From Zero to Hero with several years of Anguish - Bursting through barriers

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A personal journey of beating impostor syndrome records concrete steps: learns React via OpenClassrooms and Treehouse with a weekly mentor, completes nine hiring challenges and studies 12 hours daily, builds a functioning React booking engine (single‑page app with static pricing) and automates work with Gulp, accumulates 100 peer reviews, fails an early Trivago application then wins a front‑end role at a Mallorca travel company; takeaway: mentorship, deliberate practice, and shipping imperfect but working code.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker background
2. 1:12Early web development struggles
3. 8:32Career ups and downs in tech
4. 13:04Hitting rock bottom and personal challenges
5. 17:13Rediscovering dreams with a mentor
6. 20:47Learning JavaScript and React intensively
7. 27:50Job interviews and impostor syndrome
8. 33:10Understanding impostor syndrome
9. 37:21Career breakthrough at Treehouse
10. 38:27Creating courses for Vue School
11. 39:50Becoming a conference speaker
12. 44:23Overcoming self-doubt and embracing possibilities
13. 47:33Q&A and closing remarks

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