Geekzilla Podcast: For Techies by Techies
Discover an outstanding source of education, empowerment, and community with the Geekzilla podcast. Whether just beginning to explore technology professionally or being a seasoned technologist, Geekzilla delivers expert insights across the latest tools and career strategies tailored specifically for ambitious technical women.
Share Knowledge, Amplify Impact
Join creator Rashaad Bey (@geekzillamom) as she shares lessons from climbing the tech industry ladder as a self-taught professional while managing health issues like PCOS and, more recently, battling lymphoma. Her triumphs through life’s adversities to career breakthroughs inspire weekly candid and upbeat conversations unpacking all things technical (and beyond) to empower other women entering tech.
Expect timely explorations on breaking into software engineering, shifting careers midstream to technical roles, opening a dev shop, excelling in cybersecurity, dominating data science, and growing within executive leadership tracks. The floor is open for real talk around pursuing next-level goals with people who look like you in a space often lacking diversity.
Created by Geeks for Geeks
Rashaad taps leading experts across technical specialties for their best career strategies, tools of the trade, latest tech stacks, management of stress and imposter syndrome, work-life balance as a parent or health warrior, and more. Recent guests include Felicia O’Garro, talking blockchain; Tiera Maynard, covering quality assurance roles; Kimberly Bryant of Black Girls CODE; and Leila Fletcher, explaining iOS mobile dev essentials for landing senior engineering jobs.
You’ll walk away from each episode feeling motivated, better informed, and better equipped to tackle new challenges on the path towards mastering highly sought-after skill sets within technology’s exploding career growth opportunity.
Build Community, Mobilize Movements
The show extends off-air, too by building an engaged community for ambitious tech ladies to connect through a Facebook Group with nearly 800 members currently. Rashaad and guests continue conversations by answering audience questions and celebrating milestones like landing first internships, getting into dev academies, or earning AWS certifications.
It takes a village supporting one another through the highs and lows. Tune into Geekzilla podcast episodes whenever you need an extra dose of wisdom or sisterhood. Then, engage with both rising and established stars within the Slack channel or online community.
Start Your Journey
Begin unlocking your technology potential by tuning into the Geekzilla podcast, which is available across all major channels like Spotify, Apple, and YouTube.
Discover series catered to interests across:
- Coding careers
- Data science and analytics
- Cybersecurity trajectories
- Technical writing paths
- Executive leadership
- Latest AI advances
- Navigating tech as a parent
- …and more!
Then, continue the conversation by joining the Facebook community and Slack channel to mobilize collective power towards realizing career breakthroughs. Your future awaits — walk boldly towards it with support from Geekzilla resources behind you each step ahead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who created the Geekzilla podcast?
Creator Rashaad Bey launched the Geekzilla podcast to empower technical women through candid conversations on educational, career, and wellness topics, along with building community.
What types of technology does the podcast cover?
Topics span breaking into software programming, data science, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, technical writing, leadership, and the latest AI advances.
What extras are included beyond the podcast?
An engaged Facebook community and Slack channel extend conversations on achieving technology career goals while finding mentorship and networking.
Where can I access Geekzilla podcast episodes?
The show is available widely across Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and other major podcast platforms — perfect for listening during commutes!
How often are new episodes released?
Geekzilla releases weekly podcast episodes and plans to increase the frequency with its growing audience interest among ambitious technical women.