Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code

Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between America and European living, Formula 1 racing, juggling, video games, board games, and what Matt's working on next.

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Topics:
  • (00:00) - Dax is excited for...
  • (00:39) - Voice and accent coaching
  • (05:26) - Teaching tech vs teaching voice
  • (08:47) - Communication as a freelancing power up
  • (14:19) - Is working 8hrs a week the actual dream?
  • (21:36) - Educating Dax and Adam on European life
  • (24:30) - Key (not pee) break
  • (26:00) - Fit and fat, sit and sat
  • (27:19) - Learning to juggle
  • (29:05) - What video games does Matt play?
  • (34:22) - Formula 1 watching
  • (38:47) - Getting into chess
  • (43:37) - Board gaming
  • (48:50) - What's Matt working on next?
  • (57:24) - How many browser tabs do you have open at once?
  • (58:36) - The economics of book publishing

Creators and Guests

Adam Elmore
Host
Adam Elmore
AWS DevTools Hero and co-founder @statmuse. Husband. Father. Brother. Sister?? Pet?!?
Dax Raad
Host
Dax Raad
building @SST_dev and @withbumi
Matt Pocock
Guest
Matt Pocock
Full-time TypeScript educator. Used to be a voice coach. He/him. Author of Total TypeScript 🧙 Hire me to teach your team TypeScript!
Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code
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