S16:E1 - What it’s like to break into tech as a mother (Arit Amana)
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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the CodeNobie podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | We talk to people on their coding journey, |
| 0:09.0 | notes of helping you on yours. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about what it's like to break into tech as a mother |
| 0:16.0 | with Arda Damana, software engineer at Forum. |
| 0:19.0 | I was the only woman. I was the only woman. |
| 0:24.6 | I was the only parent on my team. |
| 0:28.5 | And in the greater department, I was the only mother. |
| 0:31.6 | So we had fathers, but I was the only mother. |
| 0:33.7 | If you have a question for Arad after listening, |
| 0:36.5 | don't miss the Ask Me Anything session she's hosting on the CodeNuby Community |
| 0:38.1 | Forum. Just head to community.comunity.org and you'll find her thread on our homepage, and |
| 0:43.6 | she'll answer you directly in the comments. That's community.codenuby.org. In this episode, |
| 0:49.4 | Arit talks about moving from WordPress freelancer to web developer, the challenges she's faced being a mother |
| 0:54.9 | in tech, and her advice on how to level up and get promoted. After this, |
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