Manage Mold
26 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsThe Manage Mold podcast was made for families on a health journey that NEED the real, no-holds-barred answers on how to create - and ensure - a healthy home.
With more than 35-years in the industry, your host Dean Mahlstedt will share how you can make your home the healthiest place for your family to be.
Dean, along with his guests, who are industry experts in their respective fields, will be sharing the latest information on mold, mold remediation, water intrusion, and what it takes to make (and keep) a healthy home.
You can learn more at: http://bit.ly/manage_mold
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Regaining Our Hope With Rachel Pedersen
February 06, 2020 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBIn today's episode, we are pausing the mold remediation subject to bring in an extraordinary guest to the podcast, her name is Rachel Pedersen, and she is a social media manager and entrepreneur. She specializes in helping people achieve their potential and bringing hope into their lives. The reason I wanted to bring Rachel in is that sometimes in our journeys, we kind of feel like we ran into a dead-end, and it's hard for us to see the solution to our problems. Rachel has one of t...
How Relevant Are ERMI And HERTSMI Mold Lab Tests?
January 30, 2020 12:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MBIn this episode, I’m interviewing my good friend and premier trainer of mold remediation Michael Pinto to discuss the ERMI and HERTSMI mold lab tests, their level of relevancy and how these tests actually work. Michael is offering his expert point of view to explain how these tests are performed and to reflect on the value of these and other sampling methods used in the mold remediation industry. We also talk about the importance of understanding the exact role of each one of the...
It Works If You Do the Math
January 24, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MBIn this episode, I’m interviewing Scott Haag, a long-time expert in the cleaning and maintenance industry. Scott has been my mentor for over twenty years. Today, he’s here to share his wisdom about life, health, and how the clean factor is one of the critical pieces to any successful remediation. He has worked in the sanitation industry for a very long time, accumulating an incredible amount of experience in both commercial and residential buildings, allowing him to be in direct c...
Indoor Air Quality And The Elephant In The Room, EMF With Martine Davis
January 09, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBWhat would you be willing to do in order to get well? My guest today was asked this question after feeling sick for several years and not finding the answers she needed to solve her health problems. In today’s episode, we are discussing the tools and techniques used to perform indoor inspections and testing your indoor air quality. Martine Davis is a Building Biologist who owns a consultation and inspection company called Indoor Environmental Testing, she is here on the podcast to...
Borrowing The Best From Other Industries To Manage Mold
January 02, 2020 12:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThis year, the journey to ensure a healthy home continues and our learning process becomes so much more important as we keep trying to understand all the things that separate us from having a safe home environment. In this episode, Michael Pinto returns to talk about "Borrowing the Best From Other Industries". It is easy to get stuck in a rut of a certain way of thinking and problem solving when we limit our search for solutions to the questions we have. This is true when it come...
Create Your Healthy Home With May Dooley
December 27, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBIn today’s episode, I’ll be sharing space with a real game-changer in the fields of mold inspection, mold remediation, and post-remediation testing, her name is May Dooley and she is here to talk about her story, about the incredible job she performs leading EnviroHealth Consulting, Inc, plus how she empowers her clients by giving them the tools they need to improve the health of their home. We’ll be discussing key matters such as the functionality of the ERMI and HERTSMI tests, th...
Cleaning For Sensitized Individuals
December 19, 2019 12:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBDo you know what a chemically sensitized individual is? Today’s episode is dedicated to discovering, identifying and understanding every aspect around this condition, which has became quite common in the remediation industry. But what do chemically sensitized individuals have to do with mold? To educate us about this particularly captivating subject and explaining its relationship with the main theme of this podcast, we’ll have my mentor and friend Michael Pinto, who after a long-...
The Importance Of Implementing Drainage Systems & Keeping Your Foundation Dry With Kevin Schneidermann
December 12, 2019 12:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBAre you aware of all the methods available to keep your buildings dry and safe? In this episode, we’ll count on the experience and expertise of Kevin Schneidermann, to tell us all about the repair methods that he and his family perform from their company, Basement Water Controlled to help preserve the homes of the people who need it. Along with his wife and children, they have consolidated a third-generation business that gathers the tools, the work hand, and the knowledge to assem...
