What does sneaking into the Fukushima nuclear exclusion zone have to do with building decks? If you're Hayward Gatch, the answer is: everything. In this episode of the Dr Decks Podcast, we sit down with Hayward Gatch, founder of Be Nice Home Solutions, a Rhode Island and Connecticut contractor with maybe the wildest backstory in the trades. From the hand tattoo that accidentally named his company, to hiring mechanics and homeless workers when no one else would take a chance on them, Hayward built his business by doing everything differently. But before the decks came the journey: a heartbreak-fueled trip around the world on a few hundred euros, talking his way out of a nuclear zone, getting caught in a street siege in Athens, squatting in abandoned Soviet buildings, and navigating foreign cities by nothing but the sun. This is a story about gr ...