Not only is Milliechel Ramirez a Process Engineer at Carey Manufacturing, she's also an Instructor at Capital Community College and offers talks and tours for high school students and parent information sessions for their parents. AND that's all in her free time from being a mom, too! Millie sounds like a superwoman, because she is!

In this episode, Ellen and Jenny talk to Millie about her journey into manufacturing. You'd never believe that Millie started out very shy and quiet, but she had mentors who believed in her and pushed her into opportunities that forced her out of her shell and gave her time to shine! Now, Millie does the same for students through the state.

This is a great episode with a rockstar woman in manufacturing!

Programs discussed in today's episode: Our Piece of the Pie - https://opp.org/ CT State Community Colleges free tuition program https://ctstate.edu/free-tuition CT Manufacturing Ambassadors: https://mfgambassador.com/

Where can you find Millie:

Millie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/milliechel-ramirez/ Millie highlighted in CCAT's Maker Multipliers: https://www.makermultipliers.com/milliechel Carey Manufacturing: https://careymfg.com/

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Podcast hosted by The Bolder Company: https://www.theboldercompany.com/ Podcast executive production by Gael Communications: https://www.gaelcommunications.com/ Podcast technical production by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/

Hannah Belmont took a winding path before landing at her family's manufacturing company. In fact, she didn't know she wanted to be in the industry until landing a job writing about manufacturing...and slowly but surely fell in love with it!

Now in the role of Talent Development Manager, she continues the important work that Westminster Tool has put in over the past 15 years – attracting the next generation of manufacturers by continually transforming company culture. Creating a phenomenal place to work and developing lifelong careers.

Westminster Tool is known for having a hiring waitlist with a diverse set of employees. They put a huge amount of work into hiring for key values such as being dynamic, being motivated, being curious and having integrity.

Then they take their obligation seriously as they offer an in-depth onboarding program where new employees work on soft skills such as emotional intelligence, mindfulness, communication skills, conflict management, and continuous improvement, for 2 weeks before ever even touching a machine.

That's some serious commitment to company culture and it's paying off in great employees doing great work!

Where to find Hannah:

• Westminster Tool: https://www.westminstertool.com/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coombshannah/

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Podcast hosted by The Bolder Company: https://www.theboldercompany.com/

Podcast executive production by Gael Communications: https://www.gaelcommunications.com/

Podcast technical production by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/

Tea, leadership insights, giving back, speaking up, and more tea!

As a third-generation leader, Cindi Bigelow, CEO of Bigelow Tea, shares her remarkable journey of growing through many roles before taking on the role of CEO of her family-owned tea company. She talks about the value of prioritizing – you can't do everything!

Cindi shares her incredible passion for both Connecticut and for manufacturing. She talks about her belief in being a B-Corp organization and the importance of giving back to the community.

Cindi says, "people want to work with people who lift the room." And that is exactly what she does. In her final point on the podcast she explains that we all need to be aware of being role models every day.

Where to find Cindi:

• Bigelow Tea: https://www.bigelowtea.com/

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Podcast hosted by The Bolder Company: https://www.theboldercompany.com/

Podcast executive production by Gael Communications: https://www.gaelcommunications.com/

Podcast technical production by Miceli Productions: https://miceliproductions.com/