{"version":"1.0.0","segments":[{"startTime":0.03,"endTime":3.75,"body":"Especially when you spend some time in our"},{"startTime":0.03,"endTime":3.75,"body":"building, like you have, you know, what we do"},{"startTime":3.75,"endTime":5.46,"body":"and you know what those kids are capable of."},{"startTime":5.88,"endTime":8.61,"body":"So they're letting the kids do real work."},{"startTime":8.61,"endTime":11.79,"body":"We're not just sending kids out to"},{"startTime":8.61,"endTime":11.79,"body":"sweep floors and be the cleanup crew."},{"startTime":11.88,"endTime":15.21,"body":"Uh, in fact, we, we, we tell them"},{"startTime":11.88,"endTime":15.21,"body":"that's not how it's going to go down."},{"startTime":15.21,"endTime":18.12,"body":"You know, you must've been"},{"startTime":15.21,"endTime":18.12,"body":"part of that cohort early on."},{"startTime":18.12,"endTime":22.89,"body":"I remember very early on when our"},{"startTime":18.12,"endTime":22.89,"body":"business partners, mostly commercial"},{"startTime":22.89,"endTime":27.21,"body":"would say we can't hire people under"},{"startTime":22.89,"endTime":27.21,"body":"18, you know, our insurance policies."},{"startTime":28.59,"endTime":33.33,"body":"And somebody, somebody stood up, maybe it"},{"startTime":28.59,"endTime":33.33,"body":"was you and said, you know, check with your"},{"startTime":33.33,"endTime":39.75,"body":"insurance company because as a trainer and"},{"startTime":33.33,"endTime":39.75,"body":"accredited trainer, I guess, accredited"},{"startTime":39.75,"endTime":45.464,"body":"training facility, Uh, because of DOL and NCC"},{"startTime":39.75,"endTime":45.464,"body":"tower and all those things, uh, check with"},{"startTime":45.464,"endTime":50.444,"body":"your insurance policy and you'll find that"},{"startTime":45.464,"endTime":50.444,"body":"that you'll be covered at 16 and that's true."},{"startTime":50.714,"endTime":55.785,"body":"And suddenly we had people after"},{"startTime":50.714,"endTime":55.785,"body":"sophomore year going out and"},{"startTime":56.084,"endTime":57.944,"body":"getting internships that summer."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":58.399,"endTime":60.229,"body":"What's going on L and M family."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":60.349,"endTime":61.249,"body":"Jesse here."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":61.519,"endTime":63.559,"body":"You just got a little tastes of Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":63.559,"endTime":68.249,"body":"Krista Ackles, who has been in the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":63.559,"endTime":68.249,"body":"construction industry,  started off as a"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":68.249,"endTime":73.919,"body":"construction manager and has evolved her way"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":68.249,"endTime":73.919,"body":"into serving as the program coordinator at"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":73.919,"endTime":79.499,"body":"construction careers academy, which is an"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":73.919,"endTime":79.499,"body":"outstanding program in San Antonio, Texas."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":79.839,"endTime":82.779,"body":"So that's like a really"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":79.839,"endTime":82.779,"body":"interesting path, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":82.779,"endTime":88.269,"body":"She started off in construction management,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":82.779,"endTime":88.269,"body":"she went to school for finance, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":88.269,"endTime":90.909,"body":"now she's an educator administrator."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":91.221,"endTime":94.071,"body":"The road that she went through"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":91.221,"endTime":94.071,"body":"is pretty darn interesting."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":94.081,"endTime":98.761,"body":"There was a point of panic where"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":94.081,"endTime":98.761,"body":"she was very courageous and just"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":98.761,"endTime":100.741,"body":"would not take no for an answer."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":101.121,"endTime":106.131,"body":"And right after she got what she wanted, she"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":101.121,"endTime":106.131,"body":"said, oh my goodness, what did I just do?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":106.504,"endTime":111.713,"body":"And she pretty much lays out the program"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":106.504,"endTime":111.713,"body":"that, that they've put in place over"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":111.713,"endTime":117.953,"body":"it, CCA and helping, uh, fill this labor"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":111.713,"endTime":117.953,"body":"shortage that we're all dealing with."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":118.443,"endTime":120.063,"body":"And they're putting out amazing students."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":120.063,"endTime":121.593,"body":"She's got some great wins."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":121.903,"endTime":123.853,"body":"Check out the Instagram account."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":123.853,"endTime":127.813,"body":"You'll find that in the links, the NISD CCA."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":128.533,"endTime":130.073,"body":"Something like that, hit them up."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":130.073,"endTime":132.683,"body":"You'll see all kinds of beautiful"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":130.073,"endTime":132.683,"body":"stories of the students that went"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":132.683,"endTime":138.043,"body":"through the program that are now out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":132.683,"endTime":138.043,"body":"there working and earning a living, in"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":138.043,"endTime":139.873,"body":"our space, in the construction space."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":139.873,"endTime":142.287,"body":"So this was a special interview for me."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":142.707,"endTime":146.817,"body":"Uh, not just because Chris does"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":142.707,"endTime":146.817,"body":"amazing, but also because of the work"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":146.817,"endTime":151.137,"body":"that she's been committed to and, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":146.817,"endTime":151.137,"body":"the, the lives that have been impacted"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":151.137,"endTime":152.997,"body":"as a result of that amazing program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":153.018,"endTime":153.528,"body":"Of course."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":153.588,"endTime":154.428,"body":"I got to remind you."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":154.428,"endTime":156.108,"body":"We do have a Patrion account."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":156.528,"endTime":161.208,"body":"One is send a shout out to all our"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":156.528,"endTime":161.208,"body":"patrons that are supporting us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":161.298,"endTime":164.328,"body":"You may notice, um, the."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":165.078,"endTime":170.658,"body":"Quality of the video and the quality"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":165.078,"endTime":170.658,"body":"of the audio has gone up significantly."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":170.658,"endTime":174.318,"body":"And because of the contributions"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":170.658,"endTime":174.318,"body":"from our patrons, we've been able"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":174.318,"endTime":181.578,"body":"to tap into some resources to, to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":174.318,"endTime":181.578,"body":"improve the quality, um, maintain zero"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":181.578,"endTime":183.648,"body":"commercials, except for me, of course."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":184.049,"endTime":185.309,"body":"And outsource some of this stuff."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":185.309,"endTime":188.999,"body":"So we can do some other fancy stuff like"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":185.309,"endTime":188.999,"body":"the live streaming that Jennifer Lacy"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":188.999,"endTime":191.459,"body":"and I are doing on 5s and relationships."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":191.969,"endTime":193.859,"body":"Uh, so shout out to our supporters"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":194.025,"endTime":198.315,"body":"and for those interested in getting that L"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":194.025,"endTime":198.315,"body":"and M backstage pass, there are some pretty"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":198.315,"endTime":203.085,"body":"significant nuggets of wisdom that our"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":198.315,"endTime":203.085,"body":"guests have been sharing that are accessible"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":203.655,"endTime":207.595,"body":"through Patreon.com/Learnings and Missteps."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":208.23,"endTime":209.01,"body":"And here we go."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":214.567,"endTime":215.947,"body":"Here we are with Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":215.947,"endTime":224.317,"body":"Krista Ackles program coordinator slash"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":215.947,"endTime":224.317,"body":"project manager, uh, who does like some"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":224.317,"endTime":229.777,"body":"magical rockstar stuff at construction"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":224.317,"endTime":229.777,"body":"careers academy here in San Antonio."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":229.777,"endTime":230.437,"body":"How's it going?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":230.437,"endTime":230.647,"body":"Ms."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":230.647,"endTime":231.247,"body":"Krista?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":231.517,"endTime":232.477,"body":"That's fantastic."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":232.477,"endTime":233.627,"body":"Jessie, happy to be here."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":234.992,"endTime":235.542,"body":"Awesome."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":235.792,"endTime":241.042,"body":"So how, um, how deflating was it when,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":235.792,"endTime":241.042,"body":"when you saw the calendar invite that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":241.042,"endTime":242.902,"body":"we would be recording Saturday at"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":242.902,"endTime":244.132,"body":"00 AM, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":244.132,"endTime":248.992,"body":"Well, because of, because of nine 11,"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":244.132,"endTime":248.992,"body":"I guess, uh, it was more deflating."},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":249.232,"endTime":251.482,"body":"Um, but you know, I'm, I'm up and going."},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":251.602,"endTime":257.272,"body":"Um, but, um, yes, thanks to all the people"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":251.602,"endTime":257.272,"body":"who serve for sure, uh, on this day, but"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":257.542,"endTime":262.132,"body":"no I'm up, you know, a good reason to"},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":257.542,"endTime":262.132,"body":"get my day going and get my coffee on."},{"speaker":"Krista: 8","startTime":262.927,"endTime":263.047,"body":"Oh,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":263.767,"endTime":264.517,"body":"the coffee"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":264.517,"endTime":265.027,"body":"always."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":269.497,"endTime":270.637,"body":"Well, I appreciate that."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":270.637,"endTime":275.077,"body":"I mean, we've had some fun over the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":270.637,"endTime":275.077,"body":"years and now with the podcast, I was"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":275.077,"endTime":277.087,"body":"like, man, we gotta get Christa on here."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":277.357,"endTime":282.187,"body":"And, and I dropped the yesterday when you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":277.357,"endTime":282.187,"body":"and I were kind of doing during the prep"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":282.187,"endTime":289.477,"body":"call, but I'm also part of, uh, a member of"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":282.187,"endTime":289.477,"body":"the skilled trades Alliance and Adam hoots."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":289.477,"endTime":290.527,"body":"Who's the main host."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":290.557,"endTime":294.967,"body":"They have a, we started a podcast with"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":290.557,"endTime":294.967,"body":"that group and he was asking on our"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":294.967,"endTime":297.307,"body":"last recording and he was like, man,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":294.967,"endTime":297.307,"body":"who else are we going to bring us?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":297.307,"endTime":298.417,"body":"If we've got to bring Cristo?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":299.167,"endTime":299.797,"body":"Fantastic."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":299.797,"endTime":300.307,"body":"I'll do it"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":300.697,"endTime":301.267,"body":"beautiful."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":301.267,"endTime":303.667,"body":"So I committed you without"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":301.267,"endTime":303.667,"body":"asking, but you're all"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":305.017,"endTime":306.067,"body":"happy to do it with me, Jesse."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":306.697,"endTime":307.507,"body":"Fantastic."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":308.377,"endTime":312.727,"body":"All right, Krista, so"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":308.377,"endTime":312.727,"body":"question question, number one."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":313.867,"endTime":318.037,"body":"What do you want the L and M family out there?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":318.037,"endTime":319.327,"body":"Just the community."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":320.527,"endTime":322.867,"body":"Country world at large."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":323.317,"endTime":325.237,"body":"What do you want them to know about you?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":325.657,"endTime":325.867,"body":"You"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":325.867,"endTime":325.967,"body":"know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":325.967,"endTime":328.297,"body":"you know, it's, that's a, it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":325.967,"endTime":328.297,"body":"just such an open question, Jesse."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":328.297,"endTime":331.987,"body":"I don't know where to start, but, um, I,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":328.297,"endTime":331.987,"body":"I think kind of what sums it up for me"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":331.987,"endTime":337.867,"body":"is, is I am the B product I was created"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":331.987,"endTime":337.867,"body":"by, uh, an engineer and an artist."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":338.707,"endTime":343.087,"body":"Um, my dad's an engineer, my mom's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":338.707,"endTime":343.087,"body":"an artist and I'm a pretty good"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":343.297,"endTime":345.007,"body":"combination of those two things."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":345.007,"endTime":347.707,"body":"And then everything kind of,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":345.007,"endTime":347.707,"body":"kind of blooms away from there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":347.737,"endTime":352.897,"body":"You know, once one's very black and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":347.737,"endTime":352.897,"body":"white and one's very colorful and,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":352.927,"endTime":357.757,"body":"uh, so that, that kind of starts kind"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":352.927,"endTime":357.757,"body":"of sets the stage for, for all of it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":358.417,"endTime":362.137,"body":"Um, so I mean, if you're talking"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":358.417,"endTime":362.137,"body":"about background, you know, I pretty"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":362.137,"endTime":363.997,"body":"much have grown up in San Antonio."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":363.997,"endTime":365.707,"body":"I live in a house that I grew up in."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":365.737,"endTime":366.907,"body":"I bought it from my parents."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":366.907,"endTime":367.717,"body":"I love it here."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":368.587,"endTime":371.257,"body":"And, um, went to school at UTS."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":371.677,"endTime":372.997,"body":"I was an economics major."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":374.272,"endTime":376.222,"body":"Um, who would know."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":376.222,"endTime":376.672,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":377.722,"endTime":383.122,"body":"And, uh, um, you know, I've been in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":377.722,"endTime":383.122,"body":"education for 14, 13 years now, and I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":383.122,"endTime":386.242,"body":"dare say, I've never heard one of my"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":383.122,"endTime":386.242,"body":"students say, want to go to college."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":386.242,"endTime":390.562,"body":"I want to major in economics, not once."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":391.492,"endTime":397.132,"body":"But, um, so anyway, that's kind of the,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":391.492,"endTime":397.132,"body":"I, I got into, I got into construction."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":397.222,"endTime":400.642,"body":"Uh, I, that kind of goes to the next question."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":400.642,"endTime":401.692,"body":"So I'll save that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":401.782,"endTime":405.532,"body":"But, um, man, I got the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":401.782,"endTime":405.532,"body":"coolest job in the world."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":405.952,"endTime":406.192,"body":"So"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":406.852,"endTime":408.922,"body":"is that, what is that cool job?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":408.942,"endTime":412.132,"body":"Cause I agree I'm a little jealous"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":408.942,"endTime":412.132,"body":"of your job in super happy that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":412.132,"endTime":414.802,"body":"we connected, uh, the way we did."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":415.192,"endTime":419.062,"body":"Um, but what is that rockstar job that you do?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":419.872,"endTime":424.222,"body":"So construction careers"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":419.872,"endTime":424.222,"body":"academy is a public magnet school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":424.222,"endTime":425.272,"body":"We're not a charter school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":425.272,"endTime":426.652,"body":"We're part of the north side system."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":427.507,"endTime":431.947,"body":"And, uh, north side has"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":427.507,"endTime":431.947,"body":"committed to magnet schools."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":431.947,"endTime":437.107,"body":"And back in 2009, they opened, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":431.947,"endTime":437.107,"body":"the construction magnet school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":437.947,"endTime":440.407,"body":"And I came in, I was in the field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":440.407,"endTime":443.887,"body":"I was a, a construction manager for 13 years."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":443.887,"endTime":446.887,"body":"And then I did some estimating and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":443.887,"endTime":446.887,"body":"purchasing for a few years after that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":447.997,"endTime":451.027,"body":"And, uh, but at the time this was in 2008."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":451.627,"endTime":454.147,"body":"And, uh, do you remember"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":451.627,"endTime":454.147,"body":"what happened in 2008?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":455.347,"endTime":458.227,"body":"Was that the HB 12 thing?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":458.917,"endTime":462.997,"body":"Well, I mean the current"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":458.917,"endTime":462.997,"body":"construction just kind of crashed 2008, 2009."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":464.197,"endTime":464.647,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":465.727,"endTime":467.257,"body":"Well, I put you on the spot."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":467.557,"endTime":472.567,"body":"So, um, you know, we had a little downturn"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":467.557,"endTime":472.567,"body":"in economy and, and people, all my buddies"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":472.567,"endTime":474.427,"body":"around me, everybody was getting laid off."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":474.667,"endTime":477.457,"body":"I'd done an inspection for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":474.667,"endTime":477.457,"body":"about 16 years at that point."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":477.547,"endTime":480.877,"body":"And I mean, people were just dropping"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":477.547,"endTime":480.877,"body":"like flies, you know, because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":481.117,"endTime":482.647,"body":"construction was, was going down."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":483.697,"endTime":490.182,"body":"So, um, I thought, well, I'll, uh, I'll"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":483.697,"endTime":490.182,"body":"I'll think about teaching, you know, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":490.182,"endTime":492.462,"body":"mean, I, I was still, I was still working."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":492.462,"endTime":495.702,"body":"I was still making good money, but"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":492.462,"endTime":495.702,"body":"all the bonuses were taken away."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":495.702,"endTime":496.092,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":496.182,"endTime":498.792,"body":"Once that happened, I thought I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":496.182,"endTime":498.792,"body":"could make this much money teaching."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":499.842,"endTime":503.982,"body":"And so I started going back for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":499.842,"endTime":503.982,"body":"my, uh, alternate certification"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":504.042,"endTime":506.112,"body":"teaching certification program."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":506.202,"endTime":508.962,"body":"And I'm thinking I'm going to go"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":506.202,"endTime":508.962,"body":"back and teach math and economics."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":509.172,"endTime":509.502,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":510.462,"endTime":515.232,"body":"And, uh, because I was an economics major and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":510.462,"endTime":515.232,"body":"I'm very mathy from, from the dad's side of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":515.232,"endTime":517.572,"body":"my family, you know, that side of my brain."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":518.472,"endTime":522.252,"body":"So, um, I started doing the program and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":518.472,"endTime":522.252,"body":"right when I was in the middle of that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":522.252,"endTime":527.622,"body":"program, low and behold, I live in the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":522.252,"endTime":527.622,"body":"north side district and I got a, I got"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":527.622,"endTime":528.972,"body":"a thing in the mail flyer in the mail."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":528.972,"endTime":533.682,"body":"And it was from north side saying,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":528.972,"endTime":533.682,"body":"um, you know, was celebrating the,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":533.682,"endTime":536.722,"body":"the, the new opening of our newest"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":533.682,"endTime":536.722,"body":"magnet school, construction careers."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":536.722,"endTime":536.862,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":537.817,"endTime":539.917,"body":"And I thought, are you kidding me?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":539.977,"endTime":544.357,"body":"I mean, this is like, this is a construction"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":539.977,"endTime":544.357,"body":"school and here I am going to be a teacher"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":544.837,"endTime":546.697,"body":"I'm just coming out of the construction field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":546.757,"endTime":548.017,"body":"And I mean, I got chills."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":548.437,"endTime":550.147,"body":"I'm like, how am I going to get in this?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":550.147,"endTime":551.137,"body":"How am I going to do it?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":551.677,"endTime":554.347,"body":"And, uh, I immediately started"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":551.677,"endTime":554.347,"body":"making calls to the district."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":554.347,"endTime":558.427,"body":"I didn't even know who to call or whatever,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":554.347,"endTime":558.427,"body":"but, um, I just started making calls."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":558.437,"endTime":559.657,"body":"I'm like, this is my job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":559.687,"endTime":560.467,"body":"I got to get there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":561.007,"endTime":566.587,"body":"And, um, I got my certification"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":561.007,"endTime":566.587,"body":"and, um, just kinda kept knocking"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":566.587,"endTime":568.777,"body":"on doors until I got the interview."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":569.467,"endTime":573.997,"body":"And, um, now I got, I got in, on the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":569.467,"endTime":573.997,"body":"ground floor of the program, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":574.957,"endTime":576.157,"body":"That right out of the gate."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":576.157,"endTime":578.677,"body":"So I started teaching even"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":576.157,"endTime":578.677,"body":"before our building was open."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":579.577,"endTime":583.417,"body":"And so I was a teacher for, I don't know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":579.577,"endTime":583.417,"body":"eight years or so eight or nine years."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":583.867,"endTime":586.957,"body":"And then I've slowly kind of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":583.867,"endTime":586.957,"body":"started moving into administration."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":587.467,"endTime":592.597,"body":"And, um, so now I, I, uh, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":587.467,"endTime":592.597,"body":"like you said, we, one of our, kind of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":592.597,"endTime":594.517,"body":"our capstone thing is the tiny homes."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":594.517,"endTime":595.717,"body":"That's kind of what we've come known."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":596.782,"endTime":601.042,"body":"But I don't, I don't like being known for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":596.782,"endTime":601.042,"body":"that so much because what's more important"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":601.042,"endTime":604.672,"body":"to me is the curriculum and what we teach"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":601.042,"endTime":604.672,"body":"the kids, we teach the kids the skills"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":605.272,"endTime":608.002,"body":"and, um, that that's what we need to be."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":608.002,"endTime":610.102,"body":"We need to never lose sight of the curriculum."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":610.102,"endTime":611.332,"body":"And what's what we're teaching the kids."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":611.362,"endTime":614.242,"body":"The tiny homes are a cool feature."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":614.242,"endTime":615.382,"body":"It's very trendy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":615.382,"endTime":616.732,"body":"People like to see him."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":616.802,"endTime":620.002,"body":"It brings people into our"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":616.802,"endTime":620.002,"body":"program, which is great."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":620.572,"endTime":621.772,"body":"Um, but more important."