Michelle Meloche, one of Point of Rental's data specialists, shares her path from Detroit to Point of Rental. She explains how the data team cross-trains and how her role converts customer-supplied spreadsheets into deployed databases via SQL, with every customer's data a new and different challenge. Michelle also discusses learning emotional intelligence while supporting her kids’ autism needs, moving away from people-pleasing, and embracing a “let them” mindset.

Michelle Hazen, Point of Rental’s Data Services Essentials Lead, covers her background from Northeast Wisconsin, moving from a hairstyling career to working in call centers, getting into finance, and finally becoming the data specialist we know her as. Michelle outlines her responsibilities across Essentials and Elite implementations, reporting, tracking, training, and process documentation, and shares why learning is her favorite part of the job. She discusses the importance of timing and communication in data work, her apothecary and crochet hobbies, homesteading goals, and offers a top five list for preparing to implement new rental software.

Justin Prusi joins the Front Porch from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. We dicsuss his background from a childhood dream of becoming a police officer to pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering to finding a career in the rental industry. He highlights how he got to Point of Rental, a unique job search, and what he does as an implementation consultant.

We also talked about his leadership philosophies, building a career in the rental industry, and went through his top 5 records. Also, he has a really unique "greatest fear."