We Belong Here: Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech
139 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsA podcast that aims to interview career changers & folks that are diversifying the tech industry. Sharing stories about the different routes people have taken to enter the industry and chatting about the skills they learned in their prior jobs, schooling, or life experiences & how they apply them to their current roles in tech. https://WeBelongPodcast.com/
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From Web2 to Web3 with Zsófi Major
January 05, 2023 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBZsófi Major has had many roles over the years within the web2 space: project manager, COO, and business developer. After business hours she volunteered within the Drupal community, bringing together developers from all over the world at conferences she organized. After burning out from web development projects, unmanageable deadlines, and clients - she quit her job and decided to take a break and apply for roles she really wanted to do full-time - ones where she could be involved in commun...
Sustainability and Blockchain with Alexandra Heller
December 29, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBAlexandra Heller is the Founder of Crypto Philanthropy Club, a club for crypto people who care and give, and is the Marketing Director at Bitgreen, the sustainability blockchain. Her life’s quest is to help the helpers and spread the ideas the world needs. She previously was the Head of Marketing at Parity Technologies as well as the Marketing Director at Floracopeia. Resources: CryptoPhilanthropy.club & podcast Bitgreen.org Alexandraheller.com @alxheller on Twitter ReFi DAO - podcas...
Introducing, We Belong... in Web3!
October 24, 2022 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBWe Belong is back! We're (Lauren and Aaron ) talking about what we've been up to since the last episode - including new jobs in Web3 AND an incredibly adorable new member of our family. This episode kicks off a new season of We Belong and it's all about Web3. Today they're discussing our own initial hesitations and skepticism around Web3, why we made the ultimate choice to join a Web3 company, and what we hope to achieve this season. Join us this season as we celebrate the stories of tho...
Introducing, We Belong... in Web3!
October 24, 2022 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBWe Belong is back! We're (Lauren and Aaron ) talking about what we've been up to since the last episode - including new jobs in Web3 AND an incredibly adorable new member of our family. This episode kicks off a new season of We Belong and it's all about Web3. Today they're discussing our own initial hesitations and skepticism around Web3, why we made the ultimate choice to join a Web3 company, and what we hope to achieve this season. Join us this season as we celebrate the stories of tho...
A Bootcamper's Companion by Caitlyn Greffly
February 22, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBCaitlyn joins Lauren to talk about her new book, The Bootcamper’s Companion. If you're trying to break into tech, you probably already know it's a huge and complicated world. Maybe you're thinking about a career change, currently enrolled in a bootcamp, on a self-taught journey, or trying to figure out what will set you apart to land your first job. Caitlyn wrote this book to give you the tools and information she wishes she had when she was career changing into tech. In it, you'll find t...
A Bootcamper's Companion by Caitlyn Greffly
February 22, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBCaitlyn joins Lauren to talk about her new book, The Bootcamper’s Companion. If you're trying to break into tech, you probably already know it's a huge and complicated world. Maybe you're thinking about a career change, currently enrolled in a bootcamp, on a self-taught journey, or trying to figure out what will set you apart to land your first job. Caitlyn wrote this book to give you the tools and information she wishes she had when she was career changing into tech. In it, you'll find t...
Caroline Kerns: How Dabbling in Careers Led to Community and #DevRel
January 17, 2022 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBCaroline is originally from Germany and has tried many different careers on for size. She has had roles ranging from recruiting, automotive, and retail and her interest in programming began a few years ago with a desire to create a Jane Austen quote website (because who doesn’t want to read daily Jane Austen quotes?). Since then, she’s dabbled in JavaScript and Python and today is the Community Manager at Vonage. In today’s episode, we chat all about the power of community, especially wi...
