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00:26:56

Electrical Lords // Boats N Hoes Part 2 (Office...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/17

“Boats n hoes boats n hoes gotta have me my boats n hoes” // Step Brothers You know the song! Ah Step Brothers, what a movie! Greatest of all time? Maybe not, but definitely up there in my top 10 that’s for sure. Today we are talking about office essentials. What can’t you live without? What do you “gotta have” in there? What is a must have or essential item to ensure that you have the most productive day?The office is the engine room of the business. We all know the money is made or lost in the

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01:29:20

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge With...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/15

So pumped to have Willman (Willman Electrical) + Heath (hspark Electrical) drop by the lounge for a chat. We discuss pricing, sales, the importance of weekly invoicing, sparkies helping sparkies, branding, business growth, client relationships + much more. We even manage to give some PG relationship advice along the way!! I’ve got a lot of respect for these guys and I am super thankful they came past for a catch up. We even managed to get a lighthouse sunrise in and an amazing Thai dinner banquet

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00:18:10

Electrical Lords // All I Want For Christmas Is Some...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/12

Insert Vince Vaughn from Old School saying “ear muffs ear muffs” lololol. The Christmas run in is real!! 6 weeks to go. Crazy hey?!? So often in the busy-ness of business it’s incredibly easy to make a bad decision / mistake. For instance, sending the wrong person to the right job, having the wrong person in general, a quick quote that’s not thought through enough, a phone conversation when it should have been an email and so on and so on. We know the best decisions are made with a clear headspace

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00:20:59

Electrical Lords // Boats N Hoes (Part 1 // On Site...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/10

Ok you know the song. It’s from one of the greatest movies of all time Step Brothers. It goes like this… “boats n hoes boats n hoes gotta have me my boats n hoes”. And omg… LOL. What a movie. What a time to be alive. But the song got me thinking, what have you “gotta have” in your business? So we started a series. We start it with part one (obvs), welcome to the discussion on site necessities. We asked around some of our mates and compiled the answers for your listening / viewing pleasure. And let

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01:44:45

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge Room ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/08

Wasssuppp lords! On today’s session of “Sunday School” we have none other than Josh Ford aka Fordy aka The Ford Lord aka the unofficial god / deity of starting businesses and social media. Ford gives us a pretty thorough run through of Capcut and how he uses it to edit his videos for New Age and Lock Out + Live etc. In the modern world of social media if you’re producing a lot of content there is nothing quite like gripping it and ripping it (ie knowing how to do it yourself). If you’re starting out

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00:28:40

Electrical Lords // Don’t Hate The Playa, Hate The...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/05

Let’s face some facts, unless you have a serious chip in there will probably be a fair bit of work in getting your business (aka client base) off the ground. Common chips in include taking over a family business, having builder friends, having friends in high places in schools, knowing people in the commercial space, dating a contracts admin (lol), marrying a realtor or a real estate receptionist, having good family contacts and so on. These chip ins will be able to give you work, and not just one

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00:22:07

Electrical Lords // Help My Partner Sucks At Admin

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/03

Ok so don’t let the title fool you or upset you, this is designed to bring up a very important topic: should you partner be doing the admin? So let’s face it, 5% of the time your partner doing admin works every time! Lolololol. We have put this pod together because we see too many people get their partner in an admin role without considering that the dynamic isn’t doesn’t work, their partner isn’t trained in it, isn’t interested, doesn’t enjoy it, could earn more money elsewhere, it’s an unrealistic

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01:22:38

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge Room ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/11/01

On this episode of the pod we have Sam Ackland from Alpha Tradie, Build Clean + Delta Temp. Sam and I have been back + forth over online sorcery (aka insta DM’s) over the past few months and we felt it was about time to jump on a pod and hang out for an hour or so. We discuss branding, marketing, organic content, product, charge out rates aka the age old debate of “$120+ per hour” (lol), the coaching industry, accounting, finances, company culture, raising up people from within plus much more. For

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00:35:56

Electrical Lords // Baby Got Back Charged (Part Two)

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/29

The Sir Mix-A-Lot references are back and far out are we in for a good time here or what. In the first “Baby Got Back Charged” we discussed if you back charge employees or not (spoiler: we think not). The second iteration references when business gets back charged by the client. The insecure business owner says ”I’m sorry baby I didn’t mean that I think they are excellent back charges” Happy Gilmore style. The egotistical business owner says “NO WAY GET STUFFED STUFF OFF” as they put some poo in a

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00:29:47

Electrical Lords // Baby Got Back Charged

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/27

While the title is no doubt a play on Sir Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 classic “Baby Got Back”, in this pod we take it back a few decades and draw inspiration from The Rolling Stones’ song “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. A common question we get around here is “do you back charge employees when they make a mistake?” After all there is parking fines, falling through ceilings, crashing cars, turning up late, cutting holes in the wrong spot, damaging tools, leaving torches in a roof, broken ceiling tiles

