047: What to Do When You Wanna Give Up Coding

In this episode, Nicole helps you work through your feelings and obstacles when you feel like giving up on learning to code.

037: I Hated Public Speaking… So I Became a Public Speaker

In this episode, Nicole shares her experience overcoming a lifelong fear of public speaking by giving a conference talk, and facing the negative emotions.

034: Overcoming Perfectionism and Getting Things Done

Perfectionism can derail your entire coding education. I share my story, and help you understand where it comes from, and how I’m working to overcome it!

019: Why I Became a Tech Entrepreneur

Have you ever thought of what your career could be like without the constraints of others affecting your output? To have total control over your income potential? In this episode, Nicole talks about why she finally decided that she’d had enough of the company job/freelancing, and instead sought out the entrepreneurship rat race. She takes […]

013: When Mental Illness Affects Your Coding Goals

Web development is a highly volatile industry at times. But if you’re also doing it as one of the millions of Americans living with mental illness—specifically, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder or mood disorders—it may seem damn near impossible! In this episode, Nicole discusses some never before shared details of her very own mental […]

007: Lessons from Code Academy with George Mandis

In this episode, Nicole talks to her first in-person coding instructor and good mentor friend, George Mandis of Snaptortoise Development. She met George, a Portland, Oregon-based web developer, while attending Code Academy at Mount Hood Community College. In fact, this was Nicole’s first classroom-based web development bootcamp when she started learning to code. However, Nicole was already […]

004: My First Dev Job Used ColdFusion (or, Why I’m a Freelancer)

In this episode, Nicole opens up about her first web development position, in a story about why expectation (vs. reality) matters, and how our newbie coder experiences can affect our future career choices. Have you ever expected a lot of a goal outcome, and when it finally happened—it just didn’t quite deliver? That’s more or […]

002: How I Learned How I Learn

In this episode, Nicole shares her personal story of how she learned to learn. After a lifetime of feeling frustrated with traditional education systems, she finally figured out how her brain works, and what type of learning environment it needs. We all learn differently. There is no single method or style of learning that fits […]

001: Introduction & My Web Development Origin Story

For the inaugural episode of the La Vie en Code podcast, Nicole talks about her own journey in self-taught web development, and how her life lined up perfectly to take the career change plunge. Thank you for joining me for my very first podcast episode! In this episode, I discuss where I grew up and […]