Samantha Pearl|Lic. Builder, Emily Pearl Reist|Lic. Builder, and Arly Streed
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Welcome to “How to Handyma’am”, where we educate and entertain with our experience as three women in the home remodeling business. We’ve learned everything the hardest possible way – so you don’t have to! We envision a community of women who are empowered to take care of the daily needs of their lives independently, with confidence and knowledge. That goes for how you care for your home, what you do with your career, and who you trust to provide services in your home! The Michigan-based home improvement podcast from the team at MyHandyma'am.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Three practical voices make household repairs easier to judge, plan, and attempt without sanding away the comedy.
How To Handyma'am | A Home Improvement Comedy Podcast turns home repair into a lively working conversation among Samantha, Emily, and Arlie. They move easily from paint quality and power-tool choices to drywall cracks, project planning, home security, and dryer ducting.
A drywall crack meets missing tater tots, and your repair anxiety gets a karaoke break.
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A laid-back DIY episode with real use in the wall-fix advice.
This episode treats home improvement like something worth slowing down for before the tools come out. It moves through the first live-TV appearance, a Girl Scouts toolbox lesson, and the basic logic of planning, prepping, and doing the job at home without making a fuss over it.
A funny, practical home-safety listen that turns chaos into useful advice once Arlie gets going.
How to Handyman starts in a burst of chaos, then settles into a listener question, a few field stories, and Arlie's practical advice on staying safe at home, especially for a woman living alone.
Drywall advice that slips in through tater tots, karaoke, and a useful crack repair lesson.
Drywall repair comes in through a small, ordinary mess: missing tater tots, karaoke, and a warm nod to Grandma Chris before the talk settles into the repair itself. That shift works.
A friendly house-safety chat that lands on a useful dryer-duct lesson.
The episode starts with light banter about grievances, favorite podcasts and TV, then settles into the launch of The Home Maintenance Guide Nobody Ever Told You About.
A short listener Q and A that turns floor-fixing headaches into plain, useful advice.
How To Handyma'am uses this side quest to answer listener questions with a brisk, practical pass through common home-repair headaches. Samantha, Marley, and Emily keep the mood loose and funny while getting specific about click-and-lock flooring, the tiny overlap in some vinyl…
A personality-led origin story that turns DIY advice into something broader and more useful.
This SideQuest comes across as an origin story with a few loose side paths: three hosts explain who they are, why the weekly bonus episode exists, and how a shared DIY outlook grew into a larger effort to give women more control over home repairs and the decisions around them.
A funny, practical reminder that home projects are built in stolen hours, not perfect weekends.
A sister-on-sister side quest turns a home-improvement chat into a plainspoken look at time, momentum, and where DIY fits into an already full life.
A messy, funny sewer-smell episode that makes a sewer scope and contractor video feel like the smart first move.
This episode uses a sewer smell to push a simple point: look first, then decide whether anything needs to be paid for. A sewer scope is framed as the smarter first step because it shows what is actually happening before anyone spends money on jetting pipes.
Dumb arguments, weird facts, full commitment.
Housework advice for real-life overwhelm.
Blunt home advice before the costly mistake.
Chattanooga home talk with practical local footing.
Pretty rooms, practical renovation judgment.
Sharp taste, practical interiors, real design examples.
Three women humorously teach home improvement and gardening tips while sharing personal stories.
The hosts discuss a listener's question about repairing water-damaged kitchen cabinets and digress into a humorous conversation about Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons.
How To Handyma’am opens with Samantha, Emily, and Arlie praising RTA Wholesalers in Carson, California, a ready-to-assemble cabinet company they say is not sponsored and still worth recommending.
How To Handyma’am’s SideQuest 10 centers on diagnosing a sewer smell, using Q’s four-year problem and the hosts’ own skunk story as examples.
How To Handyma’am opens episode 11 by calling itself “the podcast where we tell you how wide to open your wallet,” then moves into a “Cheap or Quality, home edition” discussion about materials for DIY projects.
Emily, Marlee, and Samantha open by promising to tell new homeowners what to do once they get the keys after closing.
Samantha, Arlie, and Emily open with Christmas-in-February chaos, show tunes, and a pink five-gallon bucket that somehow turned into a Christmas gift.
How To Handyma’am Ep 10, “Contractor Red and Green Flags | How to Find the Right Contractor for Your Project,” opens with Samantha, Emily, and Arlie joking about periods, service jobs, and listener comments before shifting into contractor vetting.
How To Handyma’am | A Home Improvement Comedy Podcast, episode "SideQuest 11: The One Where We Just Chat (A Lot) and the Tighty Whitey Incident," spends much of its runtime on personal stories, including a sales visit where a man opens the door wearing only tighty-whities.
Three women builders answer listener questions with humor and practical advice, starting with a question about rewiring a house.
The hosts of How To Handyma'am describe how they handle long hours, disappointment and doubt while building their podcast and social media community.
Three women in home remodeling humorously discuss spring maintenance tasks and personal anecdotes.
The hosts answer a listener's question about peeling paint on exterior doors, mixing humor with practical advice.
The hosts of How to Handyma'am share stories from their week, including a live TV appearance on New Day Cleveland and teaching a toolbox-building class to Girl Scouts.
The hosts share a horror story from the field, a mother's nightmare, while recovering from a home and garden show.
In this short 'SideQuest' episode, hosts Emi and Arlie answer three listener-submitted home improvement questions with a mix of practical advice and improvised comedy.
Three minutes of chaos opens the door.
The hosts share two dramatic 'Tales from the Field': one encounters casual sexism while shopping in Home Depot, and the other calls 911 after hearing neighbors threaten violence during a work appointment.
The hosts start with tater tots.
The hosts open with personal grievances, hot takes, and a little friendly noise.
This side quest is a listener Q and A.
The hosts of 'How To Handyma'am' share their origin story, explaining how they started a home repair business with 11 women out of 12 employees.
In this side quest episode, host Arlie interviews her sister Isabel Bowen, a DIY enthusiast and wedding planner, about practical tips for home renovation projects, budget management, and balancing DIY with a busy life.
The hosts interview Hannah Pearl, an engineering manager in automotive manufacturing, about her work and experiences as a woman in a male-dominated field.
Three women share home improvement tips and personal stories with humor, including a discussion about domestic violence resources.
Three women in the home remodeling business share humorous stories and tips, dedicating this episode to a supportive customer and discussing pets and painting on game day.
Three women share humorous stories and home improvement tips, including a mistaken monkey sighting and paint sheen advice.