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":621.772,"endTime":627.142,"body":"We're teaching some kids a really, really"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":621.772,"endTime":627.142,"body":"great life skills and career skills also."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":627.892,"endTime":628.372,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":628.672,"endTime":630.712,"body":"So I've been able to hang out there."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":630.712,"endTime":635.542,"body":"Y'all have had me over for,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":630.712,"endTime":635.542,"body":"um, mock interviews and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":635.542,"endTime":637.732,"body":"career-ready and different stuff."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":637.732,"endTime":644.452,"body":"And it blew my mind because, you know,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":637.732,"endTime":644.452,"body":"pre COVID, at least I got to visit"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":644.602,"endTime":648.112,"body":"a bunch of local campuses here in"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":644.602,"endTime":648.112,"body":"San Antonio, north side, independent"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":648.112,"endTime":654.382,"body":"school district, S a I S D east central"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":648.112,"endTime":654.382,"body":"Northeast, you know, all of 'em town."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":656.477,"endTime":662.267,"body":"And they all kind of have a CTE program that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":656.477,"endTime":662.267,"body":"kind of, they all have a CT program, but the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":662.267,"endTime":668.087,"body":"program that you're at a construction careers"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":662.267,"endTime":668.087,"body":"academy is a very sophisticated program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":668.087,"endTime":672.737,"body":"Like it's not, it's not shop."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":673.067,"endTime":673.457,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":673.727,"endTime":678.557,"body":"So would you mind expanding on all the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":673.727,"endTime":678.557,"body":"different tracks and the, some of the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":678.557,"endTime":680.387,"body":"complexity of what y'all are doing?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":680.897,"endTime":681.137,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":681.137,"endTime":687.767,"body":"When, when CCA started, um, you know, I mean,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":681.137,"endTime":687.767,"body":"of course it, it really, it was, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":688.067,"endTime":692.387,"body":"birth way before 2009 because they had to,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":688.067,"endTime":692.387,"body":"to get the bond and do all those things."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":692.717,"endTime":694.787,"body":"But north side went all in."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":694.877,"endTime":698.297,"body":"They didn't just say we're going to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":694.877,"endTime":698.297,"body":"take a wood shop and do cool things"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":698.297,"endTime":701.567,"body":"with it, or turn it into an electrical"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":698.297,"endTime":701.567,"body":"program and, and focus on that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":702.017,"endTime":708.052,"body":"Uh, they went all in with their, their bond"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":702.017,"endTime":708.052,"body":"issue and, um, And created a whole, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":708.052,"endTime":712.882,"body":"a whole building, a large building on top"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":708.052,"endTime":712.882,"body":"of another, uh, comprehensive high school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":713.572,"endTime":718.972,"body":"So, um, it, it, like you said, it's, it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":713.572,"endTime":718.972,"body":"more sophisticated than we, we get, we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":718.972,"endTime":722.302,"body":"get school districts all the time coming"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":718.972,"endTime":722.302,"body":"to us saying, we want to do what you do."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":722.362,"endTime":725.302,"body":"It's like, man, you need to start big, go big."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":725.332,"endTime":727.582,"body":"You know, north side really went big."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":728.272,"endTime":732.592,"body":"So in that building that they built"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":728.272,"endTime":732.592,"body":"us, um, down below on the first floor,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":732.592,"endTime":739.072,"body":"we have four shops and those, so we do"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":732.592,"endTime":739.072,"body":"carpentry, uh, which is also a, a, a DOL,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":739.072,"endTime":740.932,"body":"registered DOL apprenticeship program."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":740.932,"endTime":745.642,"body":"Our carpentry is we have construction"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":740.932,"endTime":745.642,"body":"management and we have electrical and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":745.642,"endTime":750.112,"body":"HPAC, which is also DOL kids can work"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":745.642,"endTime":750.112,"body":"toward their journeymen and electrical."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":750.652,"endTime":752.512,"body":"Uh, and then we have plumbing,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":750.652,"endTime":752.512,"body":"pipe fitting and welding."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":752.512,"endTime":754.912,"body":"So that's also a DOL apprenticeship program."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":755.482,"endTime":758.812,"body":"And then upstairs and some of the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":755.482,"endTime":758.812,"body":"classrooms and labs, we have a full"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":758.812,"endTime":761.272,"body":"architecture lab and a full engineering lab."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":761.452,"endTime":764.182,"body":"Um, and so that's, those are the six areas of."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":765.457,"endTime":771.337,"body":"So, um, our, our kids, you know, I,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":765.457,"endTime":771.337,"body":"I met with Morton buildings on, if it"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":771.337,"endTime":776.977,"body":"can I say names because they, uh, they,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":771.337,"endTime":776.977,"body":"they hired, it was really exciting."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":776.977,"endTime":786.067,"body":"They, we went to lunch this week and, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":776.977,"endTime":786.067,"body":"they hired one of our boys back in 2018 and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":786.097,"endTime":788.407,"body":"she was super excited earlier this summer."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":788.407,"endTime":792.547,"body":"She said, he's, he's the youngest"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":788.407,"endTime":792.547,"body":"person we've ever promoted crew to."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":793.447,"endTime":797.257,"body":"And then she, a couple, a couple of weeks"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":793.447,"endTime":797.257,"body":"later, she's like more super excited"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":797.257,"endTime":802.207,"body":"because they just hired two more of our"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":797.257,"endTime":802.207,"body":"students and put them all on the same crew."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":802.477,"endTime":804.787,"body":"And it's like, this is the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":802.477,"endTime":804.787,"body":"youngest crew we've ever had."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":804.787,"endTime":806.017,"body":"It's all your students."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":806.017,"endTime":807.217,"body":"They're incredible boys."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":807.217,"endTime":808.207,"body":"They're very respectful."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":808.207,"endTime":809.047,"body":"They're hard workers."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":809.047,"endTime":811.177,"body":"They show up on time and I'm getting chills."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":811.177,"endTime":812.917,"body":"You know, it's like, this"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":811.177,"endTime":812.917,"body":"is exactly what we want."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":813.607,"endTime":819.457,"body":"So, um, that's been a, we, you know, I feel"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":813.607,"endTime":819.457,"body":"like sometimes I live vicariously now through,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":819.487,"endTime":822.697,"body":"through the students, who've gone through"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":819.487,"endTime":822.697,"body":"the program because they are doing amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":822.997,"endTime":823.447,"body":"Amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":823.507,"endTime":824.257,"body":"So that's really cool."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":825.172,"endTime":827.782,"body":"Oh, it's it is phenomenal."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":827.812,"endTime":833.432,"body":"I mean, we got to, when I was at TD"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":827.812,"endTime":833.432,"body":"industries, we got to get a recruitment,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":833.432,"endTime":835.132,"body":"a few of your y'all's high school stoop."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":836.302,"endTime":838.042,"body":"I think they were juniors at the time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":838.402,"endTime":839.422,"body":"Um, well,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":840.472,"endTime":842.272,"body":"yeah, the juniors will do internships."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":842.552,"endTime":843.272,"body":"Right, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":843.382,"endTime":843.712,"body":"Sorry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":844.432,"endTime":844.582,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":844.582,"endTime":850.252,"body":"So Samantha came in on the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":844.582,"endTime":850.252,"body":"Samantha and Jose Moreno."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":851.062,"endTime":851.632,"body":"He's still there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":851.632,"endTime":852.472,"body":"I think he's"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":852.472,"endTime":853.012,"body":"still there."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":853.012,"endTime":854.782,"body":"He, well, he left a little bit, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":855.062,"endTime":855.642,"body":"That's right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":855.862,"endTime":856.342,"body":"That's right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":857.902,"endTime":860.062,"body":"And then he went"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":857.902,"endTime":860.062,"body":"back to, towards for TD."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":860.062,"endTime":864.622,"body":"So he's, uh, he's probably a third"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":860.062,"endTime":864.622,"body":"year apprentice at this time, three"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":864.632,"endTime":866.362,"body":"going in his apprenticeship program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":866.662,"endTime":874.072,"body":"Um, I remember interviewing him in the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":866.662,"endTime":874.072,"body":"mock interviews and I'm like, so, you know,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":874.072,"endTime":875.962,"body":"w what are you, what are you doing here?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":875.962,"endTime":877.642,"body":"What do you see going forward?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":878.332,"endTime":880.492,"body":"And he's like, oh, I'm going to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":878.332,"endTime":880.492,"body":"own my own plumbing business."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":881.182,"endTime":881.332,"body":"I see."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":882.187,"endTime":884.107,"body":"I'm thinking like this guy's a junior, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":884.107,"endTime":885.827,"body":"He's a little skinny kid."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":885.847,"endTime":890.737,"body":"Like what do you like you and what"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":885.847,"endTime":890.737,"body":"other plumbing experience do you have?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":890.737,"endTime":895.147,"body":"He's like, oh, I just, what I learned here"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":890.737,"endTime":895.147,"body":"at CCA to give any family members like, Nope."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":896.107,"endTime":899.557,"body":"And I said, okay, you seem"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":896.107,"endTime":899.557,"body":"pretty darn confident."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":899.557,"endTime":901.387,"body":"Like, where's that confidence coming from?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":901.387,"endTime":909.067,"body":"He's like, well, you know, my mom, she"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":901.387,"endTime":909.067,"body":"came over here and she's fought and clawed"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":909.067,"endTime":912.007,"body":"for every inch and built a life for us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":912.007,"endTime":912.247,"body":"And."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":913.267,"endTime":914.677,"body":"If she can do it, I can do it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":914.677,"endTime":915.757,"body":"So that's what I'm going to do."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":915.757,"endTime":917.437,"body":"And I was like, I'm not kidding."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":917.437,"endTime":921.367,"body":"After that interview, I called Diana,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":917.437,"endTime":921.367,"body":"who was our talent acquisition."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":921.367,"endTime":922.837,"body":"It's like, we gotta get this guy."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":923.827,"endTime":924.547,"body":"He's one of our,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":925.477,"endTime":928.567,"body":"it's funny because you know, we set"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":925.477,"endTime":928.567,"body":"up the mock interviews to, to, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":928.567,"endTime":930.067,"body":"we want to teach our kids soft skills."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":930.067,"endTime":932.587,"body":"Like I said, it's, it's, it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":930.067,"endTime":932.587,"body":"about, you know, getting the kids"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":932.587,"endTime":933.877,"body":"well rounded and things like that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":934.387,"endTime":940.567,"body":"And very early on our mock mock interviews"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":934.387,"endTime":940.567,"body":"turned into real jobs and were like, this was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":940.567,"endTime":942.847,"body":"really just supposed to be a mock interview."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":942.877,"endTime":945.397,"body":"But the people that were coming in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":942.877,"endTime":945.397,"body":"from business interview where our"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":945.397,"endTime":948.577,"body":"kids were so impressed, they started"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":945.397,"endTime":948.577,"body":"hiring off of the mock interview"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":951.037,"endTime":954.457,"body":"for the folks out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":951.037,"endTime":954.457,"body":"there to understand the."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":955.192,"endTime":960.592,"body":"The caliber of people that are"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":955.192,"endTime":960.592,"body":"coming out of CCA, they come out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":960.592,"endTime":962.332,"body":"with the Nosha 10 certifications."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":963.292,"endTime":967.222,"body":"They come out with, depending on which track"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":963.292,"endTime":967.222,"body":"they took, but we'll stick to plumbering cause"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":967.222,"endTime":973.852,"body":"I'm buying, they come out with a fundamental"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":967.222,"endTime":973.852,"body":"knowledge of the materials, the different"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":973.852,"endTime":977.962,"body":"types of fittings, the different types"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":973.852,"endTime":977.962,"body":"of systems, the different types of tools."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":979.162,"endTime":984.562,"body":"Like they come out with this"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":979.162,"endTime":984.562,"body":"skillset that we normally industry"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":984.832,"endTime":987.442,"body":"typically has to pay to build."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":987.652,"endTime":987.952,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":988.282,"endTime":991.132,"body":"And in this case we don't have"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":988.282,"endTime":991.132,"body":"like, they already have that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":991.672,"endTime":995.182,"body":"And then they also have,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":991.672,"endTime":995.182,"body":"we use NCCR curriculum, which means"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":995.182,"endTime":997.712,"body":"something to some people and doesn't"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":995.182,"endTime":997.712,"body":"mean anything to other people."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":997.772,"endTime":1000.972,"body":"And I get that, um, it doesn't"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":997.772,"endTime":1000.972,"body":"mean much to people in residential"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1000.972,"endTime":1003.462,"body":"because I'd never heard of it before,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1000.972,"endTime":1003.462,"body":"but commercial people put it out."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1004.002,"endTime":1005.652,"body":"And uh, so we use the NCCR."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1005.652,"endTime":1012.717,"body":"So, uh, they'll come out with a level one, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1005.652,"endTime":1012.717,"body":"plumbing, uh, We also do dual credit with St."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1012.717,"endTime":1013.377,"body":"Phillips college."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1013.407,"endTime":1017.757,"body":"So they come out with college credit"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1013.407,"endTime":1017.757,"body":"and, um, we've had plumbers, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1017.757,"endTime":1020.037,"body":"know, walk the stage with a St."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1020.037,"endTime":1022.137,"body":"Phillips certificate called"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1020.037,"endTime":1022.137,"body":"the plumber's helper."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1022.677,"endTime":1028.407,"body":"And, uh, and then anyway, it gets kids"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1022.677,"endTime":1028.407,"body":"about a year into, uh, a, um, associates"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1028.407,"endTime":1030.147,"body":"degree if they want to continue on with St."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1030.147,"endTime":1030.867,"body":"Phillips college."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1030.897,"endTime":1032.487,"body":"So they're very close."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1032.487,"endTime":1036.267,"body":"I mean, a lot of stellar where kids"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1032.487,"endTime":1036.267,"body":"have gone through that program also."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1036.267,"endTime":1040.677,"body":"So, um, yeah, they have, they have a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1036.267,"endTime":1040.677,"body":"few credentials that like most people"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1040.677,"endTime":1042.777,"body":"would have maybe when they're 25 or so."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1044.397,"endTime":1044.997,"body":"That's my guess."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1044.997,"endTime":1046.047,"body":"I don't know, but yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1046.557,"endTime":1050.637,"body":"Yeah, it takes it, you know, it"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1046.557,"endTime":1050.637,"body":"might take a couple years, but so he was"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1050.637,"endTime":1054.657,"body":"the thing, you know, of when we started"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1050.637,"endTime":1054.657,"body":"that internship program at TD people"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1054.657,"endTime":1058.707,"body":"thought were, well, people thought I"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1054.657,"endTime":1058.707,"body":"was nuts, which I kind of am, but they"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1058.707,"endTime":1060.207,"body":"were concerned it wasn't going to work."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1060.687,"endTime":1061.227,"body":"Um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1061.707,"endTime":1063.777,"body":"because of the age"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1061.707,"endTime":1063.777,"body":"of the cans, because of the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1063.777,"endTime":1064.557,"body":"age of the kids."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1065.352,"endTime":1065.652,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1065.652,"endTime":1068.562,"body":"Like, well, they're 18 or they"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1065.652,"endTime":1068.562,"body":"were, they weren't even 18."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1068.562,"endTime":1070.662,"body":"They were 17 and 16."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1071.232,"endTime":1074.682,"body":"We couldn't go younger than 16 because"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1071.232,"endTime":1074.682,"body":"that would be breaking the law."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1075.012,"endTime":1079.332,"body":"And we, and it was important for us"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1075.012,"endTime":1079.332,"body":"that, that they got to operate the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1079.332,"endTime":1081.312,"body":"tools and actually do the damn work."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1081.552,"endTime":1081.792,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1081.822,"endTime":1085.182,"body":"Uh, so we had to do a lot of"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1081.822,"endTime":1085.182,"body":"research to find out, to like learn"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1085.182,"endTime":1087.702,"body":"that it wasn't an OSHA violation."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1087.972,"endTime":1092.412,"body":"It was a liability thing that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1087.972,"endTime":1092.412,"body":"organizations were not hiring"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1092.412,"endTime":1094.872,"body":"under 18 or interning under 18."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1095.382,"endTime":1099.372,"body":"Uh, so once we worked through all"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1095.382,"endTime":1099.372,"body":"that Riga Maru, we made it happen."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1099.822,"endTime":1103.932,"body":"Um, and at first people were freaking"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1099.822,"endTime":1103.932,"body":"out, but at the end of that first, the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1103.932,"endTime":1108.162,"body":"very first summer, there were so many"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1103.932,"endTime":1108.162,"body":"of the superintendents and foreman."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1108.162,"endTime":1110.082,"body":"They were like, Jess, why"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1108.162,"endTime":1110.082,"body":"didn't I get an intern?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1110.082,"endTime":1112.962,"body":"And it's like, well, because you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1110.082,"endTime":1112.962,"body":"were crying and you were scared."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1112.992,"endTime":1117.972,"body":"Like the most common thing, two things"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1112.992,"endTime":1117.972,"body":"I heard was I'm not a babysitter."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1119.232,"endTime":1119.472,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1119.772,"endTime":1122.322,"body":"And what if they get hurt?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1122.352,"endTime":1123.882,"body":"What if they cut their finger off?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1123.972,"endTime":1128.697,"body":"And I'm like, We got 46 year old"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1123.972,"endTime":1128.697,"body":"people getting hurt, like it's"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1129.447,"endTime":1131.427,"body":"injuries do not discriminate."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1132.657,"endTime":1135.597,"body":"We just, we got to put the systems"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1132.657,"endTime":1135.597,"body":"in place to make sure they're okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1135.597,"endTime":1136.377,"body":"And they'll be okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1136.767,"endTime":1141.627,"body":"Um, and, but here was the thing, you know,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1136.767,"endTime":1141.627,"body":"the credentials they're great, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1141.627,"endTime":1145.977,"body":"That, that, that helps open people's"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1141.627,"endTime":1145.977,"body":"minds, employers' minds about it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1146.547,"endTime":1154.347,"body":"Um, but what I got to see was we have"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1146.547,"endTime":1154.347,"body":"these 16, 17, 18 year old students, right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1154.347,"endTime":1158.337,"body":"We, when we did the internship and then"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1154.347,"endTime":1158.337,"body":"when they graduated and actually came to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1158.337,"endTime":1165.177,"body":"work for TD back then the attitude was,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1158.337,"endTime":1165.177,"body":"and when I say attitude, I don't, I'm"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1165.177,"endTime":1169.797,"body":"not, I don't mean like they've had a very"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1165.177,"endTime":1169.797,"body":"positive attitude, their attitude about"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1169.797,"endTime":1172.197,"body":"the money they were making was different."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1172.797,"endTime":1177.177,"body":"And, and here's why I think I never, you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1172.797,"endTime":1177.177,"body":"know, I didn't do any research, but when we're"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1177.177,"endTime":1186.117,"body":"hiring somebody that has been out, um, Out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1177.177,"endTime":1186.117,"body":"of high school in, in milling around trying"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1186.117,"endTime":1191.937,"body":"to find a, a route that you'll usually, by"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1186.117,"endTime":1191.937,"body":"that point, they've got some kind of debt."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1191.967,"endTime":1195.297,"body":"They've got some brand, they've got"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1191.967,"endTime":1195.297,"body":"a vehicle, they've got insurance."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1195.417,"endTime":1197.127,"body":"Sometimes they got family already."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1197.127,"endTime":1197.937,"body":"They got kids."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1198.567,"endTime":1204.207,"body":"So, you know, the 15 to $20 an"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1198.567,"endTime":1204.207,"body":"hour, it really isn't enough."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1205.137,"endTime":1208.887,"body":"And, and, and of course, you know,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1205.137,"endTime":1208.887,"body":"our, uh, we work in the elements."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1208.887,"endTime":1213.297,"body":"So that, that also is not awesome,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1208.887,"endTime":1213.297,"body":"except for maybe like 10 days"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1213.297,"endTime":1215.487,"body":"out of the year in San Antonio."