How My Family's Health Improved After Mold Remediation With Laura Wittman
December 05, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBHow can the human body react to the presence of mold? For some it can go completely unnoticed, for others, sadly, the consequences can be very dangerous. In today’s episode, we’ll get to listen to one of the most powerful testimonies about air contamination related to mold inside a residential building and how one woman was able to change her circumstances to improve her health and her family’s. When you reach a point of desperation so big that you start questioning everything arou...
Projections For The Future Of Remediation Industry
November 28, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIs it possible to predict where the remediation industry is heading in the future? As the years go by, technology keeps going forward and the methods used to perform our inspections have evolved into highly accurate readings - made by air pollution meters - that allow us to determine what areas of the building have been affected by water damage, but, is that really all the mold remediation industry needs to thrive? In today’s episode, Robert Hidajat and I will be discussing all the...
The Mindset Needed To Succeed In The Remediation Industry
November 21, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBDo you ever have the feeling that you want to do more to help others? That’s kind of what happened to my guest today, Robert Hidajat when he decided to move from his corporate job to start his own remediation company. I asked Robert about the key steps he had to follow to get himself started in the world of mold remediation, about his passion for helping others, and how the last years has been for him and his business. Robert’s testimony serves to encourage those people who hav...
13: The Mindset Needed To Succeed In The Remediation Industry
November 21, 2019 12:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBDo you ever have the feeling that you want to do more to help others? That’s kind of what happened to my guest today, Robert Hidajat when he decided to move from his corporate job to start his own remediation company. I asked Robert about the key steps he had to follow to get himself started in the world of mold remediation, about his passion for helping others, and how the last years has been for him and his business. Robert’s testimony serves to encourage those people who hav...
The World's Premier Trainer Of Mold Remediation - Part 2
November 14, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBIn today’s episode, we continue abording some of the most important principles involved in the remediation industry with the help of Michael Pinto. How can you make sure that you are performing high-quality remediations? We’ll be discussing this and other ethics-related issues in a new chapter of the Manage Mold podcast. Experience means nothing if you don’t conduct yourself with ethics. This rule applies to pretty much every job and activity we perform in life, but when we talk a...
12: The World's Premier Trainer Of Mold Remediation - Part 2
November 14, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBIn today’s episode, we continue abording some of the most important principles involved in the remediation industry with the help of Michael Pinto. How can you make sure that you are performing high-quality remediations? We’ll be discussing this and other ethics-related issues in a new chapter of the Manage Mold podcast. Experience means nothing if you don’t conduct yourself with ethics. This rule applies to pretty much every job and activity we perform in life, but when we talk a...
11: The World's Premier Trainer Of Mold Remediation
November 07, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBIn today’s episode, we’ll have a very important conversation with my chief mentor and long-time friend Michael Pinto. After several years working in organizational safety and health, Michael has found a way to meet his real vocation helping people that suffer inside their houses, the consequences of the damage caused by the use of unregulated construction materials. As a member of the remediation industry, I think it’s fundamental to always rise and maintain a standard of care for ...
10: Just Keep Going - Julie's Story (Part 2)
October 31, 2019 11:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBIn this episode, we’ll continue with the second part our the interview with Julie Brahan, a homeowner who outlived the presence of mold in her household and the inconvenient consequences that this situation brought to her health. After 20 years of constant search, Julie finally found the key factor influencing her sickness inside her own house. The battle against mold is never as simple as just getting rid of it, if you don’t receive the right help on time, you’ll end up running...
09: Just Keep Going - Julie's Story (Part 1)
October 24, 2019 11:00 - 20 minutes - 19 MBIn today’s episode, we will be listening to Julie’s testimony about how she dealt with 20 years of health issues caused by air pollution inside her home, the various processes she had to face along the way and how she finally made the connection between water damage and her health condition. When something is threatening our well being, finding out the real cause behind those issues becomes a timed race that, not always ends up giving us the answers we need. That’s basically what h...
