Boring Money
Boring Money is a podcast for those who prefer steady, unglamorous wealth-building over hype and headlines. Hosted by David Heacock, founder and CEO of Filterbuy, it covers boring businesses, acquisitions, cash flow, EBITDA, tax strategy, fixed income, and the mechanics of compounding capital. The show is built for operators, investors, and business owners focused on long-term financial growth.
Episodes
How He Built an Eight-Figure Business Selling Toilet Paper
Jake Berk is 31 and the president of Berk International, a second-and-third-generation family business in Boyertown, Pennsylvania that converts toilet paper, paper towels and dry wipes. His grandfather started it in the 1970s buying bales of reclaimed T-shirts; Jake's dad and three uncles cut them into 20-pound boxes of rags and rolled them up driveways on skateboards. They built that into a
It’s Boring, But It’s How You Make Millions Investing
Jonathan Boyar runs Boyar Value Group, the firm his father Mark started in 1975 as a research service and grew into Boyar Asset Management in 1983. The idea has not changed in fifty years: ignore what Wall Street pays as a multiple of earnings and ask what an acquirer would pay for the whole business. If the stock trades at a big discount to that number, it is interesting. If not, you do not have
He Built 1.5M Followers With Zero Ad Spend. I Hired Him to Do It for Air Filters.
Stanley Henry ran hotels for 12 years. Eleven jobs in twelve years, because he was the guy they sent in to fix the one that wasn't working. New Zealand, Australia, the UK, a stint in Japan. In his last year he was running a hotel in Melbourne that did more profit in one January than it had ever done in revenue in a January, and his boss still didn't think he should be on vacation. He tur
He Does $6M a Year Bottling Water. One Robot Almost Broke Him.
Jay Peterson got out of Boston College in 1991 into no jobs, went home to Kankakee, Illinois, and sold industrial real estate for a broker who gave him the listing nobody wanted: a hundred acres next to a dynamite plant. Two years later some friends set him up as a Canteen distributor with one route truck and two vending machines. He and his wife Myra were the first two employees. They canceled th
This Veteran's Boring Business Makes $11,000/Day
Ian Dahlberg got out of the Coast Guard and was trying to figure out what he was doing next. He picked up a security guard license on a whim while going to college on the GI Bill, and it got him hired at the Waldorf Astoria in 2012 as a security manager trainee. He says he's got more stories from that one year than from six years in the military. Seven incident reports a day was the average.
He Makes $185K/Year as an Electrician. I Told Him He Can Do $1M Next Year.
Ron Butler spent eight years at one residential electrical company and didn't want to leave. He asked them to match a $100K offer he'd gotten elsewhere. They couldn't. He pitched them on starting a service department instead, four guys, he'd out-earn the whole shop. They didn't bite. So he took the other job.
Day one he walked into a branch running on chaos. Day two he ca
He Got Fired Twice and Slept in His Car. Now He Does $450K Cleaning Floors.
Justin Campbell got fired from a management job at TGI Fridays, moved back home into the room down the hall from his grandmother, and started taking $50-a-day temp shifts. The job site was far enough that he slept in his car outside it rather than risk the morning drive. One evening a guy from the commercial floor care company next door knocked on his window and asked what he was doing out there.
He Bought a Couple 3D Printers for Fun. Now He Has 105.
JT McCord spent eight years as a software engineer outside Columbus, Ohio, making $150K a year and stashing 30% of it. COVID sent him fully remote, and he bought a couple of 3D printers for the basement with no intention of selling anything. Three years later he runs 105 machines out of the bottom floor of an old salon. First year: $50K. Second year: $400K. He's at $400K again halfway through
He's 22 and Took the Family Business to $1M a Year. He Pays Himself $400 a Week.
Matt McCrink is 22. A year ago he graduated from Auburn and walked into his dad's business — a third-generation operation brokering custom plastic and rubber components for manufacturers. For two decades it had been doing about $50K a year in profit. Basically a side hustle. In the twelve months since Matt joined, revenue went from $380K to over $1 million.
I brought Matt to New York to unde
He Owns 36 Auto Repair Shops Doing $50M a Year. He’s Never Fixed a Car.
Brian Beers has never fixed a car.He owns 36 Midas locations across Philadelphia, New Jersey and Allentown doing more than $50 million a year—with a CEO running the day-to-day, mechanics earning $5,000 in a week, and a business that runs without him.His dad became a Midas franchisee in the 1970s. Brian joined after college in 2010, writing service tickets, knowing nothing about cars. Six years lat
He Built an $11M Business in 5 Months. I Told Him to Stop Growing So Fast.
Gustavs has built one of the fastest-growing businesses I’ve seen.In the first five and a half months of the year, his greenhouse company generated $11 million in revenue. He believes it can reach $50 million—and possibly even $100 million—before the end of the year.But rapid growth has nearly destroyed him before.Gustavs grew up in Latvia after the fall of the Soviet Union and began his career as
He Makes $10M/Year in a Business Everyone Ignores
Daniel Morris started with no money, a borrowed £10,000, and a cleaning business that charged roughly £12 an hour.Today, CanDo Laundry Services generates more than $10 million a year, operates three factories, processes over half a million items every week, and employs more than 130 people.But this episode is not just the story of how a 19-year-old university dropout built an industrial laundry em
He Built an $8M Manufacturing Business… But His Real Dream Is Something Much Bigger
Every entrepreneur eventually reaches a crossroads.Do you keep scaling the business you’ve already built, or do you use it as the foundation for something even bigger?In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Christian, an entrepreneur who started in hazardous waste management with zero industry experience, survived a near business collapse, reinvented himself through manufacturing, and bui
How He Built a $5M Government-Backed Business in Just 3 Years (No Healthcare Degree Required)
What if one of the best business opportunities wasn’t selling to consumers at all—but providing essential services that the government is already paying for?In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Jake, founder of A Guiding Light Services, who went from $0 to $4.8 million in annual revenue in just three years by building a Medicaid-funded home and community care business in Arizona.What’s
He Lost $500K Trying to Be a Mogul — Then Built an $850K Lawn Care Business
Ryan thought he had made it.He had a great medical sales job, lived in South Florida, and had built up real cash after a few successful real estate deals. But during COVID, he realized something uncomfortable: relying on one job, even a good one, was riskier than it looked.So he decided to build income streams.First, he bought real estate. Then he bought two bespoke clothing franchise territories.
