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The Good Builder Podcast

The Good Builder

This week in home building news! Catch up with Az and a colourful array of guests, to hear about who"s killing it, who"s innovating, and who"s getting into strife in the world of new home construction.

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45:08

The Daily Dose #278 | Why Clients Choose a Builder...

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2026/04/26

Emily Pollard is back for her third Monday co-host session, and this one goes deep on something every builder needs to understand — how clients actually choose who they build with.Emily is the founder of Nesta Builder Brokers, a service that helps clients across South East Queensland find the right builder, assess contracts, and make smarter decisions before they sign anything. She works with a panel of 20 builders and pulls 135 data points on each one. She sees this process up close every

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17:31

The Daily Dose #277 | 5 Questions Every Builder Is...

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2026/04/23

This week's episode, we go straight to the source.Five of the most common questions coming in from The Good Builder community right now, answered in one hit. No fluff, just practical answers you can actually use.In this episode we cover:Where to find quality trades and subbies, especially when you're moving into a new area or scaling fastWhat to post on social media as a builder, and the types of content that are actually getting cut through right nowHow to better qualify your leads so

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73:17

The Daily Dose #276 | The Quiet Builder: Trust,...

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2026/04/22

Most builders will take any deal they can get.Ash doesn't.In this episode, Az sits down with Ash, State Sales Manager at Glenvill Homes, inside their new Docklands headquarters in Melbourne. Glenville is one of Australia's quieter success stories. No marketing machine. No noise. Just a business built on sharp standards, deep trust, and a culture of doing things right.Ash's path into construction wasn't straight. A computer games degree, a stint at Telstra and Apple, and a cold call from a

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43:49

The Daily Dose #275 | What Builders Were Never Taught...

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2026/04/21

Most builders know materials, margins and project management. Very few know what the materials going into their homes are doing to the people living inside them.In this episode, Aaron sits down with Zara D'Cotta, building biologist, EMF specialist, and founder of The Healthy Home. Zara spent years navigating her own cancer diagnosis, environmental illness, and the search for a safe place to live. That experience became the foundation for her work helping builders, architects, and designers

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11:53

The Daily Dose #274 | AI On Your Website Is Working....

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2026/04/20

Az is back from Melbourne with something every builder using AI on their website needs to hear.The AI isn't broken. That's actually what makes it dangerous.In conversations with Gavin Sloan from Live Chat Monitoring, one of the world's largest live chat and AI agent providers with over 4,500 clients, a clear pattern emerged. Builders who deployed AI agents on their websites found those agents happily recommending competitors, quoting prices, outlining timelines, and answering every question

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37:43

The Daily Dose #273 | What Your Building Contract Is...

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2026/04/19

Your contract could be killing deals before they even start.This week on the Monday episode, Az is joined again by Emily Pollard from Nesta Builder Brokers — and she brings the heat. Emily has read hundreds of building contracts. What she finds inside them would surprise most builders. And what clients think when they read them? That might surprise you even more.They cover the contract clauses that are quietly blowing up sales, how provisional sums are being used in ways that cost clients

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55:32

The Daily Dose #272 | What Builders Don't Know About...

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2026/04/16

Most builders don't talk about underpinning. Most homeowners are scared of the word. And most of the industry doesn't understand what actually causes a foundation to move — or who's responsible when it does.Nicole Rosenthal is the Director of Foundation Solutions, a specialist screw pile underpinning company based in Southeast Queensland. With 31 years in the construction industry — starting as a receptionist at an engineering firm and working her way through operations, marketing, and

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35:44

The Daily Dose #271 | Know Your Market, Know Your...

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2026/04/15

Today's guest is Matt Hope, former master franchisee of GJ Gardner in NSW, ACT, and WA, and now co-founder of Wattle Court, a residential building franchise built for the second, third, and fourth home buyer market.Matt spent 20 years working inside franchise building businesses. He grew his GJ Gardner group to 34 franchisees doing $800 million and became the largest in the national network. He's now applying everything he learned to build a different kind of franchise — one that's

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34:42

The Daily Dose #270 | Protecting Your Build: Why...

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2026/04/14

Az sits down with Nick from Goop Guys for a conversation that goes well beyond surface protection.They talk about the real cost of defects, the difference between builders who think proactively and those who don't, and why protecting windows, benchtops, and flooring during a build isn't a luxury add-on — it's a margin decision.Nick shares what he's seeing across residential and commercial builds nationally, from $800,000 window schedules on custom homes to the surge in commercial inquiries

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14:37

The Daily Dose #269 | Tuesday Headlines. Sales...

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2026/04/13

This week on Tuesday Headlines, powered by MyConstruct, Az covers four stories that matter for Australian builders right now.First up, Emily Pollard of Nesta Builder Brokers is raising the alarm on something the industry has been ignoring. The people selling new homes to Australians, builder brokers, new home sales consultants, channel partners, are completely unregulated. No licence. No ethics board. No oversight of any kind. And every builder absorbing the cost of a failed prelim or a

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59:56

The Daily Dose #268 | Meet Emily Pollard...TGB's New...

