Trailblazer FM is a podcast that aims to help you build a WordPress agency that you, your employees, your clients, your suppliers, and your families all love.
We focus on practical advice to make achievable changes in your business that help improve your bank balance and wellbeing whilst not exhausting you with the hustle culture that is prevalent on the internet today!
AI is amazing. I use it daily as a sounding board, a bug finder or fixer, to summarise meetings, create action lists and more. As someone with (self-diagnosed) ADHD, being able to have AI create notes and actions for me is a “game changer”, as the cool kids say. However, I am disappointed that some…
Dan and Nathan jump on the show this week to share with me their pride and joy, PodcasterPlus Blocks. A WordPress plugin that lets podcasters build customisable, automated podcast websites using modular blocks that pull content directly from RSS feeds, enabling design freedom without having to rely on third-party player embeds. Some of the best…
Accessibility is often an after thought to a web build, even considered optional. We assume that most people are able to access our content and at best slap on a third party accessibility widget to tick a box. Gen Herres, my guest today, challenged several of my limiting beliefs… more people have hidden disabilities than…
What do you normally sacrifice when delivering for a client whilst trying to stay within the budget AND meet deadlines!? Look, we’re all small businesses here, how on EARTH do we deliver quality without overwhelm? I am sure we’d love nothing better than to tinker till we hit perfection but that aint gonna pay the…
I can’t doomscroll for 5 seconds without some “marketing guru” telling me what I should be doing to market my business. It’s bloody exhausting! You might remember I burned out trying to do everything back in 2023 and I nearly closed down this very podcast as a result! Rob Cairns is a long time friend…
Posts, pages, categories, media, WordPress has you covered. But when it comes to complex builds where do you turn? Great Opomu suggests… WordPress!? Whaaat!? Well I happen to agree if I am honest, I was saying this in 2016! WordPress and the ecosystem has done a LOT of growing up since then. The code base…
When asked what you do, what do you say? “I build websites” or “I am a web developer”. Heck even “I build websites in the XYZ industry”. Sounds nice and nichey right!? Well maybe not. Alex Curtis joins us today and shares his own experience of niching down. He shares what he does, who he…
I having banged on for years about niching down have to admit that today’s epic guest, young Adam Lowe is right when recommends we consider becoming a little more generalist! Why? Because like it or loath it, AI, machine learning, automation and other tools are making building websites a commodity and we might wanna consider…
“Why are most WordPress developers musicians” was a throw away comment from Zack during a random online natter. What was likely meant in jest sent my mind in circles. If it was a movie you’d see flashbacks of all the podcasts I have done in the past and behind most folks being interviewed, hanging on…
Feeling stuck, and don’t know how to get… well… unstuck!? What does stuck even look like? How do you know you’re stuck? Why is this opening so confusing? What’s with all the questions? Let’s face it, running a creative business is hard work. We wanna do that thing we love (be creative) but we own…
Finding it a slog to market your business, plugin or theme? You might be missing the secret ingredient… Passion. In today’s episode I chat with my good pal Davinder where he unpacks his experience of creating content focused on WordPress and how it naturally grew into a profitable business model that pays well, allows him…
AI streamlines your processes and makes you more productive right? I learned the hard way that it can seriously affect the quality of my output, my happiness and my reach! In this episode I share how AI nearly led to me completely shutting this podcast down, and how my relationship with AI is evolving and…
You know that thing you love doing that lights you up? What happens when it becomes your job and you feel completely overwhelmed by it? In this episode I share how Trailblazer FM once fulfilled me, then became a burden. How trying to monetise a hobby robbed me of the joy of creation, and led…
This is the last ever episode. Thank you for everything. Full show notes: https://trailblazer.fm/goodbye/
Overwhelmed, overworked, on the brink of burnout? Agency life is known for its fast pace and demanding clients, and I know from personal experience how burnout can completely de-rail you. As I slowly return recovery, I invited Cat Burchmore onto the podcast to help me learn how I could prevent burnout as a business owner…
