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S1 E16: It's Like Walking a Tight Rope (Mirza / @mirzawriting)
Mirza joins the show to talk about their origin story, how they started by translating poems, which led into working as a full-time translator. Eventually, they stumbl...
S1 E15: You have to be so sympathetic to the machine (Layla / @LaylaCodesIt)
Layla joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she started horse-riding as a young girl, eventually doing it professionally before shifting to being a pilate...
S1 E14: I Decided To Try All Of Them (Arely / @ArelySkywalker)
Arely joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she grew up in New Mexico and joined her science club to moving to New York City and joining Amazon as a Front...
S1 E13: I Hate To Call it a Secret (Dan / @DanCole42)
Dan Cole joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got started in product management by accident and how his passion for helping users find their joy has l...
S1 E12: I Don't Know What is Wrong With My Mind (Francesco / @francescocuill4)
Francesco Ciulla joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he went from being a sports coach to becoming a developer. From learning programming on difficult m...
S1 E11: The Rejections are Flowing In (Kathryn / @kathryngrayson)
Kathryn Grayson Nanz joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she got started in graphic design and after being pulled into the front-end developer life had ...
S1 E10: Making These Rounded Half-Triangles (Miriam / @misaac85)
Miriam Isaac joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she got started studying fashion design but found her love for product design after moving from England...
S1 E9: We're like Detectives (Nick / @nickytonline)
Nick Taylor joins the show to talk about his origin story, how he got started working with spreadsheets on a yellow monochrome computer and how his interest in web dev...
S1 E8: Like a Big Experiment (Grace / @graceleaf_)
Grace Ling joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she went from running and trying to biohack herself to run faster to working as a Product Designer at Ele...
S1 E7: So Many Options to Learn (Emily / @epatt6)
Emily Patterson joins the show to talk about her origin story, how she went from a business analyst to a product manager and has loved it so much she now leads a group...
S1 E6: This is Like Real Life (Kelly / @kellycodeschaos)
Kelly Harrop joins the show to talk about her origin story, starting as a professional gamer turned video game model, turned product manager turned UX Engineer, where ...
S1 E5: Instead of Using Fire, I Use Ice (Michael / @mtliendo)
Michael Liendo joins the show to talk about his origin story, starting as a clothing model to attempting to learn iOS development, and shifting to web development befo...
S1 E4: Creating Something from Nothing (Shawn / @swyx)
Shawn Wang joins the show to talk about his origin story, starting in the finance industry and how feeling like just a code monkey in a system drew him to learn front-...
S1 E3: Taking up Space (Alex / @AutisticManager)
Alex Karp joins the show to talk about his origin story, growing up being fascinated with tech, embracing the iOS development industry before moving into engineering m...
S1 E2: A Fun, Approachable Way (Jessica / @codergirl1991)
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...
S1 E1: Play Until It Pays (Jason / @jlengstorf)
Jason Lengstorf joins the show to talk about his origin story coming from a screamo band and learning design and development in order to help the band marketing. His s...
