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Hosted by Cassie Pound and Leslie Harpole "Power Women of the Trades" is a powerful force, leading dynamic businesses and disrupting traditional norms.This podcast is all about breaking barriers and changing the game.
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Behind The Summer Scenes With SantaMaria Bohn (opens the original)
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For episode 3 of our Behind the Summer Scenes series, Kailee sits down with SantaMaria Bohn, install operations manager at Quality Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric. SantaMaria shares her journey from CSR and install coordinator to running install operations for a team that's now over 100 employees, and what it really takes to keep installs moving when temperatures push past 100 degrees. SantaMaria opens up about supporting technicians working in challenging environments such as 100 degree a
Stop Waiting to Feel Ready (opens the original)
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In this solo episode, Kailee reflects on imposter syndrome and the myth of "feeling ready" for career growth. Drawing from her own journey at Quality, from social media and community coordinator to marketing director, she shares how confidence typically follows action rather than preceding it. Kailee encourages listeners to stop waiting until they feel fully prepared and instead take the leap, reminding them that growth happens just outside the comfort zone. A short but motivating episode for an
Power Women Replay with Amanda Mahaffey (opens the original)
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In this episode of Power Women of the Trades, Cassie Pound and Heather Bargender sit down with Amanda Mahaffey, co-owner of Tuck and Howell in Greenville, South Carolina, to explore her transition from accounting into leading a modernization and rebrand of the 50+ year-old HVAC business. Amanda discusses moving the company from pen-and-paper operations to platforms like ServiceTitan, and how her financial background helped her uncover and fix negative profits and deep inefficiencies she inherite
Building Beyond Expectations with Elena Chrimat Part 1 (opens the original)
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In this episode of Power Women of the Trades, Cassie and Kailee sit down with Elena Chrimat, co-founder of Ideal Air Conditioning and Insulation in Phoenix, who started her company at just 23 years old. Elena shares how a background in energy audits led her and her husband into full-blown HVAC and home performance work, and why properly sized ductwork and insulation matter just as much as the equipment itself. She also opens up about the everyday challenges of being a woman in a male-dominated t
Building More Than a Business with Alicia Green Part 2 (opens the original)
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In this episode of Power Women of the Trades, the host sits down with a fellow female trade business owner to discuss the challenges and rewards of staying locally owned in an era of growing private equity competition. The guest shares her frustrations with PE pricing tactics and explains why community investment and employee ownership through an ESOP model matter more to her than a big buyout. A large portion of the conversation covers her in-house training academy, which uses a unique discover
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