{"podcast":{"title":"Mindful Builder","slug":"mindful-builder-6841919","podcast_index_feed_id":6841919,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/mindful-builder/","website_url":"https://mindful-builder.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/00f468ee-32ce-4128-8bd8-e9350c2985bb/XizDXVIMb3hN1TASz3PU94Sv.jpg","author":"Matthew Carland and Hamish White","episode_count":141,"summary":"Join Matt from Carland Constructions and Hamish from Sanctum Homes in a podcast discussing sustainable building practices and passive house concepts. They also talk to experts from all avenues of the building industry to share their knowledge and insights on what the industry looks like today. Further to this, Matt and Hamish are building a platform through the podcast to discuss mental health issues that arise in the building industry. The industry can be quite negative at times and there is a great deal of stigma around what it means to be a \"tradie\". Matt and Hamish are here to shine a light of positivity on the industry and share relatable topics that will help you in your own building or construction business.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-28T04:19:14.694440+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindful-builder-6841919"},"episode":{"title":"The Builders Standing Up to a Broken Industry","slug":"the-builders-standing-up-to-a-broken-industry","published_at":"2026-06-28T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindful-builder-6841919/the-builders-standing-up-to-a-broken-industry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindful-builder-6841919","url":"https://mindful-builder.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/46302b42-a23a-4f9a-8695-b6c78157550b.mp3","summary":"“On paper, six or seven competitive builders trying to run one organisation together makes no sense.” In this episode, we sit down with Bec Kempster, the brilliant Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Sustainable Builders Alliance (SBA), to talk about the messy, necessary business of upgrading the Australian construction sector. Recording from Matt’s newly completed Grand Designs home, we strip back the hype and discuss how the SBA transitioned from a grassroots cause into a highly structured, professional association shaking up national building standards. Bec shares insights from her eclectic background. Spanning commerce degrees, corporate head office fit-outs, and co-founding business coaching systems for architects, to reveal how the SBA is systematically tackling the biggest bottlenecks in the trade. We break down the SBA’s Theory of Change , detailing their current work with TAFEs to build localised trade courses, and their mission to establish crystal-clear definitions for high-performance builds so the market can finally stomp out greenwashing. We also take a look at the data from the SBA's newly released State of the Market report. Bec details the hidden category of \"transitioning builders\". These are tradespeople who build above code but fail to market it, and drops the statistical proof that builders who explicitly sell health, comfort, and performance secure nearly double the forward pipeline of their competitors. We chat about the reality of custom build costs, volume builder challenges, and why vulnerability and education are a builder's best defence against insolvency in a volatile economy. Whether you are a seasoned builder, an architect looking for better site execution, or a transitioning tradie ready to stop faking it, this episode delivers raw, unf…","meta_description":"“On paper, six or seven competitive builders trying to run one organisation together makes no sense.” In this episode, we sit down with Bec Kempster, the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3381,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mindful-builder-6841919/episodes/the-builders-standing-up-to-a-broken-industry/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mindful-builder-6841919/the-builders-standing-up-to-a-broken-industry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}