Today's guest is Tracy Lee - Serial Entrepreneur & founder of Coding Consultancy This Dot Labs

In this episode we discuss:

• Starting businesses
• Being a serial entrepeneur
• What startup life in the Bay Area is actually like
• ThisDot
• and much much more!

🌎 Connect with Tracy Lee
You can find Tracy on Twitter @ladyleet & you find This Dot Labs @thisdot.co

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Music by:
  Maccary Bay by Kevin MacLeod
  Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4010-maccary-bay
  License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

In this episode we talk with the gifted and very talented street artist Tracy Lee Stum.  Her globally immersive experiences in 3D street painting, 3D murals and anamorphic installations attract viewers all over the world.  

Born with crayons in her hand and the ability to tell incredible visual stories, Tracy was always drawn to a career as an artist.  Inspired by the stories her mother would tell that unlocked her imagination, she describes her childhood filled with journeys into the imagination.

After a career in visual merchandising crafting vignettes for retailers, Tracy discovered chalk sidewalk drawing at a festival in CA and was hooked. The ability to travel internationally was a bonus to come out of this experience of making artwork, and meeting and working with local artists in other countries connected her to the world. 

We hear how Tracy’s ephemeral and precious artwork invites viewers to step into her world, and connects her with the ideas, thoughts and opinions of her viewers.  Her interactive 3D street art is a magical experience that once discovered is treasured forever.

Tracy Lee Stum

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• Facebook
• Tracy’s Book- The Art of Chalk
• Team 3D at American Dream- Nickelodeon Universe

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JavaScript Remote Conf 2020

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Tracy Lee joins the adventure to talk about where the panel thinks Angular is headed. The conversation ranges from features of Angular 9 and Ivy to Scully to what we all thing the next thing will be.

Panel

• Charles Max Wood
• Chris Ford
• Eddie Hinkle

Guest

• Tracy Lee

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Scully
• Version 9 of Angular — Project Ivy has arrived!
• Web Components in Action
• Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot
• Investing in Underrepresented Minorities in Tech

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• Clean Coders Podcast
• Theme Forest Templates
• Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
• React Native

Chris Ford:

• Arkham Horror Third Edition
• London | RxJS Live!!!

Eddie Hinkle:

• Improved Build Errors on Angular 9
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (CW TV show)

Tracy Lee:

• Follow Tracy on Twitter @ladyleet, Github, LinkedIn
• Funeral Potatoes
• Tater Tot Hotdish
• Toad in the Hole

Follow Adventures in Angular on Twitter > @angularpodcast

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020

May 13th to 15th - register now!

Tracy Lee joins the adventure to talk about where the panel thinks Angular is headed. The conversation ranges from features of Angular 9 and Ivy to Scully to what we all thing the next thing will be.

Panel

• Charles Max Wood
• Chris Ford
• Eddie Hinkle

Guest

• Tracy Lee

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Scully
• Version 9 of Angular — Project Ivy has arrived!
• Web Components in Action
• Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot
• Investing in Underrepresented Minorities in Tech

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• Clean Coders Podcast
• Theme Forest Templates
• Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
• React Native

Chris Ford:

• Arkham Horror Third Edition
• London | RxJS Live!!!

Eddie Hinkle:

• Improved Build Errors on Angular 9
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (CW TV show)

Tracy Lee:

• Follow Tracy on Twitter @ladyleet, Github, LinkedIn
• Funeral Potatoes
• Tater Tot Hotdish
• Toad in the Hole

Follow Adventures in Angular on Twitter > @angularpodcast

JavaScript Remote Conf 2020

May 13th to 15th - register now!

Tracy Lee joins the adventure to talk about where the panel thinks Angular is headed. The conversation ranges from features of Angular 9 and Ivy to Scully to what we all thing the next thing will be.

Panel

• Charles Max Wood
• Chris Ford
• Eddie Hinkle

Guest

• Tracy Lee

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

Links

• Scully
• Version 9 of Angular — Project Ivy has arrived!
• Web Components in Action
• Geo for Bootstrap, a Timeless Theme by Divshot
• Investing in Underrepresented Minorities in Tech

Picks

Charles Max Wood:

• Clean Coders Podcast
• Theme Forest Templates
• Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game
• React Native

Chris Ford:

• Arkham Horror Third Edition
• London | RxJS Live!!!

Eddie Hinkle:

• Improved Build Errors on Angular 9
• Crisis on Infinite Earths (CW TV show)

Tracy Lee:

• Follow Tracy on Twitter @ladyleet, Github, LinkedIn
• Funeral Potatoes
• Tater Tot Hotdish
• Toad in the Hole

Follow Adventures in Angular on Twitter > @angularpodcast

Tracy took us all the way back to the creation of her first startup as a "non-technical founder". She told us about her dabbling with technology and how she learned to code. We talked about getting in the zone and relationships. We talked about passion and success. We discussed how to find ideas be scratching your own itch, as well as tips to make your weeks successful.

Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a mentoring and consulting firm, helping teams build front-end applications. She is a Google Developer Expert, an RxJS Core Team member, a WomenTechmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker. She also leads Community Relations at the Node Foundation and she is the host of the Modern Web podcast to name only a few.

Here are the links of the show:

• https://www.twitter.com/ladyleet
• https://www.thisdot.co/labs

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Welcome to another episode of Develomentor. Today's guest is Tracy Lee.

Tracy Lee is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy focused on helping companies with digital transformations. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, and a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. 

She heads up Community Relations for Node.js at OpenJS Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley and Triangle, and RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at http://thisdot.co/labs.

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Episode Summary

"Everybody on the team has kind of rallied around this idea that we're making money, we're helping companies. And we love helping companies. But even better than that, we can take that money and actually invest it back into the community."

—Tracy Lee

In this episode we’ll cover:

1. How Tracy started 3 companies while she was bored at her job
2. Why are there are so few women in tech?
3. How Tracy hires so many moms at ThisDotLabs and why moms have such a killer mindset.
4. Why it's so important to start blogging and producing content about your journey as soon as possible. 

You can find more resources and a full transcript in the show notes

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Tracy Lee is a Google Developer Expert, and Co-Founder of This Dot Labs and This Dot Media joins Aaron on this week's My Angular Story to share her coding journey.

Tracy majored in marketing and was interested in coding because her boyfriend was a developer. She also loves building communities and has helped build 12 companies in the past 14 years. Her main interests are coding in Angular, React, Ember, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning.

In her free time, she runs Venture Hacked with the mission to help create relationships between startups and investors as well as give talks at conferences on her coding adventures and enjoys pairing with friends.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Tracy Lee

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs.

Sponsors

• Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit

• Cachefly

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"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

____________________________________________________________

Links

• Tracy's Twitter

• Tracy's LinkedIn

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• CBS Survivor

Tracy Lee:

• Scanwich (Scandinavian Sandwitch)

Tracy Lee is a Google Developer Expert, and Co-Founder of This Dot Labs and This Dot Media joins Aaron on this week's My Angular Story to share her coding journey.

Tracy majored in marketing and was interested in coding because her boyfriend was a developer. She also loves building communities and has helped build 12 companies in the past 14 years. Her main interests are coding in Angular, React, Ember, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Machine Learning.

In her free time, she runs Venture Hacked with the mission to help create relationships between startups and investors as well as give talks at conferences on her coding adventures and enjoys pairing with friends.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Tracy Lee

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs.

Sponsors

• Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit

• Cachefly

____________________________________________________________

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

____________________________________________________________

Links

• Tracy's Twitter

• Tracy's LinkedIn

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• CBS Survivor

Tracy Lee:

• Scanwich (Scandinavian Sandwitch)