Today on the show I'll be speaking with Amber Kearney.

Amber is a product manager at Capital One. Prior to Capital One, Amber worked at Deloitte Digital, a creative consultancy within Deloitte Consulting, as a product manager. Amber is also experienced in various business and marketing roles and holds an MBA with a concentration in Leadership. Amber’s interest lie at the intersection of diversity, inclusion, belonging, and product management. Her mission is to empower and educate minorities and women to pursue roles in technology.

In our conversation, we get into...

• Her journey into Product Management and her role as Product Manager at Capital One
• Balancing between product management and technical product development
• Diversity and inclusion in the work place at a large company
• The hard problems that are solved in product management
• Branding and content creation for yourself vs a company

I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did, let's go!

Amber Kearney:

• Website: www.amberkearney.com
• Twitter: @amberkearneymba
• Instagram: @amberkearneymba
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amberkearney/

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com

Today on the show I'll be speaking with Poala Mata.

Paola is an iOS Engineer, a tech community leader, and a strong advocate for diversity. She is currently building great cooking experiences for The New York Times, and co-organizing the Women in iOS community. Paola regularly devotes her time to supporting and guiding new programmers of color. She does all this from the comfort of her home office in Philadelphia, where she is also raising a puppy.

Socials:

Paola Mata:

• Twitter: @PaolaNotPaolo
• Website: pmatanyc.github.io

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com

Today on the show I'll be speaking with Sidney Buckner.

Sidney is a Software Engineer living in St. Louis, Missouri. During the day, she grumbles and makes faces at her code and helps mentor the next generation of awesome minds in STEM. By night, she can be seen grumbling at the faces she makes in her videos about tech, lifestyle, and giving unsolicited advice.

In our conversation, we get into...

• Her journey from working as a property management assistant to becoming a software engineer
• How two coding bootcamps brought about two TOTALLY different experiences for her
• Taking advantage of the mentorship opportunities in a fresh new position, and much more
• How to approach refactoring old code
• Introspection and change during a global pandemic

Socials:

Sidney Buckner:

• Twitter: @sidneybuckner18
• Youtube: Sidney Buckner
• Website: www.sidneybuckner.com

INTP Podcast:

• Twitter: @INTPPodcast
• Website: www.intppod.com

Welcome to episode 3 of It's Not The Pipeline Podcast! I'm hoping that these conversations that are full of great advice, tips, and techniques can help you move forward as you continue your personal journey in tech, science, business, or anywhere else.

Today on the show I'll be speaking with Nikema Prophet.

Nikema is a mother, artist, technologist, and founder based in Sacramento, CA. This past August, she landed her first full-time technical role after creating and participating in a social job searching challenge, #100DaysOfJobSearch. Her work as a founder and now an employee is focused on creating and maintaining safe, equitable, and diverse communities in tech.

Highlights of the show:

• Beginning of her tech journey
• Navigating that journey while supporting a family
• Winning a group hackathon while using a beat up laptop used to remotely connect to her desktop (dopest thing I've heard in a while!)
• How a startup weekend hackathon was pivotal in her growth personally and professionally
• The first and second iteration of her job search movement, and the important things she learned from both experiences
• How she methodically approached her job search to find the specific role that she wanted

This was such a great interview, I hope you all enjoy!

Socials

Nikema:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/dev_nikema

INTP Podcast:

Website - https://intppod.com

Twitter - https://twitter.com/INTPPodcast

Welcome to episode 2 of It's Not The Pipeline Podcast! I'm hoping that these conversations that are full of great advice, tips, and techniques can help you move forward as you continue your personal journey in tech, science, business, or anywhere else.

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Today on the show I'm speaking with Anthony Ware. As the Founder & Principal of AWare Catalysts and Founder Mental Wealth, Anthony helps underestimated startup founders use their mental wealth and company culture to leapfrog business norms, and create new generational wealth.

But it wasn’t always like this for him. Anthony grew up as a latchkey kid in Indianapolis. He and his two younger brothers were raised by his dad. First gig...cleaning toilets for his dad's janitorial business.

Anthony jumped from the corporate ladder to launch startups. He ignored his scarcity mentality until it broke him in November 2010, he had to live in a car in New Orleans after his third startup failed. Two months later, thanks to mentors and yoga teacher training, Anthony was a phoenix.

We talk about a range of really interesting topics focused on:

- Learning to deal with failure

- The inspiration behind his two startups

- Dealing with failure as an entrepreneur

- The alarming lack of mental health data on entrepreneurs of color, and what he did to fix that

Socials:

Anthony:

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/theanthonyware

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theanthonyware

- Website: https://foundermentalwealth.com/report/

INTP Podcast:

- Website: https://www.intppod.com/

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/INTPPodcast