Hosted by Jonas Olson, the Pest Control Millionaire Podcast has crossed 190+ episodes featuring no-fluff conversations with the top operators, marketers, and influencers in the industry. Here are the key takeaways from each one.
Nick Bartolo on How to Prepare to Sell Your Pest Control Business
I just had Nick Bartolo back on the show. Nick runs Essential Partners, a wealth management firm that only works with business owners going through a liquidity event, and a lot of those owners are in pest control. Over…
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Sep 8, 2026
I just had Nick Bartolo back on the show. Nick runs Essential Partners, a wealth management firm that only works with business owners going through a liquidity event, and a lot of those owners are in pest control. Over…
Sep 1, 2026
I just got off a call with Matt Railla, and his story is one I have not heard before. Matt runs Top Termite in Los Angeles, and he is only two years into pest control. Before that he ran a winery, then became a business…
Aug 25, 2026
This one was different. Travis Bottoms from Nice Pest Control co-hosted with me, calling in from his Tesla, and together we sat down with Gustavo Hernandez. Gustavo runs 1-800-Raccoons out of Queens, New York. He has…
Aug 18, 2026
Mat Rogers is back. He runs Lizard Marketing, he has been on this show more than almost anyone, and every time he comes on he brings the stuff that is about to hit your business before you see it coming. This one is two…
May 26, 2026
John Stopka runs Liberty Pest Control. John started his company in February 2024, and two years later he’s on track to hit $2 million in revenue. He’s also opening a second location. I’ve watched his story up close, and…
May 12, 2026
I just got off the mic with Scarlett Nolen, and I’m still thinking about it.
Mar 17, 2026
I drove out to Augusta HQ in Washington to sit down with Mike Andes, who runs Augusta Lawn Care. They have 214 locations now, and in 2024 they did $54 million. He wants to hit 1,000 locations and take the company public.
Mar 10, 2026
Tony Carder’s story is one I keep coming back to.
Feb 24, 2026
Chase Goodeill is the kind of guest I could talk to for hours. The guy runs Pest Control Consultants out of Illinois. Four branches. Around 25,000 active recurring customers. He did 11 million in revenue last year, and…
Jan 6, 2026
I just had Mat Rogers back on the show, and he has been on more times than almost anyone. We sat down to talk about one thing: how you set up next year right now, before the busy season hits. I came away with a full page…
Dec 23, 2025
I just wrapped up a podcast with Dylan Deal, who started knocking doors with us in 2021 and has been my business partner since 2022. We started at one branch and were at 17 when we recorded this. Dylan runs four of our…
Dec 9, 2025
I’d wanted Chad Louk on the show for a while. He owns Prodigy Pest Control out of Sarasota, Florida. We met at Pest World this year. I’d seen him online all the time and knew he’d bring it.
Dec 2, 2025
Christian Ludwig and I go back a long way.
Nov 18, 2025
Dan Leibrandt lives and breathes search. He runs an SEO agency called Pest Control SEO. We sat down to talk about how search is changing right now, and a lot is moving fast. Here’s what I took away.
Oct 21, 2025
Ashton Walden runs a lawn care company in Texas that carries his own name, and he also started a pest control company called Southwest Pest and Mosquito. We had been trying to set up this talk for close to a year, and it…
Oct 14, 2025
Ivan Mardesich gave me a lot to write down.
Sep 23, 2025
Josh Fleenor runs Pest Pros Pest Solutions out of Sacramento. He started from scratch, and now he has 55 people on his team. We talked for over an hour and I left with a full page of notes. Here’s what I keep coming back…
Sep 16, 2025
Jeff Davenport is the kind of guest I could have talked to all day.
Aug 12, 2025
I just got off the mic with Cassie Krejci, who runs science and innovation for Rentokil Terminix in North America. She has a PhD in entomology. She is also one of the most fun people I have had on the show.
Jul 29, 2025
I just had Michael Keith on the show, and he runs Cal Coast Pest Management in San Diego. We had never met before this. But I had been watching his stuff for a while, and he had been watching mine, so I finally reached…
Jul 22, 2025
I just got back from Arizona, where it was 115 degrees the whole time. I sat down with Jonathan Anderson, who runs Green Home Pest Control out in Phoenix. We toured his shop, met his techs, and watched a service before…
Jul 15, 2025
I just spent a day with Chester Buczynski, who owns Big Lakes Lawn Care near Detroit. He also runs a group called Green Industry Masterminds. We have known each other for about 10 years, and we met at the same academy…
Jul 1, 2025
I just wrapped up my talk with Jake Claus, and I'm still fired up.
