In this episode we're hearing from Josue, who taught himself to code when he was 15 and was inspired by his engineer grandfather to study software engineering in college. He talks about the struggles he has connecting to other students now that classes are entirely online due to Covid19 ..read more

This episode is about digital nomads, people who travel around the world and work remotely. Daniel talks about becoming a digital nomad and what life has been like as one for the last five years traveling to some pretty wonderful places on the planet. He started his adventure by purchasing a package through a company that had apartments in twelve different parts of the world, one part for each month of a year. For the four years since, that first year, he has been organizing his own trips. He talks about some of the key challenges he faces as a digital nomad and how he overcomes them ..read more

On this episode we're hearing from Dave who runs a business delivering sailboats by sailing them long distances. He talks about how video conferencing technology has changed over the years, how he started his business and the challenges he and others onboard have to overcome when they are sailing long distances ..read more

Sam tells his story of how he became a software engineer from a nontech background. He started by making macros for excel to automate tasks for himself and others. He crashed a software engineering conference and was inspired by what he saw. He moved to a hacker house in San Francisco where the software engineers in the house advised him to a coding bootcamp. He chose App Academy. He found his first job by getting recommended by people in the hacker house.   ..read more

Malcolm leaves the comfort of home in Jacksonville, Florida, uproots his life and drives across the United States to Seattle, Washington to start the coding bootcamp Coding Dojo. He talks about why he did it, and what challenges he faced that the bootcamp did not prepare him for. He shares a little trick for how he went from getting no interviews to 20 interviews ..read more

Wenyu tells us his story about teaching English in Sumatra, backpacking around the world while working freelance, and how his travels have continued and changed ever since working full time ..read more

Ivy tells us about how she went from working in fashion to being a software engineer. She attended the bootcamp Hack Reactor, hussled her way into a job, eventually worked at Twitter, where they knowingly hired her without giving her actual work to do. These days she is the founder of belugadesigns.co.   ..read more

Greg and Missy tell us about how they decided to sail around the world, how they purchased an old boat, spent over a year fixing it up, crewed with a famous sailor and traveled around the Americas.  ..read more

Ben tells us his story about how he went from being a music graduate student, to a long winding road of learning to code, going to the data science bootcamp Flatiron and getting a job as a software engineer ..read more

David wanted to learn to code because he had a business idea and wanted full control over the tech. But he had to put coding off while he finished his education--something he had to do to secure the job that he wanted. David talks to us about how learning from books simply did not work for him, and that a Udemy course with engaging youtube videos was the key to get him started. He talks about how the 100 days of code challenge helps motivate him to keep studying, because each day he has to tweet his progress, and he does not want to miss a day. He talks about how he wishes that he had some men ..read more