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Speaker 1: Welcome to Brainstuff, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, they're Brainstuff listeners. Today,

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Speaker 1: instead of a normal episode, we have for you another

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Speaker 1: preview of the podcast On the Job. We've joined up

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Speaker 1: with their team to bring you a few samples of

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Speaker 1: what they do, which is engage with professionals from all

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Speaker 1: kinds of businesses about what they do, from elephant training

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Speaker 1: to blacksmithing. Through these stories, the team tries to help

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Speaker 1: explain and explore different aspects of what working means in

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Speaker 1: our world today. They are sponsoring us to run these samples,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's a good fit because it's a

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Speaker 1: look into how different jobs work. In today's episode, they're

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Speaker 1: speaking with a woman who took the leap to open

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Speaker 1: her own automotive service shop. Will feature some previews of

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Speaker 1: future episodes in the future, though. If you want to

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Speaker 1: hear more or explore their previous six seasons, you can

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Speaker 1: find On the Job from Express Employment Services wherever you

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Speaker 1: get your podcasts.

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Speaker 2: I am Demenie Pollt and I am the owner of

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Speaker 2: Gurlington Garage in South Burlington.

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Speaker 3: Vermont, Beautiful.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you building a fort there for our recording.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome. It was kind of fun. I haven't built

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Speaker 3: a sheet fort since I was a kid.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to on the Job today. We're speaking with

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Speaker 4: Demanie Pollett, who, as you heard, is the owner of

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Speaker 4: a female run auto repair shop in Vermont. But Girlington

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Speaker 4: Garage is more than just a cute name. Demenie's mission.

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Speaker 4: It's a creative place where women feel comfortable having their

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Speaker 4: cars repaired.

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Speaker 2: They walked in and they didn't feel out of place

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Speaker 2: or like they didn't belong. They immediately felt like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can sit down here, and this feels like I

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Speaker 2: don't want to say this feels like home, because you know,

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Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like home to go to a repair shop,

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Speaker 2: but something equivalent to home.

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Speaker 3: This feels like a comfortable coffee shop. Maybe I don't know.

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Speaker 4: As she tells it, Demni was far from a natural

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Speaker 4: born mechanic. In fact, it took a lot of trial

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Speaker 4: and error, sometimes at her own expense. Pre Girlington, Demni

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Speaker 4: was working in the social services field, tending to the

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Speaker 4: elderly and people with developmental disabilities. But it seemed that

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Speaker 4: no matter how much she worked, she just couldn't get ahead.

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Speaker 4: So she came up with two potential career paths.

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Speaker 2: So the only two things that I thought would be

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Speaker 2: at all interesting were psychology. I thought that would be

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Speaker 2: very interesting fixing cars, figuring out these machines, fixing their

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Speaker 2: mysterious mysteries every day. So I did a little bit

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Speaker 2: of research and I realized it was going to take

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Speaker 2: six years to become a psychologist in two years.

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Speaker 3: To become a technician. And so that was my decision.

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Speaker 3: Right there.

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Speaker 2: I thought, God, I wish I knew of a woman mechanic.

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Speaker 2: I would drive long distances to bring my car to

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Speaker 2: a woman who was a mechanic. And then I thought,

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Speaker 2: I bet a lot of other women feel this way.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to open up an old girl garage and

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Speaker 2: I'm going to make a million dollars.

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Speaker 3: And then from that point on, that was my plan.

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Speaker 2: That was what I was working towards, was figuring out

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Speaker 2: how to open my own business.

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Speaker 4: But the more Deminie learns about the industry, the more

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Speaker 4: she realizes opening up a business is a lot of work,

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Speaker 4: much more than she can do alone. Luckily, she knew

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Speaker 4: just who to call.

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Speaker 2: My mom was looking for something new to do with

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Speaker 2: her life, and so I said, Hey, come up to Burlington.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to sort this business. Why don't you come

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Speaker 2: help me? And so she did.

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Speaker 4: Eight years into the business, Demni came down with a

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Speaker 4: thyroid condition. She struggled to even work the two and

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Speaker 4: a half days a week, and that's when her mother's

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Speaker 4: unconditional love took over.

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Speaker 2: My mom, being a really, really good mom, said you

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Speaker 2: need to take some time off.

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Speaker 4: So your mom held the fort while you were gone.

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Speaker 2: She did, Yeah, my mom. She ran the business all

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Speaker 2: by herself.

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Speaker 4: With her health greatly improved. Demanie is back in the

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Speaker 4: shop these days, but she admits she's in that challenging

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Speaker 4: phase of ownership where it's no longer as exciting as

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Speaker 4: it once was for her.

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Speaker 2: I care about the business, I really do. And I

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Speaker 2: love my employees. I love the people that I work with,

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Speaker 2: and I do want Gurlington to run forever. So I'm

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Speaker 2: mostly just there for support for the manager, Susan McGrath.

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Speaker 2: She's fantastic and running the business like nobody's business.

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Speaker 4: Demanie still goes in two days a week, but her

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Speaker 4: goal is for Girlington to grow independent of her. So

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Speaker 4: what are you thinks next for Deminie?

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Speaker 2: I have no idea. I'm still in a transition, getting

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Speaker 2: it to a stable point. Once that is sort of settled,

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Speaker 2: I'll have to think about it. I haven't thought about it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's next.

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 4: From the job. I'm Avery Thompson.

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Speaker 3: A strong work ethic, takes pride in a job well done.

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Speaker 4: Business for today with the right workforce.

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