In this episode of Builders, Makers, Doers, Andy and Elliot sit down with Matt Christopherson, founder of a multi-entity plumbing and mechanical operation, to unpack the part of trades ownership most people never talk about. The early years.
The leverage.
The nights where one bad job can erase everything.
This isn’t a polished success story.
It’s a real conversation about what it takes to survive the moments that quietly break most trades businesses before they ever get the chance to scale.
Matt started with nothing.
Digging ditches. Six dollars an hour. No safety net.
What followed were years of cash flow pressure, reinvesting every dollar back into the business, and learning hard lessons the only way trades owners ever do — the expensive way.
In this episode, we talk about what ownership actually feels like when:
For construction, mechanical, and specialty trades owners, this conversation goes far beyond plumbing.
It’s about what happens when responsibility, risk, and reality collide.
In Episode 5, we unpack:
This episode isn’t about plumbing.
It’s about ownership under pressure.
If you own — or plan to own — a trades business, this is a conversation you need to hear before the pressure finds you.
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