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Episode 18: It’s Not Trades OR College | Steve Turner of Bring Back the Trades
Steve Turner woke up on August 17, 2017 with an idea: put four words on a baseball cap. Bring Back the Trades. Nine yearslater, he’s running Skills Expos across New England, awarding monthly trade school scholarships, and just delivered a TED Talk.
In this episode, Matt and Steve trace the full arc from hat to national nonprofit. They get into the Mike Rowe story (howit actually happened), the COO Steve hired on the spot, and the TED Talk speech coach who made Steve rewrite his entire message from scratch. The insight that changed everything: it’s not trades OR college. It’s college AND…
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