Shamira Marshall: From Attorney to Software Developer
December 14, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBShamira Marshall is an attorney who learned to code in 2019 and today is a software engineer at GoDaddy. Her interest in tech started in law school and then attended Ada Developers Academy to make the career switch. Which is where she and I met! Resources: Ada Developers Academy Shamira on Dev.to/MiraMarshall Shamira on Twitter @MiraMarshalll We Belong Here Podcast: Follow Lauren on Twitter @LoLoCoding WeBelongPodcast.com Subscribe on Apple Subscribe on Spotify We Belong Here Disc...
Shamira Marshall: From Attorney to Software Developer
December 14, 2021 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBShamira Marshall is an attorney who learned to code in 2019 and today is a software engineer at GoDaddy. Her interest in tech started in law school and then attended Ada Developers Academy to make the career switch. Which is where she and I met! Resources: Ada Developers Academy Shamira on Dev.to/MiraMarshall Shamira on Twitter @MiraMarshalll We Belong Here Podcast: Follow Lauren on Twitter @LoLoCoding WeBelongPodcast.com Subscribe on Apple Subscribe on Spotify We Belong Here Disc...
PJ Metz: From Teacher to Coder
November 30, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBMy guest today is a former educator who now works as an Education Evangelist at GitLab. After teaching English for 11 years in Florida and South Korea, he made the transition into tech in May of 2021 after teaching himself to code with Codecademy during the pandemic. He’s a passionate public speaker and has spoken at a Microsoft conference as well as hosted several meetups and other events representing GitLab. You can catch him on Twitch building a website about poetry or building his next...
PJ Metz: From Teacher to Coder
November 30, 2021 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBMy guest today is a former educator who now works as an Education Evangelist at GitLab. After teaching English for 11 years in Florida and South Korea, he made the transition into tech in May of 2021 after teaching himself to code with Codecademy during the pandemic. He’s a passionate public speaker and has spoken at a Microsoft conference as well as hosted several meetups and other events representing GitLab. You can catch him on Twitch building a website about poetry or building his next...
Tonya Sims: From WNBA to Python and DevRel
November 02, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBTonya Sims is a self-taught developer and is the Python Developer Advocate at Vonage. She has an eclectic background ranging from roles in business, pharmaceutical sales, and even is a former professional women’s basketball player! Tonya is humble and down to earth and has a ton of empathy. All of her life experiences allow her to see the world from many different perspectives. She started her career in tech working as an executive assistant for a leading financial investments company in...
Tonya Sims: From WNBA to Python and DevRel
November 02, 2021 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBTonya Sims is a self-taught developer and is the Python Developer Advocate at Vonage. She has an eclectic background ranging from roles in business, pharmaceutical sales, and even is a former professional women’s basketball player! Tonya is humble and down to earth and has a ton of empathy. All of her life experiences allow her to see the world from many different perspectives. She started her career in tech working as an executive assistant for a leading financial investments company in...
Allen Whearry: Don't sell yourself short, you can code
August 30, 2021 21:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBAllen is a self-taught iOS Developer who made the switch from a professional sales career and now sits as a software engineer at Yelp. He believes anyone can learn to program, they just have to put in the time and effort. He studied psychology in school and figured he would end up going to grad school for it as well but ended up finding joy in the world of sales. While in sales, he learned so many lessons: the art of receiving negative feedback, the art of storytelling, as well how to both ...
Alex Merced: Learn, Build, Blog, Teach, Repeat!
August 24, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBAlex Merced taught himself to code just a few years ago. Before that, he spent a decade training people in finance and has also moonlighted as a political candidate, concert promoter, and comic book store owner. Today, he’s a developer for CampusGaurd and Instructor for General Assembly Coding Bootcamps. He is also the creator of devNursery.com - a developer community and is the creator of many Javascript libraries. Resources: AlexMercedCoder.com devNursery.com Podcast: Web Dev 101 Bo...
Alex Merced: Learn, Build, Blog, Teach, Repeat!
