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The Lion's Mindset: Building an Eight-Figure Business with Tom Reber
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Tom Reber pulls no punches when it comes to business. “You have a glorified job with overhead and a shitty boss,” he says, if you can’t get out of your own way.
As the founder of The Contractor Fight and Simplify Painting, Tom sits down with host Ryan Van Ornum to unpack the mindset shifts that separate business owners who stay stuck from those who scale with purpose and success.
He shares the real story behind growing Simplify Painting to a million-dollar run rate in just 10 months. The key? Hiring top talent and resisting the urge to be the hero. This gave him the freedom to work fewer hours while leading multiple crews and keeping clients happy.
Tom also reveals a powerful sales mindset, one that helped a client go from $12/hour to creating $43,000/hour in effective value. He breaks down how the foundation of business success lies in roughly 60 intentional decisions made daily. His perspective is simple but powerful: Don’t chase a million for the money, chase it for the person you’ll become along the way.
Inside his company, discipline drives results. A team-wide alert system activates if no sales are made by noon, reinforcing urgency and action. With over 1,100 straight days of sales, Tom’s team proves that consistency and culture matter.
For any entrepreneur serious about growth, leadership, and transformation, Tom’s message is a bold reminder: success is inconvenient, and that’s exactly the point.
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Tom Reber – The Contractor Fight (official page):
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@fightwithtom
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomreber
TikTok
@realtomreber
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/cynergists
https://www.youtube.com/@CynergistsVA
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https://www.tiktok.com/@cynergists?lang=en
Chapters
1. Meet Tom Reber and His Story (00:00:00)
2. Building Simplify Painting from Scratch (00:03:23)
3. Getting Out of Your Way (00:09:01)
4. Sales as a Discipline Game (00:13:23)
5. The Power of Unexpected Intentional Touches (00:19:06)
6. Winning the Moments for Success (00:24:52)
7. Final Advice and Book Promotion (00:36:10)
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