How a Roofing Couple Rebuilt Their Lives and Legacy
About this episode
It highlights a powerful personal transformation from addiction to purpose while emphasizing both their business and family legacy, creating emotional curiosity for entrepreneurs and couples alike.
LONG DESCRIPTION:
Robert and Jessica Schulze, founders of Burish Builders, share how faith, family, and resilience become the foundation for rebuilding both a business and a life. After overcoming addiction, navigating recovery, and taking a leap into the roofing industry, they build a company rooted in integrity, customer trust, and shared purpose. Together, they reveal what it takes to run a successful family business, balance marriage with entrepreneurship, and transform hardship into lasting impact. From roofing sales and business leadership to recovery, construction, and servant leadership, this conversation explores the mindset required to build something that matters long after the work is done.
Key Takeaways
- Overcoming addiction can become the foundation for building a meaningful life and business.
- Shared values strengthen both a marriage and a family-run company.
- Integrity and customer trust create long-term success in the roofing and construction industry.
- Great leadership comes from serving people rather than chasing profits.
- Personal healing and purpose can turn painful experiences into a lasting legacy.
Notable Quotes
- "It's not over until I win."
- "We just try to get up there and help people. That's the goal."
- "The same values we bring into our family, we incorporate into our business."
- "The business is another child."
- "I'm not going to waste this second, third, fourth, fifth chance that God's given me."
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