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In this episode, we dive into the art of renovating in phases—smart, strategic, and family-focused! Join us as we sit down with Anna Crawford, an incredible BuildHer and DevelopHer who has been part of our community for six years, and who we believe has mastered the balance of juggling a growing family and an ever-evolving home renovation. We chat about her beautiful latest project in Kew East, named 'Hale Cottage' and explore how to make spaces work best for your current needs while leaving room for future flexibility as your life and family expand. With thoughtful planning, you can transform your home into a sanctuary without compromising on comfort or style, all while staying on budget. Whether you're a seasoned developer or taking on your first project, this episode is a practical example of phasing renovations, creating multifunctional spaces, and future-proofing your design choices. Get ready to be inspired to think creatively and strategically about your next build or reno. This stunning renovation has to be seen to be appreciated and is currently on the market - so be quick if you'd like to snap up a dream home!You can also see more of Anna's journey on Instagram:@hemma.jordSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode we sit down with serial real estate developer Dionte Chantel to discuss her career path as a real estate developHER, investor, and new construction builder. Has real estate development been calling your name? It does come with big profits! Find out all about it in today's episode. 

In this episode we welcome Climate Scientist and DevelopHer, Dr Heather Stevens! Heather takes us into how climate change is shaping property investment and development, with a focus on fire and flood risks. She points out how crucial it is to factor in these risks when purchasing or developing properties, as they can heavily influence building requirements, insurance premiums, and even interest rates. She also stresses the growing need for climate-adapted housing designs, especially when it comes to managing extreme heat and its impact on tenants. Heather encourages landlords to offer affordable energy solutions, like solar panels, to help reduce energy poverty. The discussion highlights how climate change is affecting housing and the importance of creating homes that are both sustainable and resilient. While transitioning to greener practices, such as moving away from gas and embracing renewable energy, comes with challenges, it's essential. From solar panels, to batteries and water tanks, Heather covers the big role these play in cutting energy costs. We also chat about the potential for investing in areas that are less vulnerable to climate change impacts. We can't hide from these issues - they affect us all in one way or another - so this is a great listen to get across some risks that currently exist, as well as future considerations you should keep in mind.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Building a new home is an exciting yet daunting process. With so many options available, it can be challenging to decide on the right path to take. One option is to take the path of volume building, and if you're considering this for your new home you're in luck!  In today's episode, we chat with DevelopHer Samone Shepherdson about her experience with volume building. She shares valuable insights into the process, the decision-making factors, and the advantages of choosing volume building over other options. So, what were the biggest benefits that influenced Samone to choose volume building? A Simplified Process: Unlike the custom home building process, volume builders provide a range of pre-designed floor plans to choose from. This streamlined approach eliminates the guesswork and offers clear pricing structures. The Power of Visualisation:  The ability to walk through display homes and visualise the end result was a huge benefit.  Samone and her family had a clear idea of what they wanted from their new home and found their dream design among the many floor plans available. Clarity in Pricing: Cost was another significant factor. Samone highlighted that volume builders like Carlisle Homes provide detailed information about what is included in the base price and the additional cost of any upgrades. This transparency allowed Samone and her family to make informed decisions within their budget. Pricing Lock In: Additionally, by selecting a volume builder, they were able to lock in the starting price. This protected them from any price increases that might occur during the construction process. This proved a huge advantage when the market shifted and those building with independent builders were hit with a considerable price increase.   Customising The House: After locking in a floorplan, the next step is to choose finishes and fixtures. Volume builders typically have a showroom where homeowners can explore different options for color schemes, tiles, countertops, and other design elements. When she visited, Samone was paired with an interior stylist who helped ensure her choices were cohesive and matched her vision.  The Construction Process: Once all selections were made, the building process began. In Samone's case, Carlisle Homes committed to finishing the build within 252 days. Although some delays occurred due to external factors, the builder maintained clear and transparent communication with regular updates. Samone also appreciated the customer portal, which provided detailed information about the build's progress, payment status, and allowed her to log any questions or concerns.   Samone's experience with volume building demonstrates the benefits and efficiency of this method. The ability to walk through display homes, the cost savings through price locking, and the reliability provided by a reputable builder were all factors that made volume building the ideal choice for Samone and her family. So if you're looking to build your dream home, exploring the options offered by volume builders is a step worth taking. LINKS: Connect with Samone: https://www.samoneshepherdson.com/  Buy our book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovating BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In conversation with Lauren Hasson, a techno-savvy women beaming in all the way from Houston Texas. Lauren is the Founder of DevelopHer, an award-winning career development platform that provides women in tech with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to overcome the gender gap in leadership, opportunity, and pay in tech for good.  DevelopHer is the result of Lauren's journey from rock bottom to a high-profile global leader in just two short years. Despite her Duke honors degree with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science, and economics, Lauren found herself back at square one with zero technical skills and zero job prospects. Lauren built DevelopHer, to empower women in tech to ignite their potential and build their value. In this episode we took a deep dive into Laura's career journey, her new initiative “DevelopHER” which she created to inspire women in technology to level up to became comfortable in her own skin. My favorite golden nugget from this episode: "Own your outcome and take action to make change in your career journey." To continue the conversation with Lauren on: Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/laurenhasson Website: www.DevelopHer.com Stay connected with Livewithireniastories via the show website: https://ireniaroussel.org and subscribe to the podcast.

“We're taking a well deserved break for a couple of weeks to soak up the festive season. In the meantime, we wanted to share with you some of the listener favourites from the back catalogue. These conversations were ones that really stood out to us and are jam packed full of value. If you haven't had a chance to listen to this one previously, or you're new here at BuildHer, enjoy! We will be back with fresh new episodes for 2023 in a couple of weeks!” _________________________________________ You may find it hard to believe that you can achieve your property development goals without any money and with zero experience but that is exactly what this next guest has accomplished.   Rebeka is chatting with the unstoppable Laura Percy who advises and develops property for a living. Laura began with a pipe dream and no experience. Through hard work and a tremendous amount of effort, she cultivated her career in property development and went on to create and co-found the Kingbella Group - an incredibly successful property development company.   Using enormous courage and a kickass attitude, Laura began by negotiating an off-market sale through a real estate agent with zero money down. She then secured the finance through a joint venture partnership with investment partners. Through a lot of hard work, research, time and effort she has now gone on to secure a $30 million deal!   In this episode, Laura shares how her mindset has played such an important role in her success and has given her the drive to focus her energy on her goals and where she wants to be. Laura will also be sharing her amazing story in depth in the DevelopHer's Inner Circle. If you are feeling motivated and inspired by her journey, click the link and sign up.   LINKS:   Kingbella Group: Kingbella Group | Bespoke Property Development Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovating BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We sat down with Claire Kelly from Little Fish Property Developments to get an insight into what it's like running a townhouse development project.   Little Fish is a Melbourne-based full-service residential property development company, specialising in client-side project management. Claire works as a project manager for Little Fish, taking the projects from the planning stage through to the end delivery and handing the project over for sale.   Claire shares what it looks like to develop a client professional relationship that culminates in a great outcome with excellent profits. She highlights that being across the full lifecycle of a project, from site acquisition to sale makes an enormous difference in ensuring a successful development.   The most important skill Claire has learned as a project manager is the ability to bring the experts together to find a solution. Ensuring transparency is also key, and Claire explains how Little Fish's back-end project management portal helps keep both clients and her team across all aspects of the project.   In our conversation, Claire also reveals what she loves about commercial construction as well as her favourite parts of project management (not least, finalising cost sheets and seeing a positive return).   A lot of Little Fish's work focuses on dual lot developments. We chat about the reason for this and how understanding the market and what people are looking for is key.   Claire outlines how to assess a site - from working out what can fit to determining what's appropriate for the market in that particular area. Little Fish's focus is quality over quantity, which is really clear when you look at their project outcomes.   Enjoy the episode!   LINKS:   Website:    https://www.littlefishproperties.com.au/ LinkedIn:    https://au.linkedin.com/company/littlefishproperties   Buy our new book:        BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovating BuildHer Website:        https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram:        @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook:        Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call:         https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meta Talkz is Powered by IBH Media - If you are a tech company and you need media coverage go to ibhmedia.co I'm Lauren Ingram. I help agencies and brands to win in Web3, and I love helping women seize the amazing opportunities in Web3 and all things metaverse. I'm a marketing & communications expert with 11 years of experience, and I'm passionate about the intersection of creativity, technology, and inclusion.  I led Facebook's women's program #SheMeansBusiness for EMEA in the Global Business Marketing Team and I'm a passionate D&I supporter driving equality and equity in the world of work. I'm also a community builder. In early 2017 I launched Power Suit Social in my spare time, a creative community that aims to keep creativity commercially viable. In 2018 I became a podcaster too, launching Power Suit Podcast. In early 2022 while on maternity leave I brought together my love for tech and community by launching Women of Web3, connecting women in the next iteration of the internet. I'm also a mentor for SheSays (the creative network that advances women in digital), an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and I was a mentor for ONE, the gender equality network at Dentsu Aegis Network. I was nominated in 2017 to participate in the Women in Leadership training scheme at Dentsu Aegis.   Also, check out Meta Talkz for future and past guests.

