Hallway Chats
177 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSharing stories and building belonging
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Episode 127 – Dean Burton
April 23, 2020 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBDean Burton 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.
Episode 126 – Danny Rubio
April 09, 2020 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBDanny Rubio is a digital content producer based in Utah who loves WordPress and makes some mean tacos.
Episode 125 – Matt Medeiros
March 26, 2020 09:30 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBMatt Medeiros is the host of the Mattreport.com, and you can find him in his day job over at Pagely.com.
Episode 124 – Akshat Choudhary
March 12, 2020 09:30 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBAkshat Choudhary 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.
Episode 123 – Beth Livingston
February 27, 2020 10:30 - 34 minutes - 47.6 MBBeth Livingston 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.
Episode 122 – Tom Fanelli
February 13, 2020 12:45 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBTom Fanelli 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.
Episode 121 – Natasha Burtenshaw-deVries
January 30, 2020 10:30 - 31 minutes - 43 MBNatasha Burtenshaw-deVries is a digital marketing and SEO specialist. She lives near Toronto, Canada and enjoys sailing, hiking, skiing, playing trombone, soccer in Toronto FC.
Episode 120 – Shannon Shaffer
January 16, 2020 10:30 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBShannon Shaffer is a mom, travel enthusiast, book lover, and doer of WordPress stuff. A self-proclaimed geek, Shannon owns Purple Finch studios, a small digital agency located in Pennsylvania. Welcome, Shannon.
Episode 119: Keanan Koppenhaver
January 02, 2020 10:30 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBKeanan Koppenhaver is the CTO at Alpha Particle, a digital consultancy that helps their clients plan and execute their digital projects.
Episode 118: Allie Nimmons
December 19, 2019 10:30 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBAllie Nimmons is a self-taught WordPress user who has done the agency thing, done the freelance thing, done the business owner thing … and is now doing the Community thing! She does support and community outreach at GiveWP and is a GoDaddy Pro Ambassador. Her biggest joy comes from talking to other community members about how to maintain and foster positive and inclusive environments on the web.
Episode 117: Allison Smith
December 05, 2019 10:30 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MBAllison Smith is a journalist turned marketer who transforms tech talk into irresistible stories. An avid reader, she has a penchant for books, chocolate, and content first design.
Episode 116: Matthew Rodela
November 21, 2019 10:30 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBMatthew Rodela is a recovering IT consultant who now builds websites for a living. Based out of the Washington DC area, Matthew has found success with his turnkey website service and enjoys sharing his experiences running it with other web consultants.
Episode 115: Shayna Diamond
November 07, 2019 10:30 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBShayna Diamond loves WordPress, CSS art, clean-code, accessible websites & building inclusion in the tech community. She co-founded Shift/Enter to help people, especially those who are underrepresented, succeed in technology-related careers.
Episode 114: Joe LoPreste
October 24, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBJoe LoPreste says he's very passionate about inclusive design for WordPress and considers himself a web accessibility advocate. He travels around the US giving presentations to WordPress developers, designers, and agencies about web accessibility.
Episode 113: Monique Dubbelman
October 10, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBMonique Dubbelman is an independent UX designer from the Netherlands. She builds websites for small business owners and teaches at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science. When she's not behind her computer, she likes to whisper to earthworms in her garden.
Episode 112: Fairy Dharawat
September 26, 2019 11:37 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBFairy Dharawat is a cat-loving lassie who writes and draws while diving headfirst into the wonderful world of comics, admiring their adventurous plot lines and intricate illustration.
Episode 111: Stacey Harris
September 12, 2019 09:30 - 34 minutes - 47 MBStacey Harris is marketing strategist working with entrepreneurs who are tired of spending hours online with no results. Through her podcast, membership community, and agency she supports frustrated leaders in getting results online by building connection.
Episode 110: Paul Oyler
August 29, 2019 09:30 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MBPaul Oyler is a self-proclaimed crazy, old dude, who wishes it were still the 1970s, but who also loves 21st-century technology.
