Jimmy Talks
Jimmy Talks
Podcast Description
The Jimmy Talks Podcast dives into unfiltered chats with business owners, operators, and industry movers—sharing raw stories, lessons learned, and the stuff most people don’t talk about.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered around entrepreneurship, leadership challenges, and industry-specific experiences, with episodes detailing stories of overcoming adversity, lessons learned in business, and the hidden realities of running a company.
Jimmy Talks Construction is an Australian construction podcast focused on real conversations with builders, contractors, tradies, and business owners across the construction industry.
Each episode dives into construction business growth, civil construction, earthmoving, excavation, leadership on site, hiring subcontractors, scaling trade businesses, and the real challenges of running a construction company in Australia.
From infrastructure projects and heavy machinery to cash flow, management, and lessons learned the hard way, this podcast shares honest insights from people building successful construction businesses from the ground up.
Dylan from Welsh Industries joins Jimmy to talk about building an earthmoving and civil construction business from the ground up.
From selling firewood while still at school and buying his first machine, to taking on the small jobs bigger contractors didn’t want, Dylan breaks down the journey of growing Welsh Industries into larger civil projects, plant hire and tendered work.
They get into the reality of running a construction business – knowing when to say yes, quoting and variations, learning expensive lessons through tendering, moving from simple quotes to detailed proposals, managing growth, getting off the tools and building a reputation that wins work.
Dylan also shares his experience working on the Longwood bushfire recovery, including the confronting process of cleaning up destroyed homes and some of the unexpected possessions they managed to recover from the rubble.
In this episode:
• Starting a business while still at school
• Buying the first machine and finding work
• Why saying “yes” helped grow Welsh Industries
• Knowing when to start saying no
• Quoting, variations and protecting your scope
• Moving from small jobs into commercial civil construction
• Tendering for bigger projects
• Losing money while learning how to tender
• Why proposals can outperform basic quotes
• Scaling without growing too quickly
• Longwood bushfire recovery and cleanup
• Communication, reputation and relationships in construction
If you work in civil construction, earthmoving, plant hire or run your own construction business, there’s plenty in this one.
Subscribe to Jimmy Talks Construction for more conversations with the people actually building and running Australia’s construction industry.
Connect with Dylan Welsh:
🌐 Website: https://welshindustries.com.au/
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WelshIndustries/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/welshindustries/
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-welsh-a99067123/
Connect with Jimmy:
🌐 Website: https://starbuckgroup.com.au
📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyTalksConstruction
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/starbuckexcavation
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/starbuckexcavation
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-starbuck-13336546/
Sponsorships + Guest Enquiries: [email protected]
Send in Business Problems: [email protected]
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