From zero to hero, bursting through barriers with many years of anguish

Are you afraid to take the next step? Do you think you’re not good enough? Or wonder why you were hired in the first place? This is what we call Impostor Syndrome. Did you know some of the most famous, brilliant and amazing people suffer from it? In this talk I will share my experience and thoughts and hopefully help you take that step to become the developer you really want to become.

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1. Bursting through barriers with many years of anguish From zero to hero
2. Frontend Tech Lead @Patterson Agency Contributor @webpack Contributor @Nuxt Writer @Ultimate Courses Teacher @Vue School Media Developer Expert Debbie O’Brien debs_obrien Debbie O’Brien
3. Web design in 96
8. Moved to Mallorca
9. In the winter
10. PHP HTML CSS Photoshop Back to studying
11. Knocking on doors
15. iPhone
16. Adobe will kill Flash in 2020
17. Tables everywhere
18. CMS in php
19. Wordpress
20. Wordpress for everything
21. First frontend role
22. No money
23. English teacher
26. No money
27. English teacher
30. No money
31. English teacher
32. React, Vue, Angular, webpack, Jest, Cypress…… Job interviews
33. JavaScript
34. The new frontend
35. English teacher
37. Constantly climbing
38. lack of success Failure
39. Guardian angel
40. What is your dream?
41. My dream is
42. trivago
44. Time to apply
45. Build a booking engine in react
46. Online Tech Degree
47. goodbye teacher - hello student
48. 7 days a week 12 hours a day
49. 6 week booking engine
50. Another challenge
51. And Another Challenge
52. Not Wordpress again
53. Results are in
55. My testimonial
57. My testimonial
58. My worst interview ever
59. Peer reviews at Treehouse
60. First Real Job
61. bluekiri
66. Treehouse
67. Vue School
68. I want to be a speaker
69. Go out there and tell Stories
70. My first time as a Speaker
71. Imposter syndrome is back
72. The voice never goes away
73. Dreams do come true Write down your dreams
74. Everything is possible
75. You can do whatever you put your mind to but you have to work hard for it nobody said it would be easy You are awesome
80. Thank you Debbie O’Brien Frontend Tech Lead Consultant and Teacher Open Source Contributor @debs_obrien