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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Monetize Your Programming Skills Part 1 Nov 28, 2019

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I recently listened to a podcast episode with Grant Cardone and Jordan Belfort. There were significant nuggets I curated from the perspective of operating a software development business, which I would like to share with you.

Stay tuned for part 2, where we dive into more golden nuggets inspired by the Grant Cardone interview with Jordan Belfort.

Concept #1: Tremendous volumes are required to be successful
Concept #2: It is not who you know, but who knows you

Concept #3: There is gold in the followup

Concept #4: No one can build a business on one product

Concept #5: People are more committed to the equity of their homes than the ownership of their brand

Concept #6: Never be dependent on one industry

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Wasted potential is accepting defeat Nov 27, 2019

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Let's talk about the pain associated with failure. That pain we feel is a tool we can use to create lasting change in our lives. Lasting change is what helps us become our future desired selves.

Sometimes we might not have clarity on what we want for our future self. If you lack that clarity, begin with writing down on paper your vision and recognize that you need to revisit that paper often.

A few days ago, I shared with you the news about record suicide rates associated with IIT student academic failure. I can not fathom the pain from failure that would make me want to end my life.

I sincerely believe as a global culture, we need to work on our acceptance of failure. That pain is a good thing. It is tailored precisely to the skills we need to build to become successful.

Pain is our most excellent learning tool. Own your failure. The lessons and skills we learn to overcome failure is a process. We will tell stories about the process for the rest of our life.

Our pain is our story, and is what gives us our unique life experience. What is even more amazing is that no person entirely experiences the chain of pain we each endure because no one fails as we do.

We all have a unique life experience peppered with failure and triumph.

If you believe that last statement, then you must also think that the chain of failure is what gives us the unique skill set we need to position yourself for the success of our desired future self.

Isn't that freakin liberating. Your failures are an opportunity for greatness and the exact key you seek to unlock the success you want. Wasted potential is accepting defeat.

You are on this planet for a reason. Own your life experience by owning the failure. See the opportunity your pain provides and lean into it. Enjoy the skills you build on overcoming your failure.

Don't forget to document the journey, so you never forget how your greatness became.

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🌟 Genius of Transformation with Jason Wattier 🔥 Nov 26, 2019

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In this episode, you will meet Jason Wattier. Jason shares his incredible story, where he transformed himself into a niche developer after building his background in accounting. Jason currently works with KPMG (one of the big four accounting firms), where he creates his dream each day. You are bound to get massive insight on how to perpetuate your transformation after listening to this episode. Make sure to reach out to Jason and keep the conversation going.

Where to find Jason

https://twitter.com/jmwatt3

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-wattier-cpa-8652ba35/

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: 3 tech tools to build your audience Nov 25, 2019

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The manifesto of the profitable python is to help you grow and monetize your programming skills. Eventually, you will need an audience to deliver your product or service to, and the best day to start building that list is today.

You are building your audience any way you look at it. How well you are doing is a different story. I want to talk with you today on some ideas that have worked for me that you can steal to upgrade your business. By no means am I saying that this is the only way to do it, but it has served me well in building an email list of people in my niche?

I am curious about what is working for you. If you are an entrepreneur type, you most likely have been working on building your audience.

One thing that works for me is the podcast. If you are looking to build an audience, pick a niche and go set up a podcast on anchor.fm

Have you set up your email list? My experience so far is mail chimp integrates nicely with wix.com or squarespace.com. I am sure there is a better way, but if you want something comfortable to pop something up and get to work, those are all excellent options.

You also want to set up a lead magnet to exchange with someone for their email. I set up a lead magnet that delivers a mini-email course on getting freelance clients that drip over five days.

The benefit of doing this is you build your email list, which allows you a lot of freedom when cultivating your audience.

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Failure Acceptance Nov 24, 2019

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Student suicide, due to academic failure, has spiked in India. Since when has failure become something we feel like we must punish ourselves for?

If you are contemplating suicide, I need to stop you right now and tell you that I CARE ABOUT YOU.

