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Blue-Collar BS — 203 episodes

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Building Industry, Building People: The Apex Way with Ann Ensenbach

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Why Private Equity Can Pound Sand with Matt Middendorp

3

Training Gen Alpha Isn’t Optional with Darryl Gratrix

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Additive Manufacturing, Subtractive Bullshit Brian Hiatt

5

EP200, Not Our Best Effort

6

Sewers, Suits, and Shit That Matters Lauri Rollings

7

Stop Setting Dumb Goals

8

Polygenerational WTF: From AI to Elk Hunting with Zach Hanson

9

No Cape Needed: A Blue-Collar Tribute to My Dad, Jim Herda

10

When the Apprentice Becomes the Mechanic with Sam DeWitt

11

Ms. Swiss and the Sisterhood of Trades with Nush

12

When Ego Paves the Wrong Road with Bryce Harem

13

Shoebox Accounting & Other Bullsh*t That’s Costing You

14

Who's Sucking Now with DT

15

Chasing Checks Sucks with Joe Kaye

16

You Good, Bro? with Jessica Hallahan

17

OnlyFans for Engineers? Let's Talk Strategy

18

Inviting Women In, Changing the Game with Meaghan Ziemba

19

The wins, you know you have them

20

Grandma Had It Right: Wealth, Wisdom & Generational Grind with Geoff Stuhr

21

Bonus or BS? Let’s Talk Holiday Compensation

22

The Bookkeeping Badass You Didn’t Know You Needed; Beth Carter

23

Serve First, Sell Later-It’s That Simple

24

From Best Buy Battles to Amazon Anxiety

25

Raised in the Projects, Powered by Purpose Terry Taylor

26

Skilled Trades Don’t Recruit Themselves - Joe McClaran Shows You How

27

When Personal Problems Clock In Too

28

Built Tough: Women Leading Manufacturing Becca and Jennifer

29

Gen Z Bossing Boomers with Class with Collin Thomey

30

Shorty Shorts, Tank Tops, and Customer Service

31

From Law Enforcement to Life Protection with Captain Cathy

32

How to Tell If You’ve Hired the Wrong “Tool”

33

Crispy Like Toast: What Happens When Your Business Owns You with Mike Finger

34

From Zero to $19 Million: Inside IRBIS HVAC’s Blueprint for Growth

35

Why ‘95 Babies Might Save Your Business; Nathan Schnell

36

Toxic Positivity

37

Living the Dream or Chasing a Paycheck? Adam Goldman Has Thoughts…

38

Retention Goldmine: Why Aaron’s Techs Never Leave

39

From Boiler Room to Business Boss: Chris Mesker's Wild Ride

40

Ditch the Diploma and Grab a Wrench

41

From Airstream Dreams to Leading Shipyards with Frank Manning

42

What Happens When BROADs Call BS

43

From $9 an Hour to CEO: Jacob Emery’s Blueprint for Success

44

How to Lead People Who Don’t Think Like You with George McCaughan

45

Fireworks, Food, and Freedom: The 4th of July Episode

46

Teen Worker Tells All: What Gen Z Really Thinks About Jobs with Kayla Doyle

47

Branding, Grit, and the New Face of Construction with Stefanie Couch

48

Hey Boomers; How do you stop the dumpster fire

49

The Blueprint for Business Boldness with Precious Williams

50

Dear Younger Leaders: Be Curious, Not Clueless

51

Plumbers, SEO, and $8.5 Million: The Ryan Redding Story

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Touch It Once... But Not Like That

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High-Tech Redneck James Hatfield

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Why Your New Hires Suck (And It’s Probably Your Fault)

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The Right People Faster, It's Not Complicated with Talmar Anderson

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Raises for Some, Rage for Others

57

The Trailer Ain't the Field with Coty Fournier

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From Lathes to Logos: Why Your Shop's Identity Matters

