together early in their relationship, built around Dr. Joe Dispenza's work. He credits it as the one thing that made everything else possible. His advice for anyone thinking about following a similar path is direct: pick one thing and go all the way in. Shiny object syndrome is real, and splitting your focus is one of the fastest ways to guarantee a mediocre outcome in everything you're chasing. If you've ever been curious about Bitcoin, wondered whether mining is actually worth it, or just want to hear from someone who bet everything on a contrarian idea and built something real out of it, this one is worth your time.   🔗 Connect with Beau: AbundantMines.com 🎙️ Follow along: @thetybradyway with @AbundantMines   As always, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at thetybradyway@gmail.com Or DM us on Instagram @thetybradyway

Why Inspiration Is Killing Your Business (And What Actually Works Instead) With Boaz Gilad

On this episode of The Ty Brady Way, Ty sits down with Boaz Gilad, a Jerusalem-born, New York-raised entrepreneur who spent 20 years building one of the most significant real estate portfolios in New York City, took his company public, lost it in a hostile takeover, and came out the other side as one of the sharpest performance coaches in the business. He's the founder of Zenith Clubhouse and the author of the Zenith Code, and he works with CEOs, founders, Olympic athletes, and anyone serious about closing the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Boaz doesn't sugarcoat anything. He talks openly about the 2008 financial crisis wiping out a huge chunk of what he'd built, and then years later watching the company he'd poured everything into get taken from him through a hostile takeover. He's clear that he owns his part in what happened, and he's equally clear that sometimes the wave is just bigger than the surfer. One of his investors told him exactly that during the hardest stretch, and it stuck. The point isn't to avoid failure. The point is how fast you get back on the horse. One of the most honest moments in this conversation is when Boaz pushes back on the entire inspiration industry. He's watched thousands of people walk into his workshops fired up, ready to change their lives, and then disappear by March. His take is direct: inspiration is sugar. It spikes and then it drops, and your actions drop right along with it. What actually moves the needle is discipline, planning the details, and knowing what your next small step is even when you don't feel like taking it. He asks a question worth sitting with: are you committed, or are you just interested? Ty and Boaz also get into what real leadership looks like under pressure. When Boaz's company was going under, a recovery officer told him he was going to fire all 60 employees at once. Boaz said no. He spent his last days in the office having one-on-one conversations with every single person on his team, making sure almost all of them had job interviews lined up before they walked out the door. That's the kind of story that tells you everything about who someone actually is. They cover how to spot a real expert versus someone who just looks the part on social media, why Boaz fires toxic clients even when it costs him money, and what he genuinely believes about AI and where the coaching industry is headed. His view is that AI will keep getting better at giving advice, but it will never replace the human being who can look you in the eye and tell you something you don't want to hear. His legacy isn't about a number or a title. He wants to be fully used before he's gone. That's it. Every conversation, every client, every opportunity to give something real to someone who needs it.   🔗 Connect with Boaz: BoazGilad.com 🎙️ Follow along: @thetybradyway with @unmaskpodcastclips   As always, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at thetybradyway@gmail.com Or DM us on Instagram @thetybradyway