⚡️⚡️ The original podcast for Linemen ⚡️ ⚡️Host @ryan_w_lucas 🎙️
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Most leadership problems in the trades get written off as attitude or performance.
Nic Bittle says ask one question first: did you ever actually communicate what you expected?
Ep. 225 of Powerline Podcast with Nic Bittle.
No shortcut is worth the cost of not making it home.
Every decision made on the job impacts more than just the person making it. It impacts the families, friends, & crews counting on them.
In Ep 223, Kevin Taylor shares a powerful perspective. Watch now.
Construction workers die by suicide at a rate 75% higher than men in the general population.
Ryan sits down with Wykisha Thomas-McKinney, Nate Strickland, & Tyler Smith to discuss what it actually looks like to look out for the guy next to you.
YouTube: youtu.be/xuOGQps9Wg8
Single wide trailer. Lower middle class. Hard-working parents and a few values they passed down.
Dennis Kelly says that's all he started with, and it was enough.
He emptied his retirement account to open his fitness center and had $2,000 in the bank on opening day.
Seven businesses later, Dennis Kelly has one thing to say about whether the risk is worth it.
Ep. 220 of Powerline Podcast with Dennis Kelly.
I hear people all the time saying they "have no time" to pursue bigger. Dennis Kelly was working six tens in Pennsylvania, 3.5 hours from home, sleeping on the floor of a gym he was building between shifts.
Ep. 220 of Powerline Podcast with Dennis Kelly.
People look at what Dennis Kelly's built and ask how the hell he did it. He started with a piece of paper and a side hustle while working six tens hours from home.
Ep. 220 of Powerline Podcast with Dennis Kelly.
YouTube: youtu.be/fPO6XyHGhyg?si=oa7D…
People say American-made gear couldn't compete with cheaper imports. Rod Paul thinks that's a myth. Here's why.
Ep. 219 of Powerline Podcast with Rod Paul & Justin Tate.
You have to fail. You have to come back. That's how you stay in business for 100 years. Bashlin just hit that mark, and they're not done changing.
Ep. 219 of Powerline Podcast with Rod Paul & Justin Tate.
YouTube: youtu.be/2Aue23elxeM?si=3cXH…
The opportunity and demand for skilled workers in the trades are bigger than ever before.
Hear more in ep. 218 of Powerline Podcast with Bart Gaskey & Todd Davis.
There are people who've never touched a transformer who call them commodities.
Then there are the people who build them.
Ep. 218 of Powerline Podcast with Bart Gaskey & Todd Davis.
The demand for power isn't slowing down. The people who build the equipment know it better than anyone.
This is what the next decade looks like from the floor.
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He used to tell new guys: get your CDL, your first aid ticket, learn some electrical theory. Now he tells them one thing.
Ep. 217 of Powerline Podcast with Randy Smith & Brian Allen.
Show me the robot that can hang a line pole in the middle of nowhere in a rainstorm.
Ep. 217 of Powerline Podcast with Randy Smith & Brian Allen.
He taped a Nikon Coolpix to a shovel handle and stuck it in the dirt to film a helicopter pull set. YouTube didn't even exist yet.
Ep. 217 of Powerline Podcast with Randy Smith & Brian Allen.
AI doesn't know how to pull wire in a rainstorm on the side of a mountain. Your crew does.
Ep. 217 of Powerline Podcast with Randy Smith & Brian Allen.
YouTube: youtu.be/tCtdwQ5FzBM?si=Pqye…
A near miss every day. You learn to live with that when it's you – then it's your kid out there.
Ep. 216 of Powerline Podcast with Carey Kostyk, Pat Kostyk, Jeff Ziemba & Jeffrey Ziemba.
Nobody told him it was leaning four feet back. He just climbed it.
Ep. 216 of Powerline Podcast with Carey Kostyk, Pat Kostyk, Jeff Ziemba & Jeffrey Ziemba.