Deep Dive with Letitia Hanke on "Anything's Possible"

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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As a 19 year old, Letitia Hanke took a job as a receptionist at the local roofing company. Within 10 years, she bought the business she has now been running (and growing) for 2 decades. If you want to remember that anything is possible, this conversation will wake you up to the possibilities. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I took this chance. I know maybe I make it sound like it was, you know, easy and I got my loan, but it was actually a really scary thing to do. But I said, what do I have to lose?
0:15.5	Welcome to Kelly Corgan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan, and I'm talking today with the CEO of
0:22.0	A.R.S. Roofing and Gutters, an irresistible woman named Letitia Hankey. I first learned about
0:28.9	Lettisha in this super pragmatic and surprisingly inspiring book called Self-Maid Boss, Advice, Hacks, and
0:36.2	lessons from small business owners. My friend Jackie Reesis,
0:40.1	along with her co-author, Lauren Weinberg, collected about 100 stories of entrepreneurs from
0:46.0	oyster farmers to ice cream shop owners as a way of creating a super set of takeaways for anyone
0:53.0	who's thinking about starting a small business.
0:56.3	Jackie had met Letitia a few times and told me her story has it all.
1:00.8	Moxie, smarts, passion, and charm. So here we go.
1:10.7	I want to hear the whole story from soup to nuts.
1:14.4	What was the first job you ever had in roofing?
1:17.4	Well, I actually knew I wanted to be a roofer when I was nine years old.
1:21.1	Come on.
1:22.0	Okay, I'm joking.
1:23.3	That's not true.
1:26.3	My brother wants to be an astronaut, but I want to be a roofer.
1:29.6	I want to be a roofer.
1:30.9	No, I actually grew up wanting to be a musician.
1:33.3	I've been a musician since I was really young, seven years old, started playing trumpet, moved to drums and piano.
1:39.3	So I really went to school when I graduated from high school for music and recording and performing arts.
1:45.4	And you can sing.
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