The Business of Cleaning
A cleaning industry podcast focused on helping connect you to other professionals in the industry as well as provide educational recourses for you to better manage your cleaning operations.
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Meet The Host:
TIm Clagg
Podcast Host
Tim started his broadcasting career when he was 15, co-hosting “Racing World,” a two-hour weekly radio show in Findlay, Ohio on WFIN 1330 AM. He attended Bowling Green State University where he studied Telecommunications, focusing on radio/TV broadcasting. While at BGSU he broadcasted games for the Bowling Green Radio Sports Organization including football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, and softball. Tim spent some time working for the local sports news station, BCSN, before coming to Double A Solutions as our Marketing Communications Specialist.
Featured Guest:
J. Darrel Hicks, BA, MESRE
Owner/Principal of Safe, Clean, and Disinfected
J. Darrel Hicks, BA, MESRE, Certificate of Mastery in Infection Prevention (for Environmental Services Professionals) is the Past President of the Healthcare Surfaces Institute. He has been a proven Housekeeping/Environmental Services leader in hospitals of 110 beds to 650 beds over his 34-year career before retiring in 2015.
Hicks is the owner/principal of Safe, Clean, and Disinfected. His enterprise specializes in B2B consulting, webinar presentations, seminars, and facility consulting services related to cleaning and disinfection.
Recent Episodes
Museum of Clean: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of the Cleaning Industry
Introduction In the mid-1980s, Grant’s father, Don Aslett, made a pivotal stop at the Edison Museum en route to a Boy Scout jamboree, where he conceived the vision of establishing a museum dedicated to cleanliness. He envisioned a space that...
From Flatline to Fresh Start: Cleaning for Health
Introduction Joel Craddock's first experience in the commercial cleaning industry came from his church, where he made $0.25 an hour. The job taught him hard work and responsibility from a young age. If he woke up, he knew that his job expected...
Connecting Company and Customer Values for Success
Introduction In 2001, Steven Harper made the decision to leave the corporate world after working for several fortune 500 companies. He chose to start his own commercial cleaning company, Spectrum Building Services of America. His goal was to...