Episodes

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 Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and o...

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 Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and...

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: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and pers...

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 Websites | CodeRex, RexTheme Walk to WordCamp Europe Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, wher...

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. She also sells odds and ends online and has done so for 20 years. Show Notes Twitter | @rachelmakool LinkedIn | RachelMakool LinkedIn OpenWeStand Small Business Commun...

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 | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and o...

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 show | brenebrown.com and designisonefilm.com Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use W...

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, Winstina led WordCamp NYC 2018. Photo credit: Photo of Winstina by Tim Parker at the Open film premier in 201...

Introducing Emily Hunkler Emily is the director of growth at GoWP. She lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters and her husband. When not working, Emily loves running both on the road and trails. On weekends, she also loves hiking in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Show Notes Twitter | @emalihu Website | Border Tramp Travel Guide (outdated information) Website | GoWP Niche Agency Owners Facebook Group Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episo...

Introducing Annejeanette Washington Collins Annejeanette is a teacher at both the elementary and collegiate level. She teaches children at a school in western Florida, and college students in Fort Lauderdale. Annejeanette is a WordPress advocate, blogger, and WordCamp presenter. Show Notes Twitter | @ProfessaDiva954 Instagram | @ProfessaDiva954 Website | Magnificent Mom Moments Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPr...

Introducing David Zimmerman David has been working in SEO for about 12 years, five years on his own as Reliable Acorn. Over the past couple of years, he’s been speaking at WordCamps about SEO and client management. Show Notes Twitter | @reliableacorn Website | Reliable Acorn Webiste | Curious Ants Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspec...

Introducing Caylin White Caylin is the growth manager at GoWP. She’s a marketer and an artist who shares her art on CBCinked.com. Show Notes Twitter | @cbcinked Website | CBC Inked GoWP Website | GoWP Niche Agency Owners Facebook Group Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode ...

Introducing Anyssa Ferreira Anyssa Ferreira is a designer and front-end developer from São Paulo, Brazil. She is co-founder of Haste, an agency focused on delivering great user experience with WordPress. Anyssa is also part of the WordCamp São Paulo organizing team. Show Notes Twitter | @anyssaferreira Website | Haste Design Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their...

Introducing Pritesh Vora Pritesh leads growth marketing and operations at BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote. Previously, he co-founded and sold Uninstall.io. He’s an entrepreneur at heart who loves challenging the status quo. Pritesh says he is a hardcore growth geek. Show Notes Twitter | @priteshvora Website | WPRemote Website | Malcare Website | BlogVault Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questi...

Introducing Cate DeRosia Cate has wandered around WordPress for the last five years speaking, organizing, and being an engaging human. Currently, she’s building out a family business and investigating how to expand HeroPress into a new kind of membership site. Show Notes Twitter | @mysweetcate Website | HeroPress Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, id...

Introducing Oliver Sild Oliver is a 26-year-old entrepreneur who has built three companies today and is very active in the cybersecurity landscape. WordPress folks would know him as the founder of a website security company called WebARX. Show Notes Twitter |@OliverSild Company Website | webarxsecurity.com Company Twitter | @webarx_security Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our gu...

Introducing Nigel Rodgers Nigel likes helping people with WordPress, whether it’s building new websites, fixing websites, organizing meetups and events, and connecting people. Show Notes Website | DiviMade.com Twitter| @nigelmrodgers Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions, and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 128...

Introducing Dean Burton Dean has been working with WordPress as a customer success lead at WP Buffs. He works alongside the team there to make sure that their clients and agency partners are successful. Show Notes Website | wpbuffs.com Twitter| @burtondean Instagram |@burtondean Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. Tara: And n...

Introducing Danny Rubio Danny is a digital content producer based in Utah who loves WordPress and makes some mean tacos. Show Notes Website | Rubio.tv YouTube | Danny Rubio Twitter| @Rubio_tv Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 126. Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Li...

Introducing Matt Medeiros Matt Medeiros is the host of the Mattreport.com, and you can find him in his day job over at Pagely.com. Show Notes Website/Podcast | Matt Report Podcast | SouthCoast.fm Twitter| @mattmedeiros Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives. Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is Episode 125. Tara: Welco...

Introducing Akshat Choudhary Akshat is the founder of BlogVault and MalCare. He’s been in the WordPress community for eight years. Mostly a developer, Akshat is also growing his team and dealing with the challenges that come along with that. Show Notes Website | BlogVault Website | Malcare Website | WPRemote Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress. Liam: We ask questions and our guests share their stories, ideas, ...

Introducing Beth Livingston Beth is a former WordPress designer, developer, turned online educator. She helps WordPress folks learn to get projects completed on time, within budget, with features that meet the client’s business requirements. Show Notes Website | WPRoadMaps Twitter | @WPRoadmaps Academy | FREE WP Project Manager’s Academy Facebook Group | WordPress Project Management Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use ...

Introducing Tom Fanelli Tom is the CEO of Convesio, a new managed WordPress platform. Tom lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and four kids. Originally from Fort Myers, Florida, he served in the army right out of high school. After serving in the army, Tom went on to music school and then started his tech career in agencies. Show Notes Website | Convesio Twitter | @tfanelli Linked In | tfanelli Video Overview | Convesio Video Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript ...