What happens when a former U.S. Intelligence analyst picks up coding from YouTube, builds a business by accident, and ends up empowering women around the world?In this inspiring episode, I chat with Julia Taylor, the founder and CEO of GeekPack — a mission-driven company on track to empower 1 million women and minority-owned entrepreneurs with digital and tech skills by 2030.Julia shares her unexpected path from military spouse and self-taught coder to educator, visionary, and community-builder. We talk about turning adversity into impact, creating safe spaces for learning, and how borrowed belief from others helped her go further than she ever imagined.If you’ve ever doubted yourself, been discouraged in the online space, or wondered if you have what it takes to create lasting impact — this conversation is your reminder that you absolutely do.INSIDE THE EPISODE:Why Julia never planned to be an entrepreneurHow a frustrating tech learning experience became the spark for GeekPackThe power of creating a no-shame learning communityLaunching a course from an RV — and having 60 people say YESBuilding a team of passionate former studentsWhat it really means to lead with vision (even when you don’t know the how)How to stay focused when you're pulled in a million directionsWhy your students’ results matter as much as your own metricsCONNECT WITH JULIA & GEEKPACK:- Website: geekpack.com- Instagram: @geekpack- Facebook: GeekPackRELEVANT LINKS:- Watch Episode On YouTube- Learn More About Kari Poppleton- Connect With Kari Poppleton on Instagram 

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