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Walk The Talk Teacher Podcast

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The Walk The Talk Teacher Podcast is hosted by me, Nelly Sugu, a teacher testing learning on himself. As of the creation of this podcast, I’ve spent more than ten thousand hours teaching, guiding, and mentoring more than 700 adult students into becoming software engineers, from very many diverse prior backgrounds. For those that are familiar with the term, I’ve spent most of my teaching career teaching coding bootcamps type of students. Backtrack to 1994, as fate would have it, I found myself living in Rwanda at 4 years old. I survived all whole genocide that went down there and stayed put there for another 14 years. I didn’t come to America until I was 19 years old (2009). I never owned a computer until I was 19 years old. Fast forward in 2022, I’ve impacted more people than I can count, my current count is hovering at near 1000 human beings whose lives I’ve personally touched/impacted in a positive way. On the one hand, this podcast is my outlet to share all of the lessons learned while: * Being an African immigrant to America, first of my name * Spending 4 years in college majoring in something you never ever wanted to do, let alone new existed * Living & studying in America where they only speak English while all my official English training consisted of saying ”he”, ”she” and ”it”, sometimes ”they”. * Securing myself a DUI felony as senior in college, spending a night in lock up and trying to apply for jobs with that kind of stellar criminal record * Thinking my first job was doing me a favor by hiring me right after college despite my criminal record and immigration status to only find out that I was a $20-40k/year savings hire to them (I worked for them for 4 years) * Picking up the paint & brush of my life and painting it any color I fucking please and how I am where I am today. On the other hand, this podcast is both self-therapy for me and an intentional move to strategically position myself to learn new things. This is the first podcast I’ve ever created.

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United States

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The Walk The Talk Teacher Podcast is hosted by me, Nelly Sugu, a teacher testing learning on himself. As of the creation of this podcast, I’ve spent more than ten thousand hours teaching, guiding, and mentoring more than 700 adult students into becoming software engineers, from very many diverse prior backgrounds. For those that are familiar with the term, I’ve spent most of my teaching career teaching coding bootcamps type of students. Backtrack to 1994, as fate would have it, I found myself living in Rwanda at 4 years old. I survived all whole genocide that went down there and stayed put there for another 14 years. I didn’t come to America until I was 19 years old (2009). I never owned a computer until I was 19 years old. Fast forward in 2022, I’ve impacted more people than I can count, my current count is hovering at near 1000 human beings whose lives I’ve personally touched/impacted in a positive way. On the one hand, this podcast is my outlet to share all of the lessons learned while: * Being an African immigrant to America, first of my name * Spending 4 years in college majoring in something you never ever wanted to do, let alone new existed * Living & studying in America where they only speak English while all my official English training consisted of saying ”he”, ”she” and ”it”, sometimes ”they”. * Securing myself a DUI felony as senior in college, spending a night in lock up and trying to apply for jobs with that kind of stellar criminal record * Thinking my first job was doing me a favor by hiring me right after college despite my criminal record and immigration status to only find out that I was a $20-40k/year savings hire to them (I worked for them for 4 years) * Picking up the paint & brush of my life and painting it any color I fucking please and how I am where I am today. On the other hand, this podcast is both self-therapy for me and an intentional move to strategically position myself to learn new things. This is the first podcast I’ve ever created.

Language:

English


Episodes
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9/23/2022
Kinyarwanda segment: 2:46 - 7:44 “Everyone wants to be around you. You give off this positive energy, and it’s infectious. And it’s something I’ve always admired about you. And people can tell. Whether they listen or they spend time with you in person, it’s the same deal. You are authentic and real and true and loyal and honest and just positive and add value to everyone’s life whose path you cross. So, man, I want to thank you for everything you’ve done. For me, for my family, for the country, and I’m just so excited that you are passing these lessons along, experiences along, and helping others, as you mentioned it, naturally so many times (you were just helping others), at every stage of your life and to include now with the Team Performance Institute. So, man, thank you for everything.” Navy Seal Snipper & The Terminal List Author Jack Carr thanking his buddy Jon Sanchez on Danger Close Podcast (For the programmers, the right conditional to match the theme of this episode should have been an OR instead of AND operator).

Duration:01:14:53

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Week 1 Day 1

9/19/2022
”He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational. And whatever else he was, Reacher knew he was a rational man” - Die Trying by Lee Child

Duration:00:36:50