No plug, no handouts: Abe Torres on building an insulation business from scratch
In a Juice Unlocked podcast clip, Abe Torres said he built his insulation business with no money and no connections, and that strangers, not family, have backed him most.
In a Juice Unlocked podcast clip, Abe Torres said he built his insulation business with no money and no connections, and that strangers, not family, have backed him most.
Abe Torres says nobody handed him a thing in the insulation business. In a Juice Unlocked podcast clip posted Feb. 7, 2026, he told the host he doesn't come from money, his parents didn't have careers to model and he had none of the connections that open doors in the trades.
Asked if he feels like an underdog, Torres didn't hesitate: "100%."
Family in the trade, but no plug
Other people, Torres said, get started through someone who knows a general contractor or can make an introduction. He didn't have that.
He does have family in insulation, he said, but with so many relatives in the business, they help themselves out. When the host put it as family who can't plug him in or put money on his table, Torres agreed. His biggest backers, he said, have been people he didn't know.
“I didn't have any money. I don't come from money.”
The full conversation
Juice Unlocked billed the clip as a teaser for its "raw, unfiltered" full conversation with Torres, which the post said was out now.
“Strangers have been the best towards my business.”
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