Every journey is filled with failure, let's share the lessons learned from them.

This week is a heavier topic, happiness.  Are you happy is a loaded question with lots of tiny facets.  I'm breaking it all down this week and what happened once I realized that I wasn't happy trying to monetize my new skills.  I thought I had to reinvent myself to become a successful creator but what I really need to do was lean further into what I am naturally good at.

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This week I sat down with Jerine, a RN by day and multi passionate creator by night.  With a passion for writing, she built a template for online writers to easily keep track of their writing and analyze their data.  A deep discussion on embracing your multi passions and how to set up a mindful plan to leave corporate while entering the creator economy.

Connect with Jerine

Twitter: https://twitter.com/jerinenicole

Writing Templates: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/jerinenicole

Goal setting is incredibly difficult and during burnout, well you can forget about it.  Today I'm breaking down why I have never met a goal and that's okay and how I am dealing with goal setting during burnout.  Shoutout to Ali and Lisa for supporting me on Buymeacoffee!

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This week I sat down with Jason, better known as Joy with Jas on the socials, who left the corporate banking world seven years ago in search of something more creative.  After turning to modeling and acting, COVID helped give him the push he needed to do something else.   He has spent the last 12 months sharing going all in on video and just successfully launched a productized video community, Joy With Jas with over 50 members and growing.

Connect With Jas

Website: https://joywithjas.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joywithjasvideo

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joywithjasvideo/

TikTok: https:\//www.tiktok.com/@joywithjasvideo

When I'm in a transition I often feel like I am not where I am supposed to be.  I've been going through a very long transition over the last 7 weeks and I feel more behind than ever.  The fact is, I'm right on track, I just can't see the end yet.  We're all on our own journey figuring it out as we go along.

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This week I sat down with Edmund Amoye, Founder of The Orbit which includes all things community with I Want This to Exist and Locus and podcasting with Codeless, Katalast and Makrs.  When he's not working on all things community for himself, he's consulting and busy build products, most recently LaunchStash.  Tune in to hear how he went from working with luxury brands to becoming a chief of community.

Connect with Edmund

Twitter: https://twitter.com/edmundamoye

Join The Orbit: https://jointheorb.it

This week's quick episode is all about why and how I am approaching this 100 day challenge and how you can do it too!  

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This week I sat down with Alina Serebryany, a fellow podcast host of Lane Change and helper of others changing careers.

A background in design and co-founder of a previous startup called Echo Echo.  She is a community builder and playbook shipper, Alina is passionate about supporting creators.  This was a transparent discussion about all things creator economy.

Connect With Alina

Twitter: https://twitter.com/alina_thinks

Website: https://alina.work

Podcast: https://www.lanechangepod.com

If you don't show up for yourself, put yourself first and take yourself seriously, why would you expect other to?  After a month of rest, reflection and a lot of asking why, I'm ready to put myself first and go all in.  This week I'm sharing my 100 days of design self challenge and how I arrived here.

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My guest this week was Kacie Brennell, an extrovert who by day is a Manager at Mission Edge and by night is a recovering side hustler who completely ditched all social media in February 2021. Her story is raw, powerful and a cautionary tale of what happens when you ignore your instincts.

With no social media, Kacie is intentionally difficult to get in touch with.  If Kacie's story resonated with you and you want to get in touch with her, head on over to Talks With SaraNoSocks and submit the contact form for me to connect you with her.

This week I sat down with Diego Diaz, founder Reflow, an Unlimited Webflow Development agency and former founder of Ammo Studio , which was acquired in 2022. This is the third interview with Diego who shares how he built and sold Ammo Studio, what he did as an exit founder, and what he's building now with Reflow and what he's learned through the process. We last sat down together in October 2021 when Ammo was just starting out and our first chat was in December 2020 when he was a social media manager. From security guard to founder exit, Diego's story is one that shows what's possible when you embrace the fails along the way.