August 24, 2021 20:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBAlex Merced taught himself to code just a few years ago. Before that, he spent a decade training people in finance and has also moonlighted as a political candidate, concert promoter, and comic book store owner. Today, he’s a developer for CampusGaurd and Instructor for General Assembly Coding Bootcamps. He is also the creator of devNursery.com - a developer community and is the creator of many Javascript libraries. Resources: AlexMercedCoder.com devNursery.com Podcast: Web Dev 101 Bo...
Wesley Faulkner: The Path to Developer Relations
August 16, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBWesley Faulkner is a first-generation American. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and ran for Austin City Council in 2016. His professional experience also includes work as a social media and community manager for the software company Atlassian, and various roles for the computer processor company AMD, Dell, IBM, and Daily. Wesley serves as a board member for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) and today is the Head of Community at SingleStore. Res...
Wesley Faulkner: The Path to Developer Relations
August 16, 2021 19:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBWesley Faulkner is a first-generation American. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and ran for Austin City Council in 2016. His professional experience also includes work as a social media and community manager for the software company Atlassian, and various roles for the computer processor company AMD, Dell, IBM, and Daily. Wesley serves as a board member for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) and today is the Head of Community at SingleStore. Res...
Sierra OBryan: From Lasers to Androids
August 10, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBSierra is a Senior Consultant at Atomic Robot in Cincinnati, OH, focused primarily on Native Android solutions. She loves building beautiful and accessible Android apps, sharing knowledge with the community, and mentoring aspiring mobile developers. She serves as a Director of Women Who Code Cincinnati and a global track lead for Women Who Code Mobile. Before becoming an Android developer, she was in graduate school in a Ph.D. program to become a laser physicist. She had actually always wa...
Domitrius Clark: Always Putting the Customer First
August 03, 2021 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBDomitrius is a Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary. From retail to engineering, his focus has always been on making sure the customer's experience is the top priority. He’s the founder of Reactadelphia, a Philly meetup for React & JavaScript developers, and is an avid community builder & consultant. He spent many years of his life working and managing retail stores. But upon learning that the path to success in that industry was very narrow, he knew he needed to find a different pat...
Chris Ferdinandi: How to Hack your Job Hunt
July 25, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBChris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday which you can check out at GoMakeThings.com. In college, Chris had a lot of curiosities and even 4-5 majors before landing in Anthropology. He loved studying the content, but the work wasn’t exactly interesting to him. His dad suggested he explore the world of HR (Human Resources) a...
Chris Ferdinandi: How to Hack your Job Hunt
July 25, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBChris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. His developer tips newsletter is read by thousands of developers each weekday which you can check out at GoMakeThings.com. In college, Chris had a lot of curiosities and even 4-5 majors before landing in Anthropology. He loved studying the content, but the work wasn’t exactly interesting to him. His dad suggested he explore the world of HR (Human Resources) a...
Mindy Zwanziger: From Teacher to Coder
July 20, 2021 17:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBMindy is a math teacher turned software engineer with the goal of supporting folks entering the tech field. She had wanted to be a teacher ever since she was a little girl but after teaching middle and high school for a few years, she decided it wasn't quite the right fit. She started searching for roles where she could use her math degree and found work as a temp at a civil engineering company. She was always looking for a new challenge and began to explore helping them automate their proc...
Yechiel Kalmenson: Torah && Tech
July 15, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBYechiel Kalmenson is a rabbi and teacher who pivoted to engineering three years ago. After serving as a rabbi and elementary teacher for a few years, Yechiel faced a crossroads and needed to pivot careers. He started working in technical support, took courses online, and ultimately enrolled in a boot camp to learn to code. And today, he is a software engineer at VMware! He still loves teaching and does that as much as he can through mentoring and using his blog and weekly newsletter, Torah ...
Yechiel Kalmenson: Torah && Tech
July 15, 2021 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBYechiel Kalmenson is a rabbi and teacher who pivoted to engineering three years ago. After serving as a rabbi and elementary teacher for a few years, Yechiel faced a crossroads and needed to pivot careers. He started working in technical support, took courses online, and ultimately enrolled in a boot camp to learn to code. And today, he is a software engineer at VMware! He still loves teaching and does that as much as he can through mentoring and using his blog and weekly newsletter, Torah ...
