Show notesWatch us on YouTube:https://youtu.be/Yv85qru7pFI Franziska Hauck is a coach, consultant and mediator. With her experience as a people lead, she coaches engineering managers, developers and primarily those working in tech. She has consulted startups, content hubs and bootcamp providers. Previously regional lead for the developer relations community programs at Google, she has also worked as a project manager and community manager. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/franziskahauck/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_francied Franziska’s favorite micro-animal - tardigrades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade Franziska’s website with resources: https://fh-digital.org/ Check her Youtube talk on the topic of developer insights in Germany 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyVgj5sSsG8 Franziska’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6UcpoAaXlHYjQh_ugXGbww/featured Shout out to: https://accessibility-club.org/TranscriptionTIMEA:Hey Ramón! RAMÓN:Hey Timea! TIMEA:Let’s talk, gender equality. RAMÓN:I love the idea. Gimme a second. I just got to grab my coffee. I hope you’ve got yours too. TIMEA:Yeah, right here. TIMEA:Welcome to another podcast on gender equality over coffee. And Ramon And meare delighted to have today. Franziska, on our show. Hi, Franziska. FRANZISKA:Hello. RAMÓN:Hey there. I’m so excited to have you here, Franziska. And if I may share through the world, we are recording today on your birthday. So let me on behalf of our listeners, wish you a very happy birthday. TIMEA:Happy birthday. RAMÓN:Yeah. I can’t believe that you took the time to record with us. This is suchan honor. And you know, we want to make this as fun for you as possible. Sofor our listeners, Franziska, why don’t you tell us a little about yourself?Maybe fun nickname. And do. Please follow it up with three random things aboutyourself. FRANZISKA:It’s actually intriguing to note that I am not a big fan of nicknames.So IDo get called Fran a lot of the times of Franzi theGerman sort of nickname. But I do go by Franziska, only.So usually that’my as you would call it, nickname. My full name basicallyAnd for three things that I would sayDefine me or that peopleMight not know about me I’m a huge fan of tardigrades I’m not sure if you know whattardigrades are. TIMEA:Me not. RAMÓN:They are… no I’m gonna make a Fool of myself. Please tell us. FRANZISKA:You are on the right track. They are these little tiny, microscopic beingsthat you can find everywhere on this planet. And they’re actually superheroes. So youcan freeze them, you can cook them, you can put them in space.They will survive. They will just come back to lifem And they have seemingly eternal life And they’re just amazing. And.They also look, really really cute.And that combination I find is also kind of a macro for diversity, right? Things that might seemingly look cute, actually have.Great strength in them. So a huge set of tardigrades.And two other facts about me, I once stood on a stage with the rapper Tiger. If that tells you something, RAMÓN:I’m afraid I’m terrible at musicians! TIMEA:He’s in Germany? FRANZISKA:No, no.He’s a US rapperonce was linked with one of the Kardashian, Jenners and I wasat his concert in Munich, and I was dancing and I’m doing my thing. And thenthey were like, Franziska come up on stage. And there were a couple of people. TIMEA:That’s the next level public speaking fear for me in front of a huge stagewith a wellknown rapper. That’s something. FRANZISKA:Yeah, but the fun fact was that all of the other people went towards him. And I was like, Yeah, I’m on stage.And I just enjoyed that kind of a little bit more than.No proximity. There are no videos as far as I know.But I’m a big big. Afrobeats and dance all and hip hop in and so forth. So itwas an honor to be called up them and to be