What happens when three restoration podcasts combine?

We are doing something different for The DYOJO Podcast Episode 67. This week, Eric "The Tech Whisperer" Sprague and Larry "Pineapple Man" Wilberton, invited Gerrett Stier of GMS Podcast and myself to join them for what they called The Podcast Summit of Blue Collar Nation (BCN).

Blue Collar Nation Podcast + GMS Podcast + The DYOJO Podcast = Restoration Podcastalypse Megazord 2021.

Eric, Larry, and Gerrett were onsite in Charleston, South Carolina for The Experience, where GMS Podcast unveiled their mobile podcasting booth. You can listen to the results of these escapades on Blue Collar Nation Podcast and GMS Podcast. We hope that this Podcastalypse will be the first of many continued video, audio, and physical collaborations. GMS and BCN will be in Las Vegas for The Experience in September 2021, back at it with their live shenanigans. We hope to assemble the team for our first combined live event at Restoration Industry Association (RIA) in Reno on April 13-17, 2022.

Blue Collar Nation + GMS + DYOJO Podcasts

In this episode of The DYOJO Podcast, we share some snippets of Restoration Podcastalypse Megazord 2021 (aka Podcast Summit). We give each other a hard time and dig deeper into what makes each of us tick as well as the value proposition for our shows. The first question we want to ask (POLL), who has the better podcast opening?

• We talk about Eric and Larry's stellar company, MorningTechMeeting.com, which helps business owners in the skilled trades to develop their employee's soft skills. This resource will shorten your DANG learning curve for employee development and will impact your profitability by elevating your customer experience.
• We released our first article in the NEW C&R Magazine, which addresses a topic that Gerret did a masterful job of addressing from multiple perspectives. Please check out GMS Podcast "The Young Guns" parts one and two as well as the third episode (Ep. 66) in the series with Dr. Jessica Stahl, The Employee Experience.

​While you are contemplating this core issue, you also need to decide whether you are going to LEAD or JOIN a local SOCKTember Team for the 2021 NEW Sock-Raising Challenge. Take a peek at the latest video from The DYOJO and hear about all of our restoration industry friends and peers who are already involved in this effort. Thank you to ARES Restoration, out of Graham, Washington for being our first sponsor for this year.

Two Announcements that impact Restoration History

Most of you know that following the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) 75th Annual Convention and Expo this year in Florida, Pete "The Global Watchdog" Consigli and I took a road trip further South. We discussed restoration history and meet some amazing people along our journey. We share a clip of Pete bestowing to me something that I will cherish for the rest of my life. We had a lot of fun, ate really well, and shared some great moments together. As Pete says, quoting Jimmy V, "We laughed, we thought, we cried, today was a heck of a day," and we had many heckin good days on the road together.

Michelle Blevins, the new owner of C & R Magazine also dropped by to share her exciting news. We will be releasing more content related to my trip with Pete as well as my conversation with Michelle. This was a fun break from our current series, The Xactimate Sessions. We have released File 001 Learning Xactimate from Scratch (TDP 65) and File 002 Learning to XM8 with all the Resources from Xactimate (TDP 66). More to come from Blue Collar Nation, GMS Podcast, and The DYOJO Podcast. ​