Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have an inspirational chat with Juanjo:

- How he started his  programming journey and what passionates him about this craft.

- How he fell in love with Python.

- How he overcame tutorial paralysis.

- How PDM helped him improve his skills and how the positive effect it's having on his daily work and moving forward.

- How important succeeding as a developer is for him.

- How he coped with imposter syndrome as he grew as a developer.

- Tips for people aspiring to become software developers who want to make a greater impact using Python.

- The importance of choosing a good community as your support system towards your goal.

"Harness the power of the long term achievements by focusing on the short term actions"

We also celebrate wins and share what we're reading (books linked below).

Links:
- PDM program
- Connect with Juanjo on LinkedIn or Slack

Books:
- Dynamic Economic Systems
- Why Stock Markets Crash
- Crafting Test-Driven Software with Python

Find your strength! We hope you enjoy this episode and reach out if you have any feedback: [email protected]

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a wonderful chat with Michael Knott.

We talk about the most valuable things about Michael's Python journey, including what he achieved through our PDM program.

We talk about:
- Michael's work as a fitness coach and how he got into Python as a tool to automate repetitive tasks in his daily work.
- How he improved his Python and developer skills in PDM with us.
- What challenges he faced when started his programmer journey.
- Some really cool technologies he has learned and applied in his apps so far.
- How the things he learned with us are positively impacting his craft.
- How he gained confidence in spite of feeling imposter syndrome (e.g. getting his code out there).
- And ... (as usual) how important the mindset side turned out to be.

We also celebrate wins and share what we're reading (book links below).

Links:
- The PDM program (Michael's ISSF Scraper is featured under the projects section!)
- Julian's Flask Udemy course

Books:
- Still Life (fiction)
- Practices of the Python Pro (SW best practices)
- Publishing Python Packages (new!)
- The Dream of Europe (history)
- Find Your Strength (productivity)

We hope you enjoy this episode and reach out if you have any feedback: [email protected]

To reach out to Michael, you can do so:
- On LinkedIn
- On Twitter
- On our Slack

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast!

This week we talk about:
-How to see opportunity through difficulties.
-How to react if everything is not going your way.
-How to be strong in a difficult situation.
-How to stay in control in every situation.

Most people are going through hardships but how can we surpass these circumstances and challenges in our ways?

5 tips to stay in control and reduce stress, because we think that there is a lot you actually can control.

1. Working on your skills
2. Build your network.
3. Double down on productivity.
4. Watch your health + well-being.
5. Adopt a positive mindset.

It is hard to get out of any uncomfortable situation, but it is also hard if you choose to stay in it.

Always choose your hard.

Books:
- The Digital Nomad Handbook
- The Creative Act
- Our growing Pybites podcast book list (created on Pybites Books, our favorite reading tracker and one of our first Django sites we built)

Feedback / live podcast request - email us: [email protected]

Enjoy and next week we’ll have a fresh new episode for you.

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We achieve these things for people we work with in our PDM program. Check it out here.

We're back with... episode 100! 🎉

In this episode we highlight our favorite moments from the show:

- How to Say no!

- Being your Authentic Self with Hannah Kook

- Practical Django with Antonio Mele

- Tutorial Paralysis

- Only compare yourself to your yesterday's self

+ 5 more valuable mindset and developer lessons.

Next we have a ask from you dear listener, please send us your favorite episode and/or how what you've learned from us has helped you on your Python + career journey ... Send it to [email protected]

The people with the 3 most original stories will win some really cool swag (from our store)

Next up we give you tips to make 2023 life-changing:

- Identify with your skill and/or goal

- Use the time audit tool often. Consistently track yourself because you will go off the rails.

- What SYSTEMS do you put in place? (Mentioned email turned into article)

- Focus on what you can control.

- Are you failing enough?

- Be assertive. Speak up. Ask for what you want.

- Seek coaching if you want to grow more rapidly

Thanks for listening and here's to another 100 episodes!

If you're serious about taking your Python + developer (+ mindset) skills to the next level this year, join our PDM program here. 

Happy New Year and welcome back to the Pybites podcast. 

This week Julian and Bob talk about setting goals for this year 2023:
- How to set your goals this year.
- When and where you begin to setting your goals
- How to set realistic goals that are achievable and sustainable.
- How to set goals you can control.
- How to love the process towards your goals.
- What actions should you take to enable you to reach your goals.
- How goal-setting processes can help you find purpose and meaning in your life.
-The importance of small steps with consistency.

Recommended books:
- Atomic Habits
- Pybites podcast reading list

Mentioned video course:
- Practical Productivity With PyBites

Join our Pybites Slack Community here.

