Welcome to Built With Purpose!

Season 1

Dec. 9, 2025

How Servant Leadership Builds Better Companies | Burton Hackney

Episode Summary In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Burton Hackney, President of JORIS, one of Texas’s most respected and long-standing construction companies. Across a candid, energizing conv...

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Dec. 2, 2025

Between the Builds: The Advantage of Being Close to the Problem

In this Between the Builds episode of Built With Purpose, Chris Fay reflects on his recent conversation with Landon Messal, Founder & CEO of SiteMarker, and digs into one big theme: the people closest to the problem are usual...

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Nov. 25, 2025

The Truth About Innovation in AEC | Landon Messal

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Landon Messal, Founder & CEO of Site Marker, for a deep, forward-looking conversation about technology, process, and purpose inside the AEC...

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Nov. 18, 2025

Between the Builds: The Hidden Power of True Servant Leadership

Episode Summary: In this episode of Between the Builds, host Chris Fay reflects on last week’s conversation with Al Petrangeli, diving deeper into one of the most foundational principles of effective leadership: servant leade...

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Nov. 11, 2025

How Grit and Grace Built a Billion-Dollar Culture | Al Petrangeli

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Al Petrangeli, COO at Carroll Daniel Construction and former CEO of Balfour Beatty’s Southeast Region, to explore what it takes to lead wit...

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Nov. 4, 2025

Between the Builds: Letting Go to Grow

Episode Summary: In this episode of Between the Builds, host Chris Fay reflects on his conversation with Tony Iannessa, Founder and CEO of BIG Construction, to explore one of the hardest truths in leadership. Sometimes the th...

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Oct. 28, 2025

The Founder Who’s Changing How the World Sees Construction | Tony Ian…

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Tony Iannessa, Founder and CEO of BIG Construction, to explore what it takes to build a high-performing, values-driven company from the gro...

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Oct. 21, 2025

Between the Builds: The Power of Connection and Real-Time Recognition

Episode Summary: In this Between the Builds reflection, host Chris Fay reflects on his recent conversation with Chris Dornfeld, co-founder of Whistle Rewards which was acquired by One10 where he now serves as Executive Vice P...

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Oct. 14, 2025

Behind Motivation: Chris Dornfeld on How Micro-Rewards Are Rewiring t…

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Chris Dornfeld. At the time of recording Dornfield was the President and Co-Founder of Whistle Rewards, which has since been acquired by On...

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Oct. 7, 2025

Between the Builds: How Experiences Shape the Path to Leadership

Episode Summary: In this Between the Builds reflection, host Chris Fay looks back on his conversation with Maor Farid, founder and CEO of Leo AI, and unpacks a powerful theme: the way our lived experiences, both triumphs and ...

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Sept. 30, 2025

Heart Driven Innovation in the Age of AI with Maor Farid

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Maor Farid, co-founder of Leo AI, to explore how artificial intelligence, military discipline, and heart-centered leadership are reshaping ...

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Sept. 23, 2025

Between the Builds: Why Listening to Customers (and Your Team) Fuels …

Summary: In this second installment of Between the Builds, host Chris Fay digs deeper into a theme that resonated in a recent conversation with Ryan Suydam and Tim Asimos from Client Savvy; the power of listening. Drawing fro...

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Sept. 16, 2025

Client Experience and Growth with Ryan Suydam & Tim Asimos

Episode Summary: In this episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay sits down with Ryan Suydam, co-founder of Client Savvy and now CX Architect at ClearlyRated, and Tim Asimos, Head of Growth at Client Savvy, to unpack how...

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Sept. 9, 2025

Between the Builds: Leadership Transitions, 100-Day Plans, and Buildi…

Episode Summary: In this first Between the Builds segment, host Chris Fay reflects on key lessons from his conversation with Chad Cousins, CEO of McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture, and shares his own insights from stepping i...

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