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Jan 23, 2021

Joanie Butler is a Distributor Sales Manager at Arc Zone, Inc.—a top welding supply company in California. She has been with the company for 9 years, but her journey in the skilled trades industry didn’t start there. This small-town girl from northern California started dabbling in the trades as a teenager while...


Aug 13, 2020

You have seen her art but have you heard her story?  Barbie is an author, teacher of welding via her YouTube channel, influencer with over 62,000 Instagram followers, but most impressive is how she has become a world-renowned metal sculptor.  Creating sculptures for Miller Welders, Carolina Shoe Company, Harley Davidson...


Feb 5, 2020

Brenda Stredwick is the owner of Iron Maiden Welding LLC. She is a self-taught welder who has turned a living into her passion. She started welding at age 8 along her father to help him fix things around the house, she then continued welding in shop class in high school, and then doing odd jobs in her community. After a...


Aug 23, 2019

Stephanie is a welder, metal artist, fabricator, former welding instructor and now works for the American Welding Society tour with the Careers in Welding Trailer.  We dive into what it was like being a single mom working, taking classes and caring for her ill father.  She made it through a hurricane destroying her...


Jun 21, 2019

Madison has done exhaust work on super cars and currently is a welder/fabricator for an independent classic car restoration shop. For fun, her and her boyfriend race SCCA Rally Cross.  During the interview we dive into some challenges she had to over-come in order to follow her heart's desire. 

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