Today on Working Man, you get two for the price of one. Our guests on this episode are Daniel and Michael VanderHyde. Daniel and Michael are two of 10 kids, and all six boys in their family followed in the footsteps of their dad and [...]
Several years ago, when our co-founders Brian Black and Ryan Pohl began to search for models of a residential trade school, they were able to find only one: Williamson College of the Trades, just outside Philadelphia. Williamson is a residential trades college for young men, [...]
Today’s guest on Working Man is Mark Albert. Mark is the Editor Emeritus of Modern Machine Shop Magazine, a publication he worked for from 1980 until 2018. In his nearly forty years writing about manufacturing, Mark has seen some tremendous changes in technology and technique, [...]
It’s not uncommon for guys to think about their careers in terms of retirement. Plenty of fellas are out there counting the days until they can leave work behind them and spend their days on the golf course. But our guest today on Working Man [...]
Today’s guest on Working Man is Dr. Nathan Schmiedicke. Nathan is a farmer who also happens to teach biblical theology at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Seminary in Denton, Nebraska. In this episode, we talk about what God was up to when he placed man in [...]
Today’s guest on Working Man is Deacon Dominic Couturier. For 23 years before entering the seminary, Deacon Dominic worked at his family business, Couturier Iron Craft, makers of beautiful, custom stairways and railings. After working as a metal fabricator, project manager, and member of the [...]
Today on Working Man we’ve got a guest with a very unique resume. He’s a priest, a moral theologian, and the rector of St. John Fisher Seminary in Stamford, Connecticut. Before being ordained in 1997, he worked in air freight, and prior to that, he [...]
Our guest today on Working Man is Cal Schroder. Cal is a husband, a father, an electrician, and a graduate of Thomas More College. If you want to understand how an integrated human life requires both the work of your hands and the work of [...]
Ryan Pohl is a machinist, former shop teacher, and the owner of Praeco Skills, a company that designs and delivers customized training programs for various industries. He is also the co-founder of Harmel Academy of the Trades. This is a guy with a ton of [...]
Hey it’s the very first episode of Working Man, the official podcast of Harmel Academy of the Trades. Our guest today on this inaugural episode is Brian Black, the co-founder and president of Harmel Academy of the Trades. Before co-founding our academy, Brian spent decades [...]
