{"id":2263,"date":"2022-05-29T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T00:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2025-07-15T14:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:15:14","slug":"tom-ralston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/es\/tom-ralston\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Ralston"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Why Tom Started Working With Concrete<\/h3>\n<p>He&#8217;s fascinated with concrete as a malleable material and its applications in art<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2263-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Why-Tom-Ralston-Started-doing-concrete-work.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Why-Tom-Ralston-Started-doing-concrete-work.mp3\">https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Why-Tom-Ralston-Started-doing-concrete-work.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Tom Ralston talks about why he started doing concrete work and what he loves about it<\/p>\n<h3>Average Day<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">Day starts early in the morning. 12 hour days. 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Looking into new leads<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2263-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Day-in-a-life.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Day-in-a-life.mp3\">https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Day-in-a-life.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Tom Ralston describes his average day while he does his job.<\/p>\n<h3>Stress Inspires Art<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;\">Working with concrete is extremely stressful due to the importance of the final products, such as statues.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2263-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Stress-of-running-a-concrete-business-and-art.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Stress-of-running-a-concrete-business-and-art.mp3\">https:\/\/yfiob.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Stress-of-running-a-concrete-business-and-art.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Tom Ralston talks about the stress related with running a concrete business and how it inspires his art<\/p>\n<h3>Full Podcast<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=false&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1121346907&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxheight=1000&amp;maxwidth=1200&amp;auto_play=false&amp;buying=true&amp;liking=true&amp;download=true&amp;sharing=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_playcount=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;color\" width=\"1200\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode of the What to Be Show we hear from Tom Ralston of Tom Ralston Concrete. Tom shares his life and career journey into the decorative concrete business where he has worked all over the United States, as well as from Panama to Aruba! Tom also talks about his passion as a singer\/songwriter with his new song, &#8220;Bonny Doon Strong,&#8221; which he wrote as a tribute to the Bonny Doon Renagade firefighters who helped fight the CZU fires.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ralston Concrete<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-media-and-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom Ralston - YFIOB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yfiob.org\/es\/tom-ralston\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom Ralston - 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