Paul Jamison‘s long-running lawn-care and landscaping business program, built around the practical economics of mowing, maintenance and company growth, is recognized among the industry’s most influential podcasts for giving green-industry owners direct access to the numbers, habits and peer conversations behind a sustainable business.
TAMPA, Fla. – 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 The Green Industry Podcast, the lawn-care and landscaping business-growth podcast hosted by Paul Jamison, has been named the No. 19 most influential podcast serving home improvement, home services and outdoor living professionals. The recognition places The Green Industry Podcast alongside home-service, construction and trade-specialist programs, and identifies it as the only show in the ranking devoted primarily to the business realities of lawn care, landscaping and the wider green industry.
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.
That mission matters in the green industry because business lessons are often learned in the most immediate conditions: while estimating a property, building a route, repairing equipment, hiring for the season, reviewing payroll or trying to understand why a busy schedule did not create enough profit. Lawn-care and landscaping owners need education that treats those decisions as connected. HG HomeClub created this ranking to recognize the programs that help working professionals make stronger decisions before small operational gaps become larger business problems.
The criteria behind the list: practical value over download counts, and why green-industry specificity earned No. 19
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.
For The Green Industry Podcast, those criteria reward a clear trade-specific mission. Paul Jamison focuses on the business decisions lawn-care and landscaping professionals confront repeatedly: pricing, man-hour rates, cash flow, budgets, debt, employee management, marketing, equipment, software, technology and the discipline required to keep a service business healthy through changing seasons and changing demand.
The No. 19 placement reflects the program’s long run since 2018, its high-volume archive, its reported 3.5 million-plus audio downloads, its strong public rating on Apple Podcasts, and its role within a green-industry event and peer-learning ecosystem. The show’s audience is deliberately specialized rather than broad across all contractor categories. HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment treats that concentration as a strength: The Green Industry Podcast speaks in the practical language of lawn-care and landscaping business ownership.
Why lawn-care and landscaping owners need business education that starts with the route and ends with the numbers
The green industry can look simple from outside the business: acquire customers, put crews in the field and complete the work. The operating reality is more demanding. Profit depends on how a company prices labor, manages drive time, controls equipment costs, builds routes, communicates with customers, retains employees, prepares for seasonal swings and understands the difference between cash in the bank and real business health.
The Green Industry Podcast is built around that reality. Paul Jamison addresses the details that frequently decide whether a lawn-care or landscaping business becomes more stable as it grows: man-hour rates, estimating, budgeting, debt reduction, operational discipline, customer acquisition, team leadership, equipment decisions, marketing and technology. The program does not present scale as a simple goal. It puts growth in the context of the margins, systems and personal habits needed to sustain it.
That perspective has unusual value for owners who often work close to the field. In a seasonal business, a missed pricing decision, a broken route or an underperforming crew can be felt quickly. An owner may spend the day solving work problems and still need to make time for financial decisions, customer communication and long-term planning. The Green Industry Podcast gives those professionals a dedicated forum for examining the business behind the work rather than treating lawn care and landscaping as a smaller version of another contractor category.
Since 2018, a high-volume archive has turned daily business questions into a green-industry library
The Green Industry Podcast launched in 2018 and has developed a substantial archive of conversations and practical business lessons. Paul Jamison reports that the program has surpassed 1,225 episodes and 3.5 million audio downloads. Its current Apple Podcasts listing shows approximately 1,700 episodes and a 4.9-out-of-5 rating, illustrating the high-frequency nature of a program built to remain part of the listener’s working routine.
The show is available through Apple Podcasts, the Green Industry Podcast YouTube channel, and the wider podcast ecosystem. Its content includes industry interviews, focused business lessons and education drawn from Paul Jamison‘s books and training resources. The large archive lets listeners move between immediate questions – such as pricing, equipment, lead generation or crew management – and longer-term concerns such as debt, profitability, personal discipline and building a company that can support the owner’s life.
This continuity matters because the green industry is shaped by repetition and seasonality. A contractor may encounter the same pressure point every spring, every hiring cycle or every time an equipment decision changes the cost of doing business. The Green Industry Podcast offers a durable reference library that can be revisited when those issues become urgent, rather than forcing owners to relearn the same lessons through costly trial and error.
