Jay Lockett of Kansas City-based Jay Fabwerks joins us to talk about how he made the jump from a hobby welder working on cars to creating a metal fabrication business that serves everything from working on custom railings to structural fab projects, and how he did it in a non-traditional way without formal welding education.

Jay also chats about embracing an entrepreneurial mindset, hiring workers, his love of cars, dropping a V8 engine into an BMW 3 Series, how he almost chose a career as chef, his thoughts on welding schools, designing and building rose and crypto art, the importance of mental health and nutrition in the trades, the most difficult project he ever worked on, making orange juice cake, and more.

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