Skill Stadium

Skill Stadium

By Keith WilliamsBusinessCareers
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Skill Stadium episodes

  • Jennifer Cline Artist Woodworker shares how she overcame the death of her husband and launched a new career while raising her children

    Jennifer Cline  AKA Miss Dewalt is a wood worker, flag maker, Influencer You Tuber, TikToker. 

    Jennifer overcame tragedy when she lost her husband unexpectedly. She was left with 2 young children, a house she had been fixing with her husband and little building skills. Jennifer shares how she overcame this devastating tragedy and transformed her self.

    Jennifer Cline Links

    https://www.tiktok.com/@jennifer.cline

    https://www.instagram.com/missdewalt/?hl=en

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChC6QjpxVs3IDmDuR9XMb3w

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-cline-ab038470/


    ABOUT PODCAST

    Skill Stadium podcast is the voice of the skilled trades.  Every Monday morning, we feature guests from all over the world with the following backgrounds:

    Business Owners

    Hiring Managers

    Skilled Trades Professionals

    Trade School Administrators

    Career Coaches

    Skilled Trades Influencers

    The purpose of the podcast is to share stories, career advice, and job opportunities in the skilled trades. You are invited every week to listen in on a conversation with people who are passionate about the skilled trades. You get the information you cannot google, from real people doing the work.

    37 min
  • Air Force Veteran Troy Danko shares his journey into the HVAC profession and why HVAC Technicians are essential workers.

    Troy Danko is an Air Force veteran and talented HVAC Technician with almost 20 years of experience. 


    About Podcast

    Skill Stadium podcast is the voice of the skilled trades.  Every Monday morning, we feature guests from all over the world with the following backgrounds:

    Business Owners

    Hiring Managers

    Skilled Trades Professionals

    Trade School Administrators

    Career Coaches

    Skilled Trades Influencers

    The purpose of the podcast is to share stories, career advice, and job opportunities in the skilled trades. You are invited every week to listen in on a conversation with people who are passionate about the skilled trades. You get the information you cannot google, from real people doing the work.

    25 min
  • Cecile Bukmeier is a trailblazer the first female Auto body Technician instructor at NAIT in its 50 year history.

    When Cecile Bukmeier (Auto Body Technician ’15) started working in an auto body shop as a teenager, her boss relegated her to sweeping the floors and taking out the trash – tasks that taught her nothing about refinishing cars but everything about attitudes women in the trade sometimes faced.

    “There were very few women at this shop,” she says, “and there were none working in the back of the garage.”

    Today, after several years of proving herself in the industry, Bukmeier is the first female instructor in NAIT’s Auto Body Technician program – a program that began more than 50 years ago.

    She comes to the job as one of the province’s top technicians, having earned gold medals in auto body competitions at Skills Canada Alberta (a kind of Olympics for the trades) in 2013 and later at the national level. But she also joins NAIT as one of Alberta’s strongest advocates for women in trades, and hopes to guide apprentices through the challenges she herself faced – if not to help eliminate those challenges altogether.

    Bukmeier completed her apprenticeship relatively recently, but her experiences as a woman in the industry were discouraging. After working at 3 places where she was less than welcome, “I thought, ‘Is nobody going to give me a break?’”

    She didn’t give up. Bukmeier excelled at her studies and found a small shop with a forward-thinking boss. “I felt like if I was there to work, not to flirt with the guys, and I would work twice as hard, people would notice.

    33 min
  • Johnathon Lewis Director of Admissions at Aviation Institute of Maintenance shares how you can become Aircraft Technician in less than 1 year.

    Aviation Institute of Maintenance is committed to the education and personal enrichment of each student interested in an aviation maintenance or a trade technician profession. We offer programs in aviation, maintenance, welding, and technician fields, whether it be for aircraft maintenance; maintenance technician, combination welding, industrial manufacturing, HVAC, or aircraft dispatcher. We seek industry feedback about our curriculum to identify the technologies and specific skills that industry leaders need. At AIM, we train for these trade skills and more!


    Aviation Institute of Maintenance  

    https://www.aviation.edu

    https://www.facebook.com/AIM.edu

    https://www.instagram.com/aviationaim/

    https://www.youtube.com/user/AIMschools


    23 min
  • William Butler plumber and owner of No Pressure Plumber in Henry County Georgia shares what it takes to be a successful plumber and business owner.

    William Butler owner of No Pressure Plumbing makes his employees and customers a high priority, and focuses his energy on taking care of both.

    No Pressure Plumbing focuses on quality plumbing services over quantity. We use our 16 years of experience and expertise to complete your project with perfection. Customer service and honesty are the most important aspects of our business and your satisfaction is guaranteed. Please call us today for an estimate. We look forward to working with you.

    No Pressure Plumbing Links

    www.nopressureatl.com



    ABOUT PODCAST

    Skill Stadium podcast is the voice of the skilled trades.  Every Monday morning, we feature guests from all over the world with the following backgrounds:

    Business Owners

    Hiring Managers

    Skilled Trades Professionals

    Trade School Administrators

    Career Coaches

    Skilled Trades Influencers

    20 min
  • Jason Hall Shares how Chefs thrived despite the challenges of the Pandemic

    Jason Hall earned an associate degree from Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts, Pittsburgh, in 1995. His career has taken him throughout the United States, from Akron, Ohio, Napa Valley, CA, to Wilmington, NC, where he worked as executive chef at Café Sonoma. Hall has also worked as executive chef at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, SC and for nine years as executive chef at Hammock Dunes Club, Palm Coast, FL.

    In March of 2015 Jason joined the team at Myers Park Country Club in Charlotte N.C. to lead the culinary department as executive chef.

    Hall holds more than 25 ACF and international competition medals. He has been recognized for his work with the Northeast Florida Culinary Apprenticeship Committee. Chef Hall has done charitable work with, Habitat for Humanity, James F. Holland Foundation, Rally for a Cure-Susan G. Komen Foundation, Flagler County Education Foundation, and Feed Flagler.

    In August of 2012 Hall successfully passed the Certified Master Chef Exam (CMC®) at the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, becoming the 67th chef to pass the test.

    In 2013 Jason was selected to be a member of the exclusive ACF Culinary Team USA 2016, that represented the United States in international cooking competitions across the globe. In November of 2015 Team USA won third place overall at the Culinary World Cup in Luxembourg with double gold medals and attaining the highest score out of all nations in the cold food category. In October 2016 the team again dominated the cold food/culinary art category as world champions placing first in the world out of 42 countries and placing 4th overall.

    31 min
  • Megan Shechosky A Heavy Equipment Operator shares the importance of good communication skills to get the job you want.

    Megan Shechosky is  Heavy Equipment Operator from Edmonton Alberta.




    ABOUT SKILL STADIUM PODCAST

    Every week we feature guests from all over the world with the following backgrounds:

    Business Owners

    Hiring Managers

    Skilled Trades Professionals

    Trade School Administrators

    Career Coaches

    Skilled Trades Influencers

    The purpose of the podcast is to share stories, career advice, and job opportunities in the skilled trades. You are invited every week to listen in on a conversation with people who are in the trenches doing the work. It's not theory its real world advice.

    26 min

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The Skill Stadium podcast features business owners, hiring managers, trade school administrators, and skilled trade professionals.