June 11, 2025 • 11 mins
Learn to maximize what's in your hand. In the case of your medical coding certification and /or experience, squeeze the life out of it. What can you do with your coding experience?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Time to take a coding break. Welcome back to the
Coding Break podcast. I am your coding coach, Tom Talk
here to talk all things medical coding related. So I know,
I know, I know. I keep coming on here and
apologizing for being inconsistent, But I'm consistent because I'm consistently
(00:24):
being inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Eh, It's a cold thing. Figure it out.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
But nonetheless, I'm back and so t On today's episode,
I want to talk about the requirements for coding and
h learning, how to pivot and coding. I think I've
talked about this before, but it keeps coming up, and
I keep encouraging individuals, especially like students and clients, to
(00:49):
learn how to pivot and to take your seed and
run with it. Not just so much with coding per se.
Although we're talking about coding. This canna be any skill set.
It can be something that you learn on the job,
whether that is I'm going to say, whether that is nursing,
whether that is human resources, whatever that case may be
(01:12):
for you, whatever your experience, whatever your skill set is,
take it, learn it, gain the experience, and then learn
to pivot, learn to create, to plant that seed, to
create multiple seeds. Right when I say, multiple seeds, it
gonna be multiple seeds of purpose, multiple seeds of income.
Because here's the thing, and I strong believe like wherever
(01:32):
that purpose is, or your purpose lies, all the blessings
that come with it, whether that say monetary or influence whatever, all.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That is going to follow.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I encourage you to take your skill set or
take your seed, and to plant it and to pivot
to allow it to grow into multiple things.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right. We heard the story about about peanuts, right, and.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How peanuts are used for barriers things, right, various things
like from peanut butter to h it's something else. Y'all
gonna make me think critically think, Well, I'm not gonna
critically think. I just know that peanuts are used for
multiple resources and reasons, and the and the things that
(02:18):
they were used for. Those things are major right in
our culture and our society today. So take again, whatever
your skill set is, and look at it as a seed,
and then you take that, you plant it, you grow it,
you nurture it, and it keep it mind.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It will take time.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And then once you gain the experience and you're planning
and you see it's growing, then you need to start
planning those seeds from that and create another plant, or
another revenue or never another stream of income, another.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Purpose of what have you right?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And so and you do that and I and I
keep saying it will take time, it will take time.
It will take time. Nothing grows overnight. It takes time
for the things of God, the things of purpose, to grow,
to evolve. It's just like gardening. It's just like planning.
It takes time. No one is what's the world. Yeah,
(03:18):
we see about people going viral, we see about people
taking off.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Just because you go viral doesn't mean that you're going
to be like financially, you're going to be a millionaire
or billionaire or a thousand naire overnight. It just means
that you're getting more attention, you're getting more eyes on you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And so you have to keep that up right. But
if you take your time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And you plant the seeds, and you plant it and
you water and you nurture it and you grow it,
then it will grow into something.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You will start seeing that. It will take roots. You
will start seeing the flowers, you will start seeing the leaves.
You will start seeing it evolve or grow.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Then you take it take you know, the seeds from
that and then you planting else and the same process.
It's in the Bible, guys, it's in the Bible. Like
God gives us talents, right, he gives us each a talent.
He may give us more talents, others more talents or
what have you. And then, honestly, when I read that
the more talents is maybe the person who had the
(04:16):
seed and then they created multiple talents, right and so,
and they flourish. So you have to look at it
that way that we all have something. We all have
something to offer. We all have something to offer. And
and I repeat that, we all have something to offer.
In this case because this is a medical coding podcast,
(04:36):
we're talking about medical coding. We all have a skill set.
We all have a different perspective as it relates to
medical coding.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Right, I just share my perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, Your perspective may be totally different from mine, and
that's okay. You can share your perspective because other individuals
may like your perspective more than they like mine, and
that's okay. Maybe they can learn from your perspective more
than they can learn from my.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And I encourage individual especially students, if you're on a
journey where you're learning studying to become a medical coder,
that you start blogging, blogging content your journey. Start doing
that because that is going to gain attention.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
People can see.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You go through the process and you can see for
yourself the process.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That you've gone through. And as you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Through the process, you go through the process, and it
will it will motivate you. It will encourage you to
keep going. It will motivate and encourage other people to
keep going right or to pursue it or pursue their goals,
whether that's medical coding or whether that's whatever it is
that they're.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Trying to pursue.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And you do that like I did that when I
as in law school. I started blogging right, like different
things that I did, like how I spent money, how
budgeted money to buy groceries, how budget money to pay bills.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Just different things.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
What I study, How I study, what I you know,
how my grades turn out, like you know, lifestyle like traveling,
all those things. What I did and what it what
it did? It gave me a outlet from reading. I
don't wanna call it dance. It took m It gave
me an outlet from focusing on law, but it gave
me an outlet of lifestyle right where I can be creative.
