Trade Life by Point Load Media

Designers pick the finishes. Trades make them work. This week Mike Holmes Jr. and Ian MacFayden sit down with Erica of Studio E Design Co. to find out what really happens when the drawings hit the drywall.Erica breaks down how she designs spaces people actually live in - where homeowners waste money, which trends age badly, and why the best builds start with the designer and the trades in the same room instead of pointing at each other over a change order.Whether you swing a hammer, sign the cheques, or just doomscroll reno content at 1am, there's something in here for you.Follow Erica at @studioedesignco

Misha from Winni Designs has built one of the biggest audiences in construction - 4.2M on TikTok, 1.7M on Instagram, 1.26M on YouTube, and 4.6M on Facebook. This week, Michael and Ian find out how he actually did it.Misha breaks down how he grew from zero, what he thinks about chasing trends, and what a real day on site looks like when the camera's rolling. If you're in the trades and wondering whether posting your work is worth the effort - this one's for you.We're big fans of Misha's content. Go give him a follow: https://www.youtube.com/@[email protected]

Your real estate agent has never seen behind a wall. Rob Collier has torn out a few.Michael and Ian sit down with Rob Collier - tradesman turned real estate agent, Michael's brother-in-law, and the guy you've seen working hard (playing hard?) alongside them on Holmes & Homes Season 1 and 2.This one gets into:Owning vs. renting - and why the "obvious" answer might be wrongWhat actually makes a flip profitable (and what quietly kills one)Why an agent who knows construction is worth their weight in copper pipeThe red flags Rob spots on a walkthrough that most buyers walk right pastA house is the biggest purchase most people will ever make. Bring someone who can see past the fresh paint.@robcollierrealty🎧 New Trade Life Podcast episodes every week.👍 Subscribe if you'd rather learn this from us than from a $40k surprise.#TradeLifePodcast #RealEstate #HomeBuying #SkilledTrades #HouseFlipping #HomeInspection #Contractors #FirstTimeHomeBuyer

This week Mike Holmes Jr. and Ian sit down with Evan of Evan's Workshop - a young tradesman who skipped the "figure it out later" route and went straight into the trades. We get into what it actually takes to start young, the stuff nobody warns you about, and why the industry is desperate for the next generation to show up.If you're a parent wondering whether the trades are a real career for your kid, or you're 18 and tired of being told a degree is the only option - this one's for you.

Kyle Kelland has spent twenty years on job sites. Now he's Partner and VP of Construction at Hummingbird Hill Homes... and a camera crew follows him around all day. He tells Mike what that's actually like: the fear that the guys he came up with will stop seeing him as a carpenter and start writing him off as "the HGTV guy who shows up at the end." That opens into the real conversation.Every rung of the ladder thinks the rung above it does nothing, until you get there and realize the physical load didn't disappear, it just turned into a mental one that never shuts off.Kyle talks about lying awake during a thunderstorm with fifteen active sites, and the two weeks he covered for a site super and remembered why he loved the job in the first place.Plus: Mike's account of going on Live with Kelly and Mark with about sixty seconds' warning, right before Wyclef Jean — and why the best pizza in New York has leopard spotting on the crust.