[WIP] Podcast

Tech lead, coach, author, and the person 500+ engineers called when they needed someone who actually got it. Anemari Fiser burned out in a role she loved. And then she built something better. After a decade in tech - starting as a software engineer, becoming a tech lead at 26 (the youngest on her team, a detail she quietly kept to herself for years) - she left her full-time role, got her coaching...

Anna Miller, founder of Outlier Mentors, on why your job search isn't a job search problem. Anna Miller has coached over 100 engineers into roles at companies like Google and Amazon. She has 44,000+ LinkedIn followers who tune in for her straight talk on what actually works in today's job market. And she built Outlier Mentors, a career mentorship community, to fill the gap she kept seeing:...

From Navy Nuclear Reactors to 4,000+ Students: Why Fundamentals Still Beat AI Erik Gross is the co-founder of the Tech Academy and author of The Uncommon Engineer . A Navy nuclear reactor operator turned sales professional turned software engineer, Erik couldn't find junior developers, so he built a school to train them. In this episode, we talk about Erik's journey from programming on a V...

Jaidie Vargas is a force of nature. She is a national speaker, Navy veteran, PhD student researching AI ethics, co-founder and executive director of Amigas in Tech , IT Director, and a mom. What doesn't she do?! She's a champion whose actions inspire women and particularly the Latina community to feel empowered and claim their seat at the table. Jaidie's journey from IT in the Navy to...

chore: acknowledge the pause + appreciation Welcome back. Or welcome for the first time. Either way, I'm so glad you're here! Life happened and I wanted to recalibrate. During that pause, so many people reached out. To check in. To say they missed the podcast. To ask if it was coming back. Guess what? It is! Thank you, truly, to all of the folks who reached out. 🙏 I am so grateful! 🥹 Thi...

I dubbed Joram Mutenge as a “trifecta” when it comes to the data profession. He is a data engineer, data analyst, and data scientist! As with many people, the route wasn’t a straight one, but suits him well once he learned to love the parts few enjoy and how to be safely creative within data. To become as valuable as possible, Joram has spent time learning SQL, Python, and JavaScript. We discussed...

Grace Dees came into my life through networking with women in tech in Colorado as she worked to break into the cybersecurity field! Most recently she has worked with a startup as a Cybersecurity Business Analyst. Between personal life changes and growing into this profession, she has learned a lot about setting boundaries in both small and big ways. Also, moving into a new-to-you field calls for t...

Mara Kaela is a health coaching consultant who discovered her own health and wellness journey after a health crisis post-study abroad trip. Over years she’s asked questions, experimented, and iterated, learning along the way. A UX course not only aided in her practice, but also got Mara thinking about new ways to approach goal-setting from a user flow perspective or building connection and relatio...

Keshia Coriolan is one amazing person: trilingual, traveler, latin dancing, Software Engineer / Technical Support Team Lead…what can’t she do?! Her travels to Barcelona, Spain inspired a journey into learning the language of Catalan as well as a project she calls the Travel Diaries. She’s also working to learn Rails! For the fall Keshia is organizing a Rails study group where they have varying ski...

From a Commodore 64 , to programming, to roles like QA and support, to DevOps, Nick Clark was hooked on tech since he was 7 years old. If we can learn one thing from him, it’s to keep learning. He’s worked on (and currently working on) many different projects! If you feel yourself stagnating, it’s the perfect time to try something new. In this episode, we’ll talk about Nick’s path into tech, curre...

Kim Maida is the Senior Director of Developer Relations (DevRel) at FusionAuth , and a passionate advocate for educating others and leading tech users (usually developers) to success! Lately she’s been working on a newer concept, architecture-driven authentication. It’s just another way that Kim is working to arm her team with knowledge as well as sharing with the wider community! Keeping app user...

Colin J Lacy started his tech journey in restaurant marketing - spoiler: he was bad at it - and began learning to code instead. He started as a self-taught developer and freelancer with HTML and CSS, then expanded into many languages like JavaScript, WordPress and PHP, Rails, Python, Golang and later moved away from frontend engineering altogether into cloud engineering and he “hasn’t looked back!...

Brendan Schirmer is an Australian living in the UK who previously worked 10 years as a software engineer. Over time, he discovered a special touch communicating across technical and non-technical folks. Now, he’s shifted into coaching both with one-on-one clients and integrating to help entire teams under his business, “ No BS Coaching .” (Get it? His initials + a cheeky statement on attitude! 😅)...

I’ve been following Christin’s journey on LinkedIn for a while now and it’s been truly inspiring to watch and get to know her. Not only has she been openly engaging on LinkedIn, she also accidentally started a community. Leaning into the unexpected can have the most wonderful results! In this episode, we’ll talk about starting a project with AI, expanding into object oriented programming and TypeS...

David Weiss is a good friend of mine and I am so pleased to have him as my first official guest in this new podcast adventure! We met on LinkedIn about 2 years ago and bonded over being career changers and busy professionals who just can’t seem to stop working on side projects: newsletters, building apps, creating LinkedIn content, guest spots on podcasts and LinkedIn Lives, you name it. In this e...