On this episode of the Huge Transformations Podcast, host Sid Graef sits down with Aaron Harper, founder of Rolling Suds Power Washing, to unpack what it really takes to build a scalable, coast-to-coast service business—without burning out or selling hype. Aaron walks through his journey from Hollywood talent agencies (working around names like Will Smith and Jesse Eisenberg) to B2B sales, and eventually into franchise development—helping grow service brands by hundreds of units before launching Rolling Suds. He shares how he walked away from a near seven-figure “dream job” offer while his wife was six months pregnant so he could start his own franchise brand from scratch, raise capital for the first time, and acquire Rolling Suds. Resources: The Huge Insider newsletter signup The Huge Insider podcast downloadable action guide The Huge Mastermind info page Huge Foundations Facebook Group Transcript: Hello everyone. Welcome to the Huge Transformations podcast. I'm Sid Graef outta Montana. I'm Gabe Torres here in Nashville, Tennessee. 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. 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. Our guests will share with you the pitfalls to avoid and the keys to winning. In short, our guests 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. Hello my friends, it's Sid Graef. This is the Huge Transformation podcast. Thanks for joining me today 'cause we've got a great conversation with Aaron Harper. Who is Aaron Harper? Aaron is the founder and was the CEO until he hired a new CEO of rolling SUDS power washing. And that is the nation's first coast to coast power washing franchise. And you're like franchise. We're a bunch of solo business owners. You're gonna learn a ton from Aaron and how deliberate. And thoughtful. They have been in developing a franchise brand for power washing and really helping raise the level in the industry across the board. So we had a great time on this. We talk about a lot of stuff. There's a lot of resources that are mentioned, book books and podcasts and concepts and all of that. All of that's gonna be in the show notes. You can learn, you can check it out there. Um, but with that, please join me in this conversation with Aaron Harper and get to know my new friend and yours, Aaron Harper. Welcome to the Huge Transformations podcast, everybody is your listening. Uh, the Huge Transformation podcast is all about the journey, the journey of a business person, entrepreneur, usually in home services, but where they started and how they became successful and some of the challenges along the way. And I'm really excited I've got Aaron Harper on with us today. And as your, your name tag says Aaron, founder of Rolling Suds. First of all, thanks for being on the show with me today. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to get, uh, get to know you and, and talk about, uh, talk about all the stuff that we're gonna talk about. Yeah, a hundred percent. So I've got like 4,000 questions for you, but, uh, a little bit of background for you is not for you about you. So you grew up in California, you were a skater, surfer kid, got into, uh, looked like you wanted to get into the film industry and as an agent. Mm-hmm. And then somehow transitioned out of that and started working as an employee and a franchise, carpet cleaning franchise, and then kind moved up the ranks and then, uh, there's a whole lot more to the story. One thing that I, I can't wait to, we'll do it a little bit later, but you and I share something in common that is so obscure. It's like one in 10 million. I was shocked when I saw it. Not in what, just in some of the homework. Um, which, which might be fun for us to discuss a little bit, but how did you go from the. Skater kid to arts and entertainment, wanna be an agent and to get into franchising, like, tell us the backstory. I'll dig in a little bit more as we go. Yeah. So, um, you know, I, I, I, I grew up, uh, in Southern California, you know, my grandfather was really into film. I was really into film. I studied film. I saw Entourage, thought I wanted to be Ari Gold, except just a little bit nicer. Um, and, um, and, and then, you know, kind of put that, put that goal in my mind to, to do that. Um, left college, ended up having an internship, working for, you know, a, a, a producer, um, ...
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Feb 9 202652 mins