It's incredibly timely to be doing this now, because up until this very month, I thought it was a bit of a stretch to call me "successful".
Most of my experience in software is through volunteering for Exercism and even when you contacted me about doing this, I was technically unemployed.
This just changed a couple of weeks ago, when I received my first sponsorship to work on open source!
In preparation for this, I kind of accidentally got addicted to your podcast, and have spent a huge amount of time listening to the back episodes, trying to recognize common themes, and thinking about what qualities are expresses by my favorite guests.