This morning I dropped a new Hot Seat call on the YouTube channel. It's with Jenna and Isaac.
Isaac was a high school math teacher for 14 years. Jenna was a physician assistant. They had three kids under ten, including a four-month-old, when they hit $63K/month in the first year of their Columbus cleaning company.
They're at $80K/month now.
I sat down with them to dig into how they got from $63K to $80K. The systems, the team, the hiring rhythm, the realtor outreach. The conversation kept pulling somewhere else: what do we do with this now?
Jenna and Isaac are asking how much impact they can have in their own community in Ohio. Who in this town needs what we can offer? What does a cleaning business actually do for the place it lives in, beyond cleaning houses?
Isaac said it this way:
"We're all about being of service."
He means it as an operating principle, the thing the business gets pointed at every day.
Every owner gets to this question eventually. Jenna and Isaac have the room to ask it now, and they're doing the work to answer it. "What's the point, besides just paying the bills?"
The full Hot Seat covers what changed between $63K and $80K, what "being of service" looks like as a business decision, and the local moves they're testing in Columbus right now.
Watch it especially if you're earlier in this and $80K/month still feels far away. The people who get here started exactly where you are. Isaac was teaching geometry full-time, feeling his phone vibrate in his pocket during class because he knew it was a booking call. Jenna pulled money out of her 401k when she left her PA job to go all-in. Here's how she put it:
"I pulled money when I left my job as a PA from 401k. Like that's just the real and the roll. But then you believe in it and it comes full swing and now we make more money in our cleaning company than we made at our jobs combined."
Watch the full Hot Seat on YouTube.
Vic
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