Connect with Diego:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/the1diegodiaz

Reflow: https://www.reflow.live/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/reflowlive

Indie Hackers Post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/from-1k-a-month-to-35k-in-a-month-for-my-agency-within-6-months-251b083d2b?commentId=-MjC0CVKJpWu7toAYikv

Business Insider Article: https://www.businessinsider.com/quit-security-guard-amazon-delivery-start-web-design-agency-pandemic-2022-2?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social

This week I sat down with Corey Haines, Founder of SwipeFiles a community on how to become a better marketer.  Corey has had many successful roles, including Head of Growth at Baremetrics, Founder of Hey Marketers, Refactoring Growth, & Mental Models For Marketing.  He's also the host the Everything is Marketing podcast and co-host of Default Alive podcast.

Connect with Corey:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreyhainesco

SwipeFiles: https://www.swipefiles.com

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Personal Website: https://www.coreyhaines.co

This week I sat down with Lena Sesardić a PM turned entrepreneur & creator who recently wrote her first book The Making of Product Managers.  After leaving her corporate role in February 2020 without a plan, she's gone through a rollercoaster of emotions, taken on entrepreneurship and doing it all in public.  This was an open and honest discussion on what it's really like in the first year of entrepreneurship, failure, lessons and the mental toll it all takes.

Website: https://www.lenasesardic.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LenaSesardic

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

Book: http://themakingofproductmanagers.com

This week I sat down with Shahrzad Darafsheh, Co-founder of Billflow a no code stripe billing tool.  She's passionate about bridging the gap between technical and non-technical brains.  From a dream of medicine to a product design career, her journey is a fantastic example of going all in on yourself and focusing on what you're passionate about.

Connect with Shahrzad

Twitter - https://twitter.com/zazdara

Billflow Twitter - https://twitter.com/getbillflow

Billflow Website - https://www.billflow.io/

This week I sat down with Mindy S Thomas, a growth marketer who is making her path after quitting her job mid-pandemic.  Since leaving she has been on a journey of reinventing herself.  This was an open and honest discussion about what it's like to leave it all behind, start making your own path and the day to day behind it.  This episode is for you if you're looking to reinvent yourself, not sure how to take the next step or want to hear what it's like to jump in with no safety net.  

Connect with Mindy

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MindySThomas
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindysthomas/
• Website: https://mindythomas.com

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This week I sat down with Sarwech Schar, founder of Nocodelytics a new way to easily track user engagement on your Webflow site. He recently also teamed up with Jetboost Founder Chris Spags and has a very cool side project called Spacebandits, which details space startups  and what they are building.  This was another amazing episode where Sarwech shared his advice on how an audience, community and a past failure have lead to his success with Nocodelytics 

Connect with Sarwech

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarwechs

Website: https://www.nocodelytics.com/

This week I sat down with Lacey Kesler, who's no stranger to the no code community!  She's the founder of Women in No Code (WINC), Co-Founder of Visual Dev Co, where she's a podcast co-host and helping to build an education platform and she's just recently taken on the role of Head of Education at Adalo.  She's also up to something new with the OnDeck NoCode Cohort, tune in for a sneak peak!

This was another amazing episode where Lacey shared how a team failure during her product management days helped her discover what was really important.  She shares a ton of actionable advice on how to just start and what she's doing to help future no code freelancers.

Connect With Lacey:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaceyKesler

Women in No Code (WINC) - https://www.meetwinc.com/

VisualDev.co - https://twitter.com/visualdevco

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This week I sat down with Natalie Furness, Founder of Freelance Notion, a business operations system for freelancers.  Natalie is working with technical founders to solve big problems and take the solutions to market.  She recently discovered the #nocode space and is loving it!  Over the last few months she has embraced the #buildinpublic movement and has become very active in the community.  Join me as we talk about how her failures have helped her to get to where she is today!

Connect With Natalie:

Freelance Notion: https://www.freelancenotion.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Natalie_Furn

Launch NoCode Podcast (coming soon!): https://twitter.com/launchnocode

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This week I sat down with Corey McComb, author of Productivity is for Robots a guide on how to (re)connect, get creative & stay human in the new world.  Corey didn't start as a writer, he started as a rocker, joining a band at just 16!  Since leaving the band scene his path followed many others follow, climbing the ladder and landing the dream job with lots of failed attempts at freelancing in between.  Today Corey is a creative, freelancer and writer helping founders launch their products.   Join us as we chat about burnout, failure and how he found his way to back to his creative flow to publish the book in November of 2020 and what's in store for 2021.  

