WPMotivate: Finding Inspiration in the Compost

As 2023 comes to a close, Michelle and Kathy take a look back over the key milestones and peak experiences of the last year and what they’re looking forward to in 2024. The end of the year leaves them thinking of what they’d like more of, and of course with the passage of time, they…

As WordPress approaches it’s 20th birthday, Michelle and Kathy review our own personal journeys with WordPress, from our very early days of working with blogs and websites to our first introduction to the worldwide WordPress community. Like us, WordPress has come a long way from the early days, and we think that the community and…

Sometimes life gets a little busy and you have to make extra efforts for self care, for downtime and rejuvenation, and maybe just a little bit of nothing. This show is a lot about nothing, with a meandering conversation about all of the busy happening in Kathy and Michelle’s lives over the last few weeks….

This episode is worth a watch as well as a listen as Kathy and Michelle don their tiaras and talk about some of the recent accomplishments they’ve had. Kathy and her team organized the recent Kadence Amplify event, a one-day, two-track event highlighting the brilliance of the WordPress and Kadence community. And Michelle has her…

Sometimes WPMotivate is our way of working through life’s challenges in a productive way of looking at challenging situations. In this week’s episode, we talk about dealing with other people’s judgements and why diversity is important to our global WordPress community. After a simple observation turned into a firestorm on Twitter, Michelle found herself in…

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…