EP 84: She Built This City
Sparking Interest in Construction & Maker Trades for Career-Choosing Women & Girls. She Built This City’s mission is to provide industry disruptive programming that sparks interest and builds pathways to lucrative careers in the skilled...
Sparking Interest in Construction & Maker Trades for Career-Choosing Women & Girls. She Built This City’s mission is to provide industry disruptive programming that sparks interest and builds pathways to lucrative careers in the skilled trades for youth, women and marginalized communities.
Show Highlights Include:
- Why marketing construction careers as an artistic trade will magnetize future talent to the industry (7:35)
- How the culture in construction companies repels women away from it (and how to fix this) (11:03)
- The powerful “Trick and Trading” secret for exciting young kids about the construction industry (13:09)
- A high schooler made $1,000 a month operating drones (and how this opens the door to the construction industry) (15:25)
- How to help more women enter construction (32:09)
If you’d like to connect with and support She Built This City, you can find their website here: https://shebuiltthiscity.org/
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