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his past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting one of the most incredible women in the world (after my mom, of course). Her name is Barbie The Welder, and her story is like no other. Art wasn’t something Barbie ever really thought about, let alone welding. So how did she become one
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of the most incredible metal some friends, and they had sculptors in the industry? Well, started watching Cast Away. If you haven’t seen it, there’s a scene at the beginning where a welder is on the beach working on sculpting a giant pair of angel wings. When they lift up their welder’s helmet, you find out the welder is a woman! Something in that scene spoke to Barbie and told her she needed to do that exact thing we can thank Tom Hanks for with her life. Though it took her that. In 2006, Barbie was with almost seven years from the