Metal Fabrication Nation
Metal Fabrication Nation is real talk for welders, fabricators, shop owners, foremen, estimators, and the people building the metal fabrication industry. Hosted by Greg Sheldon, the show covers shop-floor lessons, field work, business, leadership, technology, AI, American manufacturing, and the future of the trades. Real shops. Real metal. Real talk.
Metal Fabrication Nation
Latest Episodes
Stop Blaming Junior Estimators You Never Trained
You hired a junior estimator, handed them a spreadsheet and expected accurate quotes. But nobody had time to teach them... so where were those skills supposed to come from?In this episode of Metal Fabrication Nation, Greg Sheldon breaks ...
Why Good Fabrication Jobs Lose Money | FabProfit Webinar Replay
You win the job. The price looks good. Then the extra hours start adding up, and the profit you thought you had starts disappearing.In this episode of Metal Fabrication Nation, I’m sharing the audio from my FabProfit webinar about estima...
Are YOU the Reason Your Shop is Hell? (The Brutal Truth)
“Nobody wants to work anymore.”“Young people have no work ethic.”“Welders aren’t loyal.”“Fitters will go down the road for a dollar or two more.”Sound familiar?But here is the harder question: What if YOU are the p...
OFF TOPIC, Kinda: Could One Person Take Down the Alcohol Industry?
Yes, I’m talking about alcohol again. Last episode I talked about addiction in the trades and what the person trapped inside it is actually going through. This time, I’m going after the culture and the industry that have made alcoho...
They Promised They’d Stop. They Meant It.
Yes, this is about the metal trades. But this episode goes somewhere our industry rarely goes. How can someone swear they are finished in the morning, then return to the same substance that night, while meaning it both times? I take you inside ...