Have you ever thought about BUILDING apartments, multifamilies, or skyscrapers?! Well today's guest @diontechantel will tell you how to do JUST that! We tap into her journey as a budding real estate superstar developer and what she's doing to help build other people up along in the process. One of the most underrated gems is that most people think real estate developers are the ones that are also building the projects. That couldn't be further from the truth! The beauty is, you can excel as a real estate developer by using your own specific strengths instead of your weaknesses. Be sure to tune in and you know what they say….they bigger the deal….the bigger the profit!

We love bringing you the journeys of our amazing DevelopHer students and this week we have the inspirational Claire Larritt-Evans to share her tale with you. Claire is an interior designer with her own practice, Larritt-Evans. She's been in practice for 13 years and first established and grew her business with commercial work before finding her true passion for residential projects. In this episode, we explore the journey Claire underwent to embark on her first development. She has learned, through becoming a client for the first time and experiencing exactly what her clients go through, to redevelop her systems and processes within her studio and create the best possible client experience. In this conversation, we're covering the joy of handing over a house to a client after all of the design work and the challenges Claire has overcome when developing and being a client herself.We'll be excitedly following along with Claire's journey and can't wait to see the final developing project! LINKS:Larritt-Evans: https://www.larritt-evans.com/ Larritt-Evans Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/larrittevans/ Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovatingBuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollectiveBuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & BuildRegister for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

In the DevelopHer's weekend intensive, we covered an incredibly important aspect of building that is often not spoken about - the lifestyle you actually want to create and design.When you map out your ideal day and understand your ultimate goals and how they fit into the rhythm of your life, you can plan your build to suit your life. I'm about to head off on a trip around Australia for six months, I'm so excited! I was able to plan and change the way we're going to live during this period AND still get work done to go on this amazing adventure. In this episode, I'm sharing the lifestyle that we're designing and how we map and plan out our projects to fit into our big picture. We're able to live the values that are so important to us while achieving our building and developing dreams. If you had a choice to do anything you wanted, what would it be? You can design your life in accordance with this. You only get one life and time is our most valuable asset. We have to use our time wisely and intentionally in the way we design and not just ‘get through' each day. To go on this journey, I've installed systems and processes ahead of time so that the next six months will run smoothly while I'm away. I know that just because I can be doing something, doesn't mean I should be doing it and others might be able to do it better. You can design the way your day looks, your house feels, and how the finishes work. Nobody else can do that for you. Building and designing is an amazing privilege and it's our opportunity to fully embrace the process. LINKS:Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovatingBuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollectiveBuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & BuildRegister for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

I'm chatting with Tamara who is the General Manager of BuildHer, a DevelopHer and is on the home stretch of building two amazing houses in Beechworth, Victoria that are set up for family accommodation - John and Jane's Beechworth. In this episode, we're discussing Tamara's journey of developing her incredible project from a distance. Tamara shares the challenges and obstacles, the research that went into the building and planning and finding the niche in the market for a luxurious property in an iconic small town. Tamara and her husband Ben are super excited to be taking bookings now! She talks about the invaluable support she's received from being surrounded by an incredible community of people inside BuildHer and the evolution of design that is both fun and daunting that has led her to this moment.Tamara shares her tips and tricks for managing a project that is far away from where she lives. Having an architect that is very clear in their drawings made the job far easier and having great regular communication is incredibly important for a successful build. Head over and check out the beautiful houses at John and Jane's Beechworth. We can't wait to visit and relax in luxurious style! LINKS:John and Jane's Beechworth: https://www.johnandjanesbeechworth.com.au/ John and Jane's Beechworth Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_and_janes_beechworth/ Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovatingBuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollectiveBuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & BuildRegister for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

My guest today is DevelopHer student Jacqui Midgley. Jacqui has courageously embarked on her own development after working in the large scale developing industry for many years. In this episode, we're exploring Jacqui's journey of her first developing project. We are always so excited to hear from our students and we'll be following Jacqui's story the whole way through to give you a clear idea of what goes into developing and how the support from the DevelopHer community can help. Jacqui's interest in developing began with her grandmother who was very successful at developing. She shares her story of becoming a Design Manager and Tenancy Coordinator in charge of $200 million dollar projects. We explore the complexities involved when developing large scale projects, the pathway Jacqui embarked on to purchasing property, dealing with risk, working out feasibilities, handling confidence in an uncertain market and creating and deciding on an amazing plan. As part of the DevelopHer group we engage in fortnightly Q & As and we had a session where we joined together to do a Value Management session on Jacqui's project. This collaboration really helped to remove the emotion and bring in the reality of the build to give Jacqui a strategic focus. Jacqui takes us through the incredible beauty of the build and her vision for how it will feel when finished. She talks about the materials, warmth, space, windows, and flooring that she has worked into the plan to create an amazing space. You'll find so much inspiration from Jacqui's journey and her experience. She's definitely thought through every aspect of the project to ensure she gives the owner the best possible feeling when they walk through the door. Everyone in the DevelopHer group are supporting and cheering her on - we can't wait to see the final product! LINKS:Design like a DesignHer: https://www.buildhercollective.com.au/design-like-a-designher/ Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovatingBuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollectiveBuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & BuildRegister for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

We talk to Dionte Chantel, the host of Journey To Developher Podcast. Dionte is also a real estate developer, investor, wholesaler and more. If you are interested in real estate please listen. She is involved with several segments in real estate and shared the information she has accumulated with us. She also discusses different streams of income and why it is so important to have them. She can be reached below. https://www.instagram.com/diontechantel/ https://www.instagram.com/JourneyToDevelopHer/ https://lnk.bio/diontechantel https://www.facebook.com/diontechantelrei https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9SZAZhG3A_dSp0G7nmWew/videos   We were recently ranked the #1 Black Financial Podcast That Can Redefine Your Wealth By The Neighborhood Finance Guy. Below is the link. https://theneighborhoodfinanceguy.com/black-podcasts-2022/ Please give us a 5 Star Review  Below is our Instagram, Twitter and Yahoo Finance Article  https://www.instagram.com/blackfinancial_initiative/ https://finance.yahoo.com/black-financial-initiative-starting-financial-114658676.html https://twitter.com/BFI_Podcast https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Podcast/The-Black-Financial-Initiative-Podcast-105690941140846/  

My guest today is the inspirational Taeler Jordan. Taeler is an architect, one of our DevelopHer's and is remarkable for her dedication to development. Taeler went through a massive transition in less than 12 months and is here to share with you how much you can achieve in a short period of time with the right mindset. In this episode, we explore Taeler's developing story together and the challenges, fears, benefits, goals and wins she's accomplished along the way. We talk about fixed price building contracts, dealing with others' opinions and what it would mean for Taeler if she started 5 years ago. Taeler shares her background working in the architectural industry for Chamberlain Architects. When we first met, she was selling her family home and was nervous about taking the next step into development. Since that very first phone call, Taeler has been project stacking and in less than 12 months, Taeler has bought the next development/family home, her 3rd development, and her 4th family home block!Other people's expectations are often the only thing holding you back. Taeler discusses telling her family and friends about her family's developing plans and goals and often experiences confusion or doubt over how fast she is taking everything on. The DevelopHer course has been incredibly important for Taeler as it provides a community of like-minded people who understand and support each other. You will find so much motivation in Taeler's story to begin and continue your developing journey today! LINKS:Resources mentioned: Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovatingBuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollectiveBuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & BuildRegister for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

Audio version of video on YouTube.  This isn't a typical Weekly Update video, but I wanted to talk about 2 things before the next update, and so it made sense to do another video to talk about them. Last night was the DevelopHER awards in Cambridge, celebrating women in technology in the East of England. I was there, on behalf of Modality to present the Agile Angel award. It was a really good evening, very inspiring and so I wanted to bring you a small part of it. Also, next week I'm going to European Collaboration Summit. I'm speaking about bots in Microsoft 365 and will also be bringing you the atmosphere and experience via video updates. If that sounds interesting, subscribe to be notified about those videos when they land.   Subscribe to all my videos at: https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/video Podcast: https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/itunes, https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/spotify or https://thoughtstuff.co.uk/podcast Blog: https://blog.thoughtstuff.co.uk

