This episode features Bekah Hawrot-Weigel as she talks about how Virtual Coffee got started, the role of storytelling within communities, and the importance of learning the basics in development.

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Show Notes

0:00 Introducing: Bekah Hawrot-Weigel
2:10 Parenting Tips
4:43 Virtual Coffee
11:01 Tech Stack for the Website
13:03 Learning New Technologies
18:13 Sponsor: daily.dev
19:13 Working with the Basics
24:03 Asking Questions
- Virtual Coffee Discussions on GitHub
30:51 Participating in a Community
35:34 Sponsor: Hashnode
36:23 Renaming Networking to Investing in Your Community
40:25 Answering "Why Should we Hire You?"
41:12 Finding the Community that you want to be Part Of Through Storytelling
- How to get Run Over by a Truck
48:29 Soapbox: A Person Centered Approach to Build Both Internal and External Communities
- Never Split the Difference
52:54 Community Shout Outs