October 8, 2025 • 11 mins
For Careers in Construction M, my guests show you a way to get into the construction trades through their social enterprise called Building Value. The program supported by Easterseals Redwood is helping Tri-Staters build sustainable careers while addressing the growing demand for skilled construction workers, to be ready for the enormous infrastructure projects in the coming years. Whether your first career or a career change, find the information here that could get you where you wanna be in construction.
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Building Value - Committed to reducing waste, repurposing materials, and accelerating sustainable careers in construction.
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513.475.6783
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, this is iHeart Sinsey. I'm Sandy Collins, your
host on this iHeartRadio station, bringing you information again today
for the public interest your home, your family, your business,
your social life, whatever. We're trying to help out as
much as we can here in the Tri State. We're
also starting a new feature that I'm going to tell
you about. We're looking for folks who are willing to
(00:22):
talk about their vocation, their jobs, their careers. Mostly, I'd
like to talk to Cincinnati and Tri State people who
have unique and interesting jobs that you'd like to promote,
you'd like to encourage someone else to get into, or
the opposite side of that, if you do a job
that is just hard and you would never want anybody
(00:44):
to ever go into it, I want to talk to
you too. I think it's important for us to be
able to speak honestly about the decisions that we have
to make when we're adults, and so with so many
young people listening to this program, I think it's really
important to just bring the information and that people decide
what they want to do. So, if you would like
to share your job, your vocation, and possibly be on
(01:07):
this show, just send me an email. Put vocation in
the subject line and send it to Iheartsincy at iHeartMedia
dot com. That's vocation in the subject line Iheartsincy at
iHeartMedia dot com. Just put all your details down there
and I'll be in touch. Let's get started. Since we're
(01:28):
talking about Construction Month and careers, I'm speaking today with
a business development manager at Building Value and this is
Brian Sherlock and one of the participants in this program
that is learning construction. It's Destiny Jackson. Both of you.
Thank you for being on Iheartsincy today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Construction. Wow, that's all we hear about in Cincinnati is
all of the projects that are going to be hiring
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people for building developments
and the bridge and this and that. So this is
a good time to be talking about helping people get
into the industry because they're going to be definitely needed
over the next ten years. And since October is Careers
(02:09):
in Construction Month, who better to speak with than Brian.
Brian tell us about Building Value. We've had you on
the show before, the organization which trains folks for careers
in construction. Something that they can do that doesn't cost
them a whole lot of money to get the education.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Actually they make money when they come to Building Value.
So Building Value is a social enterprise of Easter Seals
Redwood and our mission is to accelerate careers in construction
while also helping to keep waste out of the landfill.
And the beauty of living in this area right now
is there is such a huge need for the trades
(02:52):
and people, and then the trades and so individuals are
interested in getting a start in construction can come onto
our website building Value dot org and they can submit
it into our program and they go through an interview
process just to see, you know, if this is something
that they're really interested in doing, and if they're accepted
(03:13):
into our program, then they go through a classroom portion training,
which is three weeks in our construction LAP at Easter
Seals Redwood, and that's when they get their hands on
hand tools and power tools, and they become more comfortable
with tape measurer and construction math, and they learn about
(03:37):
bullshit ten safety training, they get their forklift and their
Bobcat certification, and we set them up with all of
the tools to be successful for when they get onto
a job site and they're in the real life situation
of working on a construction site.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So this is a tremendous opportunity. Is it free? What
do participants have to do?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It doesn't cost anything to come into our program when
we actually train our individuals during the process of the
program too. So all participants have to do is have
they If they're interested, they can go onto our website
it's Building Value dot org and they submit a form
and somebody will reach out from Building Value.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See that's just amazing. I always try to underline when
things don't cost people anything, because today it's just so
expensive to be alive and it's so hard to find
new education. Let's talk real quick then we're going to
talk with Destiny, who's part of the program at Brand.
When you're talking about somebody who wants to get into
the construction trade, what kind of people are you talking about?
(04:42):
What kind of ages? Is it mostly male? Is it
female too? Or their jobs for older folks?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What is your thought anybody who's interested in a career
in construction. It's open to any age. We have minorities,
we have women, we have older people. We primarily focus
on eighteen and older. Yeah, you just have to have
a desire.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Destiny Jackson. She's one of the current participants in the program, Destiny.
What are you learning right now? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm in the program for carpentry. We've been doing some
deconstruction on the site, working out like after we're clean up.