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1215.907,"endTime":1221.937,"body":"Um, so the kids came out, the kids, the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1215.907,"endTime":1221.937,"body":"students came out and they were making"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1221.997,"endTime":1225.267,"body":"15 bucks an hour and they love it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1226.062,"endTime":1228.192,"body":"Like, it was a lot of money for them."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1228.762,"endTime":1231.192,"body":"Don't have the debt, they don't have the rent."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1231.552,"endTime":1237.732,"body":"Uh, and, and so their attitude about what"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1231.552,"endTime":1237.732,"body":"they were being compensated enhanced,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1237.732,"endTime":1240.252,"body":"their focus and commitment to learning."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1240.492,"endTime":1244.572,"body":"And that just created this dynamic where"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1240.492,"endTime":1244.572,"body":"the, our, our journeymen out there were"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1244.572,"endTime":1248.412,"body":"like, I want like Samantha and they"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1244.572,"endTime":1248.412,"body":"were fighting over her by the end of it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1248.902,"endTime":1252.792,"body":"Cause we had to rotate or they spent"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1248.902,"endTime":1252.792,"body":"a few weeks, a third of their time"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1252.792,"endTime":1255.672,"body":"with the plumber, a third of the time"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1252.792,"endTime":1255.672,"body":"with the sheet metal team and a third"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1255.672,"endTime":1258.312,"body":"of the time, the fitters and welders."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1258.822,"endTime":1261.012,"body":"And every time it was time for"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1258.822,"endTime":1261.012,"body":"her to go, they're like, nah,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1261.092,"endTime":1262.152,"body":"no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1262.152,"endTime":1264.132,"body":"I'm going to keep her"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1262.152,"endTime":1264.132,"body":"like, nah, she's got to go."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1264.942,"endTime":1266.802,"body":"And then she came back."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1267.792,"endTime":1268.722,"body":"So that was summer."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1269.082,"endTime":1271.692,"body":"She reached out and said, Hey,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1269.082,"endTime":1271.692,"body":"spring, break's coming up."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1271.722,"endTime":1275.112,"body":"Can I come and do some"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1271.722,"endTime":1275.112,"body":"interning over spring break?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1275.622,"endTime":1277.072,"body":"So yeah, it was only a week."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1277.722,"endTime":1280.482,"body":"We'll get you in the, so she"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1277.722,"endTime":1280.482,"body":"was in the office and she got to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1280.632,"endTime":1282.252,"body":"experience that side of the business."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1282.762,"endTime":1284.742,"body":"And then Christmas break, I get another call."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1284.772,"endTime":1286.842,"body":"Jessie, can I intern over Chris's brother?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1286.852,"endTime":1289.722,"body":"Like, oh yeah, like, that's awesome."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1290.232,"endTime":1299.442,"body":"Um, and, and that's you, and I've had"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1290.232,"endTime":1299.442,"body":"this conversation a few times and, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1300.102,"endTime":1303.222,"body":"I'm hoping, I mean, it sounds like it"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1300.102,"endTime":1303.222,"body":"Morton homes, it was Morton homes, right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1303.312,"endTime":1305.892,"body":"That Martin mal buildings"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1303.312,"endTime":1305.892,"body":"more than Mel buildings."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1306.312,"endTime":1313.332,"body":"Um, if they're hiring your people that,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1306.312,"endTime":1313.332,"body":"uh, I love hearing that because back then"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1313.332,"endTime":1319.182,"body":"when we started this internship thing, what"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1313.332,"endTime":1319.182,"body":"I understood was, was CCA was graduating"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1319.182,"endTime":1324.132,"body":"students with this knowledge and this"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1319.182,"endTime":1324.132,"body":"energy and they were not entering industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1324.132,"endTime":1326.262,"body":"Was, was that how accurate is."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1327.027,"endTime":1327.267,"body":"Uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1328.377,"endTime":1330.837,"body":"yeah, a few where"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1328.377,"endTime":1330.837,"body":"I think more are now."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1331.287,"endTime":1334.797,"body":"And I mean, I think that has something to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1331.287,"endTime":1334.797,"body":"do just with the evolution of our program"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1334.797,"endTime":1340.047,"body":"and how we recruit, you know, and, and,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1334.797,"endTime":1340.047,"body":"and, and like, again, the evolution of,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1340.077,"endTime":1341.757,"body":"uh, getting the right business partners."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1341.757,"endTime":1344.007,"body":"And like you said, getting"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1341.757,"endTime":1344.007,"body":"internships and things like that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1344.097,"endTime":1348.657,"body":"So, um, but you know, it's interesting"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1344.097,"endTime":1348.657,"body":"that you say, you know, the, the kids"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1348.657,"endTime":1350.607,"body":"are, you know, thrilled with the money."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1350.607,"endTime":1355.647,"body":"And, and I think it's more than that though,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1350.607,"endTime":1355.647,"body":"because I think that at this point business"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1355.647,"endTime":1359.517,"body":"partners, do they know that, especially"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1355.647,"endTime":1359.517,"body":"when you spend some time in our building,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1359.517,"endTime":1363.237,"body":"like you have, you know, what we do and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1359.517,"endTime":1363.237,"body":"you know, what those kids are capable of."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1363.657,"endTime":1366.357,"body":"So they're letting the kids do real work."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1366.387,"endTime":1369.537,"body":"We're not just sending kids out to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1366.387,"endTime":1369.537,"body":"sweep floors and be the cleanup crew."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1369.657,"endTime":1372.987,"body":"Uh, in fact, we, we, we tell them,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1369.657,"endTime":1372.987,"body":"that's not how it's going to go down."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1372.987,"endTime":1375.897,"body":"You know, you must've been"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1372.987,"endTime":1375.897,"body":"part of that cohort early on."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1375.897,"endTime":1380.667,"body":"I remember very early on when our"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1375.897,"endTime":1380.667,"body":"business partners, mostly commercial"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1380.667,"endTime":1384.987,"body":"would say, we can't hire people under"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1380.667,"endTime":1384.987,"body":"18, you know, our insurance policies."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1386.337,"endTime":1390.807,"body":"And somebody, somebody stood up, maybe"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1386.337,"endTime":1390.807,"body":"it was you and said, you know, check"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1390.807,"endTime":1396.747,"body":"with your insurance company because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1390.807,"endTime":1396.747,"body":"as a, um, uh, what are we as the,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1396.747,"endTime":1399.567,"body":"uh, um, I can't think of the word."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1399.987,"endTime":1407.397,"body":"Um, help me, Jessie, what's that word as"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1399.987,"endTime":1407.397,"body":"a, um, a trainer and accredited trainer,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1407.457,"endTime":1412.137,"body":"I guess, accredited training facility,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1407.457,"endTime":1412.137,"body":"uh, because of DOL and NCC tower and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1412.137,"endTime":1416.157,"body":"all those things, uh, check with your"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1412.137,"endTime":1416.157,"body":"insurance policy and you'll find that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1416.247,"endTime":1418.977,"body":"you'll be covered at 16 and that's true."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1419.277,"endTime":1425.787,"body":"And suddenly we had people after sophomore"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1419.277,"endTime":1425.787,"body":"year going out and getting internships"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1425.787,"endTime":1429.927,"body":"that summer, which has been phenomenal"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1425.787,"endTime":1429.927,"body":"because like you said, it, it, it"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1429.927,"endTime":1432.777,"body":"kinda, it, it grows them up quickly."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1432.777,"endTime":1436.047,"body":"They, I always love seeing the kids"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1432.777,"endTime":1436.047,"body":"come back after a summer of work."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1436.647,"endTime":1437.757,"body":"Uh, they seem more mature."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1437.757,"endTime":1440.817,"body":"And the other interesting thing, and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1437.757,"endTime":1440.817,"body":"maybe it's about that money-making piece."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1441.417,"endTime":1442.227,"body":"A lot of kids."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1442.977,"endTime":1446.397,"body":"I don't know if it's a cultural thing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1442.977,"endTime":1446.397,"body":"now, but a lot of can seem to want to go"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1446.397,"endTime":1450.267,"body":"back to where they were, like you said,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1446.397,"endTime":1450.267,"body":"Samantha kept coming back, kept coming back."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1450.687,"endTime":1453.417,"body":"You know, I'll have kids next"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1450.687,"endTime":1453.417,"body":"summer say I'm going back to work"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1453.417,"endTime":1454.797,"body":"with, with Metro or whatever."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1454.797,"endTime":1458.277,"body":"And I'm like, go somewhere else, try"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1454.797,"endTime":1458.277,"body":"something else, try a different company,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1458.277,"endTime":1459.897,"body":"see what the culture's like somewhere else."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1459.927,"endTime":1463.617,"body":"So you can get a, you know, and they're like,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1459.927,"endTime":1463.617,"body":"no, I, I, you know, I really liked it there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1463.617,"endTime":1465.337,"body":"They become very attached."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1466.527,"endTime":1471.087,"body":"And I guess they kind of grab onto that,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1466.527,"endTime":1471.087,"body":"that if they, if they had a good experience"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1471.087,"endTime":1475.857,"body":"of course, and, uh, kind of had that family,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1471.087,"endTime":1475.857,"body":"people took care of them, then they wanted"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1475.857,"endTime":1477.477,"body":"to, you know, take care of them as well."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1477.477,"endTime":1479.487,"body":"So that's been kind of an interesting thing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1479.487,"endTime":1483.567,"body":"I didn't realize that kids were going"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1479.487,"endTime":1483.567,"body":"to be that, uh, attached that you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1483.597,"endTime":1488.067,"body":"which is kinda cool, but I still encourage"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1483.597,"endTime":1488.067,"body":"you to experience a different, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1488.607,"endTime":1491.787,"body":"you want to know, you want to know what"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1488.607,"endTime":1491.787,"body":"it's like to have a great boss versus"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1491.787,"endTime":1494.087,"body":"a crummy boss, you know, learn that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1494.087,"endTime":1499.047,"body":"And now, you know, a lot of money, no"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1494.087,"endTime":1499.047,"body":"amount of money can make up for a crummy."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1500.112,"endTime":1502.842,"body":"No, you have 100%, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1502.842,"endTime":1504.762,"body":"Like, ah, I'd rather be broke."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1505.062,"endTime":1510.972,"body":"Um, the guys said I'd rather work for"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1505.062,"endTime":1510.972,"body":"a hard ass than a dumb ass, uh, greed."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1514.392,"endTime":1515.352,"body":"Um, yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1515.412,"endTime":1516.702,"body":"And that's the thing though."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1516.762,"endTime":1523.842,"body":"It's a great, it's a great indicator"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1516.762,"endTime":1523.842,"body":"for those companies that they have an"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1523.842,"endTime":1527.982,"body":"appropriate culture and appropriate"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1523.842,"endTime":1527.982,"body":"measure of respect for the people."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1528.222,"endTime":1534.042,"body":"If the students want to come back, um,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1528.222,"endTime":1534.042,"body":"you know, I've, you, you and I both"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1534.042,"endTime":1539.502,"body":"have had miserable bosses in our past,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1534.042,"endTime":1539.502,"body":"and that's not fun for our, for our"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1539.502,"endTime":1541.962,"body":"youth that you don't have any debt."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1542.022,"endTime":1545.952,"body":"And like, you know, I've had miserable"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1542.022,"endTime":1545.952,"body":"bosses and I had to go back to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1545.952,"endTime":1548.412,"body":"work because I had to pay my crap."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1549.657,"endTime":1553.737,"body":"They don't have any debt and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1549.657,"endTime":1553.737,"body":"they're opting to go back."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1554.097,"endTime":1558.147,"body":"And so that's, that speaks very well"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1554.097,"endTime":1558.147,"body":"for, for the employers out there."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1558.567,"endTime":1562.557,"body":"Uh, so good job to all of y'all out there"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1558.567,"endTime":1562.557,"body":"that are making that place safe and making"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1562.557,"endTime":1568.287,"body":"these students want to come back and, and you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1562.557,"endTime":1568.287,"body":"know, it, it triggers this thought in my head"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1568.287,"endTime":1575.907,"body":"where a lot of us, even me I've said it every"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1568.287,"endTime":1575.907,"body":"now and then we love to deflect ownership"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1576.087,"endTime":1582.807,"body":"of our cultural problems in the industry"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1576.087,"endTime":1582.807,"body":"by saying, millennials don't want to work."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1583.317,"endTime":1584.367,"body":"What do you think about that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1589.107,"endTime":1589.527,"body":"anymore?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1589.527,"endTime":1589.737,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1589.737,"endTime":1590.817,"body":"There's a whole new"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1590.997,"endTime":1593.727,"body":"and some other generations,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1590.997,"endTime":1593.727,"body":"something, something, I don't know"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1593.727,"endTime":1599.997,"body":"what they are, but, um, um, you know, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1593.727,"endTime":1599.997,"body":"always, I always ask for feedback, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1599.997,"endTime":1603.767,"body":"know, from our, our businesses that hired"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1599.997,"endTime":1603.767,"body":"our kids because, you know, they're."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1604.947,"endTime":1606.057,"body":"There is some of that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1606.057,"endTime":1611.397,"body":"And, and I try to be very careful too,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1606.057,"endTime":1611.397,"body":"of, of who I strongly recommend for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1611.397,"endTime":1615.117,"body":"companies to pick up, but she knows"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1611.397,"endTime":1615.117,"body":"some kids just need to mature also."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1615.957,"endTime":1620.937,"body":"Um, so, you know, sometimes you gotta"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1615.957,"endTime":1620.937,"body":"take the risk and say, you know, I know"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1620.937,"endTime":1623.487,"body":"this, one's not really that mature."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1623.607,"endTime":1629.607,"body":"Um, but you know, um, we, we hope they"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1623.607,"endTime":1629.607,"body":"will find that when they, you know, uh, get"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1629.607,"endTime":1638.247,"body":"into a real world arena, um, you know, we,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1629.607,"endTime":1638.247,"body":"we have both, we have really hard workers"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1638.247,"endTime":1642.117,"body":"and then we, I have had some feedback"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1638.247,"endTime":1642.117,"body":"saying they would not get off their phone."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1642.537,"endTime":1646.437,"body":"You know, it was not good off"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1642.537,"endTime":1646.437,"body":"their phone and they, and, and you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1646.437,"endTime":1648.087,"body":"know, this particular one did not."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1649.182,"endTime":1652.182,"body":"You know, ask what, you know, when"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1649.182,"endTime":1652.182,"body":"they finish a test, did not come and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1652.182,"endTime":1654.062,"body":"ask, you know, what we can do next."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1654.072,"endTime":1658.902,"body":"And so, you know, we try as far as, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1654.072,"endTime":1658.902,"body":"know, as far as a global, what about, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1658.902,"endTime":1660.552,"body":"know, millennials not wanting to work?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1661.032,"endTime":1666.252,"body":"Um, I don't know, but we try to, we try to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1661.032,"endTime":1666.252,"body":"realize, we gotta bring that back into the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1666.252,"endTime":1669.882,"body":"curriculum to, you know, we've got to teach"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1666.252,"endTime":1669.882,"body":"kids, you know, uh, when you're done with a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1669.882,"endTime":1672.252,"body":"task, go ask what else you can do, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1672.822,"endTime":1679.662,"body":"Um, so I, I don't know, hopefully"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1672.822,"endTime":1679.662,"body":"we can, we can have some"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1679.962,"endTime":1682.212,"body":"influence on teaching work skills."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1682.272,"endTime":1687.102,"body":"I hope, I hope that we're able to, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1682.272,"endTime":1687.102,"body":"you know, do that well for our kids."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1687.102,"endTime":1690.072,"body":"It seems like we've, we've been pretty"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1687.102,"endTime":1690.072,"body":"good, but, um, you know, and there"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1690.072,"endTime":1694.512,"body":"are some kids that just, like you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1690.072,"endTime":1694.512,"body":"said, I think with the Jose example,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1694.962,"endTime":1697.812,"body":"um, at TDI, I think he was young."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1698.382,"endTime":1701.052,"body":"I think he thought the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1698.382,"endTime":1701.052,"body":"grass was greener SeaWorld."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1702.162,"endTime":1705.432,"body":"Cause it was, he was, he was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1702.162,"endTime":1705.432,"body":"having a good time with friends."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1706.332,"endTime":1711.582,"body":"And then realize, you know, it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1706.332,"endTime":1711.582,"body":"time to really get a grown-up job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1711.732,"endTime":1714.912,"body":"And then he came back and you guys"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1711.732,"endTime":1714.912,"body":"were good enough to bring him back in."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1714.912,"endTime":1717.552,"body":"Like he's, he's, he's all about it now."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1717.612,"endTime":1717.972,"body":"Right?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1718.782,"endTime":1723.642,"body":"So, uh, yeah, no, that they're,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1718.782,"endTime":1723.642,"body":"there's, they're young, they are young."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1723.792,"endTime":1725.982,"body":"Um, but boy, we've got some kids."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1725.982,"endTime":1729.912,"body":"I know, won't, won't go back because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1725.982,"endTime":1729.912,"body":"they're doing incredible, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1729.912,"endTime":1732.702,"body":"know, and they're having, they're"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1729.912,"endTime":1732.702,"body":"liking it or having a good time."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1732.702,"endTime":1737.052,"body":"So, you know, you, do you have some that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1732.702,"endTime":1737.052,"body":"maybe don't want to work, but I guess I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1737.052,"endTime":1741.252,"body":"don't see that as much, you know, I'm, we're"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1737.052,"endTime":1741.252,"body":"kind of at a different place with our kids."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1741.312,"endTime":1742.272,"body":"Luckily, thank God."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1742.272,"endTime":1743.952,"body":"That's why it's such a great"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1742.272,"endTime":1743.952,"body":"place to work, you know?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1746.232,"endTime":1751.242,"body":"The the, the key point there"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1746.232,"endTime":1751.242,"body":"is you have built, you're taking"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1751.242,"endTime":1756.672,"body":"the feedback from industry and, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1751.242,"endTime":1756.672,"body":"building that back into the curriculum."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1756.822,"endTime":1759.522,"body":"Like, Hey, when you finish,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1756.822,"endTime":1759.522,"body":"go ask for something else."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1760.002,"endTime":1762.672,"body":"I mean, that's, that's sounds super simple."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1763.782,"endTime":1769.092,"body":"One of the most, one of those stunning"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1763.782,"endTime":1769.092,"body":"feedback pieces we got was, I guess there's a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1769.092,"endTime":1774.792,"body":"thing now where we're kids don't know how to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1769.092,"endTime":1774.792,"body":"resign and they just say, or even, I guess,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1774.792,"endTime":1776.982,"body":"even some difficult and they just ghost you."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1776.982,"endTime":1780.822,"body":"And that, that was like the first time I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1776.982,"endTime":1780.822,"body":"heard of that term, you know, we got ghosted,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1780.852,"endTime":1786.222,"body":"we kept calling and they, you know, and, and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1780.852,"endTime":1786.222,"body":"one kid, uh, just stopped coming to work for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1786.222,"endTime":1788.592,"body":"like a week and then showed up a week later."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1789.252,"endTime":1794.562,"body":"And they're like, well, what"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1789.252,"endTime":1794.562,"body":"are you where you been anyway?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1794.592,"endTime":1797.082,"body":"Um, and we're like, oh, you know what?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1797.112,"endTime":1799.812,"body":"We've never taught kids how to resign."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1800.382,"endTime":1803.232,"body":"We, I don't think we've ever"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1800.382,"endTime":1803.232,"body":"told kids about two weeks ago."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1804.042,"endTime":1804.342,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1804.402,"endTime":1809.022,"body":"You know, we we're, so we're so focused"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1804.402,"endTime":1809.022,"body":"on getting, helping kids and jobs."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1809.622,"endTime":1812.952,"body":"What do you do if you want to leave,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1809.622,"endTime":1812.952,"body":"you know, how do you not burn bridges?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1813.162,"endTime":1817.392,"body":"So again, it's, it's been kind of an"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1813.162,"endTime":1817.392,"body":"evolution thing and, and, and, you know, if"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1817.392,"endTime":1821.892,"body":"you, if you don't burn your bridge, a lot"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1817.392,"endTime":1821.892,"body":"of times, your welcome pack, you know, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1821.892,"endTime":1825.942,"body":"can go on and try to sell your oats and then"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1821.892,"endTime":1825.942,"body":"think, well, that was the wrong decision."