North Carolina is my home. I have moved here 3 times as an adult. It is a special place for me full of memories as I grew into a young adult, then into a husband, and into a spiritually minded man. So as North Carolina reels and begins the painful recovery process this week after Hurricane Helene, I thought I would talk a little about the damage done and the effects on the communities I know.

We will also discuss training and educational classes for porcelain slabs, plus the impact of taking on inventory, becoming a monogamous or polygamous installer, and if you should write that check for a $400k machine.

Tale as old as time, True as it can be, Barely even a trend, Then something breaks, Unexpectedly. No this is not the theme song to a Beauty and The Beast Tile Themed Reboot. Rather, that is the worry most general managers get as they take on their first porcelain slab job. For Florida's Shayne Hogenmiller of Southeast Stone, getting the call that Disney needed him to save the day as their Prince Charming was the moment he realized it was time to adopt porcelain into their large scale operation. From there, everything changed. Hear about the process of adopting it, understanding the impact of pricing, and how granite shop owners need to scale their businesses properly in this weeks longest episode to date!

Would you shut down your fabrication shop to travel coast to coast installing ventilated facades? For Florida's Bart Orzechowski of AGD LLC., his team of 60 employees travel coast to coast installing over 300-thousand square feet of ventilated facades. Hear how his crew started in New Jersey but now get called to handle high end work in California to the exclusive neighborhoods near Miami, and everywhere in between. Not to mention, he is on a 6 year project in Florida. This is a conversation you don't want to miss.