Be warned: this podcast contains kindness and care and a decent description of how Guns&Roses are a guide for startups! PJ is a developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate.

This week, we decided to revive the 2018 podcast with Andrew Grill as we bring up public speaking, the rough journey of becoming a public speaker and such. If you are in DevRel you are probably a public speaker or want to be one.

When we talk about Developer Relations, we often talk about the three Cs: Code, Community, and Content. This week's podcast talk makes a turn at bringing those three together.

A trip back in time – listen to Vicky Twomey-Lee’s great description of her patient and committed community building in the world of Python and beyond. A how-to guide on building a community and successful event creation! Spoiler alert: it takes work, commitment and patience. Vicky Twomey-Lee is a diversity in tech & community veteran. You need community BEFORE you have an event!

So, you're a developer, but you feel you need a change of role, but not industry. Well you've come to the right podcast today! In this episode we talk to Alvin Bryan, Developer Advocate at Contentful and a coach at Codebar, a really interesting initiative to help people learning to code and starting out in various languages. Alvin generously and openly walks us through how he moved from being a frontend developer to his current role.

Richard speaks to Joan Mulvihill, Digitalisation & Sustainability Lead at Siemens. This conversation is particularly relevant to CEOs and business leaders feeling under pressure to deliver a digital transformation in their organisations. Joan is brilliant on the "value outcome" and breaks down the three options - a faster horse, a car or something different!

In this conversation Suze offers really great insight in to the relationship between sales and DevRel and how you have to be really careful in your organisation not to position DevRel as just another part of the sales funnel because nothing turns off developers and damages a community of developers as trying to sell to them directly!

This year, DevRelCon is in Prague from Dec 6th, but this interview, carried out before the pandemic, gives wonderful insight in to Matthew's own interest and pedigree in events, but also the genesis of DevRelCon. Listen to Matthew's perfect description of developer relations too!

In this episode we are in a detailed conversation with Eoin Boylan the CTO of Evervault, a company that does encryption as a service. This is a Developers Relations how-to guide!

Matteo is well known from his Fastify project one of the fastest webservers written in Node.js. Matteo has just launched a start-up - Platformatic and in this podcast he'll discuss how his experiences led him to not only form the company, but to structure it and grow his community in very specific ways.

Asim Aslam is a CEO who codes. His company M30.com offers a universal suite of microservices, offering a full business logic layer for building applications; the purpose of microservices! This conversation openly and honestly discusses the challenges and experiences of maintaining open source projects but also of commercialising a start-up

Joe is a senior dev rel person at MongoDB. We talk about the development of developer relations, how critical it has been to the success of MongoDB.

In this episode Richard speaks to Caelen King, Angel, advisor to start-ups and founder. They discuss advice for non-technical founders and domain experts seeking to build their MVP. Listen for two important learnings.

Richard chats with Ovidiu Matan a creator of technology events and conferences. Ovidiu sources speakers and content through his successful Today Software Magazine. Based in Romania, Ovidiu explained to Richard in February 2022 about the impacts of the pandemic on his business, the changes he was forced to make and which of these changes proved to be lasting pivots.

Willie Nicol is a life coach with an unusual background – he was a police officer in the Scottish police force for thirty-one years. In a Fireside Chat with Richard that crackled with dynamism, he shared his no-nonsense approach to life coaching