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1825.942,"endTime":1830.832,"body":"And I appreciate businesses that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1825.942,"endTime":1830.832,"body":"takes the, the understands, the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1830.832,"endTime":1832.512,"body":"young kids that didn't quite get it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1832.522,"endTime":1834.102,"body":"Now they're ready to get it, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1834.192,"endTime":1834.582,"body":"So that's"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1834.582,"endTime":1835.032,"body":"a good thing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1835.632,"endTime":1840.192,"body":"Well, you know, in, in the industry,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1835.632,"endTime":1840.192,"body":"we don't really have the luxury to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1840.192,"endTime":1842.652,"body":"be hyper picky about some stuff."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1842.982,"endTime":1850.122,"body":"Like, no, we do not have enough people to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1842.982,"endTime":1850.122,"body":"do the work that's currently out there."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1850.332,"endTime":1851.682,"body":"And there's just more common."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1851.682,"endTime":1857.382,"body":"So, you know, it is it, the market favors"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1851.682,"endTime":1857.382,"body":"the, the employee right now in our industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1857.922,"endTime":1859.722,"body":"And I think that's, that's fantasy."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1860.517,"endTime":1865.227,"body":"Uh, because we've got to appreciate"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1860.517,"endTime":1865.227,"body":"those men and women out there in a much"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1865.377,"endTime":1870.477,"body":"more, um, compassionate way, but you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1865.377,"endTime":1870.477,"body":"know, that's a soft word and people"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1870.477,"endTime":1872.097,"body":"get a little uncomfortable about it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1872.277,"endTime":1875.427,"body":"You know, I ran into Kate, Kate gauze"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1882.147,"endTime":1884.307,"body":"at a AGC mixer."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1884.757,"endTime":1885.627,"body":"Really?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1885.717,"endTime":1894.717,"body":"Yes and well, you know, I don't think, um,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1885.717,"endTime":1894.717,"body":"and I looked at her, she looks familiar"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1894.987,"endTime":1896.337,"body":"and then I just kind of dismissed it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1896.337,"endTime":1896.517,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1896.517,"endTime":1897.357,"body":"It's the industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1897.357,"endTime":1899.097,"body":"We all see a bunch of people all the time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1899.637,"endTime":1900.507,"body":"And then she's looking at me."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1900.507,"endTime":1903.387,"body":"She says, you're Jessie is like, yeah, I am."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1904.687,"endTime":1906.097,"body":"And she's like, you, you remember me?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1906.097,"endTime":1908.557,"body":"I said, man, you look familiar,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1906.097,"endTime":1908.557,"body":"but I'm not, I can't place it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1908.557,"endTime":1909.937,"body":"She says CCA."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1909.937,"endTime":1910.777,"body":"I was in that."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1911.107,"endTime":1915.817,"body":"I was recruiting her, trying to get her"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1911.107,"endTime":1915.817,"body":"to come to TD in that place of interns."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1916.447,"endTime":1919.207,"body":"And she's working for Bartlett Cocke I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1919.207,"endTime":1920.017,"body":"was going to okay."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1920.287,"endTime":1920.677,"body":"Yup."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1920.707,"endTime":1921.007,"body":"Yup."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1921.997,"endTime":1922.327,"body":"Yes,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1924.117,"endTime":1925.027,"body":"yes, yes."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1925.027,"endTime":1927.967,"body":"He's graduated and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":1925.027,"endTime":1927.967,"body":"I'm construction science."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1929.007,"endTime":1929.307,"body":"Yup."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1929.677,"endTime":1933.367,"body":"She was there with her team, the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1929.677,"endTime":1933.367,"body":"superintendent and project manager."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1933.607,"endTime":1935.407,"body":"They all spoke very highly of her."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1935.707,"endTime":1937.567,"body":"I mean, she's knocking it out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1937.567,"endTime":1940.057,"body":"Like there was no doubt that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1937.567,"endTime":1940.057,"body":"she was going to knock it out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1940.447,"endTime":1945.547,"body":"Uh, and so seeing that, and she"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1940.447,"endTime":1945.547,"body":"had an internship that summer with"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1945.547,"endTime":1947.527,"body":"somebody else, she didn't pick TD."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1947.617,"endTime":1950.047,"body":"That was, that, that didn't"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1947.617,"endTime":1950.047,"body":"make me happy, but that's okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1950.377,"endTime":1956.197,"body":"Um, but one thing I want to make sure that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1950.377,"endTime":1956.197,"body":"our listeners out there capture, because I"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1956.197,"endTime":1958.387,"body":"know there's so many organizations, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1958.387,"endTime":1958.447,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1959.217,"endTime":1963.297,"body":"Really focused on workforce development"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1959.217,"endTime":1963.297,"body":"across the country, in our industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1963.507,"endTime":1966.057,"body":"And everybody's trying to, you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1963.507,"endTime":1966.057,"body":"know, they're doing their own thing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1966.597,"endTime":1972.117,"body":"And so there's two points I want to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1966.597,"endTime":1972.117,"body":"make is you at CCA construction careers"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1972.117,"endTime":1979.197,"body":"academy in San Antonio, Texas have a"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1972.117,"endTime":1979.197,"body":"phenomenal program and y'all do not"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1979.197,"endTime":1984.237,"body":"hesitate to share your information"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1979.197,"endTime":1984.237,"body":"with other people that want to learn."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1984.807,"endTime":1987.987,"body":"So reach out to Krista, hit me up."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1988.017,"endTime":1992.427,"body":"We'll we'll connect, I'll connect everybody"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1988.017,"endTime":1992.427,"body":"so that, so that we can learn and, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1992.847,"endTime":1997.287,"body":"those new organizations can start where"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1992.847,"endTime":1997.287,"body":"you're at, uh, and, and not have to"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1997.287,"endTime":2001.337,"body":"learn all the, have the, uh, bumps and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":1997.287,"endTime":2001.337,"body":"bruises that y'all did along the way."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2001.757,"endTime":2009.677,"body":"Um, and to employers, you know, Part of what"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2001.757,"endTime":2009.677,"body":"motivated me to, to go down the internship."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2009.737,"endTime":2013.277,"body":"Pat was because industry was complaining."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2013.697,"endTime":2015.197,"body":"We can't find enough workers."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2015.197,"endTime":2021.677,"body":"And we were fighting, I'll say fighting"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2015.197,"endTime":2021.677,"body":"over the same people, just paying a little"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2021.677,"endTime":2025.967,"body":"bit more 50 cents a dollar more and back"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2021.677,"endTime":2025.967,"body":"and forth, back and forth and complain."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2025.967,"endTime":2027.137,"body":"Like there's just not enough people."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2027.137,"endTime":2028.157,"body":"There's not enough people."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2028.697,"endTime":2033.077,"body":"And then I was involved in advisory councils"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2028.697,"endTime":2033.077,"body":"for CCA in different school districts."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2033.647,"endTime":2036.197,"body":"And it, and it, the school districts"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2033.647,"endTime":2036.197,"body":"are saying like, we're putting out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2036.197,"endTime":2038.177,"body":"these kids and y'all, ain't hiring them."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2038.177,"endTime":2038.927,"body":"I was like, what?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2039.067,"endTime":2040.727,"body":"Like, duh, there's a gap."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2040.757,"endTime":2041.687,"body":"Let's close this gap."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2042.797,"endTime":2048.677,"body":"And the, the what opened it up, but"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2042.797,"endTime":2048.677,"body":"it really unlocked the door for us was"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2048.677,"endTime":2056.507,"body":"being clear on what we w what were the,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2048.677,"endTime":2056.507,"body":"the, um, the criteria in the students"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2056.507,"endTime":2060.527,"body":"that we were seeking, like what, like,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2056.507,"endTime":2060.527,"body":"it was going, you're going to be sweat."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2061.232,"endTime":2064.982,"body":"You're going to be expected to be"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2061.232,"endTime":2064.982,"body":"at work, ready to go, not in the"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2064.982,"endTime":2067.772,"body":"00 AM."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2068.432,"endTime":2070.352,"body":"Um, and you gotta be able to tough it out."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2070.382,"endTime":2073.562,"body":"Like it's not, you're not going to"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2070.382,"endTime":2073.562,"body":"get to pick what you want to do."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2073.892,"endTime":2075.122,"body":"You're just going to have to do it."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2075.632,"endTime":2082.952,"body":"Um, the other thing was, and you"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2075.632,"endTime":2082.952,"body":"mentioned it the, what really unlocked"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2082.952,"endTime":2088.412,"body":"it was understanding the whole time,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2082.952,"endTime":2088.412,"body":"my entire career up until that point."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2088.532,"endTime":2092.072,"body":"My understanding was that"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2088.532,"endTime":2092.072,"body":"it was an OSHA regulation."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2092.072,"endTime":2093.662,"body":"It was a safety regulation."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2093.662,"endTime":2097.442,"body":"It was legislated like,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2093.662,"endTime":2097.442,"body":"um, it was legislation."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2099.382,"endTime":2106.402,"body":"Excluded students under the age of 18 to come"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2099.382,"endTime":2106.402,"body":"out on a job site, operate a bandsaw, operate"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2106.402,"endTime":2112.042,"body":"a hammer, drill, operate a torch, like operate"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2106.402,"endTime":2112.042,"body":"a shovel, um, except the camp in a ditch."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2112.072,"endTime":2113.242,"body":"I mean, there are some constraints."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2113.662,"endTime":2115.642,"body":"They couldn't be in a, in any trench work."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2116.272,"endTime":2119.962,"body":"It could not work, uh, on"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2116.272,"endTime":2119.962,"body":"the top level of a building."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2119.962,"endTime":2126.352,"body":"So in construct typically would say roof,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2119.962,"endTime":2126.352,"body":"but in construction, that room is like a year"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2126.352,"endTime":2128.122,"body":"down the road or eight months down the road."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2128.122,"endTime":2132.382,"body":"So we had to adjust the language"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2128.122,"endTime":2132.382,"body":"to say the top level and they could"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2132.382,"endTime":2137.152,"body":"not operate a motorized equipment"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2132.382,"endTime":2137.152,"body":"on wheels, like a vehicle scissor."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2139.542,"endTime":2144.402,"body":"Everything else they could do provided"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2139.542,"endTime":2144.402,"body":"it was an apprenticeable trade."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2144.462,"endTime":2147.792,"body":"And that was the operative language"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2144.462,"endTime":2147.792,"body":"that when we read that and said,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2147.822,"endTime":2150.702,"body":"oh, okay, apprenticeable trade."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2150.912,"endTime":2154.932,"body":"We have an apprenticeship program"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2150.912,"endTime":2154.932,"body":"that we send people to, which is ABC."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2155.592,"endTime":2160.692,"body":"These are apprenticeable trades and"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2155.592,"endTime":2160.692,"body":"this was pre DOL, um, y'all's DOL"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2160.692,"endTime":2162.432,"body":"approved department labor approval."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2162.582,"endTime":2164.532,"body":"So now it's completely in sync."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2165.102,"endTime":2169.337,"body":"And so, uh, again, It can be done right."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2169.487,"endTime":2170.777,"body":"Apprenticeable trade."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2170.777,"endTime":2176.207,"body":"And you can go to your insurance"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2170.777,"endTime":2176.207,"body":"carrier and get a waiver specifically"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2176.207,"endTime":2181.217,"body":"for these, this group of kids put a"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2176.207,"endTime":2181.217,"body":"program together, be responsible with it."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2181.277,"endTime":2185.477,"body":"American brothers, they have a,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2181.277,"endTime":2185.477,"body":"uh, again, they've got a super"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2185.477,"endTime":2187.967,"body":"sophisticated internship program."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2187.967,"endTime":2188.957,"body":"That's blown up."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2188.987,"endTime":2189.977,"body":"It's in San Antonio."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2189.977,"endTime":2190.667,"body":"It's in Houston."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2190.667,"endTime":2192.797,"body":"They've got partnerships with local campuses."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2193.217,"endTime":2195.677,"body":"Like it can absolutely be done."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2195.677,"endTime":2198.047,"body":"It's being done more and"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2195.677,"endTime":2198.047,"body":"more all over the place."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2198.047,"endTime":2201.617,"body":"But I think for a lot of people,"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2198.047,"endTime":2201.617,"body":"it's, they just really don't know"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2201.647,"endTime":2207.137,"body":"where to start or adhere to the common"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2201.647,"endTime":2207.137,"body":"myth that it's just not possible."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2207.377,"endTime":2211.907,"body":"And I'm here to tell you, these"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2207.377,"endTime":2211.907,"body":"students bring tremendous value."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2211.937,"endTime":2216.857,"body":"They will bring tremendous value to not only"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2211.937,"endTime":2216.857,"body":"the job site, but to the whole organization."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2217.067,"endTime":2219.077,"body":"We just got to get past"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2217.067,"endTime":2219.077,"body":"ourselves to get there."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2219.497,"endTime":2220.397,"body":"I'm sorry."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2220.397,"endTime":2223.247,"body":"I get a little preachy about"},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2220.397,"endTime":2223.247,"body":"it, but it's a big deal."},{"speaker":"parking lot, ready to go at 7","startTime":2223.247,"endTime":2224.147,"body":"There's is so much."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2226.817,"endTime":2231.527,"body":"I don't know if you know the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2226.817,"endTime":2231.527,"body":"people at Holt, uh, caterpillar, they"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2231.527,"endTime":2233.567,"body":"have an incredible apprenticeship program."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2233.567,"endTime":2236.477,"body":"Unfortunately, it didn't really marry"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2233.567,"endTime":2236.477,"body":"with, with ours because they're more"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2236.477,"endTime":2238.727,"body":"mechanics and welding and things like that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2238.727,"endTime":2242.147,"body":"And, but man, that guy,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2238.727,"endTime":2242.147,"body":"he knew the ins and outs."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2242.147,"endTime":2244.607,"body":"So if you want to learn"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2242.147,"endTime":2244.607,"body":"something, he was amazed."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2244.637,"endTime":2245.627,"body":"I can't remember his name."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2245.777,"endTime":2246.167,"body":"Uh,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2246.377,"endTime":2250.757,"body":"I don't remember his name either,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2246.377,"endTime":2250.757,"body":"but he, so the way that internship"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2250.787,"endTime":2257.297,"body":"thing evolved was, uh, Nikki McNish"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2250.787,"endTime":2257.297,"body":"at the time she was with essay works."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2258.677,"endTime":2262.097,"body":"She and I connected and we, you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2258.677,"endTime":2262.097,"body":"know, workforce development stuff"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2262.127,"endTime":2266.837,"body":"for the city and she was like,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2262.127,"endTime":2266.837,"body":"Jesse, you can start an internship."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2266.837,"endTime":2270.047,"body":"And I'm like, yeah, you know, it's against the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2266.837,"endTime":2270.047,"body":"law and I'll say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2271.157,"endTime":2271.907,"body":"Cause I didn't know."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2271.907,"endTime":2276.137,"body":"Like he said, no, no, no, you need"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2271.907,"endTime":2276.137,"body":"to talk to this guy with Holt."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2277.247,"endTime":2277.997,"body":"I said, oh right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2277.997,"endTime":2281.447,"body":"You know, I shot him an email"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2277.997,"endTime":2281.447,"body":"and boom, he replied and he."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2282.197,"endTime":2283.727,"body":"I love what he did at the time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2283.727,"endTime":2286.757,"body":"I did it, but looking back, I, I needed it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2287.237,"endTime":2289.397,"body":"He was like, come in, come check it out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2289.427,"endTime":2293.227,"body":"So I went, looked at the, you know, the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2289.427,"endTime":2293.227,"body":"way the students were carrying themselves,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2293.227,"endTime":2294.947,"body":"like the whole desk, son of a gun."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2294.977,"endTime":2295.427,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2295.607,"endTime":2295.997,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2295.997,"endTime":2297.647,"body":"I, I, yes, this can be done."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2298.547,"endTime":2299.627,"body":"So what do I need to do?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2299.657,"endTime":2304.877,"body":"He's like, ah, you need to go to, you need"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2299.657,"endTime":2304.877,"body":"to read the department of labor child labor"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2304.877,"endTime":2308.867,"body":"laws and, uh, the Texas workforce commission."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2309.077,"endTime":2314.627,"body":"He's like, you need to study that,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2309.077,"endTime":2314.627,"body":"understand that, understand your intern."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2315.937,"endTime":2319.177,"body":"Constraints and, and, and connect the dots."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2320.047,"endTime":2322.597,"body":"And I'm like, well, do you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2320.047,"endTime":2322.597,"body":"have like a link or a pamphlet?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2326.767,"endTime":2327.847,"body":"And so that's what we did."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2327.847,"endTime":2328.087,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2328.087,"endTime":2332.347,"body":"I went, got into the DOL website,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2328.087,"endTime":2332.347,"body":"did some studying and I'm like, okay,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2332.347,"endTime":2336.517,"body":"that's the language that says we're"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2332.347,"endTime":2336.517,"body":"oh, we could do this, provided these"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2336.517,"endTime":2341.407,"body":"things, or met a Texas workforce thing"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2336.517,"endTime":2341.407,"body":"and started looking at that like, okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2341.407,"endTime":2341.857,"body":"All right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2342.307,"endTime":2342.907,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2343.327,"endTime":2344.887,"body":"And it started looking at our stuff."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2344.947,"endTime":2345.477,"body":"The funny thing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2347.617,"endTime":2353.797,"body":"I expected the, the government agencies"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2347.617,"endTime":2353.797,"body":"to be more complex and ambiguous."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2354.037,"endTime":2355.807,"body":"No, it was our stuff."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2355.897,"endTime":2361.897,"body":"It was more MVQ was then, then the, the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2355.897,"endTime":2361.897,"body":"government agencies, but it had he not"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2361.897,"endTime":2365.557,"body":"done that we would not have been able"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2361.897,"endTime":2365.557,"body":"to draft a, an appropriate program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2365.917,"endTime":2366.067,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2366.067,"endTime":2366.447,"body":"W w"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2366.447,"endTime":2371.107,"body":"w one of the things that, that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2366.447,"endTime":2371.107,"body":"stands out to me about his program is I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2371.107,"endTime":2376.087,"body":"think is on a Saturday, they'll have like"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2371.107,"endTime":2376.087,"body":"an open house for the parents, because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2376.087,"endTime":2380.017,"body":"I mean, these kids, even if they're 18,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2376.087,"endTime":2380.017,"body":"they're still parents worry about them."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2380.017,"endTime":2380.767,"body":"They're their babies."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2380.767,"endTime":2383.227,"body":"It seems like, it seems like so silly."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2383.227,"endTime":2387.487,"body":"Like, you know, we're gonna have these"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2383.227,"endTime":2387.487,"body":"18 year old parents, but, you know, cause"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2387.487,"endTime":2391.687,"body":"still, if parents were in an influence in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2387.487,"endTime":2391.687,"body":"these kids' lives, they're going to see it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2391.687,"endTime":2395.047,"body":"And if they feel good about it,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2391.687,"endTime":2395.047,"body":"I thought that was brilliant."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2395.077,"endTime":2399.667,"body":"Even though it seemed a little like, wow, it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2395.077,"endTime":2399.667,"body":"silly, you know, but I think, I thought, wow."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2399.697,"endTime":2400.687,"body":"I mean, that's just one more."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2401.607,"endTime":2404.847,"body":"It probably makes them very"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2401.607,"endTime":2404.847,"body":"successful in what they do with that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2404.877,"endTime":2411.507,"body":"You know, I get the parents on, on board"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2404.877,"endTime":2411.507,"body":"and, you know, and then the kids will"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2411.507,"endTime":2414.777,"body":"grow into it on their own, but they're"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2411.507,"endTime":2414.777,"body":"young, they're their babies, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2415.137,"endTime":2415.347,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2415.437,"endTime":2415.587,"body":"The"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2415.587,"endTime":2418.857,"body":"little babies,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2415.587,"endTime":2418.857,"body":"sometimes I'm still my mom's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2418.857,"endTime":2419.397,"body":"baby."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2420.107,"endTime":2421.497,"body":"They're making more money than the parents."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2423.687,"endTime":2424.197,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2424.677,"endTime":2425.337,"body":"Oh man."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2425.337,"endTime":2425.937,"body":"I love it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2426.087,"endTime":2426.447,"body":"Good."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2426.447,"endTime":2431.877,"body":"It's it's super happy that we could celebrate"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2426.447,"endTime":2431.877,"body":"CCA the students and all the educators"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2431.877,"endTime":2436.767,"body":"out there that they are committed and,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2431.877,"endTime":2436.767,"body":"and, and do it year after year after year"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2436.767,"endTime":2440.457,"body":"it's uh, yeah, we've got some"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2436.767,"endTime":2440.457,"body":"great, great teachers, you know, and I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2440.457,"endTime":2444.537,"body":"mean, I, that, that might be one of the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2440.457,"endTime":2444.537,"body":"biggest challenges of having a program"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2444.537,"endTime":2449.927,"body":"like this, because I mean, You know, why,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2444.537,"endTime":2449.927,"body":"why does a plumber want to come teach?