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As we all know, keeping a career path as a military spouse can be very difficult. After realizing coding might be easier than she thought, Julia Taylor set out on a mission. She started Geek Pack to create a community to empower others to have the confidence to do things they didn’t think they could.

Julia learned to code by herself and often felt unwelcome in other coding communities. That was all the push she needed to create a welcoming community set on uplifting others and helping them to achieve their goals. A place where mean people are not allowed and there are no stupid questions. A community to empower women to be more comfortable with digital skills.

Julia Taylor is a self-taught web-developer and online business owner who founded GeekPack® in October 2018. She is passionate about empowering women and girls everywhere to create better lives for themselves by teaching them how to code and subsequently manage their own businesses in the digital realm. Since its founding, she has empowered over 3,000 women with the tangible, in-demand coding skills needed to live life on their own terms as virtual business owners.

Listeners, if you would like to learn more about Geek Pack, check out their website here or connect with them on social media via Facebook or Instagram. If you happen to know a WW2 veteran, please reach out. Also, if you are interested in learning to code, check out their free 4 day coding challenge here.

Resource Recon with KateLynn and Annie

this week’s Resource Recon, brought to you from our ever-empowering, Band of Bloggers! We are spotlighting an article from Susan Malandrino with the American Red Cross entitled: OCONUS military Spouses Build Community. Susan writes:

After you PCS, do you ever arrive at a new location and feel completely lost? In my time as a military spouse, this feeling was further exacerbated during our OCONUS tours. When we moved to Japan, my twins were three, my spouse was immediately gone off on deployment, where he remained for most of the tour. I couldn’t figure out the language, let alone the basics of this new life we had been thrown into a million miles from the comforts of home. 

I recently met two Air Force spouses who not only shared similar experiences but were actively working to help other military families in that same situation. 

She goes on to mention these two spouses, Jennifer and Victoria, and how their time volunteering with the American Red Cross OCONUS has helped them to bridge the gap of potential isolation from being stationed in a foreign country. 

Empowerment Patrol Report with Amanda B.

Today we are showcasing Army Wife Network’s Everyday Empowerment recipient, Shantel Perez, who I personally chose to nominate her for this since she is absolutely inspiring and empowering to myself and other military families and spouses.

The month of August marks 9 years of being an Army Spouse for Shantel. Here is a little bit about her milspouse journey:  Before being a military spouse, I was Active Duty Army myself. My husband, Daniel Perez, and I are high school sweethearts. We did future soldier training together and then eventually joined the Army together. In the beginning of our marriage my husband was infantry and was never...