Cecelia Martinez: Know your Story and Share your Passion
July 09, 2021 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBBefore learning to code, Cecelia worked in journalism and financial services. She always had a hobby of making WordPress websites for friends but never thought of pursuing tech professionally. But after moving to Atlanta, meeting a few bootcamp grads, and discovering that coding is such a creative form of expression, she knew it was the path for her! She is a graduate of the Full-Stack Software Engineering Program at Georgia Tech and today is a Technical Account Manager at Cypress.io where...
Ceora Ford: Learn in Public and Share your Journey
June 29, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBCeora is a software developer based in Philadelphia. She worked in childcare and with children but was always interested in tech. Coding was always in the back of her mind. She starting freelancing as a digital marketer and was finding success, but then the pandemic hit, and lost all of her clients. At that moment in time, Ceora had an opportunity to reset her career progression and decided to go all-in on learning to code. In a moment of transparency, she decided to share her learning with...
Ceora Ford: Learn in Public and Share your Journey
June 29, 2021 15:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBCeora is a software developer based in Philadelphia. She worked in childcare and with children but was always interested in tech. Coding was always in the back of her mind. She starting freelancing as a digital marketer and was finding success, but then the pandemic hit, and lost all of her clients. At that moment in time, Ceora had an opportunity to reset her career progression and decided to go all-in on learning to code. In a moment of transparency, she decided to share her learning with...
Kenneth Cassel: A QuikTrip Journey to Code
June 23, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBKenneth is played the saxophone in school and always wanted to be a high school band director. But soon he discovered that while he was passionate about music, it wasn’t exactly the career for him. In college, Kenneth worked at a QuikTrip gas station part-time. When offered a promotion to be a night assistant manager, he realized that he would be making more money in that role than what he was studying in school. The competition in music was high and the pay was low, so he did not pursue it ...
Kenneth Cassel: A QuikTrip Journey to Code
June 23, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBKenneth is played the saxophone in school and always wanted to be a high school band director. But soon he discovered that while he was passionate about music, it wasn’t exactly the career for him. In college, Kenneth worked at a QuikTrip gas station part-time. When offered a promotion to be a night assistant manager, he realized that he would be making more money in that role than what he was studying in school. The competition in music was high and the pay was low, so he did not pursue it ...
Claudia Maciel: Conquering Clouds from Aviation and iOS Development
June 08, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBClaudia Maciel grew up in a small farming community in California and had dreams of exploring the world. She went to college full of enthusiasm and curiosity - eager to discover what she was most passionate and interested in. In her first year, she enrolled in an intro to computer programming course but was the only girl and the only Mexican in the entire class. Her professors were encouraging though and she loved the class. In fact, she was so great at it she decided to major in Computer Sc...
Claudia Maciel: Conquering Clouds from Aviation and iOS Development
June 08, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBClaudia Maciel grew up in a small farming community in California and had dreams of exploring the world. She went to college full of enthusiasm and curiosity - eager to discover what she was most passionate and interested in. In her first year, she enrolled in an intro to computer programming course but was the only girl and the only Mexican in the entire class. Her professors were encouraging though and she loved the class. In fact, she was so great at it she decided to major in Computer Sc...
Dan Morse: It’s Never Too Late to Learn to Code
June 01, 2021 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBDan worked as a freelance sign language interpreter for nearly two decades. He has always had an affinity for visual learning and languages in particular. And in high school, he remembers observing that sign language itself was a visual language. Once in college, he finally took a sign language class and discovered how incredible it is to express something in three dimensions. He soon began his freelancing business and quickly turned that into a full-time thing! In 2008, he bought his firs...
