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The Woodpreneur Podcast

Acres of Timber

We cover the business and marketing side of the woodworking, sawmill, tree service, furniture making, Urban Wood, and woodworking industry. If you"re a woodworker, sawmill owner, or any other entrepreneur and/or business owner in the wood industry, you need to check out this podcast. Each week, we interview business owners, large-scale companies, entrepreneurs, makers, and designers while also offering marketing and business advice that will help you grow your business and increase your profits

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00:24:48

Tim Mills: Lakes Region Woodworking

The Woodpreneur Podcast ·

2023/03/16

Tim Mills: Lakes Region Woodworking “I started off in high school, absolutely fell in love with woodworking, working with my hands, and it's just kind of grown from there. I'd never really gotten into the actual woodworking aspect of it until I moved into the house that I have now. Now, my basement is huge, so I took over part of that as my actual wood shop. I've just been acquiring tools and stuff over the years. And being a trim carpenter, you kind of learn a lot of things about different

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00:23:22

Matt Williams: Mr. Toolbelt

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2023/03/09

Matt Williams: Mr. Toolbelt “I started it when I was working for somebody else doing it at nights and weekends until I made enough to make it on my own or felt like I could. So, it started in 2011. About 2013, I took the plunge to go full on.” - Matt Williams Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere is joined by Matt Williams, also known as Mr. Toolbelt. Matt started doing woodworking while he was employed by another person,

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00:23:28

Bridgette & Dillon: Farmhouse Woodworking

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2023/03/02

Bridgette & Dillon: Farmhouse Woodworking “We started dating, I think it was like in 2019, and like she kind of said, we just started building things together for our own house and we kind of loved how we were a great team. We worked really well together, and we really liked what we were making. And then some of our friends started reaching out and they're like, “Hey, I love that. Could you build that for us?” And yeah, we started realizing people wanted this stuff that we were

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00:47:29

John Miller: Busby Cabinets

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2023/02/23

John Miller: Busby Cabinets “So, I started talking with Jack Busby, who was the founder of this company and had been running it for almost 40 plus years when I came across it. So, he and his wife started it in his dad's goat barn here in Alachua County in Florida and we've got four locations throughout the state of Florida, which have just under 70 employees. Have 35,000 square foot facility here in Alachua where we produce everything. And he had really built himself a very nice niche in

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00:35:37

Joe Keller: RCS Millwork

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2023/02/16

Joe Keller: RCS Millwork “I realized maybe it wouldn't be so bad to be my own boss. I went and bought into RCS with my dad and now we've got about 86 employees. And so, we do commercial millwork all over the United States. Sort of primarily focused here in the Midwest, in very specific markets but we'll follow our favorite customers just about anywhere that they want to go.” - Joe Keller Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere is

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00:21:19

Kris Reynolds: Reynolds Custom Woodworks

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2023/02/09

Kris Reynolds: Reynolds Custom Woodworks “We wanted a table in one of the hallways upstairs in the house, and we couldn't find one that would fit. So, I thought, I'll try to make one. And that was it for me. I was hooked, and it kind of came naturally. I was able to sort out design, I was able to come up with joinery, and I was hooked. So, it started off kind of as a furniture-making operation. A lot of the items in our house. And, of course, then friends want stuff. And then I got asked to

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00:24:32

Austin Waldo: Austin School of Furniture

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2023/02/02

Austin Waldo: Austin School of Furniture “I want to get more into woodworking, so as soon as I get to Austin, I'm going to look up a woodworking club and see what they're all about. And found a club that's no longer around and went to the club meeting, which was pretty terrible. As a furniture maker, I was bored. I want to meet more woodworkers and be much more social around it. So, I took some classes at the community college, met some great folks there, and we started brainstorming,

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00:23:23

Mike Jones: Mike Jones Made It

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2023/01/26

Mike Jones: Mike Jones Made It “Around 2019, I just kind of started building stuff for myself as a hobby and just didn't realize how much I enjoyed it now that it wasn't like, just demanded or just forced upon me. Just having the opportunity to build things that I wanted to build versus what my dad had ever tasked me with for that particular day. So basically, I started building stuff for myself and posting it online, and originally, I started like selling a lot of my stuff on Facebook,

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00:21:27

Mike McGarry: Urban Lumber MB

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2023/01/19

Mike McGarry: Urban Lumber MB “So, I mean, it took a lot of lobbying and a lot of convincing to eventually get to the point where I could run a pilot project, basically just to convince the city that this is a feasible option. So, I borrowed as much money as I possibly could. I think I had, at the time, I think I had 50K to try and pull together a full sawmill facility. And I found a nice landlord that gave me a building to rent for cheap. Founded a used forklift, found an old sawmill that

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00:31:58

Steve Larosiliere: Solo Episode

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2023/01/12

Steve Larosiliere: Solo Episode “When I first started, I didn't really care about downloads, and I still kind of don't care about downloads. I care more about providing really great stories and insights and lessons for the Woodpreneur Community. And so, I would say that I probably took last year the most seriously that I ever have with the podcast. I did my best to find good guests. And I know that a lot of you find a lot of value in the consulting sessions that I provide for

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00:29:52

Landon Knopf: LK Custom Woodworking

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2023/01/05

Landon Knopf: LK Custom Woodworking “I started in high school doing construction. That was kind of everything. But I got a lot of really good basics down doing that. My parents built a cabin down in Southern Missouri. Kind of like where it all started, they built a cabin. I was in college at the time. Me and my dad decided that we were going to finish the entire interior of the cabin ourselves. And with that, I was able to accumulate all these tools, because it was kind of my

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00:38:47

Jon Heyesen: Arbor Wood Co.

