Chad Peterman‘s leadership program, created as windshield-time education for the team at Peterman Brothers, is recognized among the trades’ most influential podcasts for bringing real-time lessons from a growing multi-trade operator to a wider home-service audience.
August 29, 2026 – HG HomeClub, a national media platform dedicated to curating the most valuable stories, rankings and resources for the home improvement, home services and outdoor living industries, today announced that Can’t Stop the Growth, the home-service leadership, culture and growth podcast hosted by Chad Peterman, has been named the No. 14 most influential podcast serving home improvement, home services and outdoor living professionals. The recognition places Can’t Stop the Growth alongside broader business programs, technical education platforms and contractor-led media, and identifies it as one of the ranking’s clearest examples of a show that began inside a working home-service company before expanding into a resource for the larger trade.
A curated media platform built on “informed transparency” chooses the podcasts that actually move the trades forward
HG HomeClub was created to address a gap its founders identified in home improvement media: too much noise, not enough signal. According to the organization’s own description of its mission, HG HomeClub was “created from identifying a need in the home improvement media space to champion media back to its original purpose of ‘informed transparency.’” The platform pursues that mission by curating the top stories, headlines and “can’t miss” information across the home improvement, home services and outdoor living industries, spanning articles, videos, podcasts, webinars, events and product recommendations from working professionals, in one easily consumable destination for homeowners and contractors alike.
For a home-service company, the gap between ideas and execution is rarely abstract. Leadership decisions affect whether technicians stay. Call-center habits affect whether leads become appointments. Financial literacy affects whether revenue turns into margin. Culture affects the customer experience, particularly when a company is adding locations, service lines and people faster than its systems can mature. HG HomeClub built this ranking to identify programs that stay close to those realities rather than treating contractor growth as a simple formula.
The criteria behind the list: practical value over download counts, and why an active operator’s lens earned No. 14
That mission extends to original editorial rankings, including HG HomeClub’s list of the 25 most influential podcasts serving contractors and home-service business owners. Rather than ranking shows purely by download counts, figures that are inconsistently reported and rarely independently verified across the podcast industry, HG HomeClub’s editorial team evaluated each show on practical value to contractors, industry influence and recognition, the credibility of hosts and guests, depth and originality, consistency and longevity, and reach across audio, video, social media and industry events.
Applied to Can’t Stop the Growth, those criteria reward a show formed from a specific operational need. Chad Peterman created the program in 2019 as an internal communication tool so team members at Peterman Brothers could learn during windshield time. The show then opened to the public, extending lessons drawn from an active company’s work in leadership, culture, growth, recruiting, customer experience, marketing, technology and financial discipline to other home-service operators.
The No. 14 placement reflects that operator credibility, its weekly publishing history, 351 episodes on the active Apple Podcasts feed, its growing video library and its access to leadership and home-service guests. It also reflects the show’s principal emphasis. Can’t Stop the Growth is built first around culture, people development and leadership; contractors seeking a narrower technical or accounting curriculum may need complementary resources. HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment recognizes that focus as a meaningful contribution to the larger industry conversation.
Built for windshield time: how a company’s internal learning tool became a public home-service resource
The origin of Can’t Stop the Growth is important because it explains the show’s tone. It did not begin as a conventional media product designed around an audience funnel. Chad Peterman created it so members of the Peterman Brothers field team could use driving time between calls as an opportunity to learn. The premise was straightforward: a company’s people should be able to access useful leadership and operating ideas in the same environments where they are asked to carry those ideas into practice.
That practical origin continues to shape the content. The show covers growth, leadership and innovation, but it also makes room for failure, pressure, uncertainty and the less visible work of building a company people do not want to leave. Can’t Stop the Growth examines vulnerability-based trust, accountability, recruiting, technician development, call-center performance, customer expectations, pricing, margins and the challenge of expanding without losing the culture that made growth possible.
For other contractors, the appeal is not that every decision at Peterman Brothers will map perfectly to another market or business model. It is that the show treats growth as a lived operating condition. Chad Peterman is not discussing culture, staffing and leadership from outside the industry; he is discussing them while responsible for the people, customers and systems affected by those decisions. That accountability gives the show its distinctive value.
