How To Get Started as a Female Role Model in Tech | Episode 43 of Women Disrupting Tech

Join me as Leonie Wiggers-Frijters takes us on a captivating journey to becoming a female role model in Tech.

Listen to this episode to discover that

❤️ Love can make you choose a career in Tech. 
👨‍👩‍👦 You can work part-time and still be a role model 
🤷🏻‍♀️ Tech may be for you even if you have never considered it. 

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About Leonie Wiggers-Frijters

Leonie Wiggers-Frijters is a software developer at Mosadex e-health. She studied chemistry and worked as a flight attendant before venturing into the world of IT. You can learn more about Leonie and connect with her on LinkedIn. 

About Mosadex E-Health

Mosadex E-Health develops software solutions for pharmacies in The Netherlands. You can learn more about the company and find out any open positions they might have on their website or by following them on LinkedIn.

About Role It Out 

In addition to her work at Mosadex, Leonie is a role model at Role It Out. To learn more about the Role It Out Program, visit their website and follow them on LinkedIn and Instagram.

The Magic You Can Expect in this Episode 🪄

Let’s face it: not everyone likes coding. But does that mean you can’t become a software developer? 

Absolutely not! 

Just ask Leonie Wiggers-Frijters, who went from hating coding during her studies to becoming a software developer at Mosadex e-health and a role model for Role It Out.

In episode 43 of Women Disrupting Tech, Leonie shares her remarkable journey and reveals:
❤️ That she never even considered a career in IT until her husband introduced her to the field.
💡 How vital trust is to bring out the best in her and her teammates.
🚀 How she uses being a role model to push herself out of her comfort zone.

And that’s not all! 

Because even if you’re not interested in tech, you’ll want to hear the non-traditional career advice she could give her son.

What makes this episode magical🌟?

We all want the best for the women in our lives, right? 

So, let’s suppose that you know a woman who has never even considered a career in IT but who would be a perfect fit. Would you want her to find her calling?

If the answer is yes, this is the episode for that woman in your life. Because not too long ago, Leonie was that woman. In fact, she hated it. And now, she uses her magical IT powers to relieve pharmacies from their bureaucratic burdens.

As a true role model, she describes the deliberate choices she makes to grow her career. Like a deliberate choice to start working full-time while the rest of her company was working 4 days a week. Or the deliberate choice to find out how it is to be interviewed on a podcast. 

Plus, she has some well-thought-through advice for aspiring female role models.

What’s coming up?

Next week’s episode will feature an inspiring episode with a female founder of color who overcame some significant setbacks in her quest to harness the power of food to connect people and bridge cultural differences.

And in the week after that, we’ll learn what it means to do recruitment for tech startups. Spoiler: this episode includes a career change, too. 

By the way, you can discover more incredible stories and learn from trailblazing women on Spotify, Google, Apple, or Goodpods. There you can find the entire inspiring archive of episodes with over 1,000 minutes of Women Disrupting Tech content I have published since September 2022.

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