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2450.167,"endTime":2453.467,"body":"You know, when they could be making"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2450.167,"endTime":2453.467,"body":"three times the amount out in the field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2453.467,"endTime":2457.547,"body":"But, um, and you know, we, we ha we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2453.467,"endTime":2457.547,"body":"have two master plumbers on staff and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2457.547,"endTime":2461.867,"body":"I mean, you got to find the ones that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2457.547,"endTime":2461.867,"body":"have the heart of a teacher, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2461.957,"endTime":2466.877,"body":"And, uh, and you know, a lot of our, a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2461.957,"endTime":2466.877,"body":"lot of our people have, um, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2466.877,"endTime":2471.707,"body":"side hustles, they work over the summer"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2466.877,"endTime":2471.707,"body":"and that's, that's good, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2471.737,"endTime":2472.877,"body":"Cause it's yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2472.877,"endTime":2477.407,"body":"So that's, that's one of the challenges of,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2472.877,"endTime":2477.407,"body":"uh, and you know, how do you get good people?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2477.407,"endTime":2481.907,"body":"I think a lot of it's you have gotta be"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2477.407,"endTime":2481.907,"body":"lucky, you know, and be lucky because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2482.177,"endTime":2485.267,"body":"you know, in, in public education,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2482.177,"endTime":2485.267,"body":"you're not, you don't have head hunters"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2485.267,"endTime":2487.787,"body":"to go out and recruit for ya, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2487.847,"endTime":2491.507,"body":"And I mean, you know, what's funny is,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2487.847,"endTime":2491.507,"body":"is when people come in and say, yeah,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2491.507,"endTime":2494.297,"body":"I've always thought about teaching is my"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2491.507,"endTime":2494.297,"body":"retirement job is that they're going to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2494.297,"endTime":2497.657,"body":"sit there with their feet on the desk and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2494.297,"endTime":2497.657,"body":"let's just hit the front of their class, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2497.657,"endTime":2501.647,"body":"know, I always and people still say that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2501.647,"endTime":2502.007,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2502.007,"endTime":2503.957,"body":"I thought, you know, when I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2502.007,"endTime":2503.957,"body":"retire, I'll go into teaching."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2503.957,"endTime":2506.267,"body":"It's like, oh man, you don't have much energy"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2510.767,"endTime":2511.217,"body":"anyway."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2512.177,"endTime":2512.477,"body":"Good."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2512.477,"endTime":2519.047,"body":"So speaking about retirement, let's,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2512.477,"endTime":2519.047,"body":"let's take a trip a time jump."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":2520.247,"endTime":2523.307,"body":"What were your earliest career aspirations?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2525.927,"endTime":2527.517,"body":"You know, I, I I'm afraid."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2527.517,"endTime":2531.597,"body":"I don't, I can tell you what they"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2527.517,"endTime":2531.597,"body":"weren't and they weren't in construction."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2531.687,"endTime":2537.387,"body":"I had, I don't know where I thought things"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2531.687,"endTime":2537.387,"body":"came from, but I just didn't even, maybe it"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2537.387,"endTime":2540.987,"body":"was, you know, uh, you know, being female."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2540.987,"endTime":2541.377,"body":"I didn't know."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2541.377,"endTime":2544.287,"body":"That was a thing, you know, I had"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2541.377,"endTime":2544.287,"body":"no idea there was a construction."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2545.297,"endTime":2548.717,"body":"Um, you know, my mom, my mom, the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2545.297,"endTime":2548.717,"body":"artist's mom was, was a teacher."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2548.717,"endTime":2550.817,"body":"She taught for 59 years."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2552.347,"endTime":2554.357,"body":"She started when she was 21."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2554.597,"endTime":2556.307,"body":"Uh, she graduated high school early."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2556.307,"endTime":2560.747,"body":"So she started teaching when she was 21"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2556.307,"endTime":2560.747,"body":"and she fully retired when she was 79."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2561.587,"endTime":2563.297,"body":"And so she was a teacher forever."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2563.327,"endTime":2569.717,"body":"And, um, I guess I kinda always,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2563.327,"endTime":2569.717,"body":"you know, knew that was an option."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2569.987,"endTime":2575.237,"body":"Um, you know, at some point I thought"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2569.987,"endTime":2575.237,"body":"like everybody wants to be a, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2576.287,"endTime":2578.357,"body":"I don't know, kinesiologist or whatever."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2578.357,"endTime":2583.967,"body":"And I thought, well, you know, maybe, uh, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2578.357,"endTime":2583.967,"body":"know, physical therapy, I had no idea really."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2583.967,"endTime":2589.007,"body":"I had no idea, no idea, uh, which leads"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2583.967,"endTime":2589.007,"body":"me to, like I said, you know, whoever"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2589.007,"endTime":2590.507,"body":"says they want to be an economics major."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2590.507,"endTime":2592.337,"body":"I didn't know, going into college."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2592.367,"endTime":2594.347,"body":"I was going to end up"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2592.367,"endTime":2594.347,"body":"being an economics major."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2594.437,"endTime":2600.737,"body":"So, I mean, I, I just kinda, I just kinda"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2594.437,"endTime":2600.737,"body":"roll things and see what they become and, and."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2601.772,"endTime":2606.722,"body":"So I just heard about when I was, when I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2601.772,"endTime":2606.722,"body":"was at UTS getting my economics degree, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2606.722,"endTime":2611.792,"body":"had a good friend also in economics, and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2606.722,"endTime":2611.792,"body":"then he worked his way through college at"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2611.792,"endTime":2614.072,"body":"a, at a local Harbor or a lumber store."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2614.732,"endTime":2619.262,"body":"And, um, and then he went in, he"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2614.732,"endTime":2619.262,"body":"went into a home building right away."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2619.892,"endTime":2623.882,"body":"And when he did that, I'm like, oh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2619.892,"endTime":2623.882,"body":"that seems like a really cool job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2624.152,"endTime":2625.952,"body":"You know, I think I'd like to do that job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2625.982,"endTime":2627.452,"body":"So I went out and shadowed him."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2627.452,"endTime":2633.632,"body":"This, we both graduated December of 92"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2627.452,"endTime":2633.632,"body":"from UCSA and, uh, he had, he had, he had"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2633.632,"endTime":2640.262,"body":"his job, uh, with Pulte homes, um, before"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2633.632,"endTime":2640.262,"body":"he graduated and, uh, I didn't have a job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2640.292,"endTime":2645.662,"body":"And as a, as an economics major, I was taking"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2640.292,"endTime":2645.662,"body":"interviews like for financial companies."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2646.022,"endTime":2648.962,"body":"I remember going down to Broadway"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2646.022,"endTime":2648.962,"body":"and interviewing on the 14th"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2648.962,"endTime":2651.092,"body":"floor and cubicles everywhere."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2651.092,"endTime":2656.402,"body":"And I'm like, oh, hell no, cubicle on the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2651.092,"endTime":2656.402,"body":"14th floor of a, you know, there's no way."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2657.437,"endTime":2660.017,"body":"And so, you know, it kept talking"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2657.437,"endTime":2660.017,"body":"to this guy and he's like, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2660.017,"endTime":2661.007,"body":"know, tell me about his job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2661.007,"endTime":2661.847,"body":"And it sounded cool."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2661.907,"endTime":2666.407,"body":"You know, he's out in a job shack and,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2661.907,"endTime":2666.407,"body":"uh, walking his houses and everything."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2666.407,"endTime":2668.837,"body":"So I went ahead and I'll"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2666.407,"endTime":2668.837,"body":"tell you the story, Jesse."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2668.837,"endTime":2672.887,"body":"I went and I had an interview, I got"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2668.837,"endTime":2672.887,"body":"an interview with the same company."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2673.637,"endTime":2674.507,"body":"This was Pulte homes."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2674.927,"endTime":2680.057,"body":"And, um, I went in for the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2674.927,"endTime":2680.057,"body":"interview and it went great."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2680.237,"endTime":2684.407,"body":"And I actually, I was in there to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2680.237,"endTime":2684.407,"body":"interview for the purchasing director"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2684.407,"endTime":2687.707,"body":"position, you know, kind of fits"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2684.407,"endTime":2687.707,"body":"with live economics and finance."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2687.707,"endTime":2687.947,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2688.667,"endTime":2690.377,"body":"So I go there and interview for that job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2690.467,"endTime":2694.067,"body":"And, um, I was offered the job on the spot."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2694.952,"endTime":2696.362,"body":"On a spot off of the job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2696.962,"endTime":2705.842,"body":"And, um, I turned it down and I told him,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2696.962,"endTime":2705.842,"body":"I said, you know, I said, I'd really,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2705.842,"endTime":2709.952,"body":"I said, I appreciate the offer, but I'd"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2705.842,"endTime":2709.952,"body":"really like, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm young."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2709.952,"endTime":2713.912,"body":"I, you know, I would play it differently"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2709.952,"endTime":2713.912,"body":"now, but maybe it was because I didn't,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2714.482,"endTime":2718.502,"body":"uh, I started really I'm really, I'd really"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2714.482,"endTime":2718.502,"body":"like to be a construction manager instead."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2718.502,"endTime":2719.642,"body":"It sounds like a lot more fun to me."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2719.642,"endTime":2720.032,"body":"I see."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2720.042,"endTime":2720.902,"body":"That sounds like a cool job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2720.902,"endTime":2724.382,"body":"I'd like to do it, like,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2720.902,"endTime":2724.382,"body":"okay, thanks for your time."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2727.022,"endTime":2727.952,"body":"Have a good day."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2729.002,"endTime":2735.872,"body":"I drive home like, like how sick"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2729.002,"endTime":2735.872,"body":"myself saying, like, I really just"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2735.872,"endTime":2737.882,"body":"turned down a flat offer, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2737.882,"endTime":2743.282,"body":"And, and I'm like, so, so bombed social"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2737.882,"endTime":2743.282,"body":"is like on a Tuesday or Wednesday."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2743.282,"endTime":2744.242,"body":"So the next couple of days."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2745.007,"endTime":2748.427,"body":"Um, and, and in the meantime, to be"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2745.007,"endTime":2748.427,"body":"honest, in the meantime, I couldn't"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2748.427,"endTime":2749.537,"body":"sit around and do nothing, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2749.537,"endTime":2753.227,"body":"So I picked up a job, driving"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2749.537,"endTime":2753.227,"body":"a school bus for north side."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2754.997,"endTime":2758.327,"body":"That was my, that was my first"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2754.997,"endTime":2758.327,"body":"job out of graduating college only"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2758.327,"endTime":2759.707,"body":"because I didn't want to be desperate."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2759.827,"endTime":2760.127,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2760.217,"endTime":2761.717,"body":"I already had my little girl."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2762.077,"endTime":2766.367,"body":"Uh, so, um, she was a couple of years"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2762.077,"endTime":2766.367,"body":"old at that time, but I didn't want to be"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2766.397,"endTime":2772.487,"body":"desperate to pick up a financial institution,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2766.397,"endTime":2772.487,"body":"job making 18,000 a year, which is what"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2772.487,"endTime":2775.757,"body":"they're paying then, you know, so I was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2772.487,"endTime":2775.757,"body":"driving a school bus, Nick and well, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2775.757,"endTime":2777.167,"body":"know, it gives me time during the day."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2777.167,"endTime":2779.507,"body":"Could you drive in the morning and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2777.167,"endTime":2779.507,"body":"drive in the afternoon and you have"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2779.507,"endTime":2781.667,"body":"the day to kind of stop and everything."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2783.047,"endTime":2787.637,"body":"So anyway, uh, I'm driving home"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2783.047,"endTime":2787.637,"body":"and thinking, wow, I just blew it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2787.637,"endTime":2788.927,"body":"So the next couple of days."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2790.097,"endTime":2792.107,"body":"How do I get back to this guy?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2792.467,"endTime":2793.337,"body":"How do I get?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2793.377,"endTime":2797.327,"body":"So I kept calling and the secretary was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2793.377,"endTime":2797.327,"body":"blocking my calls would not put me through."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2797.327,"endTime":2798.797,"body":"And he wasn't returning my call."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2799.097,"endTime":2801.587,"body":"This was before email"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2799.097,"endTime":2801.587,"body":"and texting and all that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2801.587,"endTime":2801.947,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2801.987,"endTime":2802.167,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2802.427,"endTime":2809.927,"body":"And even before pagers, I think so I'm"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2802.427,"endTime":2809.927,"body":"like how, and I'm like, I'm like, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2809.927,"endTime":2813.707,"body":"know, is there, is there like kind of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2809.927,"endTime":2813.707,"body":"hire a police service, you know, to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2813.707,"endTime":2815.777,"body":"like, you know, take over a letter."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2815.777,"endTime":2817.877,"body":"I mean, hot of mailing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2815.777,"endTime":2817.877,"body":"was going to be too slow."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2817.877,"endTime":2820.967,"body":"I had to get something in front"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2817.877,"endTime":2820.967,"body":"of this guy now to tell him, Hey,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2820.967,"endTime":2822.467,"body":"you need to, I want this job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2822.467,"endTime":2823.607,"body":"I want the superintendent's truck."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2824.297,"endTime":2826.547,"body":"So all I could think that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2824.297,"endTime":2826.547,"body":"there was fax machines though."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2826.547,"endTime":2826.877,"body":"Right?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2827.237,"endTime":2830.677,"body":"So I hand write, my dad had a fax machine."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2830.687,"endTime":2833.897,"body":"I was still living at home cause"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2830.687,"endTime":2833.897,"body":"I had my daughter handwrite a note"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2833.897,"endTime":2836.657,"body":"saying, um, you know, don't pass me by."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2836.957,"endTime":2840.737,"body":"I really want to come back in, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2836.957,"endTime":2840.737,"body":"for the superintendent's job, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2841.037,"endTime":2842.117,"body":"To get in the fax machine."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2843.107,"endTime":2848.357,"body":"And a Monday morning, his secretary calls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2843.107,"endTime":2848.357,"body":"me and says, come on in for a job interview."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2849.422,"endTime":2850.862,"body":"So I'm like, oh my God, it worked."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2850.862,"endTime":2851.792,"body":"I got through to this guy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2851.822,"endTime":2855.272,"body":"I just knew if I got something in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2851.822,"endTime":2855.272,"body":"front of him and he had to read it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2855.902,"endTime":2856.802,"body":"That's what I had to do."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2856.802,"endTime":2859.202,"body":"But I mean, he wouldn't take my call"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2856.802,"endTime":2859.202,"body":"and I'm like, I'm not going to go"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2859.202,"endTime":2860.162,"body":"over there and knock on the door."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2861.002,"endTime":2861.932,"body":"It's only, so he calls me on."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2861.932,"endTime":2867.032,"body":"So I go in and, uh, you know, we talk"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2861.932,"endTime":2867.032,"body":"about the construction manager job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2867.062,"endTime":2869.402,"body":"And I told him, I spent the day with"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2867.062,"endTime":2869.402,"body":"my friend out in the field that, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2869.402,"endTime":2873.692,"body":"know, his company and they already"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2869.402,"endTime":2873.692,"body":"had another female, uh, construction"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2873.692,"endTime":2875.822,"body":"manager who had a great reputation."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2875.942,"endTime":2877.382,"body":"They loved her, she did a great job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2877.382,"endTime":2879.302,"body":"So I thought, well, that's,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2877.382,"endTime":2879.302,"body":"that's positive, right?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2879.302,"endTime":2880.742,"body":"Because I mean, everybody else is male."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2881.522,"endTime":2885.692,"body":"And, uh, so he says to me finally, toward"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2881.522,"endTime":2885.692,"body":"the end of the second, second chance,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2885.692,"endTime":2887.612,"body":"he says, why do you want to do this job?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2888.242,"endTime":2890.552,"body":"And, you know, I'm like, well,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2888.242,"endTime":2890.552,"body":"you know, cause it's challenging."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2890.552,"endTime":2893.672,"body":"And, and I just, I get opportunity,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2890.552,"endTime":2893.672,"body":"you know, kind of some of those"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2893.672,"endTime":2895.142,"body":"stock interview questions or answers."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2895.772,"endTime":2901.802,"body":"And he said, do you realize that in this"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2895.772,"endTime":2901.802,"body":"field of construction, there are men who"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2901.802,"endTime":2904.292,"body":"have killed their wives, chopped them up."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2904.322,"endTime":2904.892,"body":"I'll never forget this."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2905.672,"endTime":2909.152,"body":"There is man who's killed, killed their"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2905.672,"endTime":2909.152,"body":"wives, chopped them up and flushed them down."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2909.152,"endTime":2912.752,"body":"The toilet spent years in prison,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2909.152,"endTime":2912.752,"body":"and now they're in construction"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2912.752,"endTime":2914.042,"body":"because they can't do anything else."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2914.912,"endTime":2920.302,"body":"So he said to me, and I'm"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2914.912,"endTime":2920.302,"body":"like, uh, no, I didn't realize."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2920.312,"endTime":2924.542,"body":"And you know, I, I didn't know that,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2920.312,"endTime":2924.542,"body":"you know what I mean, I'm stunned."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2925.352,"endTime":2930.272,"body":"And, uh, anyway, uh, offered"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2925.352,"endTime":2930.272,"body":"me the job and I took it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2931.232,"endTime":2937.082,"body":"So that time driving on the way home, I am"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2931.232,"endTime":2937.082,"body":"falling, Jesse, I am falling my eyes out,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2937.082,"endTime":2940.172,"body":"scared to death thinking, what did I just do?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2940.562,"endTime":2944.582,"body":"I mean, can I handle this job in a field"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2940.562,"endTime":2944.582,"body":"where these, these crazy people, these crazy"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2944.582,"endTime":2948.782,"body":"men that have just cut up their lives and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2944.582,"endTime":2948.782,"body":"flush the toilet, I'll never forget it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2949.142,"endTime":2954.452,"body":"And, uh, I came home crying, uh, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2949.142,"endTime":2954.452,"body":"wondering and you know, all was well."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2954.512,"endTime":2957.542,"body":"And, uh, it was a great"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2954.512,"endTime":2957.542,"body":"experience in the field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2957.542,"endTime":2960.722,"body":"I, I definitely, I wouldn't one"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2957.542,"endTime":2960.722,"body":"thing that I can take back from."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2961.652,"endTime":2966.122,"body":"Is, um, you know, we have about 30%"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2961.652,"endTime":2966.122,"body":"girls, 33% girls that are at our campus."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2966.572,"endTime":2971.492,"body":"And, um, you know, I don't mean to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2966.572,"endTime":2971.492,"body":"sound, uh, you know, crazy feminist or"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2971.492,"endTime":2975.332,"body":"something, but it really isn't that hard"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2971.492,"endTime":2975.332,"body":"to compete with the men in the field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2975.872,"endTime":2979.832,"body":"Uh, it's just not, you know, and a lot of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2975.872,"endTime":2979.832,"body":"people have this perception that women have a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2979.832,"endTime":2982.082,"body":"better eye for detail and attention to detail."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2982.082,"endTime":2984.062,"body":"And, and I don't know if that's true or not."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2984.062,"endTime":2989.522,"body":"I didn't feel like I did, but, um, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2984.062,"endTime":2989.522,"body":"know, what it comes down to in the field"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2989.522,"endTime":2991.352,"body":"is people want to be treated, right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2991.502,"endTime":2996.332,"body":"They want to, they want the job to be"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2991.502,"endTime":2996.332,"body":"ready when they show up, they want to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2996.332,"endTime":3000.022,"body":"know that you know what you're doing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":2996.332,"endTime":3000.022,"body":"and they want to get paid at the end of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3000.022,"endTime":3001.252,"body":"the day when they've done a good job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3002.092,"endTime":3004.192,"body":"And I mean, that's kinda what I figured out."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3004.192,"endTime":3007.132,"body":"And so, you know, they want you,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3004.192,"endTime":3007.132,"body":"they want to be treated right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3007.132,"endTime":3011.962,"body":"And so you do that and you develop"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3007.132,"endTime":3011.962,"body":"your own reputation and, and, uh, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3011.962,"endTime":3014.362,"body":"know, your own people that want to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3011.962,"endTime":3014.362,"body":"come work for you and things like that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3014.362,"endTime":3017.272,"body":"And there was a couple people who"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3014.362,"endTime":3017.272,"body":"clearly didn't want to work for me."