His wife was six months pregnant with their first child when he quit a good job to start on his own. “I was scared of failing — but the fear of not trying was bigger.”

Chris Coghlan sits down with Junior Davis, founder of Junior Davis Construction, to discuss going from a worn-out 1973 loader and a used dump truck to 1,700 people and a billion dollars in backlog — without ever leaving ten Florida counties. From parking equipment and building fences during a downturn to trading nights of wrenching on cars for repairs to his machines, Junior breaks down four decades of self-performing heavy civil work — and the culture he credits for making it work