WP Motivate: Facing Fears and Finding Strength

At WordCamp US, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress.com would be offering 100-Year domain and hosting plans for $38,000. Kathy and Michelle take a look at whether or not this is a marketing strategy or something that inspires us to consider what 100 years actually looks like. Kathy mentions the work done by mystery schools 100…

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…

Kathy and Michelle talk about how they stay positive when things are difficult, what mantras keep them going, and the deep thoughts that make you feel like a philosopher.

Kathy and Michelle talk about interesting synchronicities and multidimensional experiences they’ve had throughout their lifetimes. From synchronistic dreams and strange repeating numbers, they share thoughts about being spiritual beings having a human experience.

Kathy and Michelle discuss all the things, but ask for good karma going forward. Do good things, get good things, right? Also, we’ve had enough grief and heartache for awhile, ok Karma?

Upon learning of the passing of Kevin Mitnick, Kathy is thinking about hacker culture and the hacker mindset can be applied to so many areas of life. Michelle shares her thoughts about how knowing how to hack, and where to hack, can be some of the most important value we bring to problems. Hacking outside…