The Commercial Landscaper Podcast

Hosted by Robert Clinkenbeard

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Sep 2026

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The journey of an entrepreneur, replete with the challenges of self-belief, vulnerability, and consistency, can often feel overwhelming. "The Commercial Landscaper Podcast" hosted by Robert Clinkenbeard, is designed to elevate your entrepreneurial mindset. Robert offers a fresh perspective that ensures you never feel isolated in your journey, instilling a firm belief that you not only deserve success but are fully capable of achieving it. Through twenty-minute weekly episodes, his podcast features interviews with global experts to maintain a well-rounded perspective on all aspects of your life, both personal and professional. The content is both highly relatable and motivating, empowering listeners to take decisive steps as emerging business pioneers.

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September 9, 202632 min

Interview with Neal Glatt, Founder & CEO of Neal Glatt Sales & Strategy

Neal Glatt is a sales and leadership coach, trainer, and speaker who helps green industry organizations scale revenue and profit through better hiring, stronger systems, and improved execution. He brings real-world credibility from his role on the leadership team at Case Snow Management, which he joined in 2010 and helped grow the business from a single pickup truck to more than $40 million in annual revenue in just seven years. After leading the sales effort as part of the leadership team, Neal launched his own coaching practice in 2017. Today, he works with companies to coach sales leaders, hire high-performing B2B salespeople, and train frontline retail staff to consistently convert opportunity into revenue. Neal is a Certified Strengths Coach through Gallup and a John Maxwell Certified Coach, Speaker, and Trainer. He holds bachelor's degrees in Marketing and Spanish from Northern Michigan University and a Global Executive MBA from SKEMA Business School.

September 2, 202629 min

Interview with Michael Montenaro, CEO of Yardmaster

Mike Montenaro is the CEO of Yardmaster, Inc., where he leads the company's growth, innovation, and commitment to helping customers create and maintain exceptional outdoor spaces. With extensive experience in business leadership and customer-focused operations, Mike has played a key role in strengthening Yardmaster's reputation for quality service, industry expertise, and trusted relationships. Passionate about entrepreneurship, leadership, and delivering value to customers, Mike focuses on building high-performing teams and driving sustainable business growth. On the podcast, he shares insights on leadership, business development, and the strategies that have helped shape Yardmaster's continued success.

August 26, 202635 min

Interview with Kayla Lujan, Founder & Head Coach of GRiT³, Green Industry Talent

Kayla Lujan didn't plan on a career in the green industry. After graduating with degrees in marketing and sports management and spending two years in professional sports, she found herself in transition and took a temporary position on a flower crew in Virginia Beach earning $8.15 an hour. What started as a stopgap became a 17-year career that took her from gardener to VP of Sales, moving through field operations, account management, business development and eventually leading a sales team of her own. What set Kayla apart wasn't just her ability to sell. It was that she understood the business from the ground up. She knew what ops needed, how the field worked, and what it actually took to deliver on what she promised a client. That operational foundation shaped how she led, how she coached, and how she thought about developing the people around her. Through every role she kept noticing the same thing: the people who struggled weren't struggling because they lacked talent or drive. They were struggling because no one was intentionally coaching them. That experience is what led her to found GRiT³, Green Industry Talent, a placement, training, and coaching company built exclusively for commercial landscape sales professionals and leaders. GRiT³ connects companies with the right talent and stays involved through structured training and coaching because Kayla believes the hire is only the beginning. Her philosophy is simple: attitude first, skills second, and development never stops.

August 19, 202641 min

Interview with Jack Jostes, CEO of Ramblin Jackson

Jack Jostes is the CEO of Ramblin Jackson , The Snow and Landscape Marketing Agency that helps landscaping companies throughout the United States attract more qualified customers with professional branding, direct response marketing, sales consulting, website design, and search engine optimization. The author of The Tree of Good Fortune , Jack hosts *The Landscaper's Guide to Modern Sales & Marketing*, a weekly video podcast and YouTube show covering sales, marketing, and leadership for the green industry, ranked in the top 25% of all podcasts on Buzzsprout. He regularly speaks on AI, sales, and digital marketing at major green industry conferences including the ProGreen EXPO, Farwest Show, NALP, TNLA's Nursery Landscape EXPO, and state association and landscape supplier events. He lives in the foothills of Colorado with his wife and two boys, where he enjoys homeschooling, playing bluegrass mandolin, fly fishing, bowhunting, and spending time in the great outdoors. Learn more about Jack's new book, The Tree of Good Fortune .