We got experience with like the fourth lift and the
Bobcat and things like that. It's like learning about how
(05:33):
to feel work things like that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Destiny, how long have you been in this program?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
About eight weeks? Not eight or nine weeks?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is it what you expected?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, it's not, but I feel like I've been learning,
so it's a win for me.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah. How's it different than what you expected?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I just expected something different.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I can't really explain it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, harder, easier.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's easier. Yeah, I can't say the things that I
have got to get hands on experience with.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I'm satisfied.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I definitely know more about tools now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Than a here before.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I've never really had a desire for like forklift and
things like that, but it's real fund having a forklift
and a bodcast had.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So what are you hoping to do when you're done
with the program. What kind of work conversant emulation. Deconstruction
is a big part of the mission for building value.
What exactly is deconstruction?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We want to salvage the reasonable material. We have the
clients that will call us and they just bought a
home and say the home is beautiful, the kitchen is beautiful,
but it's just not their style. They can call us
and we'll come and will sustainably deconstruct it. So we'll
carefully take it down and then we bring it back
to our store in the North Side and it's available
(07:03):
to the public. So now the public can come in
and get these beautiful materials that sometimes wouldn't be available
to them otherwise or they might not be able to
afford it. So it's available to the public. But everything
that we sell at our store in the North Side
goes back into the workforce training program, so it's very cyclical.
We rely a lot on the community to think of us,
(07:25):
you know, when they're remodeling their house or they're deconstructing,
or even demolition. Destiny loves demolition, so we try to
keep them busy as much as we can with all
different types of experience. We just got finished doing a
clean out of the pump salon for Mitchell's Salon and
day Spa, and we were able to salvage all of
(07:47):
the salon equipment from the salon in Rookwood, and a
lot of that salon equipment has already been repurposed to
other salons in the communities.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So by just mitchell Salon On and Day's.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Spot calling us up and saying, hey, would you be
interested in coming to take it, they were able to
provide workforce training, they were able to provide materials to
another business getting up on their feet, and they were
able to keep over six thousand pounds of materials out
of our landfills. I mean just by picking up the
phone and thinking outside of the dumpster and thinking about
(08:23):
what we can do. I mean, just that one phone
call change the trajectory of so much destiny. What were
you doing before you got into this program?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I was doing nursing. I've been in nursing for like
fifteen years and I've been a license massage therapist for seven.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And are you prepared to be working outside when it's cold? No? No,
I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I did.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How many people, Brionn have you had go through this
program for Building Value more.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Than three hundred and twenty five individuals.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's amazing so far.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes, and our goal for the year next year is
one hundred. We want one hundred more people next year.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So eighteen and up. If you're interested in construction, contact
Building Value. They're part of Easter Seals Redwood. They have
a store in Northside and you can go by there
if you're building your own house or you want to
change things. You want to see what's available for your
own construction project. Do you have a lot of builders
(09:28):
and construction people that come by there?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, Oh, our store is so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
If you have not visited our store forty forty Spring
Grove Avenue, please come by and say hi. It is
just it's such a grassroot, homey, family kind of feel.
We have two little shopcats that hang out Normal and
Garfield and it's a treasure trove. I mean even when
(09:53):
I'm in my office and I come out in the
afternoon sometimes I'm like, oh my god, where did this
come from? You never know what you're going to find,
what you're going to see, So it's a really cool place.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, we're talking about careers in construction and my guest
today Brian Sherlock. She's the business development manager for Building Value,
which is funded by Easter Seals and Destiny Jackson. She
is a current participant in the program learning carpentry and
other skills so that she can have a little career change,
if you will so, Destiny, thank you for being here today.
I appreciate you interrupting your lunch and Brian, thank you
(10:29):
for what you do with the program.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's it for the show this week. Remember if you
have a vocation that you want to promote, if you
think it's the best job in the world, you want
to help other people figure out how to become a doctor,
a lawyer, a construction worker, a social worker, a home
healthcare aid, whatever it is that you do. Shoot me
an email, let me know what you do for a living,
(10:54):
why you chose it, and how to get a hold
of you. You might be on our Vocations special project
which is coming up. Just send an email to Iheartsinsey
at iHeartMedia dot com. Iheartsinsey at iHeartMedia dot com. If
you missed any part of this show, you can hear
it again on the iHeartRadio app. Look under podcasts. It's
(11:15):
a free download. The app is by the way and
look under podcasts you'll find iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins
right there. We hope to see you here next week.
