How SheCodes AI Helped Suzanne Go From Sports Broadcasting 📺 to Building Her Own Online Business 🎃
🙍♀️ Before SheCodes
Suzanne is a busy mom to a 6-year-old son and an 11-month-old daughter, so free time is rare! When she does get some, she loves managing her six fantasy football teams, and she has even won a few championships. 🏈 She is also learning to knit and is currently taking part in the 30-day knitting challenge for the Canadian Cancer Society. 🧶
Suzanne has built her career in broadcast television, specifically in sports. She knows the job so well that, in a pinch, she could take a product from its very first idea all the way to live broadcast by herself. Today, she develops and manages workflows and processes to help her team run as efficiently as possible.
Before joining SheCodes, Suzanne already had some tech experience. She had just finished an in-class course in Technical Writing, where she built a small website using Dreamweaver. She really enjoyed this first taste of front-end development and wanted to take her learning to the next level.
At the same time, she could see that AI was becoming a big force in how we work, both in the workplace and in daily life. She wanted to make sure she knew how to use it effectively. So when a friend told her about SheCodes, she decided to join! 🚀
👩💻 Her SheCodes Experience
Suzanne went all in. She is enrolled in everything SheCodes offers, starting with SheCodes Basics and SheCodes Plus. Along the way, she took a detour to complete the full AI learning path, SheCodes AI Basics, AI Plus, and AI Pro, before coming back to finish her original SheCodes learning. 💪
For her, the best part of the experience was gaining the confidence to build apps that would have felt too intimidating to even try before.
Building under Matt’s guidance made a big difference. There were many things she didn’t know about yet, or didn’t know how to put into practice. She even learned about security attacks she had no idea existed, which turned out to be a really valuable lesson. 🔐
One moment she will never forget: in the middle of a project, she ran out of Lovable tokens and wouldn’t be able to continue for a couple of days. But she was so in the zone that she switched to another builder to keep going! That’s when she realized how much she truly enjoys building, because she simply didn’t want to stop. 😄
“The best thing about my SheCodes experience was gaining the confidence to build apps that I would otherwise be too intimidated to even try.”
🙋 How SheCodes has Helped to Change Her Life
During SheCodes AI Pro, Suzanne built Spooky Threads, an e-commerce shop for people who love to embrace Halloween all year long. 🦇 Spooky Threads is based on a real business she has been slowly putting together, so she used the course as her practice run to see what she would actually need to get an e-commerce business up and running. She built it using Claude Code, ChatGPT, GitHub, Supabase, Vercel, Google Cloud Console, Cloudflare and Stripe.
Spooky Threads is the prototype for the business she is now building, and Suzanne didn’t stop there. She has since built other apps too, including Medsprout, a medication tracking app that reminds users to take their medication, alerts them when a refill needs to be ordered, helps set tapering schedules, and manages family members’ medications, all while keeping data stored only on the user’s device. 💊
Suzanne’s journey is proof of what happens when you learn the foundations of AI-assisted coding the right way. At SheCodes, we teach you the basics, and from there you can build on them and grow them into something bigger: projects that are truly your own and that you can keep working on long after the workshop ends. 🌱
Most importantly, SheCodes gave Suzanne the confidence to actually build her ideas. It has also made a difference in her current work, helping her find meaningful ways to make her team’s work better.
“It’s given me the confidence to actually build my ideas rather than just say ‘I wish I could do this.’”
👩💼 Advice to Future SheCodes Student
Suzanne’s advice is simple: embrace the process. She describes her journey as full of both frustration and excitement: frustration when she can’t figure something out, and excitement when it finally works. Just because something doesn’t work today doesn’t mean you won’t figure it out.
“Embrace the process. Just because something doesn’t work now doesn’t mean it won’t ever work or that you won’t figure it out. When everything finally comes together, it’s a very rewarding experience.” 💪✨
From fantasy football champion to building her own online store. We can’t wait to see what you build next, Suzanne! 🎃 💛
🎉 Suzanne’s SheCodes AI Basics Testimonial:
“I really enjoyed learning the nuances that go into effectively building with AI and I'm looking forward to the next courses!”
🎉 Suzanne’s SheCodes AI Plus Testimonial:
“I really enjoyed learning how to effectively use AI to create fully functioning websites.”
🎉 Suzanne’s AI Pro Testimonial:
“I really loved building a project that I was able to use as practice for eventually building my own business from scratch!”
