Conversations with Quuu

In the season finale of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to founder of Time Doctor and Running Remote, Liam Martin. They discuss:

- Why the real route to success is (constant!) failure

- Liam's thoughts on 'the distraction economy' and the longterm effects of social media on our psyches 

- The story behind Time Doctor and how it's trying to give everyone on planet earth the opportunity to work remotely 

- Running Remote's mission and why digital nomadism shouldn't be the only face of remote work

- The sociological implications of the remote working movement 

- Which qualities to look for in remote employees 

- Why YouTube is the best social media platform for marketers and content creators right now

Time Doctor: https://timedoctor.com

In the ninth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to entrepreneur and leading podcast host, Dan Murray-Serter. We discuss:

- Whether doing an English degree is a waste of time

- Dan's career path so far, which includes founding a series of successful (and not so successful!) startups, from a QR code advertising platform targeted at student drinking games to multi-award-winning fashion app, Grabble

- How the downsides of becoming vegan led him to start his current venture, Dawn

- The three simple habits that help Dan function better as an entrepreneur

- What he's learned from creating his chart-topping podcast, Secret Leaders

- The fetishisation of stress and why he lets his interns have a lie in

- How to address gender imbalance in the tech industry 

Where to follow Dan:

Dawn: https://www.trydawn.co

In the eighth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, B2B SaaS Consultant Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré returns to the show for a special episode on diversity and inclusion in tech. We discuss:

- What organisations can do to create more inclusive workplaces

- What we can all do on an individual level to improve the tech industry

- Responses to different types of prejudice 

- How to approach socially conscious marketing campaigns

Where to follow Nichole:

In the seventh episode of Conversations with Quuu, we're switching up the usual format to celebrate the release of our shiny new app update! Quuu's co-founders, Daniel Kempe and Matthew Spurr, join Lucia to discuss what went wrong for Quuu in 2018 and how we're bouncing back in 2019.

In the sixth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia Fontaina-Powell chats to SaaS Marketing & Growth Advisor and Founder Georgiana Laudi about:

- How Twitter introduced her to a career in SaaS marketing

- What it’s really like to work at an early stage tech startup

- The mistakes she sees tech founders making time and time again in their marketing

- Why and how early or mid career marketers should make space for strategic thinking

- Her personal relationship with work-life balance

- Why she’s excited about the state of diversity in tech

Forget The Funnel: https://forgetthefunnel.com 

A Better CX: https://abettercx.com 

In the fifth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to Digital Marketing Strategist and founder of Foundation Marketing, Ross Simmonds, about:

- Why he’s always wanted to work for himself and how he made that dream possible

- His advice for budding marketers looking to build a successful career

- The reason he doesn’t track his employees’ hours

- The inspiration behind the content he creates

- His approach to establishing a healthy work-life balance

- How he thinks brands should handle creating socially conscious marketing campaigns

Where to follow Ross's work:

Personal blog: https://rosssimmonds.com 

Twitter: @TheCoolestCool

Foundation Inc blog: https://foundationinc.co 

In the fourth episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to Louis Grenier, host of the Everyone Hates Marketers podcast and Content Lead at Hotjar, about:

- Why he disagrees with the idea that marketers are ‘creatives'

- The ‘aha’ moment that made him choose a career in marketing

- The side hustle that saved him when his first business resulted in burnout 

- The number one lesson he’s learned from interviewing over 100 leading marketers and founders 

- Why he thinks his podcast, Everyone Hates Marketers, has been so successful

- His advice on whether you should prioritise content promotion over content creation

- The reason he thinks it’s worth investing in outsourcing as an entrepreneur 

- His views on the relationship between remote working and productivity 

Where to follow Louis:

Hotjar blog: https://www.hotjar.com/blog 

Email: [email protected] 

In the third episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chats to blogger, content marketer and side hustle specialist Ryan Robinson about:

In the second episode of Conversations with Quuu Season 2, Lucia chatted to LinkedIn Top Voice and Forbes contributor, Goldie Chan. Have a listen to find out:

- The story of Goldie’s career and how she bounced back from rock bottom when her first business failed

- What Goldie loves and hates about working in social media (including how she deals with trolls!)

- How she got to 4 million views on LinkedIn Video (and counting!)

- Her tips for creating video content and overcoming shyness 

- Her approach to self-care as an entrepreneur 

Where to follow Goldie’s work:

Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/goldiechan/#22b22fdf7baa 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/goldie/ 

Welcome back to the Conversations with Quuu podcast! To kick off season two, host Lucia Fontaina-Powell had a fascinating chat with entrepreneur and content marketer, Nat Eliason. Have a listen to find out:

- How Nat got into the martech space

- Why he was able to grow his content marketing agency Growth Machine to $100K in MRR in a year

- The one thing he says sets apart startups that succeed from those that fail

- His honest opinions on the state of social media and content marketing in 2019

- Why Nat and Lucia both hate ‘struggle porn’

https://www.nateliason.com/blog/struggle-porn

Blog: https://www.nateliason.com 

Podcast: https://madeyouthinkpodcast.com 

Growth Machine: https://www.yourgrowthmachine.com

Cup and Leaf: https://www.cupandleaf.com