About LaurenLauren Hasson is the Founder of DevelopHer, an award-winning career development platform that has empowered thousands of women in tech to get ahead, stand out, and earn more in their careers. She also works full-time on the frontlines of tech herself. By day, she is an accomplished software engineer at a leading Silicon Valley payments company where she is the architect of their voice payment system and messaging capabilities and is chiefly responsible for all of application security.Through DevelopHer, she's partnered with top tech companies like Google, Dell, Intuit, Armor, and more and has worked with top universities including Indiana and Tufts to bridge the gender gap in leadership, opportunity, and pay in tech for good. Additionally, she was invited to the United Nations to collaborate on the global EQUALS initiative to bridge the global gender divide in technology. Sought after across the globe for her insight and passionate voice, Lauren has started a movement that inspires women around the world to seek an understanding of their true value and to learn and continually grow.  Her work has been featured by industry-leading publications like IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine and Thrive Global and her ground-breaking platform has been recognized with fourteen prestigious awards for entrepreneurship, product innovation, diversity and leadership including the Women in IT Awards Silicon Valley Diversity Initiative of the Year Award, three Female Executive of the Year Awards, and recognition as a Finalist for the United Nations WSIS Stakeholder Prize.Links: DevelopHer: https://developher.com The DevelopHer Playbook: https://www.amazon.com/DevelopHer-Playbook-Simple-Advocate-Yourself-ebook/dp/B08SQM4P5J TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: You could build you go ahead and build your own coding and mapping notification system, but it takes time, and it sucks! Alternately, consider Courier, who is sponsoring this episode. They make it easy. You can call a single send API for all of your notifications and channels. You can control the complexity around routing, retries, and deliverability and simplify your notification sequences with automation rules. Visit courier.com today and get started for free. If you wind up talking to them, tell them I sent you and watch them wince—because everyone does when you bring up my name. Thats the glorious part of being me. Once again, you could build your own notification system but why on god's flat earth would you do that?Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by Honeycomb. When production is running slow, it's hard to know where problems originate: is it your application code, users, or the underlying systems? I've got five bucks on DNS, personally. Why scroll through endless dashboards, while dealing with alert floods, going from tool to tool to tool that you employ, guessing at which puzzle pieces matter? Context switching and tool sprawl are slowly killing both your team and your business. You should care more about one of those than the other, which one is up to you. Drop the separate pillars and enter a world of getting one unified understanding of the one thing driving your business: production. With Honeycomb, you guess less and know more. Try it for free at Honeycomb.io/screaminginthecloud. Observability, it's more than just hipster monitoring. Corey: You could build you go ahead and build your own coding and mapping notification system, but it takes time, and it sucks! Alternately, consider Courier, who is sponsoring this episode. They make it easy. You can call a single send API for all of your notifications and channels. You can control the complexity around routing, retries, and deliverability and simplify your notification sequences with automation rules. Visit courier.com today and get started for free. If you wind up talking to them, tell them I sent you and watch them wince—because everyone does when you bring up my name. Thats the glorious part of being me. Once again, you could build your own notification system but why on god's flat earth would you do that?Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Jellyfish. So, you're sitting in front of your office chair, bleary eyed, parked in front of a powerpoint and—oh my sweet feathery Jesus its the night before the board meeting, because of course it is! As you slot that crappy screenshot of traffic light colored excel tables into your deck, or sift through endless spreadsheets looking for just the right data set, have you ever wondered, why is it that sales and marketing get all this shiny, awesome analytics and inside tools? Whereas, engineering basically gets left with the dregs. Well, the founders of Jellyfish certainly did. That's why they created the Jellyfish Engineering Management Platform, but don't you dare call it JEMP! Designed to make it simple to analyze your engineering organization, Jellyfish ingests signals from your tech stack. Including JIRA, Git, and collaborative tools. Yes, depressing to think of those things as your tech stack but this is 2021. They use that to create a model that accurately reflects just how the breakdown of engineering work aligns with your wider business objectives. In other words, it translates from code into spreadsheet. When you have to explain what you're doing from an engineering perspective to people whose primary IDE is Microsoft Powerpoint, consider Jellyfish. Thats Jellyfish.co and tell them Corey sent you! Watch for the wince, thats my favorite part.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. A somewhat recurring theme of this show has been the business of cloud, and that touches on a lot of different things. One thing I've generally cognizant of not doing is talking to folks who don't look like me and asking them questions like, “Oh, that's great, but let's ignore everything that you're doing, and instead talk about what it's like not to be a cis-gendered white dude in tech,” because that's crappy. Today, we're sort of deviating from that because my guest is Lauren Hasson, the founder of DevelopHer, which is a career development platform that empowers women in tech to get ahead. Lauren, thanks for joining me.Lauren: Thanks so much for having me, Corey.Corey: So, you're the founder of DevelopHer, and that is ‘develop-her' as in ‘she'. I'm not going to be as distinct on that pronunciation, so if you think I'm saying ‘developer' and it doesn't make intellectual sense, listener, that's what's going on. But you're also a speaker, you're an author, and you work on the front lines of tech yourself. That's a lot of stuff. What's your story?Lauren: Yeah, I do. So, I'm not only the founder-developer, but I'm just like many of your listeners: I work on the front lines of tech myself. I work remotely from my home in Dallas for a Silicon Valley payments company, where I'm the architect of our voice payment system, and I up until recently was chiefly responsible for all of application security. Yeah, and I do keep busy.Corey: It certainly seems like it. Let's go back to, I guess, the headline item here. You are the founder of DevelopHer, and one thing that always drives me a little nutty is when people take a glance at what I do and then try and tell the story, and then effectively mess the whole thing up. What is DevelopHer?Lauren: So, DevelopHer is what I wish I had ten years ago—or actually nine years ago. It's an empowerment platform that helps individual women—men, too—get ahead in their careers, earn more, and stand out. And part of my story, you know, I have the degrees from undergrad in electrical engineering and computer science, but I went a completely different direction after graduating. And at the end of the Great Recession, I found myself with no job with no technical skills, and I mean, no job prospects, at all. It was really, really bad, ugly crying on my couch bad, Corey.And I took a number of steps to get ahead and really relearn my tech skills, and I only got one offer to give myself a chance. It was a 90-days to prove myself, to get ahead, and teach myself iOS. And I remember it was one of the most terrifying things I've ever done. And within two years, I not only managed to survive that 90-day period and keep that job, but I had completely managed to thrive. My work had been featured in Apple's iOS7 keynote, I'd won the company-wide award at a national agency four times, I had won the SXSW international Hackathon, twice in a row.And then probably the pinnacle of it all is I was one of 100 tech innovators worldwide invited to attend the [UKG 00:03:41] Innovation Conference. And they flew me there on a private 747 jet, and it was just unreal. And so I founded DevelopHer because I needed this ten years ago, when I was at rock bottom, to figure out how to get ahead: how do I get into my career; how do I stand out? And of course, you know there's more to the story, but I also found out I was underpaid after achieving all of that, that a male peer was paid exactly what I was paid, with no credentials, despite all of the awards that I won. And I went out and learned to negotiate, and tripled my salary in two years, and turned around and said, “I'm going to teach other women—and men, too—how to get real change in their own life.”Corey: I love hearing stories where people discover that they're underpaid. I mean, it's a bittersweet moment because on the one hand it's, “Wait, you mean they've been taking advantage of me?” And you feel bad for people, but at the same time, you're sort of watching the blindfold fall away from their eyes of, “Yeah, but it's been this way, and now you know about it. And now you're in a position to potentially do something about it.” I gave a talk at a tech conference a few years back called “Weasel your Way to the Top: How to Handle a Job Interview” and it was a fun talk.I really enjoyed it, but what I discovered was after I'd given it I got some very direct feedback of, “That's a great talk and you give a lot of really useful advice. What if I don't look like you?” And I realized, “Oh, my God, I built this out of things that worked for me and I unconsciously built all of my own biases and all of my own privilege into that talk.” At which point I immediately stopped giving it until I could relaunch it as a separate talk with a friend of mine, Sonia Gupta, who does not look like me. And between the two of us, it became a much stronger, much better talk.Lauren: It's good that you understand what you were bringing to the table and how you can appeal to an even larger audience. And what I've done is really said, “Here's my experience as a woman in tech, and here's what's worked for me.” And what's been surprising is men have said, “Yeah, that's what I did.” Except for I put a woman in tech spin on it and… I mean, I knew it worked for me; I have more than quintupled my base salary—just my base salary alone—in nine years. And the results that women are getting from my programming—I had one woman who earned $80,000 more in a single negotiation, which tells me, one, she was really underpaid, but she didn't just get one offer at $80,000 more; she got at least two. I mean, that changed her life.And I think the lowest I've heard is, like, $30,000 difference change. I mean, this is, this is life-changing for a lot of women. And the scary thing is that it's not just, say it's $50,000 a year. Well, over ten years, that's half a million dollars. Over 20 years, that's a million, and that's not even interest and inflation and compounding going into that. So, that's a huge difference.Corey: It absolutely is. It's one of those things that continues to set people further and further back. One thing that I think California got very right is they've outlawed recently asking what someone's previous compensation was because, “Oh, we don't want to give someone too big of a raise,” is a way you perpetuate the systemic inequality. And that's something that I wish more employers would do.Lauren: It's huge. I know the women and proponents who had moved that forward; some of them are personal friends of mine, and it's huge. And that's actually something that I trained specifically for is how to handle difficult questions like, “How much are you currently making?” Which you can't legally get asked in California, although it still happens, so how do you handle it if you still get asked and you don't want to rule yourself out? Or even worse—which they still can ask—which is, “How much do you want to make?”And a lot of times, people get asked that before they know anything about the job. And they basically, if you give an answer upfront, you're negotiating against yourself. And so I tackle tough things like that head-on. And I'm very much an engineer at heart, so for me, it's very methodical; I prepare scripts in advance to handle the pushback that I'm going to get, to handle the difficult questions. Without a doubt, I know all of my numbers, and that's where I'm getting real results for women is by taking the methodical approach to it.Corey: So, I spent my 20s in crippling credit card debt, and I was extremely mercenary, as a result. This wasn't because of some grand lost vision or something. Nope. I had terrible financial habits. So, every decision I made in that period of my life was extraordinarily mercenary. I would leave jobs I enjoyed for a job I couldn't stand because it paid $10,000 more.And the thing that I picked up from all of this, especially now having been on the other side of that running a company myself, is I'm not suggesting at any point that people should make career decisions based upon where they can make the most money, but that should factor in. One thing we do here at The Duckbill Group, in every job posting we put up is we post the salary range for the position. And I want to be clear here, it is less than anyone here could make at one of the big tech unicorns or a very hot startup that's growing meteorically, and we're upfront about that. We know that if money is the thing you're after and that is the driving force behind what you're going for, great; I don't fault you for that.This might not be the best role for you and that's perfectly okay. I get it. But you absolutely should know what your market worth is so you can make that decision from a place of being informed, rather than being naive and later discovering that you were taken advantage of.Lauren: So, I want to unpack just a couple things. There's just so many gold nuggets in that. Number one, for any employer listening out there, that is such a great best practice, to post the range. You're going to attract the right candidates when you post the right range. The last thing you want is to get to the end of the process to find out that, hey, you guys were totally off, and all the time invested could have been avoided if you'd had some sort of expectation set, upfront.That said, that's actually where I start with my negotiation training. A lot of people think I start with the money and that it's all about the money. That's not where I start. The very first thing I train women, and the men who've taken it, too, on the course is, figure out what success looks like to you. And not just the number success, but what does your life look like? What does your lifestyle look like? What does it feel like? What kinds of things do you do? What kinds of things do you value?Money is one of those components, but it's not all. And here's the reason I did that: because at a certain point in my life, I only got out at—broke even out of debt, you know, within the last five years. That's how underpaid I was at the time. But then once I started climbing out of debt, I started realizing it's not all about money. And that's actually how I ended up in my dream position.I mean, I'm living out how I define success today. Could I be making a lot more money at a big tech unicorn? Yeah, I could. But I also have this incredible lifestyle; it's sustainable. I get on apps like Blind and other internet forums, and I hear just horror stories of people burning out and the toxic cultures they work with. I don't have that at all. I have something that I could easily do for the next 50 years of my life if I live that long.But it's not by accident that I'm in the role that I'm in right now. I actually took the time to figure out what success looks like to me, and so when this opportunity came along—and I was looking at it alongside other opportunities that honestly paid more, I recognized this opportunity for what it was because I'd put in the work up front to figure out what success looks like to me. And so that's why what you guys are saying, “Hey, it's a lifestyle that you guys are supporting and mission that you're joining that's so important.” And you need to know that and do that work up front.Corey: That's I think what it really comes down to is understanding that in many cases… in fact, I'm going to take that back—in all cases, there's an inherent adversarial nature to the discussions you have about compensation with your employer or your prospective employer. And I say ‘adversarial' not antagonistic because you are misaligned as far as the ultimate purpose of the conversation. I'm not going to paint myself as some saint here and say that, oh, I'm on the side of every person I'm negotiating against, trying to get them to take a salary that's less than they deserve. Because, first, although I view myself that I'm not in that position, you have to take that on faith from me, and I think that is too far of a bridge to cross. So, take even what I'm saying now from the position as someone who has a vested interest in the outcomes of that negotiation.I mean, we're not one of those unicorn startups; we can't outbid Netflix and we wouldn't even try to. We're one of those old-fashioned businesses that has taken no investment and we fund ourselves through the magic of revenue and profitability, which means we don't have a SoftBank-sized [laugh] war chest sitting in the bank that we can use to just hurl ridiculous money at people and see who pans out. Hiring has to be intentional