The Detail Rag
By The Detail Rag
The Detail Rag Feb 23, 2022
EP:60 "Shootin' the Shine" with Sprenger #5
EP:59 MR_DETAILWORX (Jerry Grant)
EP:58 Education VS. Experience!
EP:57 The Bearded Hunter (Hunter Johnson)
EP:43 Limit your Limiting Beliefs! (Paul Sprenger)
Paul and I discuss limiting beliefs and how they can affect decisions that are made. Not only do limiting beliefs create problems for you personally but also professionally. As Paul says!!...LET'S GO TO THE BEACH!!
EP: 56 Drakes Detailing & Revival Marine Care
Drake Robert from Drakes Detailing & Revival Marine Care talks about his struggles of starting a business at an early age. Moving to California, then back to Florida & starting Revival Marine Care. Drake talks about how arrogance & pride can break a business and how he's fostering his love for teaching!
EP: 55 Detail Boys (Victor Burciaga)
Victor Burciaga from Detail Boyz joins Paul & I once again to discuss customer relations, honesty and integrity within the detailing industry.
EP: 54 Mountain Town Detail (Justin Dean)
Great conversation with Justin from Mountain Town Detail located in Jasper Georgia. Justin talks about building his business in Bozeman Montana, selling the business (Keeping the Branding), relocating back home and making major life changes by becoming The Rag Company's 2020 Grambassador of the year and Koch-Chemie USA's Business Development Manager!
EP: 53 Shiny Jets (Brett Berry)
Brett Berry from Shiny Jets talks to me about the Aircraft Detailing Industry...how he's planning on helping it grow through offering a one-stop-shop for all your needs if getting into the business. Brett and Shiny Jets offers services, courses, products and has even started the ADA (Aircraft Detailing Association). Brett is a wealth of knowledge and says there's a great market for opportunity for anyone wanting to detail aircraft!
EP: 52 Showcase Mobile Detailing (Scott Drummond)
Scott from Showcase Mobile Detailing Solutions in Gilbert Arizona talks about the skill of wet sanding that he's learned and what it's like to detail for professional athletes, especially baseball players when spring training comes to town!
EP: 51 Detail Division (Scott Gauquier)
Scott Gauquier from Detail Division, a small family owned and operated High Quality Car Care product distributor gives great insight into the importance of work ethic and building and maintaining relationships!
EP:50 Shine Works Detailing
We sit and chat with Groffrey Ganes from Shine Works Detailing of Gilbert Arizona. Geoff talks about his struggles with drugs, business decisions and losing both his parents at an early age! Geoff talk about how he and his wife have started a foundation to help others called Gracing Humans!!
EP:49 "Shootin' the Shine" with Sprenger #4
Paul Sprenger & I finally back in the studio together to talk about the growth of Sprengers Detailing and how our thoughts can either help you grow or keep you in a not so good place!
EP:48 Mirror Finish Detailing
EP:47 Good Bye 2023...Hello 2024
EP:46 Stefan Lungstrum from Authentic Detail
Stefan Lungstrum from Authentic Detail talks about his trials & tribulations with anxiety and how detailing has provided calm, and a place to relax to get away from stress. Stefan shares with us how he has grown his detailing business and what he thinks the future holds for himself, Authentic Detail and Shine Supply Vacaville.
EP:45 Erik Whetstone of Whetstone Mobile Car Wash LLC
Erik Talks about being relatively new to the detailing world and what detailing is like in the cold winters of Ohio! Erik speaks highly of his father and how his past with his father has led him to where he is today detailing!
EP:44 Victor Burciaga from Detail Boyz
Victor Burciaga from Detail Boyz has a very colorful story from his childhood upbringing to losing a brother. Victor has fought for everything he has, and has become an amazing inspirational man along the way! Thank you Victor for allowing us to be a part of it!!
EP:42 Detail Davidson with Kirk Parker
The Detail Rag talks to Kirk Parker from Detail Davidson. Kirk is fairly new to the detailing industry and started his business approximately 2 years ago. Kirk talks about his transition from a corporate job to the detailing life and what some of his goals and strategies are for pushing his business forward.
EP:41 Evans Detailing & Polishing's Evan Steger
Evan talks about the polishing industry and the struggles and inspirations of growing a business. Evan is a super talented guy with many irons in the fire and it's always a pleasure to hear how he handles polishing, detailing, a product line, training classes a charity calendar attached to a golf outing and of course...his family! Thank you Evan for the inspiration & amazing conversation as always!!
EP:40 Maryland Auto Spa's Carson Mangum
Carson talks to us about his addiction with alcohol and celebrating his sobriety! Carson also gives us insight again about the wonderful charity that he's a part of Driven to Cure! Please go check them out @ driventocure.org and show them some love to F CANCER!!
EP:39 "Real Life" Requires "Real Choices"!!
Paul talks to Brian about his past experiences and fighting his addiction, what motivated him to stop drinking and fail forward to a better more comfortable life.
EP: 38 Finding Inspiration in Others (Good or Bad)
Paul Springer and I talk about some of the things that have inspired us along the way and how stepping back and having conversation with yourself can actually change the direction of your life!
