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From Candy Bars to Cleaning Empires: Dom Williams on Systems, Mindset & Multiple Revenue Streams

From Candy Bars to Cleaning Empires: Dom Williams on Systems, Mindset & Multiple Revenue Streams

Update: 2025-05-29
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Serial entrepreneur Dom Williams sits down with the Blue-Collar Twins to reveal how a kid running county-wide candy routes now leads a 200-employee cleaning company, owns drive-thru “drink barns,” flips HUD rentals, and is launching a lounge—while coaching other service-business owners past the six- and seven-figure ceiling.



You’ll hear:



  • Early Hustle → Corporate Wake-Up – the Wall Street layoff that pushed Dom full time and helped CNC Cleaning hit $1 M in six months.
  • Play Business for Life – treating strategy like a game and using daily “pulse meetings” to keep the scorecard honest.
  • Systems over Self – Sears-inspired SOPs that let a 200-person team run without him on site.
  • Numbers that Matter – cash-flow detective work, margin targets (25 % residential; 15 % commercial), and the bank-balance myth.
  • Diversifying the Right Way – acquiring Lexi’s Drink Barn, scaling HUD duplexes, and threading Indiana’s liquor-law maze to open Demure Lounge.
  • Coaching Corner – the common blind spots for $500 k–$1 M service firms and Dom’s framework for moving owners from operator to architect.


Stick around for a quick CTA to Paul Giannamore’s Private-Equity Masterclass playlist—and start “playing business” on a bigger board.






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https://youtu.be/HAx9noqsqTo



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https://bluecollartwins.com



Produced by: www.verbell.ltd



Timestamps (podcast.co-ready)



00:00 – Cold-open: Dom on systems that let owners step away



00:35 – Jason & Jeremy introduce Dom, the serial entrepreneur



01:40 – Fast rundown of CNC Cleaning, Lexi’s Drink Barn, real estate & Demure Lounge



02:30 – Candy-bar syndicate at 12: first taste of leverage



03:50 – High-school expansion: five schools selling for him



05:00 – Dropping a clothing line; choosing cleaning for low entry & recurring revenue



06:50 – Year-one grind: two day jobs + night QC on homes



08:50 – Cash-flow crises and selling his way out



11:00 – Corporate layoff → full-time leap; $1 M revenue in six months



14:00 – Chrysler-300 moment: “I’ll never work for anyone again”



15:30 – SOPs inspired by Sears, Avis & Verizon



17:30 – Power of industry conferences and peer networks



18:50 – Manifestation & mindset: believing before scaling



19:50 – Coaching clients: testing belief, fixing data first



20:25 – Reading P&Ls correctly; COGS-to-revenue benchmarks



21:30 – Buying a duplex (the “dupy”) and house-hacking advice



24:00 – HUD rentals, vetting tenants, and guaranteed checks



25:30 – Cleaning margins: 25 % residential vs 15 % commercial



26:50 – Acquiring Lexi’s Drink Barn; lifting average ticket size



28:10 – Launching Demure Lounge under Indiana’s beer-and-wine rules



29:50 – Economic headwinds: residential leads dip, commercial steady



30:30 – Monday pulse meetings: KPIs, accountability, real-time fixes



31:20 – Future vision: build, exit, repeat—never stop “playing business”



32:00 – New coaching program: from in-the-business to on-the-business



32:50 – Contact Dom at domwilliams.com; socials



33:20 – Outro & Masterclass CTA

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From Candy Bars to Cleaning Empires: Dom Williams on Systems, Mindset & Multiple Revenue Streams

From Candy Bars to Cleaning Empires: Dom Williams on Systems, Mindset & Multiple Revenue Streams