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We're proud to have Jamie Strachan, web developer and mental health advocate, on the show to discuss debugging our feelings. Using our strengths as devs, Jamie explains cognitive behavioral therapy and practical techniques to get us (and help others) to the path of mental health wellness. Plus: We open up about our own struggles, other techniques that worked, and resources to aid in mental health.

Marketing expert Jake Jorgovan joins the show to discuss how strategic partnerships and outreach can build your business. He offers tips on identifying and connecting with strategic partners, as well as establishing and nurturing the relationship over time. Jake also dives into strategies for cold outreach, again with a focus on identifying the right leads and building a relationship.

100 episodes, 4 years, 2 hosts! Whoa! We go through our favorite episodes the past 100 eps, while also highlighting listener faves and reviews. What resonated? What did we learn? Come celebrate with us!

Web development trends are more than popular, and they aren't just passing fads! We chat with npm, Inc. co-founder and COO Laurie Voss about dev trends, including frameworks, architectures, performance and graceful degradation. We discuss pros, cons, challenges and benefits. But more than a technical discussion, Laurie offers a nuanced, bigger-picture perspective about trends reflecting evolution and pushing innovation.

How you design and develop can affect society! Kristin Valentine joins the show to help us navigate the complicated topic of ethics in technology. We define ethics and how it applies in other industries, suggest ways it can be incorporated in web work, and urge others to consider the consequences (positive and negative) of designing and developing.

Dimagi's VP of Strategy Rowena Luk joins the show to discuss how mobile technology can empower underserved communities. She details how Dimagi develops healthcare mobile apps to help field workers more easily gather data for a community to improve medical care and diagnoses. We discuss the challenges of developing tech for social good, as well as the rewards, and what we all can do to leverage our design and development skills to affect positive global change.

We finish our client-friendly tech talk series with a discussion focused on content management systems. Once design and development are done, a site needs to be managed! We break down technical terms and share fun analogies so non-web folks understand the value of CMSs.

If you have a website, you should know whether it is supporting your goals or not ... which means you need analytics! Digital media expert Terri Jenkins joins the show to give us a primer on digital measurement and Google Analytics. She explains why analytics are critical for any website, and also how Google Analytics can help developers use data to better support clients. Terri also details other Google products to be used alongside Google Analytics, including Tag Manager, Search Console and Page Insights.

Does your client's site even need a CMS? Front-end developer Ben Furfie urges more designers and developers to deep-dive into a client's business before making technical decisions! We discuss what type of client has no need for a CMS, what services you provide instead and questions to ask to determine the viability of a CMS (vs. static). Ben also offers suggestions for pricing and sales to keep things profitable for you and your client!

Banish your inner critic! Creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs returns to the show to discuss the research and techniques that allow you to be more productive and do the work you want. We talk about what it means to excel in your professional and personal life, how destructive an inner critic can be, and practical ways to silence the critic that goes beyond feel-good anecdotes to real, actionable work.