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  • Kill Fraud with Trusted Data

    Kill Fraud with Trusted Data
    Dec 17 2025
    Why do massive infrastructure and digital transformation projects almost always spiral out of control? Is it just poor management, or is there something more calculated happening behind the scenes? In this episode, we pull back the curtain on the "structural vulnerabilities" that allow budgets to explode and timelines to collapse. We move beyond the surface-level excuses of incompetence to explore how disorganized systems create the perfect breeding ground for sophisticated fraud and "grifting."

    What We Cover:
    • The Grifting Gap: How bad actors exploit fragmented data, silos, and manual reconciliation to hide inflated change orders and backdated approvals.
    • The Three Pillars of Defense: Why Timestamped Accountability, Instant Insight, and Centralized Connection are the only ways to build a "non-negotiable history book" for your project.
    • The Four Critical Questions: The exact framework every project manager needs to answer in real-time to maintain control: What changed? When? Who approved it? And what was the impact?
    • Redefining Failure: Why missing a budget is a problem, but being unable to prove why using verifiable data is the true systemic failure.
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    14 min
  • Chris Raley| Spark Joy with Sustainable Living

    Chris Raley| Spark Joy with Sustainable Living
    May 5 2023
    This uplifting podcast with guest Chris Raley, Owner and President of SCG Florida LLC, talks about sustainability, finding joy in life, helping the middle class, and putting people before profits. SCG Florida, LLC, builds sustainable single-family homes with a pathway to ownership with an ESG focus for affordable living.
    Chris also set up a charitable organization called Mentors Who Move with a focus on education, housing, and health. Those three things now for the middle class and the working class are hurting badly and used to be much more accessible and affordable. Shelley and Chris talk about their drive to help people, and the construction industry, and create better pathways for living joyously.
    Don’t miss these great tidbits from Chris, such as “give before you take and always give more than you take”.

    https://www.mentorswhomove.org/
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    23 min
  • Stokes McIntyre | Midforge and Safety on the Jobsite

    Stokes McIntyre | Midforge and Safety on the Jobsite
    Mar 10 2023
    Guest Stokes McIntyre, President and CEO of Mindforge, chats with Shelley Armato on all things construction! Two CEOs of construction software who work to make the industry better and safer.

    They discuss the workforce, safety on the job site, sharing knowledge, the industry, construction professionals, and how they got to where they are today.

    Mindforge ensures those working on the job site are updated with daily information to help keep them safe and efficient. https://www.mindforge.live/
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    21 min
  • Paul Davis | Knowledge is Power

    Paul Davis | Knowledge is Power
    Oct 21 2022
    Paul Davis has been in the construction industry for over 40 years, and he is experienced in helping CEOs navigate a way to get an ROI in the worst situations. As the owner of Nine Dots, he is constantly thinking outside the box to apply problem-solving and critical thinking into the industry. Paul enjoys being in the chaos for the CEO and helps them forge their way out.

    Common issues are schedule problems, mismanagement, and a lack of readily available information for construction projects. The overall challenge is getting the project information, and you must rely on your team to give you accurate information. There needs to be a better system in place of trust and then verify.

    The construction industry is all about relationships, however, the personality of the person that takes on the risk is difficult to have a true relationship with.

    Construction is a three-legged stool with the owner, contractor, and designer. There is a balance missing in the project because they need the last leg to collaborate with transparency and accountability.

    https://www.specialnavigator.com/
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    20 min
  • Thom Kurmel | Full Transparency in Construction

    Thom Kurmel | Full Transparency in Construction
    Oct 13 2022
    Thom Kurmel is the President at TDK Consulting, LLC with over 35 years of experience in construction, design, planning, and management focusing on health systems.

    – The Construction industry is old-fashioned and proud. Design and construction need to work and collaborate together.

    – These construction contracts are a business relationship; you should want to share and solve problems together. But that can’t be done if people hide information.

    – Everyone comes from a different place on a project, and some people are really experienced and sometimes people aren’t. The industry needs to bring inexperienced people from a defensive stance to an offensive one and not act as if they know what they are doing.

    – People manage the requirement, by getting good information and keeping people apprised throughout the project, and putting it to use.

    – The documents the owners end up with are often incomplete or useless.
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    27 min
  • Brenda Radmacher | Communication Creates Fewer Problems

    Brenda Radmacher | Communication Creates Fewer Problems
    Oct 7 2022
    Brenda Radmacher is a Lead on Construction Litigation for Anchorman LLP with over 25 years of experience. She focuses her practice on construction law, working as a counselor, litigator, and noted speaker on issues involving landowners, developers, general contractors, and design professionals.

    Brenda was the Lead Construction Attorney of the Homeowners Association Receiver on the Champlain Towers collapse case in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida. This was quite possibly the largest settlement in construction cases in the United States. It ended with an incredibly fast resolution, taking less than a year.

    Construction projects should act in a preventative manner to justify the cost of getting documents managed. Time and effort can be saved later in getting things organized and paying to obtain data upfront. Spending millions on tracking down documents after the fact is an uphill battle, instead of collecting documentation in a preventative manner.

    https://www.akerman.com/en/people/brenda-radmacher.html
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    21 min
  • Kelvin L. Solco | Airport Consulting for YOU

    Kelvin L. Solco | Airport Consulting for YOU
    Mar 21 2022
    Kelvin L. Solco, P.E., MBA was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as a cooperative education student engineer at the tender age of 19. Kelvin quickly developed a passion for the aviation and transportation industry during his first day on the job. After college graduation, Kelvin quickly became proficient in the design of air navigational aids, basic airport planning and engineering, airspace analysis, and airport design standards. Kelvin learned the aviation industry quickly because he enjoyed researching government documents and regulations including FAA Orders and Advisory Circulars.

    Kelvin rose through the ranks of the FAA on a journey he calls, “from the bottom of the FAA to the top of the FAA”! This is his way of describing his promotions from a civil engineer, to airports engineer, airports program manager, regional associate program manager, Airports assistant division manager, and finally an FAA Senior Executive.

    After an illustrious 36-year FAA career, Kelvin retired and formed The Solco Group, LLC.

    The Solco Group, LLC (TSG) fulfills Kelvin’s dream to create and manage an aviation and transportation planning, engineering, and research consulting firm that takes his knowledge, experiences, and resources and shares it with his peers, clients, airport owners, A/E firms, private corporations, and other organizations. Kelvin and his team members enjoy assisting clients with aviation planning, airport design requirements, airspace analysis recommendations, technical advice, problem solving, meeting facilitation, and subject matter expert team support. During a conversation with Kelvin, you are likely to hear him say, “We can help you with everything inside the airport fence”!
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    20 min
  • Elizabeth McCormick US Army (Ret.) - Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot | Female Empowerment

    Elizabeth McCormick US Army (Ret.) - Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot | Female Empowerment
    Feb 28 2022
    An Experience-Maker, Motivational Leadership, Sales and Safety Events Speaker Elizabeth McCormick will entertain and motivate your audience, while sneak attacking lessons throughout to train your people to step forward as leaders in the workplace and in their personal lives. As a sought-after keynote speaker, Elizabeth teaches from her professional life, sharing stories about her time spent as a decorated Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot and Chief Warrant Officer 2 for the US Army.

    #RebuildingwithShelleyArmato #ElizabethMcCormick #Veteran #FemaleLeaders #BlackHawkHelicopter #Pilot
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    26 min