Please get counsel from a professional at the international suicide hotline resource. http://ibpf.org/resource/list-international-suicide-hotlines

I read about the sad news in an article posted by business insider 11.22.2019.

https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/student-suicides-spike-significantly-at-iit-delhi-iit-hyderabad-iit-madras-iit-guwahati/articleshow/72184388.cms

Academic failure?!?! Failure is a good thing. It is what perpetuates human growth. We, as humans, must fail and continually maintain imbalance to learn and move forward.

I used to sell books door to door. Every "no" got me closer to a "yes."

Failure is a good thing. Our goal is to make fewer mistakes in life, but eliminating failure is the holy grail we will never find.

If I didn't allow myself to fail, I wouldn't be the person I am today. You got to be able to run experiments to see what works and what doesn't.

How do we un- f*%$ this situation where academic failure is something we need to punish ourselves for?

I hope as a tech community. We can help change the perception of failure. I hear this topic and can't refuse to take the opportunity to share this information and hopefully trigger some action to combat this atrocious culture around failure being negative.

We ultimately only have control over ourselves and how we respond to things, but I must also reiterate we are responsible for each other. Regardless of race, religion, sex, we need to remind our neighbors that we care for them and love them.

If we don't tell our neighbors that we love them, how do they know that we love them? We need to become more significant than this problem if we are going to survive. I can only hope that this trend reverses. Please allow me to reiterate here that I sincerely love each one of you. Thank you for your attention. My gratitude is overflowing.

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Integrity over Compensation Nov 23, 2019

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Would you take payment from someone if they asked you to do their homework for them that did not give you credit?

I recently ran this poll on IG, and the results shocked me. A vast majority would take payment and effectively help the student cheat. The more I think about it, the more conflicted I get.

Are the incentives all messed up on the freelancing platforms? If you don't give the client what they want, then you get a bad review. Bad reviews will haunt you the reset of your python coaching career. If you choose to have integrity, then you possibly do not get paid.

If my family must eat, do I sell my integrity to the highest bidder, or do we starve together so I may preserve my integrity?

If you were an open-source contributor and someone took my work and called it their own, that would undoubtedly be wrong.

The fraud homework submission could be the agent of change that moved the curve so abruptly that someone on the tail suffers from having integrity.

You could certainly argue this the other way. Let's take Walmart, for example. If someone went there and purchased alcohol, but their doctor told them if they drank alcohol, their kidneys would fail, and they would likely die. Is it Walmart's job to police everyone? Is it their job to probe your medical records to make sure you can drink that alcohol? In this case your integrity might just get you in trouble.

My goodness, the more I think about this, I understand how I would deal with it. The way I see it, my character is on the line, nothing else matters. If my character is one of high integrity, then I should choose to work with the student in a way that guides them to the right answer. I want to be responsible for being the agent of change that made the student better. Doing their homework for them is not helping the student, ultimately it will catch up to them at test time or when they get a job and have no clue how to execute.

After reflecting on this with you publicly, I keep getting reminded of how important it is to understand how we chose to act and ultimately brand ourselves.

No one may finally know about the homework submission except the client and the tutor. What matters more is the choice you make as the tutor.

Some guidance that was given to me when situations like this arise is to ask yourself if this story becomes published in the Wallstreet journal tomorrow, how would you want the story to play out? Approaching life with that question simplifies decisions when integrity is on the line.

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🥊 Mentorhip Minute: Idea Goldmine Nov 22, 2019

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I want to talk to you about business building and an idea on how to prioritize your ideas.

Before I jump into this topic, I want to share my gratitude towards the audience that continues to support the podcast. Thank you, I am honored to serve you.

If you folks are looking for some ideas, you need to check out the Noah Kagan Presents show (see iTunes link below). A recent episode they made that caught my attention is the episode "7 businesses I can't believe anyone has started yet". You need to check out that episode if you want some ideas for building a software business. The significant nugget I got from that episode is when it comes to plans for building startups they recommend to solve a problem you have first. I love that concept, and I am sure it is not foreign to you either.

