He (and sometimes she) shows up on the jobsite, in your inbox, or even in your comment section with one goal: to make you look and feel inferior. He’ll try to paint you as the “crazy emotional woman” who doesn’t belong on the crew. He’ll try to drag you into arguments online so he can twist your words and make you look like the problem. You’re not alone — and you’re not powerless. The key is learning how to recognize a narcissist’s tricks and quietly pop that ego bubble witho

The quote above sits with me, maybe because I’ve lived it so many times. We often think of courage as something loud and dramatic....

Most of us have been intimidated, or let’s be honest, bullied, at some point. “Intimidation” is just the grown-up word we use to avoid...

As a woman in the trades for over 30 years and a mentor to other women in male-dominated industries, I understand that most of these groups