By Topher DeRosia and Nyasha Green
Sharing stories and building belonging
Introducing Nancy Lyons CEO and co-founder of Clockwork, an enterprise web development company in Minneapolis MN. We’ve known her through the internet for years, and it was a delight to get to talk to her in this episode. Show Notes https://www.nancylyons.com/ https://www.clockwork.com/ Transcript: Topher: Hey everybody,...
Introducing Evelyn Maina Evelyn is a very unusual guest in that we brought her into the WordPress community! Years ago when Liam and Tara started this podcast they hired Evelyn as their transcriber. Since then, Evelyn has gotten to know more...
Introducing Aisha Adams and Marcus Burnette at WordCamp Birmingham In February Topher and Cate went to WordCamp Birmingham and Topher was able to interview both Aisha Adams and Marcus Burnette in the hallway. Aisha’s Links: * https://aishaadamsmedia.com/ * https://wordpress.tv/speakers/aisha-adams/ * https://www.facebook.com/aishaadamsmediagroup Marcus’ Links * https://mburnette.com/ * https://profiles.wordpress.org/mdburnette/ * https://wordpress.tv/speakers/marcus-burnette/ Transcript: Topher:...
Believe it or not, this is Robert's second time on Hallway Chats! His first was back in 2017 with Liam and Tara. Since Ny and Topher had never talked to him on here, we decided to give it another go!
In November 2022 Topher went to WordCamp Italy in Milan. While there he had several conversations with attendees and sponsors. Episode Transcript Topher: Hey folks, welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m your host Topher. This week is going to be a little bit...
Topher and Sophia met with Benjamin Zekavica and Moritz Bappert, both WordCamp Europe 2023 volunteers. Show Notes Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone! Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher and my co-host is Sofia. Sophia: Hello. Moritz: Hi. Nice to meet you. Benjamin: Nice to meet you...
Show Notes Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone. Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher and my co-host is Sofia. Say hello, Sophia. Sophia: Sorry. Hello. I was trying to look at the show. Topher: Okay. Our guests today come from WordCamp Europe. Please tell us...
Show Notes Contact Info: * Website * WordPress * Twitter Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone, welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher and my co-host today is Sophia. Sophia: Hello. Topher: She waved. Before we get started, I want to say thanks to our sponsor Nexcess. They’ve been good...
Show Notes Contact Info: * Website * LinkedIn * Twitter Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone, welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Topher, your host today. My regular co-host Nyasha is sick today, so it’s just gonna be me and our guest. Before we get started, I want to...
Show Notes Contact Info: * Yoast Profile Episode Transcript Topher: Hey folks, welcome to Hallway Chats. My name is Topher. This week we have another hallway chat that was actually recorded on-site at a WordCamp. This one was recorded at WordCamp Italia in Milan...
Show Notes Contact Info: * https://www.wp1x1.de/ * @MajaBenke Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone! I’m Topher. Welcome to Hallway Chats. This episode is a little bit different. It’s another one that was recorded in person, so it’s just me and the guest. Last summer, I visited...
Show Notes HeroPress Essay: The good and the bad of open source WordPress Contact Info: * http://lesley.pizza * @lesley_pizza * Newsletter Glue Episode Transcript Topher: Hi everyone! My name is Topher. Nyasha: And my name is Nyasha. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get started, I want...
Show Notes HeroPress Essay: How I tried, applied, got involved. Realizing one of my childhood dreams. Contact Info: * @Alice_Ridice * WordPress.tv Episode Transcript Topher: Hey folks, this is Topher. This week’s episode of Hallway Chats is a little different. This is a live recording from...
Show Notes Silence Commentary, from Cassandra Decker Tom’s Socials:https://twitter.com/tomfinleyhttps://wptoots.social/@tomfinley Websites / Projects:https://prufcreative.comhttps://tomfinley.cohttps://dcbeer.com Episode Transcript Topher: Hey, everyone. My name is Topher. Nyasha: And my name is Nyasha. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get going, we want to thank our sponsors at Nexcess, a Liquid...
Show Notes This was a live, in-person Hallway Chat between Topher and Vassy at WordCamp Europe 2022 in Porto, Portugal. Vassy’s Site: https://valchanova.me/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasvalch/ Twitter | @vasvalch Episode Transcript Topher: All right, what is your name? Vassilena: It’s Vassilena, but I use the short version Vassy. Topher:...
