Theron Leany

Grew up doing appliance repair in Salt Lake City until a car accident on his church mission damaged his spine and ended the hands-on work. He pivoted into sales — finance, inside, auto — then approached his cousin Ben Jordan, who had started a plumbing company, and took a pay cut to $50K a year to learn the business from the inside. By treating it as his own and making himself invaluable, he earned an equity stake, and the company became Action Plumbing, Heating, Air & Electric — a home-services operation now running across four to five states. Alongside Ben, he runs The Action Group, a consulting firm that teaches other home-service owners the systems and structure behind their growth.

A bowhunter who got into archery seriously because of his in-laws — their family hunt in Utah is a two-week reunion, and Theron carved out the mountain as his own. He hunts elk (his favorite — the taste, the difficulty with a bow), chases mule deer in Utah, and calls a first trip to New Mexico's Gila, where the elk are everywhere but a world away, the best hunting he's done. He and the family picked up property in Kansas and just put in food plots, building a whitetail spot to introduce his four daughters to the hunt. For him, the trips are the rare place with no phone service — active meditation away from the constant motion of a multi-state operation.

Theron is the show's clearest case study in the intrapreneur mindset: the employee who takes extreme ownership, makes himself invaluable, and asks for the equity rather than waiting to be handed it. He argues most owners stall because they lose sight of the "why" they started — and that anchoring back to it makes the structure obvious. He tells the story of an eight-man walkout that forced Action to stop poaching industry hires and start hiring high character from outside the trades, because the techs who care the most out-sell everyone. And he's blunt that real growth comes from specific, tactical, repeatable steps — not motivational "rah-rah" — the same patience and willingness to fail that hunting teaches.