A Conversation with Aditya Kane Aditya hails from Pune, India, and has been working in WordPress for more than a decade, as well as being a WordCamp organizer multiple times and volunteering at other events. Show Notes Website | WordFest.Live Website | BombayPirate.com Twitter | @adityakane Episode Transcript Topher: Hey, everyone. My name is Topher….
A Conversation with Dan Maby and Michelle Frechette Dan and Michelle have been working together to make WordFest Live be a top notch, world-wide WordPress conference. We talk with them about it works and the difficulties of making a global event happen. Show Notes Website | WordFest.Live Twitter | @danmaby Twitter | @michelleames Episode Transcript Topher:…
A Conversation with Cate and Topher DeRosia The DeRosias are the founders and stewards of HeroPress. If you don’t already know about it, HeroPress tells the stories of people who have leveraged WordPress and its community to change their lives and achieve their goals. Through these stories, global connections are made and conversations are had…
Introducing Stephanie Hudson Stephanie is a geek, entrepreneur, inventor, and craft beer lover. Her passion is helping grow agencies to scale and thrive through her white label company, FocusWP. Show Notes LinkedIn | Left Brain Facebook | Stephanie Hudson Website | Focus WP Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where…
Introducing Bet Hannon Bet discovered WordPress in 2008 and has been involved in the WordPress community since 2013 at meetups, WordCamps, and on the support team. Bet runs an agency, Bet Hannon Business Websites, where she specializes in WordPress and accessibility. Show Notes Twitter | @bethannon Website | BHMBizSites.com Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript…
Introducing Patrick Rauland Patrick is obsessed with eCommerce. He’s created eCommerce websites for clients, worked at WooCommerce in support, development, and product management, and he creates courses on LinkedIn Learning for WooCommerce. He’s written several books on eCommerce, and also runs WooSesh, an online conference all about WooCommerce. Show Notes Twitter | @BFTrick Website |…
Introducing Ken Elliott Ken lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is a full-time webmaster at a law firm. He’s also a co-owner of BKreative Media Solutions, an agency that supports small and medium businesses with digital branding solutions. He’s a core organizer of his local WordPress meetup, which is on a bit of a…
Introducing Kyle Maurer Kyle is the Director of Operations at Sandhills Development which is a WordPress plugin company. He loves bringing people together and has a passion for making music and craft beer. Show Notes Website | KyleBlog.net Website | Sandhills Development Podcast | WP RoundTable with Tara Claeys Podcast | The Get Options Podcast…
Introducing Heather Steele Heather is the founder and CEO of Blue Steel Solutions. Heather started her marketing agency 10 and a half years ago because she was tired of seeing great people fail just because they couldn’t clearly communicate their value. Show Notes Websites | bluesteelesolutions.com, problemsolvermethod.com LinkedIn | HeatherSteele Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode…
Introducing Machielle Thomas Machielle is a mommy, a marketer, photographer, and a dreamer. She’s currently the senior brand manager for Bluehost, and most of her time is spent chasing her tiny terrorist, or finding the best tacos in her hometown of Austin, Texas. Show Notes Twitter | @machiellethomas Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara:…
Introducing C. Shakhawat Sultan C. Shakhawat Sultan is the business development manager at CodeRex. He works hand in hand with the developers and the marketing team to create useful plugins. He is passionate about WordPress and loves to contribute to the community. Show Notes Twitter | SultanRoyal1 LinkedIn | C-S-Sultan-Royal Facebook | CodeRexCo, RexTheme…
Introducing Rachel Makool Rachel is a senior community manager at GoDaddy and has been there for five years, managing the online community and other community programs. She’s been a community professional for over 15 years. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and loves to hike, travel, and she’s a collector of many things….
Introducing Hans Skillrud Over the course of seven years, Hans Skillrud built a 12-person web design agency in downtown Chicago and then sold it in early 2019, to focus his attention on his new start up, Termageddon. Termageddon is an auto-updating privacy policy generator. Show Notes Twitter | @twitter.com/deepspacehans Website | termageddon.com Preferred Pronouns |…
Introducing Chris Ford Chris spent the first 20 years of her career working as an agency and freelance designer. Five years ago, she took a hard left into project management. Today she’s a hybrid project manager and designer at Reaktiv, a WordPress VIP partner. Show Notes Twitter | @ci_chrisford Work | reaktivstudios.com Mentioned in the…
Introducing Winstina Hughes Winstina is an Assistant Regional Planner for the Maryland Department of Transportation. She created her first WordPress blog for a Geographic Information Systems assignment, and followed it soon after with one on community development and suburban planning. She has presented at WordCamp NYC, WordCamp US, and WordCamp Austin. A WordPress Meetup co-organizer,…