EP:37 Raven Roman from Trinity Car Care
Raven talks about starting a waterless washing company called InsideOut Wash and transitioning into her new company Trinity Car Care. Raven talks about some of the benefits to a waterless wash and how she used those methods to grow and build a business.
EP:36 JG, JG & GG, BP & JB
On this episode we take a listen to Josh Garner (Overdrive Detail), Jerry & Gabbee Grant (MR Detailworx), Myself & Justin Bonnett (Detailersproducts.com) catching up from previous episodes and talking about the growth that has come in our businesses since implementing new ideas and strategies.
EP:35 Part 2 Danny Cano from Elegant Auto Detailing
Danny Cano from Elegant Auto Detailing in New York talks to us about his growth since we last talked to him in 2019. Danny talks about his family and how he's transitioned from mobile detailing to having a shop and being able to shut down and enjoy his work/life/family balance.
EP:34 Carson Mangum from Maryland Auto Spa
Carson Mangum from Maryland Auto Spa & Shine Supply Maryland talks about his beginnings as a mobile detailer and growing into a larger location as a shop owner. Carson has trained with Detail King, Jeremy Stevens from Shine Supply and Renny Doyle where Carson became a member of the Air force One Detailing Team. Carson is also a huge supporter of the Cancer fighting organization driventocure.org, after you listen to this episode go check it out and become a supporter yourself!! Thank you for being a part of The Detail Rag community!!
EP:33 Moving forward with Justin from Detailersproducts.com
Moving forward with the Podcast seems to be the direction "we" want to go!! The infamous Justin Bonnett from Detailersproducts.com and I have decided to team up on the podcast to bring more content, more information, more positivity to the show and of course bring more people together!! Hope you will join us on this journey of life we call "Detailing" and let us help you "Share the Shine"
EP:32 Dustin Nutt from Solutions Auto Detailing
Dustin from Solutions Auto Detailing in Eaton, Ohio talks about his start in the Auto Body world and painting semi-trucks. Dustin is following through with his passion of detailing after many years in the Auto Body industry. Dustin is a full-time engineer by trade and has created a lucrative side hustle by opening Solutions Auto Detailing!
EP:31 The Crew from DetailersProducts.com Justin, Will, Kelsey & Zach
EP:30 Marcy Tran from Detail Masters Academy
Dylan Kelly from Restoration Detailing
Dylan Kelly has been detailing full time for approximately 4 years. Dylan details anything from cars to boats to semi-trucks and trailers. Dylan talks about the benefit of being honest and transparent in your business. Dylan speaks about his future endeavors as not only a growing business, but also about being one of the newest Shine Supply dealers. Go shop Shine Supply Long Island!!
Holiday Episode with Jerry Grant & Josh Garner
Jerry Grant from MR Detailworx and Josh Garner from Overdrive Detail talk about the start of their full-time detailing journey's at the same time because of each other's inspiration. Both have been detailing approximately 7 months and are thankful for being influenced by each other.
"Shootin' the Shine" with Sprenger #3
Jerry Grant from MR DetailWorx w/special guest Justin Wise
Jerry Grant from MR DetailWorx started his journey as a full time detailer in May of this year! Jerry talks about why he started detailing and where he wants to grow his business!
"60 Seconds of Shine" #5
Tyler Gravatt from Shine Freak Apparel shares another helpful tip, trick & helpful hint about using an eraser while detailing!
Tanner Kraft from Above Expectations Car Care
Tanner talks about growing up on a farm in Fargo North Dakota, his move to Savannah Georgia and marketing to Country Clubs. Tanner also introduces his 80lb Dalmatian Beau to The Detail Rag community!!
Morgan de Vries from Shine Supply
Morgan de Vries talks about being born and raised in New Jersey, traveling to Ventura California for Shine Supply training and landing a new job with Jeremy Stevens. https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
Ahmad Alley from A2 Details
Ahmad talks about working at his family's bakery, learning to detail at a carwash and secretly leaving college to build a full-time mobile operation. https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
"Shootin' the Shine" with Sprenger #2
Paul Sprenger talks about detailing at Barrett-Jackson and how building personal relationships in detailing is crucial to your business. https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
Steve Printup from Showcase Reconditioning
Steve talks about his detailing career & being nominated as Mr. Gtechniq 2021 at the Serum Summit. https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
Dujuan Gibson from HD Shine Details
Dujuan Gibson shares his story of deciding between welding & Detailing!! https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
Justin Bonnett from Detailersproducts.com
Justin Bonnett talks about starting detailersproducts.com and what they have to offer detailers as far as product & community! https://detailersproducts.com/?ref=thedetailrag
"60 Seconds of Shine" #4
Josh Garner from Overdrive Detail
Josh Garner from Overdrive Detail talks about planting the part-time seeds for a foundation to full-time detailing!!
"60 Seconds of Shine" #3
Jamie the Cleaner
"60 Seconds of Shine" #2
"Shootin' the Shine" with Sprenger #1
"60 Seconds of Shine" #1
Tyler Gravatt of Shine Freak Apparel brings us tips,tricks & helpful hints about snow removal.