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Episode 30: Topher DeRosia
Introducing Topher DeRosia
Topher DeRosia is a Christian, husband, father, and WordPress developer in that order. By day, he runs iWitness Design with his business partner. Topher also curates HeroPress.com, a site that tells the stories of WordPress.
Show Notes
Website | HeroPress
Website | topher1kenobe
Website | iWitness Design
Twitter | @topher1kenobe
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: Today’s show is brought to you in part by Liquid Web.
Liam: We sure know that there’s a lot of choices when it comes to hosting your WordPress site. Liquid Web is the manage WordPress partner you’ve been waiting for. Whether you’re a business owner, an agency, or a freelancer, Liquid Web has you covered when it comes to performance, uptime, and ease of site management.
Tara: And one of the things we love most, when your content goes viral, Liquid Web doesn’t charge you more for huge spikes in traffic. Transparent pricing, no surcharges.
Liam: Liquid Web is offering Hallway Chats listeners 33% off for the first three months. Go to Liquidweb.com and use the coupon code, HALLWAYCHATS, all one word, to sign up.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 30.
Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.
Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Topher DeRosia. Topher is a Christian, husband, father, and WordPress developer in that order. By day, he runs iWitness Design with his partner, Tanner Moushey, and he also curates HeroPress.com, a site that tells the stories of WordPress. Hi Topher, welcome.
Topher: Howdy, thanks for having me.
Liam: You’re very welcome. Thanks for joining us today, Topher. Tell us a little bit more about yourself beyond what Tara just shared about you, please?
Topher: Well, I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan which this year happens to be snowy. It’s not snowy every December but this year’s been particularly snowy, though it rains today so we’re losing some of it. I have a wife, two kids, two dogs, little house in the city. Grand Rapids is not a very big city so when I say in the city, I mean a quiet neighborhood. As Tara mentioned, I’m a WordPress developer. Tanner and I have a company together and so what that means is that I’m doing a lot of administrative work and talking to clients, and marketing, and all the stuff that developers never dreamed of doing and are doing. But it’s all in there when you do a start-up, and it’s definitely been a start-up. We got together almost exactly a year ago, it was January 1st, and it has been a wild rollercoaster of breathtakingly great and horribly, horribly bad. At the moment, it’s great so I’m extremely happy to be here.
Tara: Tell us a little more about that, in terms of forming a partnership. I have a little bit of experience with that and I recall when people heard I was doing that, their first answer, did you ever hear, “Why are you forming a partnership? What are you doing? What are you thinking? Partnership end in divorce.” I heard that all the time, so what motivated you to form a partnership and tell us a little bit about that process? I’m glad to hear it’s going well for you as it is for me.
Topher: Yeah,
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Introducing Topher DeRosia
Topher DeRosia is a Christian, husband, father, and WordPress developer in that order. By day, he runs iWitness Design with his business partner. Topher also curates HeroPress.com, a site that tells the stories of WordPress.
Show Notes
Website | HeroPress
Website | topher1kenobe
Website | iWitness Design
Twitter | @topher1kenobe
Episode Transcript
Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.
Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.
Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.
Tara: Today’s show is brought to you in part by Liquid Web.
Liam: We sure know that there’s a lot of choices when it comes to hosting your WordPress site. Liquid Web is the manage WordPress partner you’ve been waiting for. Whether you’re a business owner, an agency, or a freelancer, Liquid Web has you covered when it comes to performance, uptime, and ease of site management.
Tara: And one of the things we love most, when your content goes viral, Liquid Web doesn’t charge you more for huge spikes in traffic. Transparent pricing, no surcharges.
Liam: Liquid Web is offering Hallway Chats listeners 33% off for the first three months. Go to Liquidweb.com and use the coupon code, HALLWAYCHATS, all one word, to sign up.
Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 30.
Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.
Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Topher DeRosia. Topher is a Christian, husband, father, and WordPress developer in that order. By day, he runs iWitness Design with his partner, Tanner Moushey, and he also curates HeroPress.com, a site that tells the stories of WordPress. Hi Topher, welcome.
Topher: Howdy, thanks for having me.
Liam: You’re very welcome. Thanks for joining us today, Topher. Tell us a little bit more about yourself beyond what Tara just shared about you, please?
Topher: Well, I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan which this year happens to be snowy. It’s not snowy every December but this year’s been particularly snowy, though it rains today so we’re losing some of it. I have a wife, two kids, two dogs, little house in the city. Grand Rapids is not a very big city so when I say in the city, I mean a quiet neighborhood. As Tara mentioned, I’m a WordPress developer. Tanner and I have a company together and so what that means is that I’m doing a lot of administrative work and talking to clients, and marketing, and all the stuff that developers never dreamed of doing and are doing. But it’s all in there when you do a start-up, and it’s definitely been a start-up. We got together almost exactly a year ago, it was January 1st, and it has been a wild rollercoaster of breathtakingly great and horribly, horribly bad. At the moment, it’s great so I’m extremely happy to be here.
Tara: Tell us a little more about that, in terms of forming a partnership. I have a little bit of experience with that and I recall when people heard I was doing that, their first answer, did you ever hear, “Why are you forming a partnership? What are you doing? What are you thinking? Partnership end in divorce.” I heard that all the time, so what motivated you to form a partnership and tell us a little bit about that process? I’m glad to hear it’s going well for you as it is for me.
Topher: Yeah,