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2022/12/29

Jon Heyesen: Arbor Wood Co. “Arbor Wood Co. We're Minnesota based. We produce thermally modified wood, siding, decking dimensional lumber, millwork, and all that stuff. We have been around for a decade, 10 years exactly. And the Arbor Wood story really starts from an intersection of a love of building materials, a love of specifically, sustainably produced building materials, design, and an intersection, a connection with the academic world.” -Jon Heyesen Welcome to a brand-new episode

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00:23:38

Mike Hoy: Rocky Mountain Wood Slabs

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2022/12/22

Mike Hoy: Rocky Mountain Wood Slabs “Rocky Mountain Wood Slabs, how it became was, it started back when I was a little kid just being interested in working with my hands, being interested in building things. At 12 years of age, my mom's ex-husband had a welder and he taught me how to weld. And then I just really took off from there. I got into construction. I worked with one home builder and he was awesome. Because I told him my goal was, I wanted to do built-ins, I wanted to do cabinetry, I

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00:33:31

Craig DeCicco: DeCicco Woodshop

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2022/12/15

Craig DeCicco: DeCicco Woodshop "I've been sort of building furniture or building things for most of my life. I was in the Marine Corps, my first time living in a house, and I was just building some crappy furniture for myself. And then slowly started building slightly better furniture for myself. And then, a few years passed, and some friends started asking me if I could build some furniture for them. A couple more years go by that and I'm just, "Does anybody else wants any

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00:24:42

Layane Maximiliano: Unique Wood Furniture

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2022/12/08

Layane Maximiliano: Unique Wood Furniture “Max started flipping houses, so that’s how he started his tools collection. And I was working as a designer in a high-end cabinetry company for kitchens and bass. I loved it. I loved the designing process and customizing. But then, after a few years, we decided to come back to Texas. We’d missed it. So, we came back, and Max opened a home remodeling company here. So, with interior design love, I just wanted to decorate my house. So that’s how we

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00:21:31

Nathan Zirkel: A to Z Man Construction

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2022/12/01

Nathan Zirkel: A to Z Man Construction “I used to be a fireman and I got started, I built my house, or I remodeled our house that we live in currently. And that kind of just started everything and then I was doing it on my days off. And eventually, I got hurt here about three years ago and had to step away from the fire department. And so, this went into full-time. It was always full-time, but it went into even more full-time.” – Nathan Zirkel Welcome to a brand-new episode of the

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00:27:04

Brad Leavitt: AFT Construction

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2022/11/25

“As I graduated high school I was like, “this is it! I love this career!” I was fortunate to work on some great projects and decided to pursue custom home building, which, definitely at the time, seems a lot easier than it is until you undertake that task. And then you got to realize, “Okay, well, one thing’s, having the entrepreneur mindset and going out on your own and maybe having a skill set in your expertise but running a business is another thing.” Unfortunately, those are two completely

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00:27:24

Nathan Nowak: Wyco Wood Co.

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2022/11/17

Nathan Nowak: Wyco Wood Co. “It’s probably been about five years ago now. With the idea of just taking trees that had no other purpose and turning them in into something other than firewood. Never really thought it would materialize into more than that. But as time went on, we learned how much we really enjoy, opening up a log and seeing what’s inside of it.” Nathan Nowak Welcome to a brand-new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host Steve Larosiliere is joined by

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00:25:52

Nate Matlack: Matlack Fine Woodworking

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2022/11/10

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today your host Steve Larosiliere sits down with Nate Matlack, owner of Matlack Fine Woodworking. Nate’s beginnings in woodworking started with a pocket knife given to him by his father to carve things and keep him out of trouble. Despite that humble beginning, Nate continued to carve things whenever he got bored, and in high school he took an intro class to furniture making, and things progressed from there. From discussions about

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00:31:01

Walt Primrose: Primrose Woodworks

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2022/11/03

Walt Primrose: Primrose Woodworks “I decided to move back to Rhode Island. I saw more opportunities for the type of work I wanted to do. You know, just bigger and better things out here. Rhode Island is pretty affluent. I don't fall into that category, but it's a place where they value the work I wanted to do. I figured I needed to be in a place like this to flourish in that line of work.” ∙ Walt Primrose Welcome to a brand new episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast. Today, your host

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