The freeCodeCamp Podcast

In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with Greek developer and designer Eleftheria Batsou about her passion for creating content and how she balances work, school, travel, and personal time. When she's not studying or coding, Eleftheria speaks at conferences all over Europe, grows her YouTube channel, and blogs about what she's learning.

On this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with self-taught developer Rick West who lives and works in the UK. Rick shares how he went from owning his own successful HVAC business to stumbling upon coding and slowly falling in love with tech. You'll learn how he got his first dev job, how he continues to learn, and how he prioritizes his time.

In this week's episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with Madison Kanna, a full-stack developer who works remotely for Mediavine. Madison describes how homeschooling affected her future learning style, how she tackles imposter syndrome and failure, and how she helps others teach themselves to code.

In this week's episode, Abbey chats with artist and game dev Angela He who's a college student at Stanford University. Angela creates beautiful digital art and develops games that speak to emotional issues - and she's almost completely self-taught.

In this episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with developer advocate Alejandra Olvera-Novak about how she broke free from her restrictive cult upbringing, moved to the United States, and taught herself how to code.

Back in 2014, Saron Yitbarek founded CodeNewbie - a supportive community of people who are learning to code. Quincy interviews her about her childhood, and her winding path into tech as an adult. She has tips for learning to code and how to start your own podcast or local conference.

In this episode of the freeCodeCamp podcast, Abbey chats with freelance Ruby on Rails developer Colleen Shnettler about how she switched from electrical engineering to development, how she founded her business, and how she makes time for kids and family - among many other things.

In this episode, Beau chats with Jesse Weigel, who live streams on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel and is a Senior Software Engineer at DICK'S Sporting Goods. He talks about his career path, live streaming, getting a developer job, speaking at conferences, React Native, dealing with mental health issues, and more. 

In this episode, Abbey chats with Kate Illsley, a tech recruiter and budding developer in Melbourne, Australia. Kate talks about how learning to code helps her be better at her job, and they also discuss her journey into tech, how she got so involved in volunteering for various organizations in Melbourne, and what she loves about working with young women just starting out.

Tim Myers is a US Army vet who got into a drunken brawl and got a 12 year prison sentence. After prison, he spent 3 years working odd jobs while studying software development. And for the past 4 years, he's worked as software developer at several Denver companies.

In this episode, Abbey interviews social engineering expert Rachel Tobac and learns how she transitioned from teaching to infosec by way of one exhilarating competition.  After graduating from college, Rachel thought she wanted to be a teacher, but she wanted to reach and help more people. When she stumbled upon her dream job - white hat hacker extraordinaire - she figured out how to do just that.

Quincy interviews Shawn Wang about "learning in public" and his transition into tech from finance, where he left behind a job that paid him US $350,000 per year. Shawn now works as a developer at Netlify.

In this week's episode, Abbey interviews software developer and freeCodeCamp forum moderator Ariel Leslie. While she can't discuss all the details of her super-secret job, she fills us in on how she got to where she is now. You'll hear about her experience as a woman in tech, how various mentors have helped her become the developer she is today, and how she tackles imposter syndrome (among many other things!).

Quincy interviews Adam Hollett, a software developer at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. We talk about Adam's journey - from meandering college student to software developer - and the many lessons he learned along the way.

On today's episode of the freeCodeCamp.org podcast, Abbey chats with Jennifer Bland, a Google Developer Expert, software engineer, prolific speaker, entrepreneur, and world traveler. You'll learn how Jennifer got into tech (twice!), what she's working on now, and how she helps many different communities of developers learn and grow.