Femcanic Garage Podcast

Megan Meyer is in the driver seat.  Megan is a NHRA Top Alcohol Drag Race driver.  Megan holds the record for the fastest Pro-Sportsman female in 1/4 mile: 5.11 seconds at 285 MPH, and is the Winningest Pro-Sportsman female driver in the NHRA. At the end of the 2019 season, Megan became the first women in the history of the NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster class to win the World Championship. Not only is...

Toni Avery is in the driver seat.  She is the owner of girlsdrivefasttoo.com, which covers new and vintage car reviews, racing schools, track days and other industry events.  She has reviewed nearly 70 press cars to date, is a high performance and teen safety driving instructor and has spent her entire career on race tracks in everything from Miatas to open-wheel formula cars.  Tune in, sit back a...

Elana Scherr is an automotive journalist with an expansive career! She was a staff editor at Hot Rod Magazine and the former editor in chief at Roadkill Magazine. Currently, she is a columnist at Car and Driver, she does new car reviews for Edmunds, and writes features and short stories for Sports Car Market, Road & Track, and other automotive online publications. Join us in this episode for an in...

Theresa Contreras is a machinist, graphic designer, and renowned custom painter. Her work has been repeatedly displayed on the cover of top industry magazines and in multiple SEMA shows throughout the years. She has worked alongside top names in the industry like Chip Foose and Jimmy Shine and completed builds for Jay Leno and Ford Motor Company. As if that wasn't enough, Theresa is also the co-fo...

This week's guest needs no introduction—if you watch industry-related TV, you know who she is!  Cristy Lee is arguably one of the most famous women in the industry. She's appeared in racing and motorsports events on ESPN, ABC, Speed, FOX Sports One, MotorTrend, and NBC Sports either as a pit reporter, analyst, host, or leading the broadcast! She has also co-hosted All Girls Garage on MotorTrend, t...

Dez Ferrell is in the driver seat today.  She owns and manages her own shop, Nessy's Kustoms, focused on custom paint and restoration in Mesa, Arizona.  She was recently a featured contestant on Motor Trend's Bitchen Bootcamp.  She did not grow up in a shop, nor did she have an interest in cars for most of her life.  It wasn't until she owned a Honda Accord that introduced her to the import scene...

You have seen her art but have you heard her story?  Barbie is an author, teacher of welding via her YouTube channel, influencer with over 62,000 Instagram followers, but most impressive is how she has become a world-renowned metal sculptor.  Creating sculptures for Miller Welders, Carolina Shoe Company, Harley Davidson and other major companies.  In this episode, she pulls back the curtain and sh...

Lara, That Porsche Girl, is a fit model in California. Formerly, she was a Hollywood precision driver where she doubled for famous actresses in various films, but her love for cars started when she was only 12 after watching an independent, successful woman purchase a Porsche on her own. This symbol of women empowerment was burned into Lara's memory and has guided her throughout life. After findin...

Amanda Beyer is the owner of Manda Marie Upholstery.  She has over 14 years experience doing upholstery for Gulfstream Aerospace, a Ferrari restoration ship and concourse level restorations.  Amanda leads us through her journey as a mentee to entrepreneurship as a custom automotive upholstery shop. Amanda's contact info: Instagram: @manda_marie_upholstery Facebook: @mandamarieupholstery Website: h...

This Caribbean Queen hails from Antigua & Barbuda! She is a multi-talented, dynamic woman who has done it all from piloting airplanes to drag racing to modeling. Her brand encompasses three different entities—InRealLyfe, LHF Motorsports, and Lady Mex. InRealLyfe involves her motivational speaking, modeling, and entrepreneurship entity; LHF Motorsports is her racing and media/culture entity; and La...

Emily Reeves is a professional YouTuber. She and her husband, Aaron, host the channel , Flying Sparks Garage , where they vlog their personal experiences with wrenching and car restoration. Their vlogs include restorations on Emily's GTO ("Roxy"), their Datsun 280Z, and other wrenching adventures. Emily's passion for cars began when she and Aaron met in her mid-teens. Ever since, Emily has learned...

Amanda Brisebois is a custom painter who specializes in airbrushing motorcycles and helmets. She is the owner and founder of Black Widow Custom Paint in Ontario, Canada. Amanda did not set out to be a motorcycle painter, but you couldn't tell by looking at her work. Amanda has won several trophies with her unique paint jobs and she's become a recognized brand in the industry. Join us in this episo...

