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  • Jarvis May, JM Timber

    October 22, 2026 · 46 min

    Jarvis May's first lumber was firewood. He took the cherry and red oak home from tree jobs, logs headed for the side of the road or the landfill, sawed them into slabs with a borrowed chainsaw mill, and sold them on Facebook Marketplace…

  • Joey Cantrell, Longshot Premium Hardwoods

    October 15, 2026 · 39 min

    Joey Cantrell bought a used multi-rip before he had a building to put it in or the three phase power to run it. He drove to Tennessee, hauled it home in a 12 foot dump trailer, and figured out the rest after. In this episode of the…

  • Nick Mooers, Maverick Sawmill

    October 8, 2026 · 24 min

    Our most listened episode on Spotify in 2025 is back. Nick Mooers rode the pandemic boom in home renovation into real growth at Maverick Sawmill, built a reputation on oversized walnut, and split the business evenly between raw and…

  • Steven Crowningshield, California Redwood Company

    October 1, 2026 · 37 min

    One figured redwood log, six feet across and solid to the core, could pay for an entire sawmill. That math is why Steven Crowningshield bought a band mill that cuts six foot eight wide, after years of slabbing with a chainsaw mill that…

  • Jason Evans, Rafter E Dirtwork and Land Clearing

    September 24, 2026 · 34 min

    Most land clearing jobs end with a burn pile. Jason Evans gets paid to clear the ground, mills the good timber he pulls off it, and makes money on both ends. In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, host Jennifer Alger sits down with…

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  • Robert Cannon, Trestlewood

    September 17, 2026 · 36 min

    The sawmills did not want it. Thirty million board feet out of a railroad trestle, loaded with salt, grit and hidden metal, and nobody in the region was set up to cut reclaimed wood in that condition. So the family sitting on the pile…

  • Darci Shannon, National Hardwood Lumber Association

    September 10, 2026 · 30 min

    Darci Shannon walked into her first hardwood convention determined to spend as little as possible. She had talked her boss into joining the association, negotiated the booth cost down, and told them she would bring her own trash can rather…

  • Jennifer Flynn, SEEDS EcoCorps

    September 3, 2026 · 32 min

    There are trees sitting in woodlots right now, rotting, and others headed for the chipper, and every one of them is releasing methane and losing the carbon it spent decades collecting. Jennifer Flynn built a workforce program around that…

  • Ian Funk, American Barnwood

    August 27, 2026 · 37 min

    The wood in Ian Funk's house came from the business he now owns. He did not know that when he bought either one. In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, host Jennifer Alger sits down with Ian Funk of American Barnwood, a reclaimed…

  • Jake Power, PowerWood

    August 20, 2026 · 38 min

    The duty at the border went from 15 percent to 45 percent in two months, and their sales volume went up anyway. In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, host Jennifer Alger sits down with Jake Power, managing director of PowerWood in…

  • Wes Carroll, Rice Lumber

    August 13, 2026 · 38 min

    The person who knows the most about this 87 year old lumber company has been there forty three years, and almost none of it is written down anywhere. In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, host Jennifer Alger sits down with Wes…

  • Michael Friedrichsen, Roddis Lumber

    August 6, 2026 · 40 min

    A fourth generation CPA walked away from a large accounting firm to take over a 104 year old Texas lumber distributor, and the first thing he protected was not the balance sheet.   In this episode of the Woodpreneur Podcast, host…

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About the show

We cover the business and marketing side of the woodworking, sawmill, tree service, furniture making, Urban Wood, and woodworking industry. If you're a woodworker, sawmill owner, or any other entrepreneur and/or business owner in the wood industry, you need to check out this podcast. Each week, we interview business owners, large-scale companies, entrepreneurs, makers, and designers while also offering marketing and business advice that will help you grow your business and increase your profits. Tune in every week! www.builldergrowth.io www.woodpreneurlife.com Join our free and private Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/woodpreneurlife