59

The Water Nerd, John Atlee

60

When Raises Hit a Ceiling: Handling Wage Expectations in Small Businesses

61

Win at Talent Win Your Industry with Steve Van Remortel

62

Remote Work, Trust, and the Real Cost of Getting It Wrong

63

Shop Floor Talent; They Are Humans Too, Mike White

64

"We'll See" Is Not a Plan: Leadership Lessons for the New Year

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Veryable laborforce, end your labor shortage excuses with Patrick Dipple

66

Youth attract Youth with Mark Hedstrom

67

I Got a Guy with Michael Drelicharz

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Conflicting Agendas

69

Get the Job or Make Some Money Aaron Mills

70

Empowering Change: Jessie Cannizzaro on Crafting a Legacy Beyond Plumbing

71

The Staggering Expense of Hiring with Brett King

72

Listen, Connect, Retain

73

Genius (IYKYK) with Tom Wasmoen

74

When Disaster Strikes: The Blue-Collar Response in Full Force

75

Transforming How Remodeling Gets Done with Kyle Davies

76

Keep Your Employees

77

Opportunity Everywhere with Meg Schmitz

78

Beyond the Pizza Party; The Importance of Employee Recognition

79

Teaching Sparks Welding Forward with Matt Scott

80

LFG It's The End of The Year

81

A Quick Update: What’s Happening This Week

82

Trick or Treat Sales Never Sleeps

83

Tweener Finds His Passion Nick Packard

84

Harness the Power of Thoughts: Transforming Negativity into Opportunity

85

What Is The Business Trilogy Greg DeSimone

86

Leading 4 Generations

87

Big Foot Grampa, Boomers Have Lots to Offer-Mark Weber

88

Uniting Generations: A New Leadership Approach

89

Would You Do Your Own Root Canal with Elisa Ruer

90

What to do with your disengaged workforce?

91

Move to Profit with Stacia Hobson

92

Textiles: America's Lost Blue-Collar Industry -Harrie Schoots

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Done Learning, Done Leading with Brian Hendricks

94

Boosting Youth Confidence & Competence

95

From Overhead to Opportunity: Space as a Strategic Play with Tom McCrossin

96

People + Tech = Success with Ryan Englin

97

Building Greatness with Les and Asher O'Hara

98

GOSPA Sing it Doyle!!

99

Securing Tomorrow: The Blue-Collar Blueprint for Business Immortality with Jake Hall

100

Can't Fix Stupid, But I Can Sure Point it Out

101

The Heartbeat of Sales: How Service Passion Translates to Profit, with Nicholas Loise

102

Will You Allow GenZ to Impact Your Workplace

103

Be The Change with Ann Ensenbach

104

EPISODE 100!! Celebrate and Reflect

105

Driving Ambition: Redefining the Trucking Industry on Our Terms with Pam Polyak

106

Story Time

107

Recycling with a purpose with Max Johnson

108

The Hiring Hero Process

109

Giver Needs To Give with Johnathan Synovic

110

Get It, Want It, Not The Same to Everyone!

111

Hustle and Grind: Mark Knudsen is Popping His Future

112

Action Words, Different Meanings to Different Generations

113

Bring Home The Bacon with Alan Bennett

114

Meet them where they are at!

115

Wages Are Not The Problem With Matt Vetter

116

Brad and Steve: Tale of Two Collars

117

A New to Blue-Collar Millennial Making a Difference; Tato Corcoran

118

Intrapreneurship WTF

119

What Bus are you Driving with John Hibbs

120

So What Is It You Do Here; IYKYK

121

A Zillennial with an Abundance Mindset-Nate Fair

122

Keeping it Real Steve Gets His Turn

123

A Millennial by Age and Boomer by Values with James Mann

124

GenXers want different benefits

125

Change Your Brain with Dave Goodall

126

Gen Alpha thinks College = Good Jobs WOW!

127

High End and Big Aspirations with Patrick Robertson

128

Do You Own a Business or have a Job?

129

Walk or Fly with Ian Rush The Automation Nerd

130

Younger Workers Lazy and Entitled ??