08: The Top 2 Ways To Grow Mold In Your Home
October 17, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThere are so many factors we still ignore about the incidence of mold on air pollution that, most people have simply normalized the presence of respiratory diseases in their lives when, in fact, there are plenty actions we can take to recognize and prevent all the damages that mold can cause in our houses and in our health. Tune in and let’s study all the basic knowledge there is to know about mold, mold inspection and how this particular problem could be solved from prevention. K...
07: Water Damage - It's Not What You Think...
October 10, 2019 11:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode, we are going to study the most common misconceptions of water damage. Why are some of these damages are so difficult to address when we ask for help and how do we evaluate the real impact of water damages in our spaces? To really understand the possible effects of the presence of water within our buildings, first, we have to understand water itself and for that, I have brought to the table some of the most reliable definitions written about this vital resource, for...
06: 1919 Vs. 2019 - Why Is Mold Such A Problem Today?
October 03, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBIn today's episode, I’ll take you through one of our most infamous passages of history to discover two transcendental incidents that have impacted our society in terms of safety measures and city planning, the Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire, what went wrong and how are we failing in preventing a new event? How is our society advancing regarding building plans? Are they advancing at all? Get to know the modern and yet equally harmful materials and methods that are making the air...
05: Air Tells About Your Home Like Blood Tells About Your Body
September 26, 2019 11:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBIn this episode, we feature an interview with Matt Coghill, President of DetectionTek, a company based in Boulder, Colorado. They are the manufacturers of InstaScope instant microscope. He’s going to talk about the finer points of getting to know about the air in our buildings, and how it all pans out when it comes to our health and that of our children. He’s also going to tell us about the stark reality of traditional sampling methods being woefully inadequate. Matt believes that...
04: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - Professional Assessment
September 20, 2019 11:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MB“How do I know if I have mold in my home today?” In our continuing answer to that question, we're going to talk about the professionals... You've gone through your home, looked for some of the signs we talked about a little bit earlier and you just can't seem to locate what your gut says is going on. So what do you do? Well, you start looking for a professional, and I'm going to go through a list of the possible professionals that you could find or that you might run across. Some...
03: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - DIY Solutions
September 19, 2019 10:55 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBIn this episode, I am going to give you a bird’s eye view of the solutions when you find there’s a problem - you find there’s mold in your home. We'll be going through the principles, concepts, and cutting edge techniques that are available today. We’ll share all this info with you so that you can be as smart as you can to be the hero of your own story. And as always, we want to elevate and not devastate, so stay tuned. Key Takeaways: Recording water & storm damage, flooding and ...
02: How Do I Know If I Have Mold In My Home - Identifying The Problem
September 18, 2019 11:05 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, we are going to deal with one of the primary questions that we are continually asked - How do I find mold in my own house? I'm going to walk through some of these things that are pretty important for us to understand. We have to ask, why is the mold there in the first place? Where is the mold? How did it get there? We want to guide you with info gained over the last seven-eight years helping our clients solve their mold issues, so stay tuned. Key Takeaways In mo...
01: The Mahlstedt Mold Story
September 18, 2019 11:00 - 46 minutes - 42.7 MBIn this episode, I’ll take you on a journey with me to see how a young family become involved in the restoration and cleaning industry and ran into a huge set of hurdles, dealing with mold issues, Lyme disease and issues with their home. In all of this, we aim to guide and help people who are going through the things our family had to go through. We want this to be the resource that we wish we had when we were dealing with all our health issues that resulted from mold in the home. ...
Welcome To The Manage Mold Podcast With Dean Mahlstedt!
September 02, 2019 12:45 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBIn this episode, I’ll take you on a journey with me to see how a young family become involved in the restoration and cleaning industry and ran into a huge set of hurdles, dealing with mold issues, Lyme disease and issues with their home. In all of this, we aim to guide and help people who are going through the things our family had to go through. We want this to be the resource that we wish we had when we were dealing with all our health issues that resulted from mold in the home. ...