So my biggest rule in life, and this is from my dad, is he says, if your family is the first thing. Like, if you don't take care of that, there's, there's no honor in anything else. He says, if your wife has to worry or your kids, wherever you're at in life, that to me was what was ingrained in my life. And my biggest thing was to never stress her out. It's the reason why I left my first business.

And if that means putting on a suit and tie,

what you call that, that 90s office worker with the fat tie

and the mustard color t-shirt

or button up that goes here, I'll do it.

That's my number one priority.

I'm goingcy Larson, teacher and founder of Freakoke Camp. Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast.

I'm Quincy Larson, teacher and founder of Freakococamp.org.

Each week we're bringing you insight from developers, founders, and ambitious people getting into tech.

This week we're talking with Dennis Ivy.

He's a software engineer and prolific freelancer.

He dropped out of college at age 18, taught himself how to build websites, started his

first agency, built and sold products, and eventually started teaching his skills on

YouTube.

Dennis, it's a pleasure to have you here, man.

Excited to be here, Quincy.

Yeah, and I've been a long time fan, like, of your tutorials, and of course, Free CodeCamp has published some of your courses over the years. And, like, I've just learned a tremendous amount about, you know, teaching and about YouTube from you. And, of course, learned a lot about Django and Python and stuff from watching your tutorials as well. So, yeah, thanks for coming on, man.

Yeah, definitely an honor.

I saw your lineup and who we've had here before,

so the fact that I'm even considered in that is exciting.

I wouldn't have expected something like this four years ago when originally seen free code cam content.

So it's pretty cool.

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