Reported audio scale and a focused video channel show the reach of a specialized trade platform
Paul Jamison reports that The Green Industry Podcast has generated more than 3.5 million audio downloads. That is a host-reported figure, not an independently audited comparison across the podcast market, and it should be read in that context. The show’s Apple Podcasts listing shows approximately 1,700 episodes and a 4.9-out-of-5 rating, adding a public indicator of a sustained audience relationship.
HG HomeClub did not use download counts, subscriber totals or ratings as the decisive basis for this ranking. Comparable public data is inconsistent across industry podcasts, and a show’s influence is not captured by a single number. In the case of The Green Industry Podcast, the reported audio scale is meaningful because it sits alongside a high-volume archive, a focused subject area and a consistent presence in the green-industry community.
The video audience should be considered separately. The Green Industry Podcast YouTube channel is the designated official video destination for this release. Earlier research references to a much larger Brian’s Lawn Maintenance channel do not describe Paul Jamison‘s show and are not used as audience evidence here. The distinction protects the accuracy of the program’s story while recognizing its real influence within a specialized professional audience.
Paul Jamison makes financial clarity, personal discipline and field experience part of the same conversation
The Green Industry Podcast is hosted by Paul Jamison, who has built the program around practical green-industry business education. His approach connects the work owners do in the field with the financial and management decisions they make after the workday ends. The show covers pricing, profitability, budgeting, debt reduction, hiring, equipment, technology, marketing and growth, but it also returns to mindset, discipline, entrepreneurship and work-life balance.
This combination is central to the program’s value. A lawn-care or landscaping company may have enough work to stay busy while still lacking clear visibility into its labor costs, route profitability, overhead or debt. An owner may know the company needs better systems but continue to defer the work because the immediate demands of customers and crews consume the week. Paul Jamison uses The Green Industry Podcast to connect those personal patterns to the business outcomes they create.
The program also operates within a broader ecosystem of educational and book-related content. That gives listeners context: the show is not a detached news outlet, and its point of view reflects the host’s professional work in contractor education. HG HomeClub’s assessment recognizes that setting while giving weight to the show’s clarity of mission, long-running output and practical relevance to green-industry owners.
Guests from lawn care, landscaping, software and management show how wide the green industry really is
The Green Industry Podcast has featured leaders from across lawn care, landscaping, contractor software and business management. Guests and collaborators include Naylor Taliaferro, founder and host of LCR Media; Caleb Auman, owner of Auman Landscape; Jonathan Pototschnik, entrepreneur associated with Service Autopilot and CitiTurf; and Mark Bradley, founder and chief executive of Sources: LMN.
This guest pattern reflects the complexity of the green industry. Naylor Taliaferro and LCR Media bring a lawn-care media and entrepreneurship perspective. Caleb Auman and Auman Landscape bring an owner’s view of the landscaping business. Jonathan Pototschnik connects the conversation to technology, automation and business systems through Service Autopilot and CitiTurf. Mark Bradley and LMN bring a management-software and financial-planning perspective.
Together, these voices show why lawn care and landscaping cannot be reduced to mowing equipment or seasonal labor. The industry is also about pricing, technology, capacity planning, client relationships, systems and the financial discipline that lets a contractor invest in the next stage of the business. The Green Industry Podcast uses that range to give listeners a more complete picture of what it takes to build a durable company.
Man-hour rates, debt and equipment decisions make the business of landscaping a daily management exercise
Some contractor content focuses on large strategic questions while leaving the daily economics of the work untouched. The Green Industry Podcast stands out because it makes those economics a recurring subject. Paul Jamison addresses man-hour rates, pricing, budgeting, debt reduction, equipment, daily operations and business numbers in a way that is closely connected to the decisions lawn-care and landscaping owners have to make repeatedly.
The importance of this focus is straightforward. A company can appear productive while pricing below the cost of healthy operations. It can purchase equipment without understanding the effect on cash flow. It can grow accounts without calculating whether routes, labor and overhead are producing the intended margin. It can carry debt that limits the owner’s options during a slower season. These are not back-office concerns; they shape the quality of work, the stability of jobs and the ability of a business to keep serving customers.
