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Blogging So Hard at #GHC19

Posted on 2019-10-032020-03-07 by Becky Elliott

Getting to GHC The best things in life never come easy. The process for getting a ticket to GHC could fall into that category. I submitted a session: rejected. I tried to buy a General Registration ticket: sold out. Once I resigned myself to not attending, I was gifted a ticket for which I’m incredibly…

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GHC19: Do Anything

Posted on 2019-10-032020-03-07 by Becky Elliott

I have serious soft spot for divergent career journeys. You used to sail boats for a living, and now you are an IT Consultant. Ooh, tell me more.  This idea of “doing anything” also conjures visions of incredibly non-linear paths.  I don’t feel like Carpenter’s career could be lumped into that category.  However, she’s taken…

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GHC19: Data Science and Pretty Charts

Posted on 2019-10-032020-03-07 by Becky Elliott

I don’t know what fun sounds like to you. But data science and pretty charts are a match for me. I’m also on this quest to explore various areas of IT that I think might be a fit for where I go next. While this probably isn’t based on reality, the idea of making sense…

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Pure Accelerate’s Inspired Keynote

Posted on 2019-09-232019-09-23 by Becky Elliott

How many of us are living our dream life? As children, we wanted to be astronauts, architects, or doctors. Somewhere along the way, we begin to doubt ourselves and our potential. We abandon our lofty childhood aspirations for a humdrum life. Pure Accelerate‘s Day 2 Keynote speaker Leland Melvin didn’t fall victim to any of…

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Three Nights of Karaoke

Posted on 2019-09-202019-10-26 by Becky Elliott

Is there anything more liberating than being okay with making a fool of yourself in front of others? We spend our whole lives avoiding situations like these. So, we keep quiet when we have something to say; stay in our chairs when we’d rather dance, or stay home when we’d rather go out and sing….

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Sabbatical Month 1: Am I Enough?

Posted on 2019-09-132020-11-12 by Becky Elliott

Have you ever read something that so closely aligned with your soul that when you read it, your first inclination is to raise a hand and say “preach?” While James Victore, Feck Perfuction* book inspires many of these moments for me, his “Freedom is something you take” essay feels like it was written for me…

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Doing Good: VMworld-Style

Posted on 2019-09-132019-09-12 by Becky Elliott

Will people remember you as someone who spent your entire life chasing a paycheck; consumed by your wants, needs, and fears? Or will your legacy be of someone that put good into the world? If you weren’t already thinking these things, there’s a chance that #VMworld at least inspired you to consider these ideas. Whether…

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A WordPress Tale: The Rebuild

Posted on 2019-09-082019-09-09 by Becky Elliott

Now for the final post in this series.  Let’s walk through the steps that I took to move my WordPress site from GoDaddy to AWS Lightsail. setup mail, configure SSL/TLS and resolve minor user-created issues. WordPress Move Mail SSL Minor Issues WordPress Move Backup your old WordPress Site  Thank god for those Updraft Plus backups…

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Weekend at the Improv

Posted on 2019-09-052019-10-26 by Becky Elliott

When I left my job, the thought of going around and having individual conversations to say “goodbye” filled me with far more dread than the idea of not getting paid for a couple of months. That was my lightbulb moment. Maybe, I have social anxiety. Honestly, I should have realized it way before that moment….

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A WordPress Tale: The Phoenix Rises

Posted on 2019-08-232020-10-19 by Becky Elliott

Now #PoweredByLightsail, my WordPress site and I are no longer beholden to one website on a shared server controlled by a web hosting company. I’m the master of my own domain, or at least master of my own server. Literally. With more power than I will ever get on a hosted website (that isn’t dedicated),…

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