Episode 109: Reed Gustow
August 15, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBReed Gustow is active in his local WordPress community. A local meetup organizer and former WordCamp organizer, Reed has been building websites and teaching WordPress for a long while now. Reed calls Philadelphia home.
Episode 108: Christina Workman
August 01, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBChristina Workman is a frontend developer, support specialist, trainer and community leader in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her favorite things include furry creatures, the colour purple, tea, Wapuu, and Brit TV.
Episode 107: Mike Demo
July 18, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 45 MBA former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host, Mike Demo is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Before joining BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight. He presents regularly on open source topics like WordPress and Joomla! – where he was a board member of that project.
Episode 106: Courtney Robertson
July 04, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBCourtney Robertson has a background in teaching WordPress, working as a contractor with Modern Tribe, The Events Calendar, and first started using WordPress with version 2.5.
Episode 105: Vito Peleg
June 20, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBStarting from the back of a van while touring the world with his band, Vito Peleg made the transition from a freelancer to an agency, growing to six figures by the end of year one, and to a team of 12 by the end of year three.
Episode 104: Tara Claeys & Liam Dempsey
June 06, 2019 09:30 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBLiam Dempsey and Tara Claeys review the past year of the Hallway Chats podcast, discuss their views about success, share advice and announce plans for year 3.
Episode 103: Eric Karkovack
May 30, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44 MBEric Karkovack has been a web designer since 1996, back when static HTML and Netscape ruled the web. In 1999, he became a home-based freelancer and has been there ever since.
Episode 102: Miranda Knee
May 23, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44 MBMiranda Knee is a web developer who strives to build appealing, responsive websites. She's experienced in WordPress and familiar with creating custom themes. Miranda loves to learn and to grow. Outside of coding, she enjoys yoga, sci-fi and fantasy books, movies, and weightlifting.
Episode 101: Lee Drozak
May 16, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBLee Drozak is a WordPress teacher, Doer and Fixer, working with small business owners. She gives her client a different perspective for their digital space so that they can find solutions that work toward their business goals.
Episode 100: Carrie Dils
May 09, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBCarrie Dils is a web developer instructor and freelance coach. She teaches front end web development and WordPress courses over at LinkedIn Learning.
Episode 99: Kerry Carron
May 02, 2019 09:30 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBKerry Carron is passionate about helping others. She educates, inspires, and networks with freelancers, sharing her experience, teaching skills, and offering actionable attitudes to shift mindset in the direction of success.
Episode 98: Michelle Ames
April 25, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBMichelle Ames says she is an overextended, over-committed entrepreneur, author, blogger and social butterfly. As a WordPress fanatic, Michelle is the Head of Customer Success at GiveWP.
Episode 97: Sophia DeRosia
April 18, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MBSophia DeRosia is a young WordPresser who's interested in multiple aspects of life. She's a taskmaster and the chief lover of dinosaurs.
Episode 96: Chris Lauzon
April 11, 2019 12:57 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBChris Lauzon a former WordPress guy who helped people build websites. Chris is now a consultant helping various startups and nonprofits ramp up sales and support teams.
Episode 95: Marius Jensen
April 04, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBMarius Jensen is an all-round work potato with a passion for helping others help others. Marius enjoys flying under the radar and represents the WordPress.org support community.
Episode 94: Alex Sirota
March 28, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBAlex Sirota is a father, a husband, a son, director of NewPath Consulting, contributor in the WordPress Toronto community, a trumpet player and a University of Michigan football fanatic.
Episode 93: Rahul Nagare
March 21, 2019 09:30 - 32 minutes - 43.9 MBUp until last year, Rahul’s only public speaking had been once – in 4th grade. Last year, he stepped out of his comfort zone and now speaks at meetups and WordCamps about once a month. Rahul is the co-founder and CEO of Scale Dynamix, where he manages thousands of WordPress websites.
Episode 92: Jonathan Gilbert
March 14, 2019 09:30 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBJonathan works in Portland, Maine for an employee-owned company called Qualpay. Jon went to his first WordPress event in 2016 and has been hooked on WordPress and its community ever since. When not working, Jon enjoys hiking, traveling, cooking, and hanging out with his cats and wife.
