KCB Boiler Room Podcast
By: Kevin Cradock Builders
Language: en-us
Categories: Business, Arts, Design, Marketing
From the After Hours to the Breakfast Clubs, host Kevin Cradock, along with his In-House Storyteller Corey Nuffer, resurrect the Boiler Room events with a hard listen to the recordings of the events. From there we pick key moments we wish we could have asked guests to say more. We’ll also record Boiler Room-adjacent episodes featuring our own team, our mill shop, and other germane content.
Episodes
Steve Siegel on Storytelling and Structural Engineering
Oct 24, 2025This past May at the Luxury Home Design Summit Steve Siegel had a bit of a “moment.” With about sixty seconds to spare at the mic, he rolled out a description of what he and his company does—structural engineering—in a way that set the room of about 400 designers, builders, architects, and trade partners abuzz. It was great writing and a great delivery, making the work of structural engineering feel like something altogether new. While KCB has worked with Steve on several projects and has known of him for decades, this experience got us thinking that we’d love to...
Duration: 01:34:22Adam Japko Discusses Risk and Positivity
Oct 10, 2025From his role as both managing partner of New England Home magazine and co-founder of the Luxury Home Design Summit, Adam Japko is a force in Boston’s build-design community. With personal interests like fishing and wine tasting rounding him out, Adam is a genuine one-of-a-kind presence. If you’ve ever been lucky enough to hear him present, you know he’s not only comfortable in front of an audience, he’s a serious thinker with a great sense of humor.
At this past Luxury Home Design Summit in Chatham, MA, we recorded one of his p...
Duration: 01:36:10Meg McSherry Discusses Builder & Designer Relationships
Sep 25, 2025On June 14th, 2023, we hosted a PRO New England panel in our Boiler Room on why builders should work with interior designers. Meg McSherry, owner and principal designer of Meg McSherry Interiors in Newton, was one of the designers on the panel.
Of all the discussions we’ve hosted, this one stuck out as not just unique but also evergreen; builders and designers are from two very different worlds. This makes the conversation really amazing when we all get together to talk it out.
We played one moment from this panel, a comment from a bu...
Duration: 01:21:36Architect Matthew Arnold Discusses Starting a New Business
Sep 12, 2025We all know Kevin loves people who put themselves out there. He won’t pass up a chance to talk with someone who is doing new things and not playing it safe. He also values people doing it the right way, with attention paid to detail and focus on an individual’s strengths.
Architect Matthew Arnold has been a familiar face in the homebuilding community. Recently, Kevin had a conversation with him where he shared that he left a firm he had been with for 15 years, to strike it out on his own. His new business is call...
Duration: 01:28:08Hard to Make: Kevin and Nate Discuss the POD or "Plan of the Day"
Aug 28, 2025This is our second episode of a new series where we do a deep dive in things that are "Hard to Make." I served in the Coast Guard. One of my takeaways was the POD or “Plan of the Day.” We’ve implemented this on our job sites, along with our project managers having their own versions. Ops man Nate McBride and I take some time to talk about what this really looks like in real time, scaled up to job sites, across the company.
And if you’d like to scroll through the KCB IG for two “KC...
Duration: 00:31:24J.B. Clancy Discusses the Architecture of Jamaica Plain
Aug 08, 2025Architect J.B. Clancy, of ART Architects, holds the record for guest spots on Boiler Room panels. Along with his work on the SUNFLOWER, an historic stick-style Victorian, J.B. shares a love of Jamaica Plain, the neighborhood in Boston that Kevin has called home most of his life. Cue: “The Renaissance of Jamaica Plain,” a panel discussion we put on during Design Week 2022. J.B. debuted “Setting the Stage: Jamaica Plain Architectural History” for this event. Since then he’s been fine-tuning his presentation, including expanding it to all of New England. This is one amazing episode, where we talk to...
Duration: 01:29:50Hard to Make: Kevin and Nate discuss “Baseline”
Jul 24, 2025Introducing a series we’re calling “Hard to Make.” This is a story Kevin’s been wanting to tell for decades, the culmination of a lifetime of experiences as a carpenter, woodworker, and general contractor. And so periodically, we’ll drop one of these short episodes into the feed.
Our first episode has to do with the concept of “baseline,” as discussed in Jason Schroeder’s book, The Art of the Builder: Elevating Construction Superintendents. KCB Director of Construction Nate McBride had gifted this book to Kevin who, after reading it thought, “Okay...
