Eric Tilghman, CEO of Tilghman Builders, welcomes back an old face on this episode of the Built Different Podcast: Bernie McCarthy, a lead carpenter who left the company nearly a decade ago – and just rejoined the team.
Bernie opens up about why he left back then, what pulled him back now, and how the company has transformed in the years since. The conversation turns into a bigger reflection on almost 40 years in the trades: why culture matters more than any process, why "the bedrock is the people," and what it means to spend the final chapter of a career trying to leave something behind.
It's an honest, unscripted conversation about construction, loyalty, and building a business people actually want to come back to.
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