Most business content celebrates the exit but rarely talks about the decades of discipline it took to earn it.

In this episode of Built The Hard Way, Josh sits down with entrepreneur and former CoolToday founder Jaime DiDomenico to unpack one of the most methodical business-building stories you'll hear. Jamie didn't start with investors, a groundbreaking idea, or a shortcut. He started earning $4 an hour stocking HVAC technician bins while putting himself through college, believing his future would be in corporate accounting.

Instead, he found opportunity in the skilled trades.

After nearly two decades climbing from warehouse employee to executive, Jaime took the biggest risk of his career by purchasing a struggling HVAC company that was losing money every year. Rather than chas ...