SBTB Ep. 11 | Ask Scott Anything: Coaching, Time Management, Hiring & Building a Team
Success Beyond The Brush · 2026-02-10 · 41 min
Episode notes
In this listener Q&A episode, Scott Lollar shares his origin story - how an entrepreneurial streak as a kid (yard work, snow shoveling, even cleaning an elderly couple’s home) eventually led to painting, then scaling companies, and finally launching Consulting4Contractors (C4C). From there, Scott and Mark tackle big questions contractors face: how to choose a coach in a noisy market, how to stop living in the “firefighter” mode as an owner, how to think about hiring key people when cash feels tight, and what it takes to stop being the center of the business. Along the way, they reference practical frameworks like the “5 Whys,” the urgent-vs-important quadrant, and the idea of building a vertical org chart where people truly own outcomes.
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