Smart Cleaning School

About Smart Cleaning School

The Smart Cleaning School Podcast helps cleaning business owners from start-up to the struggling solo to the striving seven-figure get SMARTER in their businesses, reshape their mindset, increase productivity, clear the overwhelm, and get clarity through SMART goal-setting & personal accountability. Ken Carfagno is a lifetime learner and teacher. His mission is to help visionaries make the impact they were meant to make.

Publisher

Ken Carfagno

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Oct 2019

Latest episode

18 Aug 2025

Latest episodes

82 of 495 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Aug 2025

   Smart Cleaning School Season 1 Finale

   I started this podcast on October 10th, 2019. I never imagined that cleaners would listen to me talk. Listen to these stats for the Smart Cleaning School Podcast: 20 years of cleaning experience and 8 years of coaching accessedDownloaded in all 50 states and 150 countries.500 total episodes3 individual episodes with over 1,000 downloads175,000 total downloads1,000 hours of my life invested into training solo cleanersI am so proud of this work. It has been meaningful and transformational for t...

2. 

   11 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Celebrating 20 Years in the C3 Experience

   “Introducing the C3 Experience” released on October 14th, 2021. I had just given our family cleaning company a major brand change from the solo residential business to a commercial cleaning company with a team. Our family had “A New Freedom Vision” to live in Florida for the full month of February 2022. The company model would have to change. Over the next 8 months, we poured ourselves into this company to create the C3 Experience. We wanted to attract new customers and employees to our compa...

3. 

   4 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Patience Vs. Prudence

   I purposely re-released “Excellence Vs. Perfection” last week. Many solo cleaners struggle with perfectionism. They are under a belief that ‘good enough’ is when the perfectionist is finally happy… and they are never happy. Over-cleaning is problematic for multiple reasons. It costs the solo cleaner time and money because they are at each house or office a lot longer. It also dissolves trust with the customer because they don’t want you in their house for 6 hours! Do you know what customers w...

Inside a recent episode

Celebrating 20 Years in the C3 Experience

Published 11 Aug 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Because C3 does what we say we're going to do. That fired me up. And then a few weeks ago, C3 reached a significant milestone. This is the title of the episode right here. On July 25th, 2025, C3 celebrated 20 years in business. It is hard to believe to wrap my arms around the fact that I've been doing this for 20 years now. I remember on July 25th of 2005, my wife Teresa, with my little guy, Kenny, who was a little baby on her back. She went down to the county clerk in Schenectady County, New York. And she opened up DBA Carfagno cleaning so that she could clean apartments part -time with that little guy on her back. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

63 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

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Quality

68

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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