On this episode I’m talking to Brittany and Chris Clarke, owners of Midnight Drive Apps. As a husband and wife team, they build affordable apps to local businesses in British Columbia, Canada.

We talk about the kinds of apps small businesses can benefit from, some tips for figuring out what would make a great app, and a time-saving set of tools for social media marketing.

On this episode I’m talking to William Guzzo, Managing Director at Inspiration Education. Inspiration Education offers tutoring to high school students across New Zealand that goes far beyond exam preparation - it builds long-lasting mental and personal skills for future success.

We talk about the learnings of growing from a small to a medium-sized business, thoughtfully implementing new communication tools, and a cool little app called Donut that helps employees get to know one another.

On this episode I’m talking to Patrice Embry, a digital project manager with over 20 years of experience across a variety of industries. Patrice also offers project management consulting to help companies figure out how project managers can fit into their businesses.

We talk about the benefits a project manager brings to an agency, how to go about hiring and working with one successfully, and useful project management tools for planning ahead.

In today’s episode of At Capacity, I talk to Ana María Zúniga, founder and president at AZ World Translation and Interpretation. Over the past ~20 years, Ana Maria has focused on building a great team in order to deliver AZ World’s focus of translating quality policy and procedure documentation for corporate clients (among other services). We talk about building a great team to complement your strengths, a trio of tools for continuously generating and managing leads, and the importance of translation for avoiding risk. We talk about the importance of regional translators, the evolution of tools all the way from paper to Excel to cloud-based solutions, and the importance of translation to those looking to break into asian markets.

In this interview I speak to Lise Alain, president at LAT Multilingual, about how she has continued to run a successful translation agency for 20 years by adapting service offerings and technology to the shifting language services landscape.

We talk about the importance of regional translators, the evolution of tools all the way from paper to Excel to cloud-based solutions, and the importance of translation to those looking to break into asian markets.

In this interview I speak to David Wheatley, a previous client of mine, about his goal to reduce admin and duplicate data at his translation agency. David owns Dot Comma Translations in the UK, which specializes in legal translations, immigration visa translations, and translations for the private school sector. Their motto is "Translations that just make sense".

In this interview I speak to Louisa Rook, a good friend of mine, about how a combination of online tools and paper based methods can help business owners and their teams succeed at getting things done. Louisa owns TenTen, based in New Zealand, that helps companies get organized and productive. Their motto is "get it done". She's also been working on a productivity planner to help female entrepreneurs bring wellness into their lives.

Louisa offers some great tips for helping your team adopt cloud-based software, how planning and note-taking with paper can complement the hectic digital world, and the importance of mental and physical wellness for entrepreneurs.