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3017.812,"endTime":3021.412,"body":"Um, you know, I was in the field or we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3017.812,"endTime":3021.412,"body":"had a dirt guy and, and there was two"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3021.412,"endTime":3024.982,"body":"people in the, in a, another, uh, male"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3021.412,"endTime":3024.982,"body":"friend of mine who were in this one"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3024.982,"endTime":3026.602,"body":"subdivision out in stone Oak actually."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3027.172,"endTime":3030.262,"body":"And, uh, when he would roll through,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3027.172,"endTime":3030.262,"body":"we would give them our lists."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3030.292,"endTime":3033.862,"body":"You know, I'd give him my list of things to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3030.292,"endTime":3033.862,"body":"do, and that I needed done in the community."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3033.862,"endTime":3037.132,"body":"And he'd give him his list and, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3033.862,"endTime":3037.132,"body":"day and a half later, he pulled out of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3037.132,"endTime":3039.682,"body":"there clearly not doing any of my work."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3040.432,"endTime":3045.082,"body":"And after a couple of times, uh, realizing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3040.432,"endTime":3045.082,"body":"this, you know, I was actually the lead, the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3045.082,"endTime":3046.702,"body":"lead construction person in that committee."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3047.632,"endTime":3050.302,"body":"Uh, you know, it was real easy"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3047.632,"endTime":3050.302,"body":"with, with contractors cause"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3050.302,"endTime":3051.472,"body":"you just don't invite them back."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3051.502,"endTime":3054.472,"body":"You know, you, you called the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3051.502,"endTime":3054.472,"body":"next guy who wants to work for"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3054.472,"endTime":3055.882,"body":"you and wants to do your job."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3055.882,"endTime":3057.712,"body":"And, uh, so that was easy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3058.102,"endTime":3063.892,"body":"So, um, that was really, uh, really the only"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3058.102,"endTime":3063.892,"body":"experience I had like that, but it was very,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3064.072,"endTime":3066.022,"body":"you know, I had, I had a remedy for that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3066.562,"endTime":3072.712,"body":"So, um, anyway, that's how I got into"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3066.562,"endTime":3072.712,"body":"construction, um, wood Pulte homes."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3072.712,"endTime":3076.132,"body":"And then I worked for a couple"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3072.712,"endTime":3076.132,"body":"other great builders in San Antonio."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3076.582,"endTime":3080.902,"body":"And then, like I said, when the market"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3076.582,"endTime":3080.902,"body":"crashed in 2008, it was opened my door to the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3080.902,"endTime":3085.192,"body":"teaching, which, which combined what I, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3080.902,"endTime":3085.192,"body":"know, when I went to, when I was in college,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3085.282,"endTime":3091.072,"body":"uh, getting my degree in economics, I, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3085.282,"endTime":3091.072,"body":"my last semester I was on a six and a half"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3091.072,"endTime":3096.112,"body":"year plan, but, uh, one of the reasons is"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3091.072,"endTime":3096.112,"body":"I was staying to get certified, to teach."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3096.112,"endTime":3098.182,"body":"So I had all my curriculum"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3096.112,"endTime":3098.182,"body":"and instruction hours."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3098.872,"endTime":3102.022,"body":"And uh, so that's why it took me an"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3098.872,"endTime":3102.022,"body":"extra semester because I was going"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3102.022,"endTime":3103.132,"body":"to go on, like I said, teach math."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3104.317,"endTime":3109.957,"body":"And I went, you know, you do a semester of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3104.317,"endTime":3109.957,"body":"student teaching and the semester before"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3109.957,"endTime":3112.537,"body":"this semester, you did 20 observation hours."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3112.957,"endTime":3116.167,"body":"And I went and did 20"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3112.957,"endTime":3116.167,"body":"observation hours at a school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3116.257,"endTime":3117.097,"body":"I won't call it out."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3117.127,"endTime":3122.917,"body":"And, uh, and um, I sat there during"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3117.127,"endTime":3122.917,"body":"my observation hours and just thought,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3123.037,"endTime":3127.117,"body":"oh, hell no, I am not gonna do this."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3127.657,"endTime":3128.407,"body":"I am not."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3128.407,"endTime":3132.217,"body":"I'm no way, you know, and maybe it was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3128.407,"endTime":3132.217,"body":"the school, maybe it was the teacher,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3132.217,"endTime":3136.117,"body":"I was observing whatever, but I'm"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3132.217,"endTime":3136.117,"body":"like, Nope, not teaching is not for me."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3136.237,"endTime":3136.567,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3136.987,"endTime":3140.377,"body":"But you know, it's hard as a, as a coming"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3136.987,"endTime":3140.377,"body":"out of college and you don't feel very much"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3140.377,"endTime":3145.027,"body":"older than those, those high schoolers, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3140.377,"endTime":3145.027,"body":"know, my, my daughter's a teacher and she"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3145.027,"endTime":3147.757,"body":"really wanted to come out to teach in high"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3145.027,"endTime":3147.757,"body":"school, but she still looked like she was"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3147.757,"endTime":3149.767,"body":"16 years old when she graduated college."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3149.767,"endTime":3152.377,"body":"So she went to elementary school and now"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3149.767,"endTime":3152.377,"body":"she's at high school, which is great."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3153.007,"endTime":3157.507,"body":"But, um, so anyway, that's kind of where"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3153.007,"endTime":3157.507,"body":"the full circle story of construction at."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3158.677,"endTime":3163.207,"body":"And I mean, I'm, I'm teaching a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3158.677,"endTime":3163.207,"body":"construction school, are you kidding me?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3164.287,"endTime":3165.217,"body":"That's amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3165.667,"endTime":3166.447,"body":"But I'll all worked out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3168.697,"endTime":3171.757,"body":"So you mentioned two things"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3168.697,"endTime":3171.757,"body":"that, uh, that are really important."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3172.387,"endTime":3178.057,"body":"Um, one was, you know, this, this"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3172.387,"endTime":3178.057,"body":"individual that you interviewed with"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3178.057,"endTime":3183.277,"body":"and tackled, like you made it happen"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3178.057,"endTime":3183.277,"body":"and that's a huge lesson that people"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3183.277,"endTime":3185.527,"body":"can take and just make things happen."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3185.527,"endTime":3185.827,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3186.787,"endTime":3188.107,"body":"But he, he scared you."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3188.107,"endTime":3188.287,"body":"Right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3188.287,"endTime":3194.707,"body":"He said people, how many, how many"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3188.287,"endTime":3194.707,"body":"construction people have you met"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3194.857,"endTime":3197.797,"body":"that have chopped up their wives"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3194.857,"endTime":3197.797,"body":"and flushed them down their toilet?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3198.787,"endTime":3199.387,"body":"Um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3201.037,"endTime":3204.307,"body":"probably one, there"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3201.037,"endTime":3204.307,"body":"was one very scary man."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3204.847,"endTime":3209.827,"body":"Uh, there was, and, uh, I will,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3204.847,"endTime":3209.827,"body":"I won't get into that story, but"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3210.427,"endTime":3213.637,"body":"there was one, I wasn't the target."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3213.667,"endTime":3217.017,"body":"He was kinda creeping"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3213.667,"endTime":3217.017,"body":"around, uh, my, my sales."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3217.942,"endTime":3218.092,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3218.932,"endTime":3219.292,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3219.802,"endTime":3220.522,"body":"So just one"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3222.082,"endTime":3226.192,"body":"that's, that's a good, that's"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3222.082,"endTime":3226.192,"body":"not good, but at least it was only one."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3226.552,"endTime":3231.922,"body":"Um, but on the inverse of that,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3226.552,"endTime":3231.922,"body":"how many, like super amazing, super"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3231.922,"endTime":3235.432,"body":"amazing people did you meet one all"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3235.432,"endTime":3235.792,"body":"of them."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3237.382,"endTime":3242.692,"body":"And I mean, you, you, I don't know if"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3237.382,"endTime":3242.692,"body":"people have a lot to offer even, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3242.722,"endTime":3244.582,"body":"know, and it, and it was fun, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3244.582,"endTime":3247.132,"body":"I mean, there was a lot of,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3244.582,"endTime":3247.132,"body":"I learned a lot of Spanish."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3247.162,"endTime":3252.292,"body":"I, I began to love Tejano music because I'd"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3247.162,"endTime":3252.292,"body":"walk into homes and, and, you know, people,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3252.292,"endTime":3254.962,"body":"the painters especially were very patient."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3254.962,"endTime":3257.872,"body":"And I mean, they thought it was kind of fun"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3254.962,"endTime":3257.872,"body":"that I would try to speak Spanish with them."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3257.872,"endTime":3264.772,"body":"And, and, uh, my, my buddy who worked in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3257.872,"endTime":3264.772,"body":"mat, don't go out at lunch and, and they'd be"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3264.772,"endTime":3266.842,"body":"playing poker and he'd throw down 20 bucks."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3266.842,"endTime":3269.542,"body":"And I mean, you just have fun, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3269.692,"endTime":3272.032,"body":"Um, but a lot of really good people."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3272.032,"endTime":3274.372,"body":"I met my, I married my concrete guy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3274.612,"endTime":3282.562,"body":"Um, And, uh, you know, uh, that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3274.612,"endTime":3282.562,"body":"was, that was a fun seven years."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3283.822,"endTime":3290.662,"body":"Um, yeah know, um, great people,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3283.822,"endTime":3290.662,"body":"great people and hard workers."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3291.022,"endTime":3291.622,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3291.802,"endTime":3293.392,"body":"You know, it's good."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3293.392,"endTime":3294.202,"body":"It's brutal out there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3294.202,"endTime":3295.072,"body":"It can be brutal."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3295.462,"endTime":3295.792,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3296.212,"endTime":3297.142,"body":"Oh, it's not comfortable."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3297.232,"endTime":3297.652,"body":"Not at all."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3299.172,"endTime":3300.142,"body":"Maybe it's worth"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3302.062,"endTime":3302.242,"body":"now."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3302.252,"endTime":3305.362,"body":"And you also touched on,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3302.252,"endTime":3305.362,"body":"uh, women in the industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3305.872,"endTime":3311.542,"body":"Um, and I, over the years, I remember"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3305.872,"endTime":3311.542,"body":"back when I got into the trades"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3311.542,"endTime":3315.052,"body":"in 95, and this was my thinking."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3315.112,"endTime":3321.592,"body":"If I saw a woman on a job site in my head"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3315.112,"endTime":3321.592,"body":"automatically, she was the secretary."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3322.252,"endTime":3326.572,"body":"It never even dawned on me that she"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3322.252,"endTime":3326.572,"body":"would be the project executive or the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3326.572,"endTime":3330.442,"body":"project manager, or have any influence"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3326.572,"endTime":3330.442,"body":"or authority out on the project."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3330.952,"endTime":3336.322,"body":"Um, and since then I've"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3330.952,"endTime":3336.322,"body":"been able to see a gigantic."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3337.417,"endTime":3341.977,"body":"I say it's gigantic just because of the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3337.417,"endTime":3341.977,"body":"disparity that I was experienced to."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3342.427,"endTime":3349.777,"body":"Um, but a huge shift in terms of women"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3342.427,"endTime":3349.777,"body":"entering the industry from the trades"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3349.807,"endTime":3352.207,"body":"all the way to executive leadership."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3352.857,"endTime":3360.437,"body":"Um, and you, uh, you mentioned the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3352.857,"endTime":3360.437,"body":"33% of your students are ladies."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3361.667,"endTime":3368.237,"body":"So what kind of, how are you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3361.667,"endTime":3368.237,"body":"all focused on closing that gap"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3368.357,"endTime":3370.757,"body":"of young gals coming into CCS?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3371.587,"endTime":3374.977,"body":"You know, we're, we're,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3371.587,"endTime":3374.977,"body":"we, we do do a few, uh, special"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3374.977,"endTime":3376.537,"body":"things for the girls, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3376.537,"endTime":3379.717,"body":"And, and, and unfortunately kind of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3376.537,"endTime":3379.717,"body":"in this time, you, you, you can't"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3379.717,"endTime":3382.567,"body":"even really say that, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3379.717,"endTime":3382.567,"body":"you gotta say, well, okay, sure."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3382.717,"endTime":3385.897,"body":"Of course, boys are invited, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3382.717,"endTime":3385.897,"body":"know, we have an all girls build"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3385.897,"endTime":3387.157,"body":"and of course, boys are invited."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3387.787,"endTime":3394.267,"body":"Um, and anyway, um, and you know, we're real"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3387.787,"endTime":3394.267,"body":"careful when we go to recruit, um, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3394.267,"endTime":3398.227,"body":"and, and presenting in our slides, of course,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3394.267,"endTime":3398.227,"body":"you know, and, and we do those things, but,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3399.427,"endTime":3403.447,"body":"you know, I think the biggest thing right"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3399.427,"endTime":3403.447,"body":"now is, is the success stories of our, now"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3403.447,"endTime":3407.917,"body":"that we've, you know, our first graduating"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3403.447,"endTime":3407.917,"body":"class was in 2013, which means that a lot"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3407.917,"endTime":3414.157,"body":"of our girls that went off to college are"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3407.917,"endTime":3414.157,"body":"now, uh, you know, working in the field."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3414.187,"endTime":3418.987,"body":"And we, I I'd have to say more of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3414.187,"endTime":3418.987,"body":"our girls have gone to college route."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3419.197,"endTime":3420.277,"body":"Um, then the boy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3421.282,"endTime":3425.752,"body":"But my gosh, you know, I talked about that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3421.282,"endTime":3425.752,"body":"one boy who got promoted as the youngest,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3425.842,"endTime":3428.572,"body":"uh, crew foreman for more metal buildings."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3428.572,"endTime":3433.432,"body":"We also have a girl that's at Skanska that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3428.572,"endTime":3433.432,"body":"was promoted as their, their youngest,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3433.522,"endTime":3439.042,"body":"um, project manager, lead project"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3433.522,"endTime":3439.042,"body":"manager, uh, and their history and, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3439.102,"endTime":3440.902,"body":"Kate Goss, you know, she'll be amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3441.442,"endTime":3448.192,"body":"Um, so, you know, you have to, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3441.442,"endTime":3448.192,"body":"we do, we have those success stories"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3448.192,"endTime":3451.432,"body":"now, you know, and we, we put them out"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3448.192,"endTime":3451.432,"body":"on social media and things like that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3452.212,"endTime":3456.052,"body":"And, um, you know, you have to go into"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3452.212,"endTime":3456.052,"body":"construction with a little bit of a tough"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3456.052,"endTime":3462.052,"body":"skin, you know, because you just do, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3456.052,"endTime":3462.052,"body":"which, which going from construction into"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3462.052,"endTime":3464.242,"body":"education, the Tufts skin did not serve me."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3464.242,"endTime":3466.702,"body":"Well, I was just going to ask you that now."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3467.932,"endTime":3473.002,"body":"And I'm still, I still struggle with that,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3467.932,"endTime":3473.002,"body":"you know, um, you know, cause you gotta"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3473.002,"endTime":3478.252,"body":"have a little more, you know, touchy,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3473.002,"endTime":3478.252,"body":"feely and education and construction and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3478.252,"endTime":3482.332,"body":"that's not really up my alley, but, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3478.252,"endTime":3482.332,"body":"so I, I, I struggle with that a little"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3482.332,"endTime":3486.802,"body":"bit, but, um, and you gotta have, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3482.332,"endTime":3486.802,"body":"gotta have a little bit of a tough skin."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3486.802,"endTime":3492.922,"body":"So, um, I think the biggest thing and,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3486.802,"endTime":3492.922,"body":"and having the companies that will hire"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3492.922,"endTime":3497.782,"body":"our girls, I mean, they'd be crazy not to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3492.922,"endTime":3497.782,"body":"really, you know, cause they're amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3497.782,"endTime":3500.812,"body":"And the other thing is I try to tell"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3497.782,"endTime":3500.812,"body":"the girls, you know, one thing we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3500.812,"endTime":3505.492,"body":"don't teach Jessie is we don't teach,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3500.812,"endTime":3505.492,"body":"we don't teach sales, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3505.522,"endTime":3509.302,"body":"And I, and I feel like, and I try to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3505.522,"endTime":3509.302,"body":"let the, let the, especially the girls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3509.302,"endTime":3514.792,"body":"know, you know, we had a girl that was an"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3509.302,"endTime":3514.792,"body":"incredible plumber, credible plumbing, and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3514.792,"endTime":3516.172,"body":"she wanted nothing to do with plumbing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3516.562,"endTime":3520.432,"body":"You know, I said, do you realize"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3516.562,"endTime":3520.432,"body":"the kind of money you could make?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3520.432,"endTime":3521.242,"body":"If you went into say."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3522.277,"endTime":3523.807,"body":"Something like that, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3524.557,"endTime":3529.147,"body":"And, uh, and so the point being there's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3524.557,"endTime":3529.147,"body":"there's things other than, you know, even"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3529.147,"endTime":3533.227,"body":"if you, even if you have the background"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3529.147,"endTime":3533.227,"body":"experience that kids gain with in our program"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3533.227,"endTime":3538.447,"body":"in four years, uh, even if you went on to,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3533.227,"endTime":3538.447,"body":"to, you want to be an accountant, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3538.477,"endTime":3542.887,"body":"imagine, you know, getting, going to work"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3538.477,"endTime":3542.887,"body":"for a construction company, having that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3542.887,"endTime":3546.457,"body":"background, at least you, you kind of have"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3542.887,"endTime":3546.457,"body":"an idea of what, what you're working with"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3546.457,"endTime":3548.077,"body":"and what the numbers relate to and things."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3548.077,"endTime":3552.037,"body":"So I try to like fit to know too that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3548.077,"endTime":3552.037,"body":"there's other things besides, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3552.037,"endTime":3555.907,"body":"the, all the real grunt work, you know, at"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3552.037,"endTime":3555.907,"body":"least get in there and do some other things."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3555.907,"endTime":3559.597,"body":"So, um, so yeah, it's still a struggle."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3559.597,"endTime":3563.557,"body":"I'm not sure girls will ever, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3559.597,"endTime":3563.557,"body":"and I don't, I don't think they have to."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3563.557,"endTime":3569.947,"body":"I, I, I, I I'm of the belief that, that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3563.557,"endTime":3569.947,"body":"girls are built differently than boys, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3569.947,"endTime":3573.007,"body":"know, in different ways and their minds are"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3569.947,"endTime":3573.007,"body":"different and their bodies are different and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3573.007,"endTime":3575.827,"body":"the physical, uh, limitations are different."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3575.827,"endTime":3576.787,"body":"That's just, that's just."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3577.702,"endTime":3578.362,"body":"That's what it is."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3578.842,"endTime":3583.312,"body":"So, you know, we'll, we will, we get to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3578.842,"endTime":3583.312,"body":"where construction is, you know, 50% women."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3583.342,"endTime":3583.912,"body":"No."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3584.122,"endTime":3588.892,"body":"Um, but I really hope that the girls who"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3584.122,"endTime":3588.892,"body":"want to break the barrier are able to break"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3588.892,"endTime":3590.782,"body":"the barrier and do what they want to do."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3591.262,"endTime":3595.552,"body":"That's, that's the best I think we can"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3591.262,"endTime":3595.552,"body":"hope for, which is great because, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3595.582,"endTime":3601.702,"body":"you know, what I have seen is that that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3595.582,"endTime":3601.702,"body":"is being allowed, uh, or being invited."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3601.702,"endTime":3603.202,"body":"Girls are being invited in."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3603.682,"endTime":3608.362,"body":"Um, I hope none of them have a bad"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3603.682,"endTime":3608.362,"body":"experience because of, you know, some jerks."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3608.602,"endTime":3611.032,"body":"Um, but you know, you gotta be ready for it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3611.092,"endTime":3612.742,"body":"You gotta, you gotta have that tough skin."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3612.742,"endTime":3617.092,"body":"And, uh, you know, sometimes you,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3612.742,"endTime":3617.092,"body":"you end up getting potty mouth, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3617.092,"endTime":3620.002,"body":"know, and you to talk like a sailor,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3617.092,"endTime":3620.002,"body":"which again, doesn't serve you well."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3620.062,"endTime":3628.492,"body":"And when you're trying to, you know, be lady"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3620.062,"endTime":3628.492,"body":"like, you know, or whatever, but whatever."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3629.662,"endTime":3629.992,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3630.052,"endTime":3632.962,"body":"I know I got a little bit"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3630.052,"endTime":3632.962,"body":"of the potty mouth myself."