How Much are Memberships Costing You? with John Ellis

<p>Corey Berrier: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Successful Life Podcast. I am your host, Corey Berrier, and I am here with my man John Ellis. What&apos;s up, John? </p> <p>John Ellis: Hey, good afternoon. Good to see you, my man. Oh, likewise. I&apos;m glad to be here. </p> <p>Corey Berrier: I&apos;m glad to have you. So, John, I, you know what? You can introduce yourself far better than I can introduce you.</p> <p>Corey Berrier: So could you just tell everybody a little bit about yourself and some exciting things that you&apos;re we&apos;re gonna talk about </p> <p>John Ellis: today? Oh, absolutely. So again, my name is John Ellis. I&apos;ve been in the H V A C industry for about 43 years now, so I&apos;ve seen a lot of changes come and go and. I am a recovering contractor.</p> <p>John Ellis: I had a H V A C business in California, and I&apos;d like to say it took me 13 steps to get over that hump because I loved being a contractor. Don&apos;t get me wrong it, what a great experience. I&apos;ve had a wonderful opportunity to work with a lot of great developers and other trades. And in, in that though, I, my truck said SoCal air dynamics.</p> <p>John Ellis: performance contracting. So I was doing performance contracting way before it was cool. And. I specialized in high performance installation and systems and design. I was an Air balance technician. I was a hers reader. I&apos;m a level one thermo for doing thermal imaging. I am an i a Q specialist. I&apos;m an economizer specialist.</p> <p>John Ellis: And I was commissioning leads, buildings, and I was running maintenance and service, you know, Calls as well, your normal everyday day-to-day kind of H V A C type stuff. So, but in that I had some wonderful opportunities, worked for some amazing people. I have some great mentors that helped coach me and bring me up in the mechanical aspect.</p> <p>John Ellis: But then I crossed over into the building science and I was able to have some wonderful mentors in that and then into the indoor air quality realm of. Just some