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 In this episode of The Huge Transformations Podcast, host Sid Graef sits down with Dan Gibbons, co-founder of Shine Window Cleaning in Toronto, Canada. Dan shares his journey from a college student in a painting program to bootstrapping Shine with his partner and growing it from zero to $6 million in under seven years. The conversation explores Dan’s entrepreneurial roots—from shoveling driveways as a teenager to knocking doors in the freezing Canadian winter—and how those lessons shaped his approach to growth. Dan reveals the systems, partnerships, and mindset shifts that fueled Shine’s rapid rise, including a strong reliance on door-to-door sales early on, transitioning into digital advertising, and focusing on dense local market penetration rather than premature expansion. Listeners will gain insight into the realities of scaling a service business, including the importance of delegation (not abdication), the role of mentorship, why belief and resilience matter more than “hacks,” and how to prepare for the leap from owner-operator to true business leader. Resources: Renewal by Andersen The Huge Insider newsletter The Huge Insider podcast downloadable action guide The Huge Mastermind info page Transcript: got it — here’s your transcript split by speaker, fully unabridged (no edits to wording or punctuation). SID:  Hello everyone. Welcome to the Huge Transformations podcast. I’m Sid Graff outta Montana. GABE: I’m Gabe Torres here in Nashville, Tennessee. SHEILA: And I’m Sheila Smeltzer from North Carolina, we are your hosts and guides through the landscape of growing a successful home service business. We do this by interviewing the best home service business builders in the industry, folks that have already built seven and eight figure businesses, and they want to help you succeed. HOST: Yep. No fake gurus on this show. Just real life owners that have been in the trenches and can help show you the way to grow profitably. We get insights and truths from successful business builders, and every episode is 100% experience, 0% theory. We are going to dig deep and reveal the good, the bad, and the ugly. HOST: Our guests will share with you the pitfalls to avoid and the keys to winning. In short, our guest will show you how to transform your home service business into a masterpiece. Thanks for joining us on the wild. Journey of entrepreneurship. Let’s dive in. SID: Hey my friend. Welcome back to the Huge Transformations podcast. This is Sy, and today’s episode is gonna be a ton of fun, and here’s why. My friend Dan Gibbons. Whom I met at the huge convention last year, introduced us to our keynote speaker this year. But he’s got a really interesting backstory from a college kid that worked with a painting company to getting a wild haired idea with he and his girlfriend said, we should start our own window cleaning company in Toronto. SID: So. Normally when someone starts their own window cleaning company, they struggle and stress and they grow nice and slow, and it takes a few years to get to a half a million or whatever. They did a half a million their first year, a million their second year, and then they’ve continued the growth of a million dollars additional revenue every single year they’ve been in business. SID: So they went from zero to 6 million in under seven years, and I want you to listen in on this conversation and find out and understand how they did it. Because it’s not normal. Dan’s very generous. He’s got a lot of energy and we kind of bounce around all over the place. I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did, and I hope you learn as much from it as I did. SID: Also, thanks for joining us on the Huge Transformation Show. Please meet Dan given and thanks for joining us at Sid g Graff and this is a huge transformation podcast and it’s rare when we get to do it live and in person. Usually it’s on Zoom, all stuff. But today we’ve got Dan given with this Dan. Check out the hat, look at that camera over there. SID: Shine window cleaning in Canada. And, uh, Dan, you’ve got a, you’ve got a fast growing window cleaning operation in Toronto, right? DAN: Yep. SID: Yeah. Tell, tell us a little bit about like, well, when did you start? DAN: Um, I started Shine, uh, we started shine seven years ago, so this is year seven. Uh, but I’ve been in, in the game, so to speak, for about just over a decade now. DAN: I started in, in university doing like a student painting program, and then I realized I could go out on my own. And here we are. SID: Do you know anybody else that start with you in that student painting thing? Did they go out on their own? Do you know anybody else that started their own painting? DAN: Um, it’s an interesting program because, uh, when you go into it, you’re, you’re a bunch of students. DAN: There’s like 200 students across Canada doing it. And, ...
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