Building Millions in Cash Flow, Hiring Better Talent, and Going All In with Connor Gross
Connor Gross has built and operated across multiple income streams: an early e-commerce exit, self-storage and real estate deals, an apparel e-commerce business, content sites, and now Constant Hire, a recruiting agency focused on helping e-commerce and consumer brands hire top talent.In this episode, we talk through Connor’s path from selling his first business in his early 20s to buying a self-s
The $10M Hat Business Built on Custom Software
Robert built Hat Launch from one embroidery machine in his garage into a $10 million custom hat business serving small businesses, blue-collar teams, and even pockets inside companies like SpaceX, Google, Amazon, Red Bull, and Bacardi.In this episode, we break down how he found his niche, why custom work became his moat, how vertical integration and custom software helped him scale, and why AI may
How a 28-Year-Old Built a $1M Apparel Manufacturing Business in 12 Months
Most people have no idea how licensed apparel actually gets made.In this episode of Boring Money, I sit down with Zarum, co-founder of Forge & Fabric, a Canadian apparel manufacturer that produced over 650,000 garments and crossed $1 million in revenue within its first year.Forge & Fabric sits at the end of the licensed apparel supply chain, producing merchandise for major retailers and br
From Bankruptcy to $2.4M: Building a Cleaning Business From Scratch
John Torres went from professional baseball dreams, two layoffs in nine months, failed real estate deals, food stamps, and bankruptcy… to building Club Clean into a $2.4 million commercial cleaning business producing roughly $600,000 a year in profit.This episode is a real look at what entrepreneurship actually feels like when there is no safety net.John walks through the real estate mistakes that
I Roasted His Car Wash Startup — Then Gave Him a $4M Plan
Paulo is trying to bring Flipwash, a successful Brazilian car wash concept, to the United States.In Brazil, the company has grown to more than 140 locations and roughly $4 million per month in revenue. The model is simple: instead of making customers drive to a traditional car wash, Flipwash sets up inside shopping malls, office buildings, parking garages, and other places where people already par
Tom Sosnoff on Risk, Trading, and Building Billion-Dollar Companies
Tom Sosnoff is the co-founder of thinkorswim and tastytrade, two of the most influential trading platforms in modern finance.Before building billion-dollar companies, Tom spent nearly 20 years as an options market maker in the pits of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. In this conversation, he sits down with David Heacock to discuss how trading rewired the way he thinks about risk, entrepreneursh
The $14M Pool Fence Business Replacing SaaS With AI
Eric Leppin took over Lifesaver Pool Fence at 21 and grew it from under $1M to over $14M a year. In this episode, we talk about franchising, dealer economics, building a custom CRM with AI, and why the old “best practices” for running a business may be changing faster than most owners realize. This is a conversation about resilience, first-principles thinking, and how niche businesses can use AI t
How a Doctor Built an 8-Figure Healthcare Logistics Business With No Investors
Amit was a frontline physician working 80-hour weeks during COVID when he realized something most healthcare systems still hadn’t figured out:Getting medication to patients is a logistics problem.What started as a simple medication reminder app evolved into PHOX Health — an 8-figure healthcare logistics company helping hospitals and pharmacies deliver everything from chemotherapy drugs to specialt
He Inherited a 79-Year-Old Business… and Lost 70% of It
Clark Dane inherited a 79-year-old American manufacturing company and immediately watched it lose 70% of its revenue.Most people would have folded.Instead, Clark kept the business alive, rebuilt the customer base, and shifted from an old distributor/dealer model toward direct-to-consumer and commercial rental channels.But after sitting down with him, I realized the biggest opportunity was not just
I Spent $200K on His Playbook. You're Getting It for $0
Eric Villa helped grow some of the biggest YouTube channels in the world — including MKBHD’s behind-the-scenes channel, The Studio — and then helped take my channel from struggling for views to millions of views in a matter of weeks.In this episode of Boring Money, Eric breaks down how YouTube actually works today: why ideas matter more than consistency, why most personal brand advice is outdated,
How He Built a $8M BORING Business I’d Never Heard Of
David Heacock sits down with David Wu, founder of Joy Displays, to unpack how he went from $20,000 in savings to building an $8 million profitable business with just nine employees.This is a conversation about far more than the money. It is about apprenticeship, timing, survival, and what happens when a founder reaches the point where staying small is no longer enough to reach the life or business
From $2K to $50M in 5 Years: The Exact Playbook
In the first episode of Boring Money, David Heacock sits down with John, co-founder of Ship Dudes, to break down how he and his partner turned just $2,000 into a business doing roughly $50 million in revenue in five years.They talk through the real story behind that growth: starting with a small ecommerce brand, packing orders by hand, getting kicked out of the post office for too much volume, and
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