and thoughtful because we're a very small team. And if you're looking for something that doesn't align with that, great; I certainly don't blame you. That isn't this, and that's okay, I'm not trying to hire everyone.And if it's not going to work out, why wouldn't we say that upfront to avoid trying to get to all the way at the end of a very expensive interview process—both in terms of time and investment and emotionally—only to figure out that we're worlds apart on comp, and it's never going to work.Lauren: A hundred percent agree. I mean, I've been through it on both ends, both as someone who is being hired and also as a hiring manager, and I understand it. And you need to find alignment, and that's what negotiation is all about is finding an alignment, finding something where everyone feels like they're winning in the situation. And I'm a big proponent—and this is going to go so counterculture—I think a lot of people overlook a lot of opportunities that are just golden nuggets. I think there's a lot of idol worship of the big tech companies.And don't get me wrong; I'm sure they pay really well, great opportunity for your career, but I think people are overlooking a lot of really great career opportunities to get experience, and responsibility, and have good pay and lifestyle. And I'm a big proponent and looking for those golden nuggets rather than shooting for one of the big tech unicorns.Corey: And other people are going to have a very different perspective on that, and that is absolutely okay. So, tell me a little bit more about what it is that DevelopHer does and how you go about doing it because it's one thing to say, “Oh, we help women figure out that they are being underpaid,” but there's a whole lot of questions that opens up because great. How do you do that?Lauren: I do a number of things. So, it's not all about pay either. Part of it's building your value, building your confidence, standing out, getting ahead. DevelopHer started, actually, as a podcast. Funny story; I wanted to solve the problem of, we need more technical women as visible leaders out there, and I said, “Where are the architects? Where are the CTOs? Where are the CSOs?”And I didn't think anyone would care about me. I mean, I'm not Sheryl Sandberg; I'm not [laugh] the CEO of Facebook. Who's going to listen to me? And then I was actually surprised when people cared about my own story, about coming back from being underpaid and then getting back into tech and figuring out how to stand out in such a short amount of time. And other women were saying, “Well, how did you do it?”And it wasn't just women; it was men, too, saying, “Hey, I also don't know how to effectively advocate for myself.” And then it was companies saying, “Hey, can you come in and help us build our internal bench, recruit more women to come work for us, and build our own women leaders?” And then I've started working with universities to help bridge the gap before it even starts. I partnered with major universities to license my program and train them, not only how do you negotiate for what you're worth, for your first salary, but also how do you come in and immediately make an impact and accelerate your career growth? And then, of course, I work with individual women.I've talked about I have a salary negotiation course that's won a couple awards for the work, the results that it's getting, but then I just recently wrote a book because I wanted to reach women and men at scale and help them really get ahead. And this was literally my playbook. It's called The DevelopHer Playbook. And it's, how did I break into tech? And then once I was in tech, how did I get ahead so quickly? And it's not rocket science. And that's what I'm working on is training other people do it. And look, I'm still learning; I'm still paving my own path forward in tech, myself.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Jellyfish. So, you're sitting in front of your office chair, bleary eyed, parked in front of a powerpoint and—oh my sweet feathery Jesus its the night before the board meeting, because of course it is! As you slot that crappy screenshot of traffic light colored excel tables into your deck, or sift through endless spreadsheets looking for just the right data set, have you ever wondered, why is it that sales and marketing get all this shiny, awesome analytics and inside tools? Whereas, engineering basically gets left with the dregs. Well, the founders of Jellyfish certainly did. That's why they created the Jellyfish Engineering Management Platform, but don't you dare call it JEMP! Designed to make it simple to analyze your engineering organization, Jellyfish ingests signals from your tech stack. Including JIRA, Git, and collaborative tools. Yes, depressing to think of those things as your tech stack but this is 2021. They use that to create a model that accurately reflects just how the breakdown of engineering work aligns with your wider business objectives. In other words, it translates from code into spreadsheet. When you have to explain what you're doing from an engineering perspective to people whose primary IDE is Microsoft Powerpoint, consider Jellyfish. Thats Jellyfish.co and tell them Corey sent you! Watch for the wince, thats my favorite part.Corey: I feel like no one really has a great plan for, “Oh, where are you going next in tech? Do you have this whole thing charted out?” “Of course not. I'm doing this fly by night, seat of my pants, if I'm being perfectly honest with you.” And it's hard to know where to go next.What's interesting to me is that you talk about helping people individually—generally women—through your program, but you also work directly with companies. And when you're talking about things like salary negotiation, I think a natural question that flows from that is, are there aspects of what you wind up talking to individuals about versus what you do when talking to companies that are in opposition to each other?Lauren: Yeah, so that's a great question. So, the answer is there are some progressive companies that have brought me in to do salary negotiation training. Complete candor, most companies aren't interested. It's my Zero-To-Hero DevelopHer Playbook program which is, how do you get ahead? How do you build your value, become an asset at the company?So, it's less focused on pay, but more how do you become more valuable, and get ahead and add more value to the company? And that's where I work with the individuals and the companies on that front.Corey: It does seem like it would be a difficult sell, in most enterprise scenarios, to get a company to pay someone to come in to teach their staff how to more effectively [laugh] negotiate their next raise. I love the vision.Lauren: It has happened. I also thought it was crazy, but it has happened. But no, most of my corporate clients say, “We not only want to encourage more women into tech, but we already have a lot of women who are already in our ranks, and we want to encourage them to really feel like they're empowered and to stand out and reach the next levels.” And that's my sweet spot for corporate.Corey: Somewhat recently, I was asked on a Twitter Spaces—which is like Clubhouse but somehow different and strange—did I think that the privilege that I brought to what I do had enabled me to do these things, being white, being a man, being cis-gendered—speaking English as my primary language was an interesting one that I hadn't heard contextualized like that before—and whether that had advantaged me as I went through these things? And I think it's impossible to say anything other than absolutely because it's easy to, on some level, take a step back and think, “Well, I've built this company, and this media platform, and the rest. And that wasn't given to me; I had to build it.” And that's absolutely true. I did have to build it, and it wasn't given to me.But as I was building it, the winds were at my back not against me. I was not surrounded by people who are telling me I couldn't do it. Every misstep I made wasn't questioned as, well, you sure you should be doing this thing that you're not really doing? It was very much a fail-forward. And if you think that applies to everyone, then you are grievously mistaken.Lauren: I think that's a healthy perspective, which is why I consider you one of developers in my strongest allies, the fact that you're willing to look at yourself and go, “What advantages did I have? And how might I need to adapt my messaging or my advice so that it's applicable to even more people?” But it's also something I've experienced myself. I mean, I set out to help women in tech because I'm in women in tech myself. And I was surprised by a couple of things.Number one, I was surprised that men were [laugh] asking me for advice as well. And individuals and medicine, and finance, and law, in business not even related to tech, but what I'm really proud of that I didn't set out to build because I didn't feel qualified, but I'm really glad that I've been able to serve is that there were three populations that I've been really able to serve, especially at the university level. Number one, international students who, you mentioned yourself, English might not be their first language, but they're not familiar with the US hiring and advancement and pay process, and I help normalize that. And that's something that I myself in the benefit of, having been born here in the US. People who, where English isn't their first language; you think it's hard enough to answer, “Why do you think you should be promoted?”Or, “How much do you think you should make for this role? What do you want?” In your first language? Try answering it in your third, right? And then when I'm really proud of is, especially at the university level, I've been really able to help students where they're first-generation college students, where they don't have a professional mentor within their immediate family.And providing them a roadmap—or actually, the playbook to how to get ahead and then how to advocate for yourself. And these were things that I didn't feel qualified to help, but these are the individuals who've ended up coming and utilizing my program, and finding a lot of benefit from that. And it made me realize that I'm doing something bigger than I even set out to do, and that is very meaningful to me.Corey: You mentioned that you give guidance on salary negotiation and career advancement to not just women, but also men, and not just people who are in tech, but people who are in other business areas as well. How does what you're advising people to do shift—if at all—from folks who are women working in tech?Lauren: So, that's the key is it really doesn't shift. What I'm teaching are fundamentals and, spoiler alert, I teach grounding yourself in data, and knowing your data, and taking the emotion out of the process, whether you're trying to get ahead, to stand out, to earn more. And I teach fundamentals, which is five-point process.Number one, you got to figure out what success looks like to you. I talked a little bit about that earlier, but it's foundational. I mean, I start with that because that alone changed my life. I would still be pursuing success today and not have reached it, but I'm living out how I defined success because I started there.Then you got to really know your worth. Absolutely without a doubt, know how much you're worth. And for me, this was transformational. I mean, eye-opening. Like you said earlier, the blindfold coming off. When I saw for a fact how much employers paid other people with my skill sets, it was a game-changer for me. And so I—without a shadow of a doubt, I use four different strategies, multiple resources in each strategy to know comprehensively how much I'm worth.And then I teach knowing your numbers. It's not an emotional thing; it's very much scientific, so I talked about knowing your key numbers, your target, your ask, and your walk away, and those are all very dependent on your employment and financial situation, so it's different from person to person. And then I talk about—and this is a little different than what other people teach—is I talk about finding leverage, what you uniquely bring to the table, or identifying companies where you uniquely add value, where you can either lock in an offer or negotiate a premium.And then I prepare. I prepare. Just like you prepare for an interview, I prepare for a negotiation, and if I'm asking for the right amount of money, I am going to be prepared for pushback and I want to be able to handle that, and I don't want to just know it on the fly; I want to have scripts and questions prepared to handle that pushback. I want to be prepared to answer some of the most difficult questions that you're going—get asked, like we talked about earlier.And then the final step is I practice over and over and over again, just like a sporting event. I am ready to go into action and get a great thing. So, those are the fundamentals. I've marketed to women in tech because I'm a woman in tech and we don't have enough women in tech, and women are 82 cents on the dollar in tech, but what I found is that doctors were using the same methodology. I wasn't marketing it to them. Lawyers, business people, finance people were using it because I was teaching such fundamentals.Corey: Taking it one step further, if someone is listening to this and starting to get a glimmering of the sense that they're not where they could be career-wise, either in terms of compensation, advancement, et cetera, what advice would you have for them as far as things to focus on first? Not to effectively extract the entire content of your course into podcast form, but where do they start?Lauren: Yeah. So, you start by investing in yourself and investing in the change that you want. And that first investment might be figuring out how much you're worth, you know, doing that research to figure out how much you're worth. And then going out and learning the skills. And look, I have a course, I have a book that you can use to get ahead; if I'm not the right fit, there are a ton of resources out there. The trick is to find the best fit for you.And my only regret as I look back over the last 10, 15 years of my career is that I didn't invest in myself sooner and that I didn't go out and figure out how much I was worth, and that I—when they said, “Well, you're just not there yet,” when I asked for more money, that I believed them. And that was on me that I didn't go out and go, “I wonder how much I'm worth?” And do the research. And then, I regret not hiring a career coach earlier. I wish I'd gotten back into tech sooner.And I wish that I had learned to negotiate and advocate for myself sooner. But my knack, Corey—and I believe things happen to me for a reason—is my special skills is I take things that were meant not necessarily intentionally to harm me, but things that hurt me, I learned from them, I turn it around in the best way possible, and then I teach and I create programs to help uplift other people. And that's my special skill set; that's sort of my mission and purpose in life, and now I'm just trying to really exploit it and make this into a big movement that impacts millions of lives.Corey: So, what's next for you? You've built this platform, you've put yourself out there, you've clearly made a dent in the direction that you're heading in. What's next?Lauren: [laugh]. I am looking to scale. I'm just like any company; I've really focused on delivering value proof of concept. What a lot of people don't realize is not only did I build DevelopHer in quote, “my spare time,” but I did this without any outside investors. I funded it at all myself, built it on my own sweat equity—Corey: [laugh]. That one resonates.Lauren: Yeah. [laugh]. I know you know what that feels like. And so for me, I'm focused on scale: bringing in more corporate partners; bringing in more university clients, to scale and bridge the gap before it even starts; and scaling and reaching more women and men and anyone who wants to figure out how to get ahead, stand out, and earn more. And so the next year, two years are really focused on scale.Corey: If people want to learn more about what you do, how you do it, or potentially look at improving their own situations, where can they find you?Lauren: I am online. Go to developher.com. I have resources for individuals; I have a book, which is a great, cost-effective way to learn a lot.I have an award-winning negotiation course that helps you go out and earn what you're truly worth, and I have a membership to connect with me and other like-minded individuals. If you're a company leader, I work with companies all the time to train their women—and men, too—to get ahead and build their value. And then also, I work with universities as well to help bridge the gender wage gap before it starts, and builds future leaders.Corey: And we will, of course, include links to that in the [show notes 00:27:55]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today. I really appreciate it.Lauren: Corey, thank you so much for having me, and I really mean it. You know, Corey is a strong ally. We connected, and I am glad to count you as not only my own ally but an ally of DevelopHer.Corey: Well, thank you. That's incredibly touching to hear. I appreciate it.Lauren: I mean it.Corey: Thank you. Sometimes all you can say to a sincere compliment is, “Thank you.” Arguing it is an insult, and I'm not that bold. [laugh].Lauren: That's actually really good advice that I give women is, so many times, we cut down our own compliments. And so that's a great example right there, and it is not just women who sometimes I have a challenge with it; men, too. When someone gives you a compliment, just say, “Thank you.”Corey: Good advice for any age, in any era. Lauren Hasson, founder of DevelopHer, speaker, author, frontline engineer some days. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice and an insulting comment telling me that my company is never going to succeed if I don't attempt to outbid Netflix.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

