The Current, Comfort, and Coffee Podcast

The conversation covers a week in review, including the Davison Career Expo and game night, followed by a detailed discussion on Dungeons and Dragons and board games. The hosts explore the social aspect of Dungeons and Dragons and the appeal of different forms of entertainment. The conversation covers a range of topics including social gatherings, personal health, exercise, anxiety, sleep patterns...

The conversation covers a range of topics including pride in vocation, electrical hazards, political polarity in trades, data center growth, transitioning to a new position, adapting to a new work environment, board games and role-playing games, 3D printing and technology, home entertainment and sound systems, listening preferences and background music, audio devices and music choices, music, gard...

The conversation delves into the value of apprenticeships and trade schools, highlighting the hands-on experience they provide and their role in helping individuals determine their career path. It also explores the importance of grounding in electrical work and the trade-offs between pursuing a trade career versus a college education. The conversation delves into the importance of practical applic...

Episode 6: Hot Takes This week we lean into it. Episode 6 is all about hot takes from the trades. The kind you hear on job sites, in supply houses, and after a long service day when everyone’s a little too honest. We talk about emergency calls and why most of them are completely preventable, the loudest guy on the job site (and why he usually isn’t the smartest), and the growing gap between common...

This week’s episode starts the way most of our episodes do: coffee, side quests, and a conversation that slowly turns into something more serious than we expected. We talk about Fireside Coffee Roasters, hobbies that turn into experiments, ADHD brains in the trades, and the mental gymnastics required to balance technical work with human interaction. From there, we dig into one of the most importan...

Episode 4: Would You Choose the Trades Again This week we answer a simple question with a not-so-simple backstory: if we could rewind the clock, would we still choose the trades? We talk about how we got here, what pushed us away from other paths, and what actually keeps people in this work for the long haul. We get into the trade school vs real-world learning debate, confidence issues in the fiel...

Episode 3: Apprentice vs Veteran Mindset This week we talk about what really separates an apprentice mindset from a veteran mindset, and it is not age or years in the trade. It’s the difference between “tell me what to do” and “I’m here to learn, improve, and move the job forward.” We get into how mentors can make or break a career, why the best knowledge is usually hiding in the manual you didn’t...

The conversation covers a range of topics, including the festive season, community support, challenges in finding families in need, the need for compassion, historical perspectives on community, podcast evolution, personal growth, organizing community events, hobbies, 3D printing, and challenges in the trades industry. The themes of community and compassion, as well as learning through experience,...

We recorded our first episode and learned an important lesson right away: check the audio. Since that episode exists only in spirit, this is the actual beginning. In Episode 1 of Current, Comfort, and Coffee, we introduce ourselves, how we ended up in the trades, and why we thought starting a podcast was a good idea in the first place. We talk about real world experience, a few industry gripes tha...