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Top 8 of Season 1: #7: "A fun, approachable way"
Jessica Wilkins joins the show to talk about her origin story coming from being a musician to building a passion project to promote diversity in classical music and ho...
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Top 8 of Season 1: #8: "I learned how by doing leet code"
Carolina Lunardi Correa joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working as a supply chain professional to starting her first apprenticeship with Amazon!We ...
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S1 E44: I like to say I’m not gonna do something, and then I do it anyway (Kelly / @kvlly)
Kelly Vaughn joins the show to talk about her origin story, from learning html in neopets to doing freelancing, and eventually founding her own agency. More recently, ...
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S1 E43: A huge fan of spending as little time as possible typing (Mike / @genericmikechen)
Mike Chen joins the show to talk about his origin story, from Medical School and Biotech Research to being a self-taught developer, Mike worked at bigger and bigger st...
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S1 E42: I didn’t know what I was outside of my job (Ale / @pikacodes)
Ale joins the show to talk about her origin story, from growing up in Mexico and getting a degree in industrial engineering to switching into a career she is passionat...
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S1 E41: An unpopular view on impostor syndrome (Curtis / @curtiseinsmann)
Curtis Einsmann joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got into Amazon's internship, earned an SDE I position and after years at Amazon has broken out t...
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S1 E40: Doing handshakes instead of hand-offs (Jennie / @JennieSYip)
Jennie Yip joins the show to talk about her origin story, from building Sailor Moon fan sites to helping lead the Design System at Atlassian as a Design Architect.We d...
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S1 E39: Take a break and do something that makes me feel good (Ar'Niqua / @ACole893)
Ar'Niqua Colman joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working in higher education to diving into the world of programming, bootcamps, and #100Devs.We dis...
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S1 E38: I learned how by doing leet code (Carolina / @icarolinacorrea)
Carolina Lunardi Correa joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working as a supply chain professional to starting her first apprenticeship with Amazon!We ...
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S1 E37: I said I'd never get a peloton... (Sonia)
Sonia Moaiery joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working in product marketing in the the packaged goods food industry to working as a product marketin...
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S1 E36: I left the coding bootcamp a week into it (Clifford / @CliffordFajard0)
Clifford Fajardo joins the show to talk about his origin story, from studying social sciences and planning on a career like a lawyer, to going through a coding bootcam...
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S1 E35: Hitting the "go live" button, I was shaking (Melody / @MelodyMDev)
Melody joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working in the medical field on both humans and pets to jumping into learning development, in public, live, ...
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S1 E34: Little pieces all fitting together (Nicole / @NicoleFranq)
Nicole Franq joins the show to talk about her origin story, from getting a business degree and doing hedge fund accounting to embracing creativity and becoming a desig...
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S1 E33: The learning journey never actually stops (DJ)
DJ Taylor joins the show to talk about his origin story, from being a music teacher to getting his first job as a programmer, and all about his learning journey along ...
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S1 E32: You never know where it's going to take you (Rashel / @RashelHariri)
Rashel Hariri joins the show to talk about her origin story, from being attracted to the creativity of marketing at a young age to working in Marketing at McDonald's a...
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S1 E31: Trying to be that person I wished was there when I was learning to code (Rizel / @BlackGirlBytes)
Rizel Scarlett joins the show to talk about her origin story, from pursuing a degree in Psychology to becoming a Developer Advocate at GitHub.We discuss the challenges...
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S1 E30: Make debugging more fun (Ollie / @OllieDeAlb)
Ollie joins the show to talk about his origin story, from working a lot of odd jobs like being a waiter, doing radio shows, and stand-up comedy to working as a go-to-m...
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S1 E29: Please, just give a girl a chance (Amber / @AmberLeeTech)
Amber joins the show to talk about her origin story, from studying economics and accounting to learning how to program, becoming a software engineer and now co-hosting...
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S1 E28: It's like solving a puzzle with only 24x24 pixels (Bonnie / @BonnieKateWolf)
Bonnie Kate Wolf joins the show to talk about her origin story: how her love for making little drawings turned into eventually making icons for some of the biggest com...
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S1 E27: You need to date ideas straight away (Anh-Tho / @byAnhTho)
Anh-Tho joins the show to talk about her origin story, from working in fin-tech in Africa to starting her own start-up and having to pivot to find the right market fit...
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S1 E26: I think you're ready (April / @A_Bowler2)
April Bowler joins the show to talk about her origin story, from her first career and taking a break to raise her kids, to discovering that she was actually really int...
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S1 E25: Ice cream, froyo, gelato … I’m not gonna discriminate (Jay / @kjaymiller)
Jay Miller joins the show to talk about their origin story, from dropping out of college and joining the military, to discovering military life wasn't for them, but th...
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S1 E24: It was like a game of chicken (Hussien / @hussien_coding)
Hussien Khayoon joins the show to talk about his origin story, from accidentally becoming a software engineer, to getting an internship at IBM before working in the st...
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S1 E23: It's nice to build for the future (Zack / @ScriptedAlchemy)
Zack Jackson joins the show to talk about his origin story, from not doing well in high school, to teaching himself programming and becoming a core contributor to one ...
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S1 E22: There's something really vulnerable about design (Lauren / @LaurenChilcote)
Lauren Chilcote joins the show to talk about her origin story: from going to school for fashion design to learning design and front-end development to becoming passion...
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S1 E21: Everyone has a very important voice (Zach / @zachleat)
Zach Leatherman joins the show to talk about his origin story: from learning programming in the early days of the web to being paid to build open-source software, it's...
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S1 E20: Everyone can do it (Taylor / @tdesseyn)
Taylor Desseyn joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he started as a musician where he made it to Nashville, and was on tour when something happened to ma...
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S1 E19: There's always incremental improvements laying around (Kyle / @KyleShevlin)
Kyle Shevlin joins the show to talk about his origin story from studying psychology and being a pastor, to working with jQuery and eventually getting cozy working on i...
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S1 E18: This is Me, Whole-Assing One Thing (Kat / @katalyst_katt)
Kat joins the show to talk about her origin story from dropping out of medical school to learning programming while live streaming!We discuss the hard decisions and in...
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S1 E17: The Real World is Messy (Joe / @JoeNatoli)
Joe Natoli joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he started in design before the internet was a thing. How he jumped into designing for the internet early...
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