You may find it hard to believe that you can achieve your property development goals without any money and with zero experience but that is exactly what this next guest has accomplished. Rebeka is chatting with the unstoppable Laura Percy who advises and develops property for a living. Laura began with a pipe dream and no experience. Through hard work and a tremendous amount of effort, she cultivated her career in property development and went on to create and co-found the Kingbella Group - an incredibly successful property development company. Using enormous courage and a kickass attitude, Laura began by negotiating an off-market sale through a real estate agent with zero money down. She then secured the finance through a joint venture partnership with investment partners. Through a lot of hard work, research, time and effort she has now gone on to secure a $30 million deal! In this episode, Laura shares how her mindset has played such an important role in her success and has given her the drive to focus her energy on her goals and where she wants to be. Laura will also be sharing her amazing story in depth in the DevelopHer's Inner Circle. If you are feeling motivated and inspired by her journey, click the link and sign up.   LINKS: Kingbella Group: Kingbella Group | Bespoke Property Development Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovating BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

In this episode, Rebeka chats with Ivy Huang about the developing project she has completed, her experience working with BuildHer, the new project she has commenced, and participating in the BuildHer 8 collaboration project. Ivy has previously spoken to Rebeka last year about dealing with difficult people and hostile energies on the worksite. Through hard work and finding the right people, she is now experiencing a completely different vibe in her current projects. Ivy's amazing strategising skills helped her to showcase her project in different publications and blogs, including on the cover of Domain magazine! She discusses her love of creating sustainable homes that will stand for over a century by utilising materials with a low carbon footprint, low VOC, are beautiful, and comfortable. Ivy shares advice on learning to spend your life creating something meaningful to you and following your passion.   Money isn't everything, and finding something you are truly proud of creating is the most important thing.   LINKS: BuildHer 8: Projects - Collaborations - BuildHer Collective. DevelopHer's Masterclass: Renovate For Profit - BuildHer Collective. Buy our new book: BuildHer, A practical guide to building and renovating BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