Show Notes This episode of Hallway Chats kicks off a new era with a new co-host Nyasha Green! And this week we talk with Matt Mullenweg. Matt Mullenweg is co-founder of the open-source publishing platform WordPress, which now powers over 40%...
Show Notes This episode of Hallway Chats is a little different from previous episodes. Recently Cate and Topher had the opportunity to go to WordCamp Europe in Porto, Portugal, where we had some literal hallway chats. This 4one is with Grzegorz...
Show Notes This episode of Hallway Chats is a little different from previous episodes. Recently Cate and Topher had the opportunity to go to WordCamp Europe in Porto, Portugal, where we had some literal hallway chats. This one is with Piccia...
Show Notes This episode of Hallway Chats is a little different from previous episodes. Recently Cate and Topher had the opportunity to go to WordCamp Europe in Porto, Portugal, where we had some literal hallway chats. This one is with Sofie...
Aurooba Ahmed is a freelance WordPress developer and contributor. Show Notes Aurooba’s Blog: https://aurooba.com/ Twitter | @aurooba Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone, my name is Topher. Cate: And I’m Cate. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get going, I want to thank our sponsors at...
Tammie Lister is a web designer at XWP and a WordPress core contributor. Show Notes Tammie’s Blog: https://tammielister.com/ Twitter | @karmatosed Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone! My name is Topher. Cate: And I’m Cate. Topher: And this is Hallway Chats. Before we get going, we want to...
Jen Swisher is a Happiness Engineer on the Jetpack plugin at Automattic and is organizing WordCamp US 2021 online. Show Notes Event Date: October 1 Event Website: https://us.wordcamp.org/2021/ Twitter | @JenSwish Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone! My name is Topher. Cate: And my name is Cate. Topher: And...
A Conversation with Joe Howard about the WPMRR Virtual Summit Joe Howard is the founder and Chief Innovation Officer of WPBuffs, and is organizing the second WPMRR Virtual Summit. Show Notes Event Date: September 21-23 Event Website: https://wpmrr.com/ Twitter | @wpmrrsummit Episode Transcript Topher: Hey everyone! My...
A Conversation with Seth Goldstein Seth is a WordPress designer and digital marketer who has been active in the WordPress community in the Philadelphia for more than a decade. Show Notes Website: GoldsteinMedia.com Podcast 1: DigitalMarketingDive.com Podcast 2: EntrepreneursEnigma.com Twitter | @GoldsteinMedia Twitter | @SethGoldstein Episode Transcript Topher: Hey...
A Conversation with Aditya Kane Aditya hails from Pune, India, and has been working in WordPress for more than a decade, as well as being a WordCamp organizer multiple times and volunteering at other events. Show Notes Website | WordFest.Live Website | BombayPirate.com Twitter |...
A Conversation with Dan Maby and Michelle Frechette Dan and Michelle have been working together to make WordFest Live be a top notch, world-wide WordPress conference. We talk with them about it works and the difficulties of making a global event...
A Conversation with Cate and Topher DeRosia The DeRosias are the founders and stewards of HeroPress. If you don’t already know about it, HeroPress tells the stories of people who have leveraged WordPress and its community to change their lives and...
Introducing Stephanie Hudson Stephanie is a geek, entrepreneur, inventor, and craft beer lover. Her passion is helping grow agencies to scale and thrive through her white label company, FocusWP. Show Notes LinkedIn | Left Brain Facebook | Stephanie Hudson Website | Focus WP Preferred Pronouns |...
Introducing Bet Hannon Bet discovered WordPress in 2008 and has been involved in the WordPress community since 2013 at meetups, WordCamps, and on the support team. Bet runs an agency, Bet Hannon Business Websites, where she specializes in WordPress and accessibility. Show...
Introducing Patrick Rauland Patrick is obsessed with eCommerce. He’s created eCommerce websites for clients, worked at WooCommerce in support, development, and product management, and he creates courses on LinkedIn Learning for WooCommerce. He’s written several books on eCommerce, and also runs...
Introducing Ken Elliott Ken lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where he is a full-time webmaster at a law firm. He’s also a co-owner of BKreative Media Solutions, an agency that supports small and medium businesses with digital branding solutions. He’s a...
Introducing Kyle Maurer Kyle is the Director of Operations at Sandhills Development which is a WordPress plugin company. He loves bringing people together and has a passion for making music and craft beer. Show Notes Website | KyleBlog.net Website | Sandhills Development Podcast | WP...
