Doin’ Girly Things

Renee has been a construction project administrator, mainly in finance. She has lived in a couple states which has allowed her to jump into many new experiences. 

These experiences include the customer service industry, a sewing YouTube channel, and working on construction sites. 

She started construction in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while flipping homes. 

Renee made her way through government, commercial, and residential construction. 

Her job experiences are varied but she has become a pro at networking via social media to find info on jobs, bosses, companies, and most importantly, other women in construction!

Episode Highlights

• Working with government contracts
• Creating a network when moving around
• Starting in construction as a project administrator

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Safety is an important part of construction. This episode answers all the questions you've ever had about OSHA and what its like when they show up to your jobsite.

In this episode I interview Pedro, host of TheXFactorofSafety a podcast about safety in construction and cohost on a podcast about podcast news, Real Talk Podcasting!

Season two is official here. New episodes every other week.

Episode Highlights

• Can OSHA just walk onto the jobsite?
• How can we communicate safety better from the top down
• How to become a safety professional

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Negotiating is an important part about creating financial freedom. Often time women stray away from these important conversations. Within the construction space there is plenty to negotiate from benefits to job location.

In this episode I interview Natasha Sattler, author of ShitAdultsNeverTaughtUs and her lessons about how to negotiate during the job interview.

Season two is official here. New episodes every other week.

Episode Highlights

• How to avoid anchoring in a job interview
• Real life examples of what to say in an interview 
• How learning how to stop talking will benefit you

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The term systems engineer is a common term that gets thrown around. We talk about all the ways its a girly thing to do. Both the guest Andrea and myself have been system engineers at one point in their career.

Listen to how Adrea started a new company March 2020 and how to meet people virtually at a new company. 

New episodes every other week.

Episode Highlights

• Defining what is a system engineer 
• Starting a new job the week COVID shut down the country 
• SWE Mentorship Program

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Jacob Torres a space farmer, NASA researcher and engineer at Kennedy Space Center comes on to the podcast to share the exciting news about PH04, Española Chile Peppers. THEY WILL BE GOING TO SPACE.

Learn how you can grow Española Chile peppers at your own home to help NASA with research.

New episodes every other week.

Episode Highlights

• Defining what is #spacefarming
• Growing the first fruit in space
• Challenges of growing in zero gravity 

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Diane, another great Purdue graduate talks about working at CAT as an engineer to now a technical marketer.

Engineering is not as boring as people make it out to be: you can be as creative as you want. Working with a creative company, Diane is able to put together cartoons about technical topics.
 
Episode Highlights

• Future of generators and why they're important
• What's a technical marketer?
• How to have creative career as an engineer in construction 

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Meet Kimberly, she discusses how she went from being underpaid to making six figures. She has an account dedicated to  helping others with career advice.

THIS EPISODE'S QUALITY IS OFF BUT THE CONTENT IS 10/10. I'll have to have Kimberly back on the podcast when both of our audio is functioning properly!

Also known as @lipstickandtech a graduate from Purdue University who is passionate about teach others how to advocate for their own promotions and negotiate their wages. 

As a graduate from Computer Information Technology Kimberly has been able to advance to a career of making over 6-figures under 30 years old. 

In this episode we discuss all things from budgeting, negotiating even if it isn’t for more money. A pay increase can also mean more PTO and time by the beach. 

Tune into this week’s episode on making six figures and skills for negotiation. 

Book recommended: Never split the difference 

You have to put value on yourself once you start applying to new jobs!

Episode Highlights

• Gamifying your personal finance goals is how to see improvement (9:30)
• Get a financial accountability partner (10:45)
• What to do if you realized you’re underpaid (12:30)
• A recruiter looks at your resume for 6 seconds (15:15)
• Tips on how to negotiate (16:00)

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Community sadness and grief. My friend Drew. One of the brightest people I've ever had the chance to meet passed away at 27years old. 

It's okay to be sad. When we lose someone this bright you can feel the sadness from miles away. I'm passionate about using the pain from grief as jet fuel for your life. 

Grief is an emotion that demands to be dealt with and the best way is in little bits.

Topics we discussed: 

• Why its okay to be this sad. Community Sadness (3:10)
• My suggestions for handling sadness and grief (5:50)
• My memorial for Drew (10:40)

Ancient Egyptian saying: To speak the name of the dead is to make the live again

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Meet Priya, Dr Dissected, dissecting current topics in healthcare and society. A biological engineering who turned into a Doctor. She recently moved to Brooklyn New York city to complete her rotations. 

On this week’s episode we will talk to Priya about the steps and how she made the decision to become a dr. and advice she’d give to others looking at the same path. 

We will also discuss Dr.Dissected the Instagram account that is Priya’s passion project to help understand issues like eating disorders, questions about the vaccine and many other topics. She is looking to start weekly clubhouse events about grief and the emotions surrounding it. 

Topics discussed: 

• Would you recommend this path to becoming a doctor? (9:45) 
• Moving to New York City for Rotations (11:15)
• The challenages of moving around and how to comfortable with the uncomfortable (20:25)
• Doctor Dissect and effects of COVID on children's mental health on clubhouse (21:30)
• Grief and loss (26:20)
• What's the most important skill a doctor needs? (25:00)

COVID link about doctors working other jobs
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Self awareness: What seemingly insignificant thing contributes greatly to your happiness?

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What’s the best piece of advice your mom has ever given you? On this episode I discuss grief and the lessons I learned from my mother in the 23 years we had together.  

This year I wanted to celebrate my mom by recording a podcast about my favorite life lessons from her. Life’s not fair and it was never designed to be that way. Using your tragedy to be your greatest motivator is the theme of this episode. 

This episode I discuss the first week, month and year after your loved one passes away and the best way to be supportive for family and friends going through grief.

Best pieces of advice from Megan’s mother:

• Passion! 
• “A day wasted with the wrong man, is a day you won’t be with the right one”
• Being generic and not wasting money/time

Tips when your friend is going through a grief period:

• Don’t go to them for comfort (it is hitting them harder than you probably)
• Check up on them in a month/later so they do not feel alone
• Help out with the little things (toilet paper, food, laundry)

The phrase that I used to repeat days following the accident was, "I've survived 100% of my worst days and today is no different."

I gave a special shout out to the Lough family and Olivia for helping to keep me alive during the roughest first weeks and months after the accident. 

Resources that I found for motherless daughters: 

Motherless daughter group

Motherless Daughter Book

Option B book

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