We Belong Here: Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech
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We Belong Here: Lessons from Unconventional Paths to Tech
A 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...
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From Web2 to Web3 with Zsófi Major
Zsófi Major has had many roles over the years within the web2 space: project manager, COO, and business developer.
After business hours she vol...
Sustainability and Blockchain with Alexandra Heller
Alexandra Heller is the Founder of Crypto Philanthropy Club, a club for crypto people who care and give, and is the Marketing Director at Bitgreen, th...
Introducing, We Belong... in Web3!
We 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...
A Bootcamper's Companion by Caitlyn Greffly
Caitlyn 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'...
Caroline Kerns: How Dabbling in Careers Led to Community and #DevRel
Caroline is originally from Germany and has tried many different careers on for size. She has had roles ranging from recruiting, automotive, and retai...
Shamira Marshall: From Attorney to Software Developer
Shamira 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 an...
PJ Metz: From Teacher to Coder
My 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...
Tonya Sims: From WNBA to Python and DevRel
Tonya Sims is a self-taught developer and is the Python Developer Advocate at Vonage. She has an eclectic background ranging from roles in business, p...
Allen Whearry: Don't sell yourself short, you can code
Allen 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 any...
Alex Merced: Learn, Build, Blog, Teach, Repeat!
Alex 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 polit...
Wesley Faulkner: The Path to Developer Relations
Wesley Faulkner is a first-generation American. He is a founding member of the government transparency group Open Austin and ran for Austin City Counc...
Sierra OBryan: From Lasers to Androids
Sierra is a Senior Consultant at Atomic Robot in Cincinnati, OH, focused primarily on Native Android solutions. She loves building beautiful and acces...
Domitrius Clark: Always Putting the Customer First
Domitrius is a Developer Experience Engineer at Cloudinary. From retail to engineering, his focus has always been on making sure the customer's experi...
Chris Ferdinandi: How to Hack your Job Hunt
Chris Ferdinandi helps people learn vanilla JavaScript. He believes there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web. His developer ti...
Mindy Zwanziger: From Teacher to Coder
Mindy 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...
Yechiel Kalmenson: Torah && Tech
Yechiel 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,...
Cecelia Martinez: Know your Story and Share your Passion
Before learning to code, Cecelia worked in journalism and financial services. She always had a hobby of making WordPress websites for friends but neve...
Ceora Ford: Learn in Public and Share your Journey
Ceora is a software developer based in Philadelphia. She worked in childcare and with children but was always interested in tech. Coding was always in...
Kenneth Cassel: A QuikTrip Journey to Code
Kenneth 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 abo...
Claudia Maciel: Conquering Clouds from Aviation and iOS Development
Claudia 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 cu...
Dan Morse: It’s Never Too Late to Learn to Code
Dan worked as a freelance sign language interpreter for nearly two decades. He has always had an affinity for visual learning and languages in particu...
Jess Bonanno: Rooting for the UnderDog
Jess 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...
Filip Hric: The Value of Learning in Public
Filip 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...
Tali Herzka: From Molecular Biology to Software Engineering
On today’s episode, I chat with Tali Herzka. Who has forever been interested in Science, genetics, and Molecular Biology. Molecular pathways and syste...
Kilo Loco: Self Taught Sr. Developer Advocate at AWS
On today’s episode, I chat with Kilo Loco, aka Kyle Lee. Who is a self-taught developer, programming tutorial YouTuber, and Senior Developer Advocate...
41. Alex Trost: Horsing Around with this Frontend Dev🐴
Alex 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...
40. Dacey Nolan: The Power of Community While Searching For Your First Coding Role
In 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...
39. Frank Foster: Persistence Pays Off After 100+ Interviews for this iOS Software Developer
Frank 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 h...
38. JT Kaufman: Tips & Tricks on Breaking into Tech from a Former Recruiter
JT 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 o...
37. Cher: The Power of Resilience
My guest today is a self-taught engineer currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Apple. With 20 years of experience in web development,...
36. Jerome Hardaway: Founder of Vets Who Code
Jerome Hardaway is a writer at Stack Overflow, an Instructor for Front End Masters, a Developer Advocate at QuickenLoans, and the founder and Executiv...
35. Caitlyn Greffly: Brewing Up a Career Change
On 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 t...
34. Jonan Scheffler: On the Value of Authentic Relationships in Tech
Today 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...
33. Reyhaneh Blackman: From Finance to Founder
Today 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 herse...
32. PeterJohn Hunt: How to Convince Employers to Take the “Risk” on You
On today’s episode of We Belong Here, Lauren interviews PeterJohn Hunt. Who tells the story of how he went from convincing his first job to take a ris...
31. Gant Laborde: Making it All Add Up - My Journey to Chief Innovation Officer
In this episode of We Belong Here, Lauren interviews Gant Laborde. They talk about how Gant was, in fact, “really bad” at computers when he was a kid....
30. Kelly Mahoney: How Hackathons Can Unlock a Path to Tech
Kelly Mahoney is both a Digital Artist and Product Manager who got into design through hackathons - of which, she’s attended over 60 so far!
Sh...
29. Jayson J. Phillips, Degree of Self Learning, “University of Barnes and Noble”
Today’s guest on We Belong Here, Jayson J. Phillips, got his start in tech only after he dropped majoring in Computer Science and Math. In school, Jay...
28. Tim Benniks: From Music & Nursing to Director of Web Development
Today Lauren chats with Tim Benniks, who is the Director of Web Development at a global digital agency, Valtech.
Growing up, Tim’s passion was...
27. Bryan Robinson: From Philosophy to Designer, Developer & Teacher
Today, Bryan shares with Lauren his journey from studying philosophy and working in journalism to becoming a designer, developer, educator, and commun...