Jess Bonanno: Rooting for the UnderDog
May 22, 2021 15:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBJess Bonanno grew up in Brooklyn and moved to NJ during high school. She has always been obsessed with tech and planned to study it after high school but began getting herself into trouble. She thought she had missed her chance to make tech a career and in 2004 became a house painter - of which she has been mastering that trade for the past 16 years. In 2019 she decided to teach herself to code in hopes of a career switch. She started at Lambda School and earlier this year! In September of ...
Filip Hric: The Value of Learning in Public
April 27, 2021 12:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBFilip Hric always loved playing with and tinkering with tech. But growing up, he struggled with math and thus convinced himself that he didn’t belong in the world of tech. So instead, he decided to study Psychology and ended up even getting a Master’s in it! After school, while working at an NGO, he helped build an application that allowed people struggling with mental health to chat with volunteer psychologists and social workers. He worked on the campaign graphics and changed the layout o...
Tali Herzka: From Molecular Biology to Software Engineering
April 13, 2021 18:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Tali Herzka. Who has forever been interested in Science, genetics, and Molecular Biology. Molecular pathways and systems seemed to connect with the way she understood the world. After getting a bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology and working in a cancer research laboratory for several years, she moved cross country to pursue a drastic career change and learn to code. It was a massive leap of faith diverging from her prescribed future in science and felt wi...
Kilo Loco: Self Taught Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS
March 17, 2021 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBOn today’s episode, I chat with Kilo Loco, aka Kyle Lee. Who is a self-taught developer, programming tutorial YouTuber, and Senior Developer Advocate at AWS. Kilo officially entered tech in 2016. Prior to that, he worked in many different industries: in restaurants, real estate, car sales, telemarketing, and more. But he never found a true passion in any of those roles. Eventually, he came across programming and absolutely fell in love! He navigated through different tech languages inclu...
42. Lucy Suddenly: There's Room at the Table for Everyone
March 11, 2021 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBLucy Suddenly is a white, able-bodied trans woman from the greater Seattle area. She got a BA in psychology and spent a decade in box office management before realizing that programming was her destiny. She switched careers after attending Flatiron School and now works as a Builds and Deployment Engineer at Outreach.io in Seattle. We chat about the box office industry, how small it is, and the lack of roles it has as a result. She had dabbled with code quite a bit as a kid and returned to i...
41. Alex Trost: Horsing Around with this Frontend Dev🐴
March 04, 2021 18:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBAlex Trost grew up having, as he puts it, a fixed mindset. He studied graphic design and education in school and actually taught himself to program by making an app for his school when he was a teacher. In 2018, he realized he wanted to do development full time and has been a frontend dev ever since. Growing up, he was always passionate about tech and loved to tinker and build. So much so that he had a pet project called FreeBasketballSkills.com where he modified the HTML and CSS of the sit...
40. Dacey Nolan: The Power of Community While Searching For Your First Coding Role
February 23, 2021 21:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBIn today’s episode, Dacey tells the story of studying Public Relations in school and pursuing many different avenues and industries to find a job she loved. She tried many different things from content management, social media, marketing, special education, and Non-Profit work. One day, during a series of dates where she and her boyfriend (now husband) taught one another new things, he tried to teach her HTML and CSS. But the lesson wasn't a success because she didn't think she'd be good a...
39. Frank Foster: Persistence Pays Off After 100+ Interviews for this iOS Software Developer
February 16, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBFrank got his start in tech working at Apple’s Genius Bar doing all sorts of IT things. He loved Apple products and when a store was opening up near him, he jumped at the opportunity to work there. Realizing that a lot of IT work was within the PC world, he jumped from Apple to PC to see what it was all about. But ultimately he craved something that would be more fulfilling and creative. As a gamer himself, he became curious about how to create video games. Virtual Reality was super hot and ...
39. Frank Foster: Persistence Pays Off After 100+ Interviews for this iOS Software Developer
February 16, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBFrank got his start in tech working at Apple’s Genius Bar doing all sorts of IT things. He loved Apple products and when a store was opening up near him, he jumped at the opportunity to work there. Realizing that a lot of IT work was within the PC world, he jumped from Apple to PC to see what it was all about. But ultimately he craved something that would be more fulfilling and creative. As a gamer himself, he became curious about how to create video games. Virtual Reality was super hot and ...