This week we talk with Kristen Kehrer about her journey as a data scientist, developer advocate and content creator.

We dive into how she got into DS and what excites her about the field.

We talk about her developer relations work at Comet ML, her journey from R to Python, and some really cool data projects she has developed lately (scratching her own itch).

For example the school bus one will blow your mind :)

Next we move onto the importance of content creation and growing an audience (building your brand) as a developer.

We talk about Kristen's content creation process, how to stay consistent and how she found success on LinkedIn, but also leverages Reddit.

Then we touch upon imposter syndrome. Kristen shares her perspective on how to better cope with it.

And last but not least, Kristen shares some resources to get up2speed with the data science side of Python.

Mentioned / recommended books:
- The Business Value of Developer Relations
- Weapons of Math Destruction

Connect with Kristen on LinkedIn.

Feedback + ideas for our show? Email us or join the #podcast channel on our Slack.

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have Andrew McLeod on the show to talk about mindfulness.

We talk about:
- Mindfulness as it applies to the tech industry and why it’s important to humanise tech.
- How mindfulness humanises.
- How to be more aware of different parts of the body - as opposed to only thought.
- The trap of trying to use mindfulness to fix problems that require action (eg mindfulness will make you aware you are hungry, it won’t resolve the issue)
- How mindfulness can help with emotional intelligence (including in the context of code reviewing).
- How mindfulness and emotional intelligence can help relating with peers and improve team performance.

Books:
- The Miracle Of Mindfulness
- Chief Joy Officer
- McMindfulness

Courses:
- MBSR course with certification
- MBSR course (without certification - free)
- A significantly longer course, both of these teachers are excellent

Other resources:
- The guy that 'brought mindfulness to the west'
- Tara Brach's work
- Mindful code reviews:  part 1 and part 2

We hope you enjoy this episode!

To reach out to Andrew, you can do so:
- On LinkedIn
- On our Slack
- On Instagram

Welcome back to our Pybites podcast. This week we talk about Loving the journey to your goal.

We center our discussion about:

1. Setting Goals.

2. What can you do and how can you love the process?

3. Have that Confidence and discipline to achieve your goal. And self control to learn the routine and make it a habit to maintain.

4. Choose how to respond in every situation (If you missed something today don’t be disappointed, because it’s an opportunity to learn and do more).

5. Embrace difficult situations. it only means that you’re getting closer to your goal.

6. Celebrating small wins and how far you are towards your goal.

A dedicated mindset episode where we also share new Pybites / personal wins and what we’re currently reading.

Links:

– Our productivity course is still going strong impacting people’s lives around the globe.

– Our growing Pybites podcast book list (created on Pybites Books, our favorite reading tracker and one of our first Django sites we built).

Enjoy and next week we’ll have a fresh new episode for you.

Do you know enough Python to be dangerous but you don’t dare call yourself a developer?

And you want that to change, taking your skills to the next level to land a better job, upgrade your career, earn more freedom and give back to society?

We achieve these things for people we work with in our PDM program.

Check it out here and join our next related LIVE training in our Facebook group.

This week we talk with Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur.

We dive into:
- His background.
- Why he uses Python and the switch from Java.
- His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he's maintaining.
- How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering.
- His viral post on certificates vs the reality of looking things up as a programmer.
- Book tips (The hard things about hard things, The startup of you and Grit).
- And of course the importance of mindset as a developer (we cannot leave out the Julian question right?!)

Enjoy this episode and connect with Yujian on LinkedIn or on our Slack.

Other mentioned links:
- His PyNLP-lib opensource project
- His PythonAlgos blog
- The Text API

Welcome back to our Pybites podcast. This week we talk about the relatively stressful times we live in and hence the need to focus on what YOU can control.

We center our discussion around 5 tips:

1. Setting boundaries.

2. At work ask for personal development time to skill up.

3. Ask for more responsibility where appropriate (but don't burn yourself out).

4. Choose how to respond to situations (it's high stress out there at the moment, but you don't have to be).

5. Focus on what's important to you, that is "roles" you have in life.

A dedicated mindset episode where we also share new Pybites / personal wins and what we're currently reading.

Links:

- Our productivity course is still going strong impacting people's lives around the globe.

- Our growing Pybites podcast book list (created on Pybites Books, our favorite reading tracker and one of our first Django sites we built)

Enjoy and next week we'll have a fresh new episode for you.

You can watch this episode on YouTube here.

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Do you know enough Python to be dangerous but you don't dare call yourself a developer?

And you want that to change, taking your skills to the next level to land a better job, upgrade your career, earn more freedom and give back to society?

We achieve these things for people we work with in our PDM program.

Check it out here and join our next related LIVE training in our Facebook group.
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