Filthy Rich Cleaners: The Cleaning Business Podcast

#189: Why Stephanie Finally Bought a Building for Her Cleaning Business

Serene Clean has rented every office it had for 7.5 years. Then a listing went up with no sign out front yet, and less than two months later, Stephanie was closing on a c

#188: Leah Izadi on Mental Health and Why Your Worth Isn’t Your Workload

What happens when your whole sense of worth comes from how hard you work, and then your body stops letting you work? In this mental health episode, Stephanie sits down wi

#187: The Sh*t Stephanie Didn’t Expect Owning a Cleaning Business

Stephanie dressed up as a poop emoji for Halloween 💩 It fits, because this episode is all about the sh*t she didn’t expect when she opened her cleaning business. 7.5 year

#186: Going From Solo Cleaner to First Hire, with Ashley O'Keeffe

Ashley O’Keeffe’s cleaning business is growing so fast she’s about to start turning down work. She’s never hired a W-2 employee who stayed, yet she has to quote the bigge

#185: Was CleanCon Worth It? My Biggest Takeaways From Austin

Stephanie just got back from CleanCon Austin 2026, and Serene Clean is already running differently because of it.   In this solo episode, Stephanie breaks down her bigg

#184: Inside Crime Scene & Hoarding Cleanup, with Alex Philbrick

⚠️ Content advisory: This episode includes discussion of suicide, death, violent crime, and blood cleanup. Listener discretion is advised.   If you or someone you know

#183: Rebecca Emberson on Vacation Rentals, Party Houses, & Saying No

What happens when your ex-husband opens a competing cleaning company with almost the same name as yours? Rebecca Emberson went through just that, but she kept her busines

#182: How Allison Diamond Built a Cleaning Business on Systems from Day One

Everyone says cleaning is a "low-cost of entry" business, but Allison Diamond found out the hard way that's only true when you're the one doing the cleaning. In this epis

#181: Should You Buy a Cleaning Company? Do Your Due Diligence

A cleaning company can look profitable on paper and still lose money on nearly every job. Before you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a business, you need to kno

#180: How to Hand Off Clients Without Losing Them, with Meghan Caicedo

Meghan Caicedo went from crying after shifts at a senior home to running her own cleaning company with her husband — and getting booked solid just four months after makin

#179: Update On Our Transition to Flat Rate: Numbers and Lessons Learned

Raising prices on 97 clients sounds terrifying...until you see the numbers 👀 In this solo episode, Stephanie answers listener Lorraine's question about how Serene Clean's

#178: How to Win Apartment Building Cleaning Contracts, with Nick Spagnolo

What do you do when a hotel calls and needs 10–15 cleaners a day, seven days a week, and you only have until the weekend to deliver? If you're Nick Spagnolo, you hit the

#177: Stop Letting Your Business Live in One Person's Head

What happens to your cleaning business when your key employee goes on vacation for a week or two? For a lot of owners, things break. That's why in this episode, Stephanie

#176: How Dave Camenga Built a Thriving Janitorial Business with 30+ Cleaners

Dave Camenga started cleaning houses in fifth grade (yes, really). 11 years later, he owns a thriving commercial janitorial company in Baltimore with 30 cleaners and hund

#175: Every Software I Use to Run My Cleaning Business

What software does it actually take to run a $100K+/month cleaning business? In this episode of Filthy Rich Cleaners, Stephanie goes through every single tool she pays fo

#174: How Cold Calling Built This Commercial Cleaning Business

Ty Severa is a former dispatcher and police officer who walked away from a guaranteed pension to build a 98% commercial cleaning company staffed by first responders and t

#173: Why We Turned Down a $50,000 Cleaning Account

A national big-box retailer offered Serene Clean a $50k-a-year account to clean three bathrooms. Easy work, centrally located, daytime hours, yet Stephanie declined to bi

#172: How Courtney Nunes Got to 18 Cleaners in Under 2 Years

Courtney Nunes' first cleaning job was a 6,000-square-foot house, and she cried after working it for 12 hours straight. Two years later, she has 18 cleaners and is pullin

#171: Having Difficult Conversations With Your Employees

No one likes confrontation, but sometimes it's necessary. In this solo episode, Stephanie shares the pattern she sees in nearly every consulting call and also recognizes

#170: Behind the Scenes of Shaquille Richards's Luxury High-Rise Cleaning Business

A client claimed a 15-carat ring vanished from under a shampoo bottle, but little did they know that Shaquille spent 15 years as a fraud investigator. In this episode, Sh