131

How Tech and Communication impact Trade Businesses with Ron Nussbaum

132

4 Generations what is going on?

133

A Boomer set this GenX up for success, Jason Haines

134

Reap What We Sow in the Blue-Collar World

135

Never too young to start with Gavin and Jamie White

136

What makes Steve Tick

137

Never Say Never with Dave Hataj

138

Is Upskilling and Training a waste of time?

139

Part 2 of Take Two with Alex Pauls

140

Brad and Steve Wage Stagnation and Inequality

141

Take two with Alex Pauls-Part 1

142

Brad & Steve Is Gen Z a Problem

143

Redefining the Workforce: Insights from an Entrepreneur (Part two with Kura Homes)

144

Brad & Steve Mind the Gap-Generational Common Sense?

145

Working Across Generations: Insights from Kura Home

146

Brad & Steve Blue-Collar Perceptions

147

Empowering the Future of Blue Collar Work: Andrew Brown's Journey to Redefine Skilled Trades Careers

148

How The Generational Work Ethic Is Not A Them Problem with Dr. Jim Bohn

149

Automation and Fear with Brad & Steve

150

Can fixing safety fix production with James Boretti

151

How Experiential Learning is Changing Career Decisions with Jim Michlig

152

How This Unapologetic Millennial is Thriving - Chris Seider

153

How Massive Action Can Impact Life with Joshua Page

154

An untraditional path with Craig Sorbo

155

Planting Trees for the next generation with Ben Zang

156

Sharing and educating the next generation with Bob Doll

157

Manufacturing is not what you think with Megan Tzanoukakis

158

GenZ in manufacturing with Eric Thompson

159

The Strength of Each Generation with Bridgette Wiggins

160

What value are you bringing with Christopher Zuzick

161

How Servant Leadership Creates Culture with Tim Luetzow

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Transferring knowledge to the next generation with Paul Van Metre

163

How to look at hiring differently with Matt Guse

164

Wisdom with Corey Berrier

165

How the trades are ready for change with Ron Nussbaum

166

Gratitude and Blue-Collar Pride with Scott Clark

167

Energizing his future, leaving a legacy, keeping family first, with Alex Pauls

168

Millennial Energy Focused on Future with Daniel Felt

169

A Clean Window into the Future with Ben Barlow

170

David Belman Builds on Family

171

Adam Lives Servant Leadership

172

Legos Build a Blue-Collar Passion Chase Tannhaeuser

173

Safety Fitz-Old Becomes New Again Tom Fitzgerald

174

Sparking the Future For Gen Z Don Curtin

175

From Farm to Exit with Damon Pistulka

176

X Sees Z As The Future, Kristina Harrington

177

This Boomer is Not Afraid to Teach or Learn Mark Weber

178

Blue Collar BOOM!

179

Blue-Collar EQ, No It's Not Math

180

Millennial Leadership, Are You Adapting?

181

Thomas Finds Blue Collar Pride, Thomas Anderson

182

Can't Take Family Out Of The Family Business

183

We are back baby!

184

Brad Going Rogue

185

Season One - Mic Drop!

186

A Millennial Framing Construction Differently Morgan Gutenknust

187

Recipes make good things happen! Anne Rakowiecki

188

Military Entrepreneur with Blue-Collar Blood Andy Weins

189

Boomers Are Good People Too, Christine Wright

190

Millennial Mining His Future Boom! Paul Giles

191

Josh Clymer Charters His Gen Z Talent

192

Millennial Xer And The Industry Technology Gap, Kevin Kromm

193

Welcome Boomer-Podcast Debut Mike Slawnikowski

194

Common Sense-We've Grown Up Differently

195

Who Wants To Work From Home

196

Can generational diversity improve your business?

197

Why are Boomers afraid of hiring young talent?

198

Minimum Wage-Perceptions of Generations

199

Gen Z not welcome?

200

Why is it we have an entitlement problem?

201

Communication-Generational Differences

202

Defining the Generations

203

Why This Show