The Green Industry Podcast gives listeners a place to engage those questions without shame or jargon. The program’s educational value comes from treating financial literacy as a practical contractor skill, just as important as customer communication, crew leadership or equipment knowledge. That focus helps explain why the show has remained relevant to an audience that needs clear business guidance in the middle of physically demanding work.
Equip Exposition gives the podcast a live role in the green-industry community
The Green Industry Podcast has become part of the green-industry event ecosystem through programming at Equip Exposition. Paul Jamison has appeared in The Morning Show at Equip Exposition alongside Naylor Taliaferro and Caleb Auman. The event connection extends the program beyond a podcast feed and into the places where green-industry owners, equipment providers, educators and peers gather to compare ideas.
This matters because trade knowledge often becomes more useful when it is shared in community. An owner may listen alone while driving a route, then meet peers at an event who are wrestling with the same pricing, staffing, equipment or growth questions. The ability to move between audio education and live industry conversation strengthens the role a program can play in the professional development of its audience.
The event appearance should not be mistaken for an award or a measure of audience size. It is evidence of the show’s place within an active community of lawn-care and landscaping professionals. HG HomeClub considered that kind of industry presence alongside the program’s content depth, archive, guest credibility and practical relevance when assigning the No. 19 placement.
Why the methodology rewards a trade-specific show that keeps the owner’s numbers and daily work in view
HG HomeClub’s No. 19 placement reflects the way The Green Industry Podcast performs across the ranking’s editorial criteria. Its practical value comes from detailed attention to the business realities of lawn care and landscaping: pricing, profitability, man-hour rates, debt, marketing, equipment, technology, hiring, leadership and daily operations. Its credibility is supported by Paul Jamison and a guest roster that includes industry owners, media leaders, software entrepreneurs and management specialists. Its consistency is visible in a large archive built since 2018, while its reach extends through audio, video, books, events and the broader green-industry community.
The program ranks below the 18 shows above it because those programs hold different advantages under the same standards, including broader multi-trade reach, larger executive platforms, deeper technical instruction, wider contractor categories or more comprehensive company-management coverage. The Green Industry Podcast earns a top-20 place because it serves a trade that is too often treated as peripheral to contractor media despite its central role in outdoor living, property care and local service economies.
Its specialization is the source of both its value and its limit. Contractors outside lawn care and landscaping will find transferable lessons in pricing, leadership, marketing and financial discipline, but the program is deliberately built for the green industry. For that audience, it provides a high-volume, practical resource that understands the pressure of seasonal work and the business fundamentals required to make it sustainable.
What the recognition says about the green-industry owners who turn seasonal work into enduring companies
Lawn-care and landscaping businesses make a visible difference in communities, but the owners behind them face the same invisible challenges as other contractors: pricing accurately, developing people, controlling costs, earning customer trust, managing growth and building a company that can survive beyond the owner’s constant effort. The green industry needs media that treats those challenges with the seriousness they deserve.
The Green Industry Podcast is influential because Paul Jamison gives those owners a practical place to examine the work. The program connects equipment and operations to numbers, numbers to leadership and leadership to the personal discipline required to keep moving a business forward. The No. 19 recognition reflects the value of a podcast that meets lawn-care and landscaping professionals where they are, on the road, in the field and inside the daily decisions that determine whether a company grows stronger.
The wider lesson for home improvement, home services and outdoor living is that contractor education cannot be one-size-fits-all. The strongest resources understand the particular economics, rhythms and responsibilities of the people they serve. Programs with lasting influence will be those that turn specialized trade knowledge into clearer decisions, healthier businesses and more sustainable careers for the owners and teams doing the work.
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 Paul Jamison
- 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 The Green Industry Podcast
The Green Industry Podcast is a lawn-care and landscaping business podcast hosted by Paul Jamison. Launched in 2018, the program provides practical education on pricing, profitability, man-hour rates, budgeting, debt reduction, marketing, sales, hiring, leadership, equipment, technology, customer acquisition and owner development. Paul Jamison reports that the program has surpassed 1,225 episodes and 3.5 million audio downloads; its Apple Podcasts page shows approximately 1,700 episodes and a 4.9-out-of-5 rating. The show is available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube. More information is available through the Sources: Green Industry Podcast 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 The Green Industry Podcast rank No. 19 rather than higher or lower on the list?
