The Technostarter

The Technostarter

By Irenia Roussel, Business Advisor, Podcast Producer and HostTechnology
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The Technostarter episodes

  • Navigating The Tech World Without Mentors w/ Mansi Mittal, Sr. Software Engineer, Visa Inc.

    Happy to be in conversation with Mansi Mittal, a techno-savvy woman and Senior Software Developer at Visa Inc. who is passionate about building her community in her neck of the woods in India.  She has been part of "Teach for Change", a non-governmental organization teaching English to primary school students in her spare time.  She is also an active participant of Women in Product Group who received the 2020 Scholar Award. Mansi and I connected through the the WomenTech network.  A quote she lives by: "You did not come this far to only come this far."  

    Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel

    44 min
  • The Story of DevelopHer W/Lauren Hasson
    In conversation with Lauren Hasson, a techno-savvy women beaming in all the way from Dallas, Texas. Lauren is the Founder of DevelopHer, an award-winning career development platform that provides women in tech with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to overcome the gender gap in leadership, opportunity and pay in tech for good. Through her speaking, thought-leadership, and training programs, she has inspired thousands of women in tech to rise to new levels in their careers and lives. Lauren balances DevelopHer with her work on the frontlines of tech. By day, she is the architect of the voice payment system and messaging capabilities at a leading Silicon Valley payments company and is chiefly responsible for all of application security. DevelopHer is the result of Lauren’s journey from rock bottom to a high-profile global leader in just two short years. Despite her Duke honors degree with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science, and economics, Lauren found herself back at square one with zero technical skills and zero job prospects. Lauren built DevelopHer, to empower women in tech to ignite their potential and build their value.  
    Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel
    41 min
  • What Are Essential Skills To Be Successful In Tech Today?W/Astrid Wieland

    Happy to be beaming in a techno-savvy woman all the way in Vienna, Austria, Ms. Astrid Wieland. She wears multiple hats including Business Application Specialist at Microsoft and Co-Founder of #TheNewITGirls. Astrid accidentally landed the field of Information Technology after studying business at IMC Krems and now successfully developed as #ITgirl and woman in tech in an international organization. Astrid is on a mission to inspire other women to aim for a career in tech. In her free-time, she is chairwoman and co-founder #TheNewITGirls, a volunteer lead organization comprising of a team of industry experts who empower and support women in the IT industry across job titles.  Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel

    48 min
  • Building Your Personal Brand As A Tech Career Professional w/Ketaki Vaidya
    In conversation with Ketaki Vaidya beaming in from Hyderabad, India, a career professional with a side hustle project which is impacting people in her community where leaves and around the world. She is a Software Engineer at Oracle India Pvt Limited who is leading the Artificial Intelligence Team under the Hospitality Global Business Unit, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Her professional experience(3+ years) has exposed her to the importance of Personal Branding for Professionals and she am passionate about sharing my ideas on the topic with everyone. She hosts a YouTube video series named "Personal Branding for Professionals" that aims to motivate professionals to think beyond work and build a Personal Brand.  She loves to write and is a regular writer on Medium and LinkedIn. 
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    In this episode we took a deep dive into her career as a Software Engineer as well as the importance of developing a personal brand as an individual career professional.  We discussed her group of mentors in her life to help shape her career trajectory including recognizing her weakness and strengths which  helped her to push herself outside of her comfort zone which lead her to level up to become comfortable in her own skin across all teams.  Our conversation was so awesome as we also talked about the importance of building credibility at the workplace, our personal brand and partnering with our Managers to grow professionally.  This is third featured leader of the “Building for Today and Tommorrow Series.” 
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    On big golden nugget from Ketaki: “It is only when we are personally content that we can do our best at work. ” 
    Continue the conversation with Ketaki on social media: 
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ketaki-vaidya08/ 
    YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/KetakiVaidya 
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ketaki_vaidya08/ 
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/ketakiV24 
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    Definitely stay connected with us for more fantastic episodes and join the #livewithirenia community by emailing: [email protected]. . . Follow us:  
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    This podcast is much more than technology,  your self care is important to us, so be sure to take it all in and adapt as it fits your lifestyle.  To have your questions and stories featured in future episodes, please send us a message at https://ireniaroussel.org.  Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let us know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel
    43 min
  • How did she built an NFT Agency? w/Guest Anil Atlas Brug
    In conversation with Anıl Altas Brug, a techno-savvy women beaming in all the way from Germany. She is the cofounder of Turboslow NFT Agency, first in its field, creating NFT formats & projects with an interdisciplinary approach in Entertainment Business, Science, Arts, Culture, Well-being, Blockchain and Immersive Technology. Focus on the realm of real and digital worlds’ source codes to generate the genuine projects for now and the future. She also works for DreamLand App and Breath Hub Kids App, the most comprehensive kids well-being apps on the international scale.  In addition to being the author of ‘Breathe With Me: Breathing and Mindfulness Games for Kids and Adults. . . In this episode we took a deep dive into Anil’s journey as a serial entrepreneur and author and her quest for having automomy in her life. We discussed how she deeply believed in her dream and how she shifted her mindset to become comfortable in her own skin; her many technology projects including NFT’s and how she developed “Breathing Games” to create digital harmony in her life among many other facinating projects. We also had a heart to heart conversation about how she makes time for self-care utlizing mediation and breathing games as well as how she stays ground in her life and entrepreneurial journey.
    Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel
    51 min
  • Building Strong Agile Teams w/Ruxandra Dariescu

    Happy to be in conversation with Ruxandra Dariescu a technosavvy woman beaming in from the United Kingdom. She is a Sustainable Performance Business Coach who founded and currently leads The Product Schools a purposeful endeavour to integral digital transformation design that connects the environment with the business AI-vision and its people well-being, strategies, values, and the soul of your business. She teaches, coaches or leads with the same amount of passion. The work she has done resulted in launching 9 different applications, transforming 200 software products, and designing the scaling-up strategies of various organisations. She is a certified "Impacting Leaders Coach".  .  .  A Biochemist Scientist by education, with a career of almost 25 years in leading executive roles, she designed and managed software applications and transformed organisations and their people.  Nature and how we function at the cellular level, married with how a business works and how people interact in their day-to-day work, have been the inspiration drivers for the play patterns in her coaching work.  

    Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel

    45 min
  • Welcome Listeners let’s take a virtual journey w/Host Irenia Roussel

    Welcome listeners to the Technostarter Podcast! I am your host Irenia Roussel. I delighted to bring you a full slate of amazing humans building great technologies in Canada and around the world. Let's explore their career, entrepreneurial and epic life journeys together. My hope is that you get inspired to build great TECH as well. Episodes will start dropping this week. Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe/follow this podcast, as well, please take a moment to rate and review this episode on Apple Podcasts to let me know what technology nuggets you received here today. Most importantly, share this episode with a friend who need a boost today! I am your host, Irenia Roussel

    6 min
  • Trailer: The Technostarter

    A podcast designed to give you a dose of inspiration: featuring techno-savvy dynamic leaders from all over Canada and the Globe who are building awesome TECH, as well as, dynamic individuals who are cheering them on to greatness. We will take a deep dive into their technology adventures and life journeys creating new technologies for the good of the human race in our new super normal. Additionally, examine how they became comfortable in their own skin building great technologies for today and tomorrow. Hosted by Irenia Roussel, Podcast Producer of the Canadian Side Hustle and Business Podcast. Definitely stay connected and follow me via my website: www.ireniaroussel.org.  I am your host, Irenia Roussel.

    2 min

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A podcast designed to give you a dose of inspiration: featuring techno-savvy diverse leaders from all over Canada and the Globe who are building awesome TECH, as well as, individuals who are cheering…