Episode 91: Sara Cope
March 07, 2019 10:30 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBSara Cope is a software engineer working remotely for the US Federal Government. She's passionate about education and diversity in tech and loves helping others level up their skills.
Episode 90: David Wolfpaw
February 28, 2019 10:30 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBDavid Wolfpaw is a professional web developer focused on helping small businesses by providing ongoing WordPress maintenance and support through his service FixUpFox. He helps organize both WordPress Orlando and WordCamp Orlando.
Episode 89: Charlie Reisinger
February 21, 2019 10:30 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBCharlie Reisinger serves as the director of technology for Penn Manor School District in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His first book, The Open School House chronicles more than 15 years of open-source learning programs at Penn Manor.
Episode 88: Lisa Stambaugh
February 14, 2019 10:30 - 33 minutes - 45.6 MBLisa Stambaugh has been known as “Web Diva®” for over 20 years. She is a knitting enthusiast, curly girl and cookie artiste. That’s not all! She tells is also she is an obsessive wordsmither and musical theatre devotee.
Episode 87: Val Vesa
February 07, 2019 12:21 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBVal Vesa loves social media. He is very passionate about technology and online marketing. Some of his interests include CMS hardening and tech writing. He loves to take photos, go swimming and spend time with his family.
Episode 86: Evan Sheingross and Daniella Knelman
January 31, 2019 10:30 - 31 minutes - 43 MBEvan Scheingross has been creating websites since the last century. Daniella Knelman has a 14-year background in higher education. Together, they're now trying to grow Evan's business into something that can sustainably support their family of four.
Episode 85: Tiffany Bridge
January 24, 2019 10:30 - 35 minutes - 49 MBTiffany Bridge has been building websites for 20 years and building them with WordPress for 14. She now works at Automattic and helps empower people who do interesting things to get the most out of WordPress.
Episode 84: Rene Morozowich
January 17, 2019 10:30 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBRene Morozowich is a WordPress developer from Pittsburgh, PA. She works with agencies and small businesses and loves planning, organizing in all of the details. Rene is an introvert who loves rollerskating, naps, non-fiction, and talking about money.
Episode 83: William Jackson
January 10, 2019 10:30 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBWilliam Jackson has advanced degrees in education with a focus on educational technology, social media, and STEM, William has worked for NASA as an internet and technology instructor, and as a technology consultant with the Florida Department of Education. He is a past professor at Edward Waters College.
Episode 82: Birgit Olzem
January 03, 2019 10:30 - 31 minutes - 43.6 MBBirgit Olzem says WordPress is her passion. She is the mother of five, granny of one, a coach and a trainer. She loves to connect people in the WordPress ecosystem and she advocates for mental health awareness and inclusiveness
Episode 81: Susan Walker
December 27, 2018 10:30 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBSusan Walker is a web developer at Rutgers University Camden where she manages the WordPress multi-sites. She's a co-organizer of the Philadelphia WordPress meetup, has been a WordCamp Philly co-organizer, and has spoken at WordCamp US.
Episode 80: Max and Beka Rice
December 20, 2018 10:30 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBMax Rice is the CEO and co-founder of SkyVerge where his team builds tools for e-commerce merchants, both large and small. Beka Rice is the head of product at SkyVerge and manages Jilt, an email marketing tool for e-commerce, along with over 50 WooCommerce plugins.
Episode 79: Alastair McDermott
December 13, 2018 10:30 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBAlastair McDermott is a business strategist and marketing consultant. He helps professional services providers get more visitor website traffic and sell more online. Building websites and software since 1996, Alastair is the author of Running a Website with WordPress: A Quick Guide for Business Owners.
Episode 78: Cameron Jones
December 06, 2018 10:30 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBCameron Jones is a WordPress developer from the Gold Coast, Australia. He currently works for Digital Makers building websites for enterprise clients, and independently, he develops custom plugins. Outside of WordPress, he's busy playing for sports clubs and parenting.