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2026/04/12

Today's episode is a big one for The Good Builder.We'd like to introduce Emily Pollard, our first ever co-host, and someone who has been quietly doing some of the most important work in the Australian building industry.Emily is the founder of Nesta Builder Brokers, a platform that bridges the gap between educated buyers and quality builders. She spent five years inside Stroud Homes developing a deep, practical understanding of the entire build journey — from first enquiry through to

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53:40

The Daily Dose #267 | Farah Drake on 30 Years, Granny...

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2026/04/09

Farah Drake has been in the building industry for over 30 years. She started out helping her dad, fell in love with being on site, and never left. Today she runs Willow Grove Homes and Granny Flats in South East Melbourne — a registered building company specialising in granny flats, small second dwellings, and multi-generational housing. She is also one of a small number of female building company directors in Australia.This episode is a different kind of conversation. Farah talks about

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56:03

The Daily Dose #266 | Peter Wood Returns. Trust,...

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2026/04/08

Peter Wood is back. Head of Villa World Homes by Avid Property Group, 50-plus years in the industry, and the most-listened-to guest in Good Builder history. Last time he left the community with an answer on what makes a good builder that no one has matched since. This time, the conversation goes deeper.Az and Peter cover the real pressures hitting builders right now, material surcharges, the administrative burden behind every price rise, and what it actually means to have 180 homes on the

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5:26

The Daily Dose #265 | This One's for the Industry...

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2026/04/07

A year ago, we started this podcast with no studio, no blueprint, and no audience. Just a belief that the people building this country deserved a better conversation.Today, 30,000 of you are tuning in. And that changes everything about what comes next.In this episode we want to talk directly to you about where The Good Builder is heading. Because this platform was never about us. It was always about giving this industry a voice.We're opening the studio — in person and online — to builders,

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13:16

The Daily Dose #264 | Your Clients Are More Anxious...

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2026/04/06

Your clients are more anxious than they have been in over a decade. The data explains why, and what you can do about it.This week on Tuesday Headlines we unpack two of the biggest stories shaping the Australian building industry right now. First, the client confidence data every builder needs to understand before their next sales conversation. Then, a clear-eyed look at why the Middle East supply shock is not COVID 2.0 — and why that distinction matters for your business.What we cover:The

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13:29

The Daily Dose #263 | 5 Ways to Use the Australian...

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2026/04/05

The TGB Australian Building Industry Health Report is out now. Sixty-plus pages of real data — no spin, no government talking points, no marketing fluff.But data is only useful if you know how to put it to work.In today's Daily Dose, Az walks through five practical ways builders can use the report right now — from pricing jobs in a cost environment being shaped by the Strait of Hormuz disruption, to understanding which developers control the land in your market, to knowing exactly what

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67:05

The Daily Dose #262 | ModFloor, Modular Construction...

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2026/04/02

Today's guest is John Davis, Director of MMC Modular and creator of ModFloor, a light gauge steel chassis system that is changing the way modular buildings are designed, manufactured, and transported across Australia and internationally.John's story spans Darwin in 1974, residential building in Queensland, a successful expansion into New Zealand, and launching a light gauge steel framing company in the United States before anyone else had done it. When he returned to Australia in 2012, he

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38:18

The Daily Dose #261 | Inside the AI System That's...

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2026/04/01

Az sits down with Drew and Sean from Increase Construction and what starts as a conversation about AI quickly turns into one of the most eye-opening episodes the show has done.These two aren't talking about AI. They're doing it. Live. On camera.In this episode, Az gets a behind-the-scenes look at the AI agent system Increase Construction has built. One that replaces the equivalent of $1.5 million worth of specialist staff, works 24/7, and pulls all of a building business's data into one

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32:54

The Daily Dose #260 | Estimating Estimating Is the...

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2026/03/31

If you don't know your numbers, you're flying blind.That's the reality Josh Pierpoint has seen up close across 15 years in the industry, and across 56 builders in just the last 12 months through his business, Elevate Estimate.In this episode, Az sits down with Josh for an honest conversation about what's really going wrong in building businesses right now. They talk about the wave of fuel levies and price rises hitting builders on fixed price contracts, why estimating is the function most

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20:36

The Daily Dose #259 | Iran, Supply Chains, and What...

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2026/03/30

The Strait of Hormuz is 8,000 kilometres from Australia. Right now, it's hitting your build costs — and most of the commentary out there isn't telling builders what they actually need to know.In today's episode Az breaks down the Iran conflict and what it means for your supply chain in plain terms — which materials carry the most risk right now, why engineered wood and standard pine framing are two very different stories, which Australian-made alternatives are worth specifying, and three

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