Connect with Corey:

Buy a copy of his book:https://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Robots-Connect-Creative-Human/dp/B08N9P9MDQ

Twitter: https://twitter.com/coreymccomb

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/corey.mccomb/

Website:https://coreymccomb.com/newsletter/

Substack: https://coreymccomb.substack.com

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This week I sat down with Jelmer Pe, a venture builder by day at Bundl have helped to launch 20+ start-ups over the last 5 years.   By night he's a co-founder of venturism.io and on a mission to help no code makers find a structure to validate fast and build their success.

He shared how his design and corporate past helped shape and build his innovative and maker future.  He had great insight into the landscape of the no code space and it's struggles as a young field and how he's building products to solve those issues.

This episode is for you if you are a struggling to find your audience, validate your products, or want build a start-up. 

Connect with Jelmer:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JelmerPe

Website: http://venturism.io/

Substack: https://venturism.substack.com

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This week I sat down with Kieran Ball, Founder of LaunchMBA.  By day he's a co-founder running his own business, and by night he is a prolific #nocode maker, shipping fast and creating communities.  

This was a deep discussion where Kieran shared all this lessons around building products that went no where, but taught him what not to do next time, how he found success with no code in just one year and how the LaunchMBA Community came to be.

This episode is for you if you're afraid to fail, not sure how to get started in#nocode or want to know how launch a successful community.

Connect with Kieran:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nocodelife

LaunchMBA Website:http://launchmba.co

LaunchMBA Twitter:https://twitter.com/LaunchMBA

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This week I sat down with Diego Diaz, Head of Community at Ycode by day, No Coder by night.  Ycode is new no code web app builder launching very soon.  By night, Diego is hard at work in his maker journey using No Code to see his ideas come to life.  

We chatted about how he landed the job at Ycode after a successful cold email, the power of community and how No Code is changing his future.  This episode is for you if you're new in your journey, not sure how to break into the No Code space or want to know how successful communities are built.

Connect with Diego:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/the1diegodiaz

Medium Blog Post: https://diegodiazwrites.medium.com/how-one-tweet-and-a-cold-email-landed-me-my-dream-job-c54c77fe6be

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This week I sat down with Sahiba Sethi, Found of Hello Meets.  HelloMeets started in 2015 and is a startup community bringing experts to share their latest actionable insights with startup professionals over live meetups.  They have done 800+ meetups so far. Before COVID they were offline & were doing meetups in India, Canada and Singapore.  Presently they are doing 30 online meetups every month :)

Sahiba shared her learnings on what it takes to build a community, how to pivot from in person to online and what the future holds for Hello Meets.

This episode is for you if you're interested in community building, want to learn about how to identify trends to stay top of mind and how to successfully engage with others.

Connect with Sahiba:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sahibasethi7

HelloMeets on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HelloMeets

HelloMeets Website: hellomeets.com
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This week I sat down with Kat, the Founder of BETO  no code tool to help avoid the embarrassment of forgetting the small details.  By day Kat is and by night she is getting BETO off the ground.  A self proclaimed "ideas person", after three years of sitting on her idea, she shared how she is using no code tools to bring her idea to an MVP while having a full time job.

This episode is for you if you're scared about talking about your idea, unsure of how to find support and how no code can make your idea a reality!

Connect with Kat

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatAnnaK2

Website: https://www.wearebeto.io‍

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This week on I sat down with Emily Lonetto, who by day is, Head of Growth, Partnerships + Community at Voiceflow.  Voiceflow is a #NoCode platform to design, prototype and build voice apps for you applications such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Trusted by some folks you may have heard of: Amazon, NPR, NewYork Times, Matel and Best Buy just to name a few.  If you're looking for a way to design your voice experience, Voiceflow has you covered.

By night Emily is the Founder of Growth Toronto, the largest community of Growth practitioners in Canada and a self proclaimed #NoCode Geek.  She has many creative outlets including design, a booming sticker business, teaching no code to budding entrepreneurs and growing communities.

