Women Talk Construction Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode: Christi and Angela interview Tammy Hill, lean program director at JE Dunn’s Advanced Facilities Group, about how curiosity, confidence, and continuous learning shaped her 30+ year career from architecture to lean leadership. Hill explains she moved toward lean to focus on people and process—bringing disciplines together, improving decisions, collaboration, and value delivery—rather than leaving architecture behind. She describes confidence as something that g...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode: Christi and Angela welcome returning guest Faye Allen, now Managing Director at Rimkus and Head of Global Quantum Services, to discuss her book Building Women, released last June, its Goody Business Book Award, and its audio edition. Allen shares that readers’ responses—especially from men—have emphasized the book’s focus on working together and giving practical tools for improvement. She discusses allyship as an active role involving listening and calling ou...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode: Angela and Libby interview Diane and Ashley of Texas-based, women- and family-owned Tech Safety Lines about fall protection, rescue training, and safety equipment. Diane explains that she started the company 25 years ago after 9/11, networking with a Connecticut military manufacturer to bring a compact descender concept to firefighters and SWAT in Texas, later buying the patent and ensuring third-party testing to ANSI and EN standards. The company now has ove...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode: Angela Gardner and guest co-host Libby Mendriatta welcome Cheryl Cappelli and owner Rob Turner of Turner Brothers Construction to discuss leadership, culture, growth, and business development. Cheryl shares her nearly 30-year career path from receptionist to leading the Turner Brothers Greenville office by embracing challenges, asking questions, learning estimating and project management, and stepping outside her comfort zone through roles in business develop...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode: Christi, Angela, and Libby introduce guest Amber Little, chief HR officer at Nations Best Holdings in Dallas and author of the 52-week workbook Whole Human Leadership, sharing how the book helped her realize it’s okay to take a break and not be everything to everyone. Amber explains that whole human leadership means recognizing we are human before our roles and leading yourself first by understanding values, triggers, approval-seeking, and needed boundaries. ...