Chris Yano and Chad Peterman‘s growth-focused home-service program, produced by RYNO Strategic Solutions, is recognized among the trades’ most influential business podcasts for joining marketing expertise with the operating perspective of an active multi-trade executive.
August 28, 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 To The Point: Home Services Podcast, the marketing, operations and company-growth program hosted by Chris Yano and Chad Peterman, has been named the No. 6 most influential podcast serving home improvement, home services and outdoor living professionals. The recognition places To The Point: Home Services Podcast alongside programs produced by operators, technology companies, coaching organizations and independent media platforms, and identifies it as the highest-ranked show in the top 10 built around the working partnership of a home-services marketing leader and an active home-service chief executive.
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 goal is particularly relevant in home services, where an owner must make rapid decisions with incomplete information. Marketing costs change, customer expectations shift, labor remains difficult to secure, and new technology continues to affect how companies generate leads, book calls, communicate with customers and manage field performance. HG HomeClub created its ranking to identify programs that give contractors direct access to experienced perspectives on those practical business pressures.
The criteria behind the list: practical value over download counts, and why two complementary viewpoints earned No. 6
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 To The Point: Home Services Podcast, those standards reward a format built on useful tension. Chris Yano brings a marketing, investment and industry-growth perspective through RYNO Strategic Solutions, while Chad Peterman brings the day-to-day accountability of leading Peterman Brothers, a multi-trade home-service business. Together, they give the show a way to test growth ideas against both market opportunity and operating reality.
The No. 6 placement reflects that complementary structure, the show’s sustained publishing history since 2020, its archive of more than 350 episodes, its high-profile guest access and its relevance across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and adjacent home-service categories. It also reflects the program’s clear emphasis. To The Point: Home Services Podcast gives considerable attention to marketing, company growth and industry momentum, making it most useful to owners seeking current perspectives on demand generation and operational growth rather than technical field instruction.
Why a marketing leader and an active operator make a different kind of home-service conversation
Home-service media often starts from one side of the business. A contractor may explain what is happening inside the company. A marketing expert may explain how customers find and choose a provider. To The Point: Home Services Podcast brings those perspectives into the same conversation. Chris Yano approaches the business through marketing strategy, growth and the systems that help contractors compete for attention. Chad Peterman approaches it as the president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers, where the implications of a growth plan reach employees, customers, capacity, culture and daily execution.
That two-host format changes the questions the show can ask. A discussion about lead generation can move into call handling, scheduling, technician capacity, conversion, customer trust and margin protection. A conversation about expanding service lines can move into leadership readiness, training and whether the underlying operation can support the next stage of growth. A discussion of artificial intelligence can consider not only the technology itself, but whether the business has the processes, data and team alignment needed to use it responsibly.
For listeners, the result is less a single-lens marketing podcast than a broader home-service growth program. To The Point: Home Services Podcast does not suggest that marketing alone solves a contractor’s problems. Its value lies in showing how marketing decisions connect to the other business disciplines that determine whether growth becomes durable: operations, hiring, culture, leadership, sales process, service delivery and customer experience.
More than 350 episodes since 2020: how the program developed into the Home Services VIP Room
To The Point: Home Services Podcast began in 2020 and has developed into the Home Services VIP Room format. Its Apple Podcasts page listed more than 350 episodes in 2026, illustrating the scale of an archive that has followed the home-service industry through changes in digital marketing, labor, private equity, technology adoption and customer behavior. The show is also available on Spotify, its YouTube channel, and the Sources: To The Point listening directory.
The program combines long-form interviews, shorter micro episodes and special recordings tied to industry events. Its standard conversations feature contractors, chief executives and industry leaders discussing topics such as profitability, culture, hiring, service delivery, memberships, multi-trade operations, marketing, reputation, customer acquisition, automation, customer relationship management systems, artificial intelligence, acquisitions and ownership. The shorter episodes give Chris Yano and Chad Peterman a way to isolate a single lesson or operating question without requiring a full interview format.
