Sparky Life
On Your Construction Network, welcome to The Sparky Life with Lia Lamela - Your Escape Route from Dead-End Jobs!
Tired of living paycheck to paycheck? Hate your current career? Discover how skilled trades can transform your life - delivered with humor, real talk, and zero BS. If you already in the skilled trades transform your career with real stories, expert insights, and proven strategies from industry professionals who've built successful careers in the construction industry.
What You'll Get:
Career change strategies for people stuck in unfulfilling jobs
How to go from broke to building wealth in the skilled trades
Safety tips that could save your life and career (with a laugh)
Real stories from people who escaped corporate hell for trades heaven
Business growth advice for contractors and entrepreneurs
Industry insights delivered with humor
Perfect for anyone ready to ditch the cubicle, stop living paycheck to paycheck, and build a career that actually pays the bills - and then some. From office drone to skilled trades success - we'll show you the way (with a lot of laughs).
New episodes bi-weekly featuring the stories, and strategies that matter most to your success.
Subscribe now and join thousands building their Sparky Life!
Sparky Life
30-Year Construction Veteran Exposes the REAL Reason Women Leave Trades
BRUTAL TRUTH ALERT: After 30+ years climbing from carpenter to superintendent to business owner, Barb Allen is dropping BOMBS about why women are still fighting for respect in construction! 💥
This isn't your typical "women in trades" fluff piece - this is RAW, UNFILTERED reality from someone who's been in the trenches and boardrooms. Barb reveals the hidden sabotage tactics, the microaggressions that kill careers, and why even the toughest women are walking away from six-figure opportunities.
🔥 EXPLOSIVE REVELATIONS: ✅ Why being labeled "difficult" is actually a leadership superpower ✅ The sneaky ways bosses undermine female authority (even when they don't realize it) ✅ How to handle the "yes-ing to death" that destroys projects ✅ The REAL cost of losing talented women (spoiler: it's bankrupting companies) ✅ Socratic method secrets that get stubborn crews to listen ✅ Building bulletproof support networks in male-dominated industries
💡 PERFECT FOR: Female tradespeople, construction leaders, anyone tired of workplace BS, and allies who want to create real change.
🎯 GUEST SPOTLIGHT: Barb Allen (@constructionbarb) - Licensed carpenter turned superintendent turned business owner with 3 decades of breaking barriers and building empires!
Connect with Barb: www.constructionbarb.com | @constructionbarbThanks to SupplyHouse: www.supplyhouse.com/t-m for keeping us powered up!
💡Drop a 💪 if you're ready to change the game for women in trades!
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