David Dawoud: Building a Fresh Approach to Remote Hiring by More Beach Meetings

Chase Warrington: Building a Culture of Remote Work by More Beach Meetings

In today’s episode, we sit down with Natalie Nagale from Wildbit to discuss the importance of team retreats, how they use a people-first perspective to structure their offsite experiences, and the ways Wildbit is supporting workers in connecting with like-minded companies in other industries.

In today’s episode we sat down with Gamestorming CEO, Dave Mastronardi to learn more about how organizations can use gamestorming techniques to plan and structure their offsite experiences.

Cardiologs is a medical technology company that uses AI to improve cardiac diagnostics. The team is largely based in Paris, although some members work remotely in Boston. Linda Koenig organizes the company’s annual retreat. In 2019, the team joined Surf Office at our Valencia location. We talked to her on today’s podcast about her planning process, offsite agenda, and retreat follow-up.

Remote companies know that culture is important. But few companies spend as much time investing in culture as 15Five. Shane Metcalf, the company’s Co-Founder and Chief Culture Officer, believes that personal development and professional development are the same things. In today’s episode, we talked to Shane about building a culture that values individuals and how 15Five retreats are nearly as fun as Burning Man.

On this week’s episode of More Beach Meetings, we spoke to Laurel Farrer, a Remote Work Strategist and Consultant. Laurel works with some of the top remote-friendly companies in the world. She helps them optimize communications, update processes, and capitalize on the benefits of remote work. Laurel also contributes to high-level strategy in governments, businesses, and companies who want the benefits of a remote workforce.

How do you manage a physical product while remote? That's what we get into here on this week’s episode of More Beach Meetings. Our guest this week is Fred Perrotta, co-founder and CEO of Tortuga, a remote company specializing in travel products like their award-winning Setout Backpack.

Our guest is Monica Zeng, the human resources expert at Aragon One. In this podcast, we chatted with Monica about her approach to hiring, how she uses coaching to professionally develop the Aragon One team members, and some of the creative activities Monica’s dreamed up to make their offsite retreats a little more special.

We sat down with Wences Garcia, CEO and Head of Culture at MarketGoo, a SaaS SEO tool, to talk about managing and growing a fully remote team.

In this podcast, we learned about Marketgoo’s culture, including transparency, ownership, and how they cultivate it with retreats. Please give it a listen or scroll down for the highlights!