Jun 24, 2025
Brandon Peterman was my first guest ever, all the way back on episode one. Now we are more than 130 episodes in, and I had him back on the show. We have known each other close to 10 years, and when we met he was doing…
Jun 17, 2025
Griffin Thomas owns Preferred Pest Management down in the Dallas area. We had never met before this, but I had been following him online and just sent him a message. We went back and forth, and I knew he would be great…
May 13, 2025
I chased Phil Rinehart for two years to get him on the podcast. Every few months I'd ask again. He finally said yes, and it was worth the wait.
Apr 29, 2025
I just sat down with Nick Bartolo for the podcast, and I left with a full page of notes. Nick runs Essential Partners, a wealth management firm that works mostly with home service owners like us. Pest control, lawn care…
Apr 1, 2025
I just got off the mic with Chris Moreschi, the founder and CEO of GorillaDesk, and he's been on the show before, way back in the early days. Chris has been building GorillaDesk for about 15 years, and the software has…
Mar 18, 2025
I just had Kendall Hines back on the show. He runs Clicki, and it had been almost a year since our last talk. He pointed that out himself. In software, you put your head down and a year goes by.
Feb 25, 2025
I met Travis Bottoms a few months back, and after that I saw his name everywhere. He owns Nice Pest Control out in Mesa, Arizona, and he showed up to our talk straight from his truck, still out grinding. I loved that.
Feb 11, 2025
I had Dan Leibrandt back on the show only two months after his first time on. So much had changed in SEO that I wanted him back fast, and I am glad I did.
Jan 14, 2025
I just had Antoni Hoshino on the show. He runs Pest AI. We first met on a group call a couple months back, and I knew right away I had to get him on the podcast.
Dec 3, 2024
Jackson Buettner sold 1,000 pest control accounts in a single year. That is the golden door. He is our fourth golden door rep, but he is the first one to do it on fresh sales. The other guys did it off reloads, which is…
Oct 29, 2024
For our 100th episode, I sat down with Paul Giannamore. He hosts The Boardroom Buzz. He has advised on over 650 deals and more than $4 billion in volume across 141 countries. He is one of the sharpest M&A minds in our…
Aug 20, 2024
Jonathan Pototschnik built Service Autopilot and Lawn Care Millionaire, then sold the company to a private equity firm. He has taken three businesses past eight figures. So when he talks about how this stuff really…
Aug 13, 2024
Jonathan Pototschnik started CitiTurf, a big lawn care company out of the Dallas Fort Worth area, and he also started Service Autopilot. A lot of people know him as the lawn care millionaire. He just came back from a…
Jul 16, 2024
Jake Sheldon was back for another round. He runs his own pest control company and helps a lot of other owners with their marketing, and Facebook is his thing. People ask me about this stuff all the time, so I wanted Jake…
Jun 11, 2024
Mike Andes has built one of the most interesting companies in the home-service world. Mike runs Augusta Lawn Care. They have more than 150 locations. He also built a software company called Copilot, wrote a few books…
May 7, 2024
Jasmine Almeter runs RC Pest Pros up in the Rochester and Buffalo area, and she has been in pest control for nine years. But what got me was how she markets, building a big Facebook following and turning it into real…
Apr 30, 2024
Chad Moreschi runs Natural Resources Organic Pest Control down in Miami. His parents started the company back in 1986, and his brother Chris later built GorillaDesk. So Chad has been around pest control his whole life.
Apr 16, 2024
Parker Langeveld, the President of Sales at Hawx Pest Control, is the reason I know this business at all. This one was personal. Parker is the guy who taught me almost everything I know about this business. He flew out…
Feb 27, 2024
I just got off the mic with Blake Black. He runs Black Widow Pest Specialists out of Connecticut. We met at a big industry expo in Houston and clicked right away.
Feb 20, 2024
I met Jared LaJaunie a week before we recorded. A friend told me we had to talk. He was right. Jared runs LaJaunie’s Pest Control in Southeast Louisiana. He and his wife, Skye, started it in 2008. When we recorded this…
Dec 12, 2023
Joel Northrup has packed a lot into a short career. Joel started a lawn care company with his brother back in high school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and they sold it in 2019. Now he runs a software company that helps lawn…
Nov 7, 2023
Cameron Bawden from Green Mango gave me a lot to chew on. There are a lot of pest control owners out there working hard and doing good work. But every now and then you talk to someone who is just on another level…
Oct 10, 2023
Jonathan Pototschnik built Service Autopilot and the Lawn Care Millionaire channel, and he runs CitiTurf, an 8-figure lawn company in Texas. He has been my mentor and friend for about seven years.
Sep 26, 2023
Jake Sheldon is a cofounder of Pest Control Millionaires, and he owns a virtual staffing company called Next Gen Virtual Staffing. He has helped hundreds of pest control companies grow online, and he has owned pest…
Mar 21, 2023
I have been looking forward to this one for weeks. Lenny Gray was a mentor of mine before he even knew he was a mentor. I followed him closely for three or four years before we ever talked, and now we connect every month…
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