iHeart Sinsey is a production of iHeartMedia, Cincinnati,
All right, this is iHeart Sinsey. I'm Sandy Collins, your
host on this iHeartRadio station, bringing you information again today
for the public interest your home, your family, your business,
your social life, whatever. We're trying to help out as
much as we can here in the Tri State. We're
also starting a new feature that I'm going to tell
you about. We're looking for folks who are willing to
(00:22):
talk about their vocation, their jobs, their careers. Mostly, I'd
like to talk to Cincinnati and Tri State people who
have unique and interesting jobs that you'd like to promote,
you'd like to encourage someone else to get into, or
the opposite side of that, if you do a job
that is just hard and you would never want anybody
(00:44):
to ever go into it, I want to talk to
you too. I think it's important for us to be
able to speak honestly about the decisions that we have
to make when we're adults, and so with so many
young people listening to this program, I think it's really
important to just bring the information and that people decide
what they want to do. So, if you would like
to share your job, your vocation, and possibly be on
(01:07):
this show, just send me an email. Put vocation in
the subject line and send it to Iheartsincy at iHeartMedia
dot com. That's vocation in the subject line Iheartsincy at
iHeartMedia dot com. Just put all your details down there
and I'll be in touch. Let's get started. Since we're
(01:28):
talking about Construction Month and careers, I'm speaking today with
a business development manager at Building Value and this is
Brian Sherlock and one of the participants in this program
that is learning construction. It's Destiny Jackson. Both of you.
Thank you for being on Iheartsincy today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Construction. Wow, that's all we hear about in Cincinnati is
all of the projects that are going to be hiring
hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people for building developments
and the bridge and this and that. So this is
a good time to be talking about helping people get
into the industry because they're going to be definitely needed
over the next ten years. And since October is Careers
(02:09):
in Construction Month, who better to speak with than Brian.
Brian tell us about Building Value. We've had you on
the show before, the organization which trains folks for careers
in construction. Something that they can do that doesn't cost
them a whole lot of money to get the education.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Actually they make money when they come to Building Value.
So Building Value is a social enterprise of Easter Seals
Redwood and our mission is to accelerate careers in construction
while also helping to keep waste out of the landfill.
And the beauty of living in this area right now
is there is such a huge need for the trades
(02:52):
and people, and then the trades and so individuals are
interested in getting a start in construction can come onto
our website building Value dot org and they can submit
it into our program and they go through an interview
process just to see, you know, if this is something
that they're really interested in doing, and if they're accepted
(03:13):
into our program, then they go through a classroom portion training,
which is three weeks in our construction LAP at Easter
Seals Redwood, and that's when they get their hands on
hand tools and power tools, and they become more comfortable
with tape measurer and construction math, and they learn about
(03:37):
bullshit ten safety training, they get their forklift and their
Bobcat certification, and we set them up with all of
the tools to be successful for when they get onto
a job site and they're in the real life situation
of working on a construction site.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
So this is a tremendous opportunity. Is it free? What
do participants have to do?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
It doesn't cost anything to come into our program when
we actually train our individuals during the process of the
program too. So all participants have to do is have
they If they're interested, they can go onto our website
it's Building Value dot org and they submit a form
and somebody will reach out from Building Value.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
See that's just amazing. I always try to underline when
things don't cost people anything, because today it's just so
expensive to be alive and it's so hard to find
new education. Let's talk real quick then we're going to
talk with Destiny, who's part of the program at Brand.
When you're talking about somebody who wants to get into
the construction trade, what kind of people are you talking about?
(04:42):
What kind of ages? Is it mostly male? Is it
female too? Or their jobs for older folks?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
What is your thought anybody who's interested in a career
in construction. It's open to any age. We have minorities,
we have women, we have older people. We primarily focus
on eighteen and older. Yeah, you just have to have
a desire.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Destiny Jackson. She's one of the current participants in the program, Destiny.
What are you learning right now? What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I'm in the program for carpentry. We've been doing some
deconstruction on the site, working out like after we're clean up.
