Things Worth Learning

Following your dreams can be intimidating--it brings so many challenges and presents so many unknown potential paths. But sometimes (often?) the hard path is also the right one. Today, we talk with Danielle Tubbs, creator of vegan cookie company Tubby's Taste, about how she followed her sense of wonder to create a future she wanted.

We all have stories we tell ourselves, about who we are, and what we do, and we think those stories are static. Stories like "I'm not artistic" or "I can't dance," or "I'm not a musician." When we can recognize those stories, we can also recognize that we are authors, and we can change our own story. In this episode, Risaa Jackson encourages people to rethink their personal stories and reimagine their capabilities as humans.

In this episode Adam Wathan, founder of Tailwind, shares his story about moving from working for himself to running as a company. We talk about delegation, building a culture of trust, and building & maintaining a happy and satisfied life.

In today’s episode, we talk with Beserat Debebe, founder of @etancomics, about his unique take on visual storytelling & how his method & his work reflect his Ethiopian heritage. We also talk about his mission to connect people with their heritage through comics.

Have you ever been curious how to make jewelry? In this episode, Aisha Blake, Senior DevRel at New Relic and an organizer for Title of Conf and Self Conference, gives us a crash course on how to make silver jewelry. She discusses how she got started, the process for making rings, and her latest obsession of shiny rocks.

In this episode, friend of the podcast and co-creator of the Transistor podcast hosting service Justin Jackson talks about his faith journey moving from Evangelicalism to atheism. Justin also talks life lessons in leaving Evangelical Christianity, the values he still finds in the community he had there, and the importance of creating traditions in building community.

What is empathy? In this episode, Co-founder of Geocodeio and author of Deploy Empathy, Michele Hansen, talks about empathy and the importance of understanding other people’s perspectives.

In tech and in the rest of the world--especially when it comes to online communication--it feels like we’ve grown increasingly incapable of communicating well with people we disagree with.

In this episode, creator of Laravel Taylor Otwell talks about how he approaches conversations and the importance of being open minded when engaging online.

Prince Wilson is a programmer who loves to teach and share. He works on coding projects live on a live stream platform called Twitch, seeing it as a way to teach and share and build community. In this episode, we talk about the benefits of doing this, his motivations, and what it takes to actually do this sort of work.

In this episode Thoughtbot's Design Director, Sameera Kapila, talks about the difference between inclusivity and diversity, and how we can each lead--whether or not our roles are formally leaderly--our workplace's growth toward inclusivity.