Introducing Lindsay Halsey & Lori Calcott

Lindsay Halsey and Lori Calcott are co-founders of WP SEO Hub and partners at webShine, a search engine marketing agency in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. They focus on running profitable campaigns for their clients and teaching business owners about holistic SEO practices.

Show Notes

Website | WP SEO Hub

Website | Webshine

Twitter | @wpseohub

Twitter | @lindsay_wpseo

Twitter | @lori_wpseo

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 45.

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

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today, we’re joined by Lindsay Halsey and Lori Colcott. They are co-founders of WP SEO Hub and partners of webShine, a search engine marketing agency in the rocky mountains of Colorado. They focus on running profitable campaigns for their clients and teaching business owners about holistic SEO practices. Hello, Lindsay and Lori, welcome.

Lindsay: Thanks for having us.

Lori: Hi there.

Tara: Hi. I’m so glad you’re here, welcome. Can you each tell us a little bit more about yourselves after Liam’s introduction?

Lindsay: Sure. This is Lindsay. I live in Basalt, Colorado. I’m the mom of two young children and a wife, love working and playing in the outdoors and focused on WordPress SEO as the main part of my career.

Lori: I’m Lori Colcott. I live in Aspen, Colorado and I also have a family with two young children. I’ve been in Colorado for over 20 years but grew up in Pennsylvania and have been marketing about 20 years, search engine marketing about 12.

Tara: Great. Tell us a little bit more about Colorado? Sounds like a beautiful place where you live. Did you go there, both of you, with a great love of skiing or what brought you to Colorado?

Lori: Yes, I sort of have the typical came out for the winter and never left story. I came out after college and planned on being a ski bum for winter and that turned into pretty much a lifestyle and a commitment to living here.

Lindsay: And I made my way to Colorado in between working as a mountain guide. I was looking for a home base when I wasn’t traveling to mountaineering destinations around the world, and Colorado seemed like a fun place and every year, I found myself spending more time here in Aspen and last time on the road, until now, I live here year-round full-time.

Tara: Do you work there more than you spend time outside? Are you able to split running your own company, is that the way that you approach your recreational life? Is that on par with your work life out there? I get the impression that out there that’s the way a lot of people are so that’s why I ask that.

Lindsay: There’s a pretty good work/life balance in the Roaring Fork Valley and so it’s common custom for businesses here to extend their employees and team members that flexibility to go for a run in the mountains over lunch or to enjoy a morning powder sky on a good snow day. That’s certainly part of our culture here, but we do find ourselves in the office much more than we do out in the mountains and that’s well and good.