A weekly feed with 351 episodes, and a video-first format that follows leadership where contractors learn
Can’t Stop the Growth publishes weekly and has become video-first, with full episodes, behind-the-scenes material and shorter leadership takeaways distributed through YouTube. The active Apple Podcasts feed lists 351 episodes, including releases through August 18, 2026. The show is also distributed through the PeopleForward Network, alongside its video and social-media content.
The program’s format supports several types of learning. Long-form conversations let Chad Peterman explore leadership, culture, business growth and industry change with experienced guests. Shorter episodes provide focused takeaways for owners, managers and technicians who need a practical idea they can carry into a day of work. Behind-the-scenes content brings viewers closer to the operating context inside Peterman Brothers, reinforcing the show’s premise that business education becomes more useful when it remains connected to the work it describes.
The archive has also developed recurring series around specific industry problems. A financial-literacy masterclass speaks to contractor understanding of pricing, margins and business numbers. The AI Trade Talk format considers artificial intelligence in call centers, field software, inventory and the changing boundary between automation and human judgment. Partner and crossover conversations extend the show into specialized topics such as marketing, search and growth. This variety makes Can’t Stop the Growth a broader home-service leadership resource while maintaining its central emphasis on people and culture.
A small video following, a deeper audio archive and a reach strengthened by the operating company behind it
The Chad Peterman | Can’t Stop the Growth YouTube channel lists approximately 436 subscribers, 728 videos and more than 206,500 views. The channel was created in January 2023, and its figures describe a broad video library, not a direct count of the podcast’s audio audience. The show’s larger documented archive sits in its active Apple Podcasts feed, which lists 351 episodes and a 5.0 rating.
Those figures require context. Can’t Stop the Growth has not published a comprehensive independently audited download total, and HG HomeClub did not rank the program by raw downloads, subscribers or ratings. Its influence is more closely tied to the credibility of an active operator, the consistency of its leadership content and the reach of the company in which its lessons are being tested.
Peterman Brothers employs roughly 520 people across 10 locations in three states and has reported more than $103 million in annual revenue. Those company figures do not measure the podcast’s listenership, but they establish the operating context behind Chad Peterman‘s perspective. The show provides a window into the leadership questions facing a multi-location home-service organization, how to develop people, improve customer experience, create accountability and use systems to sustain growth without turning the company into a collection of disconnected branches.
Inside Peterman Brothers: why the host’s operating responsibility changes the leadership conversation
Chad Peterman is president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers, the Indianapolis-based heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical company. The company’s multi-trade, multi-location operating model makes it a useful lens for the issues Can’t Stop the Growth examines: hiring and retaining technicians, developing leaders, maintaining culture at scale, protecting service quality, creating effective call-center processes and making business decisions with clear financial discipline.
That role gives Chad Peterman a perspective that many leadership podcasts cannot duplicate. The show can discuss the value of culture, but its host must also confront what culture looks like during recruiting, onboarding, promotions, difficult conversations, customer complaints and periods of expansion. It can discuss the importance of clear systems, but those systems must still work across teams and locations inside Peterman Brothers. It can address financial literacy, but the underlying question is not academic: whether the business has the operational discipline to sustain its commitments.
The relationship between the program and Peterman Brothers also provides important context for listeners. The show reflects the host’s own leadership philosophy and the experience of a particular company, not a universal prescription for every contractor. HG HomeClub’s assessment recognizes that boundary while giving weight to the value of learning from an operator who is visibly responsible for the results of the ideas being discussed.
Guests from finance, sales, artificial intelligence and culture show that people-first growth still requires hard systems
Can’t Stop the Growth brings together guests whose experience spans the practical disciplines of a growing home-service company. The show has featured Ellen Rohr, a business author and home-service financial educator; Weldon Long, keynote speaker and sales-process author; Tyson Chen, founder and co-chief executive of Avoca; Mark Mears, founder of LEAF Growth Ventures; Sean Glaze, workplace-culture keynote speaker; and JM Ryerson, sales and culture expert at Sources: Let’s Go Win.
