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Ep.28 - The Enemy You Become (opens the original)
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Anthony Foley went from National Guard infantryman to master electrician to owner of his own veteran-owned shop, and he volunteered five years as an apprenticeship instructor along the way. In this conversation he is unusually honest about what large-scale construction does to people over time, including himself. We get into the day there was no drinking water on a hot job site and what that silence communicated, the leadership test he gives every apprentice, why he believes teaching is the high
Ep.27 - Building a Mental Health Program (opens the original)
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A guy breaks his arm on your site and ninety seconds later three people are moving, there is a form, and there is an incident review by Thursday. A guy tells your foreman he has a plan to end his life, and nothing happens at all. In this solo episode, Angelo takes the mental health and crisis response program Shannon Truax-Wardell built at Preferred Materials, following the loss of a colleague to suicide, and turns it into a five-phase build sequence any construction company can follow. This is
Ep.26 - Solutions, Not Slogans (opens the original)
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Shannon Truax-Wardell led a program that put a suicide crisis line on the side of ready-mix drums and drove it through every community her company works in. It won a national award, and a stranger in crisis called the number and later called back to say thank you. In this episode, sponsored by Grand Valley Construction Association and Mark’s Commercial, she walks Angelo through what came after the campaign: crisis response and mental health first aid training built into an operating company sinc
Ep.25 - Awareness Isn’t Enough (opens the original)
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64% of US construction workers reported anxiety or depression in the last twelve months, up from 54% the year before. For Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, Angelo brings Josh Vitale of Project BUILT back to the show to talk about the part nobody has gotten to yet: what you actually do once you have admitted there is a problem. Josh explains why running six thousand people through crisis intervention training was not the answer, what the trainings gave him and what they never gave him, and how
Ep.24 - 34,000 Empty Superintendent Seats (opens the original)
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Roughly 34,000 superintendent seats sit empty in the US and 63 percent of construction CEOs report trouble finding field managers. The industry’s standard explanation is that the next generation does not want responsibility. Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026 tells a different story: manager engagement fell from 27 percent to 22 percent in a single year, the steepest drop of any group they measure, and leaders now report more stress, anger, sadness and loneliness than the people they le
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