In this episode, I speak with Steven Seguin, the creator behind VDO.ninja, all about the many ways you can work on your passion project or hobby, while still having to pay your bills.

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In this episode, I speak with Jay Silver, one of the founders and creators behind Makey Makey, about how the project got started and how it went from a passion project to a full business with thousands of community collaborators and inventors.

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In this episode, I speak with Matt Webb, a technologist and maker, all about the maker mentality. We cover many topics including ways to become more creative, how to have design sensitivity, why persistence without curiosity won’t get you the results you want, how to accept failure and use it to improve yourself and much more!

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In this episode, I speak with Uri Shaked, the creator behind Wokwi.com, all about how he went from hacking Arduino projects for fun to creating a micro controller simulation tool for makers and how he is turning that into a business.  

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In this episode, I speak with Nate Bartram, the creator behind TheNewOil.org, a website dedicated at teaching people all about data privacy, how he took his passion, hobby and almost obsession with data privacy and turned it into a business.

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In this episode, I speak with Steven Trindade, the founder of one of the largest makerspaces in the U.S., Urban Workshop, all about how makers can use makerspaces to grow their business.  We also get the specifics of what makers need to do to convert their hobby into a full business.

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In this episode, I speak with Paul Young, who started out with one 3D printer just for fun. This hobby quickly became his passion, then it turned into a real business with over 130 3D printers printing a variety of game related items.

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In this episode, Tim Payne tells us all about his nerdy accessories he makes for table top role player games, war games and card games.  We then get into his journey  of how he was able to switch careers and pursue his hobby as his main day job.

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In this episode, I speak with Abhi Prakash, the founder of itsfoss.com, one of the most popular and largest blogs focused on helping Linux beginners.  We chat about how he started the blog as a hobby and how he grew it to a point where he now has over 30 million annual readers.  

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In this episode, I speak with Ethan Coulter, president of Milton Security, a 3D printing hobbyist, a nerd and one of the coordinators of the Orange County Maker Faire, all about his hobbies and why makers should attend and present at Maker Faires.

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