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This is a quick PSA.
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I'm about to tell you how
to get Coursera courses.
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For free.
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With a little piece of plastic.
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That you can get for free.
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And there's no gimmicks.
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There's no catches.
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There's no coupon codes.
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And I'm not asking you
to subscribe to anything.
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But it is pretty cool.
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So keep listening.
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I originally added this PSA.
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Into the podcasts that I do
called bite-size security.
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But really it applies to anybody
who's listening to the higher drive.
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Because you're probably
looking for training.
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For whatever career path
you're looking to do.
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And this may very well apply to you.
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So if you now have
LinkedIn learning for free.
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What you should on my previous podcast.
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And possibly Udemy.
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You now can get Coursera courses.
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For free.
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Possibly.
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And I'm going to tell you
how to do that right now.
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If you are interested in taking the Google
cybersecurity professional certificate
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course, which has eight modules.
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And it might take you, I don't know,
six months to do, depending on the
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level of expertise you're already at.
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You're looking at $49 a month.
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So maybe $300 to do it.
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If you really stick to it for
the seven months and you have
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absolutely no experience.
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However, if you'd like to get it for
free, no gimmicks, no coupon codes.
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I'm not selling you.
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Some, you know, some portal
for you to join for my services
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if you are in California, New
York, Tennessee, Missouri,
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and the city of Chicago.
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And potentially somewhere
else, but you'll have to check.
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Get yourself.
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A public library card.
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Already said it in the last episode.
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But I did discover.
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That indeed Coursera was
offered to me through the.
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California state public library.
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So one of the library cards was
Contra Costa that collected.
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And when I logged into the digital
resources, there was Coursera.
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Now is on a wait list.
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But I did get, I did get the invite.
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And it said to keep checking
back and I did it like every
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Monday, they must purge it.
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And I went back and I checked.
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And I got in.
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And now I am taking the full eight
module, Google cyber security,
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professional certificate.
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And each module that you finish
and there's eight of them.
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You get a certificate
with your name on it.
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That you can use for CPE credits for
if you already have a current cert.
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So I'm using them for my CISSP and it
shows me the approximate hours that I took
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and the actual downloadable certificate.
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So I grabbed both.
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I put them in my portal and
they're accepted and I can prove
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that I've taken that training.
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So if you're in any of those
states, Your public library.
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May offer.
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Coursera.
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They may not, but they may.
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And if it wasn't one of the listed,
you should check because there
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are a lot of digital resources out
there beyond just LinkedIn learning,
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which seems to be the primary one.
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That you don't even know exists
because every library page.
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Is different and it's weird.
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And every card has its own
bar code and every card has
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its own pen and its password.
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So, what you need to do is get
yourself a library card and you
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already have one figure out what
your pin and your password is.
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Log into that libraries cards
website online and see what
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other resources you can get.
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I also get Udemy.
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And this free wifi hotspots,
New York times wall street
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journal access to audio books.
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The list goes on.
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It's quite extensive, actually.
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And you're going to save yourself.
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Initially hundreds of dollars, but in
a year's time, thousands of dollars.
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If nothing else, if you're
interested in a cyber security.
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Certificate and you want to take the
Google cyber security professional
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certificate, or you can go on LinkedIn
and start setting, studying for the
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CISSP it's well, worth your time
to do this because I'm telling you.
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Not a lot of people.
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We'll take the time to do it.
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And if you do that makes you
curious, it makes you inquisitive.
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And those are also qualities of
someone who's going to succeed
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and do very well in cyber security