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00:48:14

Electrical Lords // Live Pod At The Live Event ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/25

Such a pleasure to have Tommy + Ford back on the pod again and all be in the same room with an audience! A few of the Sparky Coach members set aside two days this week and invested into ourselves hearing great workshops from great speakers on great topics such as emotional intelligence, mental health, leadership + setting a clear business plan. It was so much fun to get around each other, learn, laugh, swim, gym, surf, discuss nerdy electrical things, rage about Makita vs Milwaukee (lololol) and

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00:24:18

Electrical Lords // The End Of The Road

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/22

To start off let’s confront a couple of key items. Firstly, yes the title is indeed a Backstreet Boys song. Secondly, yes I indeed knew this. Thirdly, yes I indeed know all (or at least most of) the words. And finally, I indeed have a question for you: did YOU know that it was a Backstreet Boys song too? Don’t lie to me I’ll bet you did!!! Lololol. But let me answer your question with another question Zoolander style, is it ok to grow apart from clients? Isn’t the whole goal to make every client a

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00:25:32

Electrical Lords // What Would You Do ?

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/20

Today we take a trip down memory lane and take some serious inspiration from the 2001 City High smash hit “What Would You Do?” The conundrum we discuss is what do you do when your schedule is stacked to the rafters and your best client calls with a major job that they need done? Obviously we know the answer, say yes and figure it out later! But yeh it’s so much easier said than done. There are many moving parts to consider here, especially when your best clients require your best staff members (and

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00:55:11

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge Room ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/18

Alright the big dog automation god self appointed and self anointed rough in lord turned automation lord turned sexiest man in the electrical industry (voted by 1000’s of sparkies throughout Heathcote + Engadine) Tom Ryan is here running us through how he uses Groundplan. Tommy runs Ryelec Automation based out of “Trade God Country” aka the Sutherland Shire and while he was unlucky not to lock his spot in on the reality TV show “The Shire” a few moons back, he was lucky enough to be building a

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00:23:35

Electrical Lords // Your Smile Fades In The Summer...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/15

Ahh Blink 182 references, what a time to be alive! While you can choose to disagree about the best Blink album being “Chesire Cat”, one thing that you can for sure not disagree on is that summer is coming! Summer. December. Christmas. January. Holidays. Break from work. No break from work. Staff holidays. Clients needing stuff done. It’s all coming up. And really soon. Really really soon. The harsh reality is that there are 12 working weeks left until Santa arrives and the trade world stops on a

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00:29:36

Electrical Lords // Your Smile Fades In The Summer...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/13

Ahh Blink 182 references, what a time to be alive! While you can choose to disagree about the best Blink album being “Chesire Cat”, one thing that you can for sure not disagree on is that summer is coming! Summer. December. Christmas. January. Holidays. Break from work. No break from work. Staff holidays. Clients needing stuff done. It’s all coming up. And really soon. Really really soon. The harsh reality is that there are 12 working weeks left until Santa arrives and the trade world stops on a

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01:07:43

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge Room ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/11

The Ford Dog / Ford Lord is back on the lounge and what a pleasure it is to have the big dog back in the house! We discuss Lock Out + Live, getting quotes wrong, the importance of safety, awards nights, networking, preparing for the busy season, why to invest into wholesaler relationships, communication, plus much much more! 100% all sparkies should get around the Lock Out + Live business, purchase your safety kits, give them a follow and like on social, honestly let’s make safety cool again. Ford

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00:19:04

Electrical Lords // Your Smile Fades In The Summer...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/08

The third (and maybe final I guess only time will tell) instalment of our Blink 182 title inspired “your smile fades in the summer” is here. In this pod we discuss what a January client is, your Christmas party, your clients Christmas parties, the importance of client relationships, treating employees well, planning your holidays season, planning your shutdown times, manufacturing your January, and why the busy times can be your time to shine and get some new awesome clients. I’ve said it before and

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00:29:20

Electrical Lords // Your Smile Fades In The Summer...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/06

This is the second instalment of our podcast series designed to get you thinking, planning and strategising for your best Christmas period yet. We are big believers that a good to great January will set up a good to great year. And on that, the opposite is also true. A bad to terrible January can have negative ramifications for months. In this podcast we break down 4 key components to excelling in this upcoming busy December / January season, including: -looking after your current staff // now is

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01:14:59

Electrical Lords // The Sparky Coach Lounge Room ft...

Sparky Coach ·

2025/10/04

We discuss admin jobs, admin hiring, virtual assistants, job management systems, invoicing, quoting, the importance of relationships, looking after clients, how to build processes, the importance of systems, plus much much more. Always a great time hanging out with Michael so we really hope you enjoy the pod. Much love x Chapters00:00 Introduction and Client Relationships03:09 Finding and Retaining Clients05:58 The Importance of Client Interactions08:54 Process and Administration in Business11:51

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