Part of my role I chose to take on when hosting the profitable python show is to not only share my experience to help you make fewer mistakes but also to make sure you are aware of excellent resources that I come across and the Noah Kagan show is undoubtedly something I recommend you consider.

The other thing I wanted to mention to you is the 100 days of code challenge. One hundred days from today is the leap year day of 2020. Think about where you want to be in 100 days. If you tried to put in the work, you could have learned a new programming language. You could have also gone deeper into an area of expertise you have already developed. The 100 days challenge doesn't only pertain to code. You could choose to develop habits in other areas of your life.

If you haven't guessed yet, I love the 100 days code challenge. It is long enough where you can get some immersion in a focused area but short enough where the risk is low if you pick a topic that ends up not being something you don't want to pursue.

Consider getting some ideas from the Noah Kagan show, then spend the next 100 days building out that software and watch how much you will grow in 100 days. Who knows?! It could be the critical link in the chain you need to upgrade your career or brand awareness. There is nothing magical about the 100 days challenge; it just a way to gamify a good habit. One thing that is guaranteed is if you don't engage in the daily sharpening of you saw like the 100 days challenge, your personal growth is guaranteed to have a limited trajectory.

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Free stuff Nov 21, 2019

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If something is free you are the product.

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🥊 Mentorship Minute: Ultimate Life Experience Nov 20, 2019

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I want to share with you an experience I had today.

Today I interviewed someone on the podcast who works at Lyft in the software development space. Beautiful things happen when you get an intimate conversation focused on python programming.

The reason that I bring this up is to reflect on the last 30 episodes. All of these episodes constitute a library of expert teaching that no single person could deliver to you in a classroom or boot camp.

I couldn't be more pleased with the decision I made to pull the trigger and start the podcast. If you are looking for a way to expand your network and get on amazing people's calendars, consider starting a podcast.

There are significant wins you can experience with making a podcast. You get to meet amazing people. You get to drive the conversation and curate content for your audience. You get to build a personal brand.

Going forward with the podcast, I am trying to branch out into more business and leadership insight while curating the content in a way that python developers benefit most.

I look forward to continuing to lead as a change agent in the python training space that curates high-quality content for you.

I forgot to mention, not only do I enjoy writing code, it saved my life. Some of you may know I started my engineering career in the oil and gas industry during the bust of 2016. I thought I had landed my dream job. Little did I know, but ten months later, I would be laid off along with 2000 other people. The scenario got a little worse because the entry-level jobs I was applying for were also the same jobs people with ten years of experience were also trying to land.

There was no way I was going to break through the recruiter's stack of resumes using a traditional approach. Upon realizing that truth, I got serious about developing my programming skills by practicing many hours per day and cultivating relationships that would ultimately lead to freelancing clients. After two months of solid face to face networking, I ended up landing a series of opportunities that put nearly 150k into my bank account over the next two years. Not only did I acquire that income, but I cultivated relationships that ultimately landed me a full-time position with a fantastic opportunity.

Writing code wasn't always the driver of how the money got in my bank account. It took a massive layoff at my dream job to push me out of my comfort zone and learn software development skills deeply. I sincerely believe I wouldn't have the podcast today if it weren't for the layoff. The layoff triggered a series of events that ultimately changed the trajectory of my life experience. I could not have imagined back in 2016 how things would have transpired, including operating my own freelancing business and meeting amazing humans along the way.

I hope you are leveraging my experience to build your dreams as a software developer and freelancer.

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👊🔥💥 Django Freelancing in 2020 with Vuyisile Ndlovu 🐍 Nov 19, 2019

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On this episode you will meet Vuyisile Ndlovu who is a Django freelancer, content creator for realpython.com, and Mozilla core contributor. This episode is your chance to get some insight from a developer knows how to consistently get clients as remote work. You are sure to enjoy this content packed episode.

Vuyisile was named PyDev of the week 11/11/2019 so make sure to check out the article Mike Driscol did here: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2019/11/11/pydev-of-the-week-vuyisile-ndlovu/

If you want to contact Vuyisile try these methods:

https://vuyisile.com/

https://twitter.com/TerraMeijar

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