112: Leaving Law to Reclaim Rest, Voice, and Agency with Dana T. Weekes

Dana T. Weekes shares why she left a successful legal and policy career, took a year to rest, and built Thrive Architects around voice, agency, and self-liberation.

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    23: Adapting To The Fear Of Taking Risks – Luke Chirayil

    When the Pandemic struck, Luke Chirayil, a self-taught programmer from Chicago, fearlessly pursued his passion for technology and marketing by pivoting from a corporate job to his own business, battling the fear of failure and the pull of comfort for a chance to follow his dreams.

    “When you’re self taught, when you drop out of school, you don’t have a degree, you’re kind of in that impostor syndrome phase where you’re like, am I a real programmer? Am I really cut out for this? So it really helped me, especially going through the boot camp, and just that helped me realize, okay, I am pretty good at this stuff.”
    Luke Chirayil is a self-taught programmer and entrepreneur who dropped out of school and launched his own digital marketing company, Ndm Analytics, prior to the pandemic. He has since leveraged the pandemic to help businesses transform digitally and stay afloat.

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