The pattern reveals a central argument of the program. Ellen Rohr brings financial literacy to contractors who need to understand pricing, margin and the numbers behind their businesses. Weldon Long brings sales-process insight. Tyson Chen and Avoca bring artificial intelligence and call-center questions into the home-service context. Mark Mears, Sean Glaze and JM Ryerson extend the conversation into leadership, team effectiveness, legacy and culture.
The guest mix shows why Can’t Stop the Growth does not treat people-first leadership as a soft subject. Culture depends on systems, financial clarity, hiring standards, manager behavior, sales discipline and operational follow-through. A company cannot ask people to care about the customer while leaving them without training, information or clear expectations. The program’s strongest contribution is in holding those ideas together.
From financial literacy to AI Trade Talk: recurring series make the leadership argument more specific
Leadership content is often criticized for being too general to use. Can’t Stop the Growth addresses that challenge by organizing portions of its archive around recurring formats. The financial-literacy masterclass places business numbers, pricing, margins and profitability at the center of contractor education. This matters because a company can have good intentions and a strong culture but still create stress for its team if it cannot manage cash, price its work accurately or understand where performance is breaking down.
The AI Trade Talk series takes a similarly practical view of technology. Chad Peterman and guests examine artificial intelligence in call centers, field-service software, inventory and business communication while continuing to ask where human judgment remains essential. The question is not whether a contractor should adopt every new tool. It is whether the company has clear processes, reliable data, trained people and accountable leaders who can turn a tool into better service rather than another layer of complexity.
Partner and crossover content adds another dimension. Chad Peterman co-hosts To The Point: Home Services Podcast with Chris Yano, the No. 6 program in HG HomeClub’s ranking. Those crossover episodes and related partner series connect leadership with growth marketing, lead quality, search, brand and customer acquisition. Together, these formats make Can’t Stop the Growth more than a collection of motivational conversations; they give contractors multiple entry points into the operating disciplines that support sustainable growth.
Recognition around the host and company reinforces an operator-first point of view
No major external award specifically for Can’t Stop the Growth was verified for this release. The program’s recognition is better understood through the standing of its host and the company in which the work is being done. Chad Peterman was named to the ACHR NEWS Top 40 Under 40 in 2022, and Peterman Brothers has been recognized by trade media as a Contractor of the Year for growth and workforce development.
Chad Peterman has also shared the stage with leaders including Steve Forbes, Alan Mulally, Ken Fisher, Cordia Harrington and Dan Kennedy. He is the author of two books, most recently Can’t Stop the Growth: How to Build a Culture That Takes Care of Your Customers. Those credentials do not substitute for the show’s own content, but they help explain why the program can convene a wide mix of leadership, sales, finance and technology guests.
The more meaningful form of recognition remains operational. Can’t Stop the Growth is built from the premise that leadership must be proven in the work of building a company, not simply described in a studio. That perspective is why HG HomeClub identified the show as a relevant resource for home-service owners and managers navigating the demands of scale.
Why the methodology rewards a program that gives contractors a view of growth from inside the work
HG HomeClub’s No. 14 placement reflects the way Can’t Stop the Growth performs across the ranking’s criteria. Its practical value comes from connecting leadership and culture to the operational realities of a multi-trade company. Its credibility is reinforced by Chad Peterman‘s active role at Peterman Brothers. Its content depth includes recurring series on financial literacy, artificial intelligence, marketing and customer experience. Its consistency is visible in a weekly schedule, 351 active Apple Podcasts episodes and an extensive video library.
The program ranks below the 13 shows above it because those programs hold distinct advantages under the same editorial criteria, including broader audience reach, more concentrated technical education, deeper focus on a particular business discipline or longer-established platform scale. Can’t Stop the Growth earns a high place in the ranking because it brings an active CEO’s point of view to an issue that every growing contractor eventually faces: how to add people, locations and systems without losing the culture and customer care that created the company’s original momentum.
The focus is also a limit. Some of the show’s strongest examples come from the experience of Peterman Brothers, and smaller owner-operators may need to adapt lessons before applying them. The program is most useful to contractors already managing teams or preparing to do so. For that audience, it offers a rare combination of leadership reflection and direct operating context.
What the recognition says about the kind of growth home services needs next
Home-service growth is often measured in revenue, locations, vehicles or employee count. Those metrics matter, but they do not tell the full story. A company can become larger while growing less coherent. It can add people without developing leaders. It can create demand without improving customer experience. It can invest in technology without strengthening the habits and systems that make technology useful.
