Raw Material

Everybody wants the highlight reel. The 13,000 square foot shop, the wall of CNC machines, the certifications on the wall. Nobody wants to hear about the two toilets, the seven parking spots for 26 people, or the rigger who sliced a neighbor's Tahoe clean in half. That's exactly the part we're telling you today. This is the first episode Lee and I have done together, so we figured we'd start where...

Every shop owner I know is fighting the same war: where do the next machinists come from, and who is going to pay to train them? On this one I sat down with my own congressman, Jake Auchincloss, who came down to the shop with a plan that actually puts money behind the problem.  Why not make big tech build a thousand trade schools across the country, surge one-on-one tutoring to every K-12 student,...

In Part 2 of my conversation with Mark Manuel, we move beyond marketing tactics and start talking about something much bigger: the future of manufacturing itself. Everybody is talking about AI right now. Most of them have no idea what they're talking about. Mark has spent his career sitting at the intersection of technology, manufacturing, and sales, and he brings a refreshingly practical perspect...

Most machine shop websites suck. Not because they look bad. Because they don't understand how manufacturing buyers actually think. In this episode of Raw Material, I sat down with Mark Manuel, better known as "The Industrial Ambassador," and we got into something that honestly doesn't get talked about enough in this industry: most manufacturers are marketing themselves completely wrong. Shops spen...

Welcome to Raw Material. I'm Jamie Marzilli, and this show is going to be different from just about every manufacturing podcast you've heard before. This isn't a boardroom conversation about EBITDA and buzzwords from people who forgot what it feels like to stand on the shop floor. This is for the machinists, operators, programmers, shop owners, and builders still grinding it out every single day....

Raw Material is about the people behind the parts. The owners, machinists, operators, builders, and problem-solvers who carry the weight, make the calls, fix the messes, and keep the work moving. This podcast gets into the pressure, the failures, the lessons, and the wins that come with life in manufacturing. No fluff. Just real conversations about pushing people, not buttons.