August 12, 202634 min

Interview with Christopher Thacker, Founder & CEO of CrewVision and Mr. Mow It All, President & CEO of Purple Rentals, and Vice Chair of SIMA

Christopher Thacker is the founder and CEO of CrewVision, a map-native dispatch platform built for landscape and snow removal companies. He got his start in the industry at 12 years old, shovelling walkways and mowing lawns, and today owns and operates Mr. Mow It All, a roughly $10M property care and snow removal company in Toronto. The business serves as CrewVision's live proving ground, where every feature is tested by real crews, on real routes, under real operational pressure before it ships. CrewVision is built around a simple belief: any crew should be able to service any property, at any time, and know exactly what needs to be done. The knowledge that keeps a company running can't stay trapped in one person's head, one veteran operator's memory, or a pile of job notes. It needs to live on the map, where the people doing the work can actually see it, trust it, and use it. Christopher also serves as Vice Chair of SIMA and is an advocate for field-first software: tools designed around crews in the field, not just managers in the office.

August 5, 202638 min

Interview with Josh McMillan, President and CEO of Roebuck Landscaping

Josh McMillan is the President and CEO of Roebuck Landscaping, a company he has spent more than 30 years building from the ground up. Starting in the field and working through every level of business: operations, estimating, management, and executive leadership. Josh has transformed a small family-owned landscape business in Upstate South Carolina into one of the fastest growing landscape companies in the Southeast. His expertise spans commercial landscape construction and maintenance, preconstruction and estimating, business development, financial discipline, labor efficiency, and long-term strategic planning. Over the last two years, Josh has led Roebuck Landscaping into a new era of intentional growth and disciplined scale, completing the company's first acquisition of The Greathouse Company in Nashville, developing new branch models, and building leadership pipelines designed to support a multi-state footprint. A hands-on, people-first leader, Josh refuses to sacrifice culture or quality for growth, grounding every decision in Roebuck Landscaping's Core Values: Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, Determination, and Passion. His vision is clear — to build one of the largest and most respected landscape companies in the Southeastern United States!

July 29, 202630 min

Interview with Bryan Clayton, CEO and Co-Founder of GreenPal

Bryan Clayton started mowing lawns as a teenager with a push mower. Twenty years later, he's the CEO of GreenPal — the app Entrepreneur Magazine calls the Uber for lawn care. Before GreenPal, Bryan built one of Tennessee's largest landscaping companies, growing it to over $10 million a year before selling it. Now he's doing it again — this time with technology. GreenPal connects 300,000 homeowners with reliable lawn pros, handling thousands of jobs every day all over the US. Bryan's on a mission to bring AI into one of the oldest industries out there — helping small lawn care businesses use data and automation to compete like big companies. From pushing a mower to building a $30 million tech platform, Bryan's story is all about grit, adaptation, and how old-school hard work can thrive in a high-tech world.

July 22, 202625 min

Interview with John Butler, Commercial Division Manager at Milosi Landscape

John Butler is a landscape operations executive and Branch Manager at Milosi, where he leads the Hendersonville Maintenance Branch and supports strategic growth across multiple service lines. His work focuses on building high-performing teams, improving operational efficiency, strengthening client experience, and developing scalable systems that support sustainable branch growth across Middle Tennessee. John's career combines entrepreneurship, field experience, and executive leadership. Before joining Milosi, he spent nearly 14 years building and operating his own landscape company, giving him a practical understanding of both the hands-on and strategic sides of the industry. Today, his leadership centers on developing people, creating accountability systems, improving service consistency, and aligning teams around disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and long-term growth.

July 15, 202627 min

Interview with Michael Bellows, Co-Founder and CEO of GoMaterials

Michael Bellows is the Co-Founder and CEO of GoMaterials. A seasoned entrepreneur, he has built and led high-performing teams across Fortune 100 companies and his own ventures, driving growth at the intersection of technology and company culture. Under his leadership, GoMaterials has become one of North America's fastest-growing companies, earning consistent recognition for innovation and business performance.

July 8, 202627 min

Interview with Ryan Markewich, Founder of Creative Roots Landscaping | Business Coach at RMark Coaching

Ryan Markewich is a landscape entrepreneur and business advisor based in Kelowna, British Columbia. He founded Creative Roots Landscaping over 30 years ago and has since transitioned the company to an employee ownership model, selling 85% of the business to key team members. For nearly two decades, Ryan has operated using open-book management, building a highly engaged team that understands the financials and participates in improving them. Today, Creative Roots is known for its strong culture, leadership development, and long-term approach to ownership and succession. Ryan now works with a small number of companies as a strategic advisor, helping owners improve profitability and build more resilient, people-centered businesses. His focus is simple: when more people understand how the business works and have a stake in the outcome, better decisions get made. He spends part of the year in Mexico, is actively involved in developing future leaders, and continues to explore how transparency, structure, and shared ownership can change the way companies operate.