by wpx_soundcap | Aug 11, 2026
Emma Wildermuth grew up inside the home building industry before she understood what it was. Her parents, Chuck and Emma, started the company that became The Shinn Group back in 1992, but the real story goes further, back to a graduate school accounting class in the...
by wpx_soundcap | Aug 4, 2026
John Cook remembers the exact feeling of the market disappearing. Cars had been circling the block in every neighborhood in East Tennessee, not just on weekends but every single day, and then one morning they were gone. No traffic, no calls, no explanation. Just...
by wpx_soundcap | Jul 28, 2026
This week I sat down with Brent Garrett, and the conversation went further than either of us expected, from his childhood on a job site to a Friday afternoon that nearly took his business down. Brent Garrett grew up on the end of a shovel, working for his...
by wpx_soundcap | Jul 21, 2026
Grace Tsao Mase grew up watching her father work as an electrician, and those early years tagging along to job sites planted something in her that never really left. “I’m a daughter of electrician. I started going to job site when I started school, so it...
by wpx_soundcap | Jul 14, 2026
I sit down this episode with Jason Hale, who grew up around job sites in Alabama, then spent six years practicing insurance defense law before the pull to create something drew him back into construction. Fifteen years ago he started Willow Homes, and since then...
