Introducing Kathy Drewien

Kathy Drewien lives in Marietta, Georgia just outside of Atlanta. There she rescues abandoned, ugly, orphaned, broken, and non-productive websites for people and businesses who are ready for a change. She’s an organizer of WordCamp Atlanta and runs a local WordPress Meetup around there, too. And if that’s not enough, she’s also an organizer of WordCamp US.

Show Notes

Website | AtlantaWPcoach.com

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Twitter | kdrewien

Facebook | KathyDrewien

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Instagram | kdrewien

Linked In | kathydrewien

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: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 31.

Tara: Welcome to Hallway Chats, I’m Tara Claeys.

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Kathy Drewien. Kathy lives in Marietta, Georgia just outside of Atlanta. There she rescues abandoned, ugly, orphaned, broken, and non-productive websites for people and businesses who are ready for a change. She’s an organizer of WordCamp Atlanta and runs a local WordPress Meetup around there, too. And if that’s not enough, she’s also an organizer of WordCamp US. Hey, Kathy.

Kathy: Hi, how are you doing?

Tara: Good. Welcome, Kathy. It’s great to have you on the show. I love the way that Liam introduced you, very creative and it makes me very curious about what you do so can you tell us a little bit more about yourself?

Kathy: I can. I thought it was very clever to talk about how I rescue ugly orphaned websites.

Tara: Yeah, that’s great.

Kathy: That really has driven out of my desire to work with people who are struggling in learning how to use WordPress. And a lot of people come to me because they have broken websites and I love teaching them how to feel powerful in their experience.

Tara: How did you get started in this endeavor?

Kathy: Let’s back up to 2006, which is when I got introduced to WordPress. At that time, I was in a totally different industry. I was a real estate broker and had built a website for that business back in the mid-’90s. 2006, it was time to update that to WordPress. And when I discovered the power of WordPress, there was no looking back in terms of my user experience. I started in it as a career because the real estate market crashed and so did I. And technology was always my go-to and I’ve been doing it ever since.

Tara: Yeah. Real estate sites are very complicated. There’s a lot that goes into them. I don’t know how it was in 2006 but it always surprises me that there aren’t more options available for real estate agents as far as self-hosted websites are concerned.

Kathy: There can be, it’s just a lot of real estate agents choose not to. They’re always available to them.

Tara: Many of them do become website experts, I’m sure, by the time they finish. Do you still work with real estate agents or agencies?

Kathy: I’m counting in my head,