Introducing Heather Steele Heather is the founder and CEO of Blue Steel Solutions. Heather started her marketing agency 10 and a half years ago because she was tired of seeing great people fail just because they couldn’t clearly communicate their value. Show...
Introducing Machielle Thomas Machielle is a mommy, a marketer, photographer, and a dreamer. She’s currently the senior brand manager for Bluehost, and most of her time is spent chasing her tiny terrorist, or finding the best tacos in her hometown of...
Introducing C. Shakhawat Sultan C. Shakhawat Sultan is the business development manager at CodeRex. He works hand in hand with the developers and the marketing team to create useful plugins. He is passionate about WordPress and loves to contribute to the...
Introducing Rachel Makool Rachel is a senior community manager at GoDaddy and has been there for five years, managing the online community and other community programs. She’s been a community professional for over 15 years. She lives in the San Francisco...
Introducing Hans Skillrud Over the course of seven years, Hans Skillrud built a 12-person web design agency in downtown Chicago and then sold it in early 2019, to focus his attention on his new start up, Termageddon. Termageddon is an auto-updating...
Introducing Chris Ford Chris spent the first 20 years of her career working as an agency and freelance designer. Five years ago, she took a hard left into project management. Today she’s a hybrid project manager and designer at Reaktiv, a...
Introducing Winstina Hughes Winstina is an Assistant Regional Planner for the Maryland Department of Transportation. She created her first WordPress blog for a Geographic Information Systems assignment, and followed it soon after with one on community development and suburban planning. She...
Introducing Emily Hunkler Emily is the director of growth at GoWP. She lives just outside Atlanta, Georgia with her two daughters and her husband. When not working, Emily loves running both on the road and trails. On weekends, she also loves...
Introducing Annejeanette Washington Collins Annejeanette is a teacher at both the elementary and collegiate level. She teaches children at a school in western Florida, and college students in Fort Lauderdale. Annejeanette is a WordPress advocate, blogger, and WordCamp presenter. Show Notes Twitter |...
Introducing David Zimmerman David has been working in SEO for about 12 years, five years on his own as Reliable Acorn. Over the past couple of years, he’s been speaking at WordCamps about SEO and client management. Show Notes Twitter | @reliableacorn Website |...
Introducing Caylin White Caylin is the growth manager at GoWP. She’s a marketer and an artist who shares her art on CBCinked.com. Show Notes Twitter | @cbcinked Website | CBC Inked GoWP Website | GoWP Niche Agency Owners Facebook Group Preferred Pronouns | She/Her Episode Transcript Tara: This is...
Introducing Anyssa Ferreira Anyssa Ferreira is a designer and front-end developer from São Paulo, Brazil. She is co-founder of Haste, an agency focused on delivering great user experience with WordPress. Anyssa is also part of the WordCamp São Paulo organizing team. Show...
Introducing Pritesh Vora Pritesh leads growth marketing and operations at BlogVault, MalCare, WP Remote. Previously, he co-founded and sold Uninstall.io. He’s an entrepreneur at heart who loves challenging the status quo. Pritesh says he is a hardcore growth geek. Show Notes Twitter |...
Introducing Cate DeRosia Cate has wandered around WordPress for the last five years speaking, organizing, and being an engaging human. Currently, she’s building out a family business and investigating how to expand HeroPress into a new kind of membership site. Show Notes Twitter...
Year 2 In Review Show Notes Liam and Tara review the past year of the Hallway Chats podcast, discuss their views about success, share advice and announce plans for year 4. Tara on Twitter | @taraclaeys Tara’s pronouns | She/Her Liam on Twitter | @liamdempsey Liam’s...
Introducing Oliver Sild Oliver is a 26-year-old entrepreneur who has built three companies today and is very active in the cybersecurity landscape. WordPress folks would know him as the founder of a website security company called WebARX. Show Notes Twitter |@OliverSild Company Website |...
Introducing Nigel Rodgers Nigel likes helping people with WordPress, whether it’s building new websites, fixing websites, organizing meetups and events, and connecting people. Show Notes Website | DiviMade.com Twitter| @nigelmrodgers Preferred Pronouns | He/Him Episode Transcript Tara: This is Hallway Chats where we meet people who use...
Introducing Dean Burton Dean has been working with WordPress as a customer success lead at WP Buffs. He works alongside the team there to make sure that their clients and agency partners are successful. Show Notes Website | wpbuffs.com Twitter| @burtondean Instagram |@burtondean Preferred Pronouns |...
