What Happened to Our Creativity, and Can AI Help Us Get It Back?
In our recent Level Up podcast episode, “Trades, Tech, and Tomorrow,” we sat down with Mikhail Reece—a sharp, dynamic thinker who said something that has…
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Level Up – Episode 9: Trades, Tech & Tomorrow
In this episode of Level Up, Addison Wiggin and Desmond Stinnie sit down with Mikhail Reece, a passionate advocate for trade careers and founder of…
Level Up – Episode 8: Marriage, Money, and a Mission: The Story Behind Calendar Budget App
Level Up is thrilled to welcome Eric and Robin Poulin, the visionary co-founders—and dynamic married duo—behind Calendar Budget, a powerful budgeting app designed to bring…
Is It Time for Universities to Welcome the Trades?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the students who start college full of hope, only to leave before finishing. Maybe they discover the traditional…
Teaching Entrepreneurship in the Trades
Skilled hands can build just about anything—homes, machines, entire systems. But when it comes to building a business? That’s where many tradespeople hit a wall.…
Financial Literacy Is a Skill
When we talk about skills in the trades, we usually mean things you do with your hands: installing wiring, fixing HVAC systems, laying tile, tuning…
Why Do So Many Trades Businesses Fail?
They start with promise. A skilled plumber opens their own shop. An HVAC tech builds a client base. A contractor takes on bigger and bigger…
Level Up – Episode 7: The Apprenticeship That Saved My Life: A Conversation with Cory McCray
In this powerful episode of Level Up, Desmond Stinnie and Addison Wiggin sit down with Cory McCray to discuss his deeply personal new book, The…
Level Up – Premier Episode: Unmask The Hero
In the series premier episode 1 of Level Up, we are joined by Ray “Coach Shoe” Schufford – retired first responder and founder of 2…
Level Up – Episode 6: Talking Trades with Got Electric LLC’s Founder Grant Gotlinger
In this episode of Level Up, Desmond Stinnie and Addison Wiggin sit down with Desmond’s longtime friend and trades entrepreneur Grant Gotlinger, founder of Got…