Duration: 00:34:22Josh Muncey Discusses Jamaica Plain
Jul 10, 2025As part of Boston’s Design Week 2022, Kevin Cradock Builders assembled a panel discussion titled, “The Renaissance of Jamaica Plain.” One of the panelists was Josh Muncey, owner of the home called the Paragon, a Kevin Cradock Builders renovation project. Josh shared moments from that experience working with Kevin, along with his thoughts about Jamaica Plain. In addition to being a resident of Jamaica Plain for almost twenty years, Josh is the founder and leader of The Muncey Group real estate agency and founder of The Welcome Home Fund, a group that helps first-generation homebuyers of color make their downpa...
Duration: 01:26:30Jim Gauthier Discusses Pride
Jun 20, 2025In our first special bonus episode, we have Jim Gauthier to talk about Boston Pride, along with his own coming out story and more. Of course, we also asked for Jim’s Pride mixtape rundown, and Jim did NOT disappoint, including a special cinematic shoutout to The Birdcage.
Duration: 01:11:13Jim Gauthier Discusses New Ventures
Jun 12, 2025When you are lucky to know someone professionally for nearly 30 years, a bond gets formed. In the case of Kevin and Jim Gauthier, anyone can see how strong their relationship is when they get together. Their openness and comfort with one another really comes through in this wonderful conversation from the Boiler Room. And just wait until you hear them harmonize!
Jim covers a lot of ground in this episode and yet we know there is still plenty more to discuss.
For now, we were happy to hear him recount stories about his first job...
Duration: 01:40:51Tiffany LeBlanc Discusses Company Culture
May 30, 2025Company culture and how to make it better is a perennial, ever-changing topic in the Boston build-design community. In December of 2024 we assembled a panel of principles—builder, interior designer, and landscape architect, to go deep on the topic of company culture. Tiffany LeBlanc contributed a lot to the discussion, from her position as the founder of Tiffany LeBlanc Design. With Kevin moderating the conversation, we heard some interesting stories and granular examples of how company culture plays a role in each of their businesses.
Tiffany was a great podcast guest in this follow-up chat. Her combination of...
Duration: 01:20:51PRESENTATION: “Beyond AI: Visioning Design & Construction in 2030” by Michael Oh
May 23, 2025Last November Michael Oh, founder and president of TSP Smart Spaces, gave a presentation in the Boiler Room titled, “Beyond AI: Visioning Design & Construction in 2030.” We had Michael back to the Boiler Room to follow up with questions, which we aired last week in Episode 3 of the KCB Boiler Room Podcast.
This week we’re airing his original presentation on AI. If you’re in construction, design, architecture, or just want to better understand what artificial intelligence is, this presentation is for you. Thanks, everyone!
PS. Since this recording, Kevin has used AI and has much more...
Michael Oh Discusses AI
May 15, 2025Of all the panels we’ve hosted, this one on artificial intelligence and predicting what the future, felt like the one that was most in need of a follow up, especially because the speaker is one of the most down-to-earth while simultaneously brilliant and charming people you’ll ever come across, Michael Oh, founder and president of TSP Smart Spaces.
The three moments in Michael’s presentation that we most wanted to revisit:
the moment during his presentation when he talked about how few people ever ask him what generative AI is the scary “5 people will do what 20... Duration: 01:10:57PANEL: Why Work With An Interior Designer?
May 07, 2025We’re re-airing one of our first Boiler Room panel discussions ever, titled “Why work with an interior designer?” It was also a formal PRO New England meeting, and if you’re not a member, consider joining.
We recently had Kristin Rivoli on the Podcast to revisit this panel. In doing so, we realized that this panel discussion was so good it deserves becoming an episode.
Not all builders have worked with an interior designer. Others don’t quite know how to even get into contact with one. This panel addressed that head on. There were also...
Duration: 01:23:56Kristen Rivoli Discusses Interior Design
Apr 30, 2025Two years after a panel we hosted about why you should work with interior designers, we invited panelist and interior designer Kristen Rivoli back to the Boiler Room to reminisce, as well as to check in about how things have changed.
The three clips we listened to from the original panel:
Kevin’s strong feelings on interior designers (16:02); Kristen’s ideas on how to find a designer if you’re a builder (32:00); and the importance of being on the same page with everything before the client gets wedded to something (49:00).Kristen’s “Boombox Story” also came up, with s...
Duration: 01:19:02Eric Adams Discusses Company Culture
Apr 16, 2025Anything involving a discussion of our team is worth revisiting, so having an entire 90-minute panel on this subject in a room full of some of the best of the best in the Boston build-design community was an awesome experience worthy of numerous podcast episodes. For the first of this revisiting, we went with fellow builder, Eric Adams, of Adams + Beasley Associates. Winner of the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” five years in a row, Eric has a lot to say about how to run a construction company.
Eric also shared the first “Boombox Story,” something...
Duration: 01:11:35