It's All About the Build with I.B.F.HotRods
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 hr 44 min · 14 segments
Dan and Hilary Fournier of Motor City Metalcraft sat down with Melanie and I at their shop in Mount Clemens, Michigan for one of the most honest conversations we've ever had on this podcast. We get…
Dan FournierGuest
Hilary FournierGuest
Elliot SlackHost
I think the biggest thing I can do to support Hillary is let Hillary be Hillary.

When you get a work visa, you can only renew it twice, and then you have to either go back home or apply to be a permanent resident of Canada.

So we invested in a ton of metalworking equipment from Bailey, and we were in our second shop, so a little bit bigger.

So we're like, okay, we can subdivide these kind of... spaces within our shop and you can have your own little like metal working zone because in the course of building my business there was always stuff that i needed him to do right like fab this weld this do this so like he said he was there evenings weekends just doing what you're doing and then you had kind of started building your own little like client list or yeah we

found one really awesome client who became aware of my skill set and you know who we're talking about our buddy greg so it was kind of like that one it was a small space you know big enough for like two or three cars so kind of chopped that off the back of her shop and and said okay this is Dan's area and Stay the fuck out.

I think the biggest thing I can do to support Hillary is let Hillary be Hillary.

When you get a work visa, you can only renew it twice, and then you have to either go back home or apply to be a permanent resident of Canada.

So we invested in a ton of metalworking equipment from Bailey, and we were in our second shop, so a little bit bigger.

So we're like, okay, we can subdivide these kind of... spaces within our shop and you can have your own little like metal working zone because in the course of building my business there was always stuff that i needed him to do right like fab this weld this do this so like he said he was there evenings weekends just doing what you're doing and then you had kind of started building your own little like client list or yeah we

found one really awesome client who became aware of my skill set and you know who we're talking about our buddy greg so it was kind of like that one it was a small space you know big enough for like two or three cars so kind of chopped that off the back of her shop and and said okay this is Dan's area and Stay the fuck out.
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