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3633.202,"endTime":3634.522,"body":"I live with a lot of it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3636.322,"endTime":3636.502,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3637.612,"endTime":3642.412,"body":"The core of what I've heard you say is that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3637.612,"endTime":3642.412,"body":"the option has to be there and helping them"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3642.412,"endTime":3646.852,"body":"become aware of the option is, is important."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3646.852,"endTime":3647.062,"body":"Right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3647.062,"endTime":3648.292,"body":"It's largely lacking."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3648.322,"endTime":3652.792,"body":"I mean, you talked about earlier, growing up"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3648.322,"endTime":3652.792,"body":"when you were talking about, you know, you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3652.792,"endTime":3654.532,"body":"didn't even know construction was a thing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3655.042,"endTime":3659.122,"body":"Um, and, and too many people don't know that."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3659.842,"endTime":3665.302,"body":"I mean, we have education, we've got"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3659.842,"endTime":3665.302,"body":"healthcare, we've got financial services."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3665.542,"endTime":3669.592,"body":"We've got all of these industries"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3665.542,"endTime":3669.592,"body":"that do not function without the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3669.592,"endTime":3671.422,"body":"construction of their facilities."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3672.142,"endTime":3676.042,"body":"They do not function without the maintenance"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3672.142,"endTime":3676.042,"body":"of their facilities and the men and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3676.042,"endTime":3681.802,"body":"women that do that work, that manage"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3676.042,"endTime":3681.802,"body":"that work, that sell that work are not,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3682.802,"endTime":3684.682,"body":"I don't know if you remember Diana Wong."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3685.912,"endTime":3688.762,"body":"She was, we interviewed her"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3685.912,"endTime":3688.762,"body":"very early on when we start."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3689.647,"endTime":3692.527,"body":"And she's a talent acquisition"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3689.647,"endTime":3692.527,"body":"and she's a recruiter head hunter."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3692.527,"endTime":3693.397,"body":"She's amazing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3693.397,"endTime":3694.117,"body":"She's awesome."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3694.117,"endTime":3695.077,"body":"Super talented."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3695.737,"endTime":3700.057,"body":"And even her friends were like, you're"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3695.737,"endTime":3700.057,"body":"working for a construction company."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3700.927,"endTime":3703.207,"body":"It was a D like she's doing the job."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3703.267,"endTime":3704.377,"body":"And she's amazing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3704.377,"endTime":3710.857,"body":"And with the, with phenomenal companies,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3704.377,"endTime":3710.857,"body":"but because it was a construction company,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3710.857,"endTime":3713.077,"body":"it's like less than all of a sudden, so"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3713.437,"endTime":3715.027,"body":"dirty or something, you know,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3716.677,"endTime":3719.137,"body":"and she doesn't have a potty"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3716.677,"endTime":3719.137,"body":"mouth, like, come on, give her"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3723.367,"endTime":3726.307,"body":"everything, you know, she was never out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3723.367,"endTime":3726.307,"body":"there in the field with the rest of us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3726.367,"endTime":3733.237,"body":"Um, uh, what's the word I was,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3726.367,"endTime":3733.237,"body":"I've been classified as a barrel"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3737.137,"endTime":3737.467,"body":"with the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3737.467,"endTime":3740.287,"body":"rest of those feral"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3737.467,"endTime":3740.287,"body":"people out there, the rest of us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3740.737,"endTime":3744.937,"body":"Um, so again, like that's the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3740.737,"endTime":3744.937,"body":"whole point of this party."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3745.927,"endTime":3748.867,"body":"It's to enhance the image"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3745.927,"endTime":3748.867,"body":"of careers in the trades."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3749.257,"endTime":3753.907,"body":"And I know you've given us some feedback"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3749.257,"endTime":3753.907,"body":"on some of the earlier episodes."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3754.087,"endTime":3756.007,"body":"How do you think we're doing so far, Krista?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3757.397,"endTime":3761.777,"body":"Um, Jesse, I haven't been"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3757.397,"endTime":3761.777,"body":"back since the early episodes, so"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3761.777,"endTime":3764.747,"body":"I'll just, I'll just tell you, I need"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3761.777,"endTime":3764.747,"body":"to, I need to get back and listen."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3765.257,"endTime":3772.037,"body":"Um, but I, I did hear, uh, I think there"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3765.257,"endTime":3772.037,"body":"was a, was it a female electrician early on?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3772.037,"endTime":3772.487,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3772.487,"endTime":3776.687,"body":"So I, I know you're, you're running"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3772.487,"endTime":3776.687,"body":"the gamut and I gave you the, uh, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3776.707,"endTime":3781.447,"body":"if you ever get hold of the female"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3776.707,"endTime":3781.447,"body":"roofers, there's, there's a, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3781.447,"endTime":3783.287,"body":"a roofing company out in new Braunfels."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3783.827,"endTime":3788.627,"body":"Um, but no, I, yeah, no, I think it's, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3783.827,"endTime":3788.627,"body":"think it's cool what you do, because like"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3788.627,"endTime":3793.667,"body":"you said, it's it's, this is the fight I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3788.627,"endTime":3793.667,"body":"think we have with some of the parents,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3794.117,"endTime":3796.787,"body":"you know, so the parents want, I want"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3794.117,"endTime":3796.787,"body":"my kid going to a construction school."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3796.787,"endTime":3798.917,"body":"It's like, oh my gosh, you know what I mean?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3799.397,"endTime":3800.747,"body":"We gotta, we gotta fix that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3800.747,"endTime":3804.832,"body":"And on the other hand, We've never"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3800.747,"endTime":3804.832,"body":"had an adult come in, our building"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3804.982,"endTime":3807.292,"body":"that has left disappointed, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3807.292,"endTime":3812.032,"body":"So, so like, like you, I mean, you're"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3807.292,"endTime":3812.032,"body":"trying to raise the awareness of man what"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3812.032,"endTime":3814.972,"body":"incredible opportunities that are out there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3814.972,"endTime":3818.782,"body":"So, you know, you, you, you're doing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3814.972,"endTime":3818.782,"body":"that from the podcast point of view."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3818.782,"endTime":3823.432,"body":"And we do that from trying to bring people"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3818.782,"endTime":3823.432,"body":"in the building and, uh, you know, try"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3823.432,"endTime":3828.982,"body":"to try to change the perception because"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3823.432,"endTime":3828.982,"body":"one, if we don't, you know, and I, I think"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3828.982,"endTime":3833.122,"body":"about this too, like, like as a, from"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3828.982,"endTime":3833.122,"body":"a, like a mechanics point of view who"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3833.122,"endTime":3837.742,"body":"is going to fix my car and 10 years, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3833.122,"endTime":3837.742,"body":"know, who's going to be out there building"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3837.742,"endTime":3840.412,"body":"something who's going to fix your AC."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3840.682,"endTime":3843.922,"body":"You know, we started CCA"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3840.682,"endTime":3843.922,"body":"back in 2009, we were told."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3843.922,"endTime":3848.902,"body":"And our big line was that, you know, the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3843.922,"endTime":3848.902,"body":"average age of an AC, I'll say guy, cause"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3848.902,"endTime":3852.982,"body":"a lot of them are, but the average age"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3848.902,"endTime":3852.982,"body":"was like, you know, 68 or something like"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3852.982,"endTime":3854.812,"body":"that, which means now there were like 80."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3855.262,"endTime":3860.002,"body":"So, you know, we gotta, we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3855.262,"endTime":3860.002,"body":"gotta bring in young talent."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3861.277,"endTime":3862.387,"body":"Jeez, you have to."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3862.927,"endTime":3866.827,"body":"And I mean, what, what, that's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3862.927,"endTime":3866.827,"body":"why I tell my kids too, what"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3866.827,"endTime":3868.567,"body":"does that mean for you right now?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3868.627,"endTime":3872.977,"body":"If you're in demand, you know, let's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3868.627,"endTime":3872.977,"body":"go back to economics 1 0 1, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3872.977,"endTime":3876.427,"body":"if, if, if there's a huge demand,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3872.977,"endTime":3876.427,"body":"what do you think that means for you?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3876.837,"endTime":3880.897,"body":"You know, and they finally get"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3876.837,"endTime":3880.897,"body":"around to the more money, man."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3880.897,"endTime":3882.577,"body":"What an opportunity to work right now."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3882.997,"endTime":3883.567,"body":"Crazy."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3884.017,"endTime":3884.677,"body":"Tremendous."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3885.427,"endTime":3887.677,"body":"I thought it was big when I made my decision."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3887.677,"endTime":3889.267,"body":"Now I'm like son of a gun."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3889.567,"endTime":3890.257,"body":"Oh man."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3890.257,"endTime":3892.957,"body":"I, you know, sometimes I'm"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3890.257,"endTime":3892.957,"body":"thinking I need to be a plumber."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3893.047,"endTime":3896.227,"body":"You know what I can, may I know, right?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3897.337,"endTime":3898.177,"body":"No, no, no, no."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3898.177,"endTime":3898.777,"body":"Don't come out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3898.807,"endTime":3899.767,"body":"We need you."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3900.007,"endTime":3903.817,"body":"We really need the amazing work that you're"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3900.007,"endTime":3903.817,"body":"doing over there with those students."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3903.937,"endTime":3906.427,"body":"I can only be one plumber,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3903.937,"endTime":3906.427,"body":"but we're, we're creating a lot"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3906.427,"endTime":3908.107,"body":"of plumbers on the program though."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3908.107,"endTime":3909.697,"body":"I guess that's a, that's a good thing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3909.757,"endTime":3910.567,"body":"So yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3910.567,"endTime":3915.622,"body":"You saw the, and speaking of the girls,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3910.567,"endTime":3915.622,"body":"did you see the whole, uh, Social"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3915.622,"endTime":3919.342,"body":"media blew up about, uh, the girl"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3915.622,"endTime":3919.342,"body":"during the pandemic, the girl plumber,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3920.292,"endTime":3922.822,"body":"trying to get, I was"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3920.292,"endTime":3922.822,"body":"trying to secure an interview with"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3924.162,"endTime":3926.572,"body":"you and you and everybody else."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3926.602,"endTime":3927.622,"body":"Oh my gosh."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3927.862,"endTime":3928.972,"body":"She was, that was amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3928.972,"endTime":3930.202,"body":"That was such a great story."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3930.202,"endTime":3931.252,"body":"Cause she hurt."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3931.252,"endTime":3934.612,"body":"She has three younger brothers"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3931.252,"endTime":3934.612,"body":"that are all special needs and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3934.612,"endTime":3936.472,"body":"they could not live in that house."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3936.992,"endTime":3941.212,"body":"And then her mom takes pictures of her belly"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3936.992,"endTime":3941.212,"body":"crawling underneath that house and fixing that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3941.212,"endTime":3944.182,"body":"pipe, you know, they could all stay there."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3944.422,"endTime":3945.202,"body":"That was great,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3946.102,"endTime":3948.532,"body":"beautiful program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3948.952,"endTime":3956.332,"body":"Learn the skill, actually applied"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3948.952,"endTime":3956.332,"body":"it to, to maintain their quality."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3957.142,"endTime":3957.412,"body":"All right."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3957.922,"endTime":3959.542,"body":"That's what y'all do out there."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3959.722,"endTime":3961.402,"body":"And man, I saw those pictures."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3961.402,"endTime":3962.992,"body":"I was like, oh my God,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3961.402,"endTime":3962.992,"body":"how do I get ahold of her?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3963.482,"endTime":3968.962,"body":"I went, I went Facebook and everywhere I"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3963.482,"endTime":3968.962,"body":"could to try and make a straight line to them."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3969.292,"endTime":3971.752,"body":"And then hell a day later it was on the news."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3971.752,"endTime":3976.492,"body":"And it wasn't social media outlet like"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":3971.752,"endTime":3976.492,"body":"son of a, this is, this is beautiful."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3976.702,"endTime":3976.942,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3976.972,"endTime":3978.922,"body":"It hit Fox news in New York."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3978.952,"endTime":3980.422,"body":"It hit the big Fox news too."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3980.422,"endTime":3984.862,"body":"They was Navy zoom interviewed her, but you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3980.422,"endTime":3984.862,"body":"know, that's, that's a lot, that's part of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3984.862,"endTime":3988.012,"body":"my recruiting, uh, spiel too, is that okay?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3988.012,"endTime":3992.692,"body":"You may never be in a construction"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3988.012,"endTime":3992.692,"body":"career, but imagine the life skills that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3992.692,"endTime":3996.412,"body":"you're going to get, you know, and I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3992.692,"endTime":3996.412,"body":"mean, you ever want to own your own home."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3996.412,"endTime":4001.212,"body":"I mean, imagine improving the value of"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":3996.412,"endTime":4001.212,"body":"your home, uh, without having to hire a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4001.212,"endTime":4004.482,"body":"plumber because Jesse, how much does it"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4001.212,"endTime":4004.482,"body":"cost of a plumber comes to your door?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4005.112,"endTime":4005.202,"body":"You"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4005.202,"endTime":4010.182,"body":"know, I don't know"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4005.202,"endTime":4010.182,"body":"a lot more than pizza."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4013.677,"endTime":4014.697,"body":"Oh, my goodness."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4015.057,"endTime":4015.447,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4015.447,"endTime":4019.347,"body":"So now we're going to jump"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4015.447,"endTime":4019.347,"body":"into the hard question Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4019.347,"endTime":4023.967,"body":"Krista, you know, the title of our"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4019.347,"endTime":4023.967,"body":"podcast is learnings and missteps."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4025.237,"endTime":4030.627,"body":"That title was because I think we all"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4025.237,"endTime":4030.627,"body":"evolve in, get, get to the point that"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4030.627,"endTime":4035.277,"body":"we're at in our life and in our careers"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4030.627,"endTime":4035.277,"body":"as a series of learnings and missteps."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4035.967,"endTime":4042.057,"body":"And so thinking back, or maybe it doesn't"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4035.967,"endTime":4042.057,"body":"have to be way back whenever, uh, what is"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4042.267,"endTime":4049.077,"body":"like a significant learning that you've had"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4042.267,"endTime":4049.077,"body":"as a result of a major misstep that you made?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4050.277,"endTime":4056.577,"body":"Yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4050.277,"endTime":4056.577,"body":"that was a very easy, easy one to answer."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4056.667,"endTime":4057.537,"body":"Okay, good."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4057.657,"endTime":4065.397,"body":"Uh, cause I feel like, and I, I was probably"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4057.657,"endTime":4065.397,"body":"in my late teens or early twenties and,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4067.349,"endTime":4067.769,"body":"Yup."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4068.129,"endTime":4073.166,"body":"Just like I promised,  I cut this"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4068.129,"endTime":4073.166,"body":"piece out because this is the fans"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4073.166,"endTime":4076.736,"body":"only LNM backstage pass material."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4076.976,"endTime":4081.116,"body":"Again, hit us up on"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4076.976,"endTime":4081.116,"body":"patrion.com/learnings and missteps."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4081.386,"endTime":4087.056,"body":"There's multiple ways for you to subscribe and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4081.386,"endTime":4087.056,"body":"you don't have to, you can continue listening."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4087.266,"endTime":4088.586,"body":"You can share with your friend."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4088.586,"endTime":4089.786,"body":"You can leave us a comment."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4089.786,"endTime":4091.076,"body":"You can leave us a review."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4091.196,"endTime":4095.921,"body":"You can do all of the above and I'll send"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4091.196,"endTime":4095.921,"body":"you some virtual hugs  Uh, I'd love you guys."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4095.951,"endTime":4097.991,"body":"And here we go with the rest of the show"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4100.591,"endTime":4100.891,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4100.901,"endTime":4102.221,"body":"A little running up on time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4102.251,"endTime":4104.651,"body":"So final question."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4105.011,"endTime":4108.971,"body":"Um, what footprint do you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4105.011,"endTime":4108.971,"body":"want to leave on the world?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4108.971,"endTime":4109.181,"body":"Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4109.181,"endTime":4109.811,"body":"Krista,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4110.381,"endTime":4115.151,"body":"Jessie has such a huge question and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4110.381,"endTime":4115.151,"body":"it's like, yeah, I'm not like mother Teresa."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4115.181,"endTime":4115.871,"body":"You know what I mean?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4115.871,"endTime":4118.601,"body":"I don't like a drop in the bucket, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4119.351,"endTime":4125.471,"body":"Um, but I think at this point in the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4119.351,"endTime":4125.471,"body":"position I'm in would have to go back"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4125.471,"endTime":4130.271,"body":"to, you know, especially with the girls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4125.471,"endTime":4130.271,"body":"and constructions is very specifically"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4130.901,"endTime":4133.061,"body":"is, you know, just being that role model."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4133.061,"endTime":4137.141,"body":"And again, even if it's not"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4133.061,"endTime":4137.141,"body":"construction, they tick, I hope that."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4138.011,"endTime":4139.961,"body":"Uh, they can be confident."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4139.991,"endTime":4143.951,"body":"You know, I also do a, uh, a girl's,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4139.991,"endTime":4143.951,"body":"like I said, we do some special"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4143.951,"endTime":4145.301,"body":"girls projects on the campus."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4145.511,"endTime":4148.181,"body":"And, um, one of 'em is a mentoring group."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4148.181,"endTime":4150.641,"body":"And I don't know if you've"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4148.181,"endTime":4150.641,"body":"heard of Nabo women on national"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4150.641,"endTime":4152.561,"body":"association of women business owners."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4153.731,"endTime":4155.441,"body":"So we do that every year."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4155.441,"endTime":4162.701,"body":"And unfortunately I can only, um, have, have,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4155.441,"endTime":4162.701,"body":"um, uh, 10 girls in the program, but you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4162.701,"endTime":4167.831,"body":"know, right now a couple of the girls who have"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4162.701,"endTime":4167.831,"body":"signed up really need the boost of confidence."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4167.831,"endTime":4173.381,"body":"You can just tell, you know, and hopefully"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4167.831,"endTime":4173.381,"body":"if you can change just a couple of those"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4173.381,"endTime":4177.731,"body":"girls around and, and help them with"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4173.381,"endTime":4177.731,"body":"that confidence, I mean, that's, that's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4177.731,"endTime":4180.971,"body":"a, that's a big thing and it might"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4177.731,"endTime":4180.971,"body":"only be a couple of kids, you know, may"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4180.971,"endTime":4182.471,"body":"only be a couple people in the world."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4182.891,"endTime":4185.111,"body":"Um, but I hope I can be a good example."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4185.141,"endTime":4188.741,"body":"Um, unfortunately I think"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4185.141,"endTime":4188.741,"body":"I, I, I need to work on."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4189.491,"endTime":4193.871,"body":"My touchy touchy-feely skills,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4189.491,"endTime":4193.871,"body":"you know, uh, that would help"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4193.871,"endTime":4195.941,"body":"me to help bridge the gap here."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4196.361,"endTime":4201.251,"body":"Uh, but I really care about, uh, seeing"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4196.361,"endTime":4201.251,"body":"these girls successful, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4201.311,"endTime":4205.611,"body":"And, uh, so I think in the end,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4201.311,"endTime":4205.611,"body":"that's, that's where I'm at."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4205.611,"endTime":4210.311,"body":"I, that's why I'm here doing what I do, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4205.611,"endTime":4210.311,"body":"know, and, and that's why I'm in education"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4210.311,"endTime":4215.771,"body":"and, and, um, uh, helping to develop"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4210.311,"endTime":4215.771,"body":"these girls with, with confidence and know"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4215.771,"endTime":4220.631,"body":"that they can, like I said, like, you can"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4215.771,"endTime":4220.631,"body":"compete with men, you know, it's okay."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4220.631,"endTime":4221.291,"body":"You can do it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4221.441,"endTime":4225.101,"body":"And, uh, I think that's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4221.441,"endTime":4225.101,"body":"why I got, it's kind of"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4225.101,"endTime":4229.751,"body":"big that's that's not"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4225.101,"endTime":4229.751,"body":"a drop that's, it's a big one."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4230.231,"endTime":4236.891,"body":"So what would you in that line of thinking,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4230.231,"endTime":4236.891,"body":"um, what's one thing that you would tell"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4236.891,"endTime":4242.441,"body":"all the men out there, or boys, whichever,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4236.891,"endTime":4242.441,"body":"you know, February it is, what did they"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4242.441,"endTime":4245.141,"body":"need to do to contribute to your effort?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4247.886,"endTime":4248.606,"body":"Oh, wow."