# Tommy Mello - Why High Standards Change Everything Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751/tommy-mello-why-high-standards-change-everything Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751/tommy-mello-why-high-standards-change-everything.md Podcast: [Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751) Published: 2026-01-19T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://wastenoday.podbean.com/e/tommy-mello-a-players-only-why-high-standards-change-everything/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/2374fcmtqbw8p8aw/Waste_No_Day_Podcast_-_Tommy_Mello_Pt_2bfffn.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751/episodes/tommy-mello-why-high-standards-change-everything Duration seconds: 3663 ## Resource Want to double your ticket average without being pushy? Get access to real-time sales training, scripts, and role-play coaching inside the Blue Collar Closer community β€” join today before the next live Q&A drops: https://wastenoday.pro/BCCJoin the Waste No Day! Facebook group: https://wastenoday.pro/FBgroup Tommy Mello is the CEO of A1 Garage Door Service and a returning guest on the show. He built his garage door company from $50K in debt into a $200M business operating across 19 states. Known for his focus on accountability, people, and processes, Tommy leads a nine-figure organization with over 700 employees in the home services industry. He’s also a best-selling author, an Inc. Magazine columnist, a keynote speaker, and a top 0.1% podcast host. In this part two of our interview with Tommy, we talked about business growth, high standards, team culture, recruiting, leadership... ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751/episodes/tommy-mello-why-high-standards-change-everything/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/waste-no-day-a-home-services-motivational-podcast-3430751/tommy-mello-why-high-standards-change-everything.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.