(06:22):
And then the same with coding, yes, cause coding is
very again it's very coding. But when you start creating
content and putting your own spend on it, then it
allows for others to see the journey and s and
actually allows them to see how long it may take. Right,
it's not something that happens overnight, like you have to
put into work.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It shows others that work has to be put in.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It shows you that work has to be put in,
but it also gives you that outlet to be creative,
to tap into your creativity and perhaps start monetizing off
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So your coades. So while you're learning h uh are
s tr training to prepare for a career, you've started
another stream of income right through vlogging, through blogging, through
content creation, through influence, or whatever that case may be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And then you know, you start doing that and for example,
let's say you shop it. I'm gonna say Walmart, because
I'm a Walmart partner. You start shopping at Walmart, right,
and guess what, you become a partner with them, whether
that's an affiliate or they start sponsoring your content because
you're shopped there, right, So that's another stream of income.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's more income.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So you start picking up all these different things income
streams along the way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And yet and then you become a.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Card so that's another There you go, you reach your goal,
and in the process, you've developed other skills set whether
again again with content creation. You're learning how to public speak,
you learning how to video edit, You're learning how to.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Say speak, communicate via podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You're learning all these different skills as your pursuit in
pursuit of your your goal to become a medical coder
or whatever that again, whatever that that goal is for,
you use all your resources to me, like creating content,
creating a podcast, creating a blah blah blah that is
fun to me. That is my creative outlet, right because
(08:19):
no one's gonna do it like me. No one's gonna
have my perspective, no one's going to walk that journey
like I walk my journey, right, And so that's why
I encourage you, if you are in pursuit of again
a medical coding, start creating your content, especially if you
have started taking classes. Start creating your content, right, it
doesn't have to look like mine. It can look like
(08:40):
however you want to, like like for me. I started
with again, I of course, I, you know, worked as
a coder. I have you know, I have experienced I've
trained on the job, like training like during webinars and
stuff on the job, like the ones that work with
me or work for me, So I you know, trained
(09:01):
them right like through webinars and meetings. And then of
course I used to volunteer with community coding things and
that got me more exposure, more rehearsal, so to speak.
And then okay, so then I actually you know, spoke
somewhere and then I took again my presentation is you
(09:21):
says my outlant to write a book, right, a guide
for colders who are struggling with certain things operative reports
or whatever. And then it kind of went from their
podcast and it just kept going and kept going and
kept going. Right, So the same thing can happen for you.
It's just going to happen from your perspective, your journey,
your goal. And so again again this is something I
(09:43):
felt like I've talked about before, whether through my YouTube channel,
on my podcast, or on like the other platforms TikTok Facebook.
I've talked about it before and I'm going to continue
to talk about it again as a way of encouraging
individuals to pursue.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Their goals to start start somewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, you don't have to you don't have to
wait until you become a coder to start creating content.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Content.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Your journey through studying content, your journey in pursuit of
that goal, and so and you'd be surprised what you
will find. You may find out that you know, you
may not really want to because you may want to
be an attitude. You want to be a content creator,
you want to be an influencer, you want to be
an affiliate marketer, you want to be whatever it is
that you you've but because you've developed those skills.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Along the way. And yeah, so that's that's what I have.
That's what I have.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So again this is your reminder to start today. Start today.
So that's all that I have for the Coding Break podcast.
As always, it's a break and not gonna be too long.