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4248.636,"endTime":4255.866,"body":"Um, I, I, you know, in my program, at"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4248.636,"endTime":4255.866,"body":"least I think, I, I think when the girls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4255.866,"endTime":4264.086,"body":"are given a chance, they see it, they see"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4255.866,"endTime":4264.086,"body":"that, uh, they can, they're being out done."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4264.326,"endTime":4267.536,"body":"You know, we've got a lot of the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4264.326,"endTime":4267.536,"body":"girls that are go-to people, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4267.536,"endTime":4271.286,"body":"you always have those students every"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4267.536,"endTime":4271.286,"body":"year that are kind of your go-to and,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4271.286,"endTime":4273.236,"body":"um, a lot of times with the girls."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4273.236,"endTime":4279.656,"body":"So I, again, I guess in that same, same"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4273.236,"endTime":4279.656,"body":"angle, I hope that the boys in our program"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4280.826,"endTime":4286.976,"body":"experience it, that these girls are there"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4280.826,"endTime":4286.976,"body":"to, to, you know, and I'm not going to say"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4287.126,"endTime":4289.436,"body":"equal, but I mean, they're there to compete."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4289.946,"endTime":4291.236,"body":"Um, they might be better."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4291.236,"endTime":4293.546,"body":"They might be worse for,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4291.236,"endTime":4293.546,"body":"for different reasons."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4293.546,"endTime":4294.056,"body":"You know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4294.056,"endTime":4298.796,"body":"I mean, they might, the girl might get a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4294.056,"endTime":4298.796,"body":"job, not because of her physical strength,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4298.796,"endTime":4303.596,"body":"but because she's got it going on, she knows"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4298.796,"endTime":4303.596,"body":"what the task is all about and can get it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4304.706,"endTime":4310.076,"body":"So, um, again, I hope that as examples in"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4304.706,"endTime":4310.076,"body":"our program, um, and I think they do, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4310.076,"endTime":4314.786,"body":"think the boys see, because I, honest to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4310.076,"endTime":4314.786,"body":"God, everybody is equal in our program."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4314.966,"endTime":4318.686,"body":"You know, we don't have the girls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4314.966,"endTime":4318.686,"body":"doing the painting and the boys do."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4318.686,"endTime":4322.646,"body":"And the cutting, you know, I mean,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4318.686,"endTime":4322.646,"body":"everybody, everybody does everything."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4322.706,"endTime":4327.986,"body":"And, um, and that's just how our,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4322.706,"endTime":4327.986,"body":"our, our instructors are, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4327.986,"endTime":4329.486,"body":"everybody gets the same chance."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4329.576,"endTime":4336.206,"body":"And so, you know, maybe, uh, maybe it's"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4329.576,"endTime":4336.206,"body":"a, it's a by, um, by example again, um,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4336.206,"endTime":4340.316,"body":"unfortunately that's not global, you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4336.206,"endTime":4340.316,"body":"know, to, to tell the boys, Hey, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4340.316,"endTime":4343.466,"body":"look, these girls can do what you do,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4340.316,"endTime":4343.466,"body":"but at least in our, in our own little"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4343.466,"endTime":4349.316,"body":"world here, the boys are seeing that these"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4343.466,"endTime":4349.316,"body":"girls, uh, are sometimes performing to"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4349.316,"endTime":4351.206,"body":"the same level and even outperforming."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4351.806,"endTime":4356.096,"body":"And, uh, and, and I think they have a lot"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4351.806,"endTime":4356.096,"body":"of respect for our girls on the campus."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4356.666,"endTime":4356.786,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4356.816,"endTime":4357.196,"body":"So."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4358.001,"endTime":4359.321,"body":"Um, we're here to compete."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4359.861,"endTime":4361.421,"body":"They are, oh my God."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4361.421,"endTime":4362.471,"body":"Our girls are amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4362.621,"endTime":4363.521,"body":"Our girls are amazing."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4363.731,"endTime":4364.661,"body":"I'm jealous."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4366.851,"endTime":4371.171,"body":"You know, I am, I am one eight and you"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4366.851,"endTime":4371.171,"body":"know, they're the one girl that went"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4371.171,"endTime":4377.471,"body":"to Skanska was in charge of the, uh,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4371.171,"endTime":4377.471,"body":"brand new Delta airline hanger on lax."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4378.371,"endTime":4383.111,"body":"I mean, at like 22 years old, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4378.371,"endTime":4383.111,"body":"our kids are buying houses now, you know,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4383.141,"endTime":4387.491,"body":"I thought I was doing good at building"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4383.141,"endTime":4387.491,"body":"my own house at 27, but we just had"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4387.491,"endTime":4389.381,"body":"a boy who just went to work for TDI."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4389.921,"endTime":4392.801,"body":"And, uh, I said, well, I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4389.921,"endTime":4392.801,"body":"had him send me a picture."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4392.801,"endTime":4393.701,"body":"I'm going to flood face."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4393.701,"endTime":4397.841,"body":"I'm going to flood social media next"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4393.701,"endTime":4397.841,"body":"week with all of our graduates that I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4397.841,"endTime":4401.501,"body":"can find that will send me a picture"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4397.841,"endTime":4401.501,"body":"of them at their job right now."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4402.131,"endTime":4405.791,"body":"And, um, so I've been reaching out to as"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4402.131,"endTime":4405.791,"body":"many as I can find, uh, send me a picture."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4405.791,"endTime":4407.771,"body":"What, what year you graduated CCA?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4407.801,"endTime":4408.281,"body":"What you're doing?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4408.401,"endTime":4409.871,"body":"Send me a picture of you and action."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4409.871,"endTime":4410.201,"body":"Right?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4410.591,"endTime":4415.001,"body":"I'm really looking forward to next week and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4410.591,"endTime":4415.001,"body":"posting the one boy was, uh, was at TBI."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4415.001,"endTime":4416.411,"body":"He started out at quarter moon."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4416.641,"endTime":4416.921,"body":"He went."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4418.016,"endTime":4422.906,"body":"And, um, he sent me a picture and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4418.016,"endTime":4422.906,"body":"I said, God, you look really happy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4423.466,"endTime":4424.346,"body":"And he texts back."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4424.346,"endTime":4425.936,"body":"He's like, miss, I am happy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4425.936,"endTime":4427.406,"body":"I just bought my first house."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4428.156,"endTime":4431.036,"body":"I'm like, geez, man, you're 19 years old."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4433.256,"endTime":4435.806,"body":"And he was so excited, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4436.166,"endTime":4440.036,"body":"Um, so geez that's and I was glad to hear it."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4440.046,"endTime":4442.916,"body":"He, you know, bought a"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4440.046,"endTime":4442.916,"body":"house instead of a $70,000."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4443.906,"endTime":4444.656,"body":"Exactly."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4445.156,"endTime":4449.336,"body":"That is a wise decision for a young Knight"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4445.156,"endTime":4449.336,"body":"because I would've went and bought me a car."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4450.206,"endTime":4450.416,"body":"Right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4450.416,"endTime":4455.456,"body":"And I'm sure I'm sure they do that too, but,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4450.416,"endTime":4455.456,"body":"um, yeah, no, I think the boys are seeing,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4455.456,"endTime":4462.446,"body":"at least in our program that the, the, the,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4455.456,"endTime":4462.446,"body":"the gender gap is not very wide at all."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4463.316,"endTime":4464.096,"body":"You know what I mean?"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4466.436,"endTime":4468.566,"body":"One on the social media post."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4468.566,"endTime":4470.306,"body":"Is this going to be on your personal account?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4470.786,"endTime":4472.916,"body":"No, it's on, it's on the CCA count."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4472.916,"endTime":4474.596,"body":"So we have an Instagram account."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4475.436,"endTime":4481.586,"body":"I think I'm going to do most of it on"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4475.436,"endTime":4481.586,"body":"Instagram, uh, which is at NISD CCA."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4482.156,"endTime":4482.606,"body":"Okay."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4482.906,"endTime":4483.176,"body":"Let's see."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4483.176,"endTime":4484.106,"body":"Instagram account."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4484.616,"endTime":4489.476,"body":"Uh, we're also doing the school bus"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4484.616,"endTime":4489.476,"body":"conversion, so we have a, uh, a CCA underscore"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4489.476,"endTime":4493.706,"body":"schooly so, uh, that's just for, for funsies."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4494.246,"endTime":4498.176,"body":"And then, uh, Twitter, I believe"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4494.246,"endTime":4498.176,"body":"it was the same at NISD CCA."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4499.436,"endTime":4505.856,"body":"And then, um, Facebook is construction,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4499.436,"endTime":4505.856,"body":"careers, academy, parent partnership."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4507.266,"endTime":4511.856,"body":"I think you can, I think you can put in at"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4507.266,"endTime":4511.856,"body":"CCA parents and I think it gets you there,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4512.606,"endTime":4516.926,"body":"but, um, yeah, so he sent me the picture"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4512.606,"endTime":4516.926,"body":"and he was up on a, on a man lift doing,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4516.926,"endTime":4521.996,"body":"uh, you know, connecting some iron pipe and"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4516.926,"endTime":4521.996,"body":"I mean, he just looked happy and he's like,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4524.396,"endTime":4524.906,"body":"Awesome."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4526.706,"endTime":4527.876,"body":"That's that's amazing."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4527.876,"endTime":4533.066,"body":"And so to your point about the women,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4527.876,"endTime":4533.066,"body":"the ladies are here to compete, um, and"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4533.066,"endTime":4537.686,"body":"it's, we're, we're in the process of, of"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4533.066,"endTime":4537.686,"body":"getting the Texas construction careers"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4537.686,"endTime":4542.786,"body":"initiative, build competition live, you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4537.686,"endTime":4542.786,"body":"know, the whole thing that we do out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4542.786,"endTime":4547.166,"body":"at the Freeman Coliseum with all the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4542.786,"endTime":4547.166,"body":"employers and all the school districts."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4548.126,"endTime":4555.566,"body":"The first one, I knew that dammit, we need"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4548.126,"endTime":4555.566,"body":"to go and get these kids to come work for us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4555.566,"endTime":4556.766,"body":"We need to do this."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4557.156,"endTime":4561.536,"body":"It was a result of being at a"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4557.156,"endTime":4561.536,"body":"booth to interact with high school"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4561.536,"endTime":4564.236,"body":"students and seeing the competition."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4564.296,"endTime":4572.426,"body":"They were physically building a space,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4564.296,"endTime":4572.426,"body":"a cubicle, or a quiet there's a bathroom"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4572.486,"endTime":4576.956,"body":"doing the sheet, rock the framing,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4572.486,"endTime":4576.956,"body":"the plumbing, electrical, the whole."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4577.901,"endTime":4578.261,"body":"And four"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4578.261,"endTime":4580.151,"body":"hours and four hours."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4580.481,"endTime":4583.151,"body":"And the, the judging was"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4580.481,"endTime":4583.151,"body":"pretty damn stringent."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4583.421,"endTime":4586.721,"body":"And CCA had a group of all ladies."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4586.901,"endTime":4587.171,"body":"Yep."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4587.531,"endTime":4588.581,"body":"All four girls."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4588.941,"endTime":4590.801,"body":"And they were small."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4590.831,"endTime":4594.791,"body":"I mean, it was, they"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4590.831,"endTime":4594.791,"body":"smoked it, they killed it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4595.421,"endTime":4599.861,"body":"And I got to see them and I got to see a"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4595.421,"endTime":4599.861,"body":"bunch of other schools, like eight other"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4599.861,"endTime":4601.661,"body":"schools that were competing in the program."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4603.581,"endTime":4604.091,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4604.271,"endTime":4609.881,"body":"So I'm like, you know, you could tell there"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4604.271,"endTime":4609.881,"body":"were different degrees of, of knowledge"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4609.881,"endTime":4613.841,"body":"base, but they I'm seeing them work safely."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4614.111,"endTime":4619.541,"body":"I'm seeing them communicate and see"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4614.111,"endTime":4619.541,"body":"them plan their work and work in a team"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4620.201,"endTime":4622.271,"body":"like, holy hell, that's what we need."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4622.721,"endTime":4622.991,"body":"Like."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4624.476,"endTime":4627.476,"body":"We had our girls team and I"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4624.476,"endTime":4627.476,"body":"18 and, and, you know, not only were"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4627.476,"endTime":4631.526,"body":"they only the only girl's team, they"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4627.476,"endTime":4631.526,"body":"mostly are the only girls in that"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4631.526,"endTime":4634.376,"body":"whole competition take second place."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4634.376,"endTime":4637.496,"body":"We usually lose two to,"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4634.376,"endTime":4637.496,"body":"uh, we've lost to Reagan."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4637.946,"endTime":4640.526,"body":"I remember the Reagan coach saying"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4637.946,"endTime":4640.526,"body":"to me, you know, how long have your"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4640.526,"endTime":4642.026,"body":"girls been practicing together?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4642.476,"endTime":4645.086,"body":"And I'm like, you know, our girls"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4642.476,"endTime":4645.086,"body":"don't practice together because they're"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4645.086,"endTime":4647.186,"body":"all in different strands, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4647.186,"endTime":4651.806,"body":"And his team of boys have the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4647.186,"endTime":4651.806,"body":"same class together, you know?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4651.806,"endTime":4655.286,"body":"And so, I mean, our girls hadn't had hadn't"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4651.806,"endTime":4655.286,"body":"really come together to practice good."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4655.306,"endTime":4656.756,"body":"They just all knew their own part."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4656.756,"endTime":4660.806,"body":"And, and, you know, and we had like one team"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4656.756,"endTime":4660.806,"body":"practice or something, but you're right."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4660.836,"endTime":4662.006,"body":"They, they were unbelievable."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4662.006,"endTime":4666.556,"body":"They worked together and, uh, second"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4662.006,"endTime":4666.556,"body":"place, I mean, you know, uh, it was fun."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4666.566,"endTime":4667.166,"body":"It's a lot of fun."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4667.676,"endTime":4667.916,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4668.066,"endTime":4668.726,"body":"Uh, it's good."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4668.726,"endTime":4671.486,"body":"So we've got to bring that back"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4668.726,"endTime":4671.486,"body":"in our listeners out there,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4671.876,"endTime":4673.376,"body":"make your way to San Antonio."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4674.231,"endTime":4680.441,"body":"Come come and see the talent that is just"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4674.231,"endTime":4680.441,"body":"waiting to come and transform the industry."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4680.771,"endTime":4683.651,"body":"Particularly the ladies"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4680.771,"endTime":4683.651,"body":"got to give them a shot."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4684.711,"endTime":4685.871,"body":"We're pretty transparent."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4685.931,"endTime":4689.921,"body":"We, we, we, we show people the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4685.931,"endTime":4689.921,"body":"program, you know, we don't, we"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4689.921,"endTime":4692.291,"body":"don't mind if you, if you copy us."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4692.291,"endTime":4695.771,"body":"Cause it's it's to the better of the"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4692.291,"endTime":4695.771,"body":"kids in the industry and all that."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4697.421,"endTime":4697.541,"body":"Yeah."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4697.571,"endTime":4697.961,"body":"Awesome."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4698.621,"endTime":4698.891,"body":"Well, Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4698.891,"endTime":4701.021,"body":"Krista, I appreciate your time this morning."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4701.021,"endTime":4701.741,"body":"Did you have fun?"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4702.401,"endTime":4703.181,"body":"That's a great meaning."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4703.181,"endTime":4704.501,"body":"You're just, you're just so easy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4704.531,"endTime":4708.311,"body":"You're so easy to talk to you."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4708.311,"endTime":4709.361,"body":"Make it easy."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4709.671,"endTime":4710.891,"body":"Oh no, no."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4710.961,"endTime":4713.201,"body":"I, I always enjoy visiting with you, Jesse."},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4713.201,"endTime":4717.161,"body":"So, uh, you know, whenever, whenever"},{"speaker":"Krista","startTime":4713.201,"endTime":4717.161,"body":"you're back in town, anytime."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4717.881,"endTime":4718.331,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4718.541,"endTime":4718.901,"body":"Yes."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4719.351,"endTime":4720.071,"body":"I'm ready."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4720.071,"endTime":4723.401,"body":"Whenever I can come pick, speak"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4720.071,"endTime":4723.401,"body":"to the kids, speak to the parents,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4723.611,"endTime":4726.611,"body":"to the child, your staff I'm down."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4726.611,"endTime":4727.571,"body":"I'd love to do it."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4728.591,"endTime":4729.191,"body":"Sounds good."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4729.551,"endTime":4731.291,"body":"All right, then we'll talk again, Kristen"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4733.476,"endTime":4734.916,"body":"Well, there you go."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4734.916,"endTime":4738.956,"body":"We just had, I don't know, but"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4734.916,"endTime":4738.956,"body":"80 minutes or so of, of Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4738.956,"endTime":4744.716,"body":"Krista, Ackles her wisdom, her takeaways,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4738.956,"endTime":4744.716,"body":"and her contribution to, to our industry,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4744.716,"endTime":4748.676,"body":"to our community and to the world at"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4744.716,"endTime":4748.676,"body":"large appreciate y'all hanging with us."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4748.676,"endTime":4750.326,"body":"I know these episodes are long."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4750.479,"endTime":4754.589,"body":"And my intent is to share some"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4750.479,"endTime":4754.589,"body":"meaning, some positive attitude, a new"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4754.589,"endTime":4762.319,"body":"perspective, and may be motivate you or"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4754.589,"endTime":4762.319,"body":"a loved one to take a chance and get out"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4762.319,"endTime":4765.829,"body":"there into this construction industry,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4762.319,"endTime":4765.829,"body":"because it's an amazing place to be."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4766.159,"endTime":4768.409,"body":"There are amazing discoveries to be here."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4768.988,"endTime":4771.118,"body":"And of course, we're going"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4768.988,"endTime":4771.118,"body":"to give a shout out to Ms."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4773.188,"endTime":4777.048,"body":", who reached out engage me the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4773.188,"endTime":4777.048,"body":"opportunity to speak with her crew,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4777.198,"endTime":4781.458,"body":"with the AGC, CSU Chico people."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4781.998,"endTime":4784.608,"body":"Thank y'all for the time"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4781.998,"endTime":4784.608,"body":"that y'all shared with me."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4784.968,"endTime":4786.468,"body":"Thank you for giving me all this time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4787.743,"endTime":4791.163,"body":"And Jordy was some pretty decent dialogue,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4787.743,"endTime":4791.163,"body":"even though we were virtual was a big"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4791.193,"endTime":4795.003,"body":"gigantic group, and I want to shout"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4791.193,"endTime":4795.003,"body":"her out and recognize her because of"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4795.003,"endTime":4796.803,"body":"the behaviors that she's displaying."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4797.083,"endTime":4805.033,"body":"She reached out to damn near a complete"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4797.083,"endTime":4805.033,"body":"stranger to see if that person would interact"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4805.063,"endTime":4808.303,"body":"and serve the people that she serves."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4808.723,"endTime":4810.643,"body":"Uh, that's a phenomenal action."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4810.643,"endTime":4811.453,"body":"Y'all in."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4811.593,"endTime":4811.983,"body":"One."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4811.983,"endTime":4813.093,"body":"I want y'all to know."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4813.525,"endTime":4814.035,"body":"Please."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4814.095,"endTime":4818.355,"body":"I'd love to interact with your groups,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4814.095,"endTime":4818.355,"body":"career fairs, all of the above, or just talk."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4818.355,"endTime":4823.455,"body":"Cause if you don't know already,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4818.355,"endTime":4823.455,"body":"I enjoy talking, but this young"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4823.455,"endTime":4826.065,"body":"professional, she didn't skip a beat, man."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4826.065,"endTime":4827.205,"body":"She just made it happen."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4827.205,"endTime":4830.295,"body":"So the rest of y'all make it happen, baby."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4830.535,"endTime":4832.245,"body":"Peace out."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4836.628,"endTime":4841.218,"body":"man you are one dedicated listener,"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4836.628,"endTime":4841.218,"body":"sticking with us all the way"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4841.218,"endTime":4844.008,"body":"through to the very, very end."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4844.338,"endTime":4847.848,"body":"Please know that this"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4844.338,"endTime":4847.848,"body":"podcast dies without you."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4848.268,"endTime":4852.648,"body":"And we invite you to share how the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4848.268,"endTime":4852.648,"body":"episodes is impacting you along with your"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4852.648,"endTime":4854.418,"body":"thoughts, questions, and suggestions."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4854.598,"endTime":4856.158,"body":"You've been gracious with your time."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4856.158,"endTime":4861.048,"body":"So we added social media links in the"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4856.158,"endTime":4861.048,"body":"show notes to make it super easy for you"},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4861.048,"endTime":4863.868,"body":"to connect with us because to yourself."},{"speaker":"jesse","startTime":4865.293,"endTime":4866.703,"body":"And we'll talk at you next time."}]}