How To Handyma’am | A Home Improvement Comedy Podcast

We are back! In this episode, we are dedicating the show to Arly's new niece (Welcome, GooGoo! 🎀) and recapping Samantha’s 50th Birthday trip to NYC with her husband Jim and daughters Emily and Hannah. We talk about the emotional rollercoaster of seeing Hamilton, surviving the city, and the insane story of how Samantha got so excited at the airport that she literally kicked Emily. 🍎🦶Then, A...

Welcome to the SideQuest! This week, the trio opens up the mailbag to answer your questions. We tackle the paralyzing fear of perfectionism (and why "making it exist" is better than making it perfect), react to a truly horrified listener who got a quote for $204,000 for kitchen cabinets, and share a cautionary tale about why you should never mix red food coloring into your drywall mud. P...

Nobody wants to talk about the "throne"… until it starts leaking on the bathroom floor. In this episode, the trio dives into the unglamorous but essential world of Toilet Troubleshooting. Samantha, Emily, and Arly break down the anatomy of your toilet (it’s simpler than you think) and explain why a "running" toilet is essentially flushing your money down the drain. We cover the...

Episode Summary: What happens when you take the "Handyma’am Spirit" out of construction and drop it onto a 1-million-square-foot factory floor? In this SideQuest, Samantha, Emily, and Arly sit down with a very special guest: Hannah Pearl . She’s Emily’s twin sister, Samantha’s daughter, and—along with dad, Jim—one of the few members of the family who chooses not to pick up the power tool...

Welcome, friends! This week our Handy Hosts Samantha, Emily, and Arly round out our painting series with a focus on choosing paint color. If staring at a display of paint swatches leaves you perplexed and standing on the precipice, this episode is for you! We kick off with a special dedication to Arly’s mom Barbara Streed, a cheerleader in our mission to support women in the trades. Emily teases u...

  It’s never the big things that build trust and deeply bonded relationships…it’s always the small things.   Sharing in the joy  is the reward you get for  sharing in life’s daily indignities .    In this week’s episode, Emily, Samantha, and Arly talk about how building a culture of joy, support, and grace is about action – it’s bringing the problems into the light, talking about the hard things,...

Hey there, Handyma'ams! Welcome to the  How to Handyma'am  podcast, where hosts Samantha, Emily, and Arly from  MyHandyma'am  are diving into the most critical (and least glamorous) step of any painting project:  Paint Prep ! Before you even pop a can of paint, you need to know the starting steps. In this episode, we're talking about everything from getting the "floof" of...

Welcome back to the Sidequest! In these bonus episodes, we step away from the classroom curriculum to share stories from the field, chat about what drives us, and get to know the How to Handyma’am crew a little better. In this episode, Samantha, Arly, and Emily dive into the "why" behind home repair. We talk about breaking the cycle of "inherited male skills" and the power of c...

 Welcome! If this is your third week joining us, or your first, thank you for being here. The Handyma’ams use their hard-earned and field-tested expertise to entertain, educate, and help you to feel less alone when you’re “doing it yourself”—they’ve done it the hard way, so you don’t have to.               In this  Brush School for Junkies , join us to receive top marks as the Handiest of ma’ams d...

Welcome to our very first SideQuest! These mini-episodes are "bonus snippets from the field" where we share the stories, challenges, and crazy moments that don't make it into our main episodes. To kick off this series, we go behind the scenes of MyHandyma'am to answer the question: How did we all get here? Arly shares how she went from a biology student to becoming our first full...

In our second-ever episode, The Handyma’ams surprise, delight, and sometimes scare us with their tales from the field. Will they self-sabotage with food poisoning at a questionable lunch location or buck up with “stick-to-it-ive-ness” and keep going despite their setbacks?   Join us this week and find out why Arly nearly walked off the job, Samantha was left sobbing over a piece of trim, and Emily...

Tune in for a special bonus episode of "How to Handyma'am"! Before launching our first official episode, we recorded several sessions. These initial recordings were full of fun and productive chaos, helping us nail down our format and find our rhythm. While we aren't releasing those full episodes, they contain some fantastic moments! This bonus content is pulled from our very fir...

Join us for the first-ever episode of “How to Handyma’am”, where our project-loving hosts and occasional murder-enthusiasts discuss the best starter tool kit for homeowners and DIY’ers alike, with Arly’s special “Cheap or Quality” game. Samantha and Emily battle it out for points and bragging rights over what tools to thrift, barter, and splurge on.   Their cheerful and quirky anecdotes, real-life...

Welcome to “How to Handyma’am”, where we educate and entertain with our experience as three women in the home remodeling business. We’ve learned everything the hardest possible way – so you don’t have to! We envision a community of women who are empowered to take care of the daily needs of their lives independently, with confidence and knowledge. That goes for how you care for your home, what you...