IT Branche 2021 = Männerwelt? + Frauensache! In dieser Episode des ITCS Pizzatime Tech Podcasts wird Euch Frau Dr. Frederike Fritzsche, Ambassador für Tech bei OTTO, von ihrer Passion erzählen, mehr Frauen für Tech-Berufe zu begeistern! Als Lead der Initiative #WomenInTech und #developHER möchte sie Frauen bewusst empowern und erzählt Euch, wie es Frauen schaffen können erfolgreich in die IT- und Tech-Branche einzusteigen und hier durchstarten können! Weiterführende Links: - Zur O-TON Episode - dem Podcast von OTTO: https://otto.me/3fzi94H - Zur develop< HER> : www.developher.de - Mit Frederike vernetzen: https://bit.ly/3vl7HEg Hier gibt's mehr Infos zu OTTO: - Zum OTTO Tech-Blog: https://otto.me/2SiN1hW - Offene IT-Positionen bei OTTO: https://otto.me/3uaXt8a - Zur Jobsuche bei OTTO: https://otto.me/2RzebRm Hier mit OTTO vernetzen: - Instagram: https://bit.ly/3v7C55e - LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3yrbcuZ Der ITCS Pizzatime Podcast ist Teil des **ITCS und ITCS Online**! – Tech Konferenz, IT Jobmesse & Festival – schnapp dir dein **kostenloses Ticket** hier: https://www.it-cs.io/ Redaktion: Jennifer Grabowski & Katharina Bauriedel // Moderation: Leonie Peyerl // Schnitt: Simon Peyerl // Produktion: Umbeck & Walenda Media GmbH.

Lauren Hasson, the founder of DevelopHer, author of The DevelopHer Playbook, and a woman in the frontlines of tech, discusses the five simple steps she took to making a comeback and negotiating for higher pay. She did by owning her outcomes and taking action, building her network before she need it, learning new skills and building her portfolio, communicating her value, and investing in herself. And you can do it too! On this episode she discusses defining and sharing your successes, how to network, how LinkedIn can be a great tool, and how to learn marketable skills and negotiate for higher pay. Lauren Hasson and DevelopHer DevelopHer was inspired through a podcast Lauren had hosted that was centered around women on the front lines of tech and by her own personal story. She shares her story of hitting rock bottom, when she was broke, had been laid off, and was lacking confidence. She was able to make a comeback and negotiate for higher pay after following the five simple steps which are outlined in her book: The DevelopHer Playbook. Defining and sharing your success Lauren discusses how defining success, tracking her accomplishments, and acknowledging how far she has come helped her make her comeback. With her book, she offers the At-A-Girl journal, an editable PDF for tracking what you are doing. She also discusses the importance of visualization, whereby you make your goals a reality in your head first and later in real life. Networking In discussing networking, Lauren and Tara discuss the strategy of setting a goal to meet three new people at an event or in a day. She suggests reaching out to your heroes and having a small ask and offer prepared to help create a mutually beneficial relationship. In networking, it is also important to play the numbers game and to reach out to many people. LinkedIn LinkedIn is a great tool for sharing your portfolio, meeting other people, and updating people on your accomplishments. Lauren discusses the importance of consistently posting something short, having content already queued up, and spacing your posts out. Learning new skills and negotiating for higher pay To make yourself marketable, it helps to strategically learn new skills. Lauren calls such marketable skills “front of the line skills” which are skills that every company wants. Talk to recruiters and hiring managers to learn what skills are valuable, and then set out to learn them. Lauren also offers advice on negotiating for higher pay via having multiple offers, though she cautions that it is important to know how to do this properly otherwise it could backfire. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW. Fierce Lab, our full-day conference for women, will be live and in-person on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2021. Tickets are on sale now with early bird pricing ($100 OFF) through June 30, 2021. More details on our website. FOLLOW FIERCE LAB Follow Fierce Lab on Instagram or LinkedIn for the latest updates. JOIN OUR EMAIL LIST If you'd like to receive more information about our upcoming episodes for Fierce Lab including tips, tools and resources, go to our website, www.fiercelab.tarawilson.com, and sign up for email list. Please be sure to SUBSCRIBE, REVIEW and SHARE Fierce Lab with women who are looking for community and tools for leveling up.

DevelopHer's CEO, Lauren Hasson, joins Coruzant Technologies for the Digital Executive podcast. She shares her story of how she wanted to make a change for women as a woman in technology.  She is inspiring other women to jump into technology and look to be recognized as an equal in the diverse workforce.

Lauren Hasson founder of DevelopHer talks about empowering women to get ahead, stand out and earn more in their careers.

Aaron is joined today by Lauren Hasson, Author of The DevelopHer Playbook: 5 Simple Steps to Get Ahead, Stand Out, Build Your Value and Advocate for Yourself as a Woman in Tech. Lauren while working full time in Silicon Valley has been recognized and worked with top universities, tech companies and the United Nations for her work building DevelopHer, an award winning career development platform that has empowered thousands of woman in tech to get ahead, stand out and earn more in their careers. I’m so stoked to bring her message and energy to the Get After It Podcast today!

Journey to DevelopHer™, Journey to Jesus segment features Author, Book Coach & Kingdom Entrepreneur Natasha T. Brown. Natasha T. Brown, M.S, M.Div. is a minister, author, publisher, teacher, and missionary called to both business and global missions. For over fifteen years, she has partnered with organizations and individuals to share important stories as a communications consultant, publisher, ghostwriter and co-author of over twenty books. In her role as a marketplace minister and global missionary, Natasha serves as the Publisher and Book Coach at ELOHAI International Publishing & Media; founder of 10 Blessings Inspiration, Inc., a domestic violence support non-profit; and a prayer mobilizer for the We Who Dwell faith community, where she hosts a weekly prayer meeting and podcast called The Victory Prayer Circle.Natasha earned a bachelor of science degree in communications from Morgan State University, a master of science degree in professional writing from Towson University, and a master of divinity degree with a concentration in marketplace ministry from Regent University.

