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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...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
