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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).
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Who Secretly Built the Brooklyn Bridge?
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The Woman Who Secretly Built the Brooklyn Bridge (While Hollywood Kept Blowing It Up)
Hollywood loves destroying the Brooklyn Bridge in movies like I Am Legend, but they missed the REAL explosive story: Emily Warren Roebling, the woman who actually built it while pretending her sick husband was in charge for 10 years.
🔥 What You'll Learn: • Why the Brooklyn Bridge is nearly indestructible (30,000 PSI strength!) • The deadly "Caisson Disease" that killed workers 80 feet underwater • How Emily secretly ran America's biggest construction project • Why she had to hide her role as chief engineer • The economic impact that transformed NYC forever
Timeline:
0:00 - Hollywood's Brooklyn Bridge obsession
2:15 - The bridge's incredible engineering specs
4:30 - Emily Warren's unlikely path to engineering
7:45 - The deadly caisson construction process
10:20 - Washington Roebling's tragic illness
12:30 - Emily takes secret control of the project
16:45 - Her historic first crossing with a victory rooster
18:30 - Emily's post-bridge achievements
This is the untold story of America's first female chief engineer - a woman who built an icon while society wasn't even looking.
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