We always love hearing from our BuildHers and DevelopHers to find out what they’re up to. There are so many amazing women undertaking challenging projects and it’s an honour for us to be involved in their journeys. Today Kribashini chats with one of these incredible DevelopHers, Alix Blakeley, who is a perfect example of why it’s so enjoyable to be part of the BuildHer community. Alix has had a big and busy 12 months and she talks about her journey of how she began developing for-profit and where her current project is up to. For Alix and her husband, the idea of renovating and selling their family home was something they always wanted to do but making the decision to go ahead was somewhat confronting. Alix talks about that journey, how she never looked back and how a house flood was the catalyst for making the decision to do the renovation they’d dreamed about. After renovating and selling her family home, Alix and her husband purchased an original 1960’s home in Canberra. Alix talks about her renovation plans and how being part of the BuildHer community helped her to feel confident with her feasibilities and not just make an emotional purchase. Kribashini shares her insights on the design process and how a good designer will pinpoint challenges to come up with solutions whilst working alongside the client to make sure the design meets their needs.   Alix also shares her advice to anyone else out there wanting to renovate for profit and talks about taking small tangible steps to move in the direction you want to go. Kribashini and Alix also bring home the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are already doing the thing you want to be doing. And that’s yet another reason why the BuildHer community is so great.   LINKS: Come along to our International Women’s Day event Check out our other upcoming events here BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

We have an extraordinary DevelopHer joining us today to share her journey into project management and renovating for profit.  Anita is one of our incredible DevelopHers and today Kribashini speaks with her about her most recent renovation project, a Californian bungalow in Bentleigh, Victoria. One of the most important parts of developing is the ability to carry on with a project because let’s face it, there are always roadblocks.  Anita shares how her resilience helped her push through the challenge of finding the right builder and how she navigated the spanner that Covid threw in the works. Every build has its challenges but before 2020, at least you were allowed on site to check how things were going!  Unable to be there in person, Anita relied on facetime and constant phone calls to check on progress and make decisions.  She describes the frustration of not being able to see things in person, making communication with her builders and suppliers all the more crucial. Anita talks through some of the specifics of the renovation, including gorgeous high raked ceilings, curved features and a playful pink powder room which Kribashini can’t wait to see.  Tying in old with new, Anita has added a beautiful extension onto the bungalow, giving it a modern twist whilst maintaining its period charm.  Anita talks about the importance of seeing past what you’re presented upfront and having a vision for the renovation.   Finding the right home can take time - Anita visited over 20 places before she found this beauty.  In fact, she purchased it at auction via Facetime with her husband while she attended a BuildHer Masterclass!  It just goes to show, if you want something, you can make it happen and find a way around any roadblock along the way.   LINKS: BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

We love chatting to our DevelopHer’s about their journeys and asking them to share their stories on this podcast.  It’s inspiring to see what other people are doing and find out what they’ve learned along the way.  Each journey is so different and that’s what makes it so fun! Today Kribashini catches up with Sonia De Gregorio, one of our Master BuildHer’s and the Creative Director at Gama Homes where her husband, Ricardo, is the Founding Director.  Working together as a dynamic duo, Sonia and Ricardo are kicking goals in their business and loving the flexibility of being their own boss.  How great is it when you love what you do!? In this episode, Sonia talks about her transition out of her previously demanding full-time job in the financial services industry and what prompted her to take the plunge.  She shares her tips on how to make a transition and why it’s important to weigh up the financial and emotional reasons. Having a whole other career prior to working in the development industry, Sonia was able to transfer across a range of skills that have complimented Gama Homes and enabled the business to thrive where it was previously lacking.  Bringing a wealth of experience and understanding in processes, organisation and client relationships, Sonia’s role at Gama Homes has made things flow both at work and at home.  Sonia talks about how fun it is to work alongside Ricardo and how her passion for what she does makes it not even feel like work.   There’s so much to learn when it comes to building and there’s nothing like onsite experience to help it all make sense.  Sonia shares about how seeing a project through from beginning to end helps to put all the pieces of the puzzle together and everything comes full circle when you see things in action on site.  Enjoy a cuppa and a bickie with this episode.  It’s a feel-good one!   LINKS: Gama Homes: http://gamahomes.com.au/ BuildHer Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ BuildHer Instagram: @buildhercollective BuildHer Facebook: Women who Design, Decorate, Renovate & Build Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

Lauren Hasson is the Founder of DevelopHer and a senior engineer in apps and information security at a leading Silicon Valley fintech company. Lauren transformed her career from rock bottom into a top, high-profile professional and nearly quintupled her salary in less than four years. Now, she’s moving the needle to bridge the gender wage gap and inspiring thousands of women to build their best careers and break glass ceilings in STEM and tech.This week, episode 07 of This Green Planet Podcast with Lauren Hasson is about bridging the gender wage gap. Thank you for listening!If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag us! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and tell us your key takeaways!CONNECT WITH PENNY BAUDER:FacebookInstagramYouTubeCONNECT WITH LAUREN HASSON:Develop[HER]LinkedIn

A topic that comes up a lot for us is the building lifestyle.  How do I transition out of my day job and start supplementing my income with building and renovating for profit?  It’s a question that a lot of people are asking and it’s one we’re passionate about answering.  This is what we do and it’s what we love! The beauty of running your own projects is that it’s flexible with the lifestyle you want to create.  In this episode, we talk about how a lot of women get to a stage where they’ve worked really hard, they’ve built a career and when they start having children, they don’t want to be bound by long hours glued to a desk.  We’ve been there and we don’t want to do that anymore either! We also talk about what we’ve created with the DevelopHer’s group and how exciting it is.  Not only do we get to have fun being involved in hundreds of new projects, but we are also connected to this amazing community of women who all want the same thing.  We go into a bit more detail about how the BuildHer Masterclass works and why sharing the journey and learning as a group is so helpful in avoiding common pitfalls. The building lifestyle can work for so many people.  The transition takes time and it’s a journey that requires patience but will also bring excitement, fulfilment and purpose to your life.  So if you’re in limbo and think you might want to take the plunge but aren’t quite sure how to approach things, give us a call.  We have loads of experience and are keen to help.   LINKS: Website: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ Register for a call: https://go.oncehub.com/BuildHer

Tanish Hall is an Entrepreneur and Founder of IAS, she is a self taught board game developHER that started her own board game company because she loves board games.We talk birthdays and board games.Find out how divine intervention influenced her movingFind out what is the Blackest Thing There Is.Warning: We laugh a lot!About Hillman the Game: https://www.iasgames.com/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Mf4WMDr0icbRy-j8imukgContinue the conversation on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at DemondDoesQuestions or suggestion: email at demonddoes@gmail.com

This is the first episode of the Journey to DevelopHer™ Podcast hosted by Real estate entrepreneur and developer, Dionte Chantel. This episode features Narelle Myke, a female real estate developer from South Orange, NJ. She has developed residential real estate in Newark, NJ. She is a designated developer for the City of Newark.

Lauren Hasson is the founder of DevelopHer a platform that teaches women to build value and earn more money in tech. She also works remotely for a Silicon Valley payments company. Lauren had a degree in computer science, but had bad experiences early in her career and decide she didn’t want to work in tech, years latter with little technical skills she decided she wanted to make a change and find a way to work in tech once again. From that point, with little in the way of skill or connections, Lauren was able to build a network, find opportunity, and find success within two years. Learn more about Lauren and find great resources for starting and growing a career in tech at developher.com In this episode: * How Lauren went from being out of tech to finding success in the industry within two years * How consistently volunteering at hackathons when she was an intern led Lauren to placing 2nd at a high profile hackathon * Why having a bias toward action matters in building and growing a career * Doing good work alone is not enough, you have to be able to show your work, be your own advocate, and ask for opportunities * Why your reputation matters We also want to hear your story. If you've created an opportunity and found a career that makes you feel alive, send it to Isaac [at] crash.co

The unfortunate incident of a house burning down isn’t usually the type of event we celebrate, but for our guest today, it worked out quite well.  It can be surprising where good opportunities come from and buying a block from friends with tenants who burnt their house down is what started an exciting new venture for our special guest today. In this episode, we speak with BuildHer’s very own Social Media and Marketing Unicorn, Tamara Wynne about the luxury Beechworth Airbnb project her and her husband are undertaking.  They are building two houses perfect for couples, groups and families and, knowing Tamara, the end result is going to be gorgeous. Having grown up with parents who bought, renovated and sold numerous properties, Tamara fell in love with real estate and the process of renovation at a young age.  Working in the real estate industry, she bought and renovated her first house at the age of 21 and she’s been going strong ever since. Building from scratch is no small feat and we talk with Tamara about what she has learned throughout the design process and planning stages. Even though she’d love to design and manage the build herself, she thought realistically about what’s required (she lives nearly 3 hours away and has 4 kids. Hmmm.) and decided to enlist the help of an architect and project manager.  We think she’s done a really amazing job in managing everything involved and has avoided a lot of stress and setbacks by recognising how much time it takes to run a build. In just 1 year, Tamara and her husband have brought this build all the way through to the final council stages.  They’ve even picked out all the furniture and finishes and now it’s a matter of patience while they wait on council objections - patience being the operative word.  We’re really interested to hear how the rest of the building process goes and look forward to seeing Tamara’s Airbnb business take off.

