She Sparks Tech

Nicole Mills started her career in a classroom as an excited foreign language teacher, but she quickly found herself burntout and overwhelmed trying to be the best educator for her students. She knew she has to leave behind the teaching job she had long since worked for to save her well-being.

So what the heck does that even look like when you come from a field as specialized as teaching? Thankfully Nicole knew several friends and family members who worked in tech and actually enjoyed their jobs. So she knew that was what she would work towards.

Join Nicole & me as we talk about how she prepared herself for a career in tech and how she currently works as a Quality Assurance Analyst (and loves the challenge!).

If you want to learn more about Nicole, you can connect with her on LinkedIn here.

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Danielle Boris is the author of The Energy of Weirdos and the founder and CEO of Sandbox, a SaaS platform that acts as your personalized guide to consistently high-performing teams. Danielle believes that far too often, corporations put employees in boxes, labeled by job title. This siloing not only limits talent development but also inhibits organizations from leveraging the full knowledge, skillsets, and innovation in their workforces. Only by unboxing humans can employees, managers, and organizations all win together and create future-proof success.

A researcher at heart, Danielle graduated with a B.S. from Cornell University and an MBA from the Cornell University Johnson School of Management. Her studies focused on leveraging technology to enhance human interactions. She practices what she preaches, designing her life to be something she looks forward to living every day and infusing the world around her with positivity, motivation, and bright colors. Danielle believes that being authentic, and bringing our whole selves into everything we do, is the key to individual and societal happiness, which in turn, always leads to success.

For more information, you can connect with Danielle at the following places:

LinkedIn

Don’t forget to pre-order Danielle’s book the Energy of Weirdos here!

Trina L. Martin is the founder and CEO of Trina L. Martin International. She is a technologist, international speaker, advocate for women of color in tech, and best-selling author.

Trina is a retired US Naval Officer and former computer programmer. She has over two decades of computer programming, digital forensics, and intelligence experience. Holding a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and extensive expertise, Trina has experienced the biases of the tech industry. Trina's resilience helped her navigate the obstacles and make strides in her career that many said weren't possible.

Qualified but often overlooked, Trina calls herself 'The Queen of Equality in Tech.' She is on a mission to close the tech industry's racial, gender, and wage gap for women, especially women of color, and help them elevate into leadership positions, as well as help companies create a genuinely diverse and inclusive workplace.

If you want to get in touch with Trina or more learn about how she is empowering women of color in the tech industry, you can use the resources below:

Website

SimpliFed is the telehealth platform democratizing access to baby feeding and breastfeeding services.

By providing high-quality virtual care covered by insurance, the Ithaca, New York-based company envisions a world where every parent feels good about feeding their family – because baby feeding and breastfeeding are central to maternal and infant health.

Founded in 2019 by Andrea Ippolito, a biomedical engineer and mom of two, SimpliFed provides evidence-based and inclusive virtual baby feeding services to everyone, no matter how they choose to feed their baby.

SimpliFed’s mission is to create a new model for optimal baby feeding by building trusted relationships with parents, partnering with healthcare payers and providers, and shifting policy, practice, and narratives to drive health and economic equity, starting with baby’s first foods.

If you want to get in touch with Andrea or more learn about SimpliFed, you can use the resources below:

Andrea Ippolito on LinkedIn

Like so many women in tech, I struggled to find the right balance for myself - the work-life balance, the unpaid additional work balance, the bullshit balance.

In this episode, I share my story that takes you through my engineering career, how I struggled with uncertainty and the need for change, and how I made my own change when I couldn't get it elsewhere.

The projects I started as hobbies turned into side hustles that became my full-time business. I can choose when, where, how, and with whom I work.

I love it every day and I know that my path does not have to be straight & clear, and by embracing the possibility of exploring what feels right to me, I have experienced a whole new world of opportunities.

If you're looking for a change and want to take about it, reach out. This is your sign to join that group, email that recruiter, or start what you've been thinking about.

If you want to connect here is where you can find me:

The resources I mentioned in the podcast are below. If you are interested in learning more or a referral code, send me a message and I will share it!

Elinor once stood at the periphery of her own career, feeling lost, invisible, confused. She gave away power and agency over her own trajectory, feeling dulled and limited.

She then realized diminishing herself to fit in will never work, as standing out is her prerogative. She realized there is so much more possibility than where she was.

Elinor took back control over her career and maintained extreme ownership and unwavering self-belief in her vision and her purpose.

This led to Elinor founding Australia’s first ‘construction coach’, The Construction Coach. As a Thought Leader, Elinor is also the host of the leading industry podcast, Constructing You, and the author of Constructing Your Career.

You can connect with Elinor at the links below:

Website

LinkedIn

Instagram

Constructing Your Career book

Constructing You podcast

Alexandria Tomayko is a nature advocate, sustainability connoisseur, nomadic traveler & experience planner. Her life work has been in creating memorable experiences for others as an Experience Coordinator. The main reasoning behind her success is her understanding of the need for human connection and how events can satisfy this. She is the Founder of the Little Black Book Series, through a need she had when planning national and international events for clients and herself.

In this episode, Alexandria shares her journey as a founder of an app that is bringing the event planning industry into the 21st century! She set out to build an app even though she had no background in technology - minus her limited AV knowledge for live events.

Here are some highlights:

You can connect with Alexandria here:

Join the Little Black Book Webinar Series here!

In this episode, Courtney Greenwood digs into health data and how she made a way for herself in tech with no STEM degree and no coding. We talk about how she found her path, the major work in healthcare tech, and how it's improving our lives after being pushed live during the pandemic.

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Note: this episode was filled in 2021, and there have been questions and developments about health data and private data since then. I encourage everyone to do their own research to understand where their data is protected and where it isn't.

In this conversation, Nina Froriep and I discuss her background in tv and video and how that love of storytelling has brought her to what she does now - video marketing. This is one you won't want to miss f you create and consume video content!

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Lorena Soriano is on a mission to create a world where Sci & Tech products are representative of the population that uses them.

You can learn more about Lorena & connect with her at the links below:

Website: https://lorenasoriano.com/

IG: @girlchangetheworld

Twitter: @STEMpreneurlife

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/girlchangetheworld 

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