121 - Ted Neward is back for part 2
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
I've known my friend, Ted Neward, for several years. We met at a tech conference when I accidentally almost ran up behind him to give him a big bear hug because I mistook him for someone else. We've remained friends ever since. Ted is the Director of Technology Culture at Quicken Loans. In this interview, Ted shares his experiences shifting the entire culture of a large technical team from working 10% remotely to 100% remotely. Ted also reminds us to invest into your people during the good times so they will be flexible during the hard times, to empathize with employees, and also "eat your own...
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120 - Ted Neward, Director of Technology Culture at Quicken Loans
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
I've known my friend, Ted Neward, for several years. We met at a tech conference when I accidentally almost ran up behind him to give him a big bear hug because I mistook him for someone else. We've remained friends ever since. Ted is the Director of Technology Culture at Quicken Loans. In this interview, Ted shares his experiences shifting the entire culture of a large technical team from working 10% remotely to 100% remotely. Ted also reminds us to invest into your people during the good times so they will be flexible during the hard times, to empathize with employees, and also "eat your own...
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119 - How To Receive Feedback
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Dane joins Christina to talk about the other side of feedback, receiving it. There is an implied agreement to collaborate when giving or receiving feedback but the person who receives feedback shouldn't be passive, instead directing what they want and need to move their project forward.
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118 - Giving Feedback
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Director of Communications at LG Designs, Dane comes back on the show to discuss giving feedback, something he knows a lot about after years of working with collaborators, clients and me. "Giving feedback is an agreement to collaborate and help make the person seeking feedback realize their vision for their project."
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117 - Grief During A Worldwide Pandemic And How To Move Forward
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Director of Communications at LG Designs, Dane is a jack of all trades. Based in Los Angeles, California, he not only helps keep Lg Designs running but is a terrific speaker coach, writer, and consultant. Today we talk about the stages of grief the entire world is going through as COVID-19 tops the news and requires us to be more mindful as we make our way through this... together. Christina Aldan is the CEO/founder of LG Designs () and a digital media marketer who travels the world speaking to tech industry folks, entrepreneurs, and female business owners
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116 - Lee Brandt, founder KC Developer Conference
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Lee Brandt founded the Kansas City Developer Conference 12 years ago because he noticed the tech scene was lacking. There were 120 attendees at that first conference and it has steadily grown to nearly 2500 attendees in 2019. Today KCDC is a non-profit organization that leads the charge for tech polyglot (multiple technologies and leadership skills) conferences. They created a collaborative community to help support local tech businesses in the Kansas City area. With COVID-19 influencing conferences worldwide, I stopped to ask Lee about some of the challenges conference organizers are facing,...
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115 - Tanya Butenko of MusesCodeJS
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Tanya Butenko is a developer, founder of @MusesCodeJS, a free-coding events enthusiast, an International speaker, #mentor, and @GoogleDevExpert. She lives in Australia and is working to improve diversity and inclusion in tech. This woman walks the walk and talks the talk, encouraging people to think about their problems it from a different angle, to broaden the circle of your acquaintance. As humans, we can only have our own experience and we don’t often think of the problems of other people. However, she caution that we can at least try and be aware of our biases. Tanya went from a myriad...
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114 - Hausbeck Brand - A Creative Company
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Michelle Hausbeck, owner of Hausbeck Brand - A Creative Company, always had the dream of being her own boss, always had the entrepreneurial spirit and being surrounded by a family of creatives — artists and entrepreneurs — motivated her to follow suit. She crawled her way up the ladder of various ad agencies before launching her own business. Hausbeck Brand and LG Designs have similar approaches and business models. Straight from the Hausbeck Brand website: “Hausbeck Brand uncovers brand insights and creates innovative design solutions. We work with clients of all sizes,...
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113 - Michael Dowden pt 2
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
Part 2 with Michael Dowden and it’s all about accessibility. Michael Dowden is co-author of “Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success” available now on . Today on Luckygirl: A Bite-sized Podcast for Solopreneurs he discusses the importance of accessibility, how users use assistive devices to help them navigate websites, and tips you can use right now to take an audit of your own website. Tips for auditing your website: Push the mouse to the side and just use keystrokes. Can users still access key information? Keyboard access is important. Are their pop-ups that...
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112 - Cory House
A bite-sized podcast for solopreneurs: Luckygirl
While he always thought he would work for himself, Cory House took a financially conservative route to becoming a solopreneur. He is a dad of 3 children and the ebb and flow of income was too risky for him. So he made the decision to live conservatively and stay with him employer until he had a comfortable enough nest egg to weather the ebb and flow of entrepreneurship. The response to his recent independence was met with unequaled support. Cory double-majored in marketing and advertising so everything he has built around his brand is focused around 4 pillars: 1. product 2. price 3. place 4....
info_outlineWhile he always thought he would work for himself, Cory House took a financially conservative route to becoming a solopreneur. He is a dad of 3 children and the ebb and flow of income was too risky for him. So he made the decision to live conservatively and stay with him employer until he had a comfortable enough nest egg to weather the ebb and flow of entrepreneurship. The response to his recent independence was met with unequaled support. Cory double-majored in marketing and advertising so everything he has built around his brand is focused around 4 pillars:
1. product
2. price
3. place
4. promotion
When he tweeted about his independence on Twitter, companies jumped at the opportunity to work with him. His advice for anyone thinking of starting a consultancy:
Diversify your brand through various media instead of getting work from just one lead source
Networking is not a dirty word. Instead of "networking" try making friends and good things will happen for your business, too.
Follow Cory on twitter at @housecor If you're a developer, check out his courses on PluralSight.com
If you're looking for React training, visit
https://www.reactjsconsulting.com/
Cory House has been writing JavaScript since the days of Netscape. He has specialized in React since shortly after it was launched and has partnered with teams around the globe to ship dozens of significant React projects. He authored multiple courses on React and JavaScript that have been viewed by over 500,000 developers worldwide. He has trained over 10,000 developers in person while leading 100's of sessions at businesses and conferences across the USA and internationally.
Christina Aldan is the CEO/founder of LG Designs (lgdesigns.co) and a digital media marketer who travels the world speaking to tech industry folks, entrepreneurs, and female business owners