Shed Geek Podcast
The Shed Geek Podcast offers an in depth analysis of the ever growing and robust Shed Industry. Listeners will experience a variety of guests who identify or specialize in particular niche areas of the Shed Industry. You will be engaged as you hear amateur and professional personalities discuss topics such as: Shed hauling, sales, marketing, Rent to Own, shed history, shed faith, and much more. Host Shannon Latham is a self proclaimed "Shed Geek" who attempts to take you through discussions that are as exciting as the industry itself. Listeners of this podcast include those who play a role directly or indirectly with the Shed Industry itself.
Episodes
463 episodes
Shed Hauling Meets YouTube
A shed delivery can look like “back it in and drop it” until you’re staring at a West Virginia slope with a truckload of blocks and no margin for error. We’re joined by Dustin Schwartz from DR Transport and the
2026 Shed Sales Summit
Chick-fil-A didn’t become a powerhouse by accident, and we’re bringing that same kind of disciplined thinking to the shed industry. Peter Miller joins us to talk about the Shed Sales Summit in Knoxvill...
How A Shed Builder Grows A Following With Simple Video
A shed builder with a phone camera should not be able to compete with big budgets, yet Jeremy Yoder, better known as Pro Shed Builder, has built an audience of roughly 350,000 across TikTok,...
How CGI Makes Sheds Look At Home
Your sheds can be built like a premium product and still get judged like a commodity if the photos don’t match. From the first scroll on Google to the first click on your website, buyers are making fast decisions about trust, craftsmanship, and...
A 3D Tiny Home Design Tool Helps Builders Quote Faster
A customer walks onto your site dreaming about an ADU or tiny home, then leaves because the process feels unclear, risky, or impossible to price. We want to fix that gap. From Metropolis, Illinois, we’re joined by Till Buch, co-founder of
From Food Distribution To Custom Shed Sales
A great shed lot doesn’t win by accident, and neither does a great salesperson. Ron Romeo from Ultimate Structures joins us to share how he went from a 24-7 career in food distribution to bui...
How Graceland Is Rebuilding The Shed Business For A Tougher Market PART 2
The shed business can look fine on paper right up until the cash dries up and the lot turns into a museum of aging inventory. We get blunt about what is changing in the portable buildings world, why some companies are quietly heading toward a s...
How Graceland Is Rebuilding The Shed Business For A Tougher Market PART 1
The shed business looks simple from the outside, but the inside math is getting brutal. More competitors are fighting for a market that is not growing at the same pace, cities are tightening planning and zoning, and customers expect a cleaner o...
An Ode To The Luddites
AI is everywhere, but the shed industry doesn’t get points for being first. Cord Koch goes solo for a candid, ground-level take on why slow adoption can be smart, especially when the hype cycle is louder than the results. If you’ve felt pressur...
Build A Simple HR Foundation That Protects Your Shop
HR is one of those topics everyone avoids until something breaks. We wanted to change that, so we brought on Kerri Roberts of Salt and Light Advisors to talk about human resources for small an...
What If Your Business Cash Could Grow Twice
Most shed pro's don’t have a work ethic problem, they have a money education problem. When margins tighten, inventory sits longer, and the cost of capital climbs, the small leaks get loud. We bring on Luke Miller from
Trademark Protection For Growing Brands
A great brand can be stolen quietly, one search result at a time, until your customers can’t tell who’s real anymore. That’s why we sit down with trademark attorney Justin Clark, who helps business owner...
A Better Rent-To-Own System PART 2
RTO data can feel like a buzzkill until you realize it can answer the questions that decide your next decade: how fast customers actually pay off, where delinquency really comes from, what repossessions do to returns, and how confident you can ...
A Better Rent-To-Own System PART 1
The shed rent-to-own world runs on numbers, but too many operators are forced to manage on guesses because the data shows up late, scattered, or trapped in legacy systems. We sit down with Duane and Leann Burkholder of
A Shed Builder’s Month Rebuilding Homes In Ukraine
A month in a war-torn village will change how you hear the words “need” and “want.” Today we sit down with Willy Bricker of North Mountain Structures (Chambersburg, PA) to talk about taking his...
How Much Revenue Are You Losing To Silence
Most shed businesses don’t have a lead quality problem. They have a response problem. We sit down with the teams behind ShedPro and
The Future Of Shed Industry Media
Your next customer is learning how to buy a shed or a building from 30-second clips, not from a brochure, and that shift is already rewriting the rules for portable buildings, steel buildings, and post-frame sales. We sit down with Jared Ledfor...
The Secret RTO Strategy Is Answering The Phone
Rent-to-own sheds can look like a numbers game from the outside, but the real differentiator is often painfully unglamorous: answering the phone, keeping your word, and treating people like humans. I’m joined by Titus Hofer and Josh Hosey to ta...
Brand Awareness That Sells
If your marketing feels stuck in an endless loop of “more spend, same results,” this conversation is for you. I sit down with Dillan Hart from BHC Group to get brutally practical about what’s working right no...
Shed Financing That Actually Fits
Cash buyers are great, but they’re not the whole market, and “cash only” is a fast way to watch good leads walk off your lot. We sit down with Joel Oney from J Money to get practical about s...
What If Every Shed Lot Fed A Town?
A self-serve “farmacy” that’s really a row of sheds selling fresh milled bread, local meat, eggs, raw milk, honey, and natural soap sounds like a gimmick until you hear the numbers, the traffic, and the community response. We sit down with Matt...
Color Choices Shape What Buyers Notice First
Color is doing more work in the shed industry than most of us want to admit, and it’s usually the first thing a buyer notices on a dealer lot. We sit down with Jamie White and Ruthanne Hanlon from Pittsburgh Paints to unpack how color trends re...
What If Your Follow-Up System Matters More Than Your Leads
Facebook Marketplace can feel like an endless stream of “Is this still available?” messages and half-interested shoppers. I sit down with shed dealer and Digital Shed founder Caleb Becker to show a differe...
What If Your Best Lead Filter Is Truth
Price shoppers aren’t your enemy. They’re your mirror. When buyers only know “shed” as a plastic box from Amazon or a big-box kit, your best-built structure will look overpriced no matter how pretty the photos are. So, we sit down with Izaak Ne...