This episode is for you if want to know how to build and grow a community, how no code tools can help you build out your idea quickly, and why now is the best time to explore new opportunities.

Get in Touch with Emily

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/EmilyLonetto 

Website: https://www.emilylonetto.com

Growth TO: https://www.growthtoronto.com

Get in touch with Voiceflow:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VoiceflowHQ

Website: https://www.voiceflow.com

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This week I sat down with Michael J Novotny, Founder of The Lean Side Project the step by step guide to launching your no code project.  He's a Product Manager by day shipping digital products to millions of users for a major sports league in the US.  By night,  he's a no code maker, founder of a startup and using his experience in each role to fuel the other.  

This episode is for you if you're not sure how to get started in No Code, if you want to learn how to keep impostor syndrome at bay and if you want to learn how to use the power of your story to become a maker.  He shares how he's used the power of listening, learning and community to build the Lean Side Project with many lessons along the way.

Connect with Michael:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichaelJNovotny

The Lean Side Project: https://theleansideproject.com

Side Project Stack: https://sideprojectstack.com

This week on I am joined by Mubashar Iqbal, better known as Mubs. If you're not on Twitter, let's give you a short background.  Mubs describes himself simply as "I design, I develop, I make."  With 96 projects to date, ProductHunt's maker of the year for 2016 and runner up in 2015 and 2017, he knows a thing or two about building.  His most recent project is One Hour SaaS, and as the name implies, he's building a SaaS business in just one hour a day.

This episode is for you if you're struggling to start building, want to know what it's like to have a side hustle that is just passion projects, not paying the bills and how community plays a role in the journey.

Connect with Mubs:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mubashariqbal

One Hour SaaS: https://onehoursaas.com

Website: https://iworkedon.com/@mubashariqbal

This week I sat down with Max, better know as the One Hand Wonder Man.  With a background in advertising, Squarespace design and freelancing, he recently launched a new coaching business aimed at helping freelancers succeed.  This episode is for you if you're thinking about freelancing, new to freelancing or curious about the opportunity freelancing brings.  We break down all the myths and give you the hard facts around what freelancing really is.

Need support on your freelance journey?  Contact Max below :

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onehandwonderman/

Website: https://www.onehandwonderman.com

This week I had the pleasure of sitting down to talk with KP.  He's been building in public for the past two years with numerous side projects built such Build in Public (which just launched), Cuppa , Do Things That Don't Scale and LetterDrop, he's no stranger to the no code space.

His latest venture took the meaning of "build in public" to a whole new level when he started "applying in public", taking his journey of seeking to work at a start-up public in a Twitter thread.  

We talked about the power of community, vulnerability and how mindset makes anything possible.  Join us as we find out how he decided to just go for it and landed a dream role as the Program Director for the No Code Fellowship with On Deck.  

Connect with KP:

Website: https://thisiskp.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thisiskp_

Build in Public: https://buildinpublic.xyz

This week I sat down with Melisa, owner of Let's Get You Hired!  As a Speaker, Author, and Coach, Melisa Meral uses her 10+ years' experience in Human Resources to help her readers learn how current skill sets can translate to a successful career move.  On October 6th, 2020, her book Pivoting with Purpose: The Hamster Wheel, the Rat Race, and Other Career Myths Holding You Back, reached Amazon Best-Seller in 11 categories, plus 12 #1 Hot New Release awards. Melisa’s book is for job seekers who need an easy-to-follow roadmap when pivoting in life, work, and business. Melisa urges her readers to get off the hamster wheel, get out of the rat race, and stop believing all of those pesky old career myths!

Are you feeling stuck in a career rut and wanting to create change in your life — but not sure how to make it happen? Are you burnt out as an entrepreneur and craving the stability of a paycheck in a full-time role — but not sure how your skills could translate into a 9-5? Let’s find your next best company, boss, and job while outlining the exact roadmap to get you there! It’s time to pivot with purpose.

If you're looking for your next steps, ready to pivot your career or are finally ready to get out of your mundane 9-5, this is a must listen!

Grab her Book: Pivoting With Purpose

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