Powerline Podcast

⚡️⚡️ The original podcast for Linemen ⚡️ ⚡️Host @ryan_w_lucas 🎙️

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He's not the loudest one on the crew.
He's the one who shows up early, asks the right questions, and just does the work.
Those kids are still out there.

Ep. 214 of Powerline Podcast with Jake Brown, Brad Minerick & Jonathan Pipsair.

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The guy turning the rig isn't the most important person on site.
The hole man is.

Ep. 214 of Powerline Podcast with Jake Brown, Brad Minerick & Jonathan Pipsair.

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How people think electricity works vs. how it actually works is a whole conversation.

Ep. 214 of Powerline Podcast with Jake Brown, Brad Minerick & Jonathan Pipsair.

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The day you think you know everything is the day it's time to retire.

Ep. 214 of Powerline Podcast with Jake Brown, Brad Minerick & Jonathan Pipsair.

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You flip a switch and the lights come on.

What you don't see is the guy neck-deep in mud, hanging off a mountain, drilling through the Everglades to make that happen.\

Ep. 214 with Jake Brown, Brad Minerick & Jonathan Pipsair. 

YouTube: https://t.co/0vBlwsmC60

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“These are my career.”

Ep. 213 of Powerline Podcast with Shayla Gaffney

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“The industry’s getting soft.”
She heard it. She understands why they’d say it.
But soft and evolved aren’t the same thing.

Ep. 213 of Powerline Podcast with Shayla Gaffney

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Up at 2am. Four hour drive. Ten hour day.

And she does it willingly.

Ep. 213 of Powerline Podcast with Shayla Gaffney.

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She was praying for one shot. Just one.
Not ten minutes later, her phone rang.
One foreman named Tom said okay. She can't picture her career without him.
Ep. 213 of Powerline Podcast with Shayla Gaffney.

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Shayla Gaffney is a final-year powerline apprentice who walked away from a life she didn't want, drove herself to line school in Tennessee at 26, and built something worth showing up for every day.

Ep. 213 is live. 

YouTube: https://t.co/zeTPySjhYu

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Take pride in your work. Share your tips.

More from Andrew Morgan in ep 212.

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He used to clock out Thursday and not think about work until Monday morning.

Now it’s Saturday dinner and his wife already knows that look.

Every foreman carries the job home. 

Ep. 212.

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He said they were savages back then. Then brought a Polaroid to prove it.

Nothing like old school line work.

Ep. 212.

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The stakes are high.
Be your brothers keeper.

More with Andrew Morgan in ep 212.

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Every day we make decisions that determine if we go home.

Controlled chaos until it isn't.

Hear more in Ep. 212.

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You don't have to want the title. You do have to want to lead.

Andrew Morgan has been a Texas distribution foreman for years.
He's not interested in the politics. He's interested in getting his crew home and building the next one.

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The question has flipped. Most contractors haven't noticed yet.

Hear more from Josh Nieves in ep 211.

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Golden glove heavyweight, electrical contractor, pastor. 

Josh Nieves' greatest mentor held a lot of titles, but the greatest was dad.

Ep 211 of Powerline Podcast is live now.

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Every apprentice needs to hear this.

Ep. 211 of Powerline Podcast with Josh Nieves.

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We’ve got to start asking the right questions.

Josh Nieves dives into hiring and training the new generation of skilled tradesmen.

Check out more in ep 211 of Powerline Podcast