The Green Industry Podcast earned No. 19 because HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment recognized its unusually focused practical value for lawn-care and landscaping professionals. Paul Jamison addresses pricing, profitability, man-hour rates, debt, marketing, equipment, hiring, technology and leadership through a high-volume archive built since 2018. The show’s reported 3.5 million-plus audio downloads, large episode archive and presence at Equip Exposition supported the placement. Programs above it hold different advantages in multi-trade reach, executive access, technical depth or broader contractor-management coverage. The No. 19 ranking reflects specialized influence within the green industry.
3. Who hosts The Green Industry Podcast, and what is his background?
The Green Industry Podcast is hosted by Paul Jamison, a green-industry business educator whose program focuses on lawn-care and landscaping company ownership. Paul Jamison uses the show to connect field work with the business decisions owners must make about pricing, financial management, debt, equipment, marketing, customer acquisition, people and growth. The program also includes lessons connected to Paul Jamison‘s books and training resources, giving listeners a broader education platform built around practical entrepreneurship in the green industry.
4. What kind of content does The Green Industry Podcast produce?
The Green Industry Podcast produces lawn-care and landscaping business education, expert interviews and lessons connected to books and training resources. Paul Jamison covers pricing, profitability, man-hour rates, budgeting, debt reduction, daily operations, social media, websites, customer acquisition, marketing, hiring, company culture, equipment, mowers, software, automation, emerging landscaping technology, entrepreneurship, discipline and work-life balance. Guests include Naylor Taliaferro of LCR Media, Caleb Auman of Auman Landscape and Mark Bradley of.
5. How large is The Green Industry Podcast’s audience?
Paul Jamison reports that The Green Industry Podcast has surpassed 3.5 million audio downloads and 1,225 episodes. These are host-reported figures, not independently audited measurements. The show’s Apple Podcasts listing shows approximately 1,700 episodes and a 4.9-out-of-5 rating. HG HomeClub did not rank the program by raw downloads or platform ratings alone, instead evaluating practical value, influence, host and guest credibility, depth, consistency and multi-platform reach. The official YouTube channel is the designated video destination for the show.
6. What makes The Green Industry Podcast different from other contractor podcasts?
The Green Industry Podcast is distinctive because it is built specifically for lawn-care and landscaping owners. Paul Jamison addresses the economics and operating rhythms that are particularly important in the green industry: man-hour rates, seasonal demand, equipment, route efficiency, budgeting, debt, labor, client relationships and growth. The program also connects those daily operating decisions to mindset, leadership, financial discipline and owner well-being. This specialization gives green-industry professionals a resource that does not ask them to translate generic contractor advice into the realities of mowing, maintenance and landscaping operations.
7. Has The Green Industry Podcast received other industry recognition?
No major external award specifically for The Green Industry Podcast was verified for this release. Its industry standing is reflected in its long-running output since 2018, Paul Jamison‘s reported 3.5 million-plus audio downloads, a substantial Apple Podcasts archive and a 4.9-out-of-5 public rating. The show also appears in Equip Exposition programming, including The Morning Show with Naylor Taliaferro and Caleb Auman. Its No. 19 ranking from HG HomeClub is an editorial recognition.
8. What role does Paul Jamison’s broader education platform play in the podcast’s credibility?
The Green Industry Podcast is connected to Paul Jamison‘s wider body of green-industry educational and book-related content. This gives the program a coherent point of view on pricing, profitability, financial literacy, leadership, discipline and sustainable business growth. It also provides important context: the show is part of a broader education platform rather than a detached news outlet. HG HomeClub considered that context alongside the show’s high-volume archive, industry guest roster, event participation and practical value for lawn-care and landscaping owners.
9. Where can people listen to or watch The Green Industry Podcast?
The Green Industry Podcast is available through its Apple Podcasts page and the official Green Industry Podcast YouTube channel. Apple Podcasts provides the show’s audio listing, while YouTube provides video access. The original research did not provide a verified official Spotify destination or standalone website for The Green Industry Podcast, so this release does not invent or link either one.