38. JT Kaufman: Tips & Tricks on Breaking into Tech from a Former Recruiter
February 01, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBJT Kaufman dabbled in a whole lot of things before learning to code. She worked as a nanny, at a restaurant, as a janitor, and a load of different office work. At some point, she found her way into recruiting and eventually specialized within tech recruiting, which allowed her to learn about all of the different areas of tech. After realizing that she was burned out from recruiting, lost, and unhappy in general, JT took a massive leap of faith and moved across the country to attend a co...
37. Cher: The Power of Resilience
January 25, 2021 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBMy guest today is a self-taught engineer currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Apple. With 20 years of experience in web development, she attributes her skills and success to being “passionately curious”. She has a deep affinity for gaming and is a published video game journalist. Her journey started when she was in middle school when her mom worked as an office administrator and brought home computer parts. Cher quickly became fascinated in taking things apart and putting ...
37. Cher: The Power of Resilience
January 25, 2021 23:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBMy guest today is a self-taught engineer currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Apple. With 20 years of experience in web development, she attributes her skills and success to being “passionately curious”. She has a deep affinity for gaming and is a published video game journalist. Her journey started when she was in middle school when her mom worked as an office administrator and brought home computer parts. Cher quickly became fascinated in taking things apart and putting ...
36. Jerome Hardaway: Founder of Vets Who Code
January 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBJerome Hardaway is a writer at Stack Overflow, an Instructor for Front End Masters, a Developer Advocate at QuickenLoans, and the founder and Executive Director of Vets Who Code. As a writer and instructor, he focuses on those learning how to code and who are looking to get their first job as a Web Developer. As a Developer Advocate, he focuses on externally championing the company's tools while internally focusing on improving the culture. As an Executive Director of #VetsWhoCode, he focus...
36. Jerome Hardaway: Founder of Vets Who Code
January 19, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBJerome Hardaway is a writer at Stack Overflow, an Instructor for Front End Masters, a Developer Advocate at QuickenLoans, and the founder and Executive Director of Vets Who Code. As a writer and instructor, he focuses on those learning how to code and who are looking to get their first job as a Web Developer. As a Developer Advocate, he focuses on externally championing the company's tools while internally focusing on improving the culture. As an Executive Director of #VetsWhoCode, he focus...
35. Caitlyn Greffly: Brewing Up a Career Change
January 12, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBOn today’s episode, Lauren chats with Caitlyn Greffly, who made a bold career move in 2019 from selling beer to being a software engineer. She loves the work and is passionate about writing about it, talking about it, and encouraging others to make their own bold career changes. Caitlyn studied Psychology in college, but after graduating, she found a job working at a beer bar, which led her to spend 7 years within the beer industry doing mostly sales. She became pretty fascinated by beer i...
34. Jonan Scheffler: On the Value of Authentic Relationships in Tech
January 04, 2021 22:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBToday Lauren chats with Jonan Scheffler, who had over 40 jobs before entering the tech industry. He loved tech growing up but wasn't wildly intrigued or inspired by his CS classes and thus wasn’t interested in pursuing it as a career. He dabbled in various roles such as factory work, car sales, but eventually became a poker dealer on the Oregon coast. When he began searching for roles in tech, he googled who was being paid the most and decided he wanted to become a Ruby developer. He then ...
33. Reyhaneh Blackman: From Finance to Founder
December 29, 2020 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBToday Lauren chats with Reyhaneh Blackman, who emigrated from Iran to the US when she was 12 years old. She didn’t know English and had to teach herself the language and culture at an incredibly formative time in her life. She studied English in college and her first career was in journalism. After that, she went on to get a Master's in international finance and economics and became an investment banker. And today, she’s gone on to found a tech company, Media Scout, a video analytics platfor...