This episode focuses on the crash courses, training sessions, and workshops that the company Excelerate provided pre-pandemic. I had the pleasure to speak with Whitney Pettis, who is the founder of Excelerate and she spoke about the online and in person courses that her company offered to those who were looking to change careers, learn new skills, or just add to their resume. She mentioned that just by adding a computer programming skill to your resume could boost your salary by 10K-20K depending on the skill. She and I met a few years back when she initially had few classes she offered like SQL, Excel, and learning about Excel formulas and from that point on, her business grew to a point where she was able to get into her own building to host classes. Once the pandemic hit and the shutdown happened, it stopped everything for her like most of us in the world. She then went on to provided strictly online courses but that wasn't bringing in much of the revenue that she anticipated so she turned to another alternative.

As word got out about her business, more companies started to reach out to her for consulting purposes to basically training company employees on the different skills she provides like learning SQL, and how to communicate through data among other skills. Her love for both technology and entrepreneurship has helped her catapult her career tremendously. She has a love for teaching which has helped so many people especially in the black community.

Technology and the medical fields are the most demanding and high paying jobs in the world, we as black people need to take full advantage of the many opportunities that are out there for us to be in these fields and not just be consumers or patients.

I would like to thank my dear friend Whitney again for being on the show sharing her experience and the many work she's doing to help move the culture forward as a business owner and as someone who trains those who are looking to be in the technology field.