Event-connected episodes add another layer. To The Point: Home Services Podcast has produced special content from RYNOx, an industry event associated with RYNO Strategic Solutions. That format gives the show a way to capture conversations while contractors, technology providers, operators and advisors are already gathered around the questions shaping home services. The result is a feed that works both as a regular business resource and as an evolving record of the industry’s live conversation.
A specialized audience across audio, video and a large professional archive
The To The Point Home Services Podcast YouTube channel lists approximately 16,800 subscribers, 1,006 videos and more than 690,000 views. The channel figures represent the video platform as a whole and should not be treated as a direct measure of podcast downloads. The more relevant point is that To The Point: Home Services Podcast has built a substantial multi-format library for a specialized trade audience rather than relying on one audio feed alone.
Its Apple Podcasts listing carries a 4.9-out-of-5 rating from 214 U.S. ratings, while the show’s archive contains more than 350 episodes. Those are meaningful public signals of sustained listener engagement, but they are not a complete, independently audited audience measurement. HG HomeClub did not rank To The Point: Home Services Podcast by raw downloads or social followers because those figures are inconsistently published across the podcast category.
Instead, the ranking recognizes a more focused kind of reach: the program speaks to people with direct responsibility for home-service growth. Its listeners include leaders in HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other service sectors who need to connect marketing investment with operational capability. A contractor does not need a general theory of business; they need insight that accounts for field teams, customer calls, service areas, memberships, capacity constraints, reputation and the immediate consequences of a missed opportunity. That is the audience To The Point: Home Services Podcast has built its content around.
Built within RYNO Strategic Solutions and Peterman Brothers: how the show keeps growth connected to execution
RYNO Strategic Solutions produces To The Point: Home Services Podcast, giving Chris Yano a direct connection to the marketing, digital strategy and growth questions that contractors face. That background helps explain why customer acquisition, reputation, marketing technology, sales and demand generation are recurring subjects in the program. It also means that the show should be understood within the commercial ecosystem of a company that works with home-service businesses.
Chad Peterman brings a different but complementary form of credibility. As president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers, he brings an operator’s view of what a growth strategy asks of a business after the lead is generated. More calls create pressure on staffing, dispatch, field capacity, training, systems, customer communication and leadership. This creates a useful discipline within To The Point: Home Services Podcast: an idea about marketing is stronger when it can survive the practical questions asked by the person responsible for executing against it.
The arrangement also establishes the show’s boundaries. RYNO Strategic Solutions is a marketing company, and Peterman Brothers is an operating home-service business; their respective interests and experiences naturally shape which subjects appear most often. HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment recognizes that context while crediting the show for making those perspectives useful to a broad professional audience. The strength is not the pretense of being detached from the industry. It is the ability to bring marketing and operations into direct conversation.
A guest list that spans home-service scale, legacy operators and the next decision after growth
The guest roster associated with To The Point: Home Services Podcast reflects its position at the intersection of growth strategy and home-service operations. Featured leaders include Tommy Mello, founder of A1 Garage Door Service; Ken Goodrich, founder and chief executive of Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing; Jimmy Hiller, founder of Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical; and Dave Geiger, a home-services executive associated with Sources: Horizon Services.
Those names signal the type of conversation the program is equipped to host. Tommy Mello and A1 Garage Door Service bring a growth-oriented, multi-market operator perspective. Ken Goodrich and Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing bring the view of a founder-led home-service organization. Jimmy Hiller and Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical bring experience from a long-established multi-trade company. Dave Geiger and Horizon Services contribute another executive lens on the home-service industry.
The pattern is significant because contractors often hear growth stories only after the fact, stripped of the operational choices that made them possible. To The Point: Home Services Podcast gives leaders a forum to discuss scale, leadership, acquisitions, brand, customer experience and market strategy in the context of businesses that have actually had to manage the consequences. The guest list supports HG HomeClub’s conclusion that the program has meaningful professional influence within its category.
