What does it take to hit over 700 fiber sales in a single year and escape the mid-day slump? Hunter finds out as he sits with the 2025 golden door winner Blake Pilcher.

From breaking his arm snowboarding and fumbling through his first pest control pitch to completely dominating the fiber optic space, Blake reveals exactly what it takes to reach the top.

Struggling with the salesman rollercoaster or wondering how to consistently hit high numbers? Blake shares the exact frameworks he used to hit 700 accounts in a single summer. He dives into the psychology of decision fatigue, why 8:50 AM is the undisputed best time to knock, and the extreme meal prep routines that keep top producers locked in and fully intentional.

Blake flew straight from Florida to share his raw, unfiltered 10-year journey through the door-to-door industry. He holds nothing back about his early failures in the alarm industry, sitting on park benches contemplating quitting, and how adopting radical honesty and extreme accountability completely transformed his trajectory.

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Private equity already ate HVAC and plumbing. Roofing is next, and most owners have no idea what's coming. Watch the first ever CEO Roundtable episode and subscribe for the full series.

This is episode 1 of the Forge Podcast, where the people actually doing the deals talk about what it really takes to scale and exit a home service business.

The conversation gets into how PE values your company, where most owners leave millions on the table, and the EBITDA math that makes 1 plus 1 equal three.

At the table with Sam: Cody Klein runs CommercialRoofer.com and has helped roughly 260 roofing companies clean up sales, ops, and finance after selling his own company in the early COVID-era consolidation wave.

Josh Langford is the Chief Strategist Officer, the accountant-slash-marketer who sits with founders every week and forces them to actually look at the scoreboard.

Ryan Nichols, the COO, spent 20 years building Eco Roof and Solar to around $100 million, then spent three years inside a private equity fund.

What you'll learn in this episode:
The EBITDA multiple math that lets 1 plus 1 equal 3 (and sometimes more)
Why 90 percent of PE deals collapse in due diligence and what kills them
Why half of CEOs get fired after they sell, and how to not be one of them
The four-number weekly scorecard almost no roofer is actually keeping
Key man risk: the silent number that quietly destroys your valuation
CEO confessions from the table about the mistakes none of them want to admit out loud

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Ryan Fenn dropped out of high school at 16, washed windshields at a Chevron in Utah to feed his newborn son, and turned a $0.10-cent gumball-hustler mindset into CHIIRP — a software company now doing seven figures a month in the home services space. In this episode, Sam Taggart and new co-host James Edwards sit down with Ryan to break down exactly how he did it: the two-word pitch tweak that 9X'd his close rate at the gas station, the "bridge" framework he uses to convert cold Facebook leads into booked appointments, why he closed 35 out of 35 partnerships in 2 years (including Tommy Mello buying 25% of his business), and the brutal truth about hiring "killers" vs. architects in your sales org.
If you're a roofer, home services pro, or door-to-door rep trying to scale beyond just knocking — this one's a blueprint.

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