Katie Chandler is a BMW auto technician in the UK. At 21, she's just finishing up an apprenticeship as a "panel beater" with BMW, but don't let her youth fool you! Katie already has 5 years of experience in the auto industry and she has the skills and wisdom to prove it! Her experience includes fully restoring her own daily driver, painting a Porsche race car with a Jägermeister livery, and creati...

Ellie is the host of the YouTube channel, "Ellie's Garage"—a video blog of Ellie's journey into restoring a 1965 Ford Falcon alongside her father. Last year, at 14, Ellie decided that her first driver should be "a new old car" so her parents put her up to the challenge. Join us in this episode as Ellie shares how she discovered her passion for cars, what made her decide on a Ford Falcon, what she...

Michelle Tansey is in the driver seat today.  Michelle is the co-owner of Dub Clinic, an auto repair shop in Santa Clara California that specializes in Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche and Lamborghini.  This police officer turned auto repair shop owner shares her story of defeating cancer, the journey of adopting a child and launching Dubs Anatomy, a car education class for women.  Go on and have a liste...

Brandy Goff is an automotive technician in Maryland. She has over 7 years of experience in the field, but her love for cars began when she was a young girl watching her father and grandfather work on their racing car projects in their garage. The world of automotive was not Brandy's first career choice, but as she explored further, her passion pulled her in! Brandy's dream was not immediately supp...

Louise Baker is in the driver seat today.  In 2016 she went from stocking supermarket shelves to launching Womanic--motor mechanics with a Feminine touch!  She has been a featured guest in the UK on radio, TV and magazines...all while running her shop full time. She is the business and the trades woman as i do all work from business and banking, to picking the customers car up and fixing it.  Enjo...

This week's episode is a Mother's Day Special Edition! Join us to get up-close and personal with my own family. In this episode, I let my kids get in the driver's seat and ask ME questions about the Femcanic World. My partner and I also take on the parenting challenge of educating our children on how to break down stereotypes against women in male-dominated fields. This is one you won't want to mi...

Meet Linda Ann Meck—owner of A Woman's Worth Paint & Body Shop in Tucson, Arizona and "jill of all trades". Linda restores classic cars for a living with focus on body work, paint, and interiors. Join me in this episode as Linda shares her audacious journey into the automotive industry. She talks about being the "go-fer" for her older sister who worked on cars when she was a little girl and how sh...

JoAnn Bortles is the owner of Crazy Horse Painting—a motorcycle, bicycle, and hot rod custom paint shop in Charlotte, NC. With over 40 years in the industry, her life experiences have led her to be a welder, a car builder, a business owner, a writer, and the first woman to do A LOT of things in the skilled trades and motorsports industries. To name a few, JoAnn was the first woman to own a custom...

Laura Salas is in the driver seat today.  She was a co-owner of a successful collision repair company for six years before becoming a professor of collision repair technology at Contra Costa College.  Not only is she a professor at Contra Costa College, she is the Automotive Department Chair.    Audience feedback drives the show. I'd love for you to text me at (614) 953-6380.  I am excited to conn...

Nhu Nguyen is a Certified Silver and Classic Porsche Technician based out of Ontario, Canada. Although she is an "all-around" auto tech, her love and passion lies in classic, air cooled Porsches, especially in rebuilding their engines. As if just working on high performance sports cars isn't badass enough, Nhu was one of North America's first Certified Porsche Classic Technicians in turn making he...

Stacey Chandler is a Porsche mechanic in the UK. She specializes in Porsche classic but also works on other models from brand new hybrids to a 356. She is such a badass at what she does that she was personally picked to join the Porsche UK classic race team as a pit stop mechanic. Stacey travelled through Europe with the race team working on their 1969 2.0L 911. While in school, Stacey explored a...

Kathreen had this to say, "After returning to my roots I decided to step out of my father and brothers shadows and try my hand with interior work. I have had experience with sewing clothes and such, my mother and I made my prom dress. I also made a few dresses and blankets on my own. So I thought upholstery is just thicker material and bigger machines, I was pretty right on that. I acquired a 1953...

Patrice Banks is the CEO of Girls Auto Clinic (GAC). GAC offers automotive buying and repair resources, products, and services to women based on trust, education, inclusion, and empowerment. Patrice got into the automotive field not by being an expert in automotive mechanics or repair, but by being an expert in the EXPERIENCE of a woman in the automotive industry. Motivated by this experience, Pat...