On episode #15 of the 2B Bolder podcast, Lauren Hasson, the Founder of DevelopHer, an award-winning career development platform for women in tech, a full-time software engineer and a motivational speaker talks about her role and responsibilities as an engineer. She shares the story about why she created DevelopHER and why bridging the gender income gap and teaching women in tech the importance of negotiation and building financial and self-worth is so important to her.This podcast is for women just starting out in the tech industry to C-level execs, Lauren shares her passion for helping others like herself take ownership of their careers and invest in themselves to earn what they are worth.The 2B Bolder Podcast provides you first-hand access to some amazing women. Guests will include women from leading enterprise companies to startups, women execs, to coders, account execs, engineers, doctors, and innovators. To be inspired, visit https://www.2bbolder.com/podcasts.Learn more about DevelopHER https://developher.com/Special DevelopHER Beta Offer

Lauren Hasson is a software engineer who is devoted to helping female engineers get the most out of their careers. Her company, DevelopHer, is proof of that. She also offers a course called NegotiatHer that helps female engineers know their value and get it. We chatted about her work and the motivation for starting DevelopHer and NegotiatHer, especially in these times when so many are losing their jobs. Check out DevelopHer at https://developher.com/. TEACH THE GEEK teachthegeek.com youtube.teachthegeek.com @teachthegeek (FB, Twitter) @_teachthegeek_ (IG)

A house is more than just a building - a fact that even experienced builders can learn and build on under the mentorship of the BuildHer collective. Today’s guest is no exception: developing for profit, managing interiors, styling and of course the building - Anna Crawford does it all. She is a BuildHer, DevelopHer and a loved member of Rebeka and Kribashni’s inner circle. She represents half of a building design team Crawford Building completed by her builder-husband and she plays a critical role in managing the business side of building. They recently had success with the sale of 6 Simpson Street, Kew in Victoria - an architect-designed double-storey dwelling with four bedrooms, two living areas and two bathrooms, that was built from scratch - and Anna discusses the challenges of revealing the soul of this house when starting from the slab. Rebeka and Anna discuss Anna’s latest project, feasibility studies, managing sale price expectations, developing for profit and the difference between developing existing houses and starting from scratch. TOPICS WE COVER: The importance of your feasibility study - manage your property price expectations Not every project is going to be a “knock it out of the park” profit Selling allows you to move forward onto the next project There’s no such thing as a perfect site Breathing soul into a new house built from scratch Pros and cons of renovating for profit and living in your houses-in-progress How the BuildHer Collective community help build Anna LINKS WE MENTIONED: Anna Crawford’s Website Anna’s Instagram: @crawford_building Anna’s current build: @halecottage1926 Anna’s last build: 6 Simpson Street, Kew, VIC 3101 Check out the BuildHer freebies page and book your free 20min consult BuildHer Collective website BuildHer Collective on Instagram

Karen Roebuck (from Kadabra Group – a Victorian-based building company) didn’t start out as a builder. In episode 12 of Building with BuildHer, Karen talks of her entry into the building world from an unlikely origin in accounting and marketing; her career-change prompted by the joy and satisfaction she drew from project managing her own family home. Unbeknownst to her at the time, Daniel (a young carpenter in her employ), would become her business partner creating a partnership lasting now 15 years and spanning high-end Victorian terraces to modern apartments. Join Karen and Building with BuildHer’s Rebeka as they discuss the challenges and experiences Karen has faced, along with their much-needed empathy for clients surveying their works-in-progress. Kadabra Group: https://www.kadabra.com.au/ BuildHer Collective: https://buildhercollective.com.au/ DevelopHers Inner Circle: https://buildhercollective.com.au/inner-circle/

Everything starts with a good track, but talent alone doesn’t get you anywhere. Without promotion no publicity, without publicity no fans, without fans no gigs nor buyers of your tracks. I speak to Sally Freeman about building all of these. Sally is Managing Director of Love Live Music UK encouraging emerging musical talent and managing global press and digital for artists. For over 15 years Sally has specialised in creating global digital strategies for live events, brands, organisations, musicians and emerging artists. Managing the Press and Digital Strategies for the Dance Field at Glastonbury, career highlights include working with Stormzy, Craig David, Lewis Capaldi, Jamie Cullum and Fatboy Slim. Sally represents artists ensuring their online image is managed to ensure success and global online reach. Sally manages a team of 15 photographers and filmmakers at Glastonbury to ensure that Artists receive great PR and good press coverage. Sally is a Co-Founder and Partnership Director of the non- profit DevelopHer helping women thrive in the workplace. Sally is a proud honouree of the She Said So Alternative Power List 2019. Sally loves working with new artists and seeing them develop and become successful. Follow Grahame Farmer: Facebook: https://goo.gl/Xy6oD7 Instagram: https://goo.gl/HEfUMr iTunes Podcast: http://apple.co/thedailyboostpod YouTube: https://goo.gl/3JmFbF Get Hypeddit: https://goo.gl/wKJwdD Join our DJ Tips Broadcast: http://bit.ly/gftelegram Learn to Produce: http://bit.ly/educationbass Loops: http://bit.ly/2Z1AIVQ Plugins: http://bit.ly/2Z3wnS7

Knowing your worth can be challenging for most women in STEM fields, but it's the most important thing you can do to catapult your confidence and your career in the right direction. Our Guest today, Lauren Hasson is working passionately to bridge the wage gap in STEM fields with her company DevelopHER. Lauren is a Techie herself, she is a keynote speaker, entrepreneurs & a fellow podcaster. Let's talk to her and learn more about her amazing STEM story.   Link: https://developher.com Lauren's Online Course:- https://developher.com/negotiate/    

Lauren is the Founder of DevelopHer and a senior software engineer at a Bay Area fintech. Her work has been featured in Apple keynotes, she was one of 100 top innovators invited to attend the UK G8 Innovation and Decide Now Act Summits with the United Nation’s technology council, and she’s won multiple, high-profile hackathons. She holds a degree from Duke where she completed a triple major with honors in electrical engineering, computer science, and economics in just four years. Listen in as we talk salary negotiations, employee retention in cybersecurity, and public speaking. You can reach out to Lauren at DevelopHer, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Stay up to date with Witty through our website, LinkedIn or email us at podcastwitty@gmail.com. Support the show (http://wittypod.com)

This time we meet up with GeekGirl Lauren Ingram, a senior marketer specialising in PR, events and social media, with experience in agencies and tech startups. In early 2017 she launched Power Suit Social, a creative community which aims to keep creativity commercially viable. As if all this was not enough, Lauren is also a mentor mentor for SheSays, as well as an active member of the DevelopHer community for women in tech, and a member of and mentor for ONE! She’s a winner of awards such as: “2017 The Drum 50 Under 30 women in digital” and “2018 Pitch 100 Superwomen in the creative industries”.

On this episode, Gina and Tricia chat about training new recruits. We had a chat to Hugh Fahy, the GM of Engineering at MYOB, who works to ensure MYOB are producing the best products possible. To do so, MYOB needs to be able to recruit the top tech talent in Australia and New Zealand. The company looks to do this through the Future Makers program, a concept based on the maker philosophy with an emphasis on people who take pride in their craft and seek out mastery will be happier and more productive at work.  We spoke to Hugh about the growth of MYOB, the development of the Future Makers program and its DevelopHER initiative, and the company's culture.

Host Mubarakah Ibrahim talks women in tech with Founder of Developher.com Lauren Hasson.

Emily Atkinson is a software engineer and Managing Director of DevelopHer, formerly Girls In Tech UK.  Emily is passionate about encouraging others to learn more and has an interest in the crossover with tech and education.  She is also a regular speaker at events and workshops. In this episode Emily talks about the importance of having a career development plan and how it will help to propel your career forward.  Emily also tells us why we need to be continually challenged and why you shouldn’t get too comfortable in your job. To find out more about this episode, visit the show notes page at www.itcareerenergizer.com/e27