Episode 99: Kerry Carron

Introducing Kerry Carron

Kerry is passionate about helping others. She educates, inspires, and networks with freelancers, sharing her experience, teaching skills, and offering actionable attitudes to shift mindset in the direction of success.

Show Notes

Twitter | @kerrycarron

Website | Kerry Carron

Website | Ultimate Solution

Episode Transcript

Tara: This is Hallway Chats, where we meet people who use WordPress.

Liam: We ask questions, and our guests share their stories, ideas, and perspectives.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 99.

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

Liam: And I’m Liam Dempsey. Today we’re joined by Kerry Carron. Kerry is passionate about helping others. She educates, inspires, and networks with freelancers, sharing her experience, teaching skills, and offering actionable attitudes to shift mindset in the direction of success. Welcome, Kerry.

Kerry: Well, thank you so much for having me. It’s a pleasure meeting you both and being here with you guys today.

Tara: We’re excited that you’re here, too. Thanks so much for joining us. Can you start by telling us a little bit more about yourself?

Kerry: Sure. I live in southern New Mexico in a city called Alamogordo. I try to say it for everybody because spelling it out, nobody ever knows how to say it. I am married to my husband Michael. He is the love of my life and the man of my dreams. We are now empty nesters after raising three boys who are current in their 20s and their 30s. I’m a freelancer who is now able to completely work 100% of the time from home.

Tara: Wow. There’s a lot there to talk about that isn’t even talking about WordPress too much. How awesome to hear somebody who’s been married for a long time say that they’re married to the love of their life. That’s pretty cool. And he must be supportive of your business and you being an entrepreneur and working from home, I would think or it would be hard to love somebody if they didn’t like that.

Kerry: Absolutely. We’ve actually been married for coming up on 25 years. It has been a journey, and it continues to be a journey. He is very supportive as I am as well with him. I think a lot of that has to do with our faith. We are very much faith-based, and we just love life and happy to be here and help one another.

Tara: Excellent. Excellent. Are your children nearby or are they all over the place – your boys?

Kerry: No. Our boys are about 12 hours away from us. Two of them live in San Diego and one lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tara: So you really are empty nests with not even anybody popping in for a visit or a dinner?

Kerry: That is very true. In fact, this last month, unfortunately, we lost our last fur child, so we are also petless at this point. So true empty nesters, and we’re embracing it and moving forward and going to try to take advantage of some travel time I think.

Tara: Yeah, that becomes easier when you don’t have pets, even if it’s sad that they’re gone. That is, you look at the opportunities that come your way as a result. Kerry, tell us a little bit about your business, what you do and how you got started in working for yourself and in WordPress, be it what you did before that or what your path was to finding it.

Kerry: Absolutely is I’ve been a freelancer since 2009. Prior to that, I had a career in air traffic control. I did that for about 17 and a half years – military veteran. Got my training for air traffic through the Air Force. After that,