{"podcast":{"title":"Jimmy Talks Construction","slug":"jimmy-talks-construction-7352594","podcast_index_feed_id":7352594,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/jimmy-talks/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/jimmy-talks","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/jimmy-talks/podcast_cover_20260616_050603_d09c5960f1d4918ab573921835e12538.jpg","author":"James Starbuck","episode_count":57,"summary":"Jimmy Talks Construction is an Australian construction podcast focused on real conversations with builders, contractors, tradies, and business owners across the construction industry. Each episode dives into construction business growth, civil construction, earthmoving, excavation, leadership on site, hiring subcontractors, scaling trade businesses, and the real challenges of running a construction company in Australia. From infrastructure projects and heavy machinery to cash flow, management, and lessons learned the hard way, this podcast shares honest insights from people building successful construction businesses from the ground up.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T16:22:17.719612+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jimmy-talks-construction-7352594"},"episode":{"title":"Jordan Chivers (Director of W.L. Chivers Plumbing) - Jimmy Talks Construction","slug":"jordan-chivers-director-of-w-l-chivers-plumbing-jimmy-talks-construction","published_at":"2026-04-21T06:59:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jimmy-talks-construction-7352594/jordan-chivers-director-of-w-l-chivers-plumbing-jimmy-talks-construction","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jimmy-talks-construction-7352594","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/jimmy-talks/2751938","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/331611/2751938/jimmy-talks/2026_04_21_06_31_59_9157c81b-907a-4fff-a786-e90f0a5c20a2.mp3","summary":"Jordan Chivers runs WL Chivers Plumbing - a 17-man Melbourne maintenance and emergency plumbing business that turns up in under an hour, 365 days a year. From a 14-year-old operating a Takeuchi TB108 to running one of Melbourne's go-to emergency plumbing outfits, Jordan has been on the tools since before he was out of Year 9. In this episode, Jimmy sits down with him - Managing Director of WL Chivers Plumbing - to talk about the reality of running a reactive, no-BS trade business: being raised by his old-school maintenance plumber dad Wayne, talking his way into an excavator at fourteen, digging sewers before he had a driver's licence, and how a handshake operation turned into a team doing 150–200 jobs a week for the RACV Emergency Home Assist program. It's a wide-ranging, operator-to-operator chat about the trade shortage, the fuel crisis, the PVC pipe shortage hitting the whole industry, and why the phone will always dictate the day. What we cover: • The trade shortage — how Melbourne went from graduating 1,000 plumbers a year to 200–300 • Why young tradies are choosing lollipop sticks on government infrastructure over apprenticeships • The fuel crisis, the PVC shortage, and the ripple effect through construction • Politicians, payroll tax, fuel excise and the Victorian business environment • Compliance, the \"TikTok Inspector,\" and the new Building Plumbing Commission • Women in construction — pink trucks, pink excavators, and female managers • Why neither Jimmy nor Jordan has a written business plan • Showing up: the Australia Day call for a $1.5M job • Why AI will never install a toilet — and why trades are the most future-proof career going If you got something out of this one, drop a review — five stars, three thumbs up, whatever your platform lets you leave. It…","meta_description":"Jordan Chivers runs WL Chivers Plumbing - a 17-man Melbourne maintenance and emergency plumbing business that turns up in under an hour, 365 days a year.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4314,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/jimmy-talks-construction-7352594/episodes/jordan-chivers-director-of-w-l-chivers-plumbing-jimmy-talks-construction/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jimmy-talks-construction-7352594/jordan-chivers-director-of-w-l-chivers-plumbing-jimmy-talks-construction.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}