We got experience with like the fourth lift and the
Bobcat and things like that. It's like learning about how
(05:33):
to feel work things like that.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Destiny, how long have you been in this program?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
About eight weeks? Not eight or nine weeks?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is it what you expected?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, it's not, but I feel like I've been learning,
so it's a win for me.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Yeah. How's it different than what you expected?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I just expected something different.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I can't really explain it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, harder, easier.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
It's easier. Yeah, I can't say the things that I
have got to get hands on experience with.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I'm satisfied.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I definitely know more about tools now.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Than a here before.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I've never really had a desire for like forklift and
things like that, but it's real fund having a forklift
and a bodcast had.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So what are you hoping to do when you're done
with the program. What kind of work conversant emulation. Deconstruction
is a big part of the mission for building value.
What exactly is deconstruction?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
We want to salvage the reasonable material. We have the
clients that will call us and they just bought a
home and say the home is beautiful, the kitchen is beautiful,
but it's just not their style. They can call us
and we'll come and will sustainably deconstruct it. So we'll
carefully take it down and then we bring it back
to our store in the North Side and it's available
(07:03):
to the public. So now the public can come in
and get these beautiful materials that sometimes wouldn't be available
to them otherwise or they might not be able to
afford it. So it's available to the public. But everything
that we sell at our store in the North Side
goes back into the workforce training program, so it's very cyclical.
We rely a lot on the community to think of us,
(07:25):
you know, when they're remodeling their house or they're deconstructing,
or even demolition. Destiny loves demolition, so we try to
keep them busy as much as we can with all
different types of experience. We just got finished doing a
clean out of the pump salon for Mitchell's Salon and
day Spa, and we were able to salvage all of
(07:47):
the salon equipment from the salon in Rookwood, and a
lot of that salon equipment has already been repurposed to
other salons in the communities.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So by just mitchell Salon On and Day's.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Spot calling us up and saying, hey, would you be
interested in coming to take it, they were able to
provide workforce training, they were able to provide materials to
another business getting up on their feet, and they were
able to keep over six thousand pounds of materials out
of our landfills. I mean just by picking up the
phone and thinking outside of the dumpster and thinking about
(08:23):
what we can do. I mean, just that one phone
call change the trajectory of so much destiny. What were
you doing before you got into this program?
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I was doing nursing. I've been in nursing for like
fifteen years and I've been a license massage therapist for seven.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
And are you prepared to be working outside when it's cold? No? No,
I knew it. I knew it.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I did.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
How many people, Brionn have you had go through this
program for Building Value more.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Than three hundred and twenty five individuals.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's amazing so far.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes, and our goal for the year next year is
one hundred. We want one hundred more people next year.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So eighteen and up. If you're interested in construction, contact
Building Value. They're part of Easter Seals Redwood. They have
a store in Northside and you can go by there
if you're building your own house or you want to
change things. You want to see what's available for your
own construction project. Do you have a lot of builders
(09:28):
and construction people that come by there?
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Yeah, Oh, our store is so cool.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
If you have not visited our store forty forty Spring
Grove Avenue, please come by and say hi. It is
just it's such a grassroot, homey, family kind of feel.
We have two little shopcats that hang out Normal and
Garfield and it's a treasure trove. I mean even when
(09:53):
I'm in my office and I come out in the
afternoon sometimes I'm like, oh my god, where did this
come from? You never know what you're going to find,
what you're going to see, So it's a really cool place.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well, we're talking about careers in construction and my guest
today Brian Sherlock. She's the business development manager for Building Value,
which is funded by Easter Seals and Destiny Jackson. She
is a current participant in the program learning carpentry and
other skills so that she can have a little career change,
if you will so, Destiny, thank you for being here today.
I appreciate you interrupting your lunch and Brian, thank you
(10:29):
for what you do with the program.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
That's it for the show this week. Remember if you
have a vocation that you want to promote, if you
think it's the best job in the world, you want
to help other people figure out how to become a doctor,
a lawyer, a construction worker, a social worker, a home
healthcare aid, whatever it is that you do. Shoot me
an email, let me know what you do for a living,
(10:54):
why you chose it, and how to get a hold
of you. You might be on our Vocations special project
which is coming up. Just send an email to Iheartsinsey
at iHeartMedia dot com. Iheartsinsey at iHeartMedia dot com. If
you missed any part of this show, you can hear
it again on the iHeartRadio app. Look under podcasts. It's
(11:15):
a free download. The app is by the way and
look under podcasts you'll find iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins
right there. We hope to see you here next week.
iHeart Sinsey is a production of iHeartMedia, Cincinnati,
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