Can’t Stop the Growth matters because Chad Peterman treats growth as a people-and-systems challenge. The show’s conversations on culture, recruiting, financial literacy, call centers, artificial intelligence and leadership all return to the same practical question: can the company become stronger as it becomes bigger? The No. 14 recognition reflects the importance of asking that question openly in an industry where the pressure to scale can be intense.
The wider lesson is that the next generation of home-service companies will need more than aggressive targets. They will need leaders who can develop people, protect customer trust, understand their numbers, use technology responsibly and build systems that allow a growing organization to remain human. The programs with lasting influence will be the ones that help contractors connect those responsibilities rather than choosing one at the expense of the others.
The complete ranking: HG HomeClub’s 25 most influential podcasts serving home improvement, home services and outdoor living
The full list of shows recognized by HG HomeClub, in ranked order:
- The Home Service Expert – hosted by Tommy Mello
- Owned and Operated – hosted by John Wilson and Jack Carr
- PowerChat – hosted by Greg Cummings
- Contractor Evolution – hosted by Danny Kerr
- Toolbox for the Trades – hosted by Jackie Aubel and Amanda Salvatore
- To The Point: Home Services Podcast – hosted by Chris Yano and Chad Peterman
- Waste No Day – hosted by Brian Burton and Nate Minnich
- Service Business Mastery – hosted by Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch
- The Wealthy Contractor – hosted by Brian Kaskavalciyan
- HVAC School – hosted by Bryan Orr
- Roofing Success – hosted by Jim Ahlin
- The Strong Roofer – hosted by Adam Bensman
- Remodelers on the Rise – hosted by Kyle Hunt
- Can’t Stop the Growth – hosted by Chad Peterman
- PowerTips Unscripted – hosted by Victoria Downing and Mark Harari
- Contractor Growth Network – hosted by Logan Shinholser
- Hammer & Grind – hosted by Brad Huebner
- Roofing Road Trips – hosted by Heidi J. Ellsworth
- The Green Industry Podcast – hosted by Brian Fullerton
- Contractor Fight TV – hosted by Tom Reber
- Pest Control Legends – hosted by Dan Leibrandt
- Profits for Sanity Podcast – hosted by Dominic Caminata
- The Construction Leading Edge – hosted by Todd Dawalt
- The Build Show Podcast – hosted by Matt Risinger
- Modern Craftsman – hosted by Tyler Grace, Nick Schiffer and Johnny Hourihan
About HG HomeClub
HG HomeClub is a national media platform serving the home improvement, home services and outdoor living industries. Created to champion media back to its original purpose of informed transparency, HG HomeClub curates the top stories, headlines, rankings, videos, podcasts, webinars, events and professional recommendations across the industry and presents them in one consolidated, easily consumable destination, helping both homeowners and professionals make better-informed decisions. More information is available at Sources: hghomeclub.com.
About Can’t Stop the Growth
Can’t Stop the Growth is a weekly home-service leadership podcast hosted by Chad Peterman, president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers. Created in 2019 as a windshield-time learning resource for the Peterman Brothers team, the program now serves a broader home-service audience through interviews, leadership takeaways, financial-literacy education and recurring technology discussions. The show centers on growth, leadership and innovation across culture, recruiting, customer experience, call-center performance, pricing, margins and artificial intelligence. Can’t Stop the Growth is available on Apple Podcasts, YouTube and the PeopleForward Network. More information is available at Sources: Chad Peterman’s YouTube channel.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who is HG HomeClub?
HG HomeClub is a national media platform focused on the home improvement, home services and outdoor living industries. It was built to curate the most valuable stories, rankings, videos, podcasts and events across those industries in one place, with a stated mission of restoring “informed transparency” to home improvement media, helping both homeowners and professionals make better decisions. More detail on its mission is available on the Sources: HG HomeClub About page.
2. Why did Can’t Stop the Growth rank No. 14 rather than higher or lower on the list?
Can’t Stop the Growth earned No. 14 because HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment recognized its unusual operator-led perspective on leadership, culture and growth in home services. Chad Peterman created the show inside Peterman Brothers and continues to address people, systems, financial literacy, customer experience and technology while leading a multi-trade organization. Its weekly publishing history, 351 active Apple Podcasts episodes and broad guest roster supported the placement. Programs ranked above it hold other advantages, including broader media reach, technical specialization or wider cross-trade coverage. The No. 14 ranking recognizes practical leadership value rather than audience size.
3. Who hosts Can’t Stop the Growth, and what is his background?
Can’t Stop the Growth is hosted by Chad Peterman, president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers, an Indianapolis-based heating, cooling, plumbing and electrical company. Chad Peterman began the show in 2019 as an internal learning tool for the Peterman Brothers field team. He was named to the ACHR NEWS Top 40 Under 40 in 2022 and has authored two books, most recently Can’t Stop the Growth: How to Build a Culture That Takes Care of Your Customers. His operating role informs the show’s focus on leadership, culture, people development and sustainable multi-location growth.
4. What kind of content does Can’t Stop the Growth produce?
Can’t Stop the Growth produces weekly long-form interviews, short leadership takeaways, behind-the-scenes videos and recurring educational series for home-service professionals. Chad Peterman covers leadership, culture, recruiting, workforce development, multi-trade growth, call-center performance, customer experience, financial literacy, pricing, margins, lead generation, search, artificial intelligence, automation, mindset and personal development. Guests include Ellen Rohr, Weldon Long, Tyson Chen of Avoca, Sean Glaze and JM Ryerson of.
5. How large is Can’t Stop the Growth’s audience?
Can’t Stop the Growth has not published a comprehensive independently audited download total. Its active Apple Podcasts feed lists 351 episodes and a 5.0 rating. The Chad Peterman | Can’t Stop the Growth YouTube channel lists approximately 436 subscribers, 728 videos and more than 206,500 views; these are channel-level figures rather than a podcast-only audience total. Peterman Brothers employs roughly 520 people across 10 locations in three states and has reported more than $103 million in annual revenue, providing operating context but not a listener measurement. HG HomeClub did not rank the show by raw audience size.
6. What makes Can’t Stop the Growth different from other home-service podcasts?
Can’t Stop the Growth is distinguished by its origin as an internal learning tool for the field team at Peterman Brothers. Chad Peterman created the program so technicians and team members could learn during windshield time, then opened it to a wider audience. This origin keeps the content connected to the lived challenges of leading a growing home-service company. The show also uses focused formats, including financial-literacy education and AI Trade Talk, to connect culture and leadership with pricing, margins, call-center performance, systems, technology and customer experience.
7. Has Can’t Stop the Growth received other industry recognition?
No major external award specifically for Can’t Stop the Growth was verified for this release. Its industry standing is reinforced by Chad Peterman being named to the ACHR NEWS Top 40 Under 40 in 2022, by trade-media recognition for Peterman Brothers as a Contractor of the Year for growth and workforce development, and by the show’s 351-episode active Apple Podcasts archive. Chad Peterman also co-hosts To The Point: Home Services Podcast with Chris Yano. Its No. 14 placement from HG HomeClub is editorial recognition.
8. What role does Peterman Brothers play in Can’t Stop the Growth’s credibility?
Peterman Brothers is the operating company behind Can’t Stop the Growth, and Chad Peterman is its president and chief executive. The company’s multi-trade, multi-location context gives the show a direct connection to the leadership, recruiting, customer-experience, financial and systems challenges it discusses. Peterman Brothers employs roughly 520 people across 10 locations in three states and has reported more than $103 million in annual revenue. These facts do not measure the show’s audience, but they help explain why Chad Peterman can discuss the work of growth with active operating accountability.
9. Where can people listen to or watch Can’t Stop the Growth?
Can’t Stop the Growth is available through its active Apple Podcasts feed, the Chad Peterman | Can’t Stop the Growth YouTube channel, and the PeopleForward Network. Apple Podcasts provides the active audio feed, while YouTube provides full episodes, behind-the-scenes content and short leadership videos. A second, older Apple Podcasts listing exists under the same name, so listeners should use the active Megaphone-hosted feed linked here. No verified official Spotify URL was used for this release.