It's just that a break. So until next time. Again,
if you haven't, go ahead and get my book. My books,
(11:01):
actually there's street books. The first one is learning how
to dissect an operative report, which is how to get
away with surgical coding. The next one is really understanding
what's required to work as a remote coder.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And then I have.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
An ebook while I'm talking, spelling out all those different
ways of different streams of income that you can create
as a medical coder. And all these books are physical
books as well as digital books e books.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You can download them.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So yeah, I go to Amazon and look up you
know my name, or you look up medical coding and
it will show they'll pop up. But that's not that
I have for today, And it's always remembered to be blessed,
don't stress, and to code on until next time.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Tootles
Time to take a coding break. Welcome back to the
Coding Break podcast. I am your coding coach, Tom Talk
here to talk all things medical coding related. So I know,
I know, I know. I keep coming on here and
apologizing for being inconsistent, But I'm consistent because I'm consistently
(00:24):
being inconsistent.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Eh, It's a cold thing. Figure it out.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
But nonetheless, I'm back and so t On today's episode,
I want to talk about the requirements for coding and
h learning, how to pivot and coding. I think I've
talked about this before, but it keeps coming up, and
I keep encouraging individuals, especially like students and clients, to
(00:49):
learn how to pivot and to take your seed and
run with it. Not just so much with coding per se.
Although we're talking about coding. This canna be any skill set.
It can be something that you learn on the job,
whether that is I'm going to say, whether that is nursing,
whether that is human resources, whatever that case may be
(01:12):
for you, whatever your experience, whatever your skill set is,
take it, learn it, gain the experience, and then learn
to pivot, learn to create, to plant that seed, to
create multiple seeds. Right when I say, multiple seeds, it
gonna be multiple seeds of purpose, multiple seeds of income.
Because here's the thing, and I strong believe like wherever
(01:32):
that purpose is, or your purpose lies, all the blessings
that come with it, whether that say monetary or influence whatever, all.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That is going to follow.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
So I encourage you to take your skill set or
take your seed, and to plant it and to pivot
to allow it to grow into multiple things.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right. We heard the story about about peanuts, right, and.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How peanuts are used for barriers things, right, various things
like from peanut butter to h it's something else. Y'all
gonna make me think critically think, Well, I'm not gonna
critically think. I just know that peanuts are used for
multiple resources and reasons, and the and the things that
(02:18):
they were used for. Those things are major right in
our culture and our society today. So take again, whatever
your skill set is, and look at it as a seed,
and then you take that, you plant it, you grow it,
you nurture it, and it keep it mind.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
It will take time.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And then once you gain the experience and you're planning
and you see it's growing, then you need to start
planning those seeds from that and create another plant, or
another revenue or never another stream of income, another.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Purpose of what have you right?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
And so and you do that and I and I
keep saying it will take time, it will take time.
It will take time. Nothing grows overnight. It takes time
for the things of God, the things of purpose, to grow,
to evolve. It's just like gardening. It's just like planning.
It takes time. No one is what's the world. Yeah,
(03:18):
we see about people going viral, we see about people
taking off.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Just because you go viral doesn't mean that you're going
to be like financially, you're going to be a millionaire
or billionaire or a thousand naire overnight. It just means
that you're getting more attention, you're getting more eyes on you.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And so you have to keep that up right. But
if you take your time.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
And you plant the seeds, and you plant it and
you water and you nurture it and you grow it,
then it will grow into something.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
You will start seeing that. It will take roots. You
will start seeing the flowers, you will start seeing the leaves.
You will start seeing it evolve or grow.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Then you take it take you know, the seeds from
that and then you planting else and the same process.
It's in the Bible, guys, it's in the Bible. Like
God gives us talents, right, he gives us each a talent.
He may give us more talents, others more talents or
what have you. And then, honestly, when I read that
the more talents is maybe the person who had the
(04:16):
seed and then they created multiple talents, right and so,
and they flourish. So you have to look at it
that way that we all have something. We all have
something to offer. We all have something to offer. And
and I repeat that, we all have something to offer.
In this case because this is a medical coding podcast,
(04:36):
we're talking about medical coding. We all have a skill set.
We all have a different perspective as it relates to
medical coding.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Right, I just share my perspective.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Right, Your perspective may be totally different from mine, and
that's okay. You can share your perspective because other individuals
may like your perspective more than they like mine, and
that's okay. Maybe they can learn from your perspective more
than they can learn from my.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And I encourage individual especially students, if you're on a
journey where you're learning studying to become a medical coder,
that you start blogging, blogging content your journey. Start doing
that because that is going to gain attention.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
People can see.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
You go through the process and you can see for
yourself the process.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
That you've gone through. And as you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Through the process, you go through the process, and it
will it will motivate you. It will encourage you to
keep going. It will motivate and encourage other people to
keep going right or to pursue it or pursue their goals,
whether that's medical coding or whether that's whatever it is
that they're.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Trying to pursue.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And you do that like I did that when I
as in law school. I started blogging right, like different
things that I did, like how I spent money, how
budgeted money to buy groceries, how budget money to pay bills.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Just different things.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
What I study, How I study, what I you know,
how my grades turn out, like you know, lifestyle like traveling,
all those things. What I did and what it what
it did? It gave me a outlet from reading. I
don't wanna call it dance. It took m It gave
me an outlet from focusing on law, but it gave
me an outlet of lifestyle right where I can be creative.
(06:22):
And then the same with coding, yes, cause coding is
very again it's very coding. But when you start creating
content and putting your own spend on it, then it
allows for others to see the journey and s and
actually allows them to see how long it may take. Right,
it's not something that happens overnight, like you have to
put into work.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
It shows others that work has to be put in.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
It shows you that work has to be put in,
but it also gives you that outlet to be creative,
to tap into your creativity and perhaps start monetizing off
of that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So your coades. So while you're learning h uh are
s tr training to prepare for a career, you've started
another stream of income right through vlogging, through blogging, through
content creation, through influence, or whatever that case may be.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
And then you know, you start doing that and for example,
let's say you shop it. I'm gonna say Walmart, because
I'm a Walmart partner. You start shopping at Walmart, right,
and guess what, you become a partner with them, whether
that's an affiliate or they start sponsoring your content because
you're shopped there, right, So that's another stream of income.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
That's more income.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So you start picking up all these different things income
streams along the way.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And yet and then you become a.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Card so that's another There you go, you reach your goal,
and in the process, you've developed other skills set whether
again again with content creation. You're learning how to public speak,
you learning how to video edit, You're learning how to.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Say speak, communicate via podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
You're learning all these different skills as your pursuit in
pursuit of your your goal to become a medical coder
or whatever that again, whatever that that goal is for,
you use all your resources to me, like creating content,
creating a podcast, creating a blah blah blah that is
fun to me. That is my creative outlet, right because
(08:19):
no one's gonna do it like me. No one's gonna
have my perspective, no one's going to walk that journey
like I walk my journey, right, And so that's why
I encourage you, if you are in pursuit of again
a medical coding, start creating your content, especially if you
have started taking classes. Start creating your content, right, it
doesn't have to look like mine. It can look like
(08:40):
however you want to, like like for me. I started
with again, I of course, I, you know, worked as
a coder. I have you know, I have experienced I've
trained on the job, like training like during webinars and
stuff on the job, like the ones that work with
me or work for me, So I you know, trained
(09:01):
them right like through webinars and meetings. And then of
course I used to volunteer with community coding things and
that got me more exposure, more rehearsal, so to speak.
And then okay, so then I actually you know, spoke
somewhere and then I took again my presentation is you
(09:21):
says my outlant to write a book, right, a guide
for colders who are struggling with certain things operative reports
or whatever. And then it kind of went from their
podcast and it just kept going and kept going and
kept going. Right, So the same thing can happen for you.
It's just going to happen from your perspective, your journey,
your goal. And so again again this is something I
(09:43):
felt like I've talked about before, whether through my YouTube channel,
on my podcast, or on like the other platforms TikTok Facebook.
I've talked about it before and I'm going to continue
to talk about it again as a way of encouraging
individuals to pursue.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Their goals to start start somewhere.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, you don't have to you don't have to
wait until you become a coder to start creating content.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Content.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Your journey through studying content, your journey in pursuit of
that goal, and so and you'd be surprised what you
will find. You may find out that you know, you
may not really want to because you may want to
be an attitude. You want to be a content creator,
you want to be an influencer, you want to be
an affiliate marketer, you want to be whatever it is
that you you've but because you've developed those skills.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Along the way. And yeah, so that's that's what I have.
That's what I have.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So again this is your reminder to start today. Start today.
So that's all that I have for the Coding Break podcast.
As always, it's a break and not gonna be too long.
It's just that a break. So until next time. Again,
if you haven't, go ahead and get my book. My books,
(11:01):
actually there's street books. The first one is learning how
to dissect an operative report, which is how to get
away with surgical coding. The next one is really understanding
what's required to work as a remote coder.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And then I have.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
An ebook while I'm talking, spelling out all those different
ways of different streams of income that you can create
as a medical coder. And all these books are physical
books as well as digital books e books.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
You can download them.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So yeah, I go to Amazon and look up you
know my name, or you look up medical coding and
it will show they'll pop up. But that's not that
I have for today, And it's always remembered to be blessed,
don't stress, and to code on until next time.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Tootles
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