State of the Motivation

Do you celebrate your birthday? Do you go to the mountaintops? Do you relish in a photoshoot? Some things are big. Some things are small. We can enjoy them all.

In this episode, Michelle and Kathy talk about how the open source WordPress community is motivated more by collaboration than competition. Even for large companies, we’re all motivated by serving the WordPress users and the mission of democratizing publishing, leveling the playing field so that small startups and bloggers can create effective sites as easily…

The world is often set up to keep us small. From teachers who want easier classrooms, parents who just want peace and quiet after a long day of work, the structures of disempowerment exist in many unconscious ways even as we get older. And yet, most of us know that we’re destined for something greater….

Sometimes you just have to rant. Or vent. Or let all the steam out. It’s good for you! In this episode Michelle and Kathy open up about unrealistic expectations, demands on time, and even failure on their own parts to get all the stuff done. And Michelle even cusses a little. But doesn’t it feel…

As Michelle prepares for WordCamp Rochester, a visit to the final resting places of both Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass with WCROC’s keynote speaker Nyasha Green sparks awareness of the dramatic impacts that change agents can make on the world. The right to vote was, in their day, a privilege allowed only to few….

When you find success in a new field or venture, it can typically be traced back to some kind of learning or expanded perception. Our entire reality is inviting us to continually open up to a new way of perceiving things, or a new paradigm of understanding. It’s usually our own limiting beliefs and viewpoints…