South Sound Connection (SSC) presented by The DYOJO Podcast and All American Restoration Services (AARES).

South Sound Connection LIVE 013 Part B - Expanding opportunities within the skilled trades with Jason Sturgeon

All American Restoration Services is a general contractor based in Tacoma, WA that provides insurance repairs services for clients throughout the South Sound.

The DYOJO is a business coaching service based in Tacoma, WA and produces The DYOJO Podcast - helping you shorten your DANG learning curve for professional development.

GUEST 2 Jason Sturgeon - Arcade Wayfinding - arcadewayfinding.com

• What have been some of the lessons learned from 2020 as it relates to Arcade Wayfinding and virtual training?
• Arcade Wayfinding does a great job to identify an issue in the skilled trades and has created a training program to help solve it, they state it as, "Promotion without preparation". This is also a contributing factor to high burnout and suicide rates within our industry. The issue of promoting people who are skilled at their craft without providing them training or tools to help them adapt to supervising and leading teams, to develop these new skillsets, has created low rates of success in many industries.
• Jason and Mary Sturgeon are proponents of opening opportunities for minorities and women in construction. They work to be an agent of change and elevating the industry through their training programs as well as their podcast The Critical Path. Jason shares one of their most recent shared initiatives, Build the Circle, which aims to building a stronger industry through expanding the talent circle and bring more voices into constructions inner circles.

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See past episodes SSC LIVE

Our goal at SSC LIVE is to highlight local businesses and efforts to do good in our Pacific Northwest neighborhoods. Will will be interviewing local entrepreneurs, business owners, artists, and community leaders to share their stories.

South Sound Connection (SSC) presented by The DYOJO Podcast and All American Restoration Services (AARES).

SSC LIVE 013 Part A - Using social media effectively for your local business with Allison Bishins

All American Restoration Services is a general contractor based in Tacoma, WA that provides insurance repairs services for clients throughout the South Sound (allamericanres.com)

The DYOJO is a business coaching service based in Tacoma, WA and produces The DYOJO Podcast - helping you shorten your DANG learning curve for professional development (thedyojo.com)

GUEST 1

Allison Bishins joins us to discuss community building for local businesses in 2021. The motto for her consulting company is "empowering small business to grow and connect" and she shares many gems from her experiences with learning to master social media and community building for local businesses.
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• How do we better support local minority owned and operated businesses?
• How does a local business better utilize social media to highlight their service and/or products?
• How do you connect and collaborate with your local community?
• How do you work through the resistance to self-promotion so that you can raise awareness of your business?
• What are some of the simple keys to business promotion that Allison has learned to master over the years?

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Allison has an upcoming workshop - "Modern Margins at Work: A Workshop on Gender in the Workplace" - Thursday, April 8, 2021 from 6-730pm. Learn more about Allison, her business, events, and resources at - allisonbishins.com

See past episodes of SSC LIVE

Our goal at SSC LIVE is to highlight local businesses and efforts to do good in our Pacific Northwest neighborhoods. Will will be interviewing local entrepreneurs, business owners, artists, and community leaders to share their stories.

South Sound Connection (SSC) LIVE - Episode 012 Part B

SSC LIVE is brought to you by The DYOJO Podcast and All American Restoration Services (Tacoma, WA).

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 9am PST - SSC LIVE ​

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Todd McKellips (Tiny Home Guy), Seattle Tiny Homes

On SSC LIVE 012 Part B we discussed:

• Zoning and building challenges for tiny homes as residences
• Obstacles to getting tiny home as solutions for homelessness through bureaucracy
• Use of tiny homes for veterans, emergency housing, and community solutions
• Following your passion, as Todd says, "Fight for something that will change the world."

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Todd McKellips is a social entrepreneur, philanthropist, chaplain and family man. Todd is the state chapter leader for the American Tiny House Association a national effort with affordable housing as at his core mission. He is passionate about bringing home ownership to those who can only dream of it. Todd is the director for Washington Tiny House Association.

WEBSITE
SeattleTinyHomes.com

Join us next Tuesday at 9am PST for SSC LIVE 

South Sound Connection (SSC) LIVE - Episode 011

SSC LIVE is brought to you by The DYOJO Podcast (thedyojo.com) and All American Restoration Services (Tacoma, WA - allamericanres.com).

Tuesday, February 2, 2021 9am PST - LIVE www.youtube.com/thedyojo​

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Tom Steffens, The Drake Cafe, Seattle, WA
Etaane, Little Orchid Annie, Seattle, WA

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