The RYNOx connection turns the feed into an extension of the industry’s live conversation
Most podcasts are made in a regular studio rhythm: a host, a guest, an episode and a published feed. To The Point: Home Services Podcast adds another format through content associated with RYNOx, an event platform connected to RYNO Strategic Solutions. These event-based episodes place Chris Yano and Chad Peterman in the middle of a professional gathering where operators, marketers, executives, technology providers and advisors are addressing the industry’s current questions.
That matters because home-service business conditions do not remain static from one season to the next. Marketing channels shift. Technology capabilities advance. Acquisition and ownership discussions change. Workforce pressures vary by market. The live-event format gives To The Point: Home Services Podcast a way to capture those changes while they are being debated, rather than waiting until they have become familiar talking points.
The event connection also reinforces the show’s place within a broader content and business ecosystem. Listeners should evaluate that context with clear eyes, just as they would the relationship between any industry program and its producer. But for contractors who want a current view of what peers and partners are discussing, To The Point: Home Services Podcast provides a useful bridge between the evergreen challenges of running a service business and the decisions that are pressing right now.
Why the methodology rewards a program that makes marketing answer to operational reality
HG HomeClub’s No. 6 placement reflects the way To The Point: Home Services Podcast performs across the ranking’s criteria. Its practical value lies in connecting marketing, operations, leadership and growth for contractors working in demanding field-service environments. Its hosts have complementary credibility: Chris Yano through RYNO Strategic Solutions and Chad Peterman through Peterman Brothers. Its archive, guest roster, audio distribution, video library and event content demonstrate consistency and reach across several formats.
The show’s position below the five programs ranked above it is not a judgment that marketing is less important than other business disciplines. It reflects the particular strengths of those programs under the same editorial framework, including operator-led immediacy, systems specialization, technical education and broader platform access. To The Point: Home Services Podcast nevertheless stands ahead of much of the field because it turns a broad topic – growth – into a continuing conversation between the people responsible for generating demand and the people responsible for fulfilling it.
That balance is the show’s central contribution. A contractor can pursue more leads, more markets or more service lines, but none of those moves creates a healthier company unless people, systems and customer experience keep pace. To The Point: Home Services Podcast gives the industry a place to examine that reality without separating commercial ambition from operational responsibility.
What the recognition says about the next generation of home-service leadership
The home-service companies that grow responsibly will need leaders who can look across the business rather than inside one department. They will need to understand that marketing affects capacity, that customer experience affects reputation, that hiring affects service quality, that technology affects process and that leadership affects every one of those outcomes. Contractor education is becoming more valuable when it helps owners see these relationships instead of pursuing isolated tactics.
To The Point: Home Services Podcast represents that connected form of industry education. Chris Yano and Chad Peterman bring two different but necessary viewpoints to the same table: the strategic work of generating opportunity and the operational work of delivering on the promise. The No. 6 recognition reflects the relevance of that combination to contractors operating in a more competitive, data-rich and demanding market.
The larger lesson extends beyond any one program. Growth is not a marketing outcome, a technology purchase or a single executive decision. It is an operating condition that requires coordinated leadership. The podcasts with lasting influence will be those that help contractors build that coordination – among their teams, across their systems and between the promises they make to customers and the work their companies can reliably deliver.
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 To The Point: Home Services Podcast
To The Point: Home Services Podcast, also presented in the Home Services VIP Room format, is a business program for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and other home-service leaders. Founded in 2020 and hosted by Chris Yano and Chad Peterman, the show covers marketing, leadership, operations, technology, profitability, company growth, ownership and customer experience through interviews, micro episodes and event-based conversations. The program is produced by RYNO Strategic Solutions and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. More information is available at.
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 To The Point: Home Services Podcast rank No. 6 rather than higher or lower on the list?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast ranked No. 6 because HG HomeClub’s editorial assessment found uncommon value in the partnership of Chris Yano and Chad Peterman: one host brings a growth and marketing perspective through RYNO Strategic Solutions, while the other brings active operating experience through Peterman Brothers. Its 2020 launch, more than 350 episodes, 4.9-out-of-5 Apple Podcasts rating and multi-platform reach supported the placement. Shows placed higher hold different strengths under the same criteria. The No. 6 position recognizes this program’s breadth, guest access and ability to connect marketing with execution.
3. Who hosts To The Point: Home Services Podcast, and what are their backgrounds?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast is hosted by Chris Yano, a home-services marketing leader, investor and speaker associated with RYNO Strategic Solutions, and Chad Peterman, president and chief executive of Peterman Brothers. Chris Yano brings a market-growth and digital strategy viewpoint, while Chad Peterman brings a home-service operator’s perspective on culture, training, growth and service delivery. That combination allows the show to test customer-acquisition and growth ideas against the practical demands of operating a multi-trade service business.
4. What kind of content does To The Point: Home Services Podcast produce?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast publishes interviews, shorter micro episodes, video conversations and event-based content associated with RYNOx. Chris Yano and Chad Peterman cover marketing, sales, leadership, culture, hiring, operations, customer experience, memberships, artificial intelligence, automation, customer relationship management systems, profitability, acquisitions, private equity and company growth. Guests include Tommy Mello of A1 Garage Door Service, Ken Goodrich of Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing and Jimmy Hiller of Sources: Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical.
5. How large is To The Point: Home Services Podcast’s audience?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast has not published a comprehensive independently audited download total. Public platform indicators show that its YouTube channel lists approximately 16,800 subscribers, 1,006 videos and more than 690,000 views; those figures describe the channel and should not be treated as podcast-only audience totals. The show’s Apple Podcasts listing listed more than 350 episodes and a 4.9-out-of-5 rating from 214 U.S. ratings in 2026. HG HomeClub evaluated the program editorially and did not use raw downloads as the ranking measure.
6. What makes To The Point: Home Services Podcast different from other shows in its category?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast is built around the complementary perspectives of Chris Yano of RYNO Strategic Solutions and Chad Peterman of Peterman Brothers. That pairing connects marketing strategy with the accountability of running a growing multi-trade service organization. Rather than treating lead generation, operations, hiring, technology and customer experience as separate topics, the program repeatedly examines how they interact. Its Home Services VIP Room format also combines long-form conversations, short practical episodes and event-connected content, giving listeners several ways to engage with current home-service issues.
7. Has To The Point: Home Services Podcast received other industry recognition?
No major external award specifically for To The Point: Home Services Podcast was verified for this release. The program’s industry recognition is reflected in its continued publication since 2020, its catalogue of more than 350 episodes, its 4.9-out-of-5 rating from 214 U.S. ratings on Apple Podcasts, and its access to home-service leaders such as Tommy Mello of A1 Garage Door Service, Ken Goodrich of Goettl Air Conditioning & Plumbing and Jimmy Hiller of Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical. The No. 6 ranking from HG HomeClub is an editorial recognition rather than a download-based award.
8. What role do RYNO Strategic Solutions and Peterman Brothers play in the show’s credibility?
RYNO Strategic Solutions produces To The Point: Home Services Podcast, giving Chris Yano direct experience with home-service marketing and growth strategy. Peterman Brothers gives Chad Peterman an active operator’s perspective on the daily demands behind a growth plan, including people, process, capacity, customer experience and leadership. Those relationships provide the show with useful, grounded viewpoints. They also mean listeners should understand that the program is part of a broader commercial and operating ecosystem, a context HG HomeClub considered in its editorial evaluation.
9. Where can people listen to or watch To The Point: Home Services Podcast?
To The Point: Home Services Podcast is available through its Apple Podcasts page, on Spotify, on its YouTube channel, and through the To The Point listening directory. The Home Services VIP Room designation refers to the show’s expanded format, which includes full conversations, short